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• Pope earns rare praise from leading German leftist (Reuters)
• Man arrested for hate crime in Ore. mosque fire (AP)
• NY Muslims feel targeted despite alliance promise (AP)

Pope earns rare praise from leading German leftist (Reuters) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:27 PM PDT Reuters - Pope Benedict has reaped praise before his visit to his German homeland next month from one of the last people one would expect -- the sharp-tongued leader of the former communists from old East Germany.

Man arrested for hate crime in Ore. mosque fire (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT AP - Federal officials arrested a 24-year-old man on charges of firebombing an Oregon mosque last year and said he was motivated by racial hatred following the arrest of a Muslim man accused of plotting to set off a car bomb in Portland.

NY Muslims feel targeted despite alliance promise (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:27 AM PDT AP - Even as the New York Police Department sent undercover officers into Muslim neighborhoods to detect possible terrorist activities in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks, government officials there and elsewhere have sought to build relationships in Muslim communities and pledged to ensure that Muslims aren't targeted for discrimination.

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