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Analysis: Is Anti-Muslim Fervor Just Latest Fear?

WASHINGTON (Aug. 19) -- Are Muslims the new Jews? Or Irish Catholics? Perhaps Mormons? Or are they really the war on terror's Japanese? Religious experts and historians say: all of the above. The still-unfolding controversy over plans to build an Islamic center near ground zero is just the latest chapter in a long saga...

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05/08/12 Saving the lost generation of Kurds Source: Aljazeera.com This article is the tenth in a series by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, a former Pakistani high commissioner to the UK, exploring how a litany of volatile centre/periphery conflicts with deep historical roots were interpreted after 9/11 in the new global paradigm of anti-terrorism - with profound and often violent consequences.
04/30/12 Repairing the broken hearts of both Jews and Muslims Source: Haaretz Repairing a broken heart is never easy, especially when fear runs deep.Too many elders within my Jewish community feel exhausted thinking about finding a solution to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and finding peace between the Jews and Muslims of the world.

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Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed, Sitara-i-Imtiaz, or Akbar Ahmed, is currently the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University in Washington, D.C., the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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