Tag: Islam
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Pointless year in review presents … 2010’s worst use of moral equivalence
I don’t recall the Columbine killers invoking Jesus’ name as they executed their classmates. And, for the record, Timothy McVeigh was motivated by ideology, not religion. If it makes Tavis Smiley feel better to think his faith is populated by as many dangerous extremists as Islam, fine. There was a time when he would’ve been…
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Nothing sane about Yusuf Islam
Why was the Islamic fundamentalist formerly known as Cat Stevens invited to the Stewart-Colbert rally? Salman Rushdie is right to gripe. In my previous post about Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam I quoted Salman Rushdie’s surprise that Jon Stewart had given a starring role at his “Rally for Sanity” to a crooner who had previously opined that…
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A message from a hero
CJ 10th Mtn Division 5th Arm. Cav. US Army (Vet. Retired | Saturday, September 11, 2010 at pm | | Edit I am a vet of desert storm who took a bullet in war-time & a muslim. I love this country and my brothers in arms from this war! We fight for freedom and American-Muslims…
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Don’t let Islam off the hook
The blowhards are making it easy for them to play the victim, but there are certainly rational reasons for Americans to fear radical Islam. Christopher Hitchens breaks it down. Emboldened by the crass nature of the opposition to the center, its defenders have started to talk as if it represented no problem at all and…
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New developments: 1/4 of Americans still (willfully) ignorant
Nearly one-third of the country thinks adherents of Islam should be barred from running for President — a slightly higher percentage than the 24% who mistakenly believe the current occupant of the Oval Office is himself a Muslim.
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