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How al Qaeda Dupes Its Followers | Foreign Policy
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In fact, these men fit exactly the profile that the FBI and
the world should now come to expect: no profile at all. A militant's profile
lies not in his age, race, culture, or education; anyone can join or be adopted
by the al Qaeda network, the only prerequisite being a willingness to accept
the group's radical, cult like ideology. So if there is a lesson to be learned
from these recent arrests, it is that profiling won't work. We need something
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Indeed, so persuasive is the rhetoric that al Qaeda
regularly convinces converts to reject 1,431 years of Islamic teachings in
favor of a mission whose intention is the destruction and re-engineering of
Islam itself. Osama bin Laden has managed to replace fear of God and adherence
to the Quran with his philosophy of jihad above all else. What's behind that
facade is the true philosophical intentions of al Qaeda: the establishment of a
new Islamic caliphate that will defeat democracy as the greater of the two political
orders. Al Qaeda's leaders seek to reverse what they claim are corrupt Islamic practices
bookended by the Mongol invasions in 1256 and Ataturk's ending the caliphate in
1924. Theirs is a fight to turn Islam's clock back to the time of Prophet
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Religious Right Including Members Of Congress Pray For God To Stop The Health Care Bill | TPMDC
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The Family Research Council Action PAC held an extraordinary "prayercast" event last night, praying for the intercession of God to change Senators' minds and stop the health care bill.
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president Tony Perkins began the evening with a false statement, confidently saying that history records the Founding Fathers praying for God's intervention at the Constitutional Convention.
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Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens - NYTimes.com
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In March 2008, the office produced a “terrorism watch list” report about a Muslim conference in Georgia at which several Americans were scheduled to speak, even though it “did not have any evidence the conference or the speakers promoted radical extremism or terrorist activity,” and such speech is constitutionally protected, an internal report said.
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In a 2007 report, top security agency officials said “intelligence oversight training is not managed effectively” at the N.S.A. and called procedures regarding training “confusing.”
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Taunton schools rebut report on child's Jesus drawing - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe
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Julie Hackett, superintendent of Taunton Public Schools, said the student was never suspended and that neither he nor other students at the Maxham Elementary School were asked by their teacher to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas or any religious holiday, as the newspaper reported and the father suggested.
She said it was unclear whether the boy -- who put his name above his stick-figure portrait of Christ on the cross -- even drew it in school.
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She said the boy's drawing was seen as a potential cry for help when the student identified himself, rather than Jesus, as the figure on the cross, which sparked the teacher to alert the school's principal and staff psychologist.
Religious Anti-Torture Group Urges Holder to Produce OPR Report « The Washington Independent
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Today, in response to that delay, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture sent a letter urging Holder to make good on his promise and release the report immediately.
“The delay in the issuance of the report jeopardizes the admirable leadership the Administration has shown in calling for transparency in government and in ending U.S.-sponsored torture once and for all,” says the letter. “Release of the OPR report is not like release of the photographs of torture; release of the OPR report will not imperil the safety of our troops or encourage new recruits for the terrorists. Its effect will be exactly the opposite. Release of the OPR report will demonstrate the integrity of our government processes.”
Religion, Science and the Climate Change Divide | The Kojo Nnamdi Show
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A United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen is ground zero for heated political disputes about global environmental policies. But one American evangelical minister at the talks wants to bridge political divides with a religious appeal. We explore "Creation Care" and the issues that divide religion and science.
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Matthew Nisbet
Assistant Professor, School of Communication, American University; author of the blog Framing Science.
Richard Cizik
President of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good and Fellow at the Open Society Institute. Formerly Vice President for Government Affairs at the National Association of Evangelicals.
Eric Chivian
Founder and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard. Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Co-founder of the organization International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
Christianist Watch - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Jesus never advocated the government go steal
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God, Made In Man's Image - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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[Nicholas Epley at the University of Chicago] found that when people contemplated God’s opinions, their
brains activated similarly to when they were contemplating their own
opinions — the same was not true when they contemplated the opinions of other people.
Informed Comment: Swiss Islamophobia Betrays Enlightenment Ideals
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This campaign poster was banned for being racist, but apparently the goal of the poster, now that is all right.
The Prosperity Gospel And The Subprime Collapse, Ctd - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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As so often, Tocqueville got there first:
"Not only do the American practice their religion out of self-interest,
but they often even place in this world the interest which they have in
practicing it. Priests in the Middle Ages spoke of nothing but the
other life; they hardly took any trouble to prove that a sincere
Christian might be happy here below. But preachers in America are continually coming down to earth.
Indeed they find it difficult to take their eyes off it. The better to
touch their hearers, they are forever pointing out how religious
beliefs favor freedom and public order, and it is often difficult to be
sure when listening to them whether the main object of religion is to
procure eternal felicity in the next world or prosperity in this."
Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. II, Part 2, ch. 9 - 1 more annotations...
The curious economic effects of religion - The Boston Globe
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They found that religion has a measurable effect on developing economies - and the most powerful influence relates to how strongly people believe in hell.
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