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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010 A funny thing happened after the Saudi Arabia-sponsored 2008 World Conference on Dialogue in Spain : People began paying attention. For those readers who may have forgotten, King Abdullah initiated the interfaith dialogue conference with the hope of bridging the gap that exists primarily among Muslims, Christians and Jews. Not unexpectedly, the conference was greeted with a lukewarm response, if not more than a little hostility by the Western media. Saudi Arabia , according to the argument at the time, was presumptuous to sponsor a conference on religious harmony since no churches are permitted in the Kingdom. Media coverage was casual and the event was soon forgotten. Or maybe not. According to the Washington Times, an arch-conservative newspaper and ordinarily a harsh critic of Saudi Arabia , some Jewish leaders have recognized that such conferences can narrow the gap that separate Jews and Muslims. Rabbi Marc Schneier, who heads the Foundation Fo...

SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2010 Dennis Prager : Left Is Certain of Tea Partiers' Motives, but Finds Terrorists Inscrutable - Townhall.com   The left, including most of the media, seems to look toward the white, Christian, male as the suspect in any terrorist attack, but can't understand that a man who is a Muslim extremist might attack because he is a Muslim extremist. Islam has been spread by the sword since the beginning. The Middle East became Muslim because Islamic armies conquered the region and destroyed all the Christian churches. Radical Islam continues to try and spread their religion by the sword. They tried to blow up Times Square and the media wondered if it was Tea Party people. They have a radical Muslim US Army officer, shouting Islamic slogans as he murdered people and the media seems to think he suffers from some kind of medical condition. We are at war. Radical Islam has declared war on Christianity, on The West, on the United States . It's too bad that those ver...