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Politics

VIDEO: “Senator Dick Durbin Asks FBI Director About Anti-Muslim Trainings”

POLL: “Almost 20% of Americans Still Believe That Obama is Muslim”

From Religion News Service 1 in 6 Americans Believe Obama Is A Muslim, Lest that 1 in 4 Can Identify Him As Protestant WASHINGTON (RNS) After nearly four years in the Oval Office, President Obama is incorrectly thought to be Muslim by one in six American voters, and only one quarter of voters can correctly...

MAGAZINE: “Is British Politician George Galloway A Muslim?”

From The New Statesman (UK) Jemima Khan, in an interview with the Bradford MP, reveals the background to his Muslim conversion. BY ALICE GRIBBIN | PUBLISHED 26 APRIL 2012 11:54 Combative, hyperbolic, confident: George Galloway has lunch with Jemima Khan In a wide-ranging interview in this week’s issue of the New Statesman,George Galloway MP talks about his spectacular by-election victory,...

VIDEO: “Glenn Beck New Movie Paints Muslim ‘Infiltration’ of Obama Administration”

REUTERS: “Dutch Burqa Ban May Be Gone With End of Center-Right Government”

From Reuters By Reuters Staff | APRIL 26, 2012 Geert Wilders of the Freedom Party walks away after a debate about the government’s resignation caused by a crisis over budget cuts in The Hague April 24, 2012. REUTERS/Paul Vreeker) With the collapse of the Dutch centre-right government, the Netherlands may now drop some of its most...

NEWSPAPER: “French Muslims Mobilize To Unseat Nicolas Sarkozy”

From The Washington Times By Karine G. Barzegar – Special to The Washington Times PARIS — France’s Muslim community is mobilizing voters to reject President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday’s election to punish the conservative leader for his anti-immigrant/anti-Islam rhetoric. “[French] Muslims can’t stand it anymore. They are fed up with these debates about national identity, Halal...

REUTERS: “Angela Merkel Ally Says That Islam Is Not A Part of Germany”

From Reuters By Madeline Chambers BERLIN | Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:23am EDT (Reuters) – A leading conservative politician said on Thursday that Islam did not belong in Germany, fuelling tension at a conference on integrating Muslims that also debated a controversial Salafist campaign to hand out copies of the Koran across the country. “Islam is not part of...

POLITICO: “The Return of the ‘Muslim Problem’ for President Obama”

From Politico Questions on Obama’s religion have resurfaced in the public arena. | Reuters By MAGGIE HABERMAN and REID J. EPSTEIN | 3/28/12 4:37 AM EDT Updated: 3/28/12 8:49 AM EDT Newt Gingrich has made questions about President Barack Obama and the president’s “attacks” on the Roman Catholic Church a central theme of his campaign. So has Rick Santorum. Both turned...

AL-JAZEERA ENGLISH: “Outspoken Congressman Dennis Kucinich Loses Re-Election Bid”

From Al-Jazeera English

WALL STREET JOURNAL: “Gingrich Blasts Obama Administration For Being Too ‘Pro-Islamic’”

From Wall Street Journal By Danny Yadron ROME, Ga. — For the second day in a row, Newt Gingrich amped up his rhetoric about the Obama administration’s relationship with the Islamic world. Newt Gingrich poses for photos at the Northwest Trade and Convention Center in Dalton, Ga., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/The Daily Citizen,...