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While public officials, schools, and the ACLU worked overtime this year to ban every vestige of Christmas from the public square, the recently invented holiday known as Kwanzaa is gaining in popularity among black Americans. These occurrences are not unrelated. In an earlier time, blacks held a strong faith in God. But over the past 40 years, the black community has largely let God slip away. Sure the community has maintained the outer trappings of religion, but the solid morality at its core is nearly gone. Enter a God-hating black racist named Ron Karenga. Born Ron Everett on a poultry farm...

ISLAMABAD (dpa) - Pakistani authorities have released the chief of an outlawed militant group, after he was interrogated for about eight months for his alleged links with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan's Taliban regime, a news report said Monday. The Urdu-language daily Ausaf quoted sources in the banned Harkatul Mujahideen group as saying that Maulana Fazalur Rehman Khalil had been held and questioned and then released. "Security agencies interrogated Maulana (Khalil) thoroughly but failed to prove that he sent militants to Afghanistan," Ausaf said. Khalil, who was active in the Afghan war against the former Soviet Union in...

It's December 26th. Christmas is over. That means its time for most people to tear down the tree, store the decorations, and figure out what they're going to do with the ugly shirts and cheap perfume they unwrapped yesterday. However, for some people the 26th is the beginning of a new holiday. And by “new” I don't just mean “another,” I mean the guy who invented it is still alive and making money giving speeches about it. Kwanzaa was invented in the United States by a man named Ron Everett, later to be known as Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga said...

Beware the Maulana! B Raman | | July 23, 2003 | 13:43 IST Controversial Jamiat-ul-Ulema Islam leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman's high-profile visit to India and the attention accorded to him in governmental and non-governmental circles in New Delhi are being viewed by many India-watchers in the US with bewilderment and concern.Rahman is a fundamentalist with a difference, known for his proximity to Benazir Bhutto and her Pakistan People's Party. Despite his fundamentalist orientation, he supported her right to become prime minister and opposed the Jamaat-e-Islami campaign in the 1990s against a woman heading the government of an Islamic country.Benazir rewarded...