Saturday, 28 November 2015

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NEWS
Today.com
Newsweek
New York Daily News
Washington Post
A harvest of anti-Muslim hatred
“Nobody, nobody, nobody wants your evil cult in this county,” one man said as he jabbed his finger at Samer Shalaby, a Muslim trustee of the center.
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Mother Jones
Vandalized Mosques, Threats of Violence—Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes on the Rise
While anti-Muslim incidents have risen, they trail behind incidents targeting Jewish Americans. Last year, 609 hate crime incidents were reported ...
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ABC News
Republican Campaign Rhetoric HasMuslim-Americans on Edge
Muslim-Americans who sued the New York Police Department over a surveillance program launched after 9/11 say calls from the Republican ...
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The Hill (blog)
O'Malley: Trump's Muslim database leads to 'fascism'
Former Gov. Martin O'Malley (D-Md.) says that Donald Trump's idea for a national database ofMuslim Americans raises the specter of fascism.
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Slate Magazine
This Is How Ted Cruz BashesMuslims While Pretending to Be Principled
You have to touch the right nerves—fear of a black president, indignation at bilingualism, hunger for retaliation against Muslims—while cloaking your ...
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CBS Local
Muslim Woman From Corona Writes To Trump After ID Badge, Database Comments
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — One Corona woman took it upon herself to write a letter to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, ...
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MSNBC
Christie: Muslim-Americans aren't as 'sensitive' as some think
Christie then argued, “Muslim-Americans are not nearly as sensitive as some people in opinion places here in Washington or at the White House think ...

Wall Street Journal
We Have Always Not Been at War With Islam
He notes a Rasmussen poll, released the same day as the ad, in which 60% of respondents “believe the United States is at war with radicalIslamic ...
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TheBlaze.com
The Economist (blog)
Sultans and tsars
Not so many people will take notice of the second part of Mr Putin's statement, which stressed thatIslam was a great world religion with a historic ...
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NewsBusters (blog)
On CNN, The Blaze's Sexton Schools Liberal Marc Lamont Hill onIslam
On Monday's CNN Tonight, Buck Sexton of The Blaze exposed the left's special treatment of theIslamic faith, after liberal commentator Marc Lamont ...
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PJ Media
Islam: 'The Strongest Retrograde Force in the World'
Does the Zeitgeist have a mournful sense of irony? Barack Obama could be forgiven for thinking so. In January 2014, he made the now-infamous ...
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NEWS.com.au
Is there a problem with Islam?
AS WORLD leaders grapple with how to tackleIslamic State in the wake of the Paris attacks, some are wondering whether reform of Islamshould be ...
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Jewish Journal
Christie: Using term 'radical Islam' is 'clarifying'
Referring to the U.S. war on terror as confronting radical Islamic terrorism is more helpful than refraining from using that term, Republican presidential ...
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Wauwatosa Now
Almost 200 people gather for lecture on Islam on Nov. 19 in Wauwatosa
Janan Najeeb, president of the Milwaukee Muslin Woman's Coalition, presents an informational talk on Islam in the Firefly Room of the Wauwatosa ...
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Haaretz
ISIS in Jordan: King Abdullah's Battle for the Soul of Islam
ISIS in Jordan: King Abdullah's Battle for the Soul of Islam. The jihadists are also eyeing the kingdom, a longtime fighter against terror groups that ...

New York Times
U.S. News & World Report
New York Times
From Indonesia, a MuslimChallenge to the Ideology of the Islamic State
The challenge, perhaps surprisingly, comes from Indonesia, which has the world's largest Muslim population but which lies thousands of miles away ...
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KABC-TV
Muslim Corona woman praised for calling out Trump on Facebook
A Muslim Corona woman is getting wide attention after firing back at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Facebook, who said ...
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NJ.com
New York Times
Muslim Refugee and His Family Find a Haven in Harlem
Mr. Cisse, 40, was affiliated with Rally of the Republicans, the liberal opposition party, and was a Dioula and a practicing Muslim. The gas station he ...
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VICE News
Coming soon: More immigrants fromMuslim nations than population of D.C. -- 680000
President Obama's open-door immigration policy is set to accept more immigrants from Muslimnations over the next five years than the entire ...
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The Economist
What Muslims think of Islamic State
ONE in five British Muslims sympathises with jihadists, claimed a headline in The Sun, a British tabloid. The number referred to a poll, taken in the ...
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MSNBC
Anti-Muslim panic threatens to cause lasting damage
PATERSON, New Jersey — Nour Obeidallah didn't know how to react when someone called her “Osama bin Laden.” The insult made little sense, said ...
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WND.com
'Staggering': 680000 Muslims to US under Obama
The U.S. issued 680,000 green cards to migrants from Muslim-majority countries in the five-year period encompassing 2009 through 2013, according ...

