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  One of these things is not like the other: the Al-Qaeda terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the moderate Muslims who want to build a community center in Manhattan.  Conflating the two isn't just bigoted— it's dangerous.     As tensions escalate between supporters and opponents of the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque a wave of … [Read more...] about A Graphic Face-Off: For the Cordoba Initiative

  Nine years ago on Sept. 112001 radical Islamic terrorists hijacked four airplanes and murdered nearly 3000 innocent people marking the worst terrorist attack on the United States in history.   The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center rapidly transformed into an inferno with trapped fathers and mothers calling their children in tears to say their last … [Read more...] about A Graphic Face-Off: Against the Cordoba Initiative

    Steve Moore says he knows how to read evidence and he should. After all he spent 25 years as an FBI agent analyzing evidence to put bad guys behind bars.   Moore now retired from law enforcement and one of Pepperdine's deputy directors of Public Safety drew upon his experience as a federal investigator to call media attention to his recent findings: that … [Read more...] about Moore Questions Italian Conviction

This summer a young woman from Ukraine stopped by Pepperdine to drop off her résumé with the Pepperdine cross country team.  That same woman Iryna Vashchuk is now both the men's and women's cross country assistant coach and is already making a noticeable difference in the cross country program.   Described by members of the team as kind dedicated and … [Read more...] about Ukrainian runner comes to Pepp

  It's time for 2977 ten-foot high American flags to be flown in Alumni Park. Two years after devoting countless hours of his college career to planning the original "Wave of Flags" Sept.11 tribute in Alumni Park 2009 Pepperdine alumnus Ryan Sawtelle cannot stand to see people begin to forget.   In 2008 Pepperdine saw the first of what would soon become a widely … [Read more...] about Bikers flags honor victims of 9/11 attacks