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Refugee families at a low-income apartment complex were attacked Saturday night by a man who stabbed nine people — more than any other attack in Boise's history, police said. Four of them suffered injuries that police called life-threatening. A 30-year-old man was quickly taken into custody at gunpoint, police said. All of the victims were taken to a hospital.

A former attorney for Apple filed a lawsuit this week alleging that the company violated anti-discrimination laws by failing to accommodate his religious beliefs.In a complaint filed in state court in San Jose, Feras Mousilli claims the company refused to print Arabic on his business cards, and repeatedly told him he was not a “cultural fit.” Mousilli, who lives in San Francisco, also states that Apple AAPL refused to re-schedule weekly meetings with his supervisor so that he could attend Friday prayers.Mousilli, who is of Syrian origin, also claims Apple was a hostile environment in which other employees, named only...

A University of Colorado-Denver administrator, already suspended for operating a phone sex website, was apparently also operating an adult escort site offering to go on paid “dates” at the same time she was employed by the state of Colorado. But her racy outside jobs will not cost her her job. A CBS4 Investigation into Resa Cooper-Morning, the Cultural Diversity Coordinator in UCD’s Ethnic Studies department, has now found the $68,000 per year state employee operated a website called Fantasy Elite offering “Fantasy Romantic Companionship” for $175 per hour. Her website noted that her hours of availability were from Saturday after...

Do you remember the most Homeric of world trade negotiations, called the Uruguay round, which took place between 1986 and 1994? I was a teenager then and I remember that round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) vividly. I had taken to reading the austere Le Monde every day and remember the uncouth Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association in Hollywood, who particularly despised European film directors for pleading with their governments to exclude cinema, and the arts in general, from the negotiations. Valenti roared back: "Culture is like chewing-gum, a product like any other."...

I caught a radio ad promoting Diversity the other day on the Dennis Miller show. Here’s a partial transcript: Obviously White young girl: “Gee, you work with lots of people who don’t look like you at all!” White mother: “What do you mean?” Girl: “Well, there are Asian people, African-American people, Latino people–” Mother: “We all work together as a team.” Girl: “Aren’t they different from you?” Mother: “In a way, yes. But those differences are good. They mean different ways of seeing things, different ways of thinking things, different ways of doing things.” Girl: “But if those differences are...

(ANSAmed) - PARIS, JULY 17 - A "luminous and liberated" veil, in the spirit of Islam's poetics, will cover but not hide, thanks to a light transparent structure, the Visconti Court of the Louvre Museum in Paris, in the right wing, to host the new museum of Islamic arts, to be established in 2010. ¿It is a political museum¿, as explained to ANSA by Rudy Ricciotti, of Italian origins, one of the two architects, with Mario Bellini from Milan, who designed the project, selected among 52 applicants. "In the sense that it recognises all the peoples in a lay state,...

Police fury as bosses tell them to 'celebrate' gipsies By Stephen Wright Last updated at 9:19 AM on 12th July 2008 Denise Milani: The Metropolitan Police director urges officers to observe 'Gipsy Roma Traveller History Month'Their arrival in the capital is said to have led to a huge rise in thieving and prompted the creation of a specialist police squad to tackle their sinister activities. Yet in a move which has caused disbelief amongst rank and file officers, Scotland Yard has asked staff to 'celebrate' the contribution of Roma gipsies to 'London's culture and diversity.' In a notice posted on...

Injured Boy Has Serious Head Injuries. The parents of Christopher Gonzales, 6, were visiting friends ...where the hit-and-run was witnessed by several neighbors. Christopher was standing near his parents’ friends who were changing a tire to a truck parked in front of the home. He walked from behind the truck, and toward the front when he was hit by the Ford Ranger with two passengers... Witnesses to the scene chased the driver on foot while one got in a vehicle to pursue him. Aurora police arrested the driver of the Ford Ranger, who is identified as Ricardo Gomez-Carcamo, 26, by...

Tancredo fires back at Fla. guv Colo. congressman accuses Jeb Bush of 'happy talk' By Tillie Fong, Rocky Mountain News November 30, 2006 U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo on Wednesday accused Florida Gov. Jeb Bush of spouting "politically correct happy talk" in a war of words touched off by the congressman's swipe at the city of Miami as resembling a "Third World country." In a letter responding to a blast from Bush, Tancredo said the governor did not recognize illegal immigration as a problem in Miami. "I certainly understand and appreciate your need and desire to create the illusion of Miami...

