After federal border agents detained several Mexican immigrants in western New York in June, an article about the incident in a local newspaper drew an onslaught of vitriolic postings on its Web site. Some were racist. Others attacked farmers in the region, an apple-growing area east of Rochester, accusing them of harboring illegal workers.
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Racist posts traced to Deptartment of Homeland Security
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Michael Muhammad Knight's 2003 novel, The Taqwacores, imagined punk rockers who practiced Islam on their own terms. At the time he was writing, Knight, a convert to Islam, had grown disillusioned with his faith.
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The real Muslim punk underground
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