Islamophobia
Apr 26 2009, Marco Villa

The U.S. government has successfully prosecuted an American of Paksitani descent for offering Hezbollah’s al-Manar television channel as part of a broader satellite cable package.

Javed Iqbal has lived in the United States for 20 years and is a...

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