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<title>ALERT: CAIR Involved in Criminal Fraud

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<description>CAIR Threatens Muslims With $25,000 Penalty If They Reveal CAIR Cover-up of Morris Days&#x26;#x92; Criminal Fraud The Mapping Sharia Project, a research project sponsored by the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE), is issuing an alert that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a self-described public interest civil rights law firm, may have engaged in criminal fraud. Mapping Sharia calls for a full investigation by the appropriate government agencies. The victims of this fraud may also be due compensation for their losses and suffering. Reliable sources have produced solid information that Morris Days, the Manager for Civil Rights...</description>
<author>Mapping Sharia Project</author>
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<pubDate>Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:22:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US mega-mosques: Muslim tradition with US convenience</title>
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<description>WASHINGTON (AFP) &#x26;#x96; As Islam makes inroads in the United States, American Muslims are setting up mega-mosques that combine religious tradition with typical American convenience. Modelled on the huge, non-Catholic churches that offer their congregations of at least 2,000 members several different sites for worship, US mega-mosques have become a necessity in some places. &#x26;#x22;Frequently, we have buildings designed for the Friday prayer, which is the largest, for 1,000 people and you have 2,000 to 3,000 show up,&#x26;#x22; said Corey Saylor of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). To accommodate the overflow, which also results in traffic jams when...</description>
<author>AFP on Yahoo</author>
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<pubDate>Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:08:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bleeping with the Enemy Islamofascism</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072627/posts</link>
<description>Lawfare: Bleeping with the Enemy - May 14, 2008 ... A healthy understanding of Islamofascism, sharia and jihad is replaced by ignorance or the Islamofascist line of a benign Islam and sharia, ...</description>
<author>HUMAN EVENTS</author>
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<pubDate>Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:06:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>CAIR Gets Failin Grades at Running Ohio Charter Schools</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072287/posts</link>
<description>The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) released their annual school report cards this week, and the results show that two taxpayer-financed Islamic charter schools operated by officials of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have failed miserably yet again. But protected by powerful political connections, including Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, and apparently indifferent to their exploitation of the Somali children that comprise the vast majority of their students, the Islamic extremists running the operation appear to have no fear of losing their cash cows. In fact, Ohio educrats have renewed one school&#x26;#x92;s contract after five...</description>
<author>Pajamas Media</author>
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<pubDate>Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:42:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>CAIR&#x26;#x27;s Corey Saylor: Hiding The Bloody Truth Of Islamofascism</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2071978/posts</link>
<description>August 06, 2008 CAIR&#x26;#x27;s Corey Saylor: Hiding The Bloody Truth Of Islamofascism Another Anti-CAIR Blogburst. Corey Saylor, national legislative director for the terrorist front organization, CAIR, recently wrote an op-ed in hopes of fooling the public that an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act offered by Rep. Pete Hoekstra: &#x26;#x22;may unintentionally legitimize Al Qaeda and other anti-American forces&#x26;#x22; Saylor, a key member of CAIR; an organization founded by members of the anti-American Islamic terrorist group Hamas, says the amendment, which passed by a 249-180 vote, needs to be reconsidered.Why?Apparently, Saylor believes that terms like, &#x26;#x27;jihadist,&#x26;#x27; &#x26;#x27;jihad,&#x26;#x27; &#x26;#x27;Islamofascism,&#x26;#x27; &#x26;#x27;caliphate,&#x26;#x27; &#x26;#x27;Islamist,&#x26;#x27; or...</description>
<author>amboytimes</author>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:44:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>If Islamic (fascist) IRAN Doesn&#x26;#x27;t like Michael Savage, he must be doing someting right...</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065548/posts</link>
<description>If Islamic (fascist) Republic of IRAN Doesn&#x26;#x27;t like Michael Savage, he must be doing someting right... Islamic Iran&#x26;#x27;s official website: &#x26;#x27;Savage Nation&#x26;#x27; fueling Islamophobia in US---- CAIR admits that some of its officials ties to jihad terrorism, America at War. CAIR Founder Convicted of TerrorismSharia in America. By Ayesha Ahmed. Omar M. Ahmad founder of CAIR said:&#x26;#x22;Islam isn&#x26;#x27;t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant&#x26;#x22;...CAIR&#x26;#x27;s Dreams of American Sharia CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment...Savage_CAIR_suit CAIR repackaged the content of Michael Savage&#x26;#x27;s show and manipulated that stolen content so that it could be used by...</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:24:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Chicago&#x26;#x92;s Hamas Youth   
