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  • Muslim Leader Speaks at the Democratic National Convention8/24/08 - The Rocky Mountain News reports that Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, received a standing ovation for her remarks at the 2008 Democratic National Convention's interfaith gathering. Mattson stated that although Muslim Americans do face discrimination, she is convinced that the U.S. "is still the best place in the world to practice our faith." The event, titled "Faith in Action," attracted nearly "3,000 individuals of various ages, races, and religions." Also, the Detroit Free Press reported, "Imam Mohammed Mardini of Dearborn was one of four religious figures to deliver an invocation at an interfaith gathering that kicked off the convention."
     
  • American Muslim Taskforce Events at the Democratic Convention8/25-28/08 - The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), held a "series of public lectures from various members of congress and political leaders" during the Democratic convention in Denver. Speakers included former David Bonior (D-MI), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA). Amy Goodman, host of radio's Democracy Now; Nativo Lopez, President of the Mexican American Political Association; and former Guantanamo Bay Muslim chaplain captain James Yee also spoke.
     
  • Muslim Republican at Democratic Gathering in Colorado8/26/08 - Al Jazeera English posts an interview with a Muslim Republican who is supporting Senator Obama. Fazal Fazlin says, "It's not just George W. Bush who has failed the party, it's the old Republicans who have failed America."
     
  • Young Muslims Attending DNC Interviewed8/28/08 - MSNBC posts a video of interviews with three young, female Muslim democrats.
     
  • Approximately "20-40" Muslim delegates at DNC 8/28/08 - Religion News Service produces an article on Muslims attending the Democratic National Committee's convention. The reporter notes, "Of the more than 4,400 delegates here, only about 20 to 40 are Muslim, according to several Muslim political organizers." The article also says, "There are about 1.5 million voting-age Muslims in the U.S., according to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, many living in the critical swing states of Michigan and Florida."
     
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How to Steal an Election?
Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president? asks ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. & GREG PALAST in the latest issue of Rolling Stones. "In state after state, Republican operatives — the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics — are wielding new federal legislation to systematically disenfranchise Democrats. If this year's race is as close as the past two elections, the GOP's nationwide campaign could be large enough to determine the presidency in November. "I don't think the Democrats get it," says John Boyd, a voting-rights attorney in Albuquerque who has taken on...
 
What moved Powell?
Maureen Dowd has a great piece in the New York Times, "But what sent him (Powell) over the edge and made him realize he had to speak out was when he opened his New Yorker three weeks ago and saw a picture of a mother pressing her head against the gravestone of her son, a 20-year-old soldier who had been killed in Iraq. On the headstone were engraved his name, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, his awards — the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star — and a crescent and a star to denote his Islamic faith. In a gratifying “have you...
 
9-11 Overreaction - British Spymaster
Former MI-5 agent Stella Rimington says, "She argues that we should “treat terrorism as a crime, and deal with it under the law – not as something extra, that you have to invent new rules to deal with.” She is opposed to ID cards, because she can’t see how they could be “a significant counter-terrorist measure”, and although she admits she’s “had more time to think about it since I left the service”, she says her attitude to civil liberties has always been liberal. The big change, she argues, has been not her position, but the politicisation of the issue....
 
A Lesson for McCain
Colin Powell more than endorsed Obama. He repudiated the bigotry that has come to dominate McCain's campaign. Sally Quinn writes in the Washington Post On Faith blog, "It is my belief that John McCain disqualified himself from being an effective leader of this country about a year ago when he was asked if he would vote for a Muslim candidate for president. McCain's reply: "I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles, personally, I prefer someone who has a grounding in my faith." McCain recanted a few days later, saying...
 
Debates Matter - Obama Surged Post Debate
CBS did a poll with the same group of people before and after the debate. Results indicate that Obama gained 8 points on the basis of his debate performance. "In a poll taken just before the first presidential debate, the Obama-Biden ticket held a five point edge, with 48 percent of likely voters backing the Democratic ticket and 43 percent supporting the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin. Those 476 likely voters were re-interviewed for the new poll, and their responses suggest that the Democratic ticket has made gains since the initial survey: The Obama-Biden ticket now holds...
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