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Islamic imperialism: Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY (RL) TRENDS: 2006-2007 ———————————————————————————- 4. RL TREND – ISLAMIC IMPERIALISM: SOMALIA, BOSNIA, KOSOVO ———————————————————————————– The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines imperialism as: “The policy of extending a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations.” Islam is an imperialistic political system […]

Religious Liberty – Trends 2006-2007 (introduction)

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

1. Religious Liberty (RL) Trends 2006-2007 (introduction) As noted in the January 2006 WEA RLC News & Analysis posting “Religious Liberty from 2005-2006” the great global trend of this age is the trend toward openness. This unstoppable, irreversible global trend, brought on by advancements in information and communications technologies, brings with it a global demand […]

Religious freedom, the best counter to religious extremism

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

By Nariman Gasimoglu, head of the group ‘Religion & Democracy’ http://ddm.iatp.az/ddm/ana.ht Islamic religious extremism in Uzbekistan – which threatens to spread in Central Asia and elsewhere – is largely the result of government repression and lack of democracy, Azerbaijani scholar and translator of the Koran Nariman Gasimoglu, head of the Religion and Democracy group http://ddm.iatp.az/ddm/ana.html […]

Shiite ascendancy

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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY TRENDS: 2006-2007 ——————————————— 3. TREND: SHIITE ASCENDANCY ——————————————— It may have taken 1,327 years, but the Sunni “caliphs” are once again fighting Shiites in Karbala, as Shiites (Arabs and Persians) are once again agitating for influence from Kufa. Thus Islamic history must once again be examined through the narrative of two competing Muslim […]

Humans and Animals

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

What Students Learn in Liberal Colleges … We took cameras and tape recorders to high school and college campuses around North America. We asked some randomly selected students what they think about the relative value and importance of human beings as compared to animals. Let’s see how they responded: “I don’t know if humans are […]

International News 5th February 2007

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS 5th February 2007 AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * GOSPEL FREES A CITY FROM GANGS, DRUGS AND WITCHCRAFT * NEW ZEALAND CHURCH HANDS OUT $100 NOTES TO CHURCHGOERS * ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AND YORK TO LEAD CROSS-BEARING WALK OF WITNESS THROUGH LONDON * NEW ZEALAND HIGH COURT BACKS RIGHT TO LIFE ON ABORTION EVIDENCE […]

Faith leaders and humanists urge PM to act on global debt

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Faith leaders and humanists urge PM to act on global debt -01/02/07 An alliance of sixteen faith community leaders and the chief executive of the British Humanist Association have sent a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair, urging the government to take further decisive action on the “affront and injustice of international debt”. Anglicans, Methodists, […]

Canadian PM Apologizes

By and others ⋅ February 5, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Perspective Terry Lane February 4, 2007 Canada’s PM apologises for terrorism mix-up ON AUSTRALIA DAY, the Prime Minister looked out over the harbour from Kirribilli and declared that ours is the greatest nation on Earth. And why not? He didn’t have to deal with Connex trains or buy a first home on an impossible mortgage. […]

Islamic theology and Iraqi Christians

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Barnabas Fund Email News 2nd February 2007 Islamic theology and Iraqi Christians As the rising tide of sectarian violence in Iraq pits Sunni against Shi’a, many in the West struggle to understand why religion plays such a part in the violence. In the fourth of a series of special reports on life within Iraq, Barnabas […]

Stop the Hissing

By and others ⋅ February 5, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Feb. 4, 2007 By Harry T. Cook “Stop the hissing,” is what I kept saying to our cats as warily they circled one another for several days in some kind of agitation. The female cat spent a day at the local veterinarian for minor surgery and came home bearing new and apparently threatening scents. My […]

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