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Received from Haroon: Dear Colleagues, The Arab American Institute (AAI) and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee are asking for your organization’s support. The two organizations have drafted the attached two sign-on letters in opposition to the racist billboard campaign initiated by the Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License (www.securelicense.org) in North Carolina and New Mexico. Kindly review these attachments and contact either Rebecca Abou-Chedid < rabouchedid@aaiusa.org > or Kareem Shora < kshora@adc.org > if your organization is able to endorse these letters. For more information on this issue please see: http://capwiz.com/adc/issues/alert/?alertid=8301626&type=CU . (ADC and AAI continue to research which billboard company…

It seems that the number excludes Fallujah, and the count may actually be closer to 200,000 if Fallujah is included…. Iraq Body Count all of a sudden looks like a conservative website telling us how wonderful things are in Iraq.

Pol: NYPD Muslim Surveillance is ‘Un-American’ | Long Island Press. The sweeping surveillance of local Muslims is un-American, unconstitutional and spawns an atmosphere of mistrust, undermining the efforts of law enforcement conducting clandestine investigations of Muslim Americans in the New York metropolitan area.  These criticisms of the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim Americans from New York City to Long Island were made by New York State Sen. Kevin Parker (D-Brooklyn) and Dr. Hussein Rashid, a professor of religion at Hofstra University during the college’s 11th annual “Day of Dialogue” event Wednesday.