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This week on “This Week” with Christiane Amanpour the question “Holy War: Should American’s Fear Islam?” was discussed by a panel of guests... FRANKLIN GRAHAM: But let me just say something about Islam. I -- I love the Muslim people. But I have great difficulty with the -- with the religion, especially with Sharia law and what it does for women -- toward women, toward non-believers, the violence that is given in -- under Sharia law. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: …Is it allowed under Sharia law? IMAM OSAMA BAHLOUL: …This is something for you to say that Islam is an Muslim thought,...

Jailed money manager Kenneth Starr's wife may be forced back to working the pole. An SEC lawyer said this morning that federal regulators will oppose any attempt to unfreeze Starr's crooked assets to cover living expenses for his ex-stripper wife, Diane Passage, and her 12-year-old son Jordan. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/kenneth_starr_wife_may_have_to_start_0f5WUSJxcSBW8IV0Ex3FIJ#ixzz0qTj3Jm3o

Jackson Browne has settled a lawsuit and received an apology from Sen. John McCain and the Republican Party over use of his song "Running on Empty" during last year's presidential campaign. The settlement announced Tuesday includes a pledge by the GOP not to use any musicians' work without proper permission in future campaigns, a statement that Browne said he hoped would benefit other artists. Browne sued McCain and the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Republican Party last year over use of "Running on Empty" in a Web ad mocking Democrat Barack Obama's proposed energy policies. McCain's loss in November...

It's been eight weeks since Time magazine redesigned itself, and part of that refurbishment is handing over the "Ten Questions" interview inquiries to the readers instead of Time's reporters. In the June 11 edition, Time's interviewee was Rep. Tom Tancredo, a presidential contender and one of the nation's leading opponents of illegal immigration. Among the questions Time selected for Tancredo was a whopper from Ubaldo Padilla of Oroville, California: "Why do you hate Mexicans?" It wasn't the only snotty question Time picked. There was also James Smith of Phoenix, who asked: "I recently found out my family came from Holland...

<p>Time Warner had to get rid of HBO boss Chris Albrecht last night for beating up his girlfriend early Sunday morning - because the media giant had already shown extraordinary leniency to him 16 years ago, insiders say.</p> <p>Sources said Albrecht resigned after Time Warner president Jeff Bewkes, the heir apparent to chairman Richard Parsons, told his longtime friend he had to resign or he'd be fired.</p>

CHARLIE SHEEN, the former Hollywood “Brat Pack” actor, has been ordered by a Los Angeles court to keep at least 300ft away from Denise Richards, his estranged wife.The actress said in papers filed to the court that Sheen had been abusive and threatened to kill her. According to the New York Post, he had screamed at her: “I hope you die, bitch!” after she allegedly discovered he had been looking at internet pornography sites. Sheen, who appears in Two and a Half Men, a television comedy series, has denied the claims and the judge agreed to his request that all...