Bob McCarty Writes

In an exclusive news release this afternoon, Steve Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism exclusively revealed today that a major international interfaith conference set to start Wednesday in Madrid was organized by Abdullah al-Turki, an alleged associate of a senior Al Qaeda financier, vocal supporter of Palestinian suicide bombings and head of the Muslim World League [...]

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Tiny Davidson College — a #10 seed! — came back from a 16-point deficit with 15 minutes to go to defeat #2 seed Georgetown, 74-70, in second round action of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Advancing to the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history, the Wildcats will play the Wisconsin Badgers Friday [...]

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I’ve been blogging about various writings on the “Muslims Speak Out” web site this week. Today, however, I’m calling it quits as the site failed to deliver anything newsworthy enough to warrant continued coverage. In short, I’m bored with it.
It’s unfortunate that the people involved in the “Muslims Speak Out” project failed [...]

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John Esposito attempted to answer the following three questions in his article which appeared as one of three new posts published today at the “Muslims Speak Out” web site:

Why is Islam such a violent religion?
Does the Qu’ran condone acts of terrorism? and
Why haven’t Muslims denounced the 9/11 attacks and suicide bombing?

Esposito wrote more than 1,300 [...]

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Underlying concerns cause me to question both the credibility and sincerity of the authors of two new articles that appear on the “Muslims Speak Out” site today.
The first article, Interfaith Dialogue, Understanding Vital to All, was written by John J. DeGioia, president of Georgetown University. Georgetown, coincidentally, was the recent recipient of [...]

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