Turkey Must Choose
• arcleinWhere Turkey falls on the issue will be seen as an important test as to whether it intends to maintain its Western orientation or turn its gaze more firmly eastward toward Syria, Russia and, of course, Iran.
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Religion: Believers
Pope Demands Investigation into Spain's 'Agressive Secularism'
• BBCHe called for "a Spain and Europe concerned not only with people's material needs but also with their moral and social, spiritual and religious needs, since all these are genuine requirements of our common humanity".
We Help, They Hate Us
• arcleinBut let’s always remember: Islam has been at war with the West long before 9/11 or the establishment of the state of Israel. Alas, the Muslim predilection for absurd conspiracy theories (which are altered on the fly as current events demand) is abun
Very Disturbing Error To Say Protection Of Individual Rights Is The Way To Peace And Prosperity: I
Written By: • LetterI take reference to this published letter to the editor: "When Religion and Inalienable Rights Collide". Read it at this link - http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Letter-to-Editor.htm?EdNo=001&Info=0117198 It is very disturbing if these w
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"Underground" Group of Cadets Say Air Force Academy Controlled by Evangelicals
• Mike Ludwig, t r u t h o u tResults of the so-called "Climate Study" leaked to the press, and "353 cadets (almost 1 out of every 5 survey participants) reported having been subjected to unwanted religious proselytizing, and 23 cadets (13 of them Christians) reported living 'in
IS THE BIBLE'S ACCOUNT OF THE PARTING OF THE RED SEA TRUE? IF SO, WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
• www.varight.comScientists suggest the Biblical account of the parting of the Rea Sea is true. What if the Scripture is true? What's the implications? Maybe they are eternal...
The Parting of the Red Sea by Moses
• arcleinThe computer simulations show that a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have pushed water back at a bend where an ancient river is believed to have merged with a coastal lagoon along the Mediterranean Sea. With the water pushed back into both
The crime wave that shames the world
• U.K. IndependentJournalist Robert Fisk has carried out an investigation of honor killings and finds the problem is not confined to the Middle East and spreading rapidly. An estimated 20,000 women per year are murdered in the name of honor.
Words Eye View
Postal Inspector Claims Mailing Bibles Against the Law
Greg J DixonFranklin Graham relates his encounter with a Chaplain who had called him at Samaritan’s Purse, Graham’s organization, to explain that the ministry could not send spiritual tracts and Arabic Bibles to the soldiers in some Arab countries.
Ganesh Chaturthi
• arcleinGanesh Chaturthi, as it is officially known, is one of the biggest religious festivals in Maharashtra, the Indian state whose capital, Mumbai, is now associated with more violent expressions of religious feeling. A ten-day festival to celebrate the b
Conscientious Objectors Republic of Armenia
• http://jw-media.orgCurrently, there are 76 Jehovah’s Witnesses who have been charged under the Criminal Code for their conscientious refusal of military service on religious grounds. Of these, 76 have been tried, convicted, and imprisoned; no one is being held in pretr
Russia challenges landmark ECHR judgment
• http://jw-media.orgGovernment seeks to continue illegal ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—On September 9, 2010, Russia officially challenged the unanimous decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) stating that Russia’s ban on Jehovah’s Witn
Criminal prosecution for faith – a new reality in Russia
• http://jw-media.orgYOSHKAR-OLA, Russia—“My wife and I were shocked to learn that hidden video surveillance has been set up in our apartment, telephones have been tapped, and we are being followed,” says Maksim Kalinin, who was named as a suspect in a criminal case init
Public access to religious Web site blocked in eastern Russia
• http://jw-media.orgKOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR, Russia—One of the largest Internet service providers in eastern Russia, Technodesign, was compelled by court order to block access to several popular Web sites, including http://www.watchtower.org, the official Web site of Jehovah
Jehovah’s Witnesses release first complete Bible in Ossetian
• http://jw-media.orgVLADIKAVKAZ, Russia—Saturday August 21, 2010, will be a day long remembered by the Ossetian people who attended the 2010 “Remain Close to Jehovah!” District Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses that was held in Vladikavkaz, Ossetia, where the first comp
French Senate passes ban of full Muslim veils
• APThe French Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure that effects less than 2,000 women but that has been widely seen as a symbolic defense of French values.
Isaiah's Job
• News Link"I have a mission to the masses. I feel that I am called to get the ear of the people. I shall devote the rest of my life to spreading my doctrine far and wide among the population. What do you think?"
Pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders
• APAn anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, angrily accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him with a promise to move an Islamic center and mosque away from New York's
Website pulled on US church that wants to burn Korans
• AFPThe small Florida church that has sparked global outrage with its plan to hold a Koran-burning event had its website pulled from the Internet by its host. Dove World Outreach Center church, "violated the Offensive Content section of its Acceptable U
Welcome To Kiryas Joel: Please Dress Accordingly
• CBS NewsThe tradition in the village of Satmar Hasidic Jews is modesty. Even on the hottest of days, most of these New Jersey residents cover up from head to toe. But visitors don’t follow that tradition, and the main synagogue is asking them to comply.
Letters from the Imam
• The Wall Street JournalSince Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, the force behind the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, has staked a political claim as a "moderate Muslim," The Wall Street Journal takes note of some of his past writings.
Ground Zero Muslim center may get public financing
• ReutersThe Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.
GLENN BECK'S RALLY: RESTORING HONOR
• www.varight.comGlenn Beck's rally was a moving experience and it glorified Jesus Christ and took back our history. It may be God's instrument to bring revival to our nation.
Sharia for Dummies
• arcleinImam Feisal Abdel Rauf claims that the U.S. constitution is Sharia compliant. Now let us examine below a few laws of Sharia to see how truthful Imam Rauf is: 1- Jihad, defined as “to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion,” is the duty
Chechen women harassed, assaulted for not wearing headscarves during Ramadan
• ReutersMany women in Russia's volatile Chechnya region said on Friday they had been harassed and some physically harmed by bands of men for not wearing headscarves during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
France expels Islamic cleric for second time
• Associated Foreign PressFrance's Interior Minister announced on Thursday that for the second time radical Islamic cleric Ali Ibrahim al-Sudani has been expelled back to his native Egypt after having already kicked him out in January.
NYC imam's goodwill tour comes amid mosque furor
• Washington PostThe furor over the planned mosque and Islamic center near ground zero has put Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf in a curious position: At the same time he is being vilified in the U.S. for spearheading the project, he is traveling the Mideast on a State Departm
'Ground Zero mosque': New Yorkers take dim view of rabble-rousing outsiders
• Washington PostMohammed, like many other New Yorkers, has reached his saturation point. "They got nothing to do with New York and they don't care about New York," said the 56-year-old from Brooklyn. "They are trying to create propaganda."
Despite tough laws British girls undergo horror of genital mutilation
• U.K. GuardianDespite tough British laws banning the practice, some 500 to 2,000 British schoolgirls will be genitally mutilated over the summer which will be performed by women already living in the U.K. or on girls who are sent to "cutting parties".
Cultural Defense of Non-Consensual Sex Rejected on Appeal
• The Volokh ConspiracyA New Jersey appellate court overturned a lower court's ruling on a rape case involving a Muslim man claiming that his non-consensual sexual relations with his wife from a forced marriage was justified according to his faith.
