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• Oh, what a great playoff this could have been
Then they get religion. Truth is, if high-profile coaches who have won championships -- such as Carroll, Brown and Oklahoma's Bob Stoops — turned up the heat on their presidents to get a playoff system for big-time college football, we'd move ...
• Muslims worry about image after Mumbai
... Muslims from the Middle East to Britain and Austria condemned Sunday the Mumbai shooting rampage by suspected Islamic militants as senseless terrorism, but also found themselves on the defensive once again about bloodshed linked to their religion. ...
• U.S. Muslims worry about new federal rules
... to open up the possibility of profiling. We're not going to allow that to happen." Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said, "At the end of the day, the FBI is not going to open an investigation simply on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion."
• Malaysia backs down from yoga ban
Islam is a progressive religion and the ulama (scholars) should be confident of the followers' faith rather than micro-managing their way of life," Tunku Naquiyuddin told a luncheon. "If I go to a church or a Buddhist temple, is there any fear of me ...
• Huffington: Bloggers gaining credibility
One of HuffPo's biggest moments came when a volunteer contributor recorded then-candidate Barack Obama at a fund raiser, closed to the press, saying people in small towns grow "bitter" and "cling to guns or religion." "Blogging," Huffington wrote in ...