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While the differences between movements may be fascinating, the tie that binds, violence, sort of supersedes that. That’s why I don’t think reporters should go out of their way to report any discrepancies in ideologies just out of opposition to Bush, he’s a politician and he knows exactly what he’s doing.
Here is your first assignment as we start a new week. It has to do with the most amazing quotation from last week.
We need some kind of honor to give here, something that goes beyond a mere hat tip when another blog actually produces an item that we could run as a GetReligion post with little or no extra work.
There are poignant online reports about another religious and legal angle of the story of the executions in Indonesia.
When it comes to The New York Times, I can be as hypercritical as the next member of a traditional religious flock.
I have a mission for religion reporters, reporters based in the Middle East and reporters who write stories that involve Islam: Start covering the differences in radical Islam.
Friends and neighbors, there isn’t a whole lot new going on with the pope story. But there sure is a whole lot of the same old same old going on. How in the world can a sane person follow it all?
Godbeat reporter Teresa Watanabe has a report out in the Los Angeles Times about a hot skirmish on the front lines of interfaith life. The issue? Should the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission reaffirm its selection of veteran Muslim leader Maher Hathout to receive a major human-relations award after two weeks of hot debate? Only four of the 14 commission members ended up voting for him, but that was enough — due to those who declined (were afraid?) to cast a vote.
Sister Leonella already had a bodyguard and the gunmen in Mogadishu killed him, too. The short Associated Press report carried in the Chicago Tribune clearly states what we know — or think we know — at the moment.
