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Benghazi: The Obama spin continues
"Bumps in the road." — President Barack Obama on the unrest in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East that included the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, an information officer, and two Navy SEALS. "Crude and disgusting"… "an...
Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., White House, Authors, Benghazi, U.S. Congress
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Obama's red line on Syria gets squiggly
The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...
Tags: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Bashar Assad, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Lindsey O. Graham, Chuck Hagel
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Israel's critics ignore discrimination in the Arab and Muslim world
The article by Zainab Choudry and Saqib Ali on Israel's supposed discrimination against Arab-American and Muslim citizens is missing a big part of the story in the Arab and Muslim world ("Don't let Israel discriminate," April 30). Former Secretary of...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Henry Kissinger, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Israel, Judaism
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Blocking entry of radicals is good for Israel and U.S.
In their commentary, Zainab Choudry and Saqib Ali ("Don't let Israel discriminate," April 30) objected to Senate Bill 462 (the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2013) introduced recently in the U.S. Senate that advocates Israel's right to deny...
Tags: Iran, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Immigration, Personal Data Collection, Israel
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Visa program doesn't discriminate against Arabs, Muslims
Commentators Zainab Choudry and Saqib Ali complain that Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin co-sponsored legislation to extend a visa waiver program to Israel ("Don't let Israel discriminate," April 30). The waiver program currently allows citizens of 37...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Czech Republic, Personal Data Collection, Labor Legislation
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To deter terrorism, think beyond punishment
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, we heard strong proclamations from the president that "justice will be served." It should be. Our spirit of justice is based on the principle that punishment should outweigh any benefit derived from...
Tags: Religious Conflicts, Philosophy, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Terrorism, Punishment
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Obama treats Boston bomber with kid gloves
One of the consequences of abandoning a standard by which right and wrong can be judged is our increasing inability to mete out punishment that fits the crime. In fact, too often we weigh extenuating circumstances rather than guilty actions. In the case...
Tags: National Security, Judges, September 11, 2001 Attacks, National Government, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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Boston bombing brings out the new xenophobes
The Boston Marathon bombing has brought out the xenophobes. Often when America suffers some large, inexplicable tragedy, we want to blame "foreigners" and look for ways to fortify ourselves against them. It's more reassuring to believe that an evil lies...
Tags: Migration, Lindsey O. Graham, Immigration, Court Administration, Labor Legislation
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Don't let Israel discriminate against Americans based on religion
A bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would allow a foreign country, Israel, to discriminate against select groups of American citizens — including Americans who have expressed criticism of its policies. Disappointingly, the bill, S.B....
Tags: Separation of Church and State, National Government, Personal Data Collection, Quakerism, Israel
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Chechens in U.S. feel shame, fear over Boston bombing
When Albina Digaeva, a Chechen who was granted political asylum in the United States, first learned that the Boston bombing suspects were from Chechnya, she called the California family who initially put her up when she arrived 15 years ago and...
Tags: Migration, Immigration, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Who speaks for Islam in the name of peace?
After years of conflict and killing in the Middle East, Europe and now here, I would like to know who speaks for the nonviolent Muslims? Have they a leadership or a voice that reaches the media? Do they fear reprisals by those whom they should...
Tags: Parkville
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Did PC attitude hamper FBI in Boston?
The FBI had previously been warned by the Russian government that the 26-year-old Boston bombing terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev was being radicalized ("Bombing suspect faces U.S. charges," April 23). The FBI interviewed him and then just opened the door...
Tags: Havre de Grace, Al-Qaeda, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Police Investigations, Justice System
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