[Anti GWB]

NEWS BRIEF: "Conservatives dispute Bush on Islam: Critics, include some policy advisers, call stance political" by Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, carried by MSNBC News, November 30, 2002.


"President Bush finds himself in a rare disagreement with conservatives in his party over his efforts to portray Islam as a peaceful religion that is not responsible for anti-American terrorism. In a score of speeches since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the president has called for tolerance of Muslims, describing Islam as “a faith based upon peace and love and compassion” and a religion committed to “morality and learning and tolerance.”