{"id":152,"date":"2011-01-17T19:26:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T19:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2011\/01\/quick-takes-would-martin-luther-king-be-pro-life-hero-muslims-defend-christians-a-real-political-odd.html"},"modified":"2011-01-17T19:26:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T19:26:04","slug":"quick-takes-would-martin-luther-king-be-pro-life-hero-muslims-defend-christians-a-real-political-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2011\/01\/quick-takes-would-martin-luther-king-be-pro-life-hero-muslims-defend-christians-a-real-political-odd.html","title":{"rendered":"Quick takes: Would Martin Luther King be pro life?; hero Muslims defend Christians; a real political odd couple"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Martin Luther King were alive today he’d be a pro-life social conservative.<\/b><\/a> That’s what Dr. Alveeda King, full-time Director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life and niece
\nof Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., says. Some on the left are discounting that notion, arguing that, if anything, MLK leaned toward socialism — making him an unlikely participant in a Glenn Beck rally (as Alveeda was last August). That may be so but economic socialism and the social issue of abortion are not synonymous. It is possible to be for one and against the other. <\/p>\n

Brave Muslims defend Christians in Egypt.<\/b><\/a> While the media and the U.S. government largely ignore the increase in anti-Christian violence around the world<\/a> (particularly in the Mideast), the story of a group of Egyptian Muslims who stood in solidary, offering themselves as human shields, as Coptic Christians gathered in worship (days after the brutal murder of 21 people<\/a> during a New Year’s eve mass) remains worthy of note. <\/p>\n

Egypt’s peaceful Muslim community has stood up against the religious fanatics in other ways too. From Ahram Online<\/a>: In the days following the brutal attack on Saints Church in Alexandria, which
\nleft 21 dead on New Year’ eve, solidarity between Muslims and Copts has seen an
\nunprecedented peak. Millions of Egyptians changed their Facebook profile
\npictures to the image of a cross within a crescent – the symbol of an “Egypt for
\nAll”. Around the city, banners went up calling for unity, and depicting mosques
\nand churches, crosses and crescents, together as one.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Good Samaritans come in all faiths.<\/p>\n

Russell Simmons and Roger Ailes are friends.<\/b><\/a> The liberal hip-hop entreprenuer who voted for Barack Obama and the conservative Fox News chief who probably didn’t are buds. There’s hope for civil discourse in America.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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