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May 1st, 2012
02:41 PM ET
House candidate and rising GOP star is black, female - and MormonBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) - To call Mia Love a minority is an understatement. She’s a black woman who won an upset primary race to become the Republican candidate in Utah’s 4th Congressional District. If elected, she’d be the first black Republican congresswoman in the House of Representatives. Love, who has attracted lots of national Republican support, also stands out because of her religion: She’s a Mormon. The politician is a poster child for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ campaign to present a more diverse face to a historically very white church. “There are a lot of people who have tried to define me as a person,” Love, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, told CNN’s Kyra Phillips in an interview Tuesday. “I’m not a victim, and I don’t allow anybody to put me in a box.”
May 1st, 2012
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May 1st, 2012
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Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Tuesday, May 1
By Laura Koran, CNN Here's the Belief Blog’s morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. From the Blog: CNN: Poll: Many Muslims in Mideast, Pakistan have poor view of al Qaeda  The Sikh Coalition unveils new app to combat racial profiling. CNN: Sikh group develops app to report airport profiling
May 1st, 2012
01:37 AM ET
Poll: Many Muslims in Mideast, Pakistan have poor view of al QaedaBy the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) - Most Muslims in several key Middle Eastern and Asian countries hold negative views of the terrorist network al Qaeda a year after U.S. forces killed its leader Osama bin Laden, according to a recent survey. The poll by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project, released Monday, found that a high proportion - between 71% and 98% - of Muslims questioned in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon viewed al Qaeda in an unfavorable way. |
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