Tag: muslim
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Olbermann's SPECIAL COMMENT
Finally as promised, a Special Comment tonight on the inaccurately described “Ground Zero mosque.” “They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t…
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A noble name
Until I read Jim Sleeper‘s TPM Cafe column, Swear Him in as ‘Barack Hussein Obama,’ it never occurred to me that the president-elect would be sworn in by anything other than his full name. The protests during the primaries and the general elections have been when bigots have wielded the name as an invective or…
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Strength of our faiths
Among the photographs taken by the photog Platon of hundreds of men and women who volunteered to serve in the military and were sent to Iraq or Afghanistan was this striking one of Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. Gen. Colin Powell mentioned the photograph in denouncing the…
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N.J. BRIDGING RIFT WITH MUSLIMS
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Monday, October 7, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A05 A faux pas by state Attorney General Robert J. Del Tufo for which he has since apologized is serving to bridge a perceived chasm between the Department of Law and Public…