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Building Our Community/Strengthening Our Coalition
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Muslim Organizations Condemn Boston Bombings
The American Muslim Magazine: Our Thoughts and Prayers Are With All Those in Boston: Muslim Organizations Condemn Heinous Terrorist Act
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Prince George’s Co. school lets Muslim students out of class to pray
Source: Washington Post. The growing number of Muslim students seeking accommodations to practice their religion in public schools has stirred debate about the long-contentious issue of prayer in America’s public institutions. But a Prince George’s County high school principal believes she has found a way to accommodate Muslim students: She gives those with parental permission and high grades a pass out of class every day to pray.
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Google Leads Fight to Limit Government Access to E-Mail on Cloud
Source: Bloomberg. Google Inc. which says it gets about 1,400 requests a month from U.S. authorities for users’ e- mails and documents, is organizing an effort to press for limits on government access to digital communications. The company has been talking to advocacy groups and companies about joining a lobbying effort to change the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, said Chris Gaither, a Google spokesman.
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Drone protest closes street downtown
Source: Politico. Obama’s drone war has drawn the ire of some anti-war activists since the start of his term.
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Muslim advocates rally against subway pushing and NYPD racial profiling
Source: New York Amsterdam News. A group of organizers rallied to end Islamophobic acts of violence in New York City on Tuesday, Jan. 8, in memory of Sunando Sen, an immigrant from India who was fatally pushed in front of a Queens subway in December. The alleged culprit, a mentally ill Hispanic woman, confessed to pushing Sen onto the train tracks on the 7 line because she hated “Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers.”
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Government surveillance going too far?
Source: WTLV. Police and other government officials would be prohibited from using unmanned aircraft, commonly known as drones, to spy on citizens in Florida under a bill that flew through the Senate Criminal Justice Committee.
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Special Reports on John Walker Lindh CMU Lawsuit Win
Sources: USA Today/HuffPo/Reuters/LA Times. A federal judge ruled Friday that an American convicted of fighting alongside the Taliban must be allowed to pray daily in a group with other Muslim inmates at his high-security prison in Indiana.
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Lawsuit alleges United Airlines discriminated against Muslim couple flying to Minnesota
Source: Washington Post. A Muslim couple is suing United Airlines for alleged racial discrimination after they were asked to leave a Minnesota-bound flight in 2011. After they were on board, a United agent told the couple they had to leave the plane because of a problem with their bags. The bags ended up going to Minneapolis while the couple stayed behind.
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Tigard man on FBI’s no-fly list sues government over blocking his return from Middle East
Source: Oregon Live. A 56-year-old Tigard man is challenging his inclusion on the government’s no-fly list after being stranded last year in Tunisia as he tried to jet home from a humanitarian mission in his native Libya. Jamal Tarhuni, a naturalized U.S. citizen, accuses U.S. government officials of violating his civil rights. He alleges in a federal lawsuit that government agents denied him due process, rights of citizenship, assistance of legal counsel, and other rights.
