Toddler killed

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Texas Muslims

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French embassies braced for cartoon backlash - FRANCE - FRANCE 24

French embassies braced for cartoon backlash - FRANCE - FRANCE 24: "French embassies, consulates and international schools in 20 Muslim countries closed their doors on Friday for fear of a violent backlash over cartoons published earlier this week by Paris-based weekly Charlie Hebdo."

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Obama ‘fear’ driving social conservatives - POLITICO.com Print View

It ain't right right to use someone's religion as a basis for fear. The thing that's most intimate - spirituality and faith - to someone should not be manipulated in this way.  This is not new, but it is exclusively used by one group throughout the world. In Libya and Egypt this week using religion as a stick was the impetus for the embassy runs; the same was used to motive religious groups in 10 other places where U.S. embassies were on high alert.  The more educated and enlightened do not act on based fears, yet as we look down the ignorance ladder (less educated) we see that rationality is null.      

 - JR

Obama ‘fear’ driving social conservatives - POLITICO.com Print View:

Fear of President Barack Obama — not enthusiasm for Mitt Romney — is driving religious conservatives to pull the lever for the GOP nominee this November.

Romney — a former Massachusetts governor who came late to the anti-abortion rights cause — was never a favorite of evangelical voters during the Republican primaries, and their love for him hasn’t grown much now that he has officially become their party’s standard bearer, as judged by interviews with two dozen conservatives at the Values Voter Summit in Washington this weekend.

But religious conservatives will support Romney because Obama — who endorsed same-sex marriage earlier this year — is anathema to them. And as much as they are lukewarm about Romney, conservatives are thrilled by the GOP nominee’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate.

“It’s not excitement, it is fear — fear of the other guy,” said Dolores Taylor, 69, of West Harrison, N.Y., explaining why she will vote for Romney over Obama in November. “Excited doesn’t seem to be the right word — I’d say energized, because I’m so angry about what’s going on.”

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GOP Senate Candidate Linked To Controversial ‘Christian Supremacist’ Group

GOP Representative and Missouri Senate Candidate Todd Akin has a long history of extremism, particularly with respect to the role of religion in public life. As it turns out, that shouldn’t be much of a suprise: one of Akin’s principal political influences appears to be Reverend D. James Kennedy, a minister who spent his life organizing a movement dedicated to reorganizing the American government along radically conservative evangelical lines.

Kennedy is widely believed to be a leading advocate for a variant of dominionism, (roughly) the idea that the American government should be run according to Christian, biblical lines. “It must be remembered that D. James Kennedy is a leader among the distinct group of ‘Christian Supremacists’ who seek to ‘reclaim America for Christ’ and turn the U.S. into a Christian nation guided by their strange notions of biblical law,” Abraham Foxman, the President of the Anti-Defamation League, explains.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/10/667381/gop-senate-candidate-linked-to-controversial-christian-supremcist-group/

Mormons apologize for baptizing of dead Jews - CBS News

Mormons apologize for baptizing of dead Jews - CBS News: "Mormon church leaders apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized, a controversial ritual that Mormons believe allows deceased people a way to the afterlife but offends members of many other religions."

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"Jesus is with the 99%"

24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Victim pleads for Texas death row inmate's life - VIdeo

Conservative Historian David Barton

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Florida mosque bomber shot dead

Documents: Bomb suspect was paranoid about 'feds' - Florida Wires - MiamiHerald.com: "FBI documents say the man wanted in the bombing of a Florida mosque who was shot and killed when he pulled a gun on agents trying to arrest him in Oklahoma hated Muslims and had become increasingly erratic.

The FBI says Sandlin Smith of St. Johns County, Fla., was shot Wednesday in a field at Glass Mountain State Park near Orienta in northwest Oklahoma. FBI Agent Clayton Simmonds says agents opened fire when Smith pulled out an AK-47 assault rifle as agents approached him."

Florida Koran Burning Kill U.N. Staff

Summer for the U.S. Forces to leave is starting to look reasonable.

Afghans chanted anti-American slogans during a demonstration to condemn the burning of a copy of the Muslim holy book by a U.S. pastor, in Mazar-i- Sharif on Friday.

 

Stirred up by a trio of angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at Florida church, thousands of protesters overran the compound of the United Nations in this northern Afghan city, killing at least 12 people, Afghan and United Nations officials said.

The dead included at least seven United Nations workers — five Nepalese guards and two Europeans, one of them a woman. None were Americans. Early reports, later denied by Afghan officials, said at least two of the dead had been beheaded.

