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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center, the nonprofit legal advocacy group noted for its work fighting organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, recently released a list of prominent anti-Muslim extremists. Making the list was native Somali female activist who has fought for free speech and the
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For a generation predisposed to accept the merits of the idea of Progress (with a Roman P), world events have a proved a dispiriting, and truth be told, denigrating illustration of that theory's delusional ambitions. Against the backdrop of international terrorism, increasing domestic discord, and the collapse of
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Bob Silverman, a Jew who spent most of his diplomatic career in Muslim-majority nations, will now reach out to Muslims in his own country. The American Jewish Committee recently hired him as its first U.S. director of Muslim-Jewish relations. As a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 27 years,
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CAIRO (AP) — Islamic State affiliates in Libya briefly took over the security headquarters in the western city of Sabratha, killing and beheading 12 security officers before being driven out early Wednesday morning, two city security officials said. The incident highlighted the enduring presence and unpredictable striking power of the local
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Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins, who faced termination from her tenured post at the evangelical school for publicly saying Christians and Muslims worship the "same God," has announced in a joint statement with the college that she will leave. The statement on Wheaton's website referred to
WEST POINT – Last fall, 16 West Point cadets — none of them Muslim — signed up for an elective on counterterrorism and created a Facebook page to appeal to young Muslims thinking about joining the so-called Islamic State. The cadets aimed to persuade those tempted by the terrorist cause to see "
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GENEVA (AP) — A triple bombing claimed by the extremist Islamic State group killed at least 45 people near the Syrian capital of Damascus on Sunday, overshadowing an already shaky start to what are meant to be indirect Syria peace talks. Syria's state news agency SANA said that the
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(RNS) — The uproar over Wheaton College's recent decision to begin termination proceedings for a tenured professor was oh-so-predictable. When Larycia Hawkins sought to show solidarity with her Muslim neighbors by donning a hijab and declaring that Muslims and Christians "worship the same God," the college sought
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