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August 31st, 2011
07:42 PM ET
Headgear ban sparks melee between police, Muslim park patronsFrom Kiran Khalid CNN Rye, New York (CNN) -What was meant to be a celebration marking the end of Ramadan turned into a melee at an amusement park on Tuesday when a group of Muslim women were told they weren't allowed on certain rides with their headscarves. Rye Playland was full of visitors celebrating Eid al-Fitr when the festive mood turned angry. Westchester County Police said the women wearing the hijab, a traditional Muslim headscarf, became argumentative when park employees enforced the no-headgear policy and men sprang to their defense.  The inflatable chapel opened at the University of Southern California in August.
August 31st, 2011
01:33 PM ET
Artist behind inflatable chapel aims to redefine sacred spaceBy Rosalina Nieves, CNN Los Angeles, California (CNN) - At first glance, the blown-up plastic bags affixed to a jungle gym-like frame residing in a University of Southern California courtyard looks like a piece of public art, pure and simple. But the structure's creator says it’s something more: a sacred place for people of all faiths. He calls it an inflatable chapel. “I wanted to create a spiritual structure, so I combined every symbolic piece of religion and geometrically combined them to represent them in this chapel,” says Gail Peter Borden, an architect and assistant professor at the USC School of Architecture who designed the structure.
August 31st, 2011
09:26 AM ET
Malaysia's first openly gay pastor to marryBy Elizabeth Yuan, CNN (CNN)– Malaysia's first openly gay pastor has chosen Wednesday, coinciding with the country's Independence Day, to get married to his American partner in New York, barely a month after same-sex marriage became legalized there. "It means a lot to be married that day, to honor my country and people in Malaysia," said Rev. Boon Lin Ngeo, who also goes by his pen name O.Young or Ouyang Wen Feng, in a telephone call from Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Malaysia's Sabah state, during a visit there last week. He said the date was chosen to remind others that "we need to keep fighting for our rights and be independent from all kinds of oppression." Read the full story about Malaysia's first openly gay pastor getting married |
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