Trying to get a copy of the open letter to world leaders to post. In the meantime, here’s a brief write up.
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Faith based initiatives will become a bigger issue for Bush once he comes back from his man date…. I can’t imagine any of the current national Muslim organizations choosing the best person to head them, just the best Muslim.
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There is an interesting thesis here and some suggestive evidence. Will have to look up some of the articles referenced. Was Columbus secretly a Jew? – CNN.com. Recently, a number of Spanish scholars, such as Jose Erugo, Celso Garcia de la Riega, Otero Sanchez and Nicholas Dias Perez, have concluded that Columbus was a Marrano, whose survival depended upon the suppression of all evidence of his Jewish background in face of the brutal, systematic ethnic cleansing.