The assumption that Arab states that aren’t democratic are oppressive Islamist states lazily equates the public practice of Islam with all things undemocratic.
Yesterday morning President Barack Obama gave the keynote address at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast, a longstanding tradition among presidents since Dwight D. Eisenhower. The breakfast also drew Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace and husband of recent Arizona shooting victim… This isn’t anti-religion; this is anti-hatred.