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Muslim Praise for Obama-Taliban Parley
By cmcmorri — October 30, 2008
Obama told Time‘s Joe Klein of that he is in favor of negotiating with the Taliban. General Petraeus agrees. This statement has prompted an elated response from blogger Mujahideen Ryder:”This is extremely good news, and makes me want to shout at all the Muslims in Texas, Virginia, Ohio, Florida and any other strong Republican states […]
Trick or Treat
By cmcmorri — October 29, 2008
It’s been a while since all the Jeremiah Wright commotion. This is a last minute release by The National Republican Trust PAC. Apparently it will cost the PAC somewhere between 1-3 million dollars to air it. Brody suggests the moment’s too far gone now for the video to have much impact and that if McCain […]
Live Debate: Muslims for McCain vs Muslims for Obama – Oct 30th @ 10 PM EST
By cmcmorri — October 27, 2008
MuslimMatters.org is hosting a live online chat-box debate between Muslim supporters of both Obama and McCain. It will take place on 30th Oct @ 10 pm EST. Click here for more information.
Focus on the Family Action Projects: Dystopia Under Obama
By cmcmorri — October 27, 2008
Here’s Focus on the Family Action’s 16-page mock letter written by “A Christian from 2012.” It lays out the moral dystopia (terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, homeschoolers as refugees, pornography everywhere) America will become after 4 years of an Obama presidency, and is aimed particularly at younger evangelicals who (it claims) were responsible for naively […]
Powell shakes up GOP
By cmcmorri — October 20, 2008
Beleifnet comments on Colin Powell’s criticism of rumors that have spread around senior members of the GOP calling Obama a Muslim, as if his allegiance would be to something other than America’s best interest, if the rumors were even true. On Meet the Press Powell said yesterday, “This is not the way we should be […]
Florida Senator Admits to Affairs
By cmcmorri — October 20, 2008
ABC has an interview in which Florida Democratic Senator Tim Mahoney comes clean about the truth of his extra-marital affairs and his attempts to cover them up. While his honesty and self-reproach appeals to the, “I’m only human, I make mistakes” defense, his admission surely dissolves the family values platform on which he ran during […]
McCain, Palin slam Obama on abortion
By cmcmorri — October 12, 2008
Last Thursday at a GOP rally in Waukesha, WI, McCain said that, on the issue of abortion, “Sen. Obama has a clear radical, far-left, pro-abortion record.” Yesterday, Palin at a rally in Johnstown, PA, continued with this line of criticism, proclaiming that she and McCain will be “defenders of the culture of life” and slamming […]
Thurman on Palin’s Religion
By cmcmorri — October 8, 2008
Robert Thurman of Columbia University has his own grievance with Palin’s Religion. In his mind, what sets the Palin-Muthee connection apart from that of Obama and Wright is that she has gone beyond association and incorporated church teachings into her political addresses and policies. From this he intuits that Pailn might well make life changing […]
Video: Abortion Issues Crucial
By cmcmorri — October 7, 2008
The conservative Catholic group, Fidelis, put out this new video, which stresses that the most important topics in this election are anti-abortion/pro-life and anti-gay marriage/pro-(?) issues. Beliefnet reports that “Catholic churches across the country” have posted the video on their websites. The video certainly seems to have had a high production budget.
The Perils of Flirting with Palin
By cmcmorri — October 3, 2008
Palin has not had much luck with feminists at home, but her meeting with a flirtatious Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, last week has resulted in an unlikely union between a Pakistani hard-line conservative mosque and Pakistani feminists. Zadari who was more than happy to see Palin, as you can see from the above video, […]
Cartoon Offends
By cmcmorri — September 30, 2008
Pat Oliphant’s cartoon, printed last Wednesday on Washingtonpost.com, received criticism for being offensive, particularly from some 350 Pentecostals. Debra Howell, who appeased such responses in her column, continued the discussion with a more general piece on the politics of cartoons. In response, a Getreligion post by Mollie pointed out that not only is the cartoon […]
First Debate Religion Free (Almost)
By cmcmorri — September 27, 2008
That McCain opened with offering our prayers for Ted Kennedy was about as far religion was brought into the debate last night. Beliefnet’s Paul Raushenbush feels a little perturbed that both the candidates left religion out of foreign policy. For Raushenbush, neither candidate seemed to really acknowledge the influence of religion on global politics. But […]
Our Fellow Blair
By cmcmorri — September 20, 2008
The former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, gave (http://www.courant.com/news/education/hc-blair0920.artsep20,0,5756992.story) an introductory hello to a multitude at Yale’s Woolsey Hall on Friday, initiating the beginning of a new chapter in his interdisciplinary career: now as “Professor Blair”. Blair is set to teach a course on “Faith and Globalization Initiative” to a mixture of carefully selected graduates […]
Mark Rasmussen bio
By cmcmorri — October 16, 2007
Mark Rasmussen is an undergraduate fellow at the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. A religion major and member of the Trinity College class of 2009 from London, he is an editorial assistant for Religion in the News magazine.
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