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	<title>5-Pillar Column &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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		<title>Hiding America’s Crime: Mogadishu Empty and in Ruins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, has ceased to exist as a city. Inhabited by nearly three million people less than two years ago, and still home to more than a million nine months ago, Mogadishu has been virtually emptied of civilians. Whole sections have been leveled, according to the BBC, in what Human Rights Watch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8377&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shock and Awe: Bipartisan Beltway Terrorists Launch Economic 9/11 on the American People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve seen the news. You know the score. The House of Representatives has now completed the economic terrorist attack inflicted on the American people by the nation&#8217;s elite
The bailout bill &#8212; or as Arthur Silber more rightly terms it, the &#8220;Extortion Bill&#8221; &#8212; is already law, thanks to the Democrats in Congress, and to Barack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8163&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is front group for Israeli organization trying to influence November election?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of DVD copies of the film “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against The West” were delivered recently to the doorsteps of potential voters in November’s upcoming presidential election between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, via their Sunday newspapers through an advertising purchase by a shadowy group called the Clarion Fund. The Clarion Fund [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7776&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mischief-Makers &#8211; The real troublemakers in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/the-mischief-makers-the-real-troublemakers-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iraq war&#8217;s consequences are still rippling outward, and the destabilization    of Syria is perhaps the most perilous, as far as U.S. interests are concerned.    If and when whomever is trying to upset the Syrian apple cart succeeds, it is    Americans – after, of course, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7694&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Muslims want seat at political table</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If Barack said there&#8217;s nothing wrong with being a Muslim this needs to get out to the Muslim community. It alienates them to not have this information. The organizers here said that Barack Obama went to a mosque. Who knows this? We have to send this message to the Muslim community,&#8221; said Abdul Akbar Muhammad, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7684&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ministers to bring politics to pulpits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That would allow their patron, the conservative legal group Alliance Defense Fund, to challenge the IRS rules, a risky strategy that one defense fund attorney acknowledged could cost the churches their tax-exempt status. Congress made it illegal in 1954 for tax-exempt groups to support or oppose political candidates publicly.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to talk about the un-biblical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7422&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oops! Obama says &#8216;my Muslim faith&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama was &#8212; ironically &#8212; addressing the false rumors that he is Muslim. He suggested that Republican rival John McCain was behind them, according to ABC News.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
I don&#8217;t see an &#8216;Oops!&#8217; about any of it.  If he gains, or re-gains faith as a Muslim, God bless him!  If he becomes a better Christian &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=5522&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is outreach possible?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But by doing so, you give veto power to that same Lobby, including some very nasty neocons who are experts in using guilt by association to promote religious bigotry. That makes finding a Muslim to do national outreach in the Muslim community very, very difficult.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Obama Rails Against Attacks From Palin, GOP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,&#8221; Obama told O&#8217;Reilly of President Bush&#8217;s decision last year to increase troop levels, a move that McCain urged relentlessly. &#8220;It&#8217;s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.&#8221;
But, he added, &#8220;the Iraqis still haven&#8217;t taken responsibility. And we still don&#8217;t have that kind of political reconciliation.&#8221;
Asked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=5162&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mitt Romney Doesn&#8217;t Get Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romney uses this &#8220;straight talk&#8221; to lump Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood into one big scary monster.  But, by confusing these various groups, conservatives make it impossible to pursue effective policies. Their ideological approach has caused the United States to miss numerous opportunities, where it could have played these groups off of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=5048&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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