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Uncovering Holocaust perpetrators where few have lookedMuslim Nazis, female death camp guards, and Dutch ‘bounty hunters’ are coming out of the archival closet, even as fewer Shoah eyewitnesses remain alive to testify BOSTON ~ With new access to archives and other primary sources, historians are supplanting archetypal images of Aryan Nazi men as the Holocaust's sole perpetrators. Previously obscured perpetrator "sub-groups" are being exposed one portrait at a time, ranging from women who guarded death camps to Dutch bounty hunters of Jews in hiding. And as researchers uncover an array of Europeans involved in the murder of Jews and other...

COACHELLA, California — Holy prayers at a mosque here on Friday were canceled with families gawking behind fire lines after discovering the front of their holy house had become one big fireball. Late Friday night, authorities announced that they believe the fire was deliberately set, and the local branch of the FBI is investigating as a possible hate crime. In addition, a person of interest has been detained, but not identified. Members of the congregation are blaming GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump for setting the ugly tone that charred their house of worship. The mosque began to burn at around...

CNN editor Arsalan Iftikhar, formerly of CAIR, blames Donald Trump for anti-Muslim acts.

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ARABS AND NAZIS - CAN IT BE TRUE? by Elliott A Green Whitewashing the Arab historical record has long been the practice not only of Arab spokesmen but of the Arabs' Western and Communist sympathizers. Among the most persistent efforts to this end have been the denial and belittling of Arab involvement with the Nazis and the Holocaust. In fact, many Arab nationalist leaders - from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east - not only sympathized with the Nazis but cooperated with German agents before and during World War 2. The most outstanding Arab Nazi collaborator, however,...

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish bookshops have a best seller, but some of them are hesitant about giving it too much display. It's "Mein Kampf." The popularity of Adolf Hitler's book, filled with anti-Jewish diatribes and dreams of world domination, is puzzling some Turks. Does it reflect rising anti-Semitic or anti-Western sentiment in Muslim Turkey? Or anger over Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and the war in Iraq (news - web sites)? Is it a backlash against the country's moves to join the European Union (news - web sites)? Or does it simply offer a cheap thrill? At least two new...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- One of the most touching reactions by most Americans to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, was their eagerness to avoid stereotypes about Islam and its faithful. Two years on, this religion's image has drastically deteriorated, even among well-educated U.S. citizens, a new poll shows. After Osama bin Laden's kamikaze killers had crashed hijacked airliners into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, scattered anti-Islamic outrages did occur, of course. More remarkable, though, was the outpouring of solidarity for Muslim residents in the United States, and an increased interest in their beliefs.