Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:37:02 pm
Think Progress did a comprehensive survey of Republican candidates for the US Senate and found that nearly all of them are anti-science deniers of global warming. What an incredibly sad picture of the Republican Party this paints. I'd like to see a similar survey of Republican politicians who favor teaching creationism ...

Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:17:48 am
One of the English Defense League thugs who was planning to attend Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's hate rally last weekend was refused entry into the US. I’ve picked up a rumour this morning that EDL leader 'Tommy Robinson' has been refused entry into the United States where he was ...

Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:20:48 am
The San Angelo Standard-Times interviews Texas governor (and GOP candidate) Rick Perry about his views on education, and out comes the ugly anti-science fanaticism again. Perry thinks the Texas State Board of Education is doing a terrific job, and he's "a firm believer" in teaching creationism in public schools. Do ...

Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 7:58:30 pm
Uh oh. Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D’Souza, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells National Review Online that President Obama may follow “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview. Gingrich says that D’Souza has made a “stunning insight” into Obama’s behavior — the “most profound insight I have read in the last six ...

Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 6:20:51 pm
According to the Associated Press, attendance at Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's international hate rally was less than 1,000: The Associated Press: Dueling demonstrations begin after 9/11 memorial. After the ceremony, around 1,000 activists rallied about five blocks from the site of the 2001 attacks to support the proposed Islamic ...

Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:32:33 pm
Here's a live video feed of the anti-Muslim hate rally, as Geert Wilders takes the stage: NOS Nieuws - Live - Politiek 24. UPDATE at 9/11/10 12:38:40 pm: Oops ... the live video went black as soon as I posted this. UPDATE at 9/11/10 12:39:19 pm: There we go. It's back. UPDATE at 9/11/10 1:01:43 ...

Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:05:02 am
Justin Carl Moose of Concord, North Carolina, has been arrested and charged in a plot to bomb a women’s health clinic. On his Facebook page, Moose described himself as the "Christian counterpart of Usama Bin Laden." CONCORD, NC (WBTV) - A Concord man accused of providing information on building explosive materials ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:32:15 pm
This bizarre anti-scientific screed by a young earth creationist is a great example of why I no longer link to articles at the Examiner: The Grand Canyon is the best natural ’Flood museum’ in the world - National creationism. All you need to read to know that you're about to be ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:43:01 pm
New Hampshire's GOP candidate for US Senate, Bill Binnie, has been a very bad Republican, and you know what that means: death threats. He's been under attack by the tribalist far right that now dominates his party, over his support for legal abortion rights. There's a disturbing amount of tacit and ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:17:33 pm
A federal judge's ban on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research has been lifted by an appeals court. This is excellent news for American science; the opposition to embryonic stem-cell research has been fueled almost entirely by the irrational, anti-science religious right, and it's long past time to get their boots ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:23:42 am
Here's another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with -- this time on the hallowed ground of Hudson, in upstate New York. HUDSON -- City detectives are searching for the vandals who spray-painted a racial slur ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:19:41 am
The State Department has issued a Travel Alert for American citizens to be very cautious if you're traveling in Islamic countries, because the Bigot Brigade has succeeded in stirring up a huge amount of anti-American sentiment overseas: The Department of State is issuing this Travel Alert to caution U.S. citizens ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:00:15 am
A new Washington Post poll on Americans' attitudes toward Islam strongly confirms what was already empirically obvious: Opposition to 'mosque' directly linked to anti-Islam sentiment, poll shows. Here's the rub: According to the internals sent my way, opposition to the "Ground Zero mosque" is overwhelmingly driven by those with an ...

Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:40:25 am
Jeffrey Goldberg scored a journalistic coup on a recent visit to Havana -- an interview with Castro himself. And Fidel had a surprising message for Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'. Over the course of this first, five-hour discussion, Castro repeatedly returned to his excoriation of ...

Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:15:38 pm
In a New York Times op-ed, Imam Feisal Rauf speaks about the Cordoba House project: Building on Faith in Lower Manhattan. President Obama and Mayor Michael Bloomberg both spoke out in support of our project. As I traveled overseas, I saw firsthand how their words and actions made a tremendous ...

Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:55:56 am
Last year Pamela Geller injected herself into the case of Rifqa Bary, a teenage runaway and Christian convert who claimed her Muslim parents were planning to kill her. (The Florida Department of Law Enforcement subsequently investigated these claims and found “no evidence whatsoever of alleged abuse or threats of death ...

Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:42:06 pm
US Commander in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus points out the obvious: Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns. (CNN) -- The U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Monday criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning that the demonstration "could cause significant problems" for American ...

Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:30:28 pm
Here's another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with -- this time on the hallowed ground of San Antonio, Texas: San Antonio mosque vandalized amid national tensions over NYC mosque. A San Antonio mosque has been ...

Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:02:29 pm
In Madera, California, police and FBI are investigating a firebomb attack against a Planned Parenthood office that has been open for 20 years without incident: Molotov Cocktail thrown at Madera's Planned Parenthood. This attack comes one week after a brick was thrown through the window of a local mosque and anti-Muslim ...

Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:41:09 pm
Here we go again. The New York branch of Fox News shrieks: Mosque Investor Was Terror Contributor. Except that, uh, he wasn't. An Egyptian who's contributing some money to Park51 once donated money to the Holy Land Foundation -- before 9/11, years before the charity was known to be connected to Hamas, ...

Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:30:47 am
A group of 9/11 family members has officially asked Pamela Geller not to stage her bigoted hate rally on September 11: 9/11 Families Ask Ground Zero Mosque Protesters to Stop Rallies on Anniversary. LOWER MANHATTAN — The ninth anniversary of 9/11 is the wrong day to hold rallies about the ...

Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:59:09 pm
Adam Serwer talked to Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman about the planned September 11 protest against the Park51 Islamic community center in lower Manhattan; we criticized Foxman for his earlier statements, but on the issue of Pamela Geller and her allies (such as Dutch demagogue Geert Wilders) he seems to ...

Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:47:40 pm
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are taking a page from the Glenn Beck playbook, and banning all signs at their upcoming shameless attempt to capitalize on America's memories of 9/11 to demonize Muslims. Instead they're getting even more shameless with a jingoistic command to bring American flags to a rally ...

Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:01:08 pm
Another hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with:Teenagers Charged in Harassment at Mosque. A group of teenagers in western New York has been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults during ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:40:06 pm
Here's another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with: Charge: Seattle man attacked shopkeeper, calls victim a terrorist. A 35-year-old Seattle man is facing assault and hate crime charges following allegations that he accosted a ...