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Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Mullah Jerry Falwell?
Josh Marshall raises an important question:
Mullah James Dobson, as Andrew Sullivan described him, "the social policy director of the Bush administration."Radical cleric Jerry Falwell... I like it!
And as for this 'mullah' issue, most folks who wrote in didn't seem to catch that I had already tipped my hand when I wrote that I was "mulling" the question. But everyone who wrote in seemed to agree that it wasn't a problem. One interesting suggestion though was that we might prefer the more precise and non-sectarian phrases sometimes used in the media to describe the sundry Dobsonites and Dobsonians of the Middle East.
So for instance, we might say "radical cleric James Dobson." Or since, Dobson is not himself a man of the cloth, we might say 'radical cleric Pat Robertson.'
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