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Anti-Islam Challenge to Tennessee Lawmaker Fails
REUTERS.COM: A Tennessee Republican congresswoman survived a spirited primary election challenge on Thursday from an opponent whose campaign was based on opposition to Islam and to a new mosque built near Nashville.

U.S. Representative Diane Black won the primary election by a comfortable margin over Lou Ann Zelenik, noted for her fierce opposition to the Islamic Center built in Murfreesboro, about 30 miles south of Nashville, although it was outside the congressional district she sought to represent.

Zelenik was backed by a wealthy conservative businessman from Nashville, who paid for ads attacking Black over the mosque and Islam. Zelenik charged that Black had not opposed the mosque vigorously.

Zelenik pledged during the campaign that if elected she would "work to stop the Islamization of our society, and do everything possible to prevent Sharia Law from circumventing our laws and our Constitution." » | Tim Ghianni | NASHVILLE, Tennessee | Fri August 03, 2012

États-Unis : Un Américain inculpé pour meurtre avec décapitation
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Un Américain de 37 ans a été arrêté à Nashville après avoir décapité son colocataire. La tête de la victime été découverte dans une poubelle derrière la petite maison où il vivait.

Un Américain de 37 ans a été arrêté vendredi et inculpé du meurtre avec décapitation de son colocataire. Le corps tatoué, sans tête et à moitié dévêtu de la victime de 48 ans avait été retrouvé jeudi partiellement décomposé dans un champ dans les quartiers sud de Nashville.

Sa tête avait ensuite été découverte dans une poubelle derrière la petite maison où il vivait, a indiqué la police locale dans un communiqué. Le meurtrier présumé cohabitait avec la victime, sa femme et les trois enfants de celle-ci. » | ats/Newsnet | vendredi 13 juillet 2012

THE TENNESSEAN: Nashville tattoo artist admits to decapitating man, police say: Man says he killed roommate in argument over woman, police say » | Brian Haas, The Tennessean | Saturday, July 14, 2012

Judge Rules Nearly Finished Tennessee Mosque Doesn't Have Permit
REUTERS.COM: A judge ruled on Tuesday that a local Tennessee government failed to follow proper procedures in granting a permit for the construction of a mosque, casting doubt on the future of the Islamic place of worship which is nearly complete.

Judge Robert Corlew ruled that the Rutherford County planning commission had not given enough public notice prior to a 2010 meeting when the mosque plans were approved, effectively nullifying the building permit.

A civil rights group on Tuesday called on the U.S. Justice Department to step in if the planning commission does not act "immediately" to reissue permits for construction of the 52,000-plus-square-foot (4,830-plus-square-meter) mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, about 34 miles south of Nashville.

"If you read the judge's ruling, it is clear he sought a heightened standard of public notice for an issue that involves Muslims," Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for The Council on American-Islamic Relations. » | Tim Ghianni | NASHVILLE, Tennessee | Tuesday, May 29, 2012

REUTERS – BLOGS: Thousands of Muslims pray for Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia to be a mosque again: Thousands of devout Muslimshave prayed outside Turkey’s historic Hagia Sophia museum to protest a 1934 law that bars religious services at the former church and mosque. » | Ayla Jean Yackley | Tuesday, May 29, 2012

REUTERS – BLOGS: Netanyahu says ceding control of Jerusalem’s sacred sites would be fatal mistake: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday it would be a “fatal mistake” ever to give up control over Jerusalem’s holy sites. His remarks, in a parliamentary speech, went a little further than Israel’s longtime policy of viewing Jerusalem, a city at the heart of Middle East conflict, as its “indivisible capital”. » | Allyn Fisher-Ilan | Monday, May 21, 2012

Gay Rights Activists Urge Tennessee to Halt Passage of 'Don't Say Gay' Bill
THE GUARDIAN: Controversial bill would limit discussion of gay relationships in schools and could encourage similar laws across America

Gay rights activists are mounting a last-ditch push to stop legislation that would ban any discussion of homosexuality in Tennessee schools, in a move they fear will encourage similar laws across the US.

The controversial 'don't say gay' bill has already passed the state's senate, and is expected to receive a second vote on Tuesday. If passed, the bill could become law within months.

Opponents are concerned about the implications across the US as well as in Tennessee, where two teens, Jacob Rogers and Phillip Parker, have recently killed themselves after being bullied over their sexuality.

The legislation, originally authored by Republican state senator Stacey Campfield, limits all sexually-related instruction to "natural human reproduction science" in kindergarten through eighth grade, when students are 13-14 years old.

The original version of the bill would have prohibited public elementary and middle schools from providing "any instruction or material that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality."

The amended version would limit instruction to "natural human reproduction science", but has left those terms undefined. » | Dominic Rushe in Nashville, Tennessee | Monday, February 27, 2012

Ron Paul's Son, Rand, Detained at US Airport
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Senator Rand Paul, the son of the libertarian Republican candidate Ron Paul, was detained by guards at a Tennessee airport on Monday after apparently refusing to submit to a full body pat-down.

The younger Mr Paul, who like his father is a fierce advocate of civil liberties, was reportedly held at Nashville International Airport by agents from the Transport Security Administration (TSA), an agency he has repeatedly criticised for encroaching on Americans' freedoms.

A spokeswoman for the Kentucky Senator said he was being held "indefinitely" after he set off an alarm in an image scanner used at the airport's security check point. » | Raf Sanchez, Washington | Monday, January 23, 2012

POLITICO: Rand Paul Detained by TSA (Transportation Security Administration) » | Tim Mak | Monday, January 23, 2012

Tennessee Hit by Worst Floods in Decades
The worst floods to hit the central United States in more than 80 years have swallowed up homes, roadways and farms, as the Mississippi River swelled to six times its normal width.



Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as record spring flooding wreaked havoc in Tennessee and threatens to sweep to Louisiana at the southern most end of the river. 



John Terret reports from Memphis, Tennessee's capital.

USA: Pilot Refuses to Take Two Imams On Board Flight
MAIL ONLINE: Two Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis - and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard.

Masudur Rahman and another imam had already been allowed to board their Delta Connection flight from Memphis, Tennessee, to Charlotte, North Carolina before they were asked to get off the plane.

Ironically, the two men were headed to a North American Imams conference discussing Islamophobia or fears of Islam and discrimination against American Muslims.

'It's racism and bias because of our religion and appearance and because of misinformation about our religion.' Mr Rahman said. 'If they understood Islam, they wouldn't do this.'

Mr Rahman said he and Mohamed Zaghloul, of the Islamic Association of Greater Memphis, were cleared by security agents and boarded the plane for an 8.40am departure.

The aircraft pulled away from the gate, but the pilot then announced the plane must return, Mr Rahman said.

When it did, the imams were asked to go back to the boarding gate where they were told the pilot was refusing to accept them because some other passengers could be uncomfortable. Robed Muslim clerics kicked off U.S. flight after pilot refuses to take off with them (and they were en route to conference on Islamophobia) » | Daily Mail Reporter | Saturday, May 07, 2011

Islam in Tennessee: An Uncivil Action
THE ECONOMIST: Middle Tennessee puts Islam on trial

A theological debate. Photograph: The Economist
IN NOVEMBER 2009 the Islamic Centre of Murfreesboro bought a parcel of land on which it planned to build a new mosque and community centre. The congregation had outgrown its current space in a small office building behind a surveying company and a car mechanic; on Fridays congregants pray outside on the pavement, and during holidays they have to rent a space elsewhere to fit everyone in.

In January “NOT WELCOME” was spray-painted on a sign placed on the site announcing it as the future home of the Islamic Centre of Murfreesboro. The sign was vandalised again in June, one week after a contentious county commission hearing at which a local pastor declared, “We have a duty to investigate anyone under the banner of Islam.” The same month a Republican candidate for Congress from Murfreesboro declared herself “opposed to the idea of an Islamic training centre being built in our community”. In August construction equipment at the site was set alight. >>> | Thursday, November 18, 2010

Sarah Palin Talks of 'Revolution' at Tea Party Meeting
THE TELEGRAPH: Sarah Palin tried to rally conservatives on Saturday night at a national convention of the "Tea Party" movement, taking aim at President Barack Obama on everything from big government to teleprompters.

"I believe in this movement ... America is ready for another revolution," said Palin, former Alaska governor and Republican John McCain's running mate in the 2008 election won by Obama.

The Nashville convention brought together hundreds of activists from the "Tea Party" group, which hopes to make a splash in the 2010 congressional elections and beyond.

The three-day event had been plagued by infighting, pullouts and criticism of tickets costing more than $500.

But the appearance of Palin, the darling of the US conservative movement, raised its profile and gave her a national platform to appeal directly to an emerging base for the Republican Party.

In a speech that made frequent appeals to patriotism and faith, Palin used the folksy, Washington-outsider rhetoric to lambaste Obama and his Democratic Party.

"How's that hope-y, change-y stuff working out for you?" she asked, mocking the slogans of hope and change that swept Obama's campaign into to the White House. >>> | Sunday, February 07, 2010

Sarah Palin Keynote Speech at National Tea Party Convention


THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Tea Party Activists Ponder How to Win Elections: NASHVILLE—Tea Party activists gathered in Tennessee this weekend grappled with a central question looming over the burgeoning political movement: Where does it go from here?

The early consensus suggests the those most associated with Tea-Party activism might change their focus from staging political rallies like the one held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. last September, to attempting to win elections. >>> Susan Davis | Saturday, February 06, 2010

THE TELEGRAPH: Sarah Palin: it 'would be absurd' not to consider White House bid: Sarah Palin on Sunday set her sights on the White House, saying it "would be absurd" not to consider running against Barack Obama in 2012. >>> Alex Spillius in Nashville | Sunday, February 07, 2010

LE TEMPS: États-Unis – Nouvelle révolution conservatrice en marche? : Des centaines d’Américains représentant les «vraies valeurs de l’Amérique» se réunissent ce week-end à Nashville où se tient la première convention nationale du «tea party» >>> Luis Lema | Samedi 06 Février 2010

Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Lady?
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY: 'Feminine values' are making a comeback but do they have any place in today's world?

The eternal question of what makes a woman a lady has reared its well-coiffed head once again this summer thanks to a raft of new experts queuing up – politely, of course – to tell British women to polish their shoes, mind their p's and q's, and generally be a little more ladylike.

While for many the very idea of ladylike behaviour is outdated, or even risible – as illustrated by the memorable Little Britain sketches in which David Walliams cries: "I am a Laydee" – a controversial book poised to hit UK bookshops next month is seeking to rescue the term from ridicule, advocating a "return to feminine values". This may not be entirely fanciful.

At the same time, sales of the conservative magazine The Lady are soaring, and Miss Debrett, the etiquette authority's new online agony aunt, is offering women a helping hand on everything from weddings to email etiquette.

In her book How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World, Jordan Christy laments the rise of the "stupid girls", represented in the public eye by such celebrities as Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, declaring our "current female landscape as "embarrassing, flippant and shallow". >>> Rachel Shields | Sunday, August 30, 2009

'It Will Forever Be the Right Decision'
Watch Guardian video: Almost five years after the invasion of Iraq, the US president, George Bush, defends his decision to go to war in a speech to religious broadcasters in Tennessee

THE GUARDIAN:
US Middle East Commander Quits By Dan Glaister in Los Angeles and Julian Borger in Tehran

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