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Discovery of Bin Laden Hideout Spotlights Concerns About Pakistan's Intelligence Service

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Sebastian Rotella - May. 02 (News Analysis) - The killing of Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani city dominated by the military has spotlighted a conundrum that Western counterterror agencies have grappled with for years: Is Pakistan's powerful intelligence service an ally, an enemy or a mix of both? This time the debate is likely to take place in public, not behind the closed doors of national security outposts in Washington. In fact, White House homeland security adviser John Brennan seemed to confront the issue head-on Monday when he said that the presence of the world's most wanted man in a fortress-like compound near the homes of retired generals and a military academy raises questions that the Pakistani government must answer. The Obama administration took the extraordinary step of keeping Sunday's commando raid secret from Islamabad. Although Obama cited "counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan" as a factor in the successful hunt for bin Laden, U.S. officials have not given details on the extent and nature of that Pakistani assistance. The ISI has been suspected of playing a double game in previous cases: the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002, the mysterious escape from Pakistani custody in 2007 of an al-Qaida operative accused in the London transport bombings and a plot to bomb U.S.-bound commercial flights, charges of ISI involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attack and recent allegations by top military brass that the ISI supports militant networks fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

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Iranian Rulers, Believing Pre-Messianic Destruction Is Imminent, Make Film To Prepare Muslims

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Reza Kahlili - Apr. 09 (Special Report) - The pursuit of nuclear bombs by the radicals ruling Iran is directly connected to this belief: war, chaos, and lawlessness must engulf the world to pave the way for Imam Mahdi’s reappearance...Ever since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Islamic rulers of Iran have declared themselves representatives of God on Earth, believing their mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Shiites’ 12th imam, Mahdi...Several months ago, I was informed by my contacts in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that the Basij had started work on a film that had the approval of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The purpose of the project: to inform Muslims across the globe of the immediate coming of the last Islamic messiah. As my English translation of the film makes clear (watch it exclusively at PJTV), the Iranian leaders, now more than ever, feel that all the stars are aligned for such event.

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Understanding the Violence in Israel

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

National Review - By John Hannah - Mar. 24 (News Analysis) - As many others have remarked, for all their individual differences, the dozen or so mass movements that have emerged across the Middle East over the past three months have all been distinguished by the near total absence of anti-American or anti-Zionist sentiment. Even in the Palestinian territories, the issue has been less Palestine and more the pathological inadequacies of their own governing structures that make normal civic life largely unbearable.

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Iran Burns Bibles, Condemns Quran Burning

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

National Review - By Paul Marshall - Mar. 24 (News Analysis) - Iran’s own Bible-burnings are only one part of its ongoing repression of Christians, Baha’is, Sufis, and others. Christian Solidarity Worldwide reports that, in two weeks, five Iranian Christians, who were recently sentenced in Shiraz to one year’s imprisonment for “crimes against the Islamic Order,” will be tried for blasphemy.

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from the well-known to the unknown, muslims had offered their bodies as "human shields" for last night' mass, making a pledge to collectively fight the threat ot islamic militants and towards an egypt free from sectarian strife.

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Zaid Jilani - Jan. 08 (Special Report) - Thousands Of Egyptian Muslims Show Up As ‘Human Shields’ To Defend Coptic Christians From Terrorism

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A Banner Year for Islam Bashing

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Why has anti-Muslim sentiment risen up lockstep in America and Europe?

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Cat Stevens Appearance At Sanity Rally Rankles Right Winger

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Brian Beutler - Oct. 30 (News) - Conservative bete noir Yusuf Islam (a.k.a. Cat Stevens) made a guest appearance at the Comedy Central rally today, inspiring an instant backlash from at least one right winger, a group fond of accusing the musician of sympathizing with terrorists.

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Enlightenment Islam?

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Oct. 26 (Special Report) - The program belongs to a new fashion: Europe educating its own imams. Experts have warned for years that Islamic religious leaders in Europe have been trained abroad, in Arabic or Turkish. Rauf Ceylan, a professor of religious studies in Osnabrück, Germany, says imams in his country by and large can’t understand the problems of their flocks or speak the language.

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Merkel’s Message to the West: Be Not Afraid

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Seth Cropsey - Oct. 25 (News Analysis) - Looking over a society divided between Muslim immigrants and native-born German citizens, Chancellor Merkel argued that government policy should seek to incorporate immigrants by teaching them how to speak German and by integrating them into the workforce and into society generally. Merkel’s speech is a profound break with the obeisance that Western societies have been paying to multiculturalism since the 1960s. It acknowledges that Western liberalism is sufficiently worthy of preservation to expect at a minimum that those who live in Western liberal society should understand its language, laws, and basic tenets.

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Just Admit it, Newspapers: You're Scared of Muslims

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Matt Welch - Oct. 13 (News) - If the Post's new standard for comics is to make jokes "immediately clear," then it might be time to kill the comics page altogether. No, Martel/Brauchli, you pulled the cartoon because your fear of Muslims outweighs your commitment to free expression, period.

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Tiny Upstate New York Town Wants Local Muslims to Dig Up Their Cemetery

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Andrew Reinbach - Sep. 27 (News) - A town in upstate New York is trying to force a local Muslim religious community to dig up a small cemetery on its property and never bury anyone there again because it says it's illegal.

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Deadly Vanguards: A Study of al‐Qa’ida’s Violence Against Muslims

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Combating Terrorism Center at West Point - By Scott Helfstein, Nassir Abdullah, Muhammad al-Obaidi - Sep. 14 (Research) - The fact is that the vast majority of al‐Qa’ida’s victims are Muslims: the analysis here shows that only 15% of the fatalities resulting from al‐Qa’ida attacks between 2004 and 2008 were Westerners.