WORRIED that her daughters' budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even rape, Philomene Moungang started "ironing" the girls' bosoms with a heated stone. "I did it to my two girls when they were eight years old. I would take the grinding stone, heat it in the fire and press it hard on the breasts," the mother said. "They cried and said it was painful. But I explained that it was for their own good." Breast "ironing" - the use of hard or heated objects to try to stunt breast growth in girls - is...

A landmark verdict finds nine people guilty for conspiring to kill a young Pakistani woman and her husband in the largest honour killing case ever tried in Europe The High Court of Eastern Denmark delivered a 'guilty' verdict on Tuesday to all nine defendants in the most far-reaching honour killing ever tried in Europe. The verdict is considered a landmark finding, since not only the brother who fired the gun that killed Ghazala Khan was found guilty. The court also found Ghazala's father and seven others guilty of conspiring to murder the young Pakistani woman and her husband for disobeying...

Suspected Penis Snatcher Beaten to Death Fri October 10, 2003 10:53 AM ET BANJUL (Reuters) - A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery was beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia on Thursday, police said. A police spokesman told Reuters that Baba Jallow was killed by about 10 people in the town of Serekunda, nine miles from the capital Banjul. Reports of penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, with purported victims claiming that alleged sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear in order to extort cash in...

Question: I have not yet reached the age of puberty. Is it correct that a girl could get married before her menses start, or is that just a traditional myth?. Answer: Praise be to Allaah. Firstly: Marriage to a young girl before she reaches puberty is permissible according to sharee’ah, and it was narrated that there was scholarly consensus on this point. 1 – Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “And those of your women as have passed the age of monthly courses, for them the ‘Iddah (prescribed period), if you have doubt (about their periods), is three months;...

Dr. Ahmad 'Ukasha, a professor of psychiatry, refers to the celebrations that accompany the circumcision operation which is usually attended by the girl's family and relatives. Dr. 'Ukasha views this as humiliating, because the girl, he says, is crying in pain, while everybody around are singing and laughing. In many cases, the girl feels oppressed and starts hating herself and her gender. A long treatment is required to overcome the bad psychological consequences. However, there are senior doctors in Egypt who do not share this opinion. Dr. Munir Muhammad Fauzi, the Head of the Gynecology Department at the Ein Shams...

A UPI Outside View commentary From the Life & Mind Desk INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Is it appropriate to say "Merry Christmas" to your Jewish colleagues? If you're Jewish, should you return the salutation with a joyous "Happy Hanukkah?" The answer to the first question is "yes," and to the second it's "yes" as well -- but not if it's Day Nine or thereafter. But there's more to this conundrum than this yearly question of seasonal salutations. Up until the advent of cultural PC-ism, grade school students were taught that America was a wonderful "melting pot." And that image...

ASK MARNI-REBECCA -- If You Dare! (www.iconoclast.ca/newPage5.asp) Perplexed by politicians, mixed-up by the media? Ask Marni-Rebecca, if you dare. She can clear things up for you. One caveat though -- asking her romantic advice is like asking the captain of the Titanic how to navigate. Send your queries to marnimarlarkey@yahoo.com Dear Ms. Malarkey, Did you know that it's Diversity Awareness Month? What do you think about that? I think it's just a lot of politically correct hooey and you seem like a sensible woman who would agree with me about that. Keep up the good work, Urja in Minneapolis Marni-Rebecca...

It's Now Official: Individuals and Cultural Diversity Determine Right or Wrong by William R. Darcy Sometimes the signposts of massive cultural change are not always evident. Being sympathetic to the plight of individuals and being tolerant of the opinions of others has always been a strength of America. And in a nation of immigrants it has always been easier (but not easy) to curb the natural human tendency to be suspicious and downright hostile to those of another clan or country. But since the 1960s, and with increasing force in the 1990s, those tendencies have been transformed into a view...

[Thanks to ForGod'sSake for the original graphic] The Petition to New York City regarding the Firefighter Memorial protesting the originally proposed Ground Zero Flag Raising Statue and seeking that any future plans for a memorial be non-political and historically correct, has surpassed the 400,000 signature mark. It now stands at: 400,001 Signatures We will keep this petition going until it is clear that future plans for the memorial are not politcally driven and are not revisionist. That being the case, please continue to point others towards the petition site at: http://www.petitiononline.com/flgraise/ to sign and forward the petition on to all...