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Many conservative Christians would encourage Graham to speak boldly. A recent poll by the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Beliefnet website found that 89% of evangelical leaders thought it "very important" to "insist on the truth of the Gospel" to Muslims. These leaders sincerely want to emulate Jesus' love by acts of feeding and healing, says Southern Baptist official R. Albert Mohler Jr., but "aid alone is not sufficient to bring a person to a saving knowledge of Christ." They have grown increasingly eager to expose Islam's "unreached" millions to Jesus. Missionary numbers in Muslim lands...
Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf followed a simple code: When life hands you lemons, insist that, despite the heinous lies of the infidels, they are in fact lemonade. In a war that produced no Scud Stud, al-Sahhaf emerged as a strange sort of cult icon, appearing daily before a bank of microphones in Baghdad to bark, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" and "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis...
...virus. But, again, until April 11 none of those cases could be confirmed as SARS, because the link between the stewardesses and the sick airplane passengers hadn't been confirmed by reluctant airline officials. Indeed, as of last weekend, a press statement on the Air China website continued to insist that "at present, no flight-crew members have been infected." Other cases were brought to Inner Mongolia by two families who visited relatives at Beijing's People's Liberation Army No. 301 Hospital in early March, infecting at least six people in the cities of Baotou and Fengzhen...
With the war in Iraq won—shall we revel in American military power and—against the history of modern empires —insist that the American empire will be beneficent...
...tantamount to saying that no one can steal—except thieves and pickpockets. Non-discrimination policies are not meant to address organizations which do not discriminate and have no reason to do so; they are necessary precisely to rein in organizations like HRCF—stubborn organizations which insist on discriminating in the face of clear prohibitions against such behavior. By strongly prohibiting already non-discriminatory groups from discriminating and yet opening up a loophole for HRCF, the CCL has made a mockery of the very idea of non-discrimination policies...