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UN Human Rights Council Prez. Apologizes to Israel for Being Unfair...

I'm 99.99% sure his fellow council members do not feel this way....

The United Nations Human Rights Council has not managed to deal fairly with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the council's president Doru-Romulus Costea told a Spanish newspaper on Saturday, according to Israel Radio.

Doru admitted that he was dissatisfied with the fact the council had overly focused on the degree of human rights violations by Israel.

"The body which I head must examine the actions of both sides equally, and we have not done that," said Costea. "Clearly, from now on things need to change."

Israel Radio reported that earlier this week, US President George Bush criticized the UN Human Rights Council, saying that it had put too great an emphasis on Israeli actions.

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Link Fest Sunday...

Something to chew on....

Barking Moonbat (funny pic): Govt. Emploeyees in Atcion

Rhymes With Right: WaPo Confirms Definition of "Bipartisan"

Ummah News: Extremist Maldives?

Law Hawk: Breaking: Taiwan Resolves To Declare Independence

Noblesse Oblige on the US missle shield: Star Wars Works

Chicago Sun Times: Oak Park school bans hugging

IHT: Freedom's Watch builds war chest to back conservative agenda in U.S.

YNET: Arafat was unsure on Palestinian state

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Iraq: US Troop Deaths Lowest in 13 Months...

Iraqi deaths are also the lowest this year.  Regardless, the libtards will still be screaming their asses off that we're losing....

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. monthly death toll in Iraq has dropped to its lowest level in more than a year, although the figure is "still too high," the military said Sunday.

September's preliminary death toll is at least 62, according to military reports, the lowest number since August 2006 when 65 American troops were killed in the war.

Military spokesman Rear Adm. Mark Fox said the lower toll resulted from a "combination of a number of factors" put in place by this year's increase in U.S. forces in Iraq.

As for Iraqi civilian deaths, authorities have reported that 296 bodies were found dumped in Baghdad this month -- the lowest monthly total this year. In August, there were 428 bodies found.

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Pakistan: Taliban Blow up Girls School as Punishment for Being un-Veiled....

Finally, the Taliban's long awaited education policy....

ISLAMABAD Sept. 30 - A girls' high school in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan was blown up by some militants on Sunday and no casualties were reported, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported.

A girls' school in Kabal of Swat district in NWFP was blown up when some unknown militants detonated three remote control bombs around it, the APP report quoted police sources as saying.

The two-story school building was totally destroyed and a nearby mosque was also damaged as a result of the explosion.

The school administration had already received a letter from unknown persons warning of serious consequences if the girl students did not wear veil.

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Dawkins Launches Campaign to Give American Atheists a Political Voice...

Apparently he's never heard of this little party we have here called the Democrats....

It is like Daniel going into the lions' den, though Professor Richard Dawkins might not appreciate the biblical comparison. Britain's leading atheist is spearheading a campaign in America to challenge the dominance of religion in every day life and in politics, insisting that the millions of US godless deserve to be heard too.

Atheists in the US "have been downtrodden for a very long time. So I think some sort of political organisation is what they need", he said.

Maybe David and Goliath would be a better analogy. Religion is palpable in US schools, places of work and public institutions. God is invoked by soldiers and politicians in a way that would seem inappropriate in Britain. George Bush used God as one of the reasons for invading Iraq. In Congress, where godlessness can equate with being unelectable, only one representative, Pete Stark, is prepared to admit to being a non-believer.

He admitted he was "a little bit hesitant" about being an Englishman talking to Americans and he showed "a certain amount of deference" when asked about US politics. "But I think that this country is so powerful and what goes on politically here is so enormously influential, the rest of the world is entitled to have a say. (they do? -ed.) We don't get the vote here but I think people are entitled to express an opinion."

What did he hope an atheist bloc in the US might achieve? "I would free children from being indoctrinated with the religion of their parents or their community. I would like to free everyone from the assumption you have to be religious in order to be a decent person or to be moral. Obviously the whole creationist interference with education [should stop] but I think, more positively, I would like to see people encouraged to rejoice in the world in which they find themselves, the universe in which they have been born, to take full advantage of the tiny slice of eternity they have been granted."

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UK: Legal Islamist Group Urging British Muslim to Fight the Crusaders....

Hizb ut Tahrir claims to be a non-violent group who condemns terrorism.  With so much evidence that their true intentions are to support the global jihad, then why haven't the British banned the group yet?...

An extremist Islamist group, which remains legal despite Government promises to ban it, has urged Muslim students at British universities to fight Allied troops in Iraq.

