Religion in the News

By Edward Sorel & Richard Lingeman

This article appeared in the January 6, 2003 edition of The Nation.

December 18, 2002

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With Friends of Israel Like These... Oy Vey!

The Chicago chapter of the Zionist Organization of America recently presented its State of Israel Friendship Award to Pat Robertson, who has declared America is a "Christian nation" and believes in the conversion of the Jews after the Second Coming. He is less friendly to Muslims. Recently, he criticized President Bush's assertion that Islam is a peaceful religion. Islam, he told CNN, is "anything but peaceful," since it advocates jihad--"either to force conversion or death."

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About Edward Sorel

Edward Sorel is an award-winning cartoonist who has produced many of The Nation's most memorable covers. He is also a regular contributor to The Atlantic and The New Yorker, for which he has done forty-one covers. His art has appeared on the covers of The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, Fortune, Forbes, Esquire, American Heritage and The New York Times Magazine. He has illustrated many children's books, three of which he also wrote. Unauthorized Portraits (Knopf, 1997) is the most recent of several collections of his work.

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About Richard Lingeman

Richard Lingeman is a senior editor of The Nation. His books include Small Town America: A Narrative Hisory, 1620-Present; Don't You Know There's a War On? The American Home Front, 1941-1945; An American Journey: Theodore Dreiser (a two-volume biography, now available in one abridged paperback edition from John Wiley & Sons); Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Main Street (Random House) and, most recently, Double Lives: American Writers’ Friendships (Random House). more...
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