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		<title>Princeton, Columbia Cancel Free Speech: Darwish Silenced</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/21/4655</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phyllis Chesler
In our time, a speaker must face a gauntlet of hostility and a menacing crowd if she wishes to speak in favor of Israel or to tell the truth about Islam.
That&#8217;s if she&#8217;s lucky. Most such speakers never get invited or when they do, their invitations are canceled.
Nonie Darwish, the author of Cruel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe Sells Out to Syria and Gets Slapped: A Middle East Case Study in Begging to Give Something for Nothing</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/20/4652</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
Ugarte: &#8220;But think of all the poor devils who cannot meet Renault&#8217;s price. I get it for them for half. Is that so parasitic?&#8221;
Rick: &#8220;I don&#8217;t mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.&#8221; &#8211;From the film &#8220;Casablanca,&#8221; 1942
Wow what a great lesson in Middle East politics! Bear with me. The issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major Hasan’s Islamist Life</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/20/4649</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
 As the Pentagon and Senate launch what one analyst dubs &#8220;dueling Fort Hood investigations,&#8221; will they confront the hard truth of the Islamic angle?
Despite encouraging references to &#8220;violent Islamists&#8221; by Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Independent of Connecticut), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, there is reason to worry about a whitewash of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Murdered 13 American Soldiers at Fort Hood: Nidal Hassan Explains It All to You</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/15/4645</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You&#8217;ve seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines. But what&#8217;s most amazing of all is this:
Hassan is the first terrorist in history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada to Immigrants: No Tolerance for “Honor” Killing</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/14/4642</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phyllis Chesler
The Canadian government has just revamped its citizenship guide for immigrants. The document is titled &#8220;The Rights and Responsibilities of Canadian Citizenship.&#8221; According to Canada&#8217;s National Post:
&#8220;In Canada, men and women are equal under the law,&#8221; the document says. &#8220;Canada&#8217;s openness and generosity do not extend to barbaric cultural practices that tolerate spousal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissident Watch: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/14/4639</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Richard L. Benkin*
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury&#8217;s struggle in Bangladesh has played out dramatically: his 2003 arrest; his 2005 release;[1] middle of the night battles to prevent his re-incarceration; accolades for his stance as a &#8220;Muslim Zionist&#8221;;[2] and resolutions from the U.S. Congress and others in 2006 and 2007.[3] Things have now settled into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama at Ft Hood Memorial: No Mention of Terrorism or Jihad</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/11/4636</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phyllis Chesler
America, the West, and Israel are all fighting back in a war that radical, jihadic Islamists, (not Muslims) have declared against us. The Islamist propagandists have managed to persuade western leftists, academics, politicians, heads of state, and the media that America and Israel are actually waging a war on Islam. It&#8217;s what Osama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality Raises Its Head and the Media Wakes Up About the Obama Administration’s Middle East Failure</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/10/4632</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin
There&#8217;s something big happening in the air regarding American media coverage of the Obama Administration. With the Washington Post in advance, the New York Times waking up the tiniest bit, the Los Angeles Times trailing far behind, and a lot of other newspapers getting tough, reality is seeping into their coverage. Even the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sudden Jihad or “Inordinate Stress” at Ft. Hood?</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/09/4626</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives.
The establishment &#8212; law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy &#8212; stands on one side of this debate, insisting that some kind of oppression caused Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, to kill 13 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Lecture Us Mr. Obama - The Murderer Hasan Made This About Religion</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/08/4619</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
&#8220;Allahu Akhbar&#8221; or &#8220;God is great&#8221; is the Arab Muslim clarion call often shouted just before Islamist homicide bombers murder innocents. This is what Major Nidal Malik Hasan shouted out just before he savagely murdered 13 people and wounded at least 16 at Fort Hood. Despite all the warning signs that this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Telegraph: Fort Hood ‘killer linked to September 11 terrorists’</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/08/4612</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew L. Jaffee
Politically correct incompetents within our own military ignored warning signs that Fort Hood terrorist Major Nidal Malik Hasan was some kind of Islamist nutcase. Thirteen innocents are dead and at least 16 are wounded at the hands of this murderer. So now we find that, &#8220;Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mogahed’s Excuses Don’t Add Up</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/05/4609</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cinnamon Stillwell*
As reported last week by Campus Watch, Dalia Mogahed, appointee to President Obama&#8217;s Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, executive director and senior analyst of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, and co-author, along with Georgetown University&#8217;s John Esposito, of Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think, appeared (by phone) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Censored! The Truth About Hizb ut-Tahrir</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/05/4604</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Phyllis Chesler
The Center for Social Cohesion, a distinguished British think tank, has just released a major expose of the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), which is targeting the West, &#8220;including the United States, and (which) supports violent jihad.&#8221; Britain has just suspended government support for some HT nursery and primary schools which function [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is The Turkish-Israeli Alliance Over? Yes It Is</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/05/4600</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin 
The Turkey-Israel alliance is over. After two decades plus of close cooperation, the Turkish government is no longer interested in maintaining close cooperation with Israel nor is it&#8211;for all practical purposes&#8211;willing to do anything much to maintain its good relations with Israel.
The U.S.-Turkish alliance, which goes back about six decades, is also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honor Killings All Over America: Why Are the Islamists Suddenly Silent?</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/11/01/4596</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phyllis Chesler
Last week, the Iraqi father who drove a two ton jeep over his daughter in Arizona for being &#8220;too westernized&#8221; high-tailed it out of town, drove down to Mexico where he abandoned his vehicle and caught a flight to London. UK Port of Entry authorities denied him entry, contacted US authorities and placed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Crises in Retrospect</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/30/4592</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By R. A. Sprinkle
What follows was first posted in 2006. It remains applicable to the current crises, if not more so. There have been some grammatical corrections and editing for clarity, but the content is essentially consistent with the original.
