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Civilian Trials for Terrorists Highlight Differences Between Presidents

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Islam, Law, Muslim, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Terrorism, Bin Laden, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, Politics News

For Obama, the ability to showcase our justice system in a case involving one of the world's most reviled accused terrorists represents an important opportunity to define America before history and the world.

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Muslim Revolution: Christopher Caldwell On Colbert With New Book (VIDEO)

Posted 11.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Muslims in Europe, Stephen Colbert, Authors, Islam, Books, Author Interview, Muslims, New Books, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Europe, Christopher Caldwell, Colbert, Books News

Christopher Caldwell spoke to Stephen Colbert last night about his new book, "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe." Muslims make up a major part o...

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Illinois GOP Orchestrates Smear Campagin Against Muslim Civic Organization CAIR

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Fort Hood, Illinois Republicans, Muslims, Nidal Malik Hasan, Illinois Politics, Fort Hood Shootings, Republicans, Chicago News

I am shocked, but should I really be? Yesterday the Illinois GOP issued a press release baselessly accusing a respected Islamic civil rights organization of being anti-Semitic.

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The Charter For Compassion: Read, Affirm, Share

Amy Novogratz | Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact

Read More: Karen Armstrong, Christianity, Islam, Charter for Compassion, Ted, Judaism, Impact News

Today, the culmination of more than a year's work was unveiled as the Charter for Compassion was officially introduced in Washington, D.C. Read the Charter and join people around the world in affirming it.

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Muslim Communities Rally To Support Victims of Fort Hood

HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact

Read More: Islam, Islamic Society of North America, Fort Hood, Fort Hood Family Fund, Fundraising, Muslim, Fort Hood Shootings, Impact News

Islamic communities in America have experienced a harsh backlash of popular opinion following the attacks at Fort Hood, in which 13 people were shot t...

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Saudis Try to Put an End to Crazy Fatwas

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Fatwas, Islam, Qur'An, Imams, Saudi Arabia, Mickey Mouse, Minni Mouse, Muslims, Prophet Muhammad, World News

Nearly a year after Saudi King Abdullah warned religious scholars that issuing careless fatwas gives extremists credibility, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs has finally said enough is enough.

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Cairo to Fort Hood: Broader Engagement at Home and Abroad

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Science Envoy Program, Islam, Fort Hood, Physicians, Veterans Day, Anderson Cooper, In the Land of Invisible Women, Taliban, Waco, State Department, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Qaeda, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Zakat, Islamophobia, Unabomber, Jihad, Armistice Day, Saudi Arabia, Cnn, Insomnia, New York Times, Nidal Malik Hasan, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, Ground Zero, Politics News

Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.

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Bill O'Reilly: 'We Can't Kill All The Muslims... So We Wanna Win As Many Hearts And Minds As We Can'

Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Islam, Video, Oreilly, Terrorism, Bill Oreilly, Fort Hood Shooting, Fort Hood, Hearts and Minds, Muslims, Nidal Hasan, Bill O'Reilly, Muslim, Media News

Bill O'Reilly believes that the US effort to win the popular support of Muslims around the world is based on the notion that the US cannot kill every ...

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Terrorism, Religious Extremism, and the Fort Hood Massacre

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Religion, Fort Hood, U.S. Military, Terrorism, Politics News

Without rushing to prejudicial conclusions, after all, we do need to consider the possibility that Nidal Malik Hasan's Muslim faith played a major role, if not necessarily the dominant one, in what happened.

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Nidal Hasan Warned Army During 2007 Walter Reed Speech, Urged Release Of Muslims From US Military

Washington Post | Dana Priest | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that to avoid "a...

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Making Sense of the Senseless

Parvez Ahmed | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Shootings, Islam, Fort Hood, American Muslims, Muslims, Killings, Terrorism, Major Nidal Hasan, Politics News

Why was Hasan not booted out of the service he so ungratefully and desperately wanted to leave? In the absence of concrete answers, the media is left to speculate.

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Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? By Columbine's Dave Cullen

Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Dylan Klebold, Islam, Ft. Hood, Columbine Book, Crime, Eric Harris, Ethnicity, Bullying, Terrorism, Fort Hood, Fort Hood Victims, 9/11, Virginia Tech, Guns, Colorado, Texas, Columbine, Religion, Soldiers, Military, Fort Hood Analysis, Psychiatrist, US Soldiers, Nidal Hasan, Ptsd, Home News

My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...

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Creationism And Intelligent Design Gain Foothold In Turkey

Washington Post | Marc Kaufman | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

With direct and indirect help from American foes of evolution, similarly-minded Turks have aggressively made the case that Charles Darwin's theory is ...

