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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Egypt extends emergency law for two years
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. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with [...]
UKIP makes ‘ban the burka’ call
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 [...]
Germany’s Fear of Finkelstein
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 [...]
Paul Craig Roberts : Who Spent All That Money For What? Fear Rules
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 [...]
1 in 4 Israelis would consider leaving country if Iran gets nukes’
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. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on [...]
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