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<description> Chicago&#x26;#x92;s Hamas Youth &#x26;#xA0; By Joe KaufmanFrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, August 21, 2008 During the 1990s, the Hamas infrastructure within the United States was complete. It consisted of a propagation outlet, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP); a financing wing, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF); a command center, the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR); and a defense mechanism, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Today, only the latter exists, along with a remnant of the IAP, the Mosque Foundation. Both have a presence in the Chicago area, where group and mosque are working hard...</description>
<author>FrontPageMagazine.com</author>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:16:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tampa&#x26;#x92;s Terror for Kids</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2064846/posts</link>
<description>Sami Al-Arian has been in prison, away from his digs in the Tampa, Florida suburb of Temple Terrace, for over five years, yet one of the structures that he left behind continues to propagate the same fanatical ideology that led to his punishment. Al-Arian&#x26;#x92;s mosque, the Islamic Community of Tampa (ICT), has been proudly advertising hatred and violence meant for the eyes of children. The mosque&#x26;#x92;s connection to an area youth academy should have all Americans concerned.</description>
<author>Cross Action News</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:49:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>BREAKING: Michael Savage Drops Suit Against Islamic Group [CAIR]</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062188/posts</link>
<description>SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) &#x26;#xE2;&#x26;#x80;&#x26;#x95; A lawsuit filed by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against a Muslim civil rights group came to an end Thursday when Savage&#x26;#x27;s lawyer told a federal judge in San Francisco that he won&#x26;#x27;t try to amend it. Savage sued the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, known as CAIR, last year after it posted on its Web site a four-minute excerpt of anti-Islamic comments by Savage along with a critique of his words. Savage made the comments during an Oct. 29, 2007, broadcast of The Savage Nation, a nationally syndicated show based in San...</description>
<author>CBS NEWS 5</author>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:12:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Freedom Radio Returns and Welcomes  Craig Williams Republican Conservative Vet for Congress</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2063403/posts</link>
<description>Craig Williams has just returned from ANWR and will give us his trip report! This trip was planned well before the Texas Tea Party. Mr. Williams is running against a first term candidate who has taken money from CAIR. CAIR has yet to denounce terrorism!</description>
<author>Blog Talk Radio</author>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:56:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Infamous radical lying &#x26;#x27;Media matters&#x26;#x27; connection to death threats</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2063354/posts</link>
<description> It seems that &#x26;#x27;Media matters&#x26;#x27; is OK with murder in its name August 15, 2008 &#x26;#x27;Media matters&#x26;#x27; is basically a radical group that poses as &#x26;#x22;fighting inaccuracy&#x26;#x22;, in it&#x26;#x27;s fanatical goal it even cows to Islamic militants&#x26;#x27; actvists such as &#x26;#x22;CAIR&#x26;#x22; and those that dare criticize militant Islamic terrorism against the entire world in the name of Islam and its attempts of conquest (otherwise known as Islamo-fascism) as &#x26;#x22;islamophobes&#x26;#x22; their &#x26;#x22;charge&#x26;#x22; against Michael Savage&#x26;#xA0;(for speaking out against this danger) who just (15 August, 2008) stopped&#x26;#xA0;his valid&#x26;#xA0;case against CAIR for defamation.. only because of advisors&#x26;#xA0;advising him that CAIR&#x26;#x27;s tactics might...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:56:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Miami Gardens Muslim group donates school supplies (with CAIR logos on school bags)</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061572/posts</link>
<description>Sometimes it&#x26;#x27;s hard for students to get into a straight line at school. But on Saturday, kids didn&#x26;#x27;t think twice about scrambling into a huge line. The reason: they were getting free school supplies. ``I love it, said Shellitia Campbell, 10, from Miami Gardens. ``I can&#x26;#x27;t wait for school to start.&#x26;#x27;&#x26;#x27; So getting free supplies for her was the beginning of a new academic year. Shellitia, who attends Robert B. Ingram Elementary School, and other students scrambled into a huge line to receive supplies at the Masjid Miami Gardens, 4305 NW 183rd St. More than 250 students from Miami, Opa-locka,...</description>
<author>miamiherald.com</author>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:40:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A Look at the Resignation of Obama Advisor Mazen Asbahi and the Muslim Brotherhood</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060526/posts</link>
