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India: Terror attack kills 1 year old girl and wounds 20 at Hindu temple, AP scratches head and wonders who could be responsible

Doubtless it was those extremist Christians again. “Bomb wounds 20 in Indian temple city of Varanasi,” from AP, December 7: LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Police say a bomb explosion wounded 20 people attending a Hindu ritual in what appears to be a terrorist attack in India's temple city of Varanasi. Police official Brij Lal says the bomb was hidden in a milk canister on the Sheetla Ghat, one of many stone staircases leading to the Ganges river…. Lal says the blast Tuesday evening “appears to be a terrorist attack.” It was not immediately clear who might be responsible. added by: crystalman

Ann Coulter: Obama Is Atheist, Not Muslim

Nearly one in five Americans think President Obama is a Muslim, according to a recent poll — but conservative commentator Ann Coulter says instead that he is an atheist. “The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop,” Coulter wrote on the conservative website TownHall.com. “I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.” Coulter, known for her brash, often humor-tinged commentary, wrote that the “only evidence for Obama's Christianity is that he faithfully attended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years.” While 20 years of attendance at a church may seem like good evidence, Coulter ruthlessly slams Wright, reducing his sermons to “hate-filled demagoguery.” Coulter makes the case that questioning a public person's religion should not be out of bounds, pointing to Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, televangelists who were disgraced in a series of sex and money scandals, as examples of people practicing false Christianity. “No sentient human is required to take Obama's profession of Christianity any more seriously than if it were coming from a 1980s blow-dried, money-grubbing televangelist with a mistress on the side,” she wrote. After making her case about the president, Coulter declares, “All liberals are atheists… There's only one true Christian liberal in the country and that's Mike Huckabee.” added by: TimALoftis

Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf Of Mexico

(CBS/ AP) An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill. Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the blast was reported by a commercial helicopter company about 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats are en route to the site, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast. The Coast Guard says 13 people were onboard the rig; all people are now accounted for and one injured person is en route to Terrebonne General Hospital, CBS News has learned. Ranel says it hasn't been determined whether the structure is a production platform or a drilling rig or whether workers were aboard. Ranel says smoke was reported but it is unclear whether the rig is still burning. Local media is reporting the rig is owned and operated by Mariner Energy Corp based in Houston. added by: TimALoftis