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'Dangerous' for feds to get involved in Muslim's lawsuit

OneNewsNow

A legal expert says it's a "dangerous" precedent for the federal government to sue a suburban Chicago school district for denying a Muslim middle-school teacher unpaid leave to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.

According to an Associated Press report, the U.S. Department of Justice accuses the school district in Berkeley, Illinois, of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to reasonably accommodate Safoorah Khan's religious practices. According to Islamic teaching, every adult Muslim is supposed to make at least one pilgrimage -- the "Hajj" -- to Mecca in Saudi Arabia in their lifetime if they are physically and financially able to do so. Khan had requested almost three weeks of unpaid leave.

Matt Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, tells OneNewsNow the government's action is unprecedented. "This is an absolute bully club being used by the federal government in this lawsuit against the school to literally force this school to go out of their way to make unreasonable accommodations for a Mecca pilgrimage," he says.

The attorney argues this is a "dangerous path for the government to plow" because it blazes a trail for similar requests.

Matt Staver"...Once you then say that you can take a three-week pilgrimage to Mecca, then there really is no stopping -- you can take five sections of the workday out to go pray; you can have a certain kind of ritual washing built into the school or to the workplace to be able to do your ritual cleansing," he suggests. "It just literally opens up Pandora's Box -- and the federal laws were not designed for that kind of accommodation."

Textbooks tainted with Islamic ideology

OneNewsNow

A terrorism expert says textbook publishers are allowing pro-Islamic consultants to have influence over the content of what is taught in America's schools.

The terrorism expert tells OneNewsNow that a student at that academy was arrested for seeking to assassinate former President George W. Bush. Even so, a former teacher at that same school is counseling the publishers of Across the Centuries (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), a 558-page textbook used in middle schools that contains 55 pages on Islam, less than ten pages on Christianity, and several pages on the Byzantine Empire. (See editor's note below)

"The chapter on Islam accounts for ten percent of the text, while Christianity and Judaism are almost entirely absent," Gabriel points out. "This book is taught in every single public school across the United States, in every state and city."

NPR's Taxpayer Funding Questioned After Juan Williams Fired

Associated Press

Conservatives and even some liberals say NPR went too far in axing a longtime news analyst for saying he gets nervous on planes when he sees people in Muslim dress, and at least one U.S. senator said he would start the ball rolling in cutting federal funding to the network.

Muslim groups were outraged, saying that Juan Williams' remarks Monday on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor" endorsed the idea that all Muslims should be viewed with suspicion. Opinions Williams expressed on shows by his other employer, Fox News, over the years had already strained his relationship with NPR to the point that the public radio network asked him to stop using its name when he appeared on O'Reilly's show.

National Security Experts: Shariah Law Is 'Preeminent Totalitarian Threat of Our Time'

CNS News

A team of national security experts assembled by the conservative Center for Security Policy, a Washington, D.C., think tank, issued a report last week warning of that Shariah law--which they described as a "legal-political-military doctrine"--is the "preeminent totalitarian threat of our time."

The group drew a distinction between Muslims who embrace Shariah law as the comprehensive model for governing all human society and those who view it as a reference point for personal behavior but not for the conduct of government and the state.

"Shariah is the crucial fault line of Islam’s internecine struggle. On one side of the divide are Muslim reformers and authentic moderates--figures like Abdurrahman Wahid, the late president of Indonesia and leader of the world’s largest libertarian Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama--whose members embrace the Enlightenment’s veneration of reason and, in particular, its separation of the spiritual and secular realms," the authors write.

"On this side of the divide, shariah is a reference point for a Muslim’s personal conduct, not a corpus to be imposed on the life of a pluralistic society," they say. "By contrast, the other side of the divide is dominated by Muslim supremacists, often called Islamists. Like erstwhile proponents of Communism and Nazism, these supremacists--some terrorists, others employing stealthier means--seek to impose a totalitarian regime: a global totalitarian system cloaked as an Islamic state and called a caliphate.

Holy book burnings spark hypocrisy

A pro-family organization says it's hypocritical for high-ranking officials in the Pentagon to condemn a Florida church's plans to burn Qurans when U.S. military personnel burned Bibles last year in Afghanistan.

Pastor Terry Jones told reporters outside his church in Gainesville Wednesday afternoon that he remains unconvinced that "backing down is the right thing" to do regarding the planned burning of Qurans on Saturday. That protest has drawn objection from Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander, who says images of burning Qurans will be used by extremists to inflame public opinion and incite worldwide violence.

But Bryan Fischer, director of issues analysis at the American Family Association (AFA), thinks it is the height of hypocrisy for the U.S. government to condemn the church, considering the fact that the U.S. military incinerated Bibles that were sent to Afghanistan in May 2009.