I believe we are living in an age [2006] of transition when the world as we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unfinished War</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/30/4589</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Spyer
The explosion in the south Lebanese village of Tayr Felseir offers the latest evidence of the way in which Hizbullah is rebuilding its infrastructure following the Second Lebanon War in 2006. In the pre-2006 period, Hizbullah maintained its military infrastructure in open countryside areas often declared off-limits to all but the movement&#8217;s personnel. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: An Ally No More</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/29/4580</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Pipes*
&#8220;There is no doubt he is our friend,&#8221; Turkey&#8217;s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, says of Iran&#8217;s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel&#8217;s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These outrageous assertions point to the profound change of orientation by Turkey&#8217;s government, for six decades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Negotiations: Ploy of the Week or Deal of the Century?</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/29/4577</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin 
There are widespread reports about an imminent deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program. Here&#8217;s how the New York Times optimistically presents the proposal:
&#8220;Iranian negotiators have agreed to a draft deal that would delay the country&#8217;s ability to build a nuclear weapon for about a year, buying more time for President Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spinning Out Of Control: Honor Killings and Media Bias</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/29/4574</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phyllis Chesler
We are entering an all-spin zone, a wild, weird and spooky season and I am not talking about Halloween.
With a few exceptions, the mainstream media continue to kill stories about honor killings and attempted honor killings in North America. How often did you read stories about the honor killings that took place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 287(g) Program: Protecting Home Towns and Homeland</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/28/4571</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (October 27, 2009) &#8212; The 287(g) program was created by Congress in 1996 to enhance cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. The Obama administration has imposed new rules for the 287(g) program that unduly constrain the local partners and could allow more alien scofflaws identified by local agencies to remain here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New World Order: US Ceding Sovereignty?</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/27/4566</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By R. A. Sprinkle
This YouTube video records the presentation Lord Christopher Monckton gave in St. Paul, MN on October the 14th of this year. At the time of this blog post 12 days later, it had been viewed over 1,100,000 times. The subject of his speech was global warming and the United Nations Climate Change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East: Things Look Catastrophic But It Will Work Out - Why I’m Optimistic</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/23/4559</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin 
Every day dreadful things happen in the Middle East and in the echoes of that region&#8211;diplomacy, news coverage&#8211;in the West. Yet things are by no means as bad as they seem. Precisely because a lot of what happens simply doesn&#8217;t reflect reality, ultimately the material effect is minimized.
&#8220;All that is necessary for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bugs Are Burning [Book Review]</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/23/4555</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Role of Eastern Europeans in the Exploitation, Subjugation and Murder of Their Jewish Neighbors During the Holocaust
BY: Dr. Sheldon Hersh and Dr. Robert Wolf
Devora Publishing
Release Date: June 2009
ISBN: 978-1934440391
135 pages
Reviewed by: Fern Sidman
In this meticulously documented treatise of centuries old European anti-Semitism, &#8220;The Bugs Are Burning&#8221; authors Drs. Sheldon Hersh and Robert Wolf graphically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Grown Terrorism in America: Connecting the Dots</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/23/4562</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phyllis Chesler
The New York Times does not tell us whether Tareq Mehanna, the 27 year old Massachusetts pharmacist who was just arrested on federal terrorism charges is, or even might be a Muslim. In their pages, telling this particular truth is still verboten, politically incorrect, rude, racist, a cheap shot, even &#8220;Islamophobic.&#8221;

Look: Mehanna might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Sharia Law Promote Women’s Rights?</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/21/4551</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cinnamon Stillwell*
In thinking about women&#8217;s rights, sharia law, or Islamic law, doesn&#8217;t typically come to mind.
Yet, according to a survey conducted by Dalia Mogahed, executive director and senior analyst of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and appointee to President Obama&#8217;s Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the two are closely intertwined. Her survey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Trip by Saudi Royal Unlikely to Herald Radical Change</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/21/4547</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Spyer
The Syrian Al-Watan newspaper reported on Wednesday that a two-day visit by Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz was due to begin that day. The talks, Al-Watan noted, would conclude with the signing of a joint agreement on the issue of taxes.
This is what is known as setting a low bar for success. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAIR And The Muslim Mafia</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/20/4542</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Whitehead
A group of investigative reporters have opened the proverbial can of worms for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The investigative team, organized by Dave Gaubatz and including his son, Chris, and a small band of researchers infiltrated CAIR&#8217;s national headquarters for six months and spirited away over 12,000 documents and 300 hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juan Cole Between Madison and the Mullahs</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/20/4539</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Schanzer*
Juan Cole, the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, produces a steady stream of writings that downplays the threat radical Islam poses to America and the West. His opinions are at odds with the beliefs of most Americans. Now, through a project designed to foster an understanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing Jews in Oregon, Embracing Terrorists Off-Broadway</title>
		<link>http://netwmd.com/blog/2009/10/20/4535</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phyllis Chesler
When the same kind of politics or world-view invades a small off-Broadway theatre group and a small Oregon student newspaper, I really get worried. Can Big Brother be far behind?
Last week, the student editors of Reed College&#8217;s Pamphlette responded to an incident of anti-Semitic graffiti in the library bathroom at a nearby college [...]]]></description>
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