“As Muslims, when we see President Morsi, we feel just as the black people of the United States feel about Barack Obama. Here is somebody who looks like me, who represents me.”
Ali el-Banna
The Egyptian lawyer spoke to the Washington Post about Mohamed Morsi, the new president of Egypt, a country where beards were once banned. (RNS)
“How does it feel to be the most popular president in America?”
President Obama
Fred Luter, newly elected as the first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention, was telling the Florida Baptist Witness what President Obama asked him in a recent phone call. (RNS)
“I think for Mormons, particularly for prominent ones who already feel widely accepted and admired individually, this feels like a chance to also see their church, which they love, accepted and admired institutionally.”
Richard Eyre
The Mormon and best-selling author was talking to the New York Times about Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy. (RNS)
“We see this decision by a German court in the context of a new European intolerance towards other religions.”
Pinchas Goldschmidt
The head of the Conference of European Rabbis was quoted by Reuters about a German ruling against performing circumcision on baby boys. (RNS)