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		<title>US wants Israel to cancel building plan: reports</title>
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Approval of Israel&#8217;s colony-building project touches most serious diplomatic feud with US in years
AP &#8211; Published: 11:00 March 15, 2010
Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli media reported on Monday that the US is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Occupied Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud with Washington in years.
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		<title>How President Obama Can Earn His Nobel Peace Prize</title>
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By Paul Findley
ANTI-AMERICAN sentiment in the Muslim world arises mainly from three interrelated factors: first, the presence of U.S. troops on Muslim land; second, the anger that spreads when U.S. combat operations kill Muslims, civilian and military; and third, U.S. complicity in Israel’s abuse of Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere.
Our military combat operations in Iraq, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tough Ride for Brooklyn Mosque</title>
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By  Dina Rabie, IOL Staff

WASHINGTON – A plan by the local Muslim community in Brooklyn to build a mosque is facing a fierce campaign which raises bigotry-driven fears, which Muslims say is not uncommon in post 9/11 America.
&#8220;The community is working out of pure ignorance. There has been a lot of bigotry here,&#8221; Theresa Scavo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Wondered Why Muslims Are So Proud</title>
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By Aysha




My name is Aysha, and I am from North Hungary. I heard about Islam when I was in secondary school in the history lessons, because Hungary was under occupation by Turkey for 150 years. 
After that I went to university to study molecular biology, where I met many Muslim foreign students. 
 
I was always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Panel Finds Bias in Ouster of Principal</title>
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By ANDREA ELLIOTT, Published: March 12, 2010
A federal commission has determined that New York City’s Department of Education discriminated against the founding principal of an Arabic-language public school by forcing her to resign in 2007 following a storm of controversy driven by opponents of the school.
Acting on a complaint filed last year by the principal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clashes break out near Jerusalem</title>
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Israeli soldiers have used tear gas against Palestinian women protesting at the Qalandiya crossing in the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem.
Scuffles broke out on Saturday when dozens of women tried to push through one of the crossing&#8217;s gates.
The women had gathered at the crossing chanting &#8220;Jerusalem is Arab, our eternal capital&#8221;, briefly planting a Palestinian flag on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US: Europe biased against Muslims</title>
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The annual report of US State Department on human rights has warned of increasing concern that discrimination against Muslims was on the rise in Europe.
The human rights report for 2009 cited Switzerland&#8217;s ban on the construction of minarets on mosques enacted in November, as well as continued bans or restrictions on head scarves and burqa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli shoe aimed at Biden</title>
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By Marwan Bishara in

Imperium

on March 12th, 2010



Poor Joe Biden. He&#8217;s come to deliver the good news: The US is back in the Israeli fold and will continue to have boots on the ground in the Middle East. And what does he get in return? A shoe in the face.
The Israeli interior ministry&#8217;s announcement of 1,600 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope sends condolences to family of deceased Muslim leader</title>
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&#8220;The Grand Imam and Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi was for many years a valued partner in the dialogue between Muslims and Catholics.&#8221;”
This was how the Pope Benedict XVI recalled the Grand Imam and Sheikh of Al-Azhar, who passed away at the age of 81, in his message sent to Sheikh Muhammad Abd al-Aziz Wasil, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Azhar head dies in Saudi Arabia</title>
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 Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, Sunni Islam&#8217;s most senior religious figure, has died during a visit to Saudi Arabia.
The 82-year-old Egyptian, who had previously undergone heart surgery, suffered a heart attack as he boarded a flight early Wednesday morning, Egyptian television said.
He was admitted to the Amir Sultan hospital in Riyadh where doctors proclaimed him dead.
Tantawi - who headed [...]]]></description>
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