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Taxi driver Mohamed Salim (Video still via NBC Washington)

Taxi driver claims he was attacked because he is Muslim

Richard Jordan, NBC Washington
WASHINGTON - Lawyers for a taxi driver who says he was targeted for attack because he is Muslim want to pursue hate crime charges. News4's Richard Jordan reports...
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In this March 2, 2011, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, left, and his son Mustapha Farrakhan, are seen during ceremonies honoring Virginia seniors, including Mustapha's son, at an NCAA college basketball game in Charlottesville, Va. An Illiniois state law enforcement agency is investigating Mustapha Farrakhan after a newspaper determined he is a part-time suburban police officer who uses an unmarked squad car to provide traffic control for his father, an official said Monday April 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Illinois police agency investigating Farrakhan son

Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - A state law enforcement agency is investigating the son of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan after a newspaper determined he is a part-time suburban police officer who uses an unmarked squad car to provide traffic control for his father, an official said Monday....
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This combination of undated file photos shows Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. The FBI says the two brothers are the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, and are also responsible for killing an MIT police officer, critically injuring a transit officer in a firefight and throwing explosive devices at police during a getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left Tamerlan dead and Dzhokhar captured, late Friday, April 19, 2013.

Why the race of Boston bombing suspects matters

James Braxton Peterson
OPINION - I can’t help but wonder, that if the Tsarnaev brothers were black, particularly the elder, Tamerlane, could he have eluded detection, surveillance, and suspicion for as long as he did?...
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This Monday, April 15, 2013, shows a man who was dubbed Suspect No. 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings by law enforcement, in the upper center of the frame, wearing a white baseball cap, walking away from the scene of the explosions. (AP Photo/David Green)

Boston bomb suspect charged; religious motive seen

David Crary and Denise Lavoie, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) - The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by a radical brand of Islam but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. officials said after interrogating and charging surviving brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with crimes that could bring the death penalty...
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A man pauses at the makeshift memorial on Boylston Street to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing April 17, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston continues to return to normal, as businesses and streets are reopened following two bomb explosions at the finish line of the marathon that killed 3 people and injured over a hundred more. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)

Muslims fear profiling in Boston bombing's wake

Zaheer Ali
ESSAY - The overwhelming majority of Muslims in America is as law-abiding as any other religious group, and has repeatedly denounced terrorism...
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President Barack Obama (C) talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C, R) as Israeli President Shimon Peres (C, L) looks on during a welcoming ceremony on his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport on March 20, 2013 near Tel Aviv, Israel. This will be Obama's first visit as President to the region, and his itinerary will include meetings with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. (photo by Ilia Yefimovich/Getty images)

Obama's relationship with Israel: Was it doomed from day 1?

David A. Love
OPINION - Unfortunately, the birther and Tea Party conspiracy theorists—which include members of the radical lunatic fringe and hate groups—have penetrated the mainstream of U.S. public opinion...
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Ibrahim Abdul-Matin (Photo: Lila Garnett)

theGrio's 100: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, merging Islam with environmentalism

theGrio
theGRIO'S 100 - Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, 36, is the author of 'Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting The Planet'...
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Hamza and Husain Abdullah (Video still via NBC's Rock Center)

Muslim brothers put NFL on hold, travel to Mecca

Brian Brown, NBC's Rock Center
ROCK CENTER - Put simply, this is just another striving, improbable, poetic American Dream story: How a family, venerating work and education, traveled from South Central LA to settle in Spielberg Americana in the shadow of the soaring San Bernardino Mountains...
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(Photo Credit: Gawker)

Texas church sign: 'Vote for the Mormon not the Muslim!'

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - As the presidential election heats up, political opinions are turning up in odd places...
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Madonna performs during the MDNA Tour at Yankee Stadium on September 6, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Cory Schwartz/Getty Images)

Madonna backs 'black Muslim' in White House

Chris Witherspoon
theGRIO REPORT - At a concert in Washington, D.C. last night Madonna went on rant where she called Obama 'a black Muslim'...
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