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Muslims in USA face fears, bias to build, expand mosques

by on 07. Jul, 2010 in General

By Bob Smietana -The Nashville Tennessean USA Today – 5 July 2010 When Muslims want to pray in Rutherford County, many go to an office building on Middle Tennessee Boulevard that houses the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. There’s usually enough room for evening prayers until Fridays when about 100 people gather during the week’s main service. On [...]

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Informers everywhere: Gathering information on people in Muslim communities has become part of daily life

by on 22. Jun, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By STEPHAN SALISBURY – The Philadelphia Inquirer  - Jun. 18, 2010 Not long after the FBI received a tip in 2006 that two North Jersey teenagers were watching terrorist videos and muttering angrily that “Americans are their enemies” and “they all must be killed,” the pair traveled to Jordan and sought to join up with insurgents [...]

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Egypt extends emergency law for two years

by on 12. May, 2010 in General

Middle East Online  - 11 May 2010 Egyptian protesters gather outside parliament to call for end to long state of emergency. CAIRO – Egypt’s parliament voted on Tuesday to extend a decades-old state of emergency for a further two years, the official MENA news agency reported.

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UKIP makes ‘ban the burka’ call

by on 05. May, 2010 in General

See video: Lord Pearson on 5 live Breakfast phone-in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8659445.stm The leader of UKIP has said the Islamic veil, the burka, should be banned as it represents fear and is a security risk. Speaking in a phone-in on BBC 5 live, Lord Pearson said there was a “problem” within Islam because some people used the [...]

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Germany’s Fear of Finkelstein

by on 04. Mar, 2010 in Opinion

By Ali Fathollah-Nejad* Palestine Chronicle – 2 March 2010 Norman Finkelstein, an internationally renowned scholar of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, was due to talk about the state of the decades-old conflict and the situation in Gaza one year after the Israeli assault last week in Munich and Berlin. As part of a European speaking tour which would [...]

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Paul Craig Roberts : Who Spent All That Money For What? Fear Rules

by on 12. Jun, 2009 in Analysis, Opinion

  Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com   CounterPunch   The power of irrational fear in the US is extraordinary.  It ranks up there with the Israel Lobby, the military/security complex, and the financial [...]

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1 in 4 Israelis would consider leaving country if Iran gets nukes’

by on 26. May, 2009 in General

  By Ofri Ilani,   Haaretz  Some 23 percent of Israelis would consider leaving the country if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, according to a poll conducted on behalf of the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University.

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