Hizb ut Tahrir, which wants to overthrow democracy and establish a worldwide Islamic theocracy, distributed leaflets to young Muslims inciting them to resist the occupation of Islamic lands, according to a TV documentary by a former group member.

One leaflet read: "Your forefathers destroyed the first crusader campaigns. Should you not proceed like them and destroy the new crusaders?

"Let the armies move to help the Muslims in Iraq, for they seek your help." Another leaflet, handed out last August, pours scorn on the UN and tells followers to embark on a Jihad, or "holy war".

David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary, said: "Hizb ut Tahrir is part of a global organisation whose affiliates, members and supporters are anti-semitic, anti-democracy and support violence.

"Due to its clear links to terrorism, the Government pledg-ed to ban it two years ago but has failed to take action."

Panorama has also uncovered a speech made in August last year by Ata Abu-Rishta, the global leader of Hizb ut Tahrir, when he called for the "destruction" of Hindus living in Kashmir, Russians in Chechnya and Jews in Israel.

"The Caliphate (global Islamic government) will liberate the countries and the people from the influence of the Kafer (non-believer) and its allies and the tyranny of its men and followers," he said.

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Detroit: Islamists Placing Anti-Christian, Anti-Jewish Fliers on Cars...

There is not one mention of the word Muslim or Islam in this story reported by a local Detroit newspaper.  The flier makes clear references to Allah and Mohammed but still, the perpetrators are still a mystery.  What a joke...

Police said anti-Jewish and anti-Christian fliers were found on cars parked in a lot on the northwest corner of 15 Mile and Ryan roads.

Sterling Heights police Detective Sgt. Paul Jesperson said three separate complaints were filed by residents Tuesday who found the fliers on their windshields.

He said the flier said: "Kill Jews and Christians if they don't believe in Allah and Mohammad."

It further advises people to "Fight those who do not believe."

"I really don't know what it means other than suggesting violence to Jews and Christians," Jesperson said. "We certainly have no intentions of stifling someone's religious beliefs but it is most certainly a violation of the law if you're condoning violence with this hate literature."

The operators of the New Sahara restaurant, located near the Kroger store, said they are Chaldean Catholics and do not condone violence against others who have opposite religious beliefs.

Jay, a longtime waiter at Sahara, said he was unaware of the fliers.

"These are touchy times and I don't want my name used," said Jay. "But we are peace-loving people who love the United States and feel all people can live here harmoniously."

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Bahrain: Uproar Over Teacher Having Students Color Israeli Flag...

Crayons, the new Zionist conspiracy...

Manama: A Bahrain-based teacher has come under fire for asking her students to colour the Israeli flag as part of an assignment to identify the flags of countries in the Middle East.

"We urge the ministry of education to take stringent action against the teacher for flouting the rules and regulations governing school curricula and seeking to affect the minds of young students," Fareed Abdul Wahid, a preacher, said during the Friday sermon.

"Teachers and schools should appreciate that we do not have ties with the Zionist entity and that they should not impose assignments that are contrary to the beliefs of the students and their families," said Fareed at Al Adliya Mosque, a large mosque located in a posh area in Manama.

The school assignment was first reported by the mother of a student in a private school who complained in a statement to the press about the teacher's action. "I was bewildered to hear my daughter who is in the second grade asking me about the colours of the flag of Israel so that she could continue her homework. She then told me that her teacher had asked them to colour the flags of some countries in the Middle East, and that included the Israeli flag," (the horror!! -ed.) the mother said.

"The issue is not about colouring a flag, but rather about engaging in an activity that would make students respect a country that persistently refuses to respect our nation," said the deputy member of the Palestine Committee at the parliament's lower house.

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Bolton Calls for Strike on Iran and Regime Change....

As always, he's right, what else can be done?....

Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told Tory delegates in Britain Sunday that efforts by the UK and the EU to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the country.

Bolton said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was "pushing out" and "is not receiving adequate push-back" from the West. "I don't think the use of military force is an attractive option, but I would tell you I don't know what the alternative is.

"Because life is about choices, I think we have to consider the use of military force. I think we have to look at a limited strike against their nuclear facilities."

He added that any strike should be followed by an attempt to remove the "source of the problem", Ahmadinejad.

"If we were to strike Iran it should be accompanied by an effort at regime change ... The US once had the capability to engineer the clandestine overthrow of governments. I wish we could get it back," he said.

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Taliban Publishes Karzai's new Constitution....