The attack was the deadliest for the United Nations in Afghanistan since 11 people were killed in 2009, when Taliban suicide bombers invaded a guest house in Kabul, and it underscored the latent hostility toward the nine-year foreign presence here, even in a city long considered to be among the safest in Afghanistan — so safe that American troops no longer patrol here in any numbers.

Justice Department sues on behalf of Muslim teacher, triggering debate - The Washington Post

Justice Department sues on behalf of Muslim teacher, triggering debate - The Washington Post: "Justice Department lawyers examined the same set of facts and reached a different conclusion: that the school district’s decision amounted to outright discrimination against Khan. They filed an unusual lawsuit, accusing the district of violating her civil rights by forcing her to choose between her job and her faith.

As the case moves forward in federal court in Chicago, it has triggered debate over whether the Justice Department was following a purely legal path or whether suing on Khan’s behalf was part of a broader Obama administration campaign to reach out to Muslims."

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The latest controversy involving NPR executives and Thursday Congressional hearing into the "radicalization" of Muslim Americans are two topics under discussion in the weekly Tell Me More"Barbershop." Host Michel Martin speaks with author Jimi Izrael, civil rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar, columnist Ruben Navarrette and the journalist Kevin Williamson

Westboro Baptist - Washington Journal | C-SPAN Video

Washington Journal for Thursday, March 3 | C-SPAN: "Margie Phelps, Attorney for Fred Phelps Sr., talks about the Supreme Court case of Snyder v. Phelps. The Court ruled 8-1 Wednesday that the Westboro Baptist Church has the right to conduct hateful protests at military funerals because it is protected under the First Amendment."

Burning questions: should Catholic pols opposing healthcare reform be denied communion? : The Reid Report

Uh, yes!


Burning questions: should Catholic pols opposing healthcare reform be denied communion? : The Reid Report: "Now that the pope has declared healthcare to be a fundamental human right, does it follow that the church should treat those opposed to that human right — namely people who want to repeal universal healthcare legislation in Washington, or who are suing it in various states — the way the church often treats politicians who support abortion rights?"

ThinkProgress » Pope Calls Health Care An ‘Inalienable Right,’ Urges World Governments To Provide Universal Coverage

ThinkProgress » Pope Calls Health Care An ‘Inalienable Right,’ Urges World Governments To Provide Universal Coverage: "At an international papal conference on health care yesterday at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI and other Catholic church leaders said it is the “moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay.” Saying access to adequate medical care is one of the “inalienable rights” of man, the pope said, “Justice in health care should be a priority of governments and international institutions”:"

Former Terry Jones church in Germany denounces Koran-burning plan | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 08.09.2010

Former Terry Jones church in Germany denounces Koran-burning plan | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 08.09.2010: "A German church founded and formerly led by Terry Jones, the American pastor who international attracted attention with controversial plans to stage a Koran-burning ceremony, expressly denounced those plans on Wednesday.


Jones' former church is 'deeply disturbed' by their former leader

Stephan Baar, deputy chairman of the Christliche Gemeinde Koeln (CGD), the Christian Community of Cologne, told Deutsche Welle that Jones preached a strict, even fundamental understanding of the Bible, but that no direct comparisons could be drawn between his sermons there and the radical views he is currently espousing at his new church."

Burning Of Holy Quran Would Be 'Outrageous': Vatican

Burning Of Holy Quran Would Be 'Outrageous': Vatican: "The Vatican warned Wednesday that the planned mass-burning of copies of the Holy Quran by a small church in the southern US state of Florida on the ninth anniversary of the attacks of September 11 in 2001 attacks, would be 'an outrageous and grave gesture.'

The Vatican's 'Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue' said in a statement it viewed with 'great concern' the news of the proposed 'International Burn-a-Quran Day,'' scheduled for Saturday.

'Each religion, with its respective sacred books, places of worship and symbols, has the right to respect and protection,' the council, responsible for dialogue with other religions, said."

Planned Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns - CNN.com

Planned Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns - CNN.com: "he U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Monday criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning the demonstration 'could cause significant problems' for American troops overseas.
'It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort in Afghanistan,' Gen. David Petraeus said in a statement issued Monday."

Mosque near Ground Zero: Frequently asked questions

Mosque near Ground Zero: Frequently asked questions: "3. Is it actually a mosque, or is it a cultural center?

The plan is for a cultural center that would contain a mosque.

The project's organizers have said that the center would be modeled on Manhattan's 92nd Street Y, a community center open to all New Yorkers. The center would house meeting rooms, a fitness center, a swimming pool, a basketball court, a restaurant and culinary school, a library, a 500-seat auditorium, a mosque and a Sept. 11 memorial and reflection space. The organizers have estimated that the mosque could attract as many as 2,000 worshipers on Fridays. More on what would be in the complex here."