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

by RAINman 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. [...]

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

by RAINman 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 fighting in [...]

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Egypt extends emergency law for two years

by RAINman 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 RAINman 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 Koran to [...]

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Germany’s Fear of Finkelstein

by RAINman 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 have led [...]

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

by RAINman 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 gangsters.  Indeed, fear might be [...]

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

by RAINman 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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