Otherizing
Epigraph: “Has the story of Abraham’s honored guests reached thee? When they entered upon him and said, ‘Peace!’ he said, ‘Peace!’ They were all strangers. And he went quietly to his household, […]
How to destroy the future: From the Cuban missile crisis to a fossil fuels frenzy, the US is intent on winning the race to disaster by Noam Chomsky
What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what’s happening here or, for that matter, imagine you’re an historian 100 years from […]
NSA’s Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do
Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data ‘directly from the servers’ of tech firms James Ball guardian.co.uk, Saturday 8 June 201 The slide details different methods of data collection under the FISA Amendment Act. Since Prism was first revealed by the Guardian and the Washington Post, there […]
Bible- New Testament is a Jewish Book?
Huff Post: The New Testament in Historical Context When I’m invited to teach in churches, I often invite questions from the group before I begin my planned presentation. I call this “building an agenda,” a process that helps me understand where people are coming from and helps the audience pursue […]
Buffalo, NY Conference Live Today: Reconciling Suffering and Existence of God
Epigraph: “From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There […]
Billionaire Tells Americans to Prepare For ‘Financial Ruin’
The United States could soon become a large-scale Spain or Greece, teetering on the edge of financial ruin. That’s according to Donald Trump, who painted a very ugly picture of where this country is headed. Trump made the comments during a recent appearance on Fox News’ “On the Record with […]
(One law for us – another for the rest of the world): Obama defends broad phone, Internet spy programs
By LARA JAKES WyomingNews.com President Barack Obama is urging Americans to “make some choices” in balancing privacy and security as he defends once-secret surveillance programs that sweep up an estimated 3 billion phone calls a day and amass Internet data from U.S. providers in an attempt to thwart terror attacks. […]
Widespread rape by staff indicates ‘fundamental failure’ of juvenile detention
RT: Teenagers jailed in the United States are frequently, and often repeatedly, raped in juvenile detention centers throughout the country, according to a US Department of Justice survey obtained by […]
Book Discussion on Mohammed (peace be on him) A Prophet for our Time – by Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong talked about her book Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time, published by HarperCollins in the Eminent Lives series. She described Muhammad, the prophet and founder of Islam, as a […]
When Sunni and Shiite Extremists Make War
Source: The Conservative papers. If al Qaeda fighters want to murder Hezbollah fighters and Hezbollah fighters want to return the favor, who in their right mind would want to stand in the way? . . . If one branch of Islam wants to be at war with another branch for […]
The West’s Fatal Attraction: Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism
LUBP: Last week an American woman (Nicole Lynn Mansfield) has been killed in Syria while fighting alongside rebel forces against the Assad regime alongside two other Westerners—the U.K. press has […]
Muslim and Jewish Leaders Unite to Combat Hatred
Jews and Muslims Worldwide Attending The Event “Mission of Muslim Leaders and Jewish Leaders from Southern Hemisphere Countries” in Washington D.C. PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With the U.S. State Department’s eye-opening Report […]
FBI Makes Big Changes on Hate Crimes
Huff Post: By Jaweed Kaleem. After years of pressure from civil rights groups and lawmakers who say attacks against religious and ethnic minorities are not adequately monitored by law enforcement, the FBI will begin formally tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arabs. Meeting in Portsmouth, Va., on Wednesday, an […]
USGov: Testimony of Deputy Asst Secy Baer (on Indonesian Human Rights issues)
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 2:51 pm SCOOP.world Press Release: US Government USGov: Testimony of Deputy Asst Secy Baer At Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing Deputy Assistant Secretary Baer at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing on Indonesia, May 23, 2013 Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, […]
How would George Washington and Prophet Muhammad react to hate speech?
By Craig Considine craigconsidinetcd: In a recent article for Yahoo Contributors Network, Maryam Khan Ansari wrote about how internet postings with anti-Muslim hate messages may soon be subject to federal criminal laws. In her article, Ansari discussed how Bill Killian, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, has plans to use federal […]
The Separation of Church and State in America– Then and Now
Huff Post: A public high school in Muldrow, Oklahoma, recently decided to remove plaques of the Ten Commandments from its classrooms after an atheist student urged the Freedom From Religion Foundation to threaten a lawsuit. The removal of the Decalogue displays offended numerous community members, thereby evoking a prior controversy regarding a Ten Commandments monument placed […]
Khalifa of Islam on mission to spread good will
Source: New Haven Register Op-ed By Dr. Suhail Hussain The news seems to report much about problem leaders of the Muslim world. They include bloodthirsty extremists, fiery Mullahs and unyielding […]
Obama Family Offering Free Scholarships to Study Sharia Law
Source: Conservative Papers. President Obama’s grandmother Sarah started the Sarah Obama Benevolent Fund Institute, otherwise known as the Mama Sarah Obama Children Foundation, which raises 90% of its monies primarily from donors in the United States and some from Europe. Those monies are solicited as humanitarian aid and according to […]
Condemn Injustice, Not Islam
Huff Post: Qasim Rashid: In her recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, atheist and anti-Islam activist Ayan Hirsi Ali finally admits, “In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and the Woolwich murder, […]
FORUM: Khalifa of Islam on mission to spread good will
Newhaven Register: The news seems to report much about problem leaders of the Muslim world. They include bloodthirsty extremists, fiery Mullahs and unyielding autocrats. Also, throw in the chatter from absolute cynics who can’t believe that a practicing Muslim could possibly live a life of peace. And we are left […]