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Right-Wing ‘Obsession’ Producers Plan Film Targeting Iran
Just in time for the campaign season, the right-wing Clarion Fund, which shipped out 28 million DVDs to swing state voters in 2008 warning of the threat of radical Islam, has announced it's working on a new film, this one on "the Iranian Nuclear threat."

Muslim Travelers Have to Fight for U.S. Visas (Wash Post)
While the computers whirred and security bureaucrats scrutinized their lists, Mami's nonrefundable flight from Lyon to San Francisco departed March 18 without him, and nobody would tell him why.

CIA Given Details of British Muslim Students
Personal information concerning the private lives of almost 1,000 British Muslim university students is to be shared with US intelligence agencies in the wake of the Detroit bomb scare.

PA: Unlikely Duo Teams Up for Kosher, Halal
Observant Muslims have dietary laws that are similar to kosher, they're called halal. And that has made for at least one interesting business proposition.

What Makes Chechen Women So Dangerous? (NY Times)
The three of us, in our work for the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism, have analyzed every Chechen suicide attack since they began in 2000, 42 separate incidents involving 63 people who killed themselves. Many Chechen separatists are Muslim, but few of the suicide bombers profess religious motives.

Muslim Travelers Find Have to Fight for U.S. Visas (Wash Post)
The State Department held up his student visa for more than two months for "administrative processing," which according to diplomats is the euphemism-of-art for a check against multiple watch lists maintained by intelligence agencies in Washington designed to prevent suspected terrorists from entering the United States.

CIA Given Details of British Muslim Students
Personal information concerning the private lives of almost 1,000 British Muslim university students is to be shared with US intelligence agencies in the wake of the Detroit bomb scare.

Texas Muslims Feel Targeted by FBI
Muslim students approached by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents say they feel profiled for their religion and ethnicity.

DC: Newseum Event to Focus on Moral Response to Torture
Culture Project Presents: "BLUEPRINT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY" featuring Matt Dillon, Mariska Hargitay, John Leguizamo, Valerie Plame Wilson, Bobby Kennedy, Ron Suskind, and more. An evening fusing theater, film, journalism and debate to craft a moral response against torture.

Audio: Nightmare Border Crossing for Muslims
Crossing the border can be a pain. But one Seattle area couple says what they faced was far worse. Getting back into the United States from Canada became a nightmare. They believe they were targeted, in part, because they are Muslim.

IL: Muslim Health Clinic Goes Beyond Muslim Identity
There's a growing number of Muslim-run free health clinics in the United States. And this includes at least two in Chicago. For the doctors, providing health services is not just about a Muslim identity or only helping Muslim patients. Yet the tenets of Islam do guide the physicians.
U.S. Sends Muslim Country Singer on Middle East Tour
Singing country music songs from beneath the brim of a cowboy hat with a full-bore Southern drawl, the up-and-coming performer Kareem Salama breaks the expectations audiences may have of an Egyptian-American Muslim.
NC: Teens and the Veil (News & Observer)
Fifteen Duke students - all members of an "Islam and the Media" class - produced eight multimedia projects about the life of teens active at the Islamic Association of Raleigh. The idea was to investigate how others saw the Muslim teens and how they viewed themselves.
NY Anti-Mosque Protesters Harass Christian Arabs Mistaken for Muslims

At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly surrounded two Egyptian men who were speaking Arabic and were thought to be Muslims. "Go home," several shouted from the crowd.
NY Anti-Mosque Protesters Harass Christian Arabs Mistaken for Muslims

At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly surrounded two Egyptian men who were speaking Arabic and were thought to be Muslims. "Go home," several shouted from the crowd.

U.S. Medical Staff Experimented on Terror Suspects: Report
Medical personnel apparently experimented on terror detainees during CIA-led torture after the September 11 attacks, aiming to improve interrogation techniques, a human rights group said Monday.

Report: U.S. Cluster Bombs Killed 35 Civilians in Yemen
Amnesty International has released images of a US-manufactured cruise missile that carried cluster munitions, apparently taken following an attack on an alleged al-Qa’ida training camp in Yemen that killed 41 local residents, including 14 women and 21 children.
Video: Keith Olbermann Slams Racist NY Anti-Mosque Protesters
But our winner: Rupert Murdoch. His "New York Post" has been beating the drum of race hatred here in New York. A columnist inspired a protest of a Muslim county center in lower Manhattan which the newspaper has incorrectly described called the "ground zero mosque."
NY: 'Leaving Islam' Ads are Hate Disguised as Help
These are messages of hate masquerading as messages of help - and all New Yorkers who believe in peaceful coexistence should reject them. Sponsored by an organization called Stop the Islamization of America, led by Pamela Geller, the ads read like something aimed at battered women trying to escape abusive relationships...
Terrorism Against Florida Muslims Goes Under-Reported
Hey, have you heard about all the terrorist attacks that have been going on down in the Jacksonville, Florida region? Probably not, actually, because the would-be victims of these attacks have been members of Florida's Islamic community ...
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