Keith Ellison, the first Muslim in Congress, will join other elected officials as a keynote speaker November 18th at CAIR's 12th Annual Banquet in Arlington, Va.
CAIR's dinner, which in past years have been sold-out, will feature addresses by Representative-elect Ellison (D-MN) and Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Albert Wynn (D-MD).
Other speakers at the event include a representative of the FBI and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. To learn more about CAIR's dinner, or to register online, go to: https://www.cair.com/2006banquet/
Islam radical 'in Home Office job'
A senior member of a radical Islamic group that Tony Blair tried to ban works for the Home Office, it was reported.
The Hizb-ut-Tahrir activist is said to be an official at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate in Croydon, south London - one of the department's most sensitive branches.
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Exiled Muslim cleric preaching to Britons over the Internet
LONDON (AFP) - An exiled Islamic cleric is still preaching support for terrorism within Britain by using pseudonyms over the Internet, the BBC reported.
The radical Syrian-born preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed broadcasts online most evenings, one of which praised the four Islamist suicide bombers who killed 52 commuters on London's transport network on July 7, 2005, according to the broadcaster.
"How can you condemn those great men -- it's not something so bad, something so good. Something so good to be involved in," Mohammed allegedly said, referring to the four men.
The BBC confirmed the voice of the broadcaster as Mohammed through a voice recognition expert.
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LAHORE: The Hasba Bill allows the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal government in the NWFP to put in place a powerful network that will aid the religious parties’ alliance in future elections, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan warned in a press release on Tuesday.
The HRCP believes the bill “has nothing to do with Islam”, and “amounts to a clever manoeuvre to create grassroots networks of mullahs” that could help the MMA win future elections in the NWFP.
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Two Pakistanis held with bombs
JALALABAD: Security forces in Afghanistan Tuesday detained two Pakistani nationals with homemade bombs on a road heading towards the Pakistani border, police said. The men were captured in Marko, a small town in Nangarhar, provincial police spokesman Ghafoor Khan said.
The bombs were made of explosives placed in pressure cookers, he said, adding that police helped by foreign troops were working to dismantle the devices. He did not say what group the men were linked with, but Taliban militants have used similar devices even more than five years after US-led forces began ousting their movement. afp
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IAEA asks Pakistan to develop N-database
MANIPAL: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has asked Pakistan to develop a nuclear database for power reactors and contribute to the IAEA information base.
“Since Pakistan has nuclear power reactors and will soon be acquiring another six from China, it is important that Pakistan takes the initiative to evolve its nuclear data to keep at par with its neighbour India and contribute to the world body’s website,” Dr Alan Nichols, head of the IAEA nuclear data section, said at a two-day meeting on “atomic and nuclear data for next generation medicine and technologies” organised by the UNESCO peace chair at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, on Tuesday.
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