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What separation of church and state?

An afternoon with credential-free expert William Federer and his fact-challenged “What Every American Needs to Know About the Koran.”

The support of many Republican presidential candidates demonstrates the success of a cottage industry based on the conspiracy theory that totalitarian Islamic radicals are bent on infiltrating America, displacing the Constitution, and subverting Western-style democracy in the U.S. and around the globe.

Bobby Franklin has been called “the conscience of the Republican Caucus.”

With the swing to the Right of the 1950s, conservatives began to deploy “Judeo-Christian” in the fight against “Godless Communism,” contrasting it with “the communist projection of man as a producing, consuming animal to be used and discarded.”

During the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei’s Friday Sermon on February 4, 2011, he said, “The events of North Africa have a special meaning for the Iranian nation. This is what has always been known as the occurrence of Islamic awakening as a result of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.”

Gerald Gay brings his Christian beliefs to lawmaking, but wants to ban laws based in “foreign religion.”

Rather than turning to theocracy, Egyptians are building their own structures of civil society.

Most of us are watching the unfolding events in Egypt with awe and anticipation hoping its citizens will nonviolently supplant a repressive and dictatorial regime with a democracy. Those of us who have physical or emotional ties to Israel see a more complicated picture. Israel is watching the…

Religious right funder reflects on her support for Christian Reconstructionism.