Bryan Fischer (Amer. Family Assn.)"There's really a staggering level of hypocrisy and double standard here for the military to burn the Holy Bible and then complain when a pastor's going to do the same thing to the Quran," Fischer contends. "You know, if the military was going to be fair here and even-handed, they would count up the number of Holy Bibles that they incinerated in Afghanistan, and then they would allow Reverend Jones to burn the same number of Qurans."

Media ignoring Muslim opposition to mosque

OneNewsNow

A conservative media watchdog organization says the mainstream media is virtually ignoring the Muslims who are speaking out in opposition to the proposed "Ground Zero" mosque in New York City.

The mainstream media appears to have gone out of its way to support the premise that Islam is a peaceful religion and that most Muslims are "moderate." But the Culture and Media Institute (CMI) at the Media Research Center has found that when it comes to the question of the Ground Zero mosque, the networks have ignored those moderate Muslims who have spoken out against locating the mosque so close to the 9/11 site.

Nathan Burchfiel"You've seen the media depicting opponents of the mosque as bigots, as racists, as xenophobes -- and yet they're ignoring a pretty substantial list of Muslim figures who have come out and said essentially the same thing that most Americans are saying," notes Nathan Burchfiel, associate editor at the CMI. "But the media [is] ignoring those kinds of people because it doesn't fit the media agenda of saying that this is something that everybody wants."

Islamist Leader in Pakistan Says Accepting Flood Relief From U.S. and India Is Like ‘Poison’

CNS News

Accepting emergency aid from the United States or India amounts to taking “poison,” the head of one of Pakistan’s leading Islamist political parties said Tuesday.

The remarks by Syed Munawar Hasan, head of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), evidently were intended to apply new pressure on a government already walking a tightrope between dealing with the flood crisis and antagonizing radical elements.

He spoke on the same day the United Nations appealed for more helicopters to help reach hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis cut off by the “unprecedented floods.”

Rallies Over Mosque Near Ground Zero Get Heated

Associated Press

Hundreds of impassioned demonstrators -- all waving American flags, but separated into two groups by police -- descended on the site of the proposed mosque near ground zero, with opponents chanting, "No mosque, no way!" and supporters shouting, "We say no to racist fear!"

The two leaders of the construction project, meanwhile, defended their plans on Sunday, though one suggested that organizers might eventually be willing to discuss an alternative site. The other, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, said during a Middle East trip that the attention generated by the project is actually positive and that he hopes it will bring greater understanding.

'Ground Zero' imam not a moderate

OneNewsNow

A former member of the Palestine Liberation Organization has monitored Arabic language traffic in Middle East that reveals the controversial "Ground Zero" mosque imam is not a moderate at all.

Walid Shoebat, a convert from Islam to Christianity who is now an outspoken critic of Islam, recently translated an Arabic language interview conducted by Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf. He believes the imam's words should be alarming as they indicate what the world will look like if he gets his way.

The Islam critic explains that the organizer spearheading the Ground Zero mosque outlined his manifesto for the infiltration of secular governments like that of the United States by means of "peaceful lobbying efforts."

"What he is suggesting is to make the governors and the political institutions consult Muslim institutions and Muslim personalities like himself...in the field so as to ensure that the decision-making...reflects the spirit of sharia, to make Muslim personalities so they can begin to influence the government and so they can become consultants to the government," Shoebat reports. "And then they make sure that the laws are within the spirit of sharia Islamic laws."

He points out that Abdul Rauf has already taken a step toward his goal by getting a State Department-funded trip to the Middle East to be an envoy for alleged "peaceful" Islam.

Ground Zero Mosque Group Says It Has No Plan to Move Site or Meet With N.Y. Governor

CNS News

The organization planning to build a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero denied reports Tuesday about a scheduled meeting to discuss the matter with New York Gov. David Paterson. The group reaffirmed that it has no intention of moving the controversial project.

Earlier Rep. Peter King (R.-N.Y.), a vocal critic of the plan, said Paterson told him during a phone conversation that he planned to meet with the developers later this week to discuss the possibility of an alternative site.

The project is the brainchild of Feisel Abdul Rauf, an Islamic cleric who heads the Cordoba Initiative, an organization whose stated goal is to improve Muslim-West relations.

U.S. Should Better Define Islamic Extremism in Order to Fight It, Report Says

Associated Press

The Obama administration's recent move to drop references to Islamic radicalism is drawing fire in a new report warning that the decision ignores the role religion can play in motivating terrorists.

Several prominent counter-terror experts are challenging the administration's shift in its recently unveiled National Security Strategy, saying the terror threat should be defined in order to fight it.

The question of how to frame the conflict against al-Qaida and other terrorists poses a knotty problem. The U.S. is trying to mend fences with Muslim communities while toughening its strikes against militant groups.

