Apologetics
Do Muslims Want to Take Over the World?
From a knowledgeable friend: According to a Times report, Deobandis control over 600 of Britain’s 1300+ mosques: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2402973.ece The link for the article below, on the Deobandi leader and author Usmani, is: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2409833.ece Usmani is one of the leading Islamic scholars living today. He has published over 60 books, including more than a dozen available […]
Baptists reflect on the aftermath of 9/11
Soundings A forum for analysis and debate on issues of religion, ethics and public policy in Australia and internationally No. 63 – 11 September 2007 by Robert Parham The Baptist Center for Ethics, the leading U.S. Baptist ethics agency responsible for the EthicsDaily.com website, asked international Baptist leaders to share their thoughts about the state […]
Is a major Australian bank about to collapse? (La Rouche)
Citizens Electoral Council of Australia Media Release 7th of September 2007 Website: http://www.cecaust.com.au ——————————————————- Is a major Australian bank about to collapse? Australia’s major banks have joined the ranks of major international banks that have been caught out by the international credit collapse. NAB, Westpac, ANZ, Commonwealth and St George are all being forced to […]
Does Religion Promote Violence?
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/speeches/ for complete speech in MS Word file Don’t blame religion for violence: expert Media Release, Wednesday 17 May 2006 The myth that religion causes violence creates a blind spot about secular violence perpetrated by Western nations and other groups, according to a leading US theologian speaking at the University of Melbourne this week. Dr […]
A Very True Quote re Islam
“… If you’re even vaguely familiar with classical Islamic tradition, you’ll recognise at once that we’ve had our reformation, and it’s called al-Qaeda,” Waleed Aly, prominent Australian Muslim and media commentator The Age, Melbourne http://tinyurl.com/2o8m5h ¬ ¬ ¬ The full article: Renaissance man: Waleed Aly. September 1, 2007 THE world, as the pundits ritually remind us at […]
Muslim Brotherhood in North America
A friend sent me the composite of reports attached to this e-mail which refers to an important US case involving the ‘Holy Land Foundation’, currently being pursued in Dallas, Texas. Of special interest is a strategic planning document or ‘Explanatory Memorandum’ distributed in 1991 to the governing Council (Shura) of the Muslim Brotherhood in the […]
Rwanda
RWANDA’S JOURNEY (from a friend, John Steward) Choices on the way to peace How is Rwanda? If you read only the international media or watch the movies still focused on the terrible genocide of 1994, we could be forgiven for imagining that Rwanda wallows in its woeful past, with little to anticipate for the future. […]
The Evolution of Creationism
Victor J. Stenger The species of religious thought called creationism continues to evolve by a process of natural selection. While, as National Center for Science Education executive director Eugenie Scott has pointed out, there has always been a continuum of creationist views from extreme to moderate, we can still identify a few dominant strains. Let […]
Koalas in the Ark?
From my liberal friend Mark: Koalas They live only in Australia. Their diet is so restricted–to a few subspecies of eucalyptus–that they’re threatened now by destruction of the only kinds of trees they will eat. It’s also hard to imagine them migrating. Over many generations they might slowly spread through an area–but travelers, they ain’t. […]
Forest Ecology: a rural view
I wonder if anything has filtered through into other regions about a proposed new network of National Parks on the Murray River. I went along to a protest meeting on the banks of the River this week, where 250 people expressed their dismay at a proposal from VEAC (Victorian Environmental Assessment Council) to close up […]
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