<description>In the week since the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report (free registration required) revealed the ties of Mazen Asbahi to Muslim Brotherhood (MB) legacy groups and his immediate resignation as an adviser to the Obama campaign, it has been fascinating to watch the Brotherhood response, particularly that of CAIR and the Muslim Student Association. This is relevant because of the MB&#x26;#x92;s historical ties to radical Islamist terrorism and the ties of members of legacy groups in the United States to multiple terrorist cases, investigations and convictions. The line of inquiry would have been just as valid had Mr. Asbahi surfaced...</description>
<author>Family Security Matters</author>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:50:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>CAIR: Obama&#x26;#x27;s Impossible Muslim Standard</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058277/posts</link>
<description>Steve Clemons gives the Barack Obama campaign a good thrashing from the left today for the candidate&#x26;#x27;s willingness to accept the resignation of his Muslim outreach coordinator, Mazen Asbahi. The Wall Street Journal reports that Asbahi, a Chicago lawyer, resigned because of questions about his ties to an Illinois-based Imam named Jamal Said who has been accused (though not indicted) of fundraising for Hamas. The two served together for a few weeks on the board of an Islamic investment fund back in 2000. Predictable smug outrage has followed on right-wing blogs.According to the Journal, the tenuous connection between Asbahi and...</description>
<author> Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)</author>
<comments>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058277/posts#comment</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:42:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>&#x26;#x27;Muslim bashers&#x26;#x27; hit for resignation (CAIR defends Obama&#x26;#x27;s fired terrorist buddy)</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057798/posts</link>
<description>America&#x26;#x27;s largest Islamic civil liberties group on Wednesday defended Sen. Barack Obama after the Democratic presidential candidate&#x26;#x27;s Muslim-outreach coordinator resigned because of a brief association with a suspected Muslim extremist. &#x26;#x22;Muslim bashers play a &#x26;#x27;six degrees of separation&#x26;#x27; game of guilt by association with any Muslim who dares to engage in positive social or political activism,&#x26;#x22; said Ahmed Rehab, executive director for the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The Muslim group&#x26;#x27;s defense came two days after Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi, who was appointed national coordinator for Muslim-American affairs by the Obama campaign on July 26, stepped...</description>
<author>Wash. Times</author>
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<pubDate>Thu, 7 Aug 2008 02:00:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>CAIR Assassination Plot? (Plot to Kill President Bush)</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057197/posts</link>
<description>&#x26;#x93;In death there is something to celebrate...&#x26;#x22; - Affad Shaikh, &#x26;#x91;Celebrating Death,&#x26;#x92; December 20, 2007 Last month, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents stationed at the U.S./Mexico border held the Civil Rights Coordinator of CAIR-California, Affad Shaikh, and others whom he was with for questioning. The agents suspected that the group had the intention of coming to the United States to assassinate President Bush. The following will provide a detailed context for why the CBP would believe such a thing and will make the case as to why the U.S. government should not drop the issue. Affad Shaikh has spent...</description>
<author>frontpagemag.com</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 6 Aug 2008 03:08:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Muslim sues, demands apology over head scarf</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056683/posts</link>
<description>A Muslim woman is claiming she was denied employment at an American clothing store because she wears a religious headscarf, or hijab, and she wants an apology. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint against an Oklahoma Abercrombie Kids store claiming a district manager told her the hijab &#x26;#x22;does not fit the Abercrombie image.&#x26;#x22; &#x26;#x22;Employers have a clear legal duty to accommodate the religious practices of their workers,&#x26;#x22; executive director Razi Hashmi said. &#x26;#x22;To deny someone employment because of apparent religious bias goes against long-standing American traditions of tolerance and inclusion.&#x26;#x22; Hashmi said...</description>
<author>WorldNetDaily.com</author>
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<pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:10:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>CAIR to Obama: Personally Apologize for Headscarf Hide</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041799/posts</link>
<description>Women with headscarves were barred from the photo snap of B. Hussein Obama. Why? Because obviously Obama campaign organizers concluded that such up-front display of Muslims would not set well with the American public. Now the Council on American Islamic Relations is in a snit. Members have received an apology from Obama&#x26;#x27;s campaign organizers. But that is not sufficient. They want a personal apology from B. Hussein Obama. So it goes with the Obama campaign. Naturally Obama deserves all the grief coming his way due to his own lies and hoodwinking. For example, he claims NOT to be Muslim to...</description>
<author>Magic City Morning Star</author>
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<title>CAIR&#x26;#x92;s Medical School Grievance Theater [Should MD be forced to treat males and wash arms?]</title>
<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046817/posts</link>
<description> CAIR&#x26;#x92;s Medical School Grievance Theater &#x26;#xA0; By Patrick PooleFrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, July 17, 2008 When Iram Qureshi of Dublin, Ohio was dismissed from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine last month after having to repeat her first year and then failing two &#x26;#x93;systems&#x26;#x94; in her second year after she stopped attending classes, she did what any normal American Muslim woman would seem to do these days &#x26;#x96; she called the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and sued.Tragically, perhaps fatally one day for one of her future patients, a Kanawha County Circuit Court judge has granted her a...</description>
<author>Frontpagemagazine</author>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:06:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ignorance about the Enemy&#x26;#x27;s Ideology is the Problem</title>
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<description>In fighting Jihad, America&#x26;#x27;s greatest challenge remains understanding and confronting the ideology that provides the basis for Jihadist terrorism. Efforts to clearly define this enemy ideology recently have been undermined by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), and the State Department in promoting a &#x26;#x22;terror lexicon&#x26;#x22; that recommends federal government employees avoid terms such as &#x26;#x22;jihad,&#x26;#x22; &#x26;#x22;jihadist,&#x26;#x22; &#x26;#x22;Islamist,&#x26;#x22; &#x26;#x22;mujahideen,&#x26;#x22; and &#x26;#x22;caliphate&#x26;#x22; when addressing issues involving terrorism. The argument made by the DHS, NCTC, and others is that the use of such terms will aid in the &#x26;#x22;recruitment&#x26;#x22; of Muslims to join terrorist organizations, or will...</description>
<author>IPT News</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:10:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>So now that you know that the rest of the world loves Obama, how about you? I raised that question last Thursday night on my radio talk show at Washington, DC&#x26;#x92;s 630 WMAL, albeit rather facetiously. Despite what the forces at CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Rueters, The New York Times, and &#x26;#x93;CNN International&#x26;#x94; may want me to believe, I don&#x26;#x92;t assume that &#x26;#x93;the world loves Obama,&#x26;#x94; anymore than I assume that &#x26;#x93;the world hates Bush.&#x26;#x94; But now that the week of cathartic revelry is behind us and the excitement has subsided a little bit, it&#x26;#x92;s time for some reflection....</description>
<author>Townhall.com</author>
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<description>SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against an Islamic civil rights group over its use of a portion of his show in which he called the Quran a &#x26;#x22;book of hate.&#x26;#x22;</description>
<author>Islam in Action</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:13:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Judge Tosses Savage&#x26;#x27;s Suit Against Islamic Group</title>
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<description>SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against an Islamic civil rights group over its use of a portion of his show in which he called the Quran a &#x26;#x22;book of hate.&#x26;#x22; Savage sued the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, for copyright infringement and racketeering lawsuit late last year, claiming the group violated his rights by using a segment of his &#x26;#x22;Savage Nation&#x26;#x22; show in a letter-writing campaign to get advertisers to boycott the program. In the broadcast used by CAIR, Savage also called the Muslim holy...</description>
<author>newsmax.com</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:39:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<link>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051551/posts</link>
<description>(07-25) 17:42 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against a Muslim-rights group that reprinted his attacks against Islam and called for an advertising boycott. Savage, who has about 8 million listeners a week on 400 stations for his syndicated &#x26;#x22;Savage Nation&#x26;#x22; program, sued the Council on American-Islamic Relations in December for copyright infringement. The organization had posted four minutes of excerpts from an Oct. 29 broadcast in which he called the Quran a &#x26;#x22;hateful little book&#x26;#x22; and a &#x26;#x22;document of slavery.&#x26;#x22; He said Muslims were &#x26;#x22;screaming for...</description>
<author>SFGate</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:02:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>HOLLAND, Mich., July 23 (UPI) -- A Republican Michigan congressman is fighting a Bush administration ban on using words offensive to Muslims while describing terrorists. Rep. Peter Hoekstra offered an amendment last week to the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act that would ban financing for any restriction on use of words such as &#x26;#x22;jihadist&#x26;#x22; and &#x26;#x22;Islamist.&#x26;#x22; Fellow Republican Michigan Reps. Joe Knollenberg and Thaddeus McCotter, and Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, supported the amendment which was approved by a 249-180 vote in the House, The Detroit News reported Wednesday. Some analysts say the words inadvertently honor terrorists while they are considered slurs...</description>
<author>upi via email no link</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:40 GMT</pubDate>
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