If Karzai has his way, this will be the government we have fought and died for, the same government that sent al-Qaeda to attack us on 9/11.  The "esteemed" people Karzai wants to welcome into the government, declare in their "constitution" that Jihad is an obligation for every citizen.  Something needs to be done.  CIA anyone?....

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Karzai Responds to Suicide Bombing by Offering to Meet Mullah Omar...

Where is the Outrage?......

The Taliban has published a shadow Afghan constitution outlining an alternative hardline government to that of President Hamid Karzai.

The 23-page document envisages a country where women would remain veiled and uneducated, "un-Islamic thought" would be banned and human rights would be ignored if "contrary with the teachings of Islam".

However "un-Islamic thought" is strictly forbidden and "violators will be punished according to sharia" - under the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islamic teachings. (not quite sure how they'll read peoples minds -ed.)

It provides for the education of women but only within the limits of sharia and stresses that the government will enforce compliance with Sharai Hejab - that women cover fully cover themselves.

The document also stresses the importance of jihad as an obligation for every citizen. It offers the Taliban's support for the United Nations and upholds human rights - "until it is contrary with the teachings of Islam".

"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan wishes good working relations with all the neighbouring countries and specially those who have supported the Afghan nation during jihad," it adds.

The greatest power is vested in an Emir-ul-Momineen, or leader of the faithful. Like its official Afghan counterpart, the constitution states that no law can "be contrary to Islamic sharia".

The constitution was approved by the Taliban's central shura religious council, headed by Mullah Omer, in 2005 but it has not been made public until now.

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Al-Qaeda Linked Missionary Group to Open 2nd London Madrasa...

What could be more dangerous than a salafist Muslim group proselytizing among an already enormous Muslim population?   Let me think...nothing....

An Islamic missionary group accused of being a recruiting ground for extremists is planning to open a madrasa for 500 boys near London's 2012 Olympic village.

The school will form part of an 18-acre complex being developed by Tablighi Jamaat, the same movement behind proposals to build Britain's biggest mosque, with the capacity for 12,000 worshippers. (can you imagine a 12K person madrasa in the UK? -ed.)

It will be the second madrasa in Britain operated by the group. Its Institute of Islamic Education in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, has more than 300 pupils. Teenage boys devote six mornings a week to Islamic history, theology, law, Qur'an recitation and Arabic. Afternoons are set aside for the national curriculum. (as well as constructing suicide bombs, AK training, head chopping -ed.)

The FBI has expressed concern about Tablighi Jamaat, stating in 2003 that al-Qaida used it as a recruiting ground. The group denies involvement in terrorism.

Hafiz Malik, 45, who has been involved with Tablighi Jamaat for 30 years, told the Guardian: "We are Muslims and our belief is that for anyone to attain salvation, Islam is the only way.

He rejected the idea that withdrawing from mainstream society encouraged segregation. (holy friggen contradiction -ed.) Nor did he accept that incorporating Islamic principles into everyday life was a sign of fundamentalism.

"Islamically, this worldly glamour is not what we are supposed to be. Muslims revert to Islam because it is their natural state, it is their alternative."

He said Tablighi Jamaat was increasingly popular with Muslims.

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Where is the Outrage?......

I wanted to post again about Hamid Karzai's insane offer to meet with Mullah Omar and welcome the Taliban into the government.  Jeffery Imm lays it out for us in black and white, and like he says, where is the outrage from our "leadership" and yes, that mean you Bush....

If not, what exactly does the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) call for? The AUMF called for war against "those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations", which surely included the Taliban. Furthermore, there are 171 clustered references to the Taliban in the Final Report of the 9/11 Commission. What more exactly does the United States need to view the Taliban as "the enemy"? Based on the AUMF, how can the Taliban be any less of an enemy to the United States, than Al Qaeda itself?

And if the Taliban are "the enemy", how can Americans accept the Taliban or the Taliban ideology in any political organization of an "ally" nation, let alone ones that American taxpayers provide millions of dollars to? Where is the outrage from American political leadership on this? Why is there no outrage among American political leaders at offers to "legitimize" the same Taliban that helped Al Qaeda in its Jihadist camps to kill 3,000 Americans? As previously discussed, the lack of clarity in identifying the enemy in this war is precisely what allows such disturbing realpolitik considerations.

Did bringing Hezbollah into the Lebanon government end fighting in Lebanon?
Did Hamas' election to the Palestinian government bring peace to the Palestinian territories?
Did the Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic government in Iran bring peace to Iran and its relations with the world?
Has the growing influence of Islamist political and other groups in Pakistan brought stability and peace to Pakistan?

