Article Archive for September 2010

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A new survey from the Democratic-affiliated firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) finds that candidates arguing over the proposed Islamic Cultural Center in lower Manhattan has left a bad taste in North Carolina’s voters’ mouths.

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The resolution claims that certain textbooks have a clear agenda in promoting Islam, using as an example one textbook in which 120 lines are devoted to Christian beliefs, practices and holy writings, while 248 are about Islam.

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Andrew Breitbart, one of the leading Conservative figures in the “new media” movement is the creator of the web site Big Peace among other websites prefixed with the word “Big:” Big Government, Big Journalism, Big Hollywood, Big Peace and plans […]

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This is particularly pertinent in the Triangle where Renee Ellmers, challenging long time Democratic Congressman Bob Etheridge, has run television ads about the mosque

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Baroness Warsi was accused of fuelling Islamophobia after she claimed electoral fraud in Asian communities had cost the Conservatives at least three seats in the general election. Khalid Mahmood said he did not believe it was possible to commit fraud on such a scale in Westminster elections and he challenged her to produce the evidence…

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Depending on whom you ask, the new mosque planned for a quiet block in southern Brooklyn is either the latest target in a wave of coordinated anti-Muslim sentiment, part of an insidious effort to spread political Islam throughout America or simply a parking nightmare waiting to happen.

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Jewish Americans have generally been more supportive of the Cordoba House project than other Americans. Jews have been denied religious freedom and been the victims of religious discrimination so frequently that their natural sympathies lie with others who now confront these burdens.

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The Netherlands will ban the burqa, anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders said Thursday following the announcement of a pact to form a minority coalition government backed by his party.

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After months of controversy, the French Senate recently adopted the law banning the burqa — the enveloping outer garment worn by women to conceal their bodies from head to toe in some Islamic traditions — in public spaces.

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A majority of Germans believe the country’s roughly four million Muslims are an economic burden, a poll showed Thursday, adding further fire to a raging immigration debate in Europe’s top economy.