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...considered by the feds to be a dangerous terrorist. Hammoud has been convicted of using his illicit income to help fuel Hizballah, the Lebanon-based, anti-Israel terrorist army. For his crime, he faces up to 155 years in prison. Federal prosecutors are convinced he was a young extremist militant before he gained entry to the U.S. through Venezuela in 1992 with a $200 fake visa. They maintain that he stayed in the U.S. by entering into first one, and then another, phony marriage to American women - all the while still engaged to another woman in Lebanon...
...starters, according to the Homeland Security folks, there's the threat of nuclear, biological and chemical attacks, not to mention the exciting possibility of armed aggression by "hostile governments or extremist groups...
...anti-choice forces which are currently on the offensive, desperately fighting to chip away at every small reproductive right we hold dear. This December, for instance, the Bush administration appointed religious extremist David M. Hagar, MD, to the Food and Drug Administration’s reproductive health committee, a man who is notorious for prescribing biblical scriptures to cure premenstrual syndrome and for his refusal to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women. The current administration has also allotted $135 million to abstinence-only education, which not only forbids the mention of condoms by teachers except to talk about their failure...
Smith also misunderstands the purpose behind the BGLTSA’s distribution of “BGLTQ safe space” door signs. The signs were not a means of sidestepping Pappin’s argument, they were a means of turning extremist doctrine into a teachable moment. The signs did not silence Pappin or anyone else—rather, they gave students a way to publicly disagree with Pappin and to affirm their conviction that BGLTQ students are valuable members of the College community. The signs remind us that while Harvard is a fairly welcoming place for BGLTQ students...
...itinerant young Muslim men, many of them Algerian, to whom he offers shelter and anonymity. Still, the raid did leave bruised feelings in the Muslim community, despite police insistence they avoided searching the prayer hall and covered their shoes before entering the building. Omar Bakri, the founder of the extremist Al-Muhajiroun movement and a visiting preacher at Finsbury Park, calls the raid a way "to silence the Muslims before bombing Iraq." But Algerian Refugee Council founder Mohammed Sekkoum, who claims Abu Hamza is tarnishing the image of Muslims, was also unhappy. "The raid was very aggressive, a mosque...