By STEPHEN M. WALT CNN has fired senior editor Octavia Nasr for tweeting that she was “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah … One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” Fadlallah was one of the spiritual leaders of Hezbollah, and regarded by the U.S. government as a terrorist. More…
The Lebanese militant Hezbollah has denounced CNN’s decision to fire a Middle East editor for posting a note on Twitter expressing admiration for the country’s late top Shiite cleric. Octavia Nasr later apologized for her tweet in which she described Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah as “one of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” But…
A coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan has been dismissed from a longtime wresting coaching position after complaints that the coach’s former assistant was trying to convert Muslim students to Christianity. The assistant coach, Trey Hancock, an evangelical pastor, said that he never mixed religion with sports – the coach supported Hancock. The…
