Apologetics
VIETNAM: STATE REPRESSING CHRISTIANS VIOLENTLY
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 121 | Wed 17 Aug 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal The Montagnard / Degar people are the indigenous inhabitants of Vietnam’s Central Highlands. After the French left Indochina in 1955, the Vietnamese authorities — who demean the Montagnards as ‘Moi’ (savages) — sought to seize, colonise and exploit the Montagnard’s […]
Re-Examining the Arab Spring
August 15, 2011 By George Friedman On Dec. 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in a show of public protest. The self-immolation triggered unrest in Tunisia and ultimately the resignation of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. This was followed byunrest in a number of Arab countries that the global […]
World Refugee Day
Refugee Sunday 28 August The following won First Prize at the World Refugee Day 2011 in Toronto,Canada.Follow the links and note the mood and the music and the despair in the other poems. http://worldrefugeedayto.com/ ************I Am By Amrit Kaur Babbar I am a child working at the age of five. I am a human being […]
Muhammad’s Marriage to Aisha
2UE Radio Host Michael Smith’s Comments on Muhammad’s Marriage to Aisha Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:25 AM PDT Today the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Michael Smith, 2UE Radio Host, is being investigated by the Australian