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A Muslim Soldier's View from Fort Hood

Kamran Pasha | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Quran, Afganistan, Islam, Fort Hood, Military, Iraq, Terrorism, Major-Nidal-Malik-Hasan, Suicide Bombers, American Muslims, Al Qaeda, Fort Hood Shootings, Fort Hood News, Major Hasan, Death American Muslim Soldiers in Iraq, Muslim Soldiers, Fort Hood Muslim, Major Malik Hasan, What Happened in Fort Hood, What Happened at Fort Hood?, Fort, Muslim Soldier Goes Crazy at Fort Hood, Fort Hood Solider, Anwar Al Awlaki, World News

I spoke today with a friend who is a Muslim soldier stationed at Fort Hood. He and Hasan prayed side-by-side at the mosque the morning of the massacre. He agreed to share his story with me if I granted him anonymity.

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Many Issues With Tragedy at Ft. Hood -- A "Muslim Problem" not One of Them, FOX News

Jon Soltz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Islam, Ft Hood Shooting, Army, Gretchen Carlson, Muslims, Nidal Malik Hasan, Fox News, Fox and Friends, US Army, Ft Hood Rampage, Ft Hood Shootings, Ft Hood, Brian Kilmeade, Media News

FOX and Friends hosts twice implied on their show that this is some kind of Muslim problem. There are thousands of American Muslims serving in the military right now, and many have given their lives.

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Senseless Shootings Violate Islamic Faith

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood, Muslim Americans, Nidal Malik Hasan Shooting, Fort Hood Shootings, Politics News

I am concerned that this incident will cause some Americans to react against Muslims. Our fellow Americans should understand that every major American Muslim organization has condemned it.

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Don't Ask Me About Hasan

Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood, Iraq, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Nidal Malik Hasan Shooting, World News

Seven messages and counting on my voice mail from different Bay Area reporters, all wanting to know the Muslim community's reaction about the recent heinous killings of Nidal Malik Hasan.

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The Taliban's Ties to Al-Qaeda

Will Marshall | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Al-Qaeda, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Al-Qaida, Taliban, Islamists, Al Qaeda, World News

How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.

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Our National Journey? Get Out A Map

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Military, Foreign Policy, War, Fireside Chats, Islam, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq War, Draft, Baghdad, Obama Fireside Chats, Iraq, Politics News

While media attention in Iraq and Afghanistan focuses on car bombings and combat casualties, other disturbing events in the region are slipping through the news cycle almost unnoticed.

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Reading Ramadan in Istanbul

John Feffer | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Akp, Islam, Turkey, Istanbul, Tariq Ramadan, World News

This year in Istanbul, the flags on Republic Day seemed extra large. It wasn't a special anniversary year. Turkey was celebrating its 86th year as a modern secular state.

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Crucifix Banned From Italy's Schools By New EU Court Ruling

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Public Schools, Islam, Crucifixes Banned, Atheism, EU Courts, Catholicism, Italy Schools, Immigration, Italy, Eu, Catholics, Religion, Education, Italian Schools, Courts, Vatican, Pope, Separation of Church and State, Faith, World News

ROME — The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by the European court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public sch...

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Noor Faleh Almaleki Dies: Iraqi Woman In US Dead After Father Runs Her Over For Being Too Westernized

AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Uk, Islam, Western Culture, Crime, Peoria, Noor Almaleki, Honor Killings, Atlanta, Westernized, Arizona, Culture, Religion, Westernization, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, Car, Phoenix, Noor Faleh Almaleki, Iraq, Muslim, Amal Khalaf, Honor Killing, Home News

PHOENIX — A young Iraqi woman whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized died from her injuries Monday a...

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Prevent, Anti-Muslim Extremism Program, Attacked By Civil Rights Groups In Britain

globalpost.com | Carla Power | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, British Islam, British Muslims, England, Muslim-Extremism, Preventing Violent Extremism, British-Muslims, World News

By Carla Power LONDON, U.K. -- In the more than four years since July 7, 2005, when British-born suicide bombers targeted the London transport syst...

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Indonesia Makes Its Mark in a Monument

Sara Schonhardt | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Moderation, Jakarta, Islam, Poverty, Suharto, National Monument, Wealth Gap, Sukarno, Indonesia, Merderka Square, Monas, World News

Monas remains significant for many reasons, but increasingly because of the lessons it provides about Indonesia, a country caught between tradition and modernization.

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Muhammad Movie Planned: Film Brings Together Hollywood Producer Barrie Osborne And Banned Muslim Cleric Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment

A movie about the prophet Muhammad is in the works, according to Reuters. According to reports, the $150 million film will bring together a major holl...

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