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    #16
    Even ogres can serve a purpose. The "Reverend" Terry Jones has at least shown us the ugly consequences of the Islamophobia that was this summer's political fad - by turning the tables. ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,How does it feel to be caricatured as a nation of Koran-burning radicals? Americans were appalled to find that a solitary religious bigot and his tiny congregation of 50 pseudo Christians had hijacked our global image. wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil, We squirmed as a warped little corner of America's Judeo-Christian culture colored the entire country in the eyes of the world - the way Americans let a warped little corner of Islamic culture color all Muslims, even Muslim Americans. ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,Let's not point fingers: Jones was everybody's Frankenstein, starting with the media, my own profession. When it came to Jones and his so-called church, wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil, the Dove World Outreach Center, in Gainesville, Fla., we affirmed all those Onion.com lampoons that show today's media ready to hype any obscure idiot playing with matches as an important story. metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,One of our biggest journalistic sins was helping right-wing demagogues like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin turn the "Ground Zero mosque" story into a disgraceful midterm wedge issue - and thereby encourage delusional, aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,attention-starved hatemongers like Jones to build their bonfires of intolerance.

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      #17
      Jones, in fact, insists that he suspended his Koran conflagration, which he'd planned for Saturday to mark the 9/11 anniversary,
      wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,because he was told the New York mosque and cultural center would be moved. The mosque's imam denies that any such deal was struck, and Jones is now thinking aloud about rekindling his stunt. ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,We can't pin everything on 24-hour news or 24-hour Newt. Another summer lowlight was watching New Yorkers. wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,supposedly among the world's most enlightened citizenries - expose their anti-Muslim underbelly. ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money, In a New York Times poll last week, two-thirds of them opposed the mosque near Ground Zero, one-fifth admitted to animosity toward Muslims, wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,and one-third pegged Muslims as being sympathetic to terrorism. It's understandable at first to sympathize with New Yorkers who argue that a mosque near Ground Zero is insensitive. metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling, until you realize that what they're really saying is that all Muslims are like the ones who brought down the Twin Towers. And that's no better than a Muslim in Jakarta insisting that all Christians are like Terry Jones.

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        #18
        One of the only positive things to take from this debacle is the realization that the genuinely enlightened city was Gainesville, aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang, which has roundly rejected Jones. Far from being the Bible Belt backwater that northerners like New Yorkers would assume it is, wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,it's a progressive college town (home to the University of Florida) known for its green ethos, for electing an openly gay mayor this year, ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,and for its strong interfaith climate. The Dove center recently complained on its website that Gainesville "may have more 'coexist' bumper stickers, wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil, than anywhere else per capita." (Jones went to Dove in 2008 after being kicked out as the pastor of its sister church in Cologne, Germany, ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money, in part because of his messianic condemnation of Germany's tolerance toward Muslims.) (See how Gainesville turned against the book-burning pastor.) wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil

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          #19
          When Mayor Craig Lowe was elected this year, Jones and his Dove devotees stood on Gainesville's streets holding signs that read "No Homo Mayor." metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,These are the kinds of losers the media has inflated on the current-events roster these days -aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang, to the point at which no less than U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had to personally call Jones this week and plead with him not to burn Korans, as the act has the potential to inflame Muslim extremists and put U.S. troops in Afghanistan at risk. wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,Let's hope Gainesville's interfaith attitude now spreads. Maybe the Jones scare will prompt more Christian, ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,Jewish and Muslim congregations to hold joint Father's Day services that honor their common ancestral link to Abraham - and remind Christians that burning a Koran means torching a text that mentions Jesus in reverential terms almost 100 times. wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil, My Muslim friends are as chagrined to see the misogynistic, homophobic leadership of Saudi Arabia define their Islamic identity as I am to see the misogynistic, ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money, homophobic leadership of the Vatican define my Catholic identity.

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            #20
            And yet we find understanding in commiseration: just as they appreciate the spiritual debt that Islam owes Jesus, wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil, I recall that were it not for great Muslim thinkers like Ibn Rushd (called Averroes by the admiring Europeans) who conveyed classical learning to great Christian thinkers like Thomas Aquinas, my faith would have remained mired in the medieval mud. metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,So what can American Christians outraged by Jones' hatefulness do? Stop by a local mosque today and wish the people well as they celebrate 'Id al-Fitr, aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang, the end of the holy month of Ramadan (and try one of the great sweets). Or for that matter, wish Jewish people well as they celebrate the High Holy Days that began Wednesday evening with Rosh Hashanah. wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah, But most of all, remember how lousy it felt this week when the world equated you with Terry Jones. ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty. wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil

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              #21
              Census figures for 2009 — the recession-ravaged first year of the Democrat's presidency — are to be released in the coming week, and demographers expect grim findings. ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,It's unfortunate timing for Obama and his party just seven weeks before important elections when control of Congress is at stake. The anticipated poverty rate increase, wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil, from 13.2 percent to about 15 percent — would be another blow to Democrats struggling to persuade voters to keep them in power. metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,"The most important anti-poverty effort is growing the economy and making sure there are enough jobs out there," aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,Obama said Friday at a White House news conference. He stressed his commitment to helping the poor achieve middle-class status and said, wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah, "If we can grow the economy faster and create more jobs, then everybody is swept up into that virtuous cycle." ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold

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                #22
                Interviews with six demographers who closely track poverty trends found wide consensus that 2009 figures are likely to show a significant rate increase to the range of 14.7 percent to 15 percent. wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,Should those estimates hold true, some 45 million people in this country, or more than 1 in 7, ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,were poor last year. It would be the highest single-year increase since the government began calculating poverty figures in 1959. wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,The previous high was in 1980 when the rate jumped 1.3 percentage points to 13 percent during the energy crisis. metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,Among the 18-64 working-age population, the demographers expect a rise beyond 12.4 percent, up from 11.7 percent. That would make it the highest since at least 1965, aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,when another Democratic president, Lyndon B. Johnson, launched the war on poverty that expanded the federal government's role in social welfare programs from education to health care. wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah

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                  #23
                  Child poverty increased from 19 percent to more than 20 percent.ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,Blacks and Latinos were disproportionately hit, based on their higher rates of unemployment. wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,Metropolitan areas that posted the largest gains in poverty included Modesto, Calif.; Detroit; Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla.; Los Angeles and Las Vegas. ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,"My guess is that politically these figures will be greeted with alarm and dismay but they won't constitute a clarion call to action," wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,said William Galston, a domestic policy aide for President Bill Clinton. "I hope the parties don't blame each other for the desperate circumstances of desperate people. metin2 yang,wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,That would be wrong in my opinion. But that's not to say it won't happen."
                  Lawrence M. Mead, a New York University political science professor who is a conservative and wrote "The New Politics of Poverty: aion kinah,ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,The Nonworking Poor in America," argued that the figures will have a minimal impact in November.

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                    #24
                    "Poverty is not as big an issue right now as middle-class unemployment. That's a lot more salient politically right now," he said. wow gold,wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,But if Thursday's report is as troubling as expected, Republicans in the midst of an increasingly strong drive to win control of the House, if not the Senate, would get one more argument to make against Democrats in the campaign homestretch. ffxi gil,ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,wow gold,The GOP says voters should fire Democrats because Obama's economic fixes are hindering the sluggish economic recovery. wow money,wow power leveling,aion kinah,ffxi gil,Rightly or wrongly, Republicans could cite a higher poverty rate as evidence. ffxiv gil,metin2 yang,World of Warcraft gold,cheapest wow gold,Democrats almost certainly will argue that they shouldn't be blamed. They're likely to counter that the economic woes — and the poverty increase — began under President George W. Bush with the near-collapse of the financial industry in late 2008. wow power level,DOFUS KAMAS,World of Warcraft Gold,cheapest wow gold,Although that's true, it's far from certain that the Democratic explanation will sway voters who already are trending heavily toward the GOP in polls as worrisome economic news piles up. wow power level,wow gold,Louis Vuitton Handbags,ffxiv power leveling

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