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• Jeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times has a report on the American-led bill in Uganda to kill homosexuals. Also: the website Box Turtle Bulletin has information about Scott Lively, one of the key promoters of the Uganda bill and on the atmoshpere of hatred in Uganda.
• Washington Monthly describes how the Texas Board of Education is using the state's purchasing power to rewrite history and science books.
• A U.K. Respect Unity Coalition Party riot at the Gaza border turned to gunfire, leaving one Egyptian soldier dead. It is amusing but sad that the rioters, who act in support of the world's most warlike terrorist organizations, call themselves "peace activists", and that most media repeat this as if it were true. One Hamas official is already on record calling it a peaceful protest. Riot leader and Hamas financier George Galloway was deported from Egypt and declared persona non grata. The rioting happened after Respect intentionally made an issue of refusing to follow Egypt's directions on how to cross the border. Related: Egypt controls many of its mosques through state endowments, and the state had the mosques harshly condemn Hamas.
• Muslim terrorists attacked a Coptic church in Egypt, killing 6.
• Muslim terrorists firebombed four churches in Malaysia after the Malaysian High Court allowed Christians to refer to God as "Allah". According to the report, the local language uses Allah as a generic term for the monotheist God.
• Norwegian Muslim activist Shakil Rehman condemned the attack on cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and called on Muslims to support freedom of speech.
• 150 Muslims in Detroit rallied in protest of the recent attempted airliner attack.
• The rhetoric from parts of the the Jewish right wing in Israel is starting to sound indistinguishable from that of Arab terrorists. Israel also hosts a Jewish equivalent of the Taliban.
• The leaders of the so-called "progressive" movement in Britain are far from liberal.
• Victor Davis Hanson reviews basic facts about jihadist terrorism.
• There is a report suggesting that Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab (the Undibomber) was recruited into al-Qaeda at University College in London.
• A rape victim was arrested in Dubai.
• A U.S. judge threw out a Guantanamo detainee's torture-derived confessions as inadmissable in court, which is one of many reasons why torturing prisoners was a bad idea.
• Israeli Balad party leader Jamal Zehalka promoted Hamas and announced his support for the Muslim Brotherhood. Related: Yedioth Ahronoth columnist Assaf Wohl gives Zehalka a history lesson.
• A report claims that 75 people were lynched by Neo-Nazis in Russia in 2009.
• The American Civil Liberties Union has uncovered evidence that U.S. jail officials lied to the public to cover up medical malpractice that led to prisoner deaths.
• Cable News Network anchor Rick Sanchez went on the offensive in an interview with public relations agency Creative Response Concepts chairman Rick Scott, who Sanchez called "the poster child for everything that's wrong with the greed that has hurt our current health care system".
• Rush Limbaugh accidentally praised a union-run hospital.
• Fox News host Brit Hume called on golfer Tiger Woods, a Buddhist, to convert to Christianity. A few Republican media personalities seconded the motion.
• Journalist Michael Yon was arrested at Seattle's airport for refusing to answer personal questions that had nothing to do with security.
• A man ducked under a rope line to kiss his girlfriend goodbye at an airport. Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg condemned this as "a terrible deed", and called for stronger punishment than the recommended $500 fine.
• Wired Magazine has more details on the case of journalists subpoenaed for distributing an unclassified memo from the Tranportation Security Administration.
• Dominic Larson of the Independent writes about police abuses in the U.K.
• Mexico is demanding payment from Starbucks Corporation for printing Aztec images on its mugs. That is one long term of copyright.