Surprise: Local Press Does Good Job Covering Anti-Islam Campaigning…
… National news, not so good.
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Indonesian Volcano Update: Yes, it’s a Religion Story…
Media coverage has focused on the science of eruption, but they missed much of the local story.
Read MoreForgiving LeBron, Fetal Jesus Sonogram, and Hummus Wars
RD would never have built a KKK snowman. Not ever.
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Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie
According to one author there is something unique about American antipathy to Islam that differs substantially from earlier campaigns against Catholics, Jews and other religious minorities.
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Indonesia: As Volcano Erupts, a Spiritual Loss
President Obama was in Indonesia this week, but was forced to cut his trip short. As of this writing, Indonesia’s Mount Merapi is still spewing clouds of ash into the sky, and the death toll from the eruptions that began two weeks ago has grown to 191. Mbah Marijan was among the victims of he recent eruptions. He was eighty-three years old, and the juri cunci of the volcano, a “guardian of the key,” responsible for maintaining a relationship to the spirits of the mountain.
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Islam in Conflict with Democracy? A Response to Stanley Fish
A week before an election that saw Oklahoma pass Measure 755, forbidding the use of international and Shari’ah law in state courts, Literary theorist and New York Times contributor Stanley Fish penned a piece for the Times.
Read MoreObama Gets Religion in Indonesia
He’s growing up, but still has a way to go before he treats religion like an adult.
Read MoreJoe Miller’s Anti-Gay, Anti-Islam Advisor
Terry Moffitt’s strange views on Islam and the Constitution.
Read MoreObama To Skip Golden Temple: Part of A Larger Problem With Religion
Missing the forest for the turban.
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