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May 08, 2007	For Some Muslim Wives, Abuse Knows No Borders: Traditional Pressures Can Persist in U.S. QUOTE: Domestic abuse is hardly unique to Muslim immigrant communities; it is a sad fact of life in families of all backgrounds and origins. Yet, according to social workers, Islamic clerics and women's advocates, women from Muslim-majority cultures face extra pressure to submit to violent husbands and intense social ostracism if they muster the courage to file charges or flee.	Washington Post
May 07, 2007	English-only workplaces spark lawsuits QUOTE: Employers may legally adopt an English-only speaking rule if they can show it is a business necessity .... But Ronna Timpa, owner of Workplace ESL Solutions in Henderson, Nev., says employers go too far in adopting strict policies that prevent co-workers from talking in their native language even during lunch.	USA TODAY
May 01, 2007	In imams' airline case, a clash of rights, prejudice, security: A lawsuit brought by six imams who were removed from a flight raises issues about other passengers voicing complaints. QUOTE: The October incident sparked outrage among civil libertarians, Muslim-Americans, and others who thought it was un-American for five US citizens and a legal resident, who'd all been thoroughly screened by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), to be suddenly taken off the plane as it sat at the gate because their behavior and Middle Eastern appearance frightened a few passengers.	Christian Science Monitor
Apr 21, 2007	Groups decry labor abuses at `mercado' markets: CAMPAIGN WILL INFORM WORKERS OF THEIR RIGHTS QUOTE: Scores of California workers employed in small neighborhood stores in Latino and Asian communities are enduring abuse in the workplace - unpaid wages, long hours without breaks, verbal and sexual abuse...a coalition of labor unions and civil rights organizations Friday launched a statewide campaign to educate workers about their rights, and employers about their legal obligations.	San Jose Mercury News
Feb 09, 2007	Anti-immigrant sentiments fuel Ku Klux Klan resurgence: Long stuck in splintered obscurity, the group is seeing an increase in activity and a return to its nativist origins QUOTE: Gay marriage and urban crime are part of the picture. But, in particular, it is the debate over what to do about the nation's nearly 35 million immigrants, of whom about 11 million are in the US illegally, that has become the Klan's main recruiting tool.	Christian Science Monitor
Feb 03, 2007	In Va. House, 'Profound Regret' on Slavery: Delegates Unanimously Pass Resolution of Contrition About State's Role QUOTE: The House of Delegates unanimously approved a resolution Friday expressing "profound regret" for Virginia's role in the slave trade, a significant act of contrition by a body that used to start the day with a salute that symbolized the state's Confederate heritage. The resolution, one of several that lawmakers are considering as part of the 400th anniversary celebration of the founding of Jamestown, is one of the biggest steps any state has taken in offering remorse for the enslavement of millions of Africans and Caribbean islanders during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.	Washington Post
Jan 30, 2007	In Bolivia, Speaking Up For Native Languages: Government Push Is Plagued by Controversy QUOTE: After announcing last year that all government employees would have to undergo indigenous language training, Morales's administration sought to require it of public school children as well, no matter where they lived. The proposal riled many in the parts of Bolivia that have little connection to indigenous communities, areas such as the eastern lowlands, where words spoken in Quechua and Aymara are often heard as threats to a way of life.	Washington Post
Jan 29, 2007	In First, Arab Muslim Joins Israeli Cabinet QUOTE: Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved the first Arab Muslim minister of the Jewish state, a milestone marked here mostly by bitter criticism of what many lawmakers viewed as a politically motivated selection....Israel's approximately 1 million non-Druze Arab citizens, whose families remained in Israel after its founding in 1948 and make up almost a fifth of the population, do not serve in the military and face barriers to owning land and securing equal public services.	Washington Post
