“NOW HE HAS SET UP, UNWITTINGLY, A SYMBOL OF THE GROWING TENSION BETWEEN AMERICA AND MUSLIMS. THIS MOSQUE THAT MUSLIMS SEE AS A SYMBOL OF ISLAM UNDER ATTACK, OPPONENTS SEE AS AN INSULT TO AMERICA.”
“TO STEREOTYPE HIM AS AN EXTREMIST IS JUST NUTS, ...
Posted Sunday, August 22nd 2010 at 11:36AM
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FROM A NATIONAL SECURITY PERSPECTIVE, OUR LEADERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT NO ONE IS LIKELY TO BE HAPPIER WITH THE OPPOSITION TO BUIDLING A MOSQUE THAN OSAMA BIN LADEN. HIS NEXT VIDEO SCRIPT HAS JUST WRITTEN ITSELF.
The furor over the propos ...
Posted Thursday, August 19th 2010 at 9:01PM
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Mosque at Ground Zero? The issue is radioactive. The debate has been explosive. Rhetorical excess is running wild. And the battle is just heating up.
We hear: “If we build the mosque it is a victory for the terrorists.”
And: “If we ...
Posted Thursday, August 19th 2010 at 1:41PM
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When President Barack Obama turned the battle over a planned New York Islamic center into a national debate over religious freedom, he unwittingly allied himself and his party with an ill-planned, long-shot development project described by one of its ...
Posted Thursday, August 19th 2010 at 11:09AM
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Q: Is it approprite for a news organization to be inolved in politics?
Rupert Murdoch: No. I don't think we should be supporting the tea Party or any other party.
Yet...News Corp gave the single largest donation to the RGA (Republican Govern ...
Posted Tuesday, August 17th 2010 at 9:36PM
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The Interfaith Alliance announced Monday that it would award its 2010 Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom award to the MSNBC anchor in honor of her work covering religion and politics. Maddow will receive the award alongside Chautaqua Institution Departm ...
Posted Tuesday, August 17th 2010 at 9:36AM
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“I HEAR NEWT GINGRICH CHATTER ABOURT SHARIA LAW,” SAID ONE FORMER BUSH ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL WHO IS MUSLIM. “I DON’T KNOW WHERE THIS IS COMING FROM. DID SOMEONE ACTUALLY SAY, ‘I WANT TO IMPOSE SHARIA LAW ON THE UNITED STATES?’ IF SOMEONE DID, ...
Posted Monday, August 16th 2010 at 5:03PM
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Navy imam Chaplain Abuhena M. Saifulislam lifted his voice to God as he called to prayer more than 100 Department of Defense employees Monday at a celebration of Ramadan at the Pentagon.
God is most great, sang the lieutenant commander and Islami ...
Posted Monday, August 16th 2010 at 8:49AM
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MASJID MANHATTAN, ON WARREN STREET, FOUR BLOCKS FROM GROUND ZERO, WAS FOUNDED IN 1970. MASJID AL-FARAH MOVED TO WEST BROADWAY IN 1985, ABOUT 12 BLOCKS FROM GROUND ZERO. BOTH HAVE EXISTED FOR DECADES, LARGELY UNNOTICED, BLOCKS FROM THE WORLD TRADE ...
Posted Monday, August 16th 2010 at 8:46AM
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This is for anyone who feels he has the authority to comment on Christian theology, spirituality, faith, scripture or any other aspect of Christ's teaching even though he has not experienced it for himself and does not understand it and has no idea w ...
Posted Sunday, August 15th 2010 at 10:10PM
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Anderson Cooper got into a heated argument with Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert on the Thursday edition of "Anderson Cooper 360," as he repeatedly asked the Republican to provide him with proof of the actual existence of the supposed "terror baby" pl ...
Posted Saturday, August 14th 2010 at 8:42PM
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Keith Olbermann blasted Dr. Laura Schlessinger Friday night — but not for her N-word rant. Instead, Olbermann focused on "what followed the fireworks," what he described as "the genuine blind ignorant racism."
Naming Dr. Laura his "Worst Person i ...
Posted Saturday, August 14th 2010 at 8:23PM
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IMAM RAUF AND BUSH ADVISOR KAREN HUGHES WERE PART OF THE FEBRUARY 2006 U.S.—ISLAMIC WORLD FORUM IN DOHA, QATAR AND A SIMILAR DELEGATION IN MARCH 2006. “HIS WORK ON TOLERANCE AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IS WELL-KNOWN AND HE BRINGS A MODERATE PERSPECTIVE ...
Posted Friday, August 13th 2010 at 11:05PM
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For those who can't get enough RM (I'm looking at YOU, Irma!!!) here is another fine example of excellence in journalism. First, she does her homework. She makes sure she has her facts straight. Second, her astute analysis makes unexpected connec ...
Posted Friday, August 13th 2010 at 1:18PM
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“STROLLERS,” SAID RABBI JOY LEVITT. THE DIRECTOR OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN RECALLS THE MAIN TOPIC OF HER CONVERSATION WITH DAISY KHAN, WIFE OF IMMAM FEISAL ABDUL RAUF ABOUT AN IDEA FOR A MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER.
Joy ...
Posted Friday, August 13th 2010 at 11:13AM
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Why should we as Americans have higher standards of religious liberty than SAUDI ARABIA?
IT MAKES NO SENSE!!!
Jon Stewart
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Posted Wednesday, August 11th 2010 at 10:17PM
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WE NEED TO SHEPHERD OUR OWN FLOCK AND SAY THEOLOGICALLY THESE THINGS ARE UNACCEPTABLE. THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD, ON THE BATTLEFIELD, SAW INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED AND WAS OPENLY ANGRY. HE IS PROHIBITING US FROM KILLING THE INNOCENT.”
A rece ...
Posted Wednesday, August 11th 2010 at 6:17PM
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Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) says he knows firsthand the risky business of refusing to call President Obama a "socialist" from his primary election defeat earlier this summer.
Inglis was quoted reflecting back on his loss by the New York Daily News o ...
Posted Monday, August 9th 2010 at 2:43PM
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND A DREAM TEAM OF CURRENT AND FORMER BASEKTBALL STARS GOT TOGETHER TO PLAY BALL FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF OUR BRAVE WOUNDED WARRIORS.
LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and other NBA all-stars joined Obama in W ...
Posted Monday, August 9th 2010 at 9:59AM
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ONLY 1.38% OF THE FOX NEWS AUDIENCE IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN. WHO ARE THEY? "45% ARE TRAPPED IN A JIFFY LUBE WAITING ROOM. 7% ARE WHITE PEOPLE WHO WATCH FOX IN BLACKFACE. 25% SAID GLENN BECK’S NAME THREE TIMES AND HIS SHOW APPEARED AND THE REMAINING 23% ...
Posted Thursday, August 5th 2010 at 9:18PM
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It's a pattern with Fox. They keep running these stories about -- for lack of a better phrase -- scary black people. About scary black people at the USDA discriminating against white farmers. And scary black people stopping white people from voting. ...
Posted Thursday, August 5th 2010 at 8:35AM
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Stephen Colbert puts the pressure on Laura Ingraham during a stint on his show, showing that his comedic ability is better than hers.
But when they discuss her book Obama Diaries, a fictional creation of her own imagination, she responds to her ...
Posted Wednesday, August 4th 2010 at 11:56AM
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