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    Koran-burning pastor sues over protest restriction

    Pastor Terry Jones, the Florida-based minister who sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan last year after he burned a copy of the Koran, is suing a Michigan city he says is interfering with his right to protest this weekend against Islamic Shariah law.

  • A woman waits at the gates of the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. U.S. air strikes in Yemen on Friday killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American militant cleric at the mosque, who became a prominent figure in the terror network's most dangerous branch, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits for attacks in the United States. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

    Relief, anger at mosque where al-Awlaki preached

    At the Washington-area mosque where Anwar al-Awlaki preached a decade ago, the killing of the influential al Qaeda figure drew a knot of conflicting emotions about the man who more than anyone gave the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center its unwanted association with international terrorism.

  • Embassy Row

    Muslim extremists linked to Hezbollah and al Qaeda are operating in Chile, where they provide "significant" financial aid to the Arab terrorist groups, according to the U.S. Embassy in Santiago.

  • California city rebuffs objectors of mosque

    The City Council voted early Wednesday to allow about 150 Muslim families to build a mosque in Temecula after months of angry debate over the plan that included protests and letter-writing campaigns.

  • ASSOCIATED PRESS Rev. Terry Jones tells members of the media he plans to go forward with plans to burn Qurans at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla. on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Church members there plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11.

    Fla. minister calls off burning of Qurans

    A Christian minister in Florida is canceling plans to burn Qurans on Sept. 11, heeding an international outcry that drew criticism from President Barack Obama and religious and political leaders across the Muslim world.

  • Scandal plagues mosque official

    A former top official for the Islamic Center of Washington says he was framed in a pending embezzlement case in retaliation for his practice of barring Islamic radicals from the mosque.

  • Letters to the Editor

    Democrats and vote fraud Bruce Tinsley's Mallard Fillmore cartoon on Wednesday (Culture, et cetera) about a Washington State woman who registered her dog to vote — the Associated Press story indicates that she actually voted three times in his name — illustrates a very important issue as we approach the 2008 national elections. That issue is election fraud and the different approach to it of the two major parties.

  • Letters to the Editor

    Democrats and vote fraud Bruce Tinsley's Mallard Fillmore cartoon on Wednesday (Culture, et cetera) about a Washington State woman who registered her dog to vote — the Associated Press story indicates that she actually voted three times in his name — illustrates a very important issue as we approach the 2008 national elections. That issue is election fraud and the different approach to it of the two major parties.

  • 'Dhimmification' on the march

    If anyone wants to know why Muslims the world over tell pollsters the United States is at war with Islam, just read President Bush's speech at the Islamic Center of Washington, especially the part about American-style religious freedom — in the president's words, "what we wish for the world."

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