Rowland Croucher
Justice: Not Only Blind, But Lame
Harry T. Cook 1/30/09 The legendary bank robber Willie Sutton is widely but perhaps mistakenly credited with this response to an FBI agent’s question about why he robbed so many banks — more than 100 in his long so-called career: “Because that’s where the money is.” What we know to be true is that in […]
Prayer Network Newsletter (5 October 2009)
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * THE PACIFIC AND SOUTH EAST ASIA IN TURMOIL AS NATURAL DISASTERS STRIKE * MUSLIMS PRAY ON CAPITOL HILL * CHRISTIANS EMIGRATING AS ISLAMIC INFLUENCE GROWS IN LEBANON * IRAN: A CRITICAL TEST OF WESTERN RESOLVE * 40 DAYS FOR LIFE CAMPAIGN BEGINS WITH 38 BABIES LIVES SAVED IN FIRST WEEK […]
Teachers’ and Police Humor
These are actual comments made on student report cards by teachers in the New York City public school system. All teachers were reprimanded but, some of these are really funny! 1. Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig. 2. I would not allow this student to breed. […]
Jesus as #1 most significant figure in history
Australians vote Jesus as #1 most significant figure in history Believer or non-believer, 54% of Australians ranked Jesus as the number one most influential person in history beating Albert Einstein who came in at second place (16%) and Charles Darwin who was ranked third (9%). Research commissioned by http://www.allaboutlife.com.au revealed Australia is a nation of […]
Would Polanski get a pass if he were a paedophile priest?
It’s hard to watch France’s political and cultural elite rush to support filmmaker Roman Polanski against extradition to the United States on a decades-old sex charge and not wonder exactly how they interpret the national motto “libert ©, ©galit ©, fraternit ©.” It’s tempting to ask whether they’re defending the liberty to break the law and skip town, […]
Science and religion are a match made in heaven
The Glad Scientist A Vatican astronomer explains why science and religion are a match made in heaven by Dan Falk Installed on the second floor of a small building on the summit of Arizona’s Mount Graham, Guy Consolmagno is multi-tasking. He’s checking email on his laptop and listening to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra on his […]
Azerbaijan; Kazakhstan; Russia; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 1 October 2009 AZERBAIJAN: POLICE CHIEF DEPORTS LOCAL-BORN BAPTIST – WITH NO DOCUMENTATION http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1357 Local Baptist Javid Shingarov (who holds a Russian […]
The Character of Muhammad
1.He was very human He felt scared at night and snored when he slept “One night the Prophet was unable to sleep and said, “Would that a righteous man from my companions guarded me tonight.” Suddenly we heard the clatter of arms, whereupon the Prophet said, “Who is it?” It was said, “I am Sa’d, […]
Christians in the Hadith
(i) Khadija took Muhammad to her cousin after Muhammad had his first revelation “Khadija then accompanied [Muhammad] to her cousin Waraqa bin Naufal bin Asad bin ‘Abdul ‘Uzza, who, during the Pre-Islamic Period became a Christian and used to write the writing with Hebrew letters. He would write from the Gospel in Hebrew as much […]
Waleed Aly, People Like Us
A review of Waleed Aly ¯ ¿ ½s People Like Us ¯ ¿ ½ How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West (Sydney: Picador, 2007) 277pp RRP $32.95 Reviewed by Barry Peters. Wesley College has done its job well. This exclusive Melbourne private school has produced another star graduate in the Muslim lawyer Waleed Aly. Accused by an internet blogger […]
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