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- Judge gives NYC churches access to public schools (AP)
- Statements for, against NYPD's Muslim monitoring (AP)
- Afghanistan: Riots over Koran Burning Subside, But Does Anger Still Simmer? (Time.com)
- Bloomberg: NYPD's monitoring of Muslims was legal (AP)
- Turkey's Jewish narrative: tolerance and dark side (AP)
- NY mayor defends intelligence-gathering on Muslim (AP)
- Evangelical leaders call for immigration overhaul (Reuters)
- NY police defend surveillance of Newark Muslims (Reuters)
| Judge gives NYC churches access to public schools (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:13 PM PST AP - Churches won back the right to hold services in the city's public schools when a federal judge issued an injunction Friday against its no-worship policy. |
| Statements for, against NYPD's Muslim monitoring (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 01:55 PM PST AP - A chronology of some statements by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg about the New York City Police Department's monitoring of Muslims, along with criticism of the program, which has been exposed in a series of reports by The Associated Press: |
| Afghanistan: Riots over Koran Burning Subside, But Does Anger Still Simmer? (Time.com) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 09:30 AM PST Time.com - Most observers expected the worst on Friday as the pious gathered at mosques for prayer. But, while violence did occur, it appeared to be much less than feared |
| Bloomberg: NYPD's monitoring of Muslims was legal (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 09:17 AM PST AP - New York's mayor offered a robust defense Friday of a secret police department effort to monitor mosques and Muslim businesses and student groups in several states, following a week of criticism from college administrators and politicians who said the intelligence-gathering pried too deeply into the lives of law-abiding people. |
| Turkey's Jewish narrative: tolerance and dark side (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 07:26 AM PST AP - As Turkey welcomes Syrians fleeing violence, the anniversary Friday of the deaths of more than 750 Jewish refugees who were denied shelter by Turkey in World War II was a reminder of perennial tension between pragmatic and humanitarian impulses. |
| NY mayor defends intelligence-gathering on Muslim (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:20 PM PST AP - New York's mayor served notice Friday that his police department will do everything in its power to root out terrorists in the U.S., even if it means sending officers outside the city limits or placing law-abiding Muslims under scrutiny. |
| Evangelical leaders call for immigration overhaul (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 06:02 PM PST Reuters - Evangelical Christian leaders took up a bully pulpit on Thursday to call for a "humane" overhaul of the U.S. immigration system in response to tough crackdowns on illegal immigrants enacted by Alabama and other states. |
| NY police defend surveillance of Newark Muslims (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 05:10 PM PST Reuters - The New York Police Department said on Thursday it had not broken any laws by conducting a surveillance operation targeting Muslims in neighboring New Jersey's largest city of Newark. |
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