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• Fort Hood ups challenge to recruit Musli…

  
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  Fort Hood ups challenge to recruit Muslim, Arab troops. Army recruiter Sgt. Chris McGarity is on the front lines of the military’s effort to add troops who speak Arabic and understand Middle Eastern culture — a battle that grew more challenging after the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. McGarity says he recently ...
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• Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination: contextualising the need

  
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  My opening speech from the “Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination: new perspectives, policies and practices” event yesterday (9th December 2009):Why do we need an event that focuses on Islamophobia and religious discrimination when, as Alistair Campbell once famously remarked to Tony Blair, as a nation “We ...
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• Muslims must practice discreetly

  
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  Erudite Sarkozy speaks loosely in La Monde Nicolas Sarkozy stoked the debate over immigration today with a warning to Muslims to practise their religion discreetly or face rejection by moderate Islam in France. The President voiced sympathy for Swiss voters who opted last week to ban minarets as he tried to reassert ...
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• Europe: Is There Room for Allah in the Workplace?

  
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  Time Europe asks : Are European societies anti-Islam? That’s a question more people are asking in the wake of Switzerland’s referendum to ban the building of minarets in the Alpine country. Almost 6 out of 10 Swiss voters supported the ban — charges of racism be damned. France passed a law in 2004 that bans ...
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• PRESS RELEASE: “Decision-makers need to ‘think hard’ about what needs to be done on Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination”

  
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  In a year when the British National Party (BNP) won two seats in the European parliament, the English Defence League have marched in protest against the ‘Islamification’ of Britain in various towns and cities, and more recently, there has been a referendum in Switzerland to ban minarets, the University of ...
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• Mayoral Mistake: California Official Should Stay Out Of The Salvation Business

  
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  Some years ago, I attended a press conference held by notorious anti-abortion zealot Randall Terry. There weren’t many people at the event, and afterward Terry asked me where I was from.When I told him I worked at Americans United, he replied, “You and Barry Lynn had better watch it – you’re going to hell!”I ...
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• Jewish Groups Object to Switzerland’s Minaret Ban

  
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  Recognizing that this week’s popular vote to forbid the building of minarets in Switzerland represented a blatant show of religious intolerance it couldn’t ignore, an association of Jewish organizations is expressing its strong disagreement with the ban and calling on Swiss leaders to defend religious freedom.  ...
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• MacFarlane Loses Second Tribunal Case

  
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  You might remember the story of Gary MacFarlane who was sacked as a Relate counsellor because he refused to counsel homosexual couples. We carried the story back in January of the Employment Tribunal where it was ruled that MacFarlane was not discriminated against. There has now been another Tribunal hearing, an ...
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• Are Christmas closings discriminatory?

  
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  HR Review, a British HR website, asks the following question: “ Is closing office for  Christmas ‘indirect discrimination’? ” For example, would anyone doubt the discriminatory nature of a policy that offers maternity leave to new moms but denies the same to new dads? Yet, no one bats an eye when a business ...
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• Federal Religious Discrimination

  
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  Federal law demands it: many employers throughout the U.S. must allow their employees of the Islamic faith to take prayer breaks. Muslims, in turn, are required by their religion to pray, facing east, five specific times during the day. Many employers have answered this spiritual need and fulfilled federal law ...
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• Israel enables Muslim discrimination against Christians and Jews!

  
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  On many political and religious forums I post and participate on (just google David Ben-Ariel and see for yourself!), there are a rotten few, stooges, who foolishly aid and abet the Nazi-Muslim occupation of Judaisms holiest site, the Temple Mount, and the Bolsheviks who enable them to flout Israeli law against ...
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• Corvino: The slippery slope of religious exemptions

  
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  This morning, I didn’t feel like getting out of bed. I wasn’t sick; just tired. But I had a full workday scheduled. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared unto me and said, “Behold, today is a sacred day, and you must not work.” Sweet! Okay, maybe I was dreaming. But as the 17th-century philosopher Thomas ...
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• Porn company ‘wants to release Carrie Prejean sex tape’

  
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  New York, Nov 16 (ANI): A copy of Carrie Prejean’s racy solo sex tape has been acquired by Vivid Entertainment, the world’s largest adult video producer, and the company now wants to release it, according to reports.According to TMZ.com, Vivid claims to have the complete legal rights for the copy it has, but would ...
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• Prejean Follow up

  
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  Last one, I promise.  (Unless something really wild comes along.) Carrie Prejean Carrie’s latest cross to bear?  Her appearance on Larry King Live didn’t go so well.  Larry asked a rather vague question about her recent court settlement, and the former Miss California USA pageant winner went into a snit, ...
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• U.K.: “Police worker fired for backing psychic investigations claims religious discrimination”

  
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  Having succeeded in winning a ruling that his beliefs in spiritualism and mediums qualify as a form of religious belief, Alan Power can proceed with his suit alleging that he was improperly dismissed because of them. His case “follows a landmark ruling last month that environmental views should be considered ...
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