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Metcalfe's remarks on Muslim Group draw more fire
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jun. 20, 2008

Metcalfe said he rose to oppose the resolution based on a passage in it that equated the group's spiritual leader, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, with William Penn and his desire to "gain love and friendship by a kind, just and peaceable life, and to establish a society that was godly, virtuous and exemplary for all of humanity.""William Penn and the founding fathers believed that Jesus Christ is God and Muslims do not," Metcalfe said yesterday. "I just stated what was factual. You won't find a Muslim in the world that would say Jesus is God."The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community claims a membership of 70 million in 189 countries. Its U.S. branch is based in Silver Spring, Md. The sect is controversial for its belief that its Indian founder, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam, is the Messiah, awaited not only by Muslims but by Christians, Jews, and members of other faiths.

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Drink tax makes Pa. county executive, Dan Onorato, unpopular
Yahoo News, Sun Jun 15, 2:14 PM ET

A stiff drink comes with a stiff tax in Pittsburgh and surrounding towns these days, and that has made the county executive public enemy No. 1 in some quarters, reviled by name in song and on bar bills.

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