Aspiring Senator Bobby Casey, 'Authentic Catholic' and Libertine

The Pope's Anti-Islam 'Blunder

NY Times: 'Enlightenment Absolutists' Fail to Appease Muslim Extremist

Open Thread

Today's starter: Is the term Islamofascism an appropriate one? Joe Loconte argues yes.

Rich Muslims Urged to Buy Media Companies

Catholics up in Arms over 'Immaculately Transmitted' Joke

'Shouting Religious Slogans

Another classic from Reuters:Four gunmen shouting religious slogans attacked the U.S. embassy in Damascus on Tuesday, but failed to harm any American diplomats before all four were killed, a Syrian official said.Of course, the news service would provide similar cover if these gunmen were Christian... (h/t Small Dead Animals)

The Gospel According to The Washington Post

Bozell's News Flash: NBC Slices and Dices 'Veggie Tales

LA Times Goes to Texas, Alaska Seeking Church Abuse Scandals

Is the Los Angeles Times "piling on" when it comes to covering sex abuse by Christians? Have they misled their readers again?In the front section of today's Los Angeles Times (Tuesday, September 5, 2006) is an article, "Sex Charges Shadow a Local Curiosity in Texas: Five monks at the Christ of the Hills Monastery are accused of abusing boys. Police also say the church's famous crying icon was 'a…

BBC Once Again Declines to Disclose Religious Background of Terrorist

First it was "asian men" behind the plot to blow up British airlines headed for America, now it seems "men under the age of 30" were plotting terrorist attacks in Denmark, at least according to the BBC where informing readers of the religious identity of fanatical Muslims seems to be taboo.Danish police have arrested nine suspected terrorists, the country's security intelligence service says.The…

Bill Maher Attacks Christians, Advocates Conversion to Islam

Bill Maher on HBO’s September 1 “Real Time” went on quite an anti-theistic rant that clearly demonstrated his utter disdain for Christians as well as conservatives. To be sure, this wasn’t the first time Maher went so atheistically ballistic as reported by NewsBusters here. In this instance, Maher suggested that, “If converting to Islam is all it takes to get the terrorists off our backs, then…

Coulter-Bashing Secular Leftist Professor Featured in ‘Today’ Piec

In a September 1 piece for the "Today" show, NBC reporter Keith Miller sought out Jerry Coyne, a University of Chicago professor, to discuss the struggle between science and religion, since it's now being debated in front of Pope Benedict XIV. NBC labeled him simply as a "evolutionary biologist." This is what he had to say about the mixing of faith and science: Jerry Coyne: "The scientific way of…

Media Ignore Liberal Chafee's Constitutional Gaffe After Highlighting

Florida senatorial candidate Katherine Harris drew a voluminous amount of media attention for her recent comment that the separation of church and state is "a lie." Another Republican Senator, the liberal Lincoln Chafee from Rhode Island, made this liberal error during an August 26 debate with his conservative primary opponent: Lincoln Chafee: "Rhode Island was founded on separation of religion,…