Comments on: Update: Pipes harms cranks’ image

By: Onion Buys ABC News? « South Jerusalem: Gershom Gorenberg and Haim Watzman

Onion Buys ABC News? « South Jerusalem: Gershom Gorenberg and Haim Watzman — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:22:00 +0000

[...] Update: Pipes harms cranks’ image [...]

By: Update: Bush and Lebanon; Obama, Israel and Islam « South Jerusalem: Gershom Gorenberg and Haim Watzman

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:12:47 +0000

[...] believing six impossible things before breakfast , it can be hard to accept that Barack Obama is a Muslim, a follower of a controversial black pastor , and a Marxist too. Edward Luttwak proposed this neat solution : Obama is really an apostate [...]

By: george a. hilborn

george a. hilborn — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:00:36 +0000

Barak Obama will be the object of much of this kind of vivious religious and race baiting during the general election process. Pipes wishes to ignore FDR’s statement to a depressed nation ” that we have nothing to fear but fear itself” You now see the 527 and Republican ” game plan” of smear and slime to be played until November. Some the same “swift boat” and 527 people who slimed John McCain in the 2000 primary will be back on board on his behalf.

One wonders how much Islamic knowledge did a little boy ,who was raised by a single non-Muslim mother and non-Muslim Grandparents retain.

Barak is a big fan of the prophet Jeremiah and some of the underpinning for his book THE AUDACITY OF HOPE can be traced to Jeremiah who crertainly was unpopular with his contempories when he implored to make the best of adversity,and to cherish the long-term certainty of G-d’s justice in their heart while in captivity. Barak is a good and decent man and a child of G-d .As I remember this is the same G-d worshipped by Jews,Christians, and Moslems. It is my fervent hope that my countrymen will cast away their bigotry and bias and take advantage of this wonderful chance to show the world we truly are the shining light we profess to be.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:16 +0000

If Pipes is really that paranoid about Muslims, shouldn’t he welcome a President who is well aquainted with Islam? Isn’t the first and most fundamental rule of war to “know thy enemy”? Maybe Pipes just prefers leaders like Bush, who didn’t know that the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam even existed until after he invaded Iraq.