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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) – The U.S. relaunches Israeli-Palestinian talks this week, its third push over the past decade to solve one of the world’s most intractable conflicts–and this time under some of the most difficult conditions yet. The gaps

From Journeyman Pictures: “Though they would eventually kidnap him, the Taliban granted journalist Paul Refsdal unprecedented access. This exclusive documentary shows us a side of the Taliban that we have never seen before.” [youtube X_ON_LG5EGY nolink]

An alarming, must-see video at Big Peace shows prominent leaders of the Islamic community in the United States openly raising money for terrorism at a Saudi-funded mosque in central Florida. Organized by the Islamic Society of Central Florida’s Imam Muhammad

Caption and photo from Agence France Presse: Picture received from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on August 26, shows former US president Jimmy Carter (L) shaking hands with Kim Yong-Nam, president of North Korean People’s Assembly and number

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[youtube koojVkE32MQ nolink] Big Peace contributor Andrea Lafferty appeared on the Janet Mefferd Show when she learned about ABC News’ official statement admitting that their free-lance employee was guilty of wrongdoing at last Sunday’s Ground Zero Mosque demonstration. Story background

Photo via Atlas Shrugs.

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In the age of viral video, public utterances are put under a microscope and opening up forums so people can rabble-rouse for your cause can backfire as fast as a DSL modem can load something up to YouTube. In this

Via Atlas Shrugs: [youtube awISCKJzVtE nolink] “We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non Muslims… “What complicates the discussion, intra-Islamically, is

Stallone, though, doesn’t apologize for creating characters that are proud Americans and offers the observation that: “America apologizes too much.”

Tonight, Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans hosts a fundraiser for California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown at her home in Venice, California. Feel free to drop by. Source: Photo taken by Big Peace Associate Editor Alexander Marlow at a Code Pink

[youtube qmZ0Qmqn3Wo nolink] In a 2004 lecture on his book “What is Right With Islam,” Feisal Abdul Rauf discusses how Sharia law is very similar to the founding principles of America.

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The Coalition to Honor Ground Zero released a statement announcing a major protest in Lower Manhattan this Sunday, August 22: Join construction workers, firefighters, veterans, 9/11 families and first responders, human rights leaders, and residents of the Ground Zero neighborhood

[youtube fIlCiX0LIqA nolink] The board members of Keep America Safe, Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol and Debra Burlingame announce the release of “We Remember,” an ad featuring first responders and family members of the victims of the terrorist attacks of 9/11

Update: Rauf’s gang at the Cordoba Initiative tried to make their hidden website disappear. Of course, they weren’t successful; we’ve got the PDFs (here and here). And A Note to Rauf and the “Shariah Index Project”: We always get PDFs.

UPDATE: Andrew Bostom, Big Peace contributor and author of The Islamic Legacy of Antisemitism and The Legacy of Jihad, writes in to comment on Mr. Smith’s piece: Mr. Smith says: “In Muslim history there were at least six major Sunni

From Byron York in today’s Washington Examiner: There’s a new argument emerging among supporters of the Ground Zero mosque. Distressed by President Obama’s waffling on the issue, they’re calling on former President George W. Bush to announce his support for

Never forget this defining moment in the Obama presidency: But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes

CBS is reporting some strange noises coming out of New York tonight. Seems that Governor David Paterson is still thinking about a “compromise” that would allow the people behind the Ground Zero Mosque– and its Shariah Index Project— to relocate

From the indispensable MEMRI blog: In an August 16, 2010 column in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, ‘Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, Al-Arabiya TV director-general and the paper’s former editor, criticized President Obama for supporting the construction of the Cordoba House mosque

Politico’s Maggie Haberman reports on the continuing political fallout from the campaign to erect a mosque near Ground Zero: After almost total silence from New York elected officials over the weekend after President Obama’s mosque speech (in which some members

While Mayor Bloomberg and so many others in this great land believe that establishing a mosque two hundred yards from Ground Zero is the most compassionate thing Americans can do at this time, we direct your attention to this stunning

UPDATE: A New York Daily News correspondent reports the Hareetz story is untrue: UPDATE from our Sam Goldsmith, who’s been following this issue and just got off the phone with Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of the project: “That’s complete misinformation.

One obvious question for those who support the Ground Zero mosque has been, “Do you think the terrorists support it?” In other words, will the radical Muslim terrorists consider it a victory if they see a Mosque established a 4-iron

If you don’t tear up watching this….something is very wrong with you. [youtube uSMlIM9zLio nolink]

These images are very disturbing, but offer a inside look at what life is like in the Stalinist paradise known as North Korea. [youtube ITBqRSMBWaM nolink]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed building a mosque near ground zero, saying the country’s founding principles demanded no less. “As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice

Carlo Kopp reports in The Diplomat: “The recent deployment of China’s first four indigenous KJ-2000 AWACS aircraft marks an important milestone in the PLA Air Force’s long march from being a ‘numbers intensive’ low technology force, to a much more