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Jay Leno: Muslim Miss USA hopes to get ‘off the no-fly list’
Ex-Bush official: My ‘affirmative action’ theory wasn’t to imply contest was ‘rigged’ Newly-crowned Miss USA Rima Fakih is the pride of her native village, with residents saying the Lebanese-American not only brought honor to southern Lebanon but also offered a different image of Shiite Muslims often stereotyped as radicals. Meanwhile,…
Rights group: US exiled man for converting to Islam
A Muslim civil rights group on Friday accused the US government of forcing an American citizen into “exile” because he was an Islamic convert. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Raymond Earl Knaeble IV, 29, had been placed on a no-fly list and had been unable to return…
Green Day singer tells Bill Maher: ‘Religion is a bunch of bullsh*t’
Green Day’s lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong might have suffered a “brain fart” during his Friday appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, but this is one punk rocker who still knows how to cut to the chase in one concise breath. “Religion is a bunch of bullshit,” he…
White House won’t deny report saying it approved killing of American without trial
The White House won’t deny reports claiming that it authorized the killing of an American citizen who is purportedly involved in planning al Qaeda attacks and is said to be hiding out in Yemen. The New York Times and the Washington Post reported late Tuesday that Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki…
GOP official racks up 1 million American Express points
The Florida Republican Party is in disarray, with two of its top operatives embroiled in financial scandals that threaten to derail the party’s efforts to win seats in this year’s mid-term elections. Party Chairman Jim Greer is resigning after it was revealed that he had entered into a secret contract…
Scott Brown begs Simon Cowell: Give my daughter another chance
Using his newfound fame and ABC News as a platform, Senator-elect Scott Brown is calling on Fox’s premier reality TV show to give his daughter one more chance. In the midst of an otherwise substantive interview Sunday with ABC’s Barbara Walters, she asked Senator Brown (R-Mass) what he would like…
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