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The NYPD has gone rogue
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is outrageous and obscene: The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned. Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles away in…
Muslim Informants prevent domestic terror: the data
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Aziz Poonawalla
As Americans, Muslim Americans have the same vested interest in preventing terrorism as any other fellow citizen. In fact, since 9-11 woke all of us (muslim and non-muslim alike) to the reality of terrorism against our homeland, American muslims have arguably borne a greater responsibility in preventing attacks. That is a responsibility that the muslim…
Gordon Hirabayashi and the legacy of (indefensible) internment
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Aziz Poonawalla
Gordon Hirabayashi died a few days ago. Mr. Hirabayashi was one of just a handful of Japanese-Americans who refused to comply with the detention order during World War II, and served time in prison for his principled stand. There are some amazing aspects to his story, not least of which that it took 50 years…
Anwar al Awlaki is dead (again)
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is the third time that radicalized Al Qaeda celebrity Anwar al Awlaki has been reported killed, but this is the first time it has been confirmed by the US as well as “tribal sources”. According to NYT: In a significant and dramatic strike in the campaign against Al Qaeda, the Defense Ministry here said…
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