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• 'A SLANDER AGAINST THE FILM': NARRATOR SAYS DOCUMENTARY SHOWN TO NYPD OFFICERS ISN'T 'ANTI-MUSLIM' The Blaze

  In a telephone interview with The Blaze, Jasser - who has been a repeat guest on Glenn Beck's show - said the media's treatment of the film (The Third Jihad) as "anti-Muslim" shows "the death of journalism."

• Assad's fall could solve Iraqi weapons mystery The Washington Times

  If Syria's regime falls, the U.S. will be in a better position to answer one of the lingering questions from the long Iraq War: Did Baghdad ship weapons of mass destruction components toSyria before the 2003 American-led invasion?

• Nothing 'Anti-Muslim' About Gingrich's Comments on Shari'a, Says Anti-Islamist Muslim Activist CNSnews.com

  Newt Gingrich's stance on Islamic law (shari'a) is not "anti-Muslim" as charged by some Islamic critics, an American Muslim activist (M Zuhdi Jasser) said Thursday.

• Obama's National Security 'Not Top 10' of 2011 PJ Media

  No. 8. White House blocks appointment of moderate Muslim leader Zuhdi Jasser to State Department post

• Could You Be A Criminal? US Supports UN Anti-Free Speech Measure Forbes
  While you were out scavenging the Wal-Mart super sales or trying on trinkets at Tiffany and Cartier, your government has been quietly wrapping up a Christmas gift of its own: adoption of UN resolution 16/18. An initiative of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (formerly Organization of Islamic Conferences), the confederacy of 56 Islamic states, Resolution 16/18 seeks to limit speech that is viewed as "discriminatory" or which involves the "defamation of religion" - specifically that which can be viewed as "incitement to imminent violence."
• In Islamic Law, Gingrich Sees a Mortal Threat to U.S. THe New York Times

  WASHINGTON - Long before he announced his presidential run this year, Newt Gingrich had become the most prominent American politician to embrace an alarming premise: that Shariah, or Islamic law, poses a threat to the United States as grave as or graver than terrorism.

• Syria will allow observers in - but with conditions The Voice of Russia

  Today Syria agreed to Arab League demands that it allow observers into the country, but on the condition that the group immediately drop sanctions and agree to amendments that league officials have previously rejected. Combined with sanctions from the United States, the European Union and Turkey, the Arab League's penalties are expected to inflict significant damage on Syria's economy and could undercut the regime's authority.

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Domestic Policy Issues

• Mass. man goes to trial on US terror charges Associated Press

  BOSTON (AP) - Prosecutors portray Tarek Mehanna as a terrorist in the making, a man who tried to help al-Qaida by promoting violent jihad online and traveling to Yemen to seek training in a terrorist camp.

• Muslim teenager forced to leave the ROTC after U.S. Army order her to remove headscarf for parade Mail Online

  A 14-year-old girl has been told she cannot wear her traditional Islamic headscarf while on parade with the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC).

• Family of Al Qaeda's Samir Khan Gets 'Condolence Call' From U.S. State Department FoxNews.com

  The U.S. State Department made a phone call to the family of Al Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan to offer the government's condolences on his death during a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, a department spokesman confirms.

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Foreign Policy Issues

• Don't Ignore Electoral Fraud in Egypt National REview Online

  When Egypt's Lower House convened on January 23, Islamists held 360 out of its 498 seats, or 72 percent. This astounding figure, however, reflects less the country's public opinion than it does a ploy by the ruling military leadership to remain in power.

• Defend Threatened Muslim Moderates: Save Husain Haqqani National Review Online

  Husain Haqqani may soon be put on trial for his life in his native Pakistan. That country's ambassador to the United States until last November, he now faces allegations of treason in the so-called "Memogate" affair, accused of instigating an unsigned memo to the U.S. government warning of a military-coup plot against Pakistan's government - an allegation he denies . . .

• On Tunisian Al-Nahda Party Leader Rached Ghannouchi's Conflicting Statements in the U.S. Middle East Media Research Institute

  Lately, there has been an exchange of accusations between Rached Ghannouchi, the head of the Tunisian Al-Nahda party, and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy over statements made by Ghannouchi at a Washington Institute seminar on November 30, 2011.

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