Inside America's Mosques - By Akbar Ahmed | Foreign Policy

"In this environment of heightened intolerance, people focus on symbols, and no symbol is more representative of Islam than the mosque. But most outsiders have no idea what actually goes on inside mosques.

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The Talibanization of America - By Mosharraf Zaidi | Foreign Policy

"Instead, when we try to explain what is happening in America, we simply say that a great country is going through a kind of Talibanization -- led by mullahs like Newt Gingrich, Pamela Geller, and the occasional Terry Jones."

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French attempts to outlaw the burqa strike a blow for the rights of women. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

" A huge amount of evidence goes the other way. Mothers, wives, and daughters have been threatened with acid in the face, or honor-killing, or vicious beating, if they do not adopt the humiliating outer clothing that is mandated by their menfolk.

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Welcome to the Fashion Apocalypse. - By Simon Doonan - Slate Magazine

Grab your Goyard totes, girls! Gird up your loins with Gaultier girdles! The style armageddon is upon us! The final runway rapture is looming! Welcome to the Fashion Apocalypse!

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Mel Gibson's tirades are the distilled violence, cruelty, and bigotry of right-wing Catholic ideology. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

Every time Mel Gibson unburdens himself of a tirade against Jews or "n______s" or uncooperative females, there are commentators on hand to create a mystery where none exists.

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 How bathroom posture affects your health. - By Daniel Lametti - Slate Magazine

Posture is important, really!

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The dispute over the "Ground Zero mosque" is an object lesson in how not to resist intolerance. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

I don't like anything much about the Cordoba Initiative or the people who run it. The supposed imam of the place, Feisal Abdul Rauf . . .

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The taming and domestication of religious faith is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

"Those who wish that there would be no mosques in America have already lost the argument: Globalization, no less than the promise of American liberty, mandates that the United States will have a Muslim population of some size.

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Six more reasons why we can't let Iran get nukes. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

There will never be a settlement of the Israel-Palestine dispute, because the rejectionist Palestinians will be even more a proxy of a regime that calls for Israel's elimination, and the rejectionist Jews will be vindicated in their belief that concessions are a waste of time, if …

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Chosen - Magazine - The Atlantic

"The chief impetus of anti-Semitism remains theocratic, and in our epoch anti-Semitism has shifted from Christian to Muslim: a more searching inquiry into its origins and nature might begin by asking if faith is not the problem to begin with.

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Scholar Ronald W. Walters led what is considered to be the first lunch-counter sit-in

"As an academic, journalist and crusader, he was in the tradition of W.E.B. DuBois," writer and civil rights leader Roger Wilkins said Saturday. "He was a man who used his intellect and wisdom to make this a fairer and culturally richer country than the one we were born into."

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PostPartisan - How a Koran burner goes global

"The fact remains that a minor crackpot has, thanks to the miracle of the Internet and far-less-wondrous effect of cable television news, managed to have a global impact -- and a potentially lethal one at that.

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The Great Divergence and the decline of labor. (1) - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine

The rich get richer and richer and richer. Here is some data and documentation from a few who have researched this subject.

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Glenn Beck's rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected�the Waterworld of white self-pity. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

White people, their concerns and the Palin, Beck, Tea Party, Christian White, and way to the RightSide of just about everything.

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Mosque Developers Building Deal?

There are too many factors here that are suspicious.

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Nation & World | For right price, investor would sell mosque site | Seattle Times Newspaper

It is only about the money. It was never about religion.

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For right price, investor would sell mosque site - Worldnews.com

More on Mosque sale.

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Trump Offers To Buy Out Investor In Mosque Site - Worldnews.com

Trump is trumped and rejected, according to 8 of various news sites.

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Mosque developer refuses Trump offer � wants more money at least 20 milion

This is what it is about, money, not religion, only money. The investors very cleverly counted on the American media, not investigating very thoroughly, making this a religious feeding frenzy to get citizens all over this country fired up and angry, very, very clever.

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Mosque Owners Shady Past Revealed

How did one of the owners, of the property go from being a waiter a mere 7 years ago to a multimillionaire real estate mogul? He has not developed any real estate. So what is really up with this group?

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9/11 Father Lee Ielpi: 'I Don't Understand All of This Hate'

Tolerance with a capital T. This man and the story of the son he lost is a true teaching moment.

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Nature | Yahoo! Green

Some stories to take our focus off of what is in the news right now.

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Sustainable brick made from sand, bacteria, and pee | Yahoo! Green

Great idea. The ultimate recycling -- of urine.

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25 things chefs never tell you | Yahoo! Green

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NATO base pelted over Koran threat | Courier Mail

One isolated incident or . . .

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