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The Radical imams of the West

In appreciation of the radical imams of the West By Mona Eltahawy Saturday, November 04, 2006 Let us appreciate the radical imams of the West. As a liberal Muslim woman I am generally loathe to express gratitude to conservative men, but the more these imams perfect the ability to say something stupid – often in […]

Creed of the Sword

The world witnessed a flood of reaction to Benedict XVI’s Regensburg lecture, a reaction that has gone well beyond words, with attacks on churches in Gaza, the West Bank and Basra. Some even called for the Pope to be executed. Australia’s Cardinal George Pell weighed into the debate, suggesting that violent responses to the Pope’s […]

Baptists Call For Action On Global Warming

November 2006 Victorian Baptists are the latest group to make a strong call for action on climate change. At its annual assembly on 28 October 2006 the Baptist Union of Victoria (BUV) voted overwhelmingly to call on the Australian government to commit firmly to a sixty per cent reduction in Australian greenhouse gas emissions by […]

Archbishop to meet leaders seeking split from liberal Church

By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent THE TELEGRAPH 11/2/2006 Conservative Anglican leaders are to flesh out plans for a formal split in the worldwide Church at a confidential meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, later this month. A group of conservative archbishops, including the Primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Peter Akinola, will meet Dr […]

Immigrants: Offensive British Redneck Version

(This has caused a storm on various Usenet newsgroups… but I would think rednecks of all Western nations would concur with these bigoted sentiments. Rowland). Illegal Immigrants Poem I cross ocean, poor and broke. Take bus, see employment folk. Nice man treat me good in there. Say I need to see welfare. Welfare say, “You […]

The Exclusive Brethren

Read the program transcript of Quentin McDerott’s ABC Radio report “Separate Lives”. Reporter: Quentin McDermott QUENTIN MCDERMOTT: Daily around Australia, members of a small religious sect gather for prayer, Bible readings, or Holy Communion. They’re a Christian congregation of simple, god-fearing folk. ADRIAN VAN LEEN, DIRECTOR, CONCERNED CHRISTIAN GROWTH MINISTRIES: Very nice people and very, […]

Hizbullah and Hamas

A heavy toll for Arabs and Americans alike By Rami G. Khouri Daily Star staff Saturday, October 28, 2006 One of the depressing aspects of reading, viewing and listening to the mass media in the United States on an extended trip, as I am doing these days, is to suffer the very superficial and often […]

Science and that Ole Time Religion

Nov. 5, 2006 Religion and Science By Harry T. Cook Essays appearing on this website from time to time have excoriated the Religious Right, and in particular its rejection of science in the making of public policy. The purpose of this essay is to account for its history and why it must be confronted in […]

A Sermon for Election-Tide

Nov. 5, 2006 A Sermon for Election-Tide II By Harry T. Cook Two years ago this Sunday, I delivered a sermon that laid out the moral choices American voters would have to make the following Tuesday. I ticked off how George W. Bush had carried America far from its ideals of domestic peace and tranquility, […]

Muslims and Christian women

Here are -current- stories in the media right now: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52410 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725860/posts http://www.petitiononline.com/YECW1/petition.html http://www.aina.org/news/20061012003811.htm http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/007855.php http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/013563.php http://www.exorthodoxforchrist.com/eoc_forced_into_islam.htm http://www.copts.net/demands.asp http://digg.com/world_news/Just_Who_Is_Responsible_For_Kidnapping_Raping_Coptic_Christian_Girls http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/copts2.htm http://www.cathnews.com/news/610/62.php ~~~ Abductions of Christian women in Egypt Meanwhile, 10,000 Coptic Christians in Egypt were prevented by police from taking to the streets of Cairo to protest the sudden disappearance of teenage Christian girls by Islamists. […]