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  • February 2008

    • Muhammad Cartoon Artist Now Homeless

      Der Spiegel  |  Feb 20, 08 11:11 AM CST

      Muhammad Cartoon Artist Now Homeless

      (Newser) - A Danish cartoonist who enraged the Muslim world in 2005 with his depiction of the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban is now homeless, Der Spiegel reports. Kurt Westergaard, 73, has been thrown out of his police-protected hotel room—where he was sent when authorities uncovered a plot to kill him—because he’s “too much of a security risk.” More »

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      Islam  • Denmark  • homeless  • cartoon  • Danish Mohammed cartoons  • cartoonist  • Islamic radicals  • Kurt Westergaard

  • January 2008

    • Obama Rebuttal of Muslim Slurs May Hurt, Not Help

      Wired  |  Jan 24, 08 7:30 PM CST

      Obama Rebuttal of Muslim Slurs May Hurt, Not Help

      (Newser) - Barack Obama is refuting an Internet smear campaign about his religious beliefs with a viral video campaign of his own, but social psychologists and folklore experts say the move could backfire—and instead persuade the uninitiated that the lies carry weight. Obama's campaign site enables users to send the candidate's talking points to 10 friends at once—but one professor worries the clarification “underlines the attack,” Wired reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • rumors  • Islamic radicals

  • May 2007

    • Fort Dix Terror Plot Foiled

      NBC 4 New York  |  May 8, 07 10:37 AM CDT

      Fort Dix Terror Plot Foiled

      (Newser) - Six alleged terrorists are under arrest after plotting an attack against New Jersey's Fort Dix Army Base. The men, Islamic radicals from Albania and the former Yugoslavia, had hatched a deadly (if decidedly low-tech) plan: storm the base with automatic weapons and execute as many soldiers as possible. More »

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      terrorism  • terror plots  • radical  • Islamic radicals  • Fort Dix

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