“Ultimately, it is Muslims who must excise the scourge of radicalism from Islam. From within. We can help by behaving like the generous, just and benevolent society moderate Muslims once considered us to be.”
Oliver “Buzz” Thomas
The minister and lawyer was commenting on hopes for bridging religious divides in 2008 in a
commentary in USA Today. (RNS)
“The power of the Religious Right movement … is increasingly about what happens on the ground and not about what Dobson says or what Richard Land says or what any of these other dons say.”
Laura Olson
The Clemson University political science professor and Religious Right expert was commenting
on the results of the Iowa caucuses. (ABP)
“Orissa is a place where a Baptist community of about 500,000 live, and most of them are in these areas where persecution is most intense. They are also among the poorest of the poor of India, which is why they are often voiceless.”
Bonny Resu
The general secretary of the Asia Pacific Baptist Federation was decrying recent violence in India in an e-mail to the Baptist World Alliance. (ABP)