Obama as Muslim and the new rules of spin | Michael Tomasky It doesn't surprise me, really, that the number of Americans believing Barack Obama is a Muslim has gone up in 14 months from 11% to 18%, according to a survey out today from Pew (Time magazine got 24% in another poll released today). Here we have a case where a group of people is quite vocally arguing that he is, while no one is bothering to argue the opposite case, that he isn't. There are two reasons for this. First, it's just self-evident to those of us who believe (know) he's not a Muslim that he's not a Muslim. As Colin Powell admirably said once, not that there would be anything wrong with that; but it just isn't the case. So why argue the point? Does one who believes the sun rises in the east have to run around arguing the point? No. Because it's just reality.The second reason is more problematic, because here, the doubter might say, okay, if he's Christian, what church did he go to? Ooops. There's an answer to that question, but it too is politically problematic, involving as it does old Reverend Wright, so for the doubters, that's not a particularly reassuring answer.But the real problem is that you have vocal people out there arguing that he's a Muslim, and no one countering it, so naturally more people are going to listen. If a lie is going unanswered, it will gather adherents.It puts Obama's defenders in a spot, because having to launch a group called something like obamaisachristian.com is kind of pathetic and will just generate a bunch of news stories about how strange it is that it's come to this, and those stories in turn, the mere existence of them, will nourish the lie. (By the way, and proving my point, obamaisachristian.com is not registered! You can order it right now if you like, and add obamaisachristian.co.uk for an extra $38 for two years.)This これは、実際には、アメリカ人がバラクオバマを信じるの数はイスラム教徒が14ヵ月ぶりに11％から18％に上昇しているが、調査今日ピューから出によると（『タイム』誌は、別の世論調査で24％を得た私は不思議ではない今日）をリリース
Malaysia 'detains 93 Rohingya people' Malaysian maritime authorities said Sunday they had picked up 93 members of Burma's Rohingya Muslim minority who had drifted aboard a boat for 30 days after fleeing their country. マレーシアの海。当局は日曜日彼らがビルマのロヒンギャムスリム少数派の93のメンバーが選ばれた30日間のボートで自分たちの国逃走後に漂流している
Situation remains tense in S. Indian city Hyderabad due to communal violence Situation remained tense on Tuesday in several areas of the southern Indian city of Hyderabad where a curfew was clamped following incidents of Hindu-Muslim communal violence, which left one dead and 80 injured since Saturday, reported the Press Trust of India.
The curfew, imposed Monday evening, has been extended till 18: 00 p.m. Tuesday, said the report quoting police sources as saying.
Some 1,800 paramilitary personnel were rushed to the scene to restore peace in sensitive areas, accord ... 状況は日ハイデラバードのインド南部の都市で夜間外出禁止令ヒンドゥー教の事件が、どれが死亡し、80土曜日以来、負傷した左のムスリム共同体の暴力、次の固定されたいくつかの地域での緊張したまま、プレストラストオブインディアと報じた
Poll finds most New Yorkers oppose site of Islamic center Two-thirds of New York City residents want a controversial Muslim community center and mosque to be relocated farther away from Ground Zero, according to a New York Times poll released on Friday.
The numbers show that nearly nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks, many people in New York City still have an uneasy relationship with Islam, and they reveal a complicated portrait of the opposition in New York: 67 percent said that while Muslims had a right to construct the center near Ground Zero, ... ニューヨーク市の住民ニューヨークの3分の2の金曜日ニューヨークタイムズ紙の世論調査発表したモスクを中心するコミュニティの議論ムスリムにによると移転遠くから、ゼログランド
Letters: Criticism does not exclude Muslims from the political process We are disturbed by the visible rise, in some parts of the country, of anti-Muslim bigotry resulting in sporadic attacks on Muslims and their places of worship. We deplore this and condemn it unreservedly. However, the authors of the letter you published (Islamophobia is a threat to democracy, 25 March) are quite wrong to equate legitimate concerns about the leadership of the East London Mosque and the Islamic Forum of Europe with anti-Muslim bigotry. To do so betrays those who have genuinely suffered discrimination. The East London Mosque has frequently allowed intemperate clerics to speak on its premises, some of whom have promoted values antithetical to those required in a tolerant and progressive society.They intimidate and bully other Muslims into accepting their contested theology as undisputed truth. Their allies and associates across south Asia have encouraged discrimination against minorities, opposed the reform of family laws and supported laws on blasphemy.How can it be right for those of us who believe in liberal democracy to leave unchallenged those who would discriminate against religious minorities, women, homosexuals and Muslims with dissenting or heterodox views?Criticism of incitement to religious hatred has nothing to do with excluding Muslims from the political process, as the supporters of the East London Mosque and Islamic Forum of Europe suggest. There are many impeccably non-sectarian Muslims active in political life, including in parliament, who are capable of opposing both racism and fundamentalism.The greatest threat to democracy comes from reactionary and sectarian political groupings. We are disturbed by the rise of confessional identity politics in this country. Those who would promote such politics deserve robust scrutiny. T 私たちは、目に見える上昇、国の一部で、反イスラム教徒の偏見イスラム教徒への散発的な攻撃で結果や礼拝のその場所の困惑している
Preliminary result of Bosnian elections released According to preliminary results released by Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) at 11:00 p.m. (2100 GMT) Sunday, three candidates leading in election for the tripartite presidency are Bakir Izetbegovic ( Bosniak party of Democratic Action), Zeljko Komsic(Social Democratic party) and Nebojsa Radmanovic (Alliance of Independent Social Democrats).
Izetbegovic is leading with 33.49 percent of Bosniak votes, only 2 percentage more than political outsider Fahrudin Radoncic, ... 午後11時（2100 GMT）の日曜日、三大統領選挙で主要三候補はBakir Izetbegovic（民主主義的行動のボスニアのムスリム人パーティー）、ジェリコKomsic（さでボスニアヘルツェゴビナ（BiH）中央選挙管理委員会が発表した暫定結果によると、社会民主党）とNebojsaラドマノビッチは、（民主党社会同盟の独立）
Mubarak's NDP dominates Egypt senate election Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party scored an overwhelming victory in upper house elections, according to results announced Thursday amid accusations of irregularities and a low voter turnout.The Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest opposition force which fielded about dozen candidates in Tuesday's poll, failed to win any seats while four small opposition groups secured a seat each. エジプトの与党国民民主党が、結果木曜日不正の告発、低投票turnout.Theムスリム同胞団、21日の世論調査で12の候補について擁立国の最大野党の力の中で発表によると、参院選挙で圧倒的な勝利を得ることができなかったすべての席4つの小さな野党グループが席をそれぞれ確保した
Villager murdered in Pattani One Muslim man was shot dead while he was on his way back home from the village’s mosque in Pattani early morning on Saturday, Pattani police said. 一方、彼の帰りのホーム、17日、パタニ、早朝には、村のモスクからは1つのムスリムの男性が射殺され、パタニ警察と述べた