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For Muslims, the bonfire that wasn’t still carries implications

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Religious News Service - By Omar Sacirbey - Sep. 13 (News) - The crowd-control barriers and TV satellite trucks are gone after a Florida pastor called off a bonfire to burn 200 Qurans, but American Muslims say the political firestorm in Gainesville was more than a momentary flare-up.

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9/11: Nine Years Later

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - Sep. 11 (News Report) - President Obama put a wreath at the Pentagon and Michelle Obama joined Laura Bush in Shanksville, PA to memorialize the victims of the terrorist attacks. President Obama marked the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks at the Pentagon, saying the U.S. would never hand victory to “a sorry band of men” with a twisted vision of Islam. "Today we declare once more we will never hand them that victory,” Obama said, “for our cause is just, our spirit is strong and our resolve unwavering." While honoring the 184 people who died when a plane smashed into the Pentagon, the president was resolute, saying the hijackers had hoped to “exploit our freedoms, but we will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish… They may wish to drive us apart, but we will not give in to their hatred and prejudice.” Obama said the U.S. would never be at war with Islam.

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Journalist: Women raped at Abu Ghraib were later ‘honor killed’

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Daniel Tencer - Sep. 11 (News Report) - "In Abu Ghraib, women were tortured by the Americans much more than the men," Lima Nabil told The Independent. "One woman said she witnessed five girls being raped. Most of the women in the prison were raped – some of them left prison pregnant. Families killed some of these women – because of the shame."

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Worldwide Caution

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Everything is ablaze! - By Sandy Reynolds - Sep. 09 (Breaking News) - The Department of State is issuing this Travel Alert to caution U.S. citizens of the potential for anti-U.S. demonstrations in many countries in response to stated plans by a church in Florida to burn Qur’ans on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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Factchecking the NYT Ground Zero Mosque Editorial

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By John Rosenberg - Sep. 09 (News Analysis) - No, there are not a bunch of Confederate monuments in the Union states, and the few there are were not erected for "graciousness and reconciliation." ... Just as critics of the Ground Zero mosque believe its Muslim supporters remain insufficiently assimilated to America and too sympathetic to alien values, the “reconciliation” with the former Confederates represented by the acceptance of their monuments occurred on decidedly Confederate terms.

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Gainesville Muslim Community Organizes Vigils, Teach-Ins to Counter Planned Koran Burning

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Craig Lowe, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Amy Goodman, Ziad Ghanimi; Moustafa Bayoumi - Sep. 08 (News Report) - Global condemnation grows over a Florida church’s plan to burn the Koran on September 11th. General David Petraeus warns it could endanger US troops abroad. We speak with a Gainesville student who is helping to organize a series of counter events in the community; Mayor Craig Lowe, the first openly gay mayor, who was targeted by the Florida church during his campaign; and Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America.

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Government looks to muffle the clamor of Cairo's mosques

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jon Jensen - Sep. 05 (Special Report) - The sheikh’s voice, amplified through a distorted megaphone perched just outside the mosque, booms and echoes off the neighborhood’s worn buildings and throughout its narrow alleyways. It’s a bit too loud, according to the Egyptian government, especially considering that the other estimated 4,000 mosques in Cairo all perform the same adhan at slightly varying times with different voices.

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Tea Party Primer On D.C.: Dangerous, Scary And Full Of Arabs

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - Aug. 24 (News Report) - Tea partiers preparing to pour into DC for Glenn Beck's March on the capitol Saturday needn't worry about where to eat or how to get around -- thanks to a tea party leader in Maine, they have all the info they need.

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'Ground Zero Mosque' Imam Helped FBI With Counterterrorism Efforts

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Aug. 18 (News Report) - In March 2003, federal officials were being criticized for disrespecting the rights of Arab-Americans in their efforts to crack down on domestic security threats in...

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Malaysian Woman Not Allowed to Convert to Hinduism

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

feminist.org - Aug. 06 (News) - "Why must I be forced to accept Islam?" Banggarma said. "I was born an Indian, a Hindu and I remain so until I die. They have no rights over me."

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Is Marital Rape a Crime in America or Is It a Muslim Religious Right?

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Phyllis Chesler - Jul. 28 (News Analysis) - In studying honor killings and what I call Islamic gender apartheid, I have documented the normalized super-control and punishment mechanisms that honor-killing families exert over their daughters, sisters, female cousins, wives and even mothers. They patrol their every move, stalk them, spy on them, accompany them everywhere, punish consistently, extremely, and repeatedly for a slipped headscarf, a brief conversation with a boy at school, a possible friendship with a non-Muslim girl.

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Muslims Riot, Mayhem in France

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Atlas Shrugs - By Pamela Geller - Jul. 17 (News Report) - Rioters burned cars, attacked a tramway and shot at police in the French city of Grenoble overnight in protest at the death of a local Muslim man, identified as 27-year- old Karim Boudouda, fleeing police after allegedly holding up the city's casino.

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House at war: Saudi's struggle to reclaim Islam

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Caryle Murphy - Jun. 26 (Special Report) - Simply put, takfir means declaring a fellow Muslim an apostate, or infidel, because of behavior deemed unIslamic. In recent decades, extremist groups like Al Qaeda have used takfir — hijacked may be a better word — as the theological underpinning for their ideology and to justify murdering other Muslims.

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