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September 22, 2012 Muslims in the U.S. have not been protesting as groups have chosen to remain mostly on the sidelines during the controversy.

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September 21, 2012 Tens of thousands of anti-American protesters have taken to the streets again. In Pakistan. There are reports of at least six deaths.

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July 19, 2012 "We can look to the people in the middle or far east or in the middle of Africa saying to them 'America is the role model. Try to learn from us in America,' " says Imam Ossama Bahloul. Opponents had tried to block the mosque's opening.

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December 20, 2011 Stories on the new Catholic liturgy prompted complaints that Catholicism is over-covered. Islam, Judaism and Christianity were in fact mentioned much more this year. A monthly average of three stories mentioning the denomination practiced by a quarter of all Americans doesn't seem out of line.

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November 2, 2011 Charlie Hebdo's director calls those responsible "idiots who betray their own religion."

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June 28, 2011 Talk of the Nation's on the road at the Aspen Ideas Festival today. Michael Chertoff, John Negroponte, Jane Harman and Thomas Friedman talk about September 11, Michele Norris and Michel Martin talk across difference, and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf talks about interfaith dialogue.

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March 10, 2011 Melvin Bledsoe says his son was programmed by Islamic extremists to kill. The once joyful young man is accused of killing one U.S. soldier and wounding another in an attack on an Arkansas military recruiting center.

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March 10, 2011 The lawmaker, one of two Muslims in Congress, broke into tears as he spoke of the sacrifice made on Sept. 11, 2001, by a Muslim paramedic in New York — and the smears afterward about that man. Hear his remarks.

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August 16, 2010 Sen. Harry Reid: Build NY Mosque Elsewhere

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August 10, 2010 The Ohio teenager who converted to Christianity and left her Muslim family turned 18.

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