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Prayer Room Delights Toronto Muslims

Prayer Room Delights Toronto Muslims OnIslam & Newspapers Monday, 11 February 2013 00:00 Toronto, Muslim, students, prayer A new prayer room was opened at Emmanuel College in Toronto last month to help Muslim students perform their prayers CAIRO – Enjoying a welcoming atmosphere, Muslim students at a Canadian university are […]

On questioning the Jewish State

By JOSEPH LEVINE THE NEW YORK TIMES I was raised in a religious Jewish environment, and though we were not strongly Zionist, I always took it to be self-evident that “Israel has a right to exist.” Now anyone who has debated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have encountered this phrase often. […]

Has Atheism Become a Religion?

Source: Huff Post, by David Lose. Before you dismiss the question out of hand, consider these four inter-related bits of evidence: 1) As recently reported in the New York Times, military personnel who identify themselves as “Atheists” have requested chaplains to tend to their spiritual needs. As the Times article notes, “Defense Department statistics […]

US govt should blacklist Pakistan’s Geo TV

Source: LUBP:   In the afternoon of 9 March, a mob of 3,000 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (ASWJ/LEJ) and PML-N activists destroyed the entire neighborhood of Joseph Colony, Badami Bagh, in Lahore. The destruction was carried out when a rumor was deliberately spread by the religious-political activists affiliated to the Deobandi/ASWJ/LeJ mosque in […]

Qur’an, Bible Clear Islam Misconceptions

Source: onislam. An American professor is highlighting similarities between the Noble Qur’an and the Bible as a way to clear misconceptions about Islam and Muslims in the world. “One of the things right off the bat that shocks Christians and Jews very often if they haven’t read the Qur’an much […]

Church and state

Source: The Economist: THE perennial debate about religion and politics in America has a new point of reference: a bill passed a few weeks ago by a bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives to permit the allocation of federal disaster relief money for the reconstruction of houses of worship […]

Opinion: Chavez was a maker of dreams

Editor’s note: Eva Golinger is an attorney and writer from New York, living in Caracas, Venezuela, since 2005 and author of “The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela” (2006 Olive Branch Press) and “Bush vs. Chávez: Washington’s War on Venezuela” (2007, Monthly Review Press). She is Editor-in-Chief of Venezuelan newspaper, the […]