Arabic at NYC school creates controversy
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A public school in New York that will teach Arabic language and culture opened Tuesday amid accusations that it will impose a radical Islamist agenda in its classrooms.
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Lawmakers who say the military has kicked out 58 Arabic language experts because they were gay want the Pentagon to explain how it can afford to let the valuable specialists go
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U.S. News & World Report - BERLIN--Told that she couldn't sit in on religion classes for the Muslim students at Rixdorfer Elementary School, Marion Berning went into the classroom anyway on the pretext of fixing a window. What she found stunned and angered her. The teacher was saying that "women are for the house, for the children. And the girls were sitting like this," she says, placing her hands in her lap, slumping her shoulders in an imitation of a meek posture, and casting her eyes downward. "While all of the boys," she is yelling now, "they were talking and playing. This is fundamentalism.  ...
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A faculty panel has been appointed to investigate claims of intimidation of Jewish students by pro-Palestinian professors.
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Can angry young Muslims dictate what is and is not acceptable in the traditionally open-minded world of Dutch arts? In the last few weeks, it appears, the answer has been yes.
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ALBANY, N.Y.  - Angry and saddened, members of a  Muslim community in New York state's capital have been staying  away from their mosque for fear of being labeled terrorists as  they await a bail hearing on Tuesday for two men accused of  supporting terrorism.
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Israel cites some doubts, but Arabs say their advice is now being heard.
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An Arab-American comedy troupe tries to get the Middle East laughing over some of the things it often fights about
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An Italian school's substitution of a Nativity play with Little Red Riding Hood so as not to offend Muslim children has raised the Vatican's ire and sparked debate on how much traditions should change to accommodate immigrants.
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Education officials' plan to convert a landmark into a school is irking those intent on preserving the building's past.
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An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks because of its representations of Muhammad.
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Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed.
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US prosecutors have found a possible translation error in a key piece of evidence against two leaders of an upstate New York mosque accused of supporting terrorism, US officials said on Wednesday.
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Language tensions overshadow the new school year in Moldova's breakaway Trans-dniester region.
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GERMANY FRANKFURT -- Frankfurt police have seized several Arabic books at the world's biggest book fair after complaints that they breached a German ban on anti-Semitic writing, a director of the fair said yesterday. It was unclear precisely which and how many books were taken off the stands. The Frankfurt Book Fair is giving a special showcase this year to ...
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Sol Stern, New York Cityâs cantankerous provocateur against liberal education policies, is relishing the controversy surrounding his recent reversal on the school voucher issue.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they used a mistaken translation of a key piece of evidence last week in a terror case against two Muslims from Albany, New York.