Nov 03, 2006	Immigration crackdown debated: A lawsuit this week claims that a 'get tough' raid in Georgia crossed a line. QUOTE: the Southern Poverty Law Center claims the constitutional rights of six US citizens were violated by overzealous agents during the...raids.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 23, 2006	Stricter Policy Splits West Bank Families: Americans Who Live There Denied Visas QUOTE: a change in Israeli policy that has left thousands of U.S. citizens of Palestinian descent locked out of the occupied territories where they work, invest and have families.	Washington Post
Oct 20, 2006	Taking on the veil: West looks to assimilation QUOTE: The longer the cultural dissonance generated by 9/11, the "war on terror," and suicide attacks ensues, the harder it is getting to ignore the semidetached status of Muslim communities.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 08, 2006	Sectarian Havoc Freezes the Lives of Young Iraqis QUOTE: Three and a half years after the American invasion, the relentless violence that has disfigured much of Iraqi society is hitting young Iraqis in new ways.	New York Times
Sep 20, 2006	Georgia Law Requiring Voters to Show Photo ID Is Thrown Out: Judge Says Some Would Be Disenfranchised; State Plans Appeal QUOTE: A state judge yesterday rejected a Georgia law requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification...the law, pushed by Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) to fight voter fraud, violates the state constitution because it disenfranchises citizens who are otherwise qualified to vote.	Washington Post
Aug 30, 2006	In Chechen's Humiliation, Questions on Rule of Law QUOTE: Chechen security forces brutish acts, such as the torture of a woman accused of adultery, have gone unpunished...Mr. Kadyrov said that his units were being professionalized and that the armed men under his command integrated into formal government structures.	New York Times
Aug 26, 2006	In South Central L.A., a Hospital Fights for Its Life: Medical Center Born Out of Watts Riots Tries to Save Its Accreditation After Years of Deteriorating Care, Administrative Neglect QUOTE: A storied hospital, born out of the ashes of the iconic Watts riots of 1965 and a symbol of the promise of black political power, is on life support, and a federal agency could soon pull the plug.....county officials predict a health crisis across this county of 10 million people...	Washington Post
Aug 19, 2006	Mohels to Mozambique: The case for genital mutilation QUOTE: The strongest argument against circumcising babies to prevent HIV is that they're too young to consent, and they won't be at risk for the virus till they're grown. But we vaccinate babies all the time. Should we treat circumcision like a vaccine?	Slate
Aug 14, 2006	Muslims in India 'Targeted With Suspicion': Residents of Thriving Bombay District Describe Rising Tension in Wake of Train Bombings QUOTE: in the wake of the devastating July 11 train bombings in Bombay...residents here say they feel fingers of suspicion and hate pointing at all Muslims, not just jobless slum youths and bearded students from Islamic radical groups.	Washington Post
Aug 11, 2006	Commentary: What really bothers immigration foes: Immigration restrictionists can be so dishonest. QUOTE: They insisted that they aren't motivated by racism and that they have no problem with immigrants, if they are here legally...Now we learn otherwise in light of the opposition to a middle-ground immigration reform plan proposed by two anti-amnesty, pro-border security Republicans.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Aug 10, 2006	Voter Suppression in Missouri QUOTE: Missouri’s new ID rules — and similar ones adopted last year in Indiana and Georgia — are intended to deter voting by blacks, poor people and other groups that are less likely to have driver’s licenses.	New York Times
Aug 10, 2006	Kyrgyz Deportations Draw U.N. Rebuke: Five Who Fled 2005 Uzbek Crackdown Could Face Abuse, Refugee Official Says QUOTE: Five people who fled the Uzbek city of Andijan to neighboring Kyrgyzstan last year during a deadly government crackdown were turned over to Uzbekistan on Wednesday. The decision drew swift condemnation from the United Nations and human rights groups...their deportation violated international law.	Washington Post
Jul 25, 2006	Flexible Rules Are Urged in Detention of Travelers QUOTE: The Department of Homeland Security must take steps to curtail the repeated interrogation of people at international airports or border posts simply because their names resemble those of terror suspects...	New York Times
Jul 20, 2006	Dueling views on home lending discrimination QUOTE: when it comes to most types of high-priced home loans...black and Hispanic borrowers were more than 30 percent more likely to receive expensive subprime home loans than their white peers with similar finances.	Bankrate.com
