Praying for Defeat

FrontPage Magazine: “Religious Left officials joined in a press conference on the lawn of the Methodist Building on Capitol Hill to unveil their umpteenth protest against the Iraq War. This time, it will be an interfaith “fast” to coincide both with Islam’s Ramadan season and, more specifically, with Columbus Day. The fasters prefer to call the later the “day of conquest.” The locale, the cause, and the participants all combined to create a uniquely absurd spectacle. “