This petty attack on one of our closest allies was embarrassing enough. But he solidified his image as the laughingstock of the world by inadvertently attacking a private citizen instead.
A senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan apologized on Wednesday for a “highly offensive” leaflet which contained a passage from the Quran used in the Taliban militants’ banner superimposed on to the image of a dog.
For a guy who has fought to ban Muslims from the country and has repeatedly denigrated and isolated those who practice Islam, both at home and abroad, Trump’s silence is certainly not surprising.Â
Trump’s choice of Flynn is unsurprising given the anti-Muslim aura that surrounded the president-elect during his campaign.
“Keep in mind, when Donald Trump brings this up, this is not new. When the communist threat was the number one threat…as is Islamic extremists today.”
“We blame Donald Trump for this . . .his drama has created Islamophobia. This is a hate crime no matter which way you look at it.”
“Neither the House nor the Senate has held hearings on the terrorism directed at law enforcement officials…by antigovernment zealots such as the Bundys.”
“We have no long term alternative but to quarantine them… prohibiting them from residing anywhere within the civilized nations of the Earth.”
Cruz says, “We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized”
Kasich subscribes to the Republican delusion that the road to peace depends upon forcing extremist Christianity down Muslim throats
Some may argue that evangelicals lack any humanity, because if they did they would not be driven by inhumanity toward anything not Christian
Benjamin Netanyahu did not like Barack Obama’s refusal to grant him control of U.S. foreign policy and a Kuwaiti paper says he wants revenge
A Muslim woman stood up in silent protest of Trump’s attacks on Syrian refugees, and found herself escorted out to boos and catcalls
Bill O’Reilly dishonestly claims that Germans looked the other way when Hitler rose to power and that Muslims are doing the same with ISIL
The Benham brothers don’t experience reality like the rest of us, so their explanation of why we liberals hate Christmas is rather bizarre
Bush’s response to 9/11 played directly into Osama bin Laden’s hands and provided a recruiting tool groups like ISIS could not exist without
Both the school district shuttering and University suspension center around the GOP and evangelical movement’s current cause, Islamophobia
Donald Trump wants to know why Syrian refugees have cell phones, who they might be calling, and who is paying for them, ‘hint, hint.’
While the Republican candidates were embarrassing themselves on CNN, Hillary Clinton was busy embarrassing them on Twitter
The GOP is inciting domestic terrorism toward Muslims, anyone that might appear to be Middle Eastern, or anyplace a Muslim might worship
That Republicans focus on the idea of an “Islamic problem” shows us how catastrophically insufficient is their understand of the world
Islamic nations are adamant in protecting the rights of all religions within their borders as an important adherence to their Islamic faith
The war on terror is not a simple matter of “us” versus “them” (radicalized Muslims) when so many of “us” are radicalized Christians
Donald Trump plans to visit Israel at the end of the year, but some in Israel are not happy at the prospect of Trump’s presence
Trump is ahead in the Republican presidential race because he spares supporters from having to learn about the subject matter at hand
The media has increasingly called out Trump rhetoric, with the Times calling him a demagogue and Sally Kohn invoking Hitler and fascism
Trump is not alone. Increasingly, Republicans are calling for concentration camps to be built to house Syrian refugees for now
Donald Trump is determined to keep the dream of the Reich alive by registering and identifying Muslims in public with special IDs
A Rhode Island GOP lawmaker wants Syrian refugees placed in internment camps where they would be segregated from the general population.
It is incredibly ironic that the one American ally that vehemently protested and condemned Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq has now felt the horrific results of terrorists created by Bush’s folly in attacking and slaughtering hundreds-of-thousands of innocent Muslims, and creating the Islamic State.
Trump wants to close mosques in order to fight the Islamic State, despite the First Amendment’s guarantee of the free exercise of religion
Ben Carson said Sunday that Muslims with nukes tip the world toward the biblical “end of days,” not religious fanatics like him
Ben Carson claims the Founding Fathers would have rejected a Muslim president, but their words show him to be a liar
CAIR criticized Carson’s claim that a Muslim should not be president and now Carson wants his revenge by revoking its tax-exempt status
Obviously, Carson himself does not subjugate his religious beliefs to the Constitution. No Republican candidate is willing to do that
When Muslims died in a crane collapse, Klingenschmitt said “this is the consequence of their sin when they were really praying to Satan.”
The Religious Right had a bad week with Constitution. You wouldn’t think people could be this, well, dirt stupid, but they can, and they are
Alisyn Camerota read the “No Religious Test” clause out loud and said, “Carson’s belief system violates that part of the Constitution”
Boykin claims “when you hold up a Bible, you need to hold up the Constitution right next to it” and pretend they’re the exact same thing
In this book, Daniel Byman explores global jihadism from its beginnings in 1979 to today, from the mujaheddin to the menacing Islamic State
Trump’s support comes from voters who believe Obama is a foreign-born Muslim. In the Republican Party, that is enough to put him in front.
But now, the Texas-size extremism is spreading to Arizona and it includes Texas-style armed biker thugs, conspiracy theorists, and anti-Muslim sentiments that set Texas apart as right-wing extremist central.
Fox & Friends wonders if students learned that the Qur’an says to kill nonbelievers, ignoring that their Bible says the exact same thing
It is hardly a surprise the Religious Right does not want to talk to those of other religions. After all, it’s harder to hate those you get to know
Inviting hate group leader Tony Perkins to speak about religious freedom is just more evidence of the GOP’s farcical approach to governance
It is difficult to have an intelligent conversation with somebody who wants a holiday which falls in the fall to be called the “mid-spring break”
“One thing is for sure – one day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”
The point is that all Christians should advocate and revere the truth with religious fervor; unless it is uttered by President Barack Obama at which point they “can’t handle the truth.”
After granting Muslim students use of the school chapel bell tower for call to prayer, Duke University backed down in the face of Religious Right outrage
In an example of purely ignorant racism, a shooting range in Arkansas turned away two prospective customers because the owner believed the men are Muslim.
What will #OpCharlieHebdo mean for ISIL? Given the hacktivist group’s record so far, ISIL might want to refer back to the KKK for an answer
Charlie Hebdo tells Republicans that people who don’t look like Fox News hosts should be killed, or at the very least, expelled from the US
In Donohue’s ideal world, Muslims and artists would convert to Catholicism, “If both did,” he says, “we would have peace and civility.”
When Indiana Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Pence went to Israel he met Benjamin Netanyahu but not Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
African Americans are not the only victims of media incitement to murder as was borne out on Thursday in Missouri as a sign of the success of Republican media’s successful 13-year fear mongering campaign.
What is curious, is that although America is not, was not, and never will be a Christian nation, there are signs that a religious purity crusade is gaining traction.
It’s a neat trick, pretending facts don’t exist so you can replace them with some agenda-friendly invented facts. *Cough* Benghazi *Cough*
Last week, the hate mongers’ efforts finally paid off and drove an extremist Christian into a rage that earned him banishment from the Maryland high school his daughter attended for making what amounts to a terrorist threat against school officials.
Of course the Americans putting Goebbels’s propaganda tactics into practice are Fox News, neo-conservatives, Republicans, and their religious right sycophants, and their big lie is that the greatest threat to this nation is every person who adheres to the Muslim faith.
ISIS is so bad, there is a Fatwa issued against them by their own religion.
Even while WND’s Joseph Farah claims there is no difference between CAIR and ISIL, we see Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson embrace ISIL’s own policy, that Muslims must “convert or die.”
The Trojan Horse in the Hobby Lobby ruling is a term, closely held corporation, that created an opening for nearly all businesses to use the new corporate religious freedom exemption with impunity.
Muslim baiter Geller is affronted that anyone defends scholar Reza Aslan for writing a book about Jesus yet not defend her for hating Muslims
Republican opponents of the Murfreesboro, TN mosque have upped the ante while sinking to a new low, and want the government to seize the mosque
Michele Bachmann seems to envision an America governed not through the democratic process but through a prayer-tyranny of the bigoted few
Conservative Christians want to be able to spew hate and lies but for nobody to have the right to disagree with or refute them
Apparently if you actually exercise your First Amendment rights to be something other than Christian, you’re dangerous.
Thursday marks the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, not to mention a think tank. What a waste of money.
Bryan Fischer dishonestly says liberals hate America and Christianity because they want to replace America as it was founded
When Reshad Riddle gunned down his father at Church, he didn’t say his act was the will of atheism.
The NFL hates ’em, the GOP loves ’em: bad character guys. Who needs Nazis and the KKK? We already have the Republican Party.
Texas Republican Representative, Louie Gohmert is convinced Sharia law is trying to take over the U.S. legal system. So, he’s packing.
Conservatives have convinced themselves that though Obama SHOULD be in jail even as president, he would certainly BE in jail if he were not.
So Ralph Reed of the misnamed Faith and Freedom Coalition, took exception to my findings yesterday, that the Bible is irrelevant as a determinant of United States immigration policy reform. He thinks he’s pretty clever and like any good conservative these days, goes right to invoking MLK: “So MLK was wrong to invoke the BIble &…
Reporting on the recent Assad defiant speech and a recent story on Russia’s role in the Syrian civil war. Syria may explode
There is no conceivable outcome in which GOP opposition to Chuck Hagel ends happily for Republicans
Tea Partiers indulge in wild fantasies of sending President Obama to prison since they haven’t managed to impeach him for Benghazi
Even when compared to 2012’s other conservative ranters and spewers, a sour-faced lot if there ever was one, Muslim-baiter Pamela Geller stands out.
Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US dictator within 5 years
Facts crash into belief where Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system is concerned. How could Obama have paid for it when he hates Israel?
Kim Kardashian is heading for the mid-east to open 2 new Milk Bars. She’ll also learn move about the region after a twitter controversy.
Israel could not have attacked Gaza without the tacit consent of the American government, which persists in seeing Israel as the victim
There could be no worse selection for President than money-monger, Mitt Romney. He himself admits, 47% of the population will be sidelined.
Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not Obama
Joseph Farah just can’t wrap his mind around a Christianity that includes its Christ, and attacks Jim Wallis for getting Jesus right
Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does exactly that
It’s probably needed but Obama is not going to do it, and why are we even talking about something like blasphemy? It’s so sixteenth century
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
The Republicans are trying to manipulate tragic events in the Middle East to the benefit of foreign-policy challenged, Mitt Romney.
The fundamentalists got themselves covered now, so don’t even try to argue: if Obama wins, it’s God’s will. If Romney wins, it’s God’s will.
I blame the First Amendment. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not making excuses for bad behavior by Islamic fundamentalists or any other fundamentalists. And the First Amendment is great. It’s my favorite amendment. It’s why I can do what I do here. It’s why I can read what I read and believe what I believe…
The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte is being targeted by fundies as Ground Zero for acts of martyrdom and cries of persecution
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it
For years we’ve been told Obama’s Christianity matters but where Romney’s Mormonism comes in, will expediency win out over dogma in 2012?
The 7 people killed at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin are another reminder that perpetual fear and hate-mongering inspire devastating results.
As I write, we know that the president of the Sikh temple was shot, and a Granthi of the Temple was shot and killed. Police officials are investigating this as a domestic terrorist act. At this time, we don’t have the name of the Sikh Temple shooter. Witnesses describe him as a man in his 30’s,…
It is curious that conservative evangelical Republicans are supporting Willard Romney when he belongs to a religion that has more in common with Islam than it does Christianity.
Michele Bachmann was spanked by her party leadership but got herself appointed to an Islamophobic law center and hauled in a cool million
