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Fast Forward French Politician Accuses Muslims Over Croissants
A right-wing politician vying to head France’s opposition conservative party has raised a storm by suggesting Muslim youths tear pain au chocolat pastries from children’s hands during Islam’s fasting month. The controversy has inflamed old strains over secular and mainly-Catholic France’s struggle to assimilate Muslim culture. Jean-Francois Cope, who calls himself a non-practicing Jew, made…
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Fast Forward ADL Boycotts Interfaith Meeting Over Israel Letter
The Anti-Defamation League withdrew from participating in a national Jewish-Christian interfaith dialogue after church leaders asked Congress to reevaluate U.S. military aid to Israel. The ADL in a statement called the request “a serious breach of trust by mainline Protestant Church leaders” participating in the annual interfaith meeting, which will be held on Oct. 22….
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Fast Forward Billionaire Defends Anti-Obama Memo to Workers
A Florida billionaire has told his employees he could be forced to lay off some of them if U.S. President Barack Obama wins a second term, calling his administration a threat to their jobs. David Siegel, the owner of Orlando-based Westgate Resorts, the largest privately held time-share company in the world, said in an email…
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Fast Forward Top Court Challenges Affirmative Action Program
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday vigorously challenged a University of Texas admissions program that favors some African-American and Hispanic applicants in a case that could determine how universities use affirmative action at campuses nationwide. The legal battle is the most closely watched case of the court’s current term, striking at the heart of two…
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Fast Forward Anti-Islam Filmmaker Denies Parole Violation
A California man linked to an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests in the Muslim world denied on Wednesday he had violated his probation on a fraud conviction, and was sent back to jail until his case can be heard on its merits. The Egyptian-born man, who has been known publicly as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula,…
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Fast Forward German Cabinet Approves Law Allowing Circumcision
Germany’s cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday protecting the right to circumcise infant boys, which it says will end months of legal uncertainty after a local court banned the practice, causing outrage among Muslims and Jews. The June ruling by a Cologne district court that circumcision constitutes “bodily harm” sparked an emotional national debate…
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Fast Forward London Police Probe Jewish School Attack
Police in the London area are reportedly investigating a suspected arson attack at a Jewish primary school. The fire at the Talmud Torah Toldos Yakov Yoser school in Hackney, a north-eastern London borough, occurred on the night of Sept. 28, a Friday, and did not result in any injuries, The Jewish Chronicle reported. The paper…
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Fast Forward French Police Bust Anti-Jewish Bomb Lab
French police have linked an explosives lab which they discovered near Paris to alleged members of a Jihadist cell suspected of the recent bombing of a Jewish store. On Oct. 9, French police officers discovered firearms and “all the elements necessary to produce explosive devices” at a parking lot in the eastern Paris suburb of…
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