Mali remains proudly moderate, and most people here dismiss extremist ideology as too foreign and brutal to be accepted. But Mali in some sense has become a test case as its government has accepted tens of millions of dollars in American aid intended to stave off what U.S. officials say could be a growing threat of radicalism in parts of Africa where Muslims make up the majority.

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Radical Islam meets a buffer in West Africa
Mali remains proudly moderate, and most people here dismiss extremist ideology as too foreign and brutal to be accepted. But Mali in some sense has become a test case as its government has accepted tens of millions of dollars in American aid intended to stave off what U.S. officials say could be a growing threat of radicalism in parts of Africa where Muslims make up the majority.

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Radical Islam meets a buffer in West Africa
Charging that the Catholic Church should lose its tax-exempt status, a consortium of atheists and Catholic activists filed two lawsuits against Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, Assemblymember Vito Lopez (D-Williamsburg) and the Catholic Diocese over their role in producing a recorded message sent to Williamsburg’s registered voters less than a week before they went to the polls.

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Charging that the Catholic Church should lose its tax-exempt status, a consortium of atheists and Catholic activists filed two lawsuits against Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, Assemblymember Vito Lopez (D-Williamsburg) and the Catholic Diocese over their role in producing a recorded message sent to Williamsburg’s registered voters less than a week before they went to the polls.

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A Muslim chef who lost a claim of religious discrimination against Scotland Yard after complaining he was forced to cook sausages and bacon faces a legal bill of more than £75,000, the Daily Mail reports. (Guess why he lost his claim…)

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Muslim police chef defeated in ‘bacon roll’ tribunal faces £75,000 legal bill
A Muslim chef who lost a claim of religious discrimination against Scotland Yard after complaining he was forced to cook sausages and bacon faces a legal bill of more than £75,000, the Daily Mail reports. (Guess why he lost his claim…)

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Muslim police chef defeated in ‘bacon roll’ tribunal faces £75,000 legal bill
Followers of convicted child molester and sect leader Dwight “Malachi” York are bombarding officials at a federal maximum security lock-up with fake documents that seek to free him from a 135-year prison term . The documents, some stamped by Athens-Clarke notaries, claim York has been falsely imprisoned since 2004 and should be released because he is an African diplomat, officials said.

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Nuwaubian cult members try to spring jailed leader with fake documents
Followers of convicted child molester and sect leader Dwight “Malachi” York are bombarding officials at a federal maximum security lock-up with fake documents that seek to free him from a 135-year prison term . The documents, some stamped by Athens-Clarke notaries, claim York has been falsely imprisoned since 2004 and should be released because he is an African diplomat, officials said.

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Nuwaubian cult members try to spring jailed leader with fake documents