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[In the interest of "fair use" two short quotes from the article are excerpted. The first illustrates the thesis suggested in the headline, the second material from the reporters' interviews that were harder to spin. Click source for full article.] ... In interviews with dozens of neighbors, business acquaintances and family members in Southern California and Cairo, the emerging consensus is that Hadayet was an ordinarily religious man with little appetite for politics, who opened fire at the Israeli El Al ticket counter following a personal agenda that died with him."If someone is going to do a terrorist act, they...

How CAIR Put My Life in Perilby Khalid Durán On April 4, 2001, a self-described advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. by the name of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), issued a press release1 attacking my forthcoming book, Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews.2 CAIR's attack snowballed into a campaign of personal vilification, which eventuated in a Jordanian political leader calling me an apostate (murtadd).3 Neither CAIR nor Sheikh ‘Abd al-Mun‘im Abu Zant of Jordan's Islamic Action Front had ever read or even seen my book, but the CAIR attack prompted the latter to issue an...

WASHINGTON, March 30 (IslamOnline) - American Muslim rights groups in Washington D.C. slammed Friday the recent attacks on Palestinian civilians and journalists in Jerusalem and at the Al-Aqsa compound, as well as the direct assault on Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's headquarters. Raeed Tayeh, director of the national office of American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice (AMGPJ) told IslamOnline that, “When a sixteen year old girl feels that it is her responsibility to attack the Israeli occupation then something is seriously wrong and either those nations that have power are too blinded by their support for Israel to recognize...