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When they rape you don’t object”: Israeli “satire” show incites hatred of Muslims, Europeans

The popular Israeli web-based satirical show LatmaTV has released a musical video containing crude anti-Muslim stereotypes and mocking Europeans as “dummies” for supposedly allowing their countries to be taken over by Islam and turned into “Eurabia.”   In one sequence, a Norwegian father tells his blonde daughter about Muslims: “When they rape you don’t object [...]

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Kathy Kelly: A Solitary, Sunlit Path — Gandhi’s Lesson for Today

Kathy Kelly  co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org). Her book, Other Lands Have Dreams, is published by AK Press / CounterPunch.   Kathy Kelly    October 03, 2011   In a soon-to-be published book entitled Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiments with Truth, Jim Douglass contrasts the deadly machinations of Gandhi’s probable killers with Gandhi’s [...]

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White House officials block Obama visit to India’s Sikh Golden Temple over fears it will strengthen belief he is a Muslim

By Daily Mail Reporter Daily Mail         20th October 2010 White House officials have stopped President Barack Obama from visiting the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, over concerns that coverage could strengthen a belief he is a secret Muslim. The temple – called Harmandir Sahib – is the spiritual centre of the Sikh religion and one [...]

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Wilders is dangerous, Muslims tell court

Anti-Islam Dutch MP seen as dividing multicultural society that used to cohabit peacefully. Middle East Online   First Published: 2010-10-19 THE HAGUE – Muslims told judges trying anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders for hate speech Monday that he was dangerous, dividing a multicultural society that used to cohabit peacefully. “Mr Wilders is a dangerous ideologist who has [...]

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German President: ‘Islam now part of Germany’

Wulff: we stand before huge task of finding new solidarity in Germany in changing world. By Johannes Eisele Middle East Online  -   4 October 2010 BREMEN, Germany – Germany’s president called on his countrymen to work to integrate the country’s four million Muslims, acknowledging that Islam is “now part of Germany”. Speaking from the northern city [...]

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Indian court divides holy site

An Indian holy site is to be split between 3 religious communities, but Muslims and Hindus plan to appeal court order. Al Jazeera   30 Sep 2010 A disputed Indian holy site in the ancient city of Ayodhya claimed by both Muslims and Hindus is to be divided among three religious groups, a court has ordered [...]

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Test of India Verdict Will Lie in Public Reaction

By JIM YARDLEY The New York Times     -September 28, 2010 NEW DELHI — The case has existed almost as long as independent India itself. Dating from 1950, the legal battle between Hindus and Muslims over a religious site in the city of Ayodhya began as a little-noticed title dispute. With a ruling finally expected on [...]

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

Andrew Reinbach Huffington Post   – September 27, 2010 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. “What we would not want is an unauthorized cemetery,” says Bob McCarthy, [...]

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Christopher Hitchens and the Quest for Grade-A Muslims

by M. Junaid Levesque-Alam Antiwar Forum – August 28, 2010 Almost 50 years ago, Frantz Fanon raced against death to finish his famous indictment of colonialism, The Wretched of the Earth. In that book, he wrote: “Western bourgeois racial prejudice as regards the nigger and the Arab is a racism of contempt; it is a [...]

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New York mosque controversy worries Muslims overseas

Some can’t understand the fuss over a house of worship and how a democracy promoting religious freedom could even be having such a debate. Others are offended at the conflation of the 9/11 attacks with all Muslims. By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times         August 23, 2010 Reporting from Beirut The heated debate across America over [...]

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Mosques, Muslims and America in Darkness

by: William Rivers Pitt William Rivers Pitt is a Truthout editor and columnist.  He is also a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: “War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know” and “The Greatest Sedition Is Silence.” His newest book, “House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, [...]

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L.A. religious leaders support NYC mosque

71 Muslim, Jewish, and Christian leaders sign petition saying that Muslims have the right to build a house of worship ‘like any other American.’ By Jewish Journal and Jonah Lowenfeld Haaretz     Sun, August 22, 2010 At a press conference Friday morning, religious leaders from a variety of faiths gathered at the Islamic Center of Southern [...]

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