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Muslim Woman fired for Wearing Hijab

Abercrombie and Fitch proudly cites its commitment to diversity in the workforce. Hani Khan, a...

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America and Islam

BOSTON -- Americans tend to obsess about certain issues, when the national imagination is either...

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US Congress extends 'anti-terrorism' laws

WASHINGTON - US lawmakers voted Thursday to extend key parts of the Patriot Act law...

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Beyond the Mabhuh affair

The murderous assassination by the Mossad of Mahmoud al Mabhuh in Dubai a month ago...

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Opinion

The Woeful Washington Post

The Washington Post’s editors never tire of basking in the faded glory of Watergate, a scandal that occurred nearly four decades ago. Some outsiders also still call the Post “liberal.”...

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Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy

Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shiites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play...

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Mossad’s Murderous Reach: The Larger Political Issues

On January 19 Israel’s international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake...

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What Did Mossad Get Wrong in Dubai?

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Mossad chief Meir Dagan If you were a gambling man down to your last million dollars, you could safely bet the lot on the fact that...

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US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran

Major US news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, are engaged in a replay of the kind of slanted coverage that paved the way to war...

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Gaza and Lebanon: Beware the Iron Wall, the Coming War

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The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as...

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The Community

CAIR Responds to Rise in Anti-Islam Bias

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 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today said it is responding to a number of incidents prompted by what the Muslim civil rights and advocacy group says is a rising...

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A mosque defaced but found communal support

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“How terrible that someone would write ‘Muslims Go Home’ when they are home!” exclaimed a neighbor who helped organize a team of volunteers to support Nashville’s Muslim community after a...

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Obama has let us down, angry Arab-Americans say

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NEW YORK -  A couple of hundred Arab-Americans were given a chance to vent their anger at a town hall meeting with US federal and local officials who were told in...

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US Policy Appears to Single Out Arab, Muslim Travelers

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Civil liberties advocates are joining Arab and Muslim American groups in expressing concern over the government's recent decision to single out travelers from more than a dozen mostly Middle Eastern...

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Muslim Leaders Welcome Lancaster Mayor's Apology for 'Christian Community' Remarks

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The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA), the Islamic Center of the North Valley (ICNV) in Lancaster and the American Islamic Institute of Antelope...

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Culture

Palestinian village launches 'cultural' resistance

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NILIN, West Bank - On Fridays they chant slogans and hurl stones at Israeli occupation soldiers, but on Saturdays the youth of this small Palestinian village head into a newly-restored...

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Abbas Al Nouri replaces Jamal Suleiman

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The famous Syrian actor Abbas Al Nouri will be playing the role of “Abu Al Hasan” in the second part of the Syrian drama series “Ahel Al Rayah”, which was...

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'My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist'

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ABU DHABI - In MY NAME IS KHAN, Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol Devgan inhabit the most challenging roles of their careers.

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Hanan Turk in a comedy for the first time

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  The Egyptian actress Hanan Turk will play a comedic role for the first time in the new television drama series “Al Qitah Al Amyah” (The Blind Cat). The new...

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UAE office workers waste 13 million days on tea and gossip

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New research shows that office workers in the UAE spend considerable time engaged in non-work-related activites while at their desks.

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Feature

Iraq Defeats Avatar in Oscar

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HOLLYWOOD — The low-grossing Iraq war thriller "The Hurt Locker" has swept the prestigious...

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Women-only taxis hit Cairo streets

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CAIRO - A waxed rag in hand, Inas Hamam gives her car a good buff...

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Good times for Baghdad printers ahead of Iraq polls

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BAGHDAD - Business has never been so good for Iraq's printers in the runup to...

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Over a million Syrians affected by drought

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DEIR EZ ZOUR - Drought in eastern and northeastern Syria has driven some 300,000 families...

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Yemeni 10-year-old raped daily by old husband

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SANAA (IRIN) - It was every little girl's dream; she was to get a new...

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Gaza school children traumatized and hungry

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Nearly half a million children in Gaza returned to overcrowded and dilapidated schools on 1...

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