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...Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 was brought down on 9/11, the Rev. Ron McRae continues to fuel conspiracy theories, right up to Election Day. The self-styled Anabaptist bishop, who gained the support at least one Congressman when he complained that the proposed Flight 93 memorial "Crescent of Embrace" honored Islam and pointed toward Mecca, has now supposedly interviewed Barack Obama's Kenyan grandmother to prove that the Democratic nominee is not a natural-born citizen. The interview is allegedly attached as an affidavit to a U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit that is trying to stop this election - a lawsuit that, McRae...
...early as possible". Although the parliamentary debate reflected the power plays of a political culture in which parties rarely put the national interest above their own, it also reveals a profound difference in perspective even within the ruling coalition - Zardari's allies in the religious Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party demanded an end to military operations against the militants...
...follow this trial not because its details sound lifted from the next James Bond film, but rather because its intrigues do resemble a higher-stakes version of our own party politics. What makes this case pertinent is that those prosecuting the group have been accused of representing the pro-Islam government, the ruling AK Party, in revenge for a failed court attempt to ban the party this summer for undermining Turkey’s secular government system. For years, secular Turks have battled more Islamic Turks over the direction of their country. The result of this case and any cases...
...other motive for keeping mum has to do with the simplistic and largely negative characterization of Islam and the Arab world post-9/11, to which the government itself must plead guilty. Though few have gone as far as televangelist Pat Robertson, who called the prophet Muhammad “an absolute wild-eyed fanatic…a killer,” or Fox News personality Sean Hannity, who compared the Quran to Mein Kampf, the idea persists that there is something possibly threatening, and definitely unsettling, about Islam...
...political climate thus far makes it unlikely that the Obama campaign will directly acknowledge the legitimacy of Islam and the Muslim vote, at least not anytime before Nov. 5. Part of this has to do with the 13 percent of independent voters who believe that Obama is a Muslim; as long as the possibility exists that this perception will jeopardize his chance of winning undecided votes, Obama’s campaign will prioritize disabling the rumor mill over dismantling religious stereotypes...