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By Anayat Durrani, Staff Writer
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Zaynab* and Tayseer* went from a relatively peaceful marriage to getting ready to have a lawyer draw up divorce papers. She was tired of his brother living with them and interfering with their marriage. He was tired of her disrespect toward himself and his family.
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By Zaid Shakur, Staff Writer
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CERRITOS, Calif. -- Taha Chaudry, 11, is a fifth grader at the ILM Education Institute in Cerritos. At this spacious, suburban, full-time private school, Taha, like most children his age, is taught the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.
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By Aisha Aziz, Staff Writer
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WASHINGTON – Six imams, who were removed from a U.S. Airways flight last year, have filed a lawsuit for racial and religious discrimination, unleashing a fresh outcry from right-wing bloggers, columnists, and media, who commented extensively against the imams when they were first de-planed in November.
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By Ghalia Mohder and Asma Ahmad, Staff Writers
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LOS ANGELES – When Pentagon officials invited a delegation including an American Muslim leader to visit the now infamous Guantanamo Bay Prison, they were given a very different view of the facility that has become infamous for its torture, Qur’an desecration, and lack of due process.
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By Munira Syeda, Contributing Writer
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MANZANAR, Calif. -- In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, setting into motion a mass displacement and detainment of an entire community – American men, women and children of Japanese ancestry – less than two months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
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