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Worse than 'Sleeping with the Enemy?'

Submitted by Daniel Pipes on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 23:30

Daniel Pipes

 

The Swiss Islamist Tariq Ramadan was about to take up a position at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 2004 when the U.S. government prevented him from entering the country on the grounds that he had funded two Hamas-related groups. For five years, his exclusion has been debated and tried. Finally, it was reversed today. The Associated Press explains:

 

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed orders enabling the re-entry of two Islamist professors to teach at American universities. Is this a wise decision?

Surprised Flight 253 Terrorist was Allowed to Fly? I’m Not. Here’s Why.

Submitted by Gregory D. Lee on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 23:12

 

 

Gregory D. Lee

 

On Christmas Day, 23-year-old Nigerian national Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane in his home country with the intent of killing 278 passengers and crew members aboard. The Associated Press reported that he was on a U.S. terrorism watch list, but he wasn’t on the “no fly” list.

 

How can this be?

 

What brought you here?: 
Doesn't it make sense that if someone is suspected to have terrorist ties, he should not be allowed to fly on a commercial airliner, let alone be given a U.S. visa?

Israel to beef up enforcement of settlement freeze

Submitted by admin on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 16:12
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's defense minister on Sunday ordered his office to triple the number of construction inspectors in the West Bank to enforce a new settlement freeze declared by the government, while settler leaders vowed to defy the edict.

ACLU sues over T-shirts with anti-Islamic message

Submitted by admin on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 06:54
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Dave Wahl 

@ November 23, 2009 

Lampoon: Cry of the Miserable Talibans!

Submitted by admin on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 12:38

By Syed Kamran Mirza

June 14, 2001

Talibans’ Enigma

Links News & Views November 3, 2006

Submitted by admin on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 12:38

Thank you to all for sending in news and views on Islam from around the globe.


November 3, 2006

UK youths 'among worst in Europe'

Egypt's top cleric to ban veils in schools

Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 09:17

Egypt's highest Muslim authority said he plans to bar female students who wear face veils from entering the schools of al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's premier institute of learning, according to local reports.

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