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Who's Afraid of Shariah?Huffington Post (blog)All Islamic religious rules must be in line with these six principles of shariah. Aha! The six principles must be about killing infidels, veiling women, ... |
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Kenyans can no longer tolerate impunityDaily NationWhat do religious leaders have to say about sharing a dais with a man responsible for the slaughter of 300000 of his own people? They also shared cocktails ... |
"A suicide bomber was trying to enter the Ahmadis' worship place, but he was intercepted by the guards outside and blew himself up." [ Waqif Khan, Mardan police chief] Pakistani army troops patrol near a camp in Mardan Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Source/Credit: Yahoo News | AFP By AFP | September ...
The bible is not history. Coming to face that fact was an arduous one for me as I was raised as a Christian. As a child you believe what adults in positions of responsibility, such as parents, priests and teachers, tell you. You’re never encouraged to question or study the facts that you are given a ...
James K. A. Smith with a eulogy for Clark Pinnock And a eulogy for Donald Bloesch (whose books made a big impression on me when I was first getting interested in theology) Stanley Fish with an incisive comment on the furor surrounding the so-called Ground Zero mosque A new dissertation on Melville's ...
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Too Much ReligionThe NamibianWe already have too much religion and it has not been able to stop the ever-increasing violence in the country. On the contrary, if we are honest about it, ... |
In part one of chapter one we looked at three scholars that Cavanaugh sees as putting forward the argument "religion is violent because it is absolutist." Now we turn to three who, roughly argue that "religion is violent because it is divisive" (and remember these categories are heuristic, all nine ...
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Obama Is Still AWOL on SudanWall Street JournalBeginning in 1983, Southern-based insurgents rebelled in response to racial, religious and resource discrimination perpetrated by the government in Khartoum ...and more » |
When it comes to violence carried out in the name of religion, there are two distinct schools of approaches to explain such violence. I describe both of them briefly and then explore them in more detail. The first school, that I call the identity school, views religion as merely yet another form of ...
A man reacts over explosions as protesters burn vehicles in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. – AP Lahore mourns triple bombing as death toll rises Thu, 02 Sep, 2010 | Ramazan 22, 1431 LAHORE: The death toll from suicide attacks that targeted a busy procession in Pakistan’s eastern city ...
Three suicide bombers targeted a Shia mourning procession made up of thousands of people on Wednesday at the moment of the breaking of the fast in the holy month of Ramazan, wounding hundreds. It was the first major attack in Pakistan since devastating floods engulfed a fifth of the volatile country ...
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US issues CWG attack alert to its expatsDaily PioneerAmerican citizens were advised to monitor local news reports and think about their security when visiting public places, including religious sites, ... |
Enough is Enough: The Crusades & The Jihad Are Not Equivalents by Joe Hargrave One of the memes – the unconscious, uncritical, lazy thoughts that spreads from person to person like a virus – that has been particularly virulent during this ground-zero mosque controversy is that Christians have no sta ...
Well, alright not me, but I did edit a book with a bunch of crack authors and thinkers called, God and Global Order: The Power of Religion in American Foreign Policy. It’s starting to make the round and reviews should appear in short order, but I’ll “toot a little horn” and say a bit about what I th ...
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Is Nation Building Worth It?RealClearPolitics (blog)If the violence continues to escalate, are these 50000 American troops going to take a "backup role" in Iraq's ethnic and religious wars? ... |
John 8:33-47 (NRSV) They answered Jesus, 'We are descendants of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean by saying, "You will be made free"?' Jesus answered them, 'Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not have a permanent place in t ...
Joe Hargrave: One of the memes – the unconscious, uncritical, lazy thoughts that spreads from person to person like a virus – that has been particularly virulent during this ground-zero mosque controversy is that Christians have no standing to criticize the violence of Islam, given a supposedly viol ...
Joe Hargrave: One of the memes – the unconscious, uncritical, lazy thoughts that spreads from person to person like a virus – that has been particularly virulent during this ground-zero mosque controversy is that Christians have no standing to criticize the violence of Islam, given a supposedly viol ...
On first publication in September 2000, The New York Times played the above photo's caption this way: "An Israeli policeman and Palestinian on Temple Mount." Call it a lie, a mistake, wishful thinking, whatever, the words were simply not true. In fact, the IDF soldier had come to rescue the bloodied ...
India's Hindu, Muslim and Christian populations are experiencing unease in states where religious practices often incite violence. I wrote in September's issue of Columbia about how, in certain parts of the country, inter-religious violence and state laws that are criminalizing some charitable activ ...
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Fearing Future, Few Iraqis Cheer US ExitKVVU Las VegasSome Iraqis worry that without the American soldiers, their country will revert to a dictatorship or split along religious and ethnic fault lines. ... |
Islam and the West 28 Aug 2010, NewAgeIslam.Com Why America Needs More Muslims By Joshua Holland There is already a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center -- it's been there since 1985. Men and women pray together at Masjid al-Farah; its services are led by a woman, Sheikha Fariha al-Jerrahi ...
Islam and the West 28 Aug 2010, NewAgeIslam.Com Why America Needs More Muslims By Joshua Holland There is already a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center -- it's been there since 1985. Men and women pray together at Masjid al-Farah; its services are led by a woman, Sheikha Fariha al-Jerrahi ...
Islam and the West 28 Aug 2010, NewAgeIslam.Com Why America Needs More Muslims By Joshua Holland There is already a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center -- it's been there since 1985. Men and women pray together at Masjid al-Farah; its services are led by a woman, Sheikha Fariha al-Jerrahi ...
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