COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Denmark’s leading newspapers have reprinted a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad that triggered rioting in Muslim countries two years ago.
The cartoon depicts the prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.
The newspapers say they republished the drawing to show their commitment to freedom of speech after last [...]

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BERKELEY, Calif.   Local officials in this liberal city say it’s time for the U.S. Marines to move out.
The City Council has voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and “if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests.”
The measure passed this week by a vote of 8-1. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327347,00.html http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_8120433?source=rss
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ABaltimore jury struck a blow for human decency this week when it awarded nearly $11 million to the father of a soldier killed in Iraq whose funeral was violated by a cruel and callous protest.
The federal jury determined that a religious group that exploits such private moments of grieving to call attention to its opposition [...]

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about time…
A federal jury ruled Wednesday that a fundamentalist Kansas church was wrong to protest the funeral of a fallen Marine in Maryland. The jury awarded $2.9 million to the family of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq. It found that the Westboro Baptist Church invaded the family’s privacy and intentionally inflicted [...]

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Closing arguments heard in civil suit targeting Kansas church’s anti-gay picketing
The father of a young Westminster man killed in Iraq wept repeatedly in Baltimore federal court this morning as a jury watched video images of how members of a Kansas church picketed the Marine’s funeral to protest the military’s inclusion of homosexuals.
The weeklong civil trial [...]

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Father testifies in lawsuit against Kan. church that sent pickets to son’s Westminster service
The father of a Marine killed in Iraq took the stand yesterday in his invasion-of-privacy suit against a fundamentalist church that pickets soldiers’ funerals, saying that protesters carrying signs at his son’s burial made him sick to his stomach.
Albert Snyder said he [...]

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Judge cuts scope of trial about protest at Marine’s funeral
The father claimed protesters destroyed his only chance to bury in peace the son he lost in Iraq. The picketers who carried signs with such messages as “Thank God for dead soldiers” countered they were only trying to oppose gays in the military.
After the two sides [...]

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(CNN) — The public editor for The New York Times slammed his employer Sunday in a column, saying the newspaper violated its policies by cutting MoveOn.org a deal on a controversial ad criticizing the top U.S. military commander in Iraq.
“I think the ad violated The Times’ own written standards, and the paper now says that [...]

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Betty Kilbride just returned from investigating the damage to the Vietnam Wall. As evidenced by the following pictures, starting from the east 11 panels and 30 of the base guards were vandalized with some form of liquid substance. From the way it was apparently sprayed, it looks like it might have been from one of those [...]

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Join the “Fight for Victory Tour” - a historic cross-country, pro-troop caravan with 27-pro troop rallies from September 3rd - 15th.
At each rally we’ll be collecting from you cards and letters of support for our wounded warriors at military medical facilities where our brave troops are recovering from war injuries.
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