Jul 19, 2006	Backlash emerges against Latino culture: The influx of immigrants has some cities and towns restricting taco stands and Spanish speakers. QUOTE: In resisting the sudden and growing influence of Latino culture, some cities and towns across America are requiring the use of English and restricting culinary mores and even the Hispanic tradition of sitting on the front porch.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 06, 2006	A Taliban Past, and a Cloudy Yale Future QUOTE: A student at Yale University who was once a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been denied admission to a degree-granting program...	New York Times
Jun 06, 2006	High court to examine race-balancing schools: Louisville, Ky., and Seattle districts promote diversity by using race to determine where students attend. QUOTE: the US Supreme Court has agreed to consider to what extent race may be used to balance white and nonwhite enrollment in public schools...the high court agreed to examine cases involving two school districts attempting to maintain racially integrated schools.	Christian Science Monitor
Feb 25, 2006	Killing in France Seen as 'Wake-Up Call': Anti-Semitism Blamed in Kidnapping, Torture of 23-Year-Old Salesman QUOTE: Many have cited the torture and reports that the gang's suspected leader was later arrested in a Muslim neighborhood in Ivory Coast, in West Africa. In a country that experienced a surge in anti-Semitic attacks, most of them blamed on Muslims, in the first years of the current Palestinian uprising against Israel, top politicians have rallied to publicly condemn the crime.	Washington Post
Dec 18, 2005	In New Orleans, No Easy Work for Willing Latinos: Much Is to Be Done, but Pay, Conditions Are Grim QUOTE: For Arturo and countless Latinos, many of them also in the country illegally, flooded-out New Orleans has not turned out to be a modern-day El Dorado, where the streets are paved with gold. Instead, they have often been abandoned without transportation or shelter by the contractors who brought them to the city. They have struggled to find employment and been paid less than they were promised -- or not at all -- when they can find work.	Washington Post
Dec 13, 2005	Justices To Review DeLay-Led Districting: Texas Plan Has Been Called Discriminatory QUOTE: The court will hear challenges from Democrats and minority groups who say that the mid-decade redistricting unlawfully diluted the strength of minority voters, injected undue partisanship into the congressional map and violated the concept of one person, one vote by drawing district lines with outdated census data.	Washington Post
May 28, 2005	Gold Star Mothers Bar Noncitizen QUOTE: Everyone agrees that Ligaya Lagman of Westchester, N.Y., is a Gold Star mother...But the American Gold Star Mothers have rejected her for membership because -- though a permanent resident and a taxpayer -- she is not a U.S. citizen.	Washington Post
Mar 25, 2005	World divided on ethics of Terri Schiavo case QUOTE: From the Netherlands, where euthanasia and assisted suicides are legal and common, to India, where no doctor is allowed to deny lifesaving treatment to any patient, no matter how hopeless, governments are struggling to draft ethical and practical laws governing so-called mercy killing.	Christian Science Monitor
Feb 10, 2005	Detainees Accuse Female Interrogators: Pentagon Inquiry Is Said to Confirm Muslims' Accounts of Sexual Tactics at Guantanamo QUOTE: Female interrogators repeatedly used sexually suggestive tactics to try to humiliate and pry information from devout Muslim men held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay...	Washington Post
Nov 02, 2004	G.O.P. in Ohio Can Challenge Voters at Polls QUOTE: a Federal appeals court ruled early Tuesday morning that the Republican Party could place thousands of people inside polling places to challenge the eligibility of voters, a blow to Democrats who argued those challengers will intimidate minority voters.	New York Times
Mar 17, 2004	Bans on Interracial Unions Offer Perspective on Gay Ones QUOTE: "...legal scholars say that an examination of the last wrenching national debate over the definition of marriage when, only 50 years ago, a majority of states banned interracial marriages demonstrates that the president misunderstood the legal terrain."	New York Times
Nov 06, 2003	U.S. Detains Relatives of Suspects in Iraq Attacks: Military Denies Claims That It Takes Hostages QUOTE: As the U.S. military searches for tactics to break an escalating guerrilla war...few occurrences have unleashed more anger and etched deeper the cultural divide than several recent arrests of wanted men's relatives...	Washington Post
