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Fast Forward Toulouse Killer Had Worldwide Network
Mohammed Merah, the killer of four Jews from Toulouse,reportedly had contacted people in 20 countries including Israel before perpetrating the murders. The daily newspaper Le Monde reported last week that French security services declassified records that showed Merah had exchanged information over the telephone with people from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Kenya,…
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Fast Forward Breivik Ruled Sane, Gets 21 Years for Rampage
Norweigian white supremacist Anders Behring Breivik was ruled sane and sentenced to 21 years in prison, the longest possible term, for killing 77 people in a rampage on an scenic island camp. Smiling and giving a Nazi salute, the anti-Muslim activists looked pleased when a five-judge panel announced the decision, 13 months after his rampage…
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Culture Circassians Are Israel’s Other Muslims
Israel was born as a sanctuary for a people banished from their homeland, harassed in exile and ultimately subjected to mass murder. But there is more than one population here that meets this description. For, the Jewish state is home to another dispersed, insular and tradition-bound nation that has suffered through the trauma of exile…
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The Schmooze Glimpse Into Circassian Culture
The Circassian Heritage Center in Kfar Kama and the smaller Circassian Museum, in Rehaniya, offer a window onto the community’s singular material culture. “It’s not exactly the Israel Museum or the Islamic Museum in Jerusalem — it’s modest and simple,” said Khoon Shawki, proprietor of the Circassian Museum and of Rehaniya’s Sausruka restaurant. “After viewing…
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Opinion Mitt’s Meeting With Controversial Conservative
Mitt Romney has came under fire for meeting with William (Jerry) Boykin, a retired U.S. Army officer who is now executive vice president of the Family Research Council, a leading Christian conservative organization. Boykin has enraged the Muslim-American community with anti-Muslim remarks which date back to his days in uniform but have intensified after his…
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Fast Forward End Circumcision, Norway Official Suggests
Norway’s ombudsman for children’s rights has proposed that Jews and Muslim replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual. Dr. Anne Lindboe told the newspaper Vart Land last month that circumcision in boys was a violation of a person’s right to decide over his own body. “Muslim and Jewish children are entitled to the same…
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Fast Forward French Jews Slam Pig-in-Mosque Desecration
French Jewish leaders are calling the tossing of two pig heads into a mosque not far from Toulouse “an odious desecration.” Worshippers at the Salam mosque in Montauban in southern France discovered two pig heads at the entrance to the building yesterday. On March 15, Muslim extremist Mohammed Merah murdered two French soldiers in the…
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News The Truth? Few Muslims in Government
When Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann and a group of colleagues called for a probe into “security concerns” over the employment of several Muslims in top government positions, Democrats and Republicans joined in condemning the call and in accusing those behind it of Islamophobia. Yet, shining the spotlight on the issue of Muslim Americans in…
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