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Nov 17 2023
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Guardian Takes Down Tik Tok-Viral Bin Laden 'Letter to America'
AFP — British newspaper The Guardian has removed from its website a 21-year-old message written by Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, after it was shared several million times on social media. Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” began being shared on TikTok on Tuesday, sparking a fierce debate about US backing for Israel in its current war against Hamas. Bin Laden was the mastermind of the September
Breitbart NewsMar 16 2024
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U.S.-ordered religious freedom group ends Saudi trip
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A U.S. group mandated by federal law cut short a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia after officials in the kingdom ordered a Jewish rabbi to remove his kippah in public, highlighting the religious tensions still present in the wider Middle East. Speaking to The Associated Press, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteAug 12 2022
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Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage before a lecture in New York
Famed author Salman Rushdie, who has endured death threats from extremists for decades, was stabbed Friday before a scheduled lecture in western New York, according to state police.
A man stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution, about 70 miles south of Buffalo, at about 11 a.m. and attacked the 75-year-old Rushdie and an interviewer, New York State Police Maj. Eugene J.
Oct 06 2023
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Alabama bins $16,000 worth of books because they were 'woke'
The Alabama Department of Education has ripped up more than $16,000 (£13,000) worth of teacher-training books because they covered LGBTQ+ and racial topics. A huge collection of the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s (NAEYC) developmentally appropriate practice books, containing a section on LGBTQ+ inclusion and equality, were destroyed. An offending excerpt from the
PinkNewsApr 18 2024
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Qatar re-evaluates key mediator role in Middle East conflict on concerns of ‘political exploitation’
Qatar is reconsidering its role as cease-fire broker between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, the Gulf state’s prime minister said, expressing concerns that Doha’s mediation has been subject to “political exploitation.”
In a late-Wednesday statement, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani “lamented the political exploitation by some politicians with narrow interests,
CNBCSep 01 2023
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Mohamed Al-Fayed, Harrods owner whose son dated Princess Diana, dead at 94
Mohamed al-Fayed, the self-made Egyptian billionaire who bought the Harrods department store and promoted the discredited conspiracy theory that the British royal family was behind the death of his son and Princess Diana, has died, Fulham Football Club said in a statement.
"On behalf of everyone at Fulham Football Club, I send my sincere condolences to the family and friends of Mohamed
ReutersNov 17 2023
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Sept. 11 families call TikTok users’ ‘sympathy’ for Osama bin Laden ‘appalling’
A furious group representing scores of 9/11 families says it is “appalling” that young TikTok users are sharing Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” and showing “sympathy” for the terror leader. “No Americans should ever not know Osama bin Laden was a terrorist who helped mastermind the murder of nearly 3,000 innocent Americans on Sept. 11, 2001,” seethed Terry Strada, national chair of 9/11
New York Post (News)Nov 16 2023
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Young Americans Go Viral on China's TikTok Spreading Ideas of Osama bin Laden
Young Americans have been going viral on the Chinese app TikTok sympathizing with Osama bin Laden and recirculating his 2002 letter in which the terrorist leader tries to justify the mass murder of Americans on September 11, 2001. Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” went viral on China’s TikTok this week among a new generation whose members were either born after September 11, 2001, or were
Breitbart NewsNov 08 2023
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After historic vote, St. Louis Park's Nadia Mohamed shares immigration story that sparked her run for mayor
It was a historic vote in St. Louis Park on Tuesday, with the city electing the state’s first Somali-American mayor, who will also be the city’s first Black mayor. Nadia Mohamed grew up in St. Louis Park and says she’s filled with pride and honor to be voted in to lead the city. “I think representation matters because it shows them that there is somebody who has similar lived experience,” the
KSTPJul 05 2023
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Alabama men’s basketball adds transfer big Mohamed Wague from West Virginia
Alabama men’s basketball has added a fourth transfer. Mohamed Wague, a 6-foot-10, 225-pound forward from West Virginia, announced his commitment on Wednesday morning. Wague is the latest player to leave the Mountaineers following the resignation of former coach Bob Huggins. Wague’s arrival gives Nate Oats a second big from the transfer cycle and another piece to reload for the 2023-24 season.
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