Jim Schneider hosted this week-ending Crosstalk that mentioned details dealing with the following stories: --The Department of Defense announced that 5 terrorists from Yemen that were being held at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred out of the facility and sent to Oman which is right next to Yemin. --Muslim leaders will be concentrating on Islamophobes in America at a forum in Texas this weekend. --The mayor of Syracuse is drawing criticism for appointing a member of the Nation of Islam to the school board. --Nancy Pelosi appointed Andre Carson, an American-born convert to Islam, to the House Intelligence Committee. --The attack on a French satirical magazine has drawn renewed interest in potential cells operating inside the U.S. --U.S. military plans to send over 400 soldiers to train Syrian rebels to fight ISIS. --Video appears to show child executioners killing alleged Russian spies. --During a December Hamas TV show, a Palestinian Imam said that if the Jews had been a respectable, well bred people, Hitler would not have done those things to them. --By order of the FBI, the FAA grounds aircraft that the Florida Family Association paid to pull a banner which stated that AIG sponsors Jihad TV. --Duke University was going to allow an amplified Muslim call to prayer via their chapel bell tower but they have now reconsidered their plans. --$661,858 is awarded for a federal study to the New York State Psychiatric Institute to study whether the use of rapid home HIV test kits will reduce sexual risk behavior in men who have intimate relations with other men and with transgender women.
Crosstalk: January 19, 2015
Jim Schneider hosted this week-ending Crosstalk that mentioned details dealing with the following stories: --The Department of Defense announced that 5 terrorists from Yemen that were being held at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred out of the facility and sent to Oman which is right next to Yemin. --Muslim leaders will be concentrating on Islamophobes in America at a forum in Texas this weekend. --The mayor of Syracuse is drawing criticism for appointing a member of the Nation of Islam to the school board. --Nancy Pelosi appointed Andre Carson, an American-born convert to Islam, to the House Intelligence Committee. --The attack on a French satirical magazine has drawn renewed interest in potential cells operating inside the U.S. --U.S. military plans to send over 400 soldiers to train Syrian rebels to fight ISIS. --Video appears to show child executioners killing alleged Russian spies. --During a December Hamas TV show, a Palestinian Imam said that if the Jews had been a respectable, well bred people, Hitler would not have done those things to them. --By order of the FBI, the FAA grounds aircraft that the Florida Family Association paid to pull a banner which stated that AIG sponsors Jihad TV. --Duke University was going to allow an amplified Muslim call to prayer via their chapel bell tower but they have now reconsidered their plans. --$661,858 is awarded for a federal study to the New York State Psychiatric Institute to study whether the use of rapid home HIV test kits will reduce sexual risk behavior in men who have intimate relations with other men and with transgender women.