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Guest AuthorNovember 17, 2015

You no doubt feel overwhelmed by the reporting and commentary after this past Friday’s slaughter in Paris. A lot of smart people have written about the brutality of the attacks, the complexities of the ISIS threat and the West’s response. To simplify things, I’ve drafted sobering answers to basic questions I suspect many of you […]

Guest AuthorNovember 16, 2015

The Baha’is of Palm Beach County met at Freedom Park in Greenacres to celebrate the birthdays of the Bab and Baha’u’llah. Baha’is all over the world were celebrating the birth of their founder, Baha’u’llah, when the news of the terrorist attacks in Paris broke this past Friday. Ironically, this is the first year that Baha’is […]

Guest AuthorMay 5, 2015

Testing the First Amendment’s limits has always been an important act in ensuring democratic rule in this country. Today, there are very few limits on free speech; the only justification for censorship is protecting national security or preventing violent or dangerous behavior. As a result, we live in a society where almost any words or […]

Melissa RossApril 14, 2015

Former South Florida Congressman and Fox News contributor Allen West is sounding the alarm about Muslim immigrants, saying the U.S. is absorbing about 100,000 eannually and that the State Department “has a ‘secret’ list of 190 cities ‘selected’ for refugee settlement.” The claims appear on West’s website in a piece written by Editor-in-Chief Michele Hickford. Writes Hickford, “Between […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 22, 2015

Appalled, perplexed, baffled, mystified, angry. Any of these words captures how I feel upon reading story after story about the rise of anti-Semitism, especially in Europe. I am mindful of George Santayana’s adage, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Apparently that condemnation includes us all. We continue to see […]

Martin DyckmanFebruary 9, 2015

Glenn Terrell, a Florida Supreme Court justice for 41 years, kept a thick file with such titles as “God, the Original Segregationist,” “The Bible Answers the Race Question,” and “God Gave the Law of Segregation (as well as the 10 Commandments) to Moses on Mount Sinai.” Upon voting to keep a black man out of […]

Daniel TilsonFebruary 8, 2015

There goes President Barack Obama again, being all intelligent, nuanced, thought-provoking and downright provocative. Don’t you love it, or at least respect and admire it? I do. I’m imagining a lot of heads nodding. Am also imagining a lot of heads shaking back and forth. Maybe some gnashing teeth and foaming at the corners of […]

Guest AuthorNovember 16, 2014

“Muslims in America and Europe say discrimination against them has seemed more pronounced after the Islamic State terrorists beheaded American and British journalists and aid workers. Hate-filled remarks on social media have also become more prevalent, especially since 9/11, when Facebook and Twitter did not yet exist,” began an article in the New York Daily […]

Tag: Islam

Tom O’Hara: Grim questions, sobering answers after Paris

Catherine Martinez: Beacon of hope extends hand to war-weary world

Steven Kurlander: Dissing Muhammad – Pamela Geller and the deadly art of being a hateful skank

Allen West: “Secret” list of cities for Muslim immigrants

Ed Moore: Are we Condemned to relive the anti-Semitic 1930s?

Martin Dyckman: Reject bigotry and evil perpetrated in name of religion

Daniel Tilson: President Obama Prayer Breakfast furor is teachable moment

Julie Harbin: Experts address questions about Islam, extremism