The answer can be found here at ABC News’ Brian Ross and & the Investigative Team site, along with seven other questions that will test your knowledge of Islam.
Tanzania or bust
All together now, repeat after me (once again): “The Africans pray, the Americans pay and the British write the resolutions.”
Again, what about the religious left?
The two controversial bloggers hired by the presidential campaign of John Edwards have quit after people complained that they had written some things that were anti-Catholic. No, they weren’t fired. They went on their own accord:
Shia rising
National Public Radio’s Morning Edition is in the midst of a five-part series on Shiism this week. It’s called “The Partisans of Ali: A History of Shia Faith and Politics” and is well worth listening to or reading online.
Mormons, misconceptions and media myths
Here we go again. It’s time to take another look at mainstream coverage of the White House campaign of Mitt Romney.
Why free will matters
Anytime a newspaper reporter tries to tackle the subject of philosophy in a serious way, it’s a good thing. Carey Goldberg’s report in The Boston Globe on Harvard professor Marc Hauser’s work to prove that morality is universally hard-wired into the brain is no exception.
When geoscientists attack
Once upon a time, I thought I wanted to become an economics professor. This delusion lasted from early high school until I took enough postgraduate classes to be convinced otherwise. I loved my field of study and I had fantastic professors. One way in which they were helpful was to counsel me to keep my private views on everything from monetary theory to the Coase Conjecture hidden.
Blue notes, red notes at Grammys
One Pat story equals two Advils
OK, OK, OK, I admit that some reporter had to write this story, no matter how much I wish it would go away:
