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U.S.News Store: Special Issues: Secrets of Islam
Referenced disparagingly by Revealer, Sept. 23, 2005. Consider buying.
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/store/products/prod_islam.htm
CBS 5: Guardsmen Sense Ghostly Presence In New Orleans
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http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_259121855.html
Japanese god woman buries herself in Gwalior to seek a disaster-free world - India News - Webindia123.com
Referenced by the Revealer.
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http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=143241&n_date=20051021&cat=India
George W. Bush and the G-Word
Bush has at various times suggested a surprisingly close relationship between himself and Yahweh. Al Kamen in the WaPo chronicles some of these utterances.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/13/AR2005101301688.html
Unknown News (Bush channels God)
Bush tells Amish: "God speaks through me". Originally from the Lancaster New Era.
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http://www.unknownnews.net/insanity071604.html
Air Force Times - News - More News
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http://www.airforcetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1198924.php
Coming Soon to a Church Near You
Another MSM piece on the new Left Behind release. Cited in the Revealer (link.)
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/20/AR2005102002186.html
Movie theaters are 'Left Behind' as Christian film goes to churches - baltimoresun.com
The third Left Behind movie is coming out, and is going straight-to-video but with a twist: it's being released only in churches. Referenced at The Revealer (link)
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.christian21oct21,0,166928.story?page=1&trac...
San Bernardino County Sun - News
Another Left Behind article. Referenced at The Revealer (link)
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http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_3140565
'Left Behind' Ignores Theaters
The latest Left Behind movie (the third) is skipping commercial theatrical release completely and going straight to their core audience: church congregations. Referenced at the Revealer (...
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/21/114021.shtml
Times Record News: Local News
David Limbaugh (brother of Rush) visits Wichita Falls, TX, and gives a rousing speech rallying the Christian troops in the culture war. Don't know why the Revealer picked this one up, exce
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http://www.timesrecordnews.com/trn/local_news/article/0,1891,TRN_5784_4199724,00.html
OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
Steven Prothero reviews Leigh Eric Schmidt's Restless Souls (on history of the SBNR phenomenon). Not surprisingly for the WSJ, he criticizes the book as representing the "spiritual left."
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110007551
Warner Independent Pictures Paradise Now, Directed by Hany Abu-Assad -- The Official Site
Referenced at The Revealer, Nov. 8. A movie about two Palestinian men, residents of a refugee camp in Nablus, who volunteer for a suicide mission. Thematizes (acc. to the Reveavler's Meer
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http://wip.warnerbros.com/paradisenow
Christianity, the Brand - New York Times
A profile of Larry Ross, head of a preeminent evangelical Christian PR firm. Sharply critiqued in the Revealer (snurl.com/sharlet_on_saroyan) for the its apparent attempt to "tame" relig...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/magazine/16christian.html?ei=5090&en=f113dc7ef8e73097&ex=1...
Soldiers of Christ II (Harpers.org)
"Feeling the hate with the National Religious Broadcasters." Chris Hedges' article from May 2005 on the meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters' Association.
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http://www.harpers.org/FeelingTheHate.html
2 more arrested in a Belgian neo-Nazi terror plot - Europe - International Herald Tribune
A disturbing story about the discovery of a potentially very large neo-Nazi terror network with roots within the Belgian military.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/08/news/neo.php
Putting a Different Face on Islam in America - New York Times
Notes on the election of Ingrid Matson, a 43-year-old American convert, as the first female president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/nyregion/20mattson.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
BBC video: White Americans converting to Islam in Texas
I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but this looks to be a quite fascinating documentary on native-born, white Texan converts to conservative Islam. Linked: snurl.com/y8k4
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9184353144432289069
Children as culture-war ammunition: the QuiverFull movement
More on the QuiverFull movement. Via http://snurl.com/12aw8
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061127/joyce
"Jewish Week" on religious right's setbacks in US Congress
Newspaper "The Jewish Week" interviews Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition. He is unfazed by last week's election: "The American people are with us. They're just confused." An...
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http://thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13253
Wal-mart's radical homosexual agenda
"We must go to our local Wal-Mart and help them to stand against this lying, liberal, demon-inspired onslaught." Only tangentially related to the course, but oddly compelling somehow.
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http://www.savewalmart.com
Wal-mart's radical homosexual agenda [6]
"We must go to our local Wal-Mart and help them to stand against this lying, liberal, demon-inspired onslaught."
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http://www.savewalmart.com/helpSaveWalMart.asp
Orange County mujaheddin?
Both John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban", and Adam Gadahn, now a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative, were white kids growing up in California not all that long ago. Julia Rabig looks a...
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http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_000388.php
An al-Qaeda "homegrown": Adam Gadahn
The New Yorker profiles "Azzam al-Amriki" (Adam the American), a high-ranking media officer inside al-Qaeda. He's a Jewish convert to Islam from Orange County, CA.
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070122fa_fact_khatchadourian?page=1
Fundamentalism and history
An article by TheRevealer.org's Jeff Sharlet on the relationship between American fundamentalist Christianity and the country's history. His trademark rambling, ethnographic, personal style.
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http://www.harpers.org/ThroughAGlassDarkly-12838838.html
Evangelical leaders demand Cizik stop talking about climate
Dobson, Perkins, Bauer, Weyrich, and others condemn National Assoc. of Evangelicals VP Richard Cizik for his engagement with environmental issues and human rights, which they see as a dis...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/us/03evangelical.html?_r=4&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=sl...
Steven Segal is a reincarnated Tibetan lama (tulku)
Peculiar ... a statement by a Tibetan lineage head explaining the circumstances surrounding his recognition of Steven Segal as a tulku, i.e. a reincarnation of 17th-century Tibetan "hidde...
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http://sangyetashiling.dk/kt/seagal.htm
Ten minutes with the Christians United for Israel
Max Blumenthal's highly unauthorized ten-minute video piece on what John Hagee's influential organization, the Christians United for Israel, actually preaches: mass conversion of Jews, Mu...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjMRgT5o-Ig