Cole: "What's the difference between Palin and Muslim fundamentalists? Lipstick"

Juan Cole, in Salon, here

"...Palin argued when running for governor that creationism should be taught in public schools, at taxpayers' expense, alongside real science. Antipathy to Darwin for providing an alternative to the creation stories of the Bible and the Quran has also become a feature of Muslim fundamentalism. Saudi Arabia prohibits the study, even in universities, of evolution, Freud and Marx. ...Likewise, fundamentalists in Turkey have pressured the government to teach creationism in the public schools...."