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Why did Lahore, Pakistan, think it was different? And different from what? Much has been made about how Lahore was perceived as different since the brutal, daylight attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.
I’m thrilled when our readers send us story suggestions from papers we might not normally see. Search engines are a wonderful invention, but we still miss articles that might be wonderful examples of factual, fair religion coverage or ones that most clearly are not.
Last weekend, I poked the Los Angeles Times because it’s lede on the Dr. James Dobson retirement story went a bit too far. You may recall that it said:
My husband and I went to see Milk, the film about the first openly gay man elected to public office in California, a few months ago. We enjoyed the movie, with some exceptions, and I predicted Sean Penn would win the Oscar for best actor — he was just that transcendentally good. And the supporting cast was also amazing.
I’ve been debating whether to write about Ariel Levy’s “Lesbian Nation” essay for The New Yorker‘s March 2 issue. An abstract is here. The full article is available to non-subscribers for $4.95.
A GetReligion reader with an intense interest in history, especially in northern Africa and other regions bordering the Middle East, sent me the URL of to this haunting multi-media feature by CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson.
Nia-Malika Henderson had a great and illuminating piece in the Politico. Headlined “Blacks, whites hear Obama differently,” she looks at how President Barack Obama is able to speak in a manner that solidifies his support among blacks while at the same time not alienating non-blacks who speak in a different manner. Here’s how it begins:
Fareed Zakaria has written a thoughtful and creative cover essay for the latest Newsweek. He argues for making distinctions between Islamists who are terrorists and Islamists who wish for Sharia law in their own nations but have not supported terrorism.
