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If Franklin Graham continues his move to the far right, says Gaillard, it will be "bad for the country — it's because of statements like the ones he has made that many people refuse to see a difference between Islam and Islamic terrorism. I don't know whether Graham, at least in his views on Islam, is intellectually lazy or dishonest, but either way, it's basically just un-American to slander a whole religion for the actions of some of its members."

Franklin Graham's 1995 autobiography was called Rebel With A Cause: Finally Comfortable Being Graham. Whether the elder Graham's supporters will resign themselves to Franklin's new, more political role remains to be seen, but it's obvious that Graham hasn't rid himself completely of his inner rebel. As Graham's sister, Anne Graham Lotz, told USA Today in 2006: "[Franklin] didn't get Daddy's gift of diplomacy."