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• AP Calls Mexican Racist Group "Mainstream"

  Published: September 10, 2007, 7:31 pm

  Tags: Racism, La Raza, The Associated Press, Government Amp Amp Press

  La Raza organization of Hispanics could hardly be more racist. La Raza means The Race the Mexican race. But are they ever criticized for that? Not that I have heard. In fact, we read below in the Left-leaning Associated Press that La Raza is a mainstream advocacy group . Charlie Norwood, a congressman from

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• Fatwa against Salman Khan for idol worship

  Published: September 20, 2007, 8:12 am

  Tags: Bollywood News, Fatwa, Ifta, Bareilly, Mufti, Manzar, Islam, Idol, Raza

  Bollywood star Salman Khan is once again in trouble following issuance of a fatwa by Ifta-Manzar-e-Islam of Bareilly against idol worship. Mufti Fakir Qadri Mohammad Farukh Gafrutula had issued the fatwa early this week on behalf the Ifta-Manzar-e-Islam on worshipping of idols by any Muslim. The Mufti, while talking to UNI from Bareilly, stressed

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• AP: La Raza Is Civil Rights Group, Minutemen Are Vigilantes

  Published: September 21, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Double Standards, Fact Checking, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, La Raza, Naacp, Race Issues, Racial Issues, Frances Semler, Maria Sudekum Fisher, Associated Press, Journalistic Issues, Non Political Bias

  So Fisher refers to La Raza - an organization that promotes the advancement of one race over another- as a civil rights group, but allows La Raza to frame the Minutemen as an 'extremist group'. Since Fisher apparently cannot be bothered to perform any real research, I shall assist her. La Raza is a Spanish word meaning 'The Race'. The

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• Mahabharata scriptwriter Rahi Masoom Raza passes away

  Published: November 5, 2007, 11:48 am

  Tags: Bollywood News, Raza, Mahabharata, Ghazipur, Rahi, Masoom, 1968

  Masoom Raza, the Muslim scriptwriter of popular Hindi serial Mahabharata and many other famous Bollywood movies, passed away at Mumbai’s Nanavati Hospital on Thursday following a brief illness. He was in his early eighties. Also known as Ali Raza, he was hospitalised a week ago. A Muslim by religion, Raza captivated millions of Hindus

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• Political Talk Defies Ban in Pakistan

  Published: November 25, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Political, Talk, Defies, Ban, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Hamid Mir, Islamabad, Imran Khan, Talat Hussain, Dubai, Ayaz Amir, Mohsin Raza, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, United Arab Emirates

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 24 -- Pakistan's popular TV talk shows, once touted by the government as proof of democratic progress but now banned from broadcasting, took to the streets this week, drawing enthusiastic crowds around a sidewalk stage that replicates a studio set and engaging politicians...

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• When exactly did MLK Day become Race Day?

  Published: January 21, 2008, 11:36 am

  Tags: African American, La Raza

  Why would organizers of the Martin Luther King Unity Breakfast choose the president and chief executive officer of the National Council of Race (a Mexican supremacist group) to be the main guest speaker? Read more.

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• Depriving Hannity, Dobbs, Glenn Beck of Free Speech Rights? No Worries at the NYT

  Published: February 1, 2008, 2:37 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Censorship, Culture Society, Immigration, La Raza, Racism, Ariel Alxovich, Glenn Beck, Janet Murguia, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, New York Times

  the National Council of La Raza (meaning 'the people'), also has asked Mike Huckabee to renounce the endorsement of Jim Gilchrist, a co-founder of the Minuteman Project, a private organization dedicated to preventing people from illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border." Actually, "La Raza" translates to "The Race," a

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• What dressing u want

  Published: February 5, 2008, 9:45 am

  Tags: S 1348, La Raza, Pat Buchanan, Nra, Glen Beck, Janet Murguia, Cnn, Lou Dobbs

  down. She is the current La Raza President and CEO. I mean she made me see that Lou did not ever, really distinguish from Illegal and legal immigrants, He even tried to refute FBI and department of justice statistics showing an increase in hate crimes against immigrants, Hispanics, Latinos.What upset me was when he made it into an attack on him,

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• Look in the Mirror

  Published: February 1, 2008, 2:06 pm

  Tags: La Raza, Illegal Immigration

  the National Council of La Raza. Here is yet another example of La Raza refusing to look in the mirror.The country's leading Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization is set to begin a campaign targeting several newscasters and presidential candidates for what it deems "rhetoric that demonizes immigrants and Hispanic Americans."Of course,

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• Interview: Pakistan's New PM

  Published: April 21, 2008, 12:33 pm

  Tags: International, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, Pakistan Peoples Party, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Afghanistan, Pakistani Politics, Politics, World Politics

  In an exclusive interview, Pakistan's new prime minister spells out his plans for fighting terrorism and stabilizing his volatile country.

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• Interview: Pakistan's New PM

  Published: April 21, 2008, 12:33 pm

  Tags: International, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, Pakistan Peoples Party, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Afghanistan, Pakistani Politics, Politics, World Politics

  In an exclusive interview, Pakistan's new prime minister spells out his plans for fighting terrorism and stabilizing his volatile country.

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• Pakistan Is at an Impasse Over Reinstating Judges

  Published: April 27, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Pakistan, Impasse, Over, Reinstating, Judges, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Pervez Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, Islamabad, Athar Minallah, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, Pakistan Peoples Party, Supreme Court

  ISLAMABAD, April 26 -- After weeks of deliberation, Pakistan's newly formed coalition government appears to have reached an impasse over its month-old promise to reinstate dozens of judges fired last year by President Pervez Musharraf.

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• CBS Falsely Reports Rand Study on the Cost of Illegal Immigration

  Published: April 30, 2008, 6:32 pm

  Tags: Budget, Crime, Economy, Health Care, Immigration, La Raza, Political Groups, Byron Pitts, Fabiola, Katie Couric, Broadcast Television, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Cbs Online, Journalistic Issues

  the National Council of La Raza (translation: "The Race") and the Mexican American Legal and Educational Fund (MAL (not Mos) DEF).Byron Pitts' piece is fairly mild and pretty much down the middle of the fairway, and CBS News and their (for now) flagship girl Katie Couric deserve kudos for at least addressing the issue. But the Latino

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• Iran Remains Key Concern as Bush Returns

  Published: May 19, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Iran, Remains, Key, Concern, Bush, Returns, George W Bush, Hezbollah, Middle East, Stephen Hadley, United States, Iraq, Basra, Fouad Siniora, Israel, Hamas, Palestine, Adel Al Toaifi, Alon Liel, Condoleezza Rice, Egypt, Riyadh, Salam Fayyad, Saudi Arabia, Yousaf Raza Gilani

  SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, May 18 -- As he toured the Middle East over the past five days, President Bush tried to shore up support for his strategy of isolating Iran in meetings with the leaders of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian territories. But the one session that did not...

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• Tribune Co. 'Chief Innovation Officer' Delivers More Laugh Lines

  Published: May 25, 2008, 8:57 am

  Tags: La Raza, Lee Abrams, Journalistic Issues

  I'll say one thing for the Tribune Company's new "Chief Innovation Officer," Lee Abrams. He might not be able to solve the declining newspaper circulation problems but he is absolutely irrepressible in a very funny way. On the heels of his recent suggestion that the Los Angeles Times could solve some of its problems by repainting its

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