Campus extremism request rejected
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Lecturers have voted unanimously to boycott government plans to tackle extremism on college campuses.
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Comment is free: Jonathan Aitken: A row over 'theological extremism' at an Oxford college seems little more than a personality clash.
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Sudanese rebel leaders&#39; demand that Islam be kept out of government in the war-torn region of Darfur, has been rejected by government negotiators.
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A union of British academics voted unanimously to reject a government plan to tackle Islamic extremism in universities, likening the initiative to "witch hunts" that would single out Muslim students.
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A record number of university applications have been cancelled because students presented fake qualifications.
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NEWARK -- The US government rejected a request yesterday from Muslim groups to draw up a list of Islamic charities to which they could donate without being suspected of terrorist ties.
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An application for an adjournment of David Morris' appeal against four life terms for murdering an entire family, is rejected.
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The government has rejected a prominent Muslim scholar's application to enter the country, contending that he gave support to a terrorist group, but his attorneys allege the U.S. is using charitable donations he made as a pretext for stifling his views.
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district's appeal of a ruling that it violated a student's rights by censoring his anti-Bush T-shirt.
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MPs and peers say Parliament is being denied a proper chance to debate new anti-terror laws.
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A Pennsylvania school district on  Wednesday rejected charges that plans to include references to  an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution in high school  biology classes would be illegal.
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The archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday called for a limited application of Islamic law in Britain. Muslims praised the proposal but the government rejected it
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A bid to grant Dutch citizenship to Holocaust victim Anne Frank some 60 years after her death has been rejected by the country&#39;s justice ministry.
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A federal judge denied a request by two groups protesting the Republican National Convention to force New York City officials to allow a rally of as many as 75,000 people on the Great Lawn of New York&#39;s Central Park Saturday.
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies. Now experts say the Sept. 11 attacks have put new fire in the battle over just where academic freedom ends and misconduct &#151; or even treason &#151; begins.
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The Media and Society Research Group of Cornell University conducted a survey in November of Americans with respect to their attitudes towards Muslims.  Nearly half (44%) of respondents favored restricting the civil rights of Muslims in some way.    The press release, with links to the report, is available at http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&amp;STORY=/www/story/12-17  -2004/0002639656&amp;EDATE=