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Truth or CAIR

Cover Story | The Muslim public-relations group CAIR-Council on American Islamic Relations-has a tough sell in post-9/11 America. But if its goal is simply to promote Islam as a "religion of peace" and to distance American Muslims from terrorism, why can't CAIR begin with a simple acknowledgment that the terrorist threat to America is real? Instead, CAIR's modus operandi has been to attack Christianity with the same, simplistic broad brush it claims is tarring Islam

In this issue: "Truth or CAIR," March 22, 2003

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Delicacies ready to eat

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Blood money

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Well-intended failure

National |  An elite journalist reinforces the stereotypes that he sets out to dismiss

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Around the horn

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Technical foul-up

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Electronic legal pad

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Number crunchers

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Cancerous cells?

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Too heavy to fly?

National |  Could the U.S. airline industry become a casualty of war with Iraq?

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High wattage

National |  An interview with J.C. Watts

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Repression made in China

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Dispatches

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Quotables

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Quick Takes

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Reviews

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Tears of the left

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Voices

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Mailbag

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Evil times

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