Karzai's offer for political empowerment to the Taliban in Afghanistan comes as UPI and the Daily Telegraph report that the Taliban has publicly released its "Constitution of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan", which provides insight into what the Taliban would do if indeed such political empowerment was realized. The Daily Telegraph reports that the "23-page document envisages a country where women would remain veiled and uneducated, 'un-Islamic thought' would be banned and human rights would be ignored if 'contrary with the teachings of Islam' ", where "violators will be punished according to sharia", and that stipulates that all other constitutions are void. Furthermore, the Taliban constitution has called for "good relations" with those countries supporting Afghanistan "during jihad". I think we can make an educated guess that the Taliban would not consider such countries to include the United States.

Moreover, with their latest constitution, the Taliban has told us specifically what they plan to do, if they do get back into power. We know who and what the Taliban are and what they plan to do if they regain power. Yet still, American leadership is not denouncing talks to allow the Taliban to return to Afghanistan government power.

If so, this begs the obvious question, what are we fighting for?

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Pakistan: Woman Beheaded for "Immoral" Activities....

Allah Akbar!!....

The news that another woman has been beheaded by militants in FATA for allegedly being involved in 'immoral activities' is a perturbing and unsettling indication of a hate campaign against women in the region. The note that was found with her decapitated body, claiming that the punishment was in accordance with Shariah and threatening to subject other women involved in 'immoral activities' to a similar fate, is a troubling sign that this campaign is guised in the veil of religion by militants who think that they are the custodians of the Muslim faith.

Earlier this month, two women in Bannu, in the North West Frontier Province, were also beheaded because of their alleged role in 'immoral' activities. The situation needs to be taken very seriously and calls for action by the authorities.

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Iran Labels US Army & CIA Terrorist Organizations...

9 out of 10 American libtards agree....

Iranian lawmakers on Saturday labelled the US army and CIA as terrorist groups. The parliament said in a statement, cited by IRNA, that the US army has a record of terrorist operations mentioning bombardment of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs and CIA has been involved in establishment of terror networks and training terrorists worldwide.

"Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic weapons and throwing depleted uranium bombs in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, waging war on Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, and supporting Israel in its crackdown on Palestinian and Lebanese people are the record of the US army and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)," the statement said.

The statement added that both organizations supported Iraq's former leader Saddam Hussein, and terrorist groups including Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO), Al Qaeda and Taliban, and established secret prisons in Europe. CIA has also record of degrading treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Abu Ghraib in Iraq, it read.

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Just Another day at the Mosque...

Par for the course...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Hamas and Fatah loyalists clashed Saturday at a mosque in the southern Gaza Strip, leaving nine people wounded in the latest flareup of violence between the two factions, witnesses and medical officials said.

The melee erupted after Hamas — the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza — brought one of its own religious leaders to preside over evening prayers at a Khan Younis mosque instead of the independent cleric who usually leads the service, witnesses said.

What began as fistfights among worshippers soon degenerated into faceoffs with stones and knives. Hamas security officials who arrived at the scene fired rounds in the air, then came under fire themselves from a nearby area, witnesses said.

Medical sources in Khan Younis said nine people suffered knife and gunshot wounds, including two who were critically hurt.

Hamas and Fatah are bitter rivals whose enmity deepened after the Islamists violently seized control of Gaza from Fatah security forces in June.

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Saudi Man Divorces Wife for Watching a Man on TV...

I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad....

A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday.

The man, whom the paper did not identify, ended his marriage on the grounds his wife was effectively alone with an unrelated man, which is forbidden under the strict Islamic law enforced in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the paper said.

Men in Saudi Arabia have the authority to divorce their wives without resort to the courts.

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Karzai Responds to Suicide Bombing by Offering to Meet Mullah Omar...

This is beyond fucking enraging!! Mullah Omar was directly responsible for 9/11, offering to meet that "esteemed" piece of pig vomit, and a place in the government for the Taliban is unforgivable. Karzai, go fuck yourself!!.....

KABUL - In his most dramatic peace overture yet, Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday offered to meet Taliban leader Mullah Omar and give militants a position in government. Karzai's offer came hours after a suicide bomber in army disguise attacked a military bus in Kabul, killing 30 people.

Strengthening a call for negotiations he has made with increasing frequency in recent weeks, Karzai said he was willing to meet the reclusive Omar and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister and factional warlord leader.

"If I find their address, there is no need for them to come to me, I'll personally go there and get in touch with them," Karzai said. "Esteemed Mullah, sir, and esteemed Hekmatyar, sir, why are you destroying the country?"

