Paul Harvey We’ve got another post or two underway about the current predictable response to the proposed Cordoba Center (no, not a “mosque at Ground Zero”) in lower Manhattan. I found this video tour most instructive — a photo collage of some of the other establishments which currently reside on the “hallowed ground.” Maybe Newt Gingrich has visited some of these , who knows? [A side note: nothing in this blog post should be taken as a criticism, in the slightest, of the great 1970s glam-punk band the New York Doll s, whose work paved the way for one of my all-time favorite film musicals: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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The New York Dolls Gentlemen’s Club Says: Refudiate the Casbah! Refudiate the Casbah!
There is no mosque being built on the site of Ground Zero. It’s a simple fact, but one that news consumers can be forgiven for missing as they scan the headlines of a growing–and increasingly heated national debate over the construction of an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan.
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News outlets split in describing mosque
BEIRUT: Troops on Saturday killed two Islamist militants including the head of an Al-Qaeda-inspired group which fought a battle with the army in 2007 that cost hundreds of lives, a military spokesman said. “Abdel Rahman Awad, one of the key leaders of Fatah al-Islam,” was killed along with another militant known as Abu Bakr during clashes in the
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Army troops kill Fatah al-Islam leader, deputy
PUTRAJAYA, 16 Ogos Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengingatkan umat Islam negara ini supaya jangan membazir di tengah-tengah keghairahan membeli juadah berbuka puasa di bazar Ramadan. Beliau berkata perbuatan membeli mengikut nafsu adalah pembaziran yang harus dielakkan
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PM nasihat umat Islam jangan membazir
This weekend, President Obama gave a First Amendment defense of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero. The next day he made a point of noting that he wasn’t addressing the “wisdom” of building a mosque at the site
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Are 70% of Americans anti-Islam?
Hawiye traditional elders have called for Hizbul Islam administration to seize those who were the mastermind of the murder Sheik Mohamed Tahlil Warsameh, the former chairman of peace makers council killed in out of Mogadishu overnight.
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Somalia: Hawiye Clerics Call Hisbul Islam to Seize Murder of Peace Maker
Religious leaders warn of Islamophobia surge with hate speech and opposition to new Islamic centres across America The battle over plans to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York is fuelling a surge in anti-Muslim protests across the US, including opposition to new Islamic centres from California to Georgia. Religious leaders and civil rights activists warn that a …
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‘People want Islam to be the boogieman’
Congressional candidates intensified efforts to inject the divide over an Islamic center near ground zero into midterm campaigns.
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G.O.P. Sees Mosque Near Ground Zero as Campaign Issue
The harsh Republican response to President Barack Obama’s defense of a mosque near Ground Zero marks a dramatic shift in the party’s posture toward Islam from a once-active courtship of Muslim voters to very public tolerance after 9/11 to an openly aired sense of mistrust.
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GOP takes harsher stance toward Islam
To understand this post, you need to do something before you continue reading. You need to see the photograph that accompanied this news story when it ran on page one of the Washington Post
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No faith in this immigration story