For a few days this month, it was illegal in Oklahoma for a state judge to base a court decision on Islamic religious law or consider any form of international law. It was a manufactured problem; the issue has never come up in the state’s courts. But more than 70 percent of voters in Oklahoma [...]
The recent news that Park 51, the organization behind the Islamic Cultural Center in Lower Manhattan, has applied for funding through the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) has unleashed yet another torrent of outrage.
From Rep. Peter King (R-NY), ”It is entirely wrong for any taxpayer money to be used to fund the ground zero mosque…this [...]
EVERY year as the weather chills and the days grow short, Jews remember Nov. 9, 1938. In just a few hours, Nazis in Germany and Austria damaged or destroyed thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes. Scores of Jews were killed, hundreds injured and tens of thousands rounded up and deported to concentration camps.
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Much of the news media seemed bemused or bewildered when Sharron Angle warned of an Islamic-law takeover in America during her unsuccessful bid to unseat Sen. Harry Reid.
Angle was widely ridiculed for citing Frankford, Texas (a town that no longer exists), and Dearborn, Mich. (with a large population of Arab-Americans living under American law), [...]
WASHINGTON (RNS) A day after ordering a host of changes to the White House’s faith-based office, President Obama is facing mounting criticism for keeping in place Bush-era policies that allow faith-based social service providers to hire and fire based on religion.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers on Thursday (Nov. 18) voiced frustration that he [...]
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