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Monastery of Varlaam in Meteora Region, Greece
Did Jesus Die to Save Us From God?
Huff Post: by Derek Flood. Why did Jesus have to die? Was it to appease a wrathful God’s demand for punishment? Does that mean Jesus died to save us from God? How could someone ever truly love or trust a God like that? How can that ever be called “Good […]
US, allies in Gulf naval exercise as Israel, Iran face off
Reuters | Sep 17, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES DUBAI — The United States and its allies have launched a major naval exercise in the Gulf that they say shows a global will to keep oil shipping lanes open as Israel and Iran trade threats of war. Publicly announced in July, […]
Muslims should resist being baited by enemies
LINDA HEARD ARABNEWS Tuesday 18 September 2012 It is utter madness that any hate-consumed or lunatic nonentity located anywhere in the world can turn the Muslim world into a seething cauldron of violence, negatively impacting geopolitical relations and economic outlooks. Decades ago, a wise person I met in Jakarta imparted […]
Why do so many millions of Muslims hate the US?
Source: The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Credit: AhmadiyyaUSA1 http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=1846049445001&w=466&h=263Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Back to reality
One of the world’s leading religious figures spent the weekend in Lebanon preaching a message of coexistence and dialogue, as politicians from across the national divide lined up to offer […]
People of all faiths, let’s focus on what unites us
By Dominique Rychlik, Mike Rychlik The Daily Star The recent anniversary of 9/11 was a poignant occasion to reflect on why we insist on seeing people of other faiths as fundamentally “other” when there is so much that we share. While great strides have been made in promoting inter-religious understanding, […]
Switzerland: Thousands back fair trade for the public sector
Nearly 20,000 people want to see improved conditions for overseas workers who produce uniforms for Switzerland’s public enterprises. Their open letter, delivered to parliament on Monday, intends to influence upcoming […]
Vibrant Muslim community in Hawaii
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Friday 14 September 2012 Hawaii is the dreamland for holidaymakers. Annually thousands of tourists spend their winter in the comfortable climate of Hawaii which is like […]
Islam’s humane view of blasphemy – Opinion, Christian Sc. Monitor
Source: Violent protests over the video that insults the prophet Muhammad highlight a fundamentalist view of blasphemy. But this interpretation relies on only a handful of sources and ignores Islamic authorities […]
Newsweek trolls again with MUSLIM RAGE
Source: Salon.com Author: Alex Pareene Look, we all know Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek, is simply trolling us, because trolling is the only way for a weekly newsmagazine to get any sort of attention anymore. (Time doesn’t troll us, and as a result no one ever talks about Time.) So, MUSLIM RAGE. […]
Hezbollah leader makes rare public appearance, stoking anger against U.S. for anti-Islam film
Source: National Post With significant protests in nearly a dozen countries over a amateurish anti-Islam film posted to YouTube, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance to warn the U.S. it faces further Muslim anger unless it suppresses the video that mocks the Prophet Mohammad. “The world […]
COMMENT : Inflammatory anti-Muslim film and the US Constitution
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani The film falls squarely within the category of “fighting words” as defined by the United States Supreme Court The film Innocence of Muslims has to rank as the most terribly imbecilic and ridiculous attempt to malign the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to date. It […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim US’s response to violence Fox News
Here’s the latest update on Middle East violence on Anti-Islam movie. Harris Zafar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim USA speaks to a Fox News host. Reiterates what I wrote a few hours ago.
Citing extremism, Russia seeks to ban ‘Innocence of Muslims’
Russian TV: The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has warned internet providers against the online distribution of the film, which Muslims say is blasphemous. “The Prosecutor General’s Office will appeal to the courts for this film to be acknowledged as extremist in order to prevent its online distribution in Russia,” Office spokesperson […]
Hidden Causes of the Muslim Protests
Source: The Atlantic By ROBERT WRIGHT As the Muslim protests subside, more and more people have come to realize that what seems to have sparked them–one of the worst YouTube videos ever, which is saying something–isn’t what they were mainly about. But what were they about? Here theories differ, and some of the […]
Life is Precious and Sacred: Sarah Catt jailed for full-term abortion of baby
Source: BBC A woman who aborted her own baby in the final phase of her pregnancy has been jailed for eight years. Sarah Louise Catt, 35, of Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire, took a drug when she was full term, 39 weeks pregnant, to cause an early delivery. She claimed the boy […]
India labels anti-Islam film ‘offensive material’
Source: The Daily News India on Sunday said that Google had blocked access in the country to an anti-Islam film which has triggered protests across the Muslim world as it condemned the “offensive” movie. “Google India has, in compliance with Indian law, blocked access to the offensive material,” foreign […]
Sami Moubayed: Reactions to the Anti-Muslim Film: It is Now Time To Grow Up
On June 23, the controversial American satirical film, Innocence of Muslims premiered to a private audience at the Vine Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Two clips were posted on YouTube on July 1. By September, the amateur low-budget film had been dubbed into Arabic and brought to the attention of Muslims […]