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Helen Radkey, Blocked From Mormon Baptism Database, Charges Harassment

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 03.08.2012

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Helen Radkey, the whistle-blowing former Mormon whose discoveries of posthumous proxy baptisms of Holocaust victims, Mahatma Gandhi and slain Jewish j...

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Romney and the Mormons

Arthur Goldwag | Posted 05.05.2012

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Romney shouldn't have to answer for the LDS's not-so-distant racist past. He's lived in the public eye for a long time; he can stand or fall on his own record.

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Daniel Pearl Baptized Posthumously By Mormon Church

Posted 04.30.2012

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Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan in 2002, was posthumously baptized by the Mormon church last year, t...

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Remembering Daniel Pearl: The Challenge of Non-Violence and the Possibilities and Limitations of Forgiveness

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 04.26.2012

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How do we best honor and commemorate the memory of Daniel Pear and the victims of 9/11? By retaliatory vengeance and violence or forgiveness, reconciliation and redemption.

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Could You Please Stop Confusing Me With the Facts?

Lilac Sigan | Posted 04.20.2012

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The original Mohammed al Dura story is about a boy that was caught with his dad in the line of fire between Israeli and Palestinian forces, at the very beginning of the second intifada. Along the years, many new findings came up about this story.

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Study Links New Al Qaeda Leader To Murder Of Journalist

Posted 07.23.2011

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian militant recently appointed interim leader of al Qaeda operations, has been linked to the killin...

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The Antidote to Glenn Beck

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Glenn Beck has now taken on Reform Jews, of which I am one. Dismissing us as similar to "radicalized Islam," he went on to sum up our rabbis as "generally political in nature."

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What's on My Tombstone, and Why

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

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On my tombstone, which awaits me at the Trinity Church nondenominational cemetery at 155th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, I had inscribed the last words of Daniel Pearl.

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The Women Who Chase Terrorists

Abigail Pesta | Posted 05.25.2011

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This was no academic exercise. In tracking down the identities of Daniel Pearl's kidnappers and killers, students made phone calls and even face-to-face visits to relatives of suspected Pakistani terrorists.

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Inside The Brutal Murder Of Daniel Pearl

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.25.2011

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A three-year investigation into the 2002 kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl has identified 27 Pakistanis that played a role - most of wh...

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Woe-Is-A-Me-Bop: RIP Captain Beefheart

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday late afternoon it was announced that Don Van Vliet, AKA Captain Beefheart, had shuffled off this mortal coil at the age of 69. He would in f...

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Daniel Pearl Act Identifies Violations of Press Freedom Globally

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

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With little fanfare in Washington and with few countries in the world noticing, President Barack Obama signed into law an act that will hold governments all around the world accountable for violations of human rights.

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Is There a Double Standard in the World When It Comes to Demonstrations Over the Killing of Innocent People?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The killing of nine people aboard the ship Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos brought huge demonstrations. Terrorists set off bombs and kill innocent people almost everyday, and no one takes to the streets in protest.

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Invitation to a Beheading: South Waziristan Park on Steroids

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

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If we blinker our focus to cartoons on cable we will pose no obstacle to the endless anonymous, slow execution of Islam at the hands of a thousand unrecorded decapitations.

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Former Justice Department Attorney John Yoo Opposes Terror Trials in NYC

Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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For helping to provide the legal framework for the water boarding of KSM, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim Nashiri, Yoo has been vilified as author of the "torture memos."

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Daniel Pearl's Family Disagrees WIth NYC Trial For Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Posted 05.25.2011

The mother and father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl are disappointed with the federal government's decision to try Pearl's profes...

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How Daniel Pearl May Have Saved David Rohde

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 2002, Wall Street Journal editors and Dow Jones officials chose to publicize Danny's kidnapping with interviews on Larry King Live and regular head...

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US Journalists Arrested, Kidnapped Abroad (ROUNDUP)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

The trial and sentencing of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years in a North Korean work camp prompts the question: what other Amer...

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A Word from Anderson Cooper

Mona Gable | Posted 05.25.2011

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As for Cooper's chatty colleagues and the rise in cable news of liberal and conservative anchors to attract viewers, don't get Cooper started. He believes in the quaint notion we used to call facts.

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Remember Guantanamo -- for Daniel Pearl

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

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According to Philip Heyman, attorney general under Clinton, denying these rights amounts to "overthrowing 800 years of democratic tradition," including habeas corpus and the Magna Carta.

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Journalism Class Investigates Grisly Murder Of WSJ's Daniel Pearl

Marie Claire | Abigail Pesta | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jessica Rettig, a 20-year-old journalism student wearing a bright blue cotton sundress and flip-flops, is sitting in her professor's office at Georget...

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ABC's Bob Woodruff Wins Pearl Award

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Bob Woodruff, the ABC News correspondent nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, has won the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and ...

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