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The fatwa, or religious ruling, issued by American Islamic leaders against "terrorism and extremism" is "bogus," charges a leading analyst. In a Washington press conference organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization called the Fiqh Council of North America said several major U.S. Muslim groups endorsed the fatwa. "There is no justification in Islam for extremism or terrorism," the scholars wrote. "Targeting civilians' life and property through suicide bombings or any other method of attack is haram – or forbidden." The fatwa says Muslims are obligated to help "protect the lives of all civilians." But in a 1995...

The leader of a U.S. Muslim lobby group met with Republican Sen. John Warner this week to demand a full Senate investigation into alleged incidents of Quran desecration. Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, also asked the Virginia senator to support Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., in calling on the Bush administration to shut down the U.S. military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Bray contends the Department of Defense's denial of the May 9 Quran-in-toilet report by Newsweek, which the magazine retracted, contrasts with subsequent statements by both Defense and the White House, acknowledging various...

jt-041214-21.html WASHINGTON (JTA) – The FBI is investigating the mysterious death of a young American Jewish terrorism expert who worked at a think tank where research into Islamic extremism has drawn death threats, family and friends said. Jason Korsower, 29, died in his sleep at his father’s Atlanta home on Nov. 26, after Thanksgiving celebrations with his family. For his 29 years, Korsower had lived a full life, thriving in a Jewish youth group, serving in the Israeli army in a crack infantry unit, studying religion and most recently plunging into terrorism research in Washington. He was about to start...

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<p>The latest statements from the Federal Bureau of Investigation insist that although Egyptian immigrant Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet went to the El-Al Airline ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport intending to kill people, "his motive remains unclear." The response thus far in the United States and abroad to these July Fourth killings is reminiscent of the tale of the five blind men and the elephant, each man groping a different part of the animal and insisting on a different beast.</p>

(Dan Burton, [R-Indiana] Investigating) Allegations that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is tied to Islamic terrorists.McVeigh the story goes, met in an Oklahoma City motel with Iraqi agents before the 1995 explosion.Part Two: Unsubstantiated reports that two 9/11 hijackers holed up with the suspected 20th hijacker Zacarais Moussaoui in the same motel room last July.Coincedence?Sources say Burton sent investigators to Oklahoma City to sniff around, tasked three staffers to the probe, and asked David Schippers, who led a house panel on Bill Clinton's impeachment, to advise.But that's not all:Burton wants more staff.While there's a lot of circumstantial evidence to investigate,...

The police taught me some techniques about living underground. Stay away from the windows. Vary your routine. The important thing is not to leave the house at the same time or take the same route to and from the office every day. When driving a car, make sure no one is following you. Do a quick U-turn every once in a while just to make sure. I did that many times. "Be careful when you jog," they said. That was a big problem. I love to jog. It's my only opportunity to get outdoors and get my mind off things...

  CAIR: Fla. Mosque Attack Result of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric U.S. Newswire 26 Mar 14:20 Florida Mosque Attack Result of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric, Says CAIRTo: National and State Desks Contact: Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), 202-488-8787 or 202-489-5108; E-mail: cair@cair-net.org WASHINGTON, March 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Islamic advocacy group, today said an attack Monday on a Florida mosque is likely the result of the current barrage of anti-Muslim rhetoric by right-wing commentators who paint Islam as a violent faith bent on world domination. At 7:30 p.m. on Monday, a pick-up...

Defeating Terrorism At home and abroad March 24th, 2002 1:00-5:00 pm Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall 114th to 115th and Broadway, first floor In order to explain the war effort and what is at stake to the students at Columbia and around the nation, the Columbia College Conservative Club (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/conservative) will be hosting this conference. Although the conference is still evolving our tentative speaking list is comprised of the following presentations: Daniel Pipes (The Middle East Forum): Islamist Terrorism: the continuing threat David Horowitz (Center for the Study of Popular Culture): The Campus fifth column Prof. Joseph Skelly : ...

Jewsweek.com | In December 1992 I was a staff reporter for CNN, covering what I consider one of the worst stories imaginable -- a press conference for pool reporters. In this case the conference was given by Lawrence Walsh, the former special prosecutor for the Iran-contra affair, who was issuing a statement in reaction to then-President George Bush's pardon of former secretary of state Caspar Weinberger. It was the kind of situation where more than a dozen reporters ask the same question over and over, then go back and write the same story. In short, I was bored. In Oklahoma ...

'I hate terrorists!" "I hate them more!" There's a catfight in Washington at the Senate hearings on 9/11. Richard Clarke, the former terrorism tsar, is apologising to all Americans for not being a step ahead of the World Trade Centre horror. Book sales are soaring for Clarke's dump on President Bush and his inside story of the war on terrorism (including that practised by Washington bureaucrats). CNN is rapturous and appears to have Clarke on a half-hourly loop. White House television correspondents are interviewing those who lost "loved ones" and are at the hearings to learn "what really happened on...

<p>Some Jews and conservative Christians are questioning a pro-family group's association with an Islamic organization.</p> <p>Rabbi Marc Gellman, a syndicated columnist who makes frequent TV appearances as half of "The God Squad," resigned last month from the advisory board to the Alliance for Marriage (AFM) because it includes a representative of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).</p>

In December 1992, I was a staff reporter for CNN, covering what I consider one of the worst stories imaginable – a press conference for pool reporters. In this case, the conference was given by Lawrence Walsh, the former special prosecutor for the Iran-contra affair, who was issuing a statement in reaction to then-President George Bush's pardon of former Secretary of State Casper Weinberger. It was the kind of situation where more than a dozen reporters ask the same question over and over, then go back and write the same story. In short, I was bored. In Oklahoma City, I...

This is a total vanity. As I write this, I am watching "Jihad in America" by Steven Emerson, and originally broadcast on PBS I am more than a little amazed that this has not proven to be more mainstream. It in effect predicted something like what has transpired in the USA in the last year. If you have never viewed this even-handed, but very blunt, assessment of radical Islam, you need to. It will shock you. I find myself wondering why it is that liberals and libertarians continue to prostitute themselves on behalf of those who would kill us and...