Activists Claim Free Speech Victory As ‘Leaving Islam’ Ads Return to Buses

CNS News

A public transit authority in Florida has reversed a decision to take down banner advertisements on buses that offer help to Muslims wanting to leave their faith. Activists are hailing the move as a victory for free speech and religious freedom.

Not only will the ten originally planned ads appear on Miami-Dade Transit buses in coming days, but an additional 20 ads will be run at no extra cost.

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Detainees Say They Planned Sept. 11

The New York Times

The five detainees at Guantánamo Bay charged with planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have filed a document with the military commission at the United States naval base there expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting full responsibility for the killing of nearly 3,000 people. The document, which may be released publicly on Tuesday, uses the Arabic term for a consultative assembly in describing the five men as the “9/11 Shura Council,” and it says their actions were an offering to God, according to excerpts of the document that were read to a reporter by a government official who was not authorized to discuss it publicly. President Obama halted the military proceedings at Guantánamo in the first days after his inauguration, and the five men’s case is on hiatus until the government decides how it will proceed.

Hundreds of Iranians storm British compound in Tehran over Gaza attacks

Times Online

Hundreds of Iranian radicals stormed the British compound in Tehran last night, replacing the Union flag with a Palestinian one in protest against Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip. British officials will be assessing whether the security breach, unprecedented in recent years, was an isolated incident or presages further violent demonstrations. A hardline Iranian news agency said that protests against Britain and Egypt, whose embassy was also targeted, would continue. Hardline Iranian students have often staged noisy protests outside the British embassy in Tehran, hurling stones and petrol bombs at the building, but Tuesday night’s incident was the first time in decades that they have breached diplomatic territory.

Russian Newsweek warned for "insulting" Muslims

Breitbart.com

MOSCOW (AP) - Moscow prosecutors say they have warned the Russian-language edition of the Newsweek magazine for allegedly insulting Muslims. The Moscow Prosecutor's Office says the magazine published two stories that could be "insulting or humiliating" to Muslims. It said Tuesday on article also included one of the 2005 Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The magazine published the stories on Muslims in the European Union in late October. It could not be immediately reached for comment. About 20 million Muslims live in Russia.

Iran president blames Wall Street turmoil on U.S. 'military engagement'

The Los Angeles Times

NEW YORK -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Monday that the turmoil on Wall Street was rooted in part in U.S. military intervention abroad and voiced hope that the next American administration would retreat from what he called President Bush's "logic of force." He also asserted, in an interview with The Times, that Israel was doomed like "an airplane that has lost its engine" and that Western intelligence documents questioning the peaceful purpose of Iran's nuclear program were crude forgeries.

Chinese border assault kills 16

BBC News

Sixteen Chinese policemen have been killed in an attack on a border post in the restive Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media say. Two attackers reportedly drove up to the post in a rubbish truck and threw two grenades, before moving in to attack the policemen with knives. The attack came four days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Both attackers were captured during the raid near the city of Kashgar, Xinhua state news agency reported. Kashgar, known as Kashi in Chinese, is some 2,500 miles (4,000km) from Beijing, near the border with Tajikistan.

4 female bombers strike in Iraq, killing 57

My Way News

BAGHDAD (AP) - Four suicide bombers believed to be women struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300 in one of this year's deadliest attacks, police said. The U.S. military is recruiting and training women in Iraq's police force, and trying to enlist them to join U.S.-allied Sunni groups fighting against al-Qaida in Iraq. But such attacks are becoming increasingly common, even as overall violence is at the lowest level in four years. Women are more easily able to hide explosives under their all-encompassing black Islamic robes, or abayas, and often are not searched at checkpoints because of sensitivities. On Monday, three bombers believed to be women blew up their explosive vests in the middle of pilgrims in Baghdad moments after a roadside bomb attack, killing at least 32 people and wounding 102, Iraqi officials said.

Defiant Iran angers US with missile test

Breitbart.Com

Iran on Wednesday test-fired a missile it said is capable of reaching Israel, angering the United States amid growing fears that the standoff over the contested Iranian nuclear drive could lead to war. The Shahab-3 was among a broadside of nine missiles fired off simultaneously at 8:00 am (0330 GMT) from an undisclosed location in the Iranian desert, state television pictures showed. State-run Arabic channel Al-Alam said the missiles test-fired by the elite Revolutionary Guards included a "Shahab-3 with a conventional warhead weighing one tonne and a 2,000-kilometre (1,240-mile) range." The firing comes at a time of growing tension over Tehran's nuclear drive, which Iran insists is peaceful but the West fears could be aimed at making an atomic bomb. "The aim of these war games is to show we are ready to defend the integrity of the Iranian nation," Al-Alam quoted Revolutionary Guards air force commander Hossein Salami as saying.

Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK's top judge

Mail Online

The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims. Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance. He declared: 'Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.'

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