Karzai said he has contacts with Taliban militants through tribal elders but that there are no direct and open government communication channels with the fighters. Omar's whereabouts are not known, though Karzai has claimed he is in Quetta, Pakistan, a militant hotbed across the border from Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

"If a group of Taliban or a number of Taliban come to me and say, 'President, we want a department in this or in that ministry or we want a position as deputy minister ... and we don't want to fight anymore ... . If there will be a demand and a request like that to me, I will accept it because I want conflicts and fighting to end in Afghanistan," Karzai said.

"I wish there would be a demand as easy as this. I wish that they would want a position in the government. I will give them a position," he said.

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Anbar Model Gaining Traction South of Baghdad...

We can, are and will win this war, screw the Dems.....

TUWAITHA, Iraq, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Sunni Arab men, and a smattering of Shi'ites, have begun signing up for local tribal police units in areas southeast of Baghdad where pitched battles were fought with al Qaeda only weeks ago.

In one rural area not far from the Tuwaitha nuclear plant, idle after Saddam Hussein's atomic energy programme was shut down following the 1991 Gulf War, about 30 young Iraqi men queued patiently in the ruins of a bombed-out watchtower.

The tower stands at an odd angle in a field next to a narrow road along the Tigris River. U.S. soldiers in humvees bounced along the road, over one repaired section where they said a bomb detonated by al Qaeda in Iraq militants left a 15-foot crater.

"I'm not afraid. I'm wanted by al Qaeda anyway," Mahmoud Jablawi, a Sunni Arab sheikh in the town of Tuwaitha, said when asked about the dangers of working with the U.S. military, which organised a visit to the area on Thursday for Reuters.

Apologising for his limp handshake -- he said he was shot in the arm in a gunbattle with al Qaeda three weeks ago -- Jablawi said two of his brothers had been killed in the past two weeks.

"We don't want to live in an Islamic country the way the Taliban live," he said of al Qaeda's strict version of Islam.

In Tuwaitha, 256 young men have joined a "concerned citizens" group, one of the latest examples of tribal police units based on the "Awakening" model established in western Anbar, once the most dangerous province in Iraq.

"Almost every one of these guys fought side by side with me against al Qaeda a week ago," said U.S. army captain Brian Gilbert as he signed up the latest group in Tuwaitha.

More weapons caches are being found as U.S. troops build trust with local units. Among weapons destroyed in Tuwaitha on Thursday during a visit by Reuters was an armour-piercing "explosively formed penetrator" -- a squat black canister about a foot in diameter with a concave top lined with rifle bullets.

The U.S. military accuses Iran of supplying Shi'ite militias in Iraq with EFPs and other deadly roadside bombs.

Potential recruits have their information recorded in a U.S. biometric database that also checks personal data. Anyone who has a criminal record or has fought against U.S. or Iraqi forces is weeded out, U.S. commanders say.

"Al Qaeda got greedy and wanted to form their own country. Iran also got greedy and wants Iraq to be part of Iran," he said through an interpreter, declining to give his real name.

Local Sunni leaders complain that, until now, few U.S. soldiers bothered to consult them.

"There was a missing link," said the Sunni leader watching the recruits.

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Report: Iranian Defector Provided Info for Syrian Airstrike...

Another report states American jets flew as backup to protect the Israeli planes during the raid.  Both reports sound very plausible to me.....

Iranian former deputy defense minister Ali Rheze Asgari supplied intelligence sources in the West with information regarding the sites that Israeli jets allegedly attacked on September 6, the Kuweiti Al Jareeda reported Friday.

Asgari defected from Iran several months ago and moved to an undisclosed location in the West.

In related news, the Saudi paper Al Watan reported Friday that American jets were hovering in Iraqi airspace close to the Syrian border during the raid. Reportedly, the USAF jets were meant to give aerial backup to Israel in case IAF warplanes would come to any harm.

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McCain: I Don't Want a Muslim President...

CAIR in 5, 4, 3...damn that was fast...

NEW YORK - GOP presidential candidate John McCain says America is better off with a Christian president and he doesn't want a Muslim in the Oval Office.

"I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it," he said. "But I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles, personally, I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith."

In a wide-ranging interview about religion and faith with the Web site Beliefnet, McCain said he wouldn't "rule out under any circumstance" someone who wasn't Christian, but said, "I just feel that that's an important part of our qualifications to lead."

A Muslim rights group ripped the Arizona Republican's remarks.

"That kind of attitude goes against the American tradition of religious pluralism and inclusion," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations

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