Islamophobia by PowerPoint
An afternoon with credential-free expert William Federer and his fact-challenged “What Every American Needs to Know About the Koran.”
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Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry
The support of many Republican presidential candidates demonstrates the success of a cottage industry based on the conspiracy theory that totalitarian Islamic radicals are bent on infiltrating America, displacing the Constitution, and subverting Western-style democracy in the U.S. and around the globe.
Read MoreGeorgia Legislator Behind Bill Criminalizing Miscarriage is Christian Reconstructionist
Bobby Franklin has been called “the conscience of the Republican Caucus.”
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What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?
With the swing to the Right of the 1950s, conservatives began to deploy “Judeo-Christian” in the fight against “Godless Communism,” contrasting it with “the communist projection of man as a producing, consuming animal to be used and discarded.”
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The Strategic Caution of the Muslim Brotherhood
During the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei’s Friday Sermon on February 4, 2011, he said, “The events of North Africa have a special meaning for the Iranian nation. This is what has always been known as the occurrence of Islamic awakening as a result of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.”
Read MoreMeet Wyoming’s Anti-Shari’ah Crusader
Gerald Gay brings his Christian beliefs to lawmaking, but wants to ban laws based in “foreign religion.”
Read MoreOn Cairo Streets, No Support for Islamist State
Rather than turning to theocracy, Egyptians are building their own structures of civil society.
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Democratic Egypt Tests a Divided Israel
Most of us are watching the unfolding events in Egypt with awe and anticipation hoping its citizens will nonviolently supplant a repressive and dictatorial regime with a democracy. Those of us who have physical or emotional ties to Israel see a more complicated picture. Israel is watching the…
Read MoreTheocracy: “What Would Be So Bad About It?”
Religious right funder reflects on her support for Christian Reconstructionism.
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Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama
From the media influence of the “birthers” to suggestions that the president wants to euthanize the elderly, a propaganda campaign against Obama is in full swing. Who, exactly, is behind it?
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