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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: Chas. who wrote (18315)12/8/2006 8:25:27 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 32591
 
Re: One very prominent fact that you omit or don't acknowledge is that Islamic truth, Muslim thinking... is based on the Holy Qur'an and Muhammad's writings and all that it states or implies.

And what's the basis of born-again GW Bush's faith-based initiatives? Clue:

The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
a public information project of the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy
at Cornell University

[...]

Faith-Based Initiative


"We want to fund programs that save Americans
one soul at a time."
President George W. Bush, January, 2004, in a speech in New Orleans

In this section:

[...]

Transformation from Secular to Religious Government

Under the Bush administration, our country is experiencing a major transformation from a secular to a religious government. The President's faith-based initiative is central to this transformation and raises serious questions about church-state separation. "Slouching toward theocracy. President Bush's faith-based initiative is doing better than you think," by Bill Berkowitz, 2/6/04 provides an overview of this transformation.

In his State of the Union address, Bush renewed a call for Congress to make permanent his faith-based proposals that would allow religious organizations to compete for more government contracts and grants without a strict separation between their religious activities and social service programs.

On February 4, 2004, the U.S. House of Representatives voted for provisions in a social services bill that allow religiously based job discrimination in publicly funded programs run by churches.

theocracywatch.org
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