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Pastor Seeking to Protest at Mosque Briefly Jailed
By not in system - AOL NewsDEARBORN, Mich. -- A Florida pastor's planned demonstration outside a Michigan mosque was scuttled Friday after a jury determined the protest would constitute a breach of the peace and he was briefly jailed for refusing to pay what authorities called a "peace bond." The Rev. Terry Jones, whose past rhetoric against Muslims has inflamed anti-Western sentiment in Afghanistan, said he refused to pay the $1 bond because to do so would violate his freedom of speech. He later paid it and was released. Jones had planned a demonstration Friday evening outside the Islamic Center of America in ...
Suicide Bomber Injures Dozens at Indonesian Mosque
By not in system - AOL NewsJAKARTA, Indonesia -- A suicide bomber blew himself up as police were praying Friday, wounding 28 people in the first attack on a mosque since extremists started targeting the predominantly Muslim country a decade ago. The victims -- including a local police chief -- were rushed to hospitals with nails, nuts and bolts embedded in their bodies, said Yeni Rahmawati, a hospital spokeswoman. The attack occurred in the West Java town of Cirebon. AP A man who was injured after a bomb went off Friday at a police station receives medical treatment at a hospital in Cirebon, West Java, ...
Islamic Center's Bid for Federal Funds Draws Fire
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Nov. 23) --The developers of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero are seeking federal redevelopment grants reportedly worth $5 million, further infuriating some families and first responders. "I think it's an insult to the 9/11 families. It's another smack in the face," retired Deputy Fire Chief Jim Riches, who lost a firefighter son during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, told the Daily News. "Why would we give them money ahead of so many other worthy groups?" Tim Brown, a retired firefighter who was a first responder on 9/11, told the New York Post. SOMA ...
What Is Ron Johnson's Religion?
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown - Politics DailyMillionaire plastics manufacturer and political newcomer Ron Johnson is running for senator from Wisconsin as the Republican nominee against four-term Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in 2010, here are some answers to frequently asked questions about his life. What is Ron Johnson's religion? Johnson is Lutheran. What has Ron Johnson said about his faith? Johnson's campaign website says he "is pro-life, pro-family, and believes that freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. Ron will take these ...
What Is Patrick Leahy's Religion?
By jeanette friedman - Politics DailyThe incumbent U.S. senator from Vermont and Democrat Patrick Leahy is seeking re-election against Republican Len Britton. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in 2010, here are some answers to frequently asked questions about his life. What is Patrick Leahy's religion? Leahy is Roman Catholic. Where does Patrick Leahy worship? Leahy worships in St. Andrews in Waterbury, Vt. and Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. Was Patrick Leahy born a Roman Catholic, or did he convert? Leahy was born a Roman Catholic, to an Irish Catholic father ...
Governor Among the Dead in Afghan Mosque Blast
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan (Oct. 8) -- A massive bomb blast at a mosque in northern Afghanistan killed 15 people Friday, including a provincial governor who had survived a series of assassination attempts, officials said. More than 20 people were wounded in the explosion during Friday prayers at the Shirkat mosque in Takhar province, said Gen. Shah Jahan Noori, the provincial police chief. The governor of neighboring Kunduz province, Mohammad Omar, was killed in the blast, Noori said. Takhar Gov. Abdul Jabar Taqwa said the bomb was meant to kill Omar, who regularly attends Friday prayers at the ...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Mosque-Burners Are 'Terrorists'
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- Play with fire and you're bound to get burned -- maybe even by your own countrymen. That's the lesson that arsonists -- allegedly disgruntled Jewish settlers -- learned today after torching a mosque and at least a dozen copies of the Koran in Beit Fajjar, a Muslim Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank. Now they are taking heat from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who Monday evening harshly condemned of the attack, even calling his fellow Israelis terrorists. "Whoever did this is a terrorist in every sense of the word, and intended to hurt the chances for peace and ...
Mosque Fire Increases Israeli Settlement Tension
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- If there's one thing we've learned this year, it's that burning Islamic holy artifacts is not a good idea. Who didn't get the memo? Israeli settlers, who set fire to a mosque in Beit Fajjar, a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, on Monday before morning prayers, reports Al-Jazeera. The attack comes at a delicate time during Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, with reports surfacing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed in principle to a 60-day freeze on new settlement construction. (As Surge Desk earlier pointed out, illegal settlement construction often ...
NY Mosque Developer Getting Boot in Rent Dispute
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- The developer behind plans to build a Muslim community center near New York's ground zero is being evicted from his Manhattan office after failing to pay back rent. That's according to housing court papers obtained by the New York Daily News, which show that Sharif El-Gamal owes $39,000 in rent for his offices in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood. The landlord began eviction proceedings against El-Gamal last month after he was given a month to pay the overdue rent but failed to do so. Frank Franklin II, Getty Images Sharif El-Gamal, developer of the planned Cordoba House and ...
Florida Pastor in New York on 9/11: 'Mission Accomplished, We Will Not Burn Koran'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe Florida pastor who threatened to burn Korans to mark 9/11 and in the process became the center of a domestic and global maelstrom said Saturday morning that he had definitively canceled the book burning because he had accomplished his mission of revealing Islam to harbor dangerous elements. "Not today, not ever. We are not going to go back and do it" -- burn the Koran. "It is totally canceled," Pastor Terry Jones told NBC's "Today" show. Jones had traveled to New York late Friday night following several days of often bizarre brinkmanship as he suddenly made moving the ...
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