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Sen. Barack Obama's longtime friend and spiritual adviser trashed the memory of a missing and presumed dead American teenage girl, according to church publications reviewed by WND. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the controversial minister of Obama's church in Chicago, cited the case of Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba in complaining about what he sees as the media's bias in covering white victims of crime over black victims. "Black women are being raped daily in Darfur, Sudan, in the Congo and in Sub-Saharan Africa. That doesn't make news," Wright said in the August 2005 edition of Trumpet Magazine, a publication of his...

BERLIN - A former imam who called terrorists "martyrs" and was told to go home to Turkey has dropped a legal challenge against deportation from Germany, state of Berlin officials said Friday. The man, who has lived in Germany since 1971 and helped found the Mevlana Mosque in the German capital, caused outrage when concealed cameras inside his mosque recorded him attacking Germans in 2004 as "stinking infidels" who were bound for hell. Later he addressed a rally organized by the militant Turkish group Milli Gorus and praised suicide attackers in Jerusalem and Iraq as "martyrs." He challenged a 2005...

JAKARTA, July 30 (UPI) -- The leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council says he wants to convert Indonesia into an "Allahcracy," it was reported Sunday. Abu Bakar Bashir, 68, free after serving two years in jail for his role in a bombing of two nightclubs in Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, tells the Sunday Times of London that Islamist bombings "are reactions by Muslims to defend themselves." "The democratic system is not the Islamic way," he says. "It is forbidden. Democracy is based on people, but the state must be based on God's law. I call it Allahcracy."...

HATE PREACHER JAILED A race-hate Muslim cleric convicted of calling for his followers to murder non-believers has been jailed for nine years. An Old Bailey judge also recommended that Abdullah el-Faisal, 39, be deported when his sentence was served. El-Faisal was found guilty last month of three charges of soliciting murder and three charges involving stirring up racial hatred. The Jamaican told young British Muslims it was their duty to kill non-believers, Americans, Hindus and Jews. Shock He promised schoolboys they would be rewarded with 72 virgins in paradise if they died in a holy war. In his defence, Faisal...