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Alliance between Obama and Lobbyists: To be or not to be?Rafik
from The Islamic Workplace
(2008/11/17 21:56)
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Please click here to watch the report by Campbell Brown from CNN. Has Obama already started bending one of his campaign promises?
In Transition, Ties to Lobbying
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, New York Times
WASHINGTON ? President-elect Barack Obama has imposed stricter conflict-of-interest restrictions on his White House transition team than any president before him. But a [...]
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Former Marine outlines secret dossiers on Muslims and Arabs in Southern CaliforniaRafik
from The Islamic Workplace
(2008/11/17 16:14)
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By Rick Rogers
STAFF WRITER, San Diego Union-Tribune
November 17, 2008
OCEANSIDE ? Two years after his arrest, a former Marine gunnery sergeant is talking about the FBI, CIA and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement files he stole from Camp Pendleton for a civilian agency.
Gary Maziarz, a former Marine intelligence specialist, gave secret government files to an anti-terrorism [...]
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Young Muslims and Muslimas on?Islam and the U.S. Presidential Elections?Rafik
from The Islamic Workplace
(2008/11/16 12:18)
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Please click here to watch this interesting exchange of views on “Islam and the Elections” from young Muslims and Muslimahs. In a forum at New York University, Muslim students consider how Islam was used by the McCain and Obama campaigns.
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Afghan girl begging for bread, yearning to go to school (while global leaders dine on $500 wine)Rafi
from The Islamic Workplace
(2008/11/14 12:56)
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CNN
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Little Banafsha wakes up in her small mud home, has a cup of tea and braces herself for the day ahead.
Banafsha, learning in a center run by Aschiana, an Afghan NGO, says she wants to become a teacher. She is just 11 years old but she is the breadwinner for her [...]
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Signs of Hate now demonstrate IslamophobiaRafikapartheid-signsnodogsandchineseallowedno-irish-need-a
from The Islamic Workplace
(2008/11/11 21:31)
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Rafik Beekun
Previous Signs of Hate and Discrimination
Whites Only
No Dogs And Chinese Allowed
No Irish Need Apply
Jews Not Allowed
Christians Only, Jews Not
Current Signs of Hate and Discrimnation
Muslims Nearby
Caution: Muslim Employees Ahead
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Prospective Jobs in Obama AdministrationRafik
from The Islamic Workplace
(2008/11/9 11:29)
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A website (www.change.gov) is designed to provide prospective applicants with information to help them apply for positions in the Obama-Biden Administration
This website is designed to provide prospective applicants with information to help them apply for positions in the Obama-Biden Administration. President-Elect Obama will make appointments throughout the federal government. Some positions will require Senate confirmation while [...]
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Key Obama Advisor Has Hindu Extremist Baggage from Vishwa Hindu Parishad of AmericaRafik
from The Islamic Workplace
(2008/11/8 11:51)
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For all the talk of change and hope, one of the first thing that Obama did after getting elected was appoint Sonal Shah, a right wing Hindu extremist figure, as a key advisor to his transition team. Folks may be aware that it is Hindu extremist groups such as the VHP and its student wing [...]
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Obama?s Israeli Advisor, Rahm Emanuel, Is His New White House Chief of StaffRafik
from The Islamic Workplace
(2008/11/8 11:41)
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Note from Rafik Beekun: Obama has just appointed Raham Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff. He holds a dual US/Israeli citizenship, and has served in Israel’s army, the IDF. His father was a member of the Zionist organization, the IRGUN, led by Menachem Begin. Rahm is abrasive according to people who know him and Congressmen, and [...]
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Islam and Obama: American Muslims overwhelmingly voted DemocraticRafik
from The Islamic Workplace
(2008/11/8 11:35)
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Lorraine Ali
NEWSWEEK http://www.newsweek.com/id/168062
For the past few months, not a day went by without the words “Muslim” and “Obama” being mentioned in the same sentence. From the divisive shouts and jeers at McCain rallies to the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times to an interview with Colin Powell on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Muslims?or [...]
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The Extremists Behind the?Obsession?MovieRafik
from The Islamic Workplace
(2008/10/28 8:43)
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Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
27 Oct 2008 09:45 am
I’ve only watched the 12-minute version of “Obsession,” the film sent to more than 28 million people in various swing states, apparently by associates and partisans of the Jewish movement known as Aish HaTorah, or “Fire of the Torah,” but it was enough for to understand that it [...]
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