Judaism
Jan 12 2011, Marco Villa

Why do Israeli religious obscurantism and intolerance not receive attention in the United States?

It seems that ever utterance of a fanatical Muslim kook receives mainstream coverage in America, no matter how fringe and un-influential the individual..

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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Here’s a story that will not make the American press. Whenever some kook Muslim does something insane the American media reports it and many bloggers promote as if it...
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Religious kooks stop traffic in the name of God. I have written about this before: that all faiths harbor their share of kooks. And that neither faith should be...
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The rabbi and his followers. A common tactic by anti-Islam bigots in the West is that they seek to find this or that line from the Qur’an which they quote as...
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The changing face of Israel. Although the early Zionists were secular and a many where atheists who say Jewishness as a cultural rather than a religious identity,...
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