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“If you wonder why a desperate Mitt Romney rushed to lie about President Obama’s handling of crises in Cairo and Benghazi and make the ugly claim that Obama’s first response was ‘to sympathize with those who waged the attacks’, the latest poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life helps fill in the…

“[Sam] Bacile, the producer of the film, is not Israeli, and most likely not Jewish, as has been reported, and that the name is, in fact, a pseudonym.” There’s more from The Atlantic on the search for the folks behind the anti-Muslim film trailer here: “Muhammad-Film Consultant: ‘Sam Bacile’ Is Not Israeli, and Not a…

“The United States ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was killed along with three of his staff in an attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi Tuesday night by an armed mob angry over a short American-made video mocking Islam’s founding prophet, the White House and Libyan officials said on Wednesday,” writes David D. Kirkpatrick in…

What do you think about this suggestion from televangelist Pat Robertson? “Become Muslim So [You] Can Beat [Your] Wife”.

From Doug Saunders, author of Myth of the Muslim Tide: 10 Myths About Muslims.

“Women are erratic and emotional, and they make good wives and mothers — but never leaders or rulers. That, at least, is what Osama Abou Salama, a professor of botany at Cairo University and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, told young men and women during a recent premarital counseling class.” Read more here. A…

What do you think of this new website on Shari’a in the United States? Sharia in America: The Role of Shari’a Law in U.S. Courts by Abed Awad, Attorney, Islamic Law Expert; Adjunct Professor, Rutgers Law School & Pace Law School

Hank Williams Jr. Blasts Obama Again, Says President Is Muslim, ‘Hates Cowgirls,’ ‘Loves Gays'” Read it all here.

“In what was called a first for Egyptian state television, a woman wearing a head scarf presented headlines in a newscast on Sunday, breaking with a code of secular dress that for decades effectively barred the wearing of Islamic head coverings.” Read the whole story here.

Several sessions at the 49th annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America centered on one topic: how to answer difficult but frequently asked questions about Islam. Maha ElGenaidi (pictured) moderated a discussion with Ameena Jandali and Jamal Badawi on the subject Sunday [2 September 2012]. Ms. ElGenaidi is President and CEO of Islamic…
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