The Guardian
New York Times
From Indonesia, a Muslim Challenge to the Ideology of the Islamic State
Islamic State soldiers march a line of prisoners to a riverbank, shoot them one by one and dump their bodies over a blood-soaked dock into the water.
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Jamaica Observer
Islam: Why should I care?
Numerous people in different parts of the world, especially in Africa, have been brutally killed by assorted groups claiming allegiance to Islam.
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RELIGION OF PEACE?
As for Islam, he assures us that it is a religion of peace, reminding us that it was George W. Bush who previously emphasized this point. (To my ...
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teleSUR English
Australia Refugee Help Center Ditched After Anti-Islam Protests
Photographs of the incident circulated on social media showed demonstrators entering the meeting with placards reading, “We don't wantIslamic ...
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Breitbart News
EXCLUSIVE: Texas School District Assigns Islamic State Recruiting Homework to Teach 'Critical ...
HOUSTON, Texas — A high school in one of the largest school districts in the nation, Houston ISD, says that an Islamic State recruiting homework ...
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BBC News
'Islam is demonic' graffiti sprayed on Newport mosque
Two mosques in Newport have been targeted with anti-Islamic graffiti. "Islam is demonic" was sprayed on the walls of the Islamic Society of Wales ...
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TheBlaze.com
Watch Buck Sexton's On-Air Clash With CNN Commentator on RadicalIslam: 'That's Just Frankly ...
TheBlaze TV's Buck Sexton clashed with CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill on the air Tuesday over whether there are tenets of Islam that are not ...
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Hurriyet Daily News
The modern making of Turkish Alevi Islam
Alevis make up Turkey's biggest religious minority. Up to 15 percent of the population, they are often referred to as a branch of Shiism, but their ...
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Lifesite
Father Rosica on Islam: 180º from reality
And he knows it's false, because in the blog post from which it is taken, he goes on to talk about the proper response to Islamic extremism. “Muslim ...


WEB
Young Muslim writes defiant letter to Donald Trump
Marwa Balkar wrote a letter to Donald Trump in a Facebook post that's now gone viral, to express her reaction on his comments about monitoring ...
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Former Muslim: US Needs To Stop Living In Denial About Islamism
Activist and former Muslim Ayaan Hersi Ali has experienced first-hand the degrading treatment of women under Islamic rule.
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Republican campaign rhetoric has Muslim-Americans on edge
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Muslim-Americans who sued the New York Police Department over a surveillance program launched after 9/11 are on edge ...
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Why Does Global Warming Only Turn Muslims Into Terrorists?
But only certain Muslims, often from wealthy families, turn into terrorists. The Jews, Christians, animists, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and the rest never seem ...
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After Paris Attacks, A Rise in Anti-Muslim Sentiment
Since the terrorist attacks in Paris, there's been a rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric and sentiment here in the U.S., from posturing presidential candidates to ...
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Muslim Community Statement on Paris Attacks
Louisville's Muslim community issued this statement following the terrorist attacks in Paris: The Muslim community of the greater Louisville area ...
Marc Lamont Hill: Islam In Line with American Values
Marc Lamont Hill actually believes Islam lines up with American values, saying Muslims are roundly misunderstood and even equated them to ...
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Why is political Islam in the ascendancy?
Indeed a heart-wrenching experience it was that Rumi had to go through. Being a Pakistani myself and the one who does not subscribe to the ...
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Discerning True Islam, and Q&A
Hank comments on the rhetoric we consistently hear concerning the religion of Islam. From the time of the Manhattan Massacre to today we hear over ...
Pope says Christian-Muslim dialogue 'essential' for peace
Pope Francis told Christian and Muslim leaders in Kenya on Thursday that they have little choice but to engage in dialogue to guard against the ...
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Muslim woman thanks train passengers who defended her from hate speech
A British woman has extended a message of thanks to the train passengers who defended her in the face of a stranger's Islamophobic remarks.
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US Admits 680K Immigrants from Muslim Countries Over 5 Years
A new analysis from the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest shows the shocking trajectory that has grown sharply over the ...
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Young Muslim writes defiant letter to Donald Trump
Bernie Sanders: Trump scapegoating the Muslim community. CNN 1:09 ... Trump: Muslim-Americans cheered after 9/11 attacks. CNN 2:12 ...
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Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
In just 12 days since the attacks in Paris, rhetorical attacks on MuslimAmericans are rising toward a fever pitch. A religious database, special ID cards ...
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CAIR Reports Unprecedented Backlash Against American Muslims After Paris Attacks
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/24/15) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy ...
Fox News Poll: Dems wrong to avoid 'radical Islam' term
Fox News Poll: Dems wrong to avoid 'radicalIslam' term. Nov. 24, 2015 - 2:33 - In the latest Fox News national poll, 56 percent of voters think ...


BLOGS
Rep. Steve King: Muslim immigrants are 'incompatible'
Now he's shifted into proclaiming Muslim-Americans to be the true menace, because to Steve King, racism is like fashion sense. You gotta keep up ...
Trenton, NJ - Republican Campaign Rhetoric HasMuslim-Americans On Edge
Trenton, NJ - Muslim-Americans who sued the New York Police Department over a surveillance program launched after 9/11 say calls from the ...