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| | DC: Imax Re-Creates Epic Pilgrimage to Mecca | | I'd never heard of Ibn Battuta, the famed 14th-century Moroccan lawyer who at the age of 21 wanted to perform the hajj. Instead of a ride in an air-conditioned jet to Saudi Arabia, the trip in 1325 was a hazardous overland trek of 3,000 miles from Tangier to Mecca. |
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| | IL: Group Works to Counter Negative View of Muslims | | But a Chicago-based coalition wants to blunt that sort of message by sharing the real-life stories of Muslims living, working and praying in America. These community ambassadors will share their stories while volunteering in area communities. |
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| | Rep. Conyers Calls for Review of FBI Case on Imam | | While federal prosecutors were trying to protect vital evidence in a case against a group they described as Islamic extremists, U.S. Rep. John Conyers asked the U.S. Attorney General on Wednesday for a thorough investigation into the shooting death of the group's leader, Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah. |
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| | Video: Anti-Islam Televangelist Blames Haiti Quake on 'Pact with Devil' | | NOTE: Last November, CAIR called on Virginia's Governor-elect Robert F. McDonnell to publicly repudiate anti-Islam remarks by Pat Robertson, the televangelist and gubernatorial campaign contributor who said Islam is "not a religion" and that American Muslims should be treated like members of a communist or fascist party. |
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| | MI Mosque Hosts Disaster Relief for Haiti Today | | The Flint Islamic Center will host a fundraiser at 2:30 p.m. today at the center to raise relief money for the Haitian tragedy. The local effort is part of a $1 million campaign among Islamic centers nationwide by the charity group, Islamic Relief, to help victims of Tuesday's earthquake. |
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| | PA Mosque Slates Haiti Fundraiser | | Repeating an act of kindness exhibited in times of devastation nine years ago, the Masjid Al-Madinah mosque plans to hold a fundraiser Jan. 22 for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, similar to what it did for 9/11. |
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| | CAIR: Rep. Myrick, Muslims Defend, Debate in Testy Town Hall | | CHARLOTTE -- In a testy two-hour town hall meeting, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick argued Thursday night that the threat of homegrown Islamist terrorism is real and defended herself against charges by local Muslims that she was spreading fear about their religion. |
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 | | Wilders Goes for Hijab Ban in The Hague | | The ban will not apply to other religious items such as Christian crosses and Jewish skull caps because these are symbols of our own Dutch culture, Wilders said in his speech, receiving a standing ovation from the crowd. |
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 | | NY: Muslim's Lawsuit Accuses NYPD of Bias in Hiring (NY Times) | | The immigrant, Said Hajem, took the police exam in February 2006 and said he scored 85.6, well above the passing grade. That June he received a letter of congratulations from Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and began preparing to enter the Police Academy. |
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 | | CO: Female Comedian Stands Up for Islam (Greeley Trib) | "I thought maybe it's time to take a chance, a risk to do something I'd never do," she says. "I was really motivated to find a way to speak up and speak out after 9/11." Hami had never given comedy any serious thought, but her friends often told her she should try stand-up. |
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| | NC: Rep. Myrick Distances Herself from Islam-Basher | | Muslim constituents repeatedly challenged Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) at an emotional town hall meeting in Charlotte Thursday, with Myrick scrambling to distance herself from the Islam-bashing co-author of the book Muslim Mafia, whose foreword was written by the congresswoman herself. |
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| | Does Rep. Myrick Think Islam is a 'Terminal Disease'? | | TalkingPointsMemo today describes the confrontation between Myrick and her Muslim constituents over her wacky investigation of "intern spies" and her endorsement of a WorldNetDaily book called Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America. Myrick wrote the forward to the book. |
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| | La. Sheriff's Office Arms Civilians to Fight ‘Islamic Terror Cells' | | Sheriff Larry Deen has announced a plan to arm volunteers with shotguns, riot shields, batons, and a .50-caliber machine gun mounted on a "war wagon," and has begun training them in "hand-to-hand combat" and other techniques, as part of a program to provide security in the event of a terrorist attack or civic unrest. |
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| | CA: Groups Seek Data on FBI Mosque Surveillance | | SAN FRANCISCO, 3/9/10 - The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC), The Asian Law Caucus (ALC), and the San Francisco Bay Guardian filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today seeking records relating to federal government activity in connection to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) investigation of Muslim communities. |
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