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On this week's Reporting Religion, the other World Service programme I am privileged to present, we're getting ready to talk to Tony Blair about his faith foundation, which he's launching next week.

This week, I spoke to Professor at Emory University, a Muslim lawyer who argues forcefully against mixing religion and politics and says there really is no such think as an Islamic state.

If you want any further proof of the explosive mixture that is religion and politics, you need look no further than the over John Hagee's speech on God's plan for the Jews involving the murder of six million of them by the Nazis just so the rest would move to the Middle East. The original speech is available on the website.

Now I'd like you to help with a bit more preposterous history. What other crimes and disasters could be used to create other provocative interpretations of God's plans?

Hurricane Katrina as a way of getting the inhabitants of New Orleans to move to Texas? Not enough jazz inTexas, maybe? After all, John Hagee also said Katrina was God's wrath because of a gay pride march.

Are global warming and rising sea levels part of a divine plan to get us all to move to higher ground where we'll be closer to heaven?

I'm sure you can get more creative and offensive - go to it!

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