by Robert Parham | Sep 10, 2010 | Opinion
Gen. David Petraeus said on Tuesday that “images of the burning of a Quran” would “inflame public opinion” and “incite violence” around the world, endangering American soldiers. The U.S. and NATO commander’s dog-whistle...
by Robert Parham | Sep 9, 2010 | Opinion
A new surge of anti-Muslim feeling is breaking across the United States. The situation is serious enough that the Islamic Society of North America felt that it needed to host an emergency interfaith summit on Tuesday followed by a press conference at the National...
by Robert Parham | Sep 7, 2010 | Opinion
Missing from mid-August news stories about Texas politicians who allege an international conspiracy of “terror babies” is their faith affiliation. Yep. You guessed it. They are Southern Baptists. These Southern Baptists contend that foreign, pregnant...
by Robert Parham | Sep 2, 2010 | Opinion
After the Washington Post placed my column about Glenn Beck on the top line of a Tuesday afternoon e-mail, I got a call from a man who was angry. He demanded, “Where in the Bible does it teach social justice?” I asked him to tell me his name. He said it...
by Robert Parham | Aug 30, 2010 | Opinion
Fox News host Glenn Beck muddled biblical references with fragments of American history, recreating a pottage of civil religion that says America has a divine destiny and claiming that a national revival is beginning. At the very beginning of the “Restoring...
