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...matter off. On Day 7, Bush declared that Lott's remarks were "offensive." It is hard to understand how anyone can take a week to take offense at a racist remark. A natural suspicion is that the President and the other politicians aren't really as offended as they pretend to be. It is equally possible that they did take offense from the beginning but suppressed it while waiting to see how the story played out. In Gaffeland, there is no penalty for changing your tune as long as you're singing the right...
Fine. But it is bad history and worse public relations to pretend that Islam has always been pacific (it would not have grown so far and so fast had it been so), sensitive to the rights of women and protective of other faiths and people of "the book." Just as the history of Christianity has not always been a testament to the lessons of the God of love, so is Islam's past--and present--speckled with intolerance and bloodshed. What the world needs is not a hagiography of the Prophet or an apologia for Islam but a clear sense...
...think the real issue is not to pretend that intolerance toward homosexuality is on the rise. I don’t think it is,” Pappin said...
...that “labels are silly in modern American politics.” Perhaps he is right about that; certainly it’s hard to take the traditional labels seriously when the Democrats’ best attempt to win this year’s elections was to pretend they were all staunch Bush Republicans and hope no one would notice...
...away, where they would be safe. The only requirement was that the children convert from Catholicism, which is practiced by most East Timorese, to Islam, the religion of their Indonesian overlords. "He said that they could convert back later, it didn't mean anything, that they only had to pretend so the Indonesians would give the money for them to go to school," recalls Pereira, a Christian. "I trusted him and let him take away Jacinto and Marito," the youngest of his eight children, who were then five and eight years old, respectively...