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Last year a website was created to answer the then-burning question, “Is Barack Obama a Muslin?” This morning, news outlets across the land carried the headline: “Woman first Muslin to win Opus Prize.” The Minnetonka-based Opus Prize Foundation awarded $1 million to Aicha Ech Channa, president of the Morocco Association for Women’s Solidarity, who is, apparently, a Muslim.
Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …
MINNEAPOLIS: R.T. Rybak honors Suicide Commandos. No sooner was the Minneapolis mayor re-elected to a third term than he began abusing his power by dedicating Saturday to an early local punk act. [City Pages]
ST. PAUL: Gov. Pawlenty wants to change the state Constitution. But no one knows how, yet. [Associated Press]
MINNEAPOLIS: Ranked-choice voting was great. Except that only half bothered making a second choice in Rybak’s race. [Smart Politics]
MINNEAPOLIS: Hydro energy at lower falls. Rybak shows state legislators how he’s also abusing water power. [Associated Press]
MINNEAPOLIS: Pawlenty PAC nets $300,000. But the disembodied voice of Kelsey Grammer arrived too late for Halloween. [Star Tribune]
ST. PAUL: Pawlenty calls Manchester. The Minnesota governor phoned congratulations to the newly elected mayor of a city in New Hampshire. If T-Paw gave R.T. that honor, it hasn’t be reported. [Polinaut]
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Comment posted November 5, 2009 @ 9:50 am
AM.MN: Opus Prize, like U.S. presidency, goes to ‘Muslin’:
I am outraged by the title and the turn of this article. is that someone in this press who monitors before publication ? Learn more about this moroccan organization, this woman, before writing nonsense !
jalil
Comment posted November 5, 2009 @ 10:13 pm
Jalil, thank you for the comment. Did you see that the media stories today, like the misinformed characterizations of Obama’s religion last year, used the word “Muslin” instead of “Muslim”? This post was intended to report on nonsense, not create original nonsense. I changed the headline to say “unlike” instead of “like” to avoid confusion.
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