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		<title>NEWS: &#8220;Right-Wing Activist Says CIA Director Nominee John Brennan is a Secret Muslim&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet From Salon.com by Jillian Rayfield A former FBI agent and current anti-Islam activist believes that John Brennan, President Obama’s pick to head the CIA, is secretly a Muslim and therefore “unfit for duty” in the government. On Friday, John Guandolo, the vice president of the Virginia-based Strategic Engagement Group (SEG), appeared on the Boca Raton-based radio show of Tom Trento, the president of the anti-”Shariah Islam” group The United West, formerly the Florida Security Council. Guandolo described how Brennan has supposedly “interwoven his life professionally and personally with individuals that we know are terrorists and he has given them access” to top officials in the federal government and “brought known Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood leaders into the government and into advisory positions.” Guandolo continued that what “some would say is most disturbing, Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on behalf of the United States when he served in Saudi Arabia” and it “was the culmination of a counterintelligence operation against him to recruit him” by foreign operatives. In an email to supporters, Trento hyped the interview, referencing the “very brave Michele Bachmann” who recently accused Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Trento continued with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABC NEWS: &#8220;How The NYPD Spied on American Muslim Students at Yale &amp; Other Top Universities&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet From ABC News By CRISTINA COSTANTINI (@xtinatini) Feb. 7, 2013 Almost exactly a year ago, the Associated Press obtained a declassified document revealing that the New York City Police Department monitored student activities of Muslim Student Associations (MSA) in at least 15 colleges across the northeast, including at some of the nation&#8217;s top schools, like Yale University and UPenn. On Monday, civil rights lawyers filed a lawsuit against the NYPD for routinely observing Muslims in restaurants, mosques and cafes without due cause &#8212; practices which were uncovered in a series by the AP. Lawyers argue that the widespread surveillance of the Muslim communities violates a 1985 court decision and are seeking a court order against further surveillance of Muslims without evidence of wrongdoing as well as a new court-appointed overseer of police espionage activities. When the declassified document came out last February, it sent a chill through the Ivy Muslim Conference, a gathering of 130 Muslim studentsthat was taking place at Yale that weekend. In a large dining hall, the AP story circulated quietly on dozens of iPhones and BlackBerries. &#8220;The first reaction of most students was just utter shock of being spied on when you haven&#8217;t done anything wrong,&#8221; said Omer Bajwa, the current Chaplain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HUFFINGTON POST: &#8220;Fighting Honor Killings in Pakistan with Fashion&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet From Huffington Post by Betty Londergan Khalida Brohi is a sweet-faced young Pakistani woman with the giggle of a little girl and the heart of a warrior for justice. At the tender age of 24, she has seen more of life (and death) than any young woman should; she&#8217;s been shot at, bombed, stalked, filmed, lauded and reviled for her work to end honor killings in the tribal villages of Pakistan &#8212; and like her friend and co-activist Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani women&#8217;s rights activist who was shot by Taliban militants in October for her work educating girls, Khalida has been doing this dangerous work since she was a teen. Now Khalida has decided to take her crusade for justice and equality somewhere totally new: to the runway. Using Pakistani tribal embroidery stitched by the hands of women who have never seen a fashion model or dreamed of that kind of freedom, she&#8217;s created Sughar, a line of handbags, clutches, slip dresses, shoes and pillows that are high-impact, high-fashion and highly irresistible. &#8220;Sughar&#8221; (meaning &#8220;skilled, confident woman&#8221; in Urdu) is a new kind of social venture that turns women&#8217;s village embroidery circles into wheels of revolution &#8212; both to provide precious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEWS: &#8220;Minnesota Police Officer Mocks Muslims By Dressing as Somali Woman with Headscarf&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet From TwinCities.com A man seen in a photograph dressed as a female Muslim Target employee is a St. Paul police officer who worked off-duty at a St. Paul store, police and Target Corp. said Monday, Feb. 4. Mukhtar Ibrahim directed a Tweet to the official St. Paul police Twitter account at 7:55 p.m. Sunday: &#8220;Can u pls verify if this man mocking Somali women employees at Target is one of your officers?&#8221; Ibrahim, who used to live in St. Paul, is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist. Ibrahim received a reply from the St. Paul police Twitter account at 8:35 a.m. Monday: &#8220;SPPD wants to thx u for bring this to our att. We take this seriously&#38;are investigating.&#8221; Police Chief Thomas Smith said in a statement Monday, &#8220;After an image was brought to my attention this morning, I ordered an immediate investigation to determine all of the facts surrounding it. The St. Paul police department has worked hard to establish a strong and respectful relationship with our Muslim communities, and I will not allow these types of images to erode that relationship. Diversity is one of the greatest strengths of the city of St. Paul, and we expect each one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RELIGION NEWS SERVICE: &#8220;Chicago is Ground Zero in U.S. Muslim Renaissance&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet From Religion News Service by Monique Parsons CHICAGO (RNS)  Religious affiliation may be on the wane in America, a recent Pew study asserts, but you wouldn’t know it walking into the storefront near the corner of West 63rd Street and South Fairfield Avenue. Inside a former bank in a neighborhood afflicted with gang violence, failed businesses and empty lots, a team of volunteers drawn by their religious faith is working to make life better for Chicago’s poorest residents. The free medical clinic has expanded its hours; 20-something college graduates are clamoring to get into its internship program; rap stars swing by its alcohol-free poetry slams; and the budget has increased tenfold in the past decade. The storefront belongs to Chicago’s Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) and it is part of a wave of new Muslim institutions emerging at an unprecedented pace. More than a quarter of the nation’s 2,106 mosques were founded in the last decade, according to a recent University of Kentucky study, and new social service organizations, many of them run by 20- and 30-something American-born Muslims, are thriving as never before. This surge in new Muslim institutions, led by a nationwide network of young activists, “is the most important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEWS VIDEO: &#8220;First Muslim Liberal Arts College Opens in California&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>VIDEO: &#8220;Watch Malala Yousufzai&#8217;s First TV Interview Since Being Shot by the Taliban&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>VIDEO: &#8220;Coca-Cola Super Bowl Commercial Ends With Arab Camel Jockey WINNING The Coke Bottle&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is the “Epilogue” finale to the 2013 Coca-Cola Super Bowl commercial that was emailed to me after my CNN television interview on the controversy.]]></description>
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		<title>REUTERS: &#8220;Arab-American Groups Claim Racism in Coca-Cola&#8217;s Super Bowl Commercial&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES &#124; Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:01pm EST (Reuters) &#8211; Arab-American groups have sharply criticized a Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad depicting an Arab walking through the desert with a camel, and one group said it would ask the beverage giant to change it before CBS airs the game on Sunday before an expected audience of more than 100 million U.S. viewers. &#8220;Why is it that Arabs are always shown as either oil-rich sheiks, terrorists, or belly dancers?&#8221; said Warren David, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC. Coca-Cola released an online teaser of the commercial last week, showing the Arab walking through a desert. He soon sees cowboys, Las Vegas showgirls and a motley crew fashioned after the marauders of the apocalyptic &#8220;Mad Max&#8221; film race by him to reach a gigantic bottle of Coke. In its ad, Coke asks viewers to vote online on which characters should win the race. The online site does not allow a vote for the Arab character. &#8220;The Coke commercial for the Super Ball is racist, portraying Arabs as backward and foolish Camel Jockeys, and they have no chance to win in the world,&#8221; Imam Ali Siddiqui, president of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEWS VIDEO: &#8220;Colorado Students Recite Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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