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April 2012 Blog Posts (30)

German writer Guenter Grass barred from visiting Israel

German author and Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass (file photo)

Sun Apr 8, 2012 5:3PM GMT…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on April 8, 2012 at 1:38pm — No Comments

US magazine fires columnist over racist web post

Former National Review columnist John Derbyshire

Sun Apr 8, 2012 4:3PM GMT…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on April 8, 2012 at 12:38pm — No Comments

C for Censorship

C for…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on April 8, 2012 at 11:56am — No Comments

Israeli government: Violation of religion and worship freedom to Palestinian Christians

During the Holy Week, Jerusalem has a special spiritual connection for Christians all around the world as it is the time of

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the year when pilgrims visit the Old city.

However, that period also represents a time of new restrictions for Palestinians, especially for Christian Palestinians who experience a number of obstacles to visit the holiest places that violate their freedom of…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on April 8, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

ولادة قيصرية لجمهورية الطوارق في الصحراء

ريس - اعلنت الحركة الوطنية لتحرير ازواد، اكبر فصائل حركة تمرد الطوارق في مالي، الجمعة "استقلال ازواد" شمال البلاد، وفق ما صرح متحدث باسمها لشبكة فرانس 24 وفي بيان نشر على موقعها الالكتروني

يعدون باحترام الحدود

متمردو حركة تحرير ازواد يعلنون استقلال شمال مالي، ورؤساء اركان دول غرب افريقيا يقترحون ارسال قوة الى باماكو.

وقال موسى اغ الطاهر "نعلن رسميا استقلال ازواد اعتبارا من اليوم 'الجمعة'"، مؤكدا عزم الحركة على احترام "الحدود مع…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on April 6, 2012 at 5:30am — No Comments

Data Mining You: How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World

I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small,

Tom Engelhardt explores how the new national intelligence labyrinth is being built, why it’s neither a version of Soviet-style totalitarianism in the making nor does it have anything to do with democracy, an American republic, or the Constitution.

airless room to be added to the…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on April 4, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Over 50 million affected by disasters in Muslim world in 2011

DUBAI - The Muslim world is increasingly in the “eye of the cyclone”, with disasters and crises affecting tens of millions

38 of 57 OIC member countries, 55 million people affected by disasters, chronic emergencies in 2011 compared to 36 countries, 48 million people affected in 2012.

of people in Muslim countries last year, a senior official with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) told a…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on April 4, 2012 at 12:00am — No Comments

Stop The Killing ...Another Young Black Man Killed ...Kendric McDade Killing Getting At Least Some Media Attention

These Could Be Your Son, Brother Of Friend ...Demand Justice Always....

I see the police killing of an unarmed California athlete, Kendrick McDade, is beginning to attract at least some media

attention. I posted about McDade, who was shot down when he allegedly “made a motion toward his waistband” after being hailed by police.

Now, think about it. You are walking along, minding your…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on April 2, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

Thousands of Palestinians mark Land Day

JERUSALEM - Thousands of Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli troops at a West Bank checkpoint on

Some Land Day rallies turned violent

At least dozen rallies held across Israel, occupied territories, with demonstrators also marching towards Israeli border in Lebanon, Jordan.

Friday as hundreds more gathered by Jerusalem's Old City to mark Land Day.

Rallies…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on April 1, 2012 at 12:30am — No Comments

Islamophobia, Obama, and the Art of Acting Muslim

Those who fervently believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim generally practice their furtive religion in obscure recesses

Barack Obama, the right wing has discovered, does not have to be Muslim to convince American voters that he has a suspect, even foreign, agenda. They have instead established a much lower evidentiary standard: he only has to act Muslim, argues John Feffer.

of the Internet. Once…

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