Ed Stoffel

You knew this was going to happen. There will certainly be others... probably already are.

Clergy that criticize Islam get noticed:

- A prominent US pastor and a former advisor to President George W. Bush has drawn fire from leaders in the Muslim minority, rights activists and politicians for calling Islam a "dangerous" religion. "It appears that he doesn't have that much knowledge about Islam," Altaf Ali, executive director of the Florida Chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, told The Miami Herald on Saturday, July 8. "I want a chance to respond and refute these accusations," Ali added. Appearing on the Steve Kane Radio Show, The Rev. O'Neal Dozier, a Broward clergyman and an ally of Governor Jeb Bush, criticized Islam as a "cult" religion. "The Islamic religion in my view is a cult," Dozier told the Herald Friday, July 7, when asked to recap the controversial comments he made earlier on the show. "On the show I said that Islam is a dangerous religion," he added, refusing to disavow his comments. "'I don't look for everyone to believe what I believe, because everyone is not as astute about religion as I am," added Dozier, pastor of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach.

 Continue Reading: US Pastor Slammed for Anti-Islam Rant, Islam Online

The push for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research is driven by politics, not science:

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) receive tremendous media attention, with oft-repeated claims that they have the potential to cure virtually every disease known. Yet there are spoilsports, self included, who point out that they have yet to even make it into a human clinical trial. This is even as alternatives - adult stem cells (ASCs) from numerous places in the body as well as umbilical cord blood and placenta - are curing diseases here and now and have been doing so for decades. And that makes ESC advocates very, very angry. Words like "could" and "potential" are trick phraseology used for ASC curative therapies that have been used routinely for years. This appears to give them no advantage over ESC therapy, all of which boasts nothing but potential. The Science journal wants to flood unpromising ESC research with taxpayer dollars because private investors know just how very unpromising it is. Now yet again Science has showcased the scientific and moral bankruptcy of the entire ESC-advocacy movement.

 Continue Reading: Science's Stem-Cell Scam, Michael Fumento, National Review