Sep 12, 2003	Iraqi Shiite Calls Police Policy Unfair QUOTE: Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the main Shiite political group and a member of the Governing Council, lashed out today at the occupation authorities for failing to integrate former Shiite militia members into the police force.	New York Times
Jun 01, 2003	Staffing the Homeland QUOTE: U.S. intelligence and security agencies are hoping to people the ranks with some cross-cultural emissaries who might serve as a buffer between the gray-suited old guard and the unknown "other."	ColorLines Magazine
Jan 19, 2002	Saudi Arabia's Apartheid (Cont'd) QUOTE: The U.S. fast-food industry's obeisance to "separate but equal" gender segregation in Saudi Arabia is as steadfast as the adherence of white southern restaurant owners to racial segregation before the practice was outlawed.	Washington Post
Jan 07, 2002	The Air Force Flier in the Ointment: Martha McSally's Garb in Saudi Arabia Chafed, So She Pressed a Lawsuit QUOTE: Officials said they had constructed the [gender-specific] policy to keep from offending conservative Saudi leaders and to protect U.S. troops from terrorist attacks. But to McSally, the directive, with its different instructions for men and women, "abandons our American values that we all raised our right hand to die for."	Washington Post
Dec 23, 2001	A Coming Together We Must Take On Faith QUOTE: ...challenging Islam's doctrine of dhimmi -- which grants protected but second-class status to Christians and Jews under Muslim rule....premised on submission to Muslim sovereignty, is hardly an adequate response in a pluralistic world.	Washington Post
Dec 17, 2001	'Suffering' Middle Class Cheers Plan to Cut Maids' Pay QUOTE: It's been a tough year for Hong Kong....Now the government is mulling a novel step to make life a little easier for the people of this special Chinese territory: a cut in the salaries of their maids.	Washington Post
Oct 22, 2001	Sinn Fein Asks I.R.A. Leaders to Disarm QUOTE: Leaders of the Sinn Fein party urged their allies in the Irish Republican Army on Monday to begin disarming to save the peace process in Northern Ireland.	New York Times
Sep 24, 2001	War On Terrorism Stirs Memory of Internment QUOTE: The Bush administration's proposals for increased law enforcement powers to fight terrorism are provoking a debate about whether American courts would repeat the kinds of rulings that restricted the civil rights of Japanese-Americans during World War II....experts say the reasoning of the 1944 ruling could permit limits on the civil liberties of Arab immigrants and even some Americans of Arab descent.	New York Times
Aug 12, 2001	A Retreat to the Familiar Ground of Zionism QUOTE: Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has observed recently that under the influence of Palestinian terror Israel has moved from post-Zionism to "post-post Zionism," meaning a retreat into the past....	New York Times
Aug 10, 2001	I.R.A. Offers to Put Arms 'Beyond Use,' to No Avail QUOTE: ...the Irish Republican Army offered publicly today to put its arsenal of explosives, rifles and mortars "completely and verifiably beyond use."	New York Times
Aug 10, 2001	Unrest Intensifies in Struggle to Control Zimbabwe Farms QUOTE: With the government vowing to step up its seizures of white-owned farms and Western countries weighing punitive steps, tension has flared across Zimbabwe in recent days...	New York Times
Aug 09, 2001	Macedonians Give Initial Approval to a Peace Agreement QUOTE: The leaders of this nation's sorely divided ethnic communities put their initials today on a peace plan that commits Macedonia to step back from war and toward greater political and cultural rights for ethnic Albanians...	New York Times
Aug 09, 2001	Irish Peace At a Crossroads QUOTE: ...since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the bare-knuckled unionist and republican fighters have slugged it out instead of building foundations for peace.	New York Times
Aug 08, 2001	After Protest, British Halt Screening of Travelers in Prague QUOTE: British immigration officers screening travelers at Prague's international airport will be withdrawn...accused them of racial bias by deliberately preventing Czech Gypsies from traveling to Britain	New York Times
Jul 08, 2001	I.R.A. Guns and the Irish Impasse QUOTE: ...promise from all parties to bring about the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons by May 22, 2000, the third anniversary of the Irish referendum on the agreement, which overwhelmingly endorsed it.	New York Times
Jul 07, 2001	Social Warming: Japan's Disabled Gain New Status QUOTE: ...the establishment of a program at Tokyo University, Japan's oldest, most prestigious such institution, represented a watershed for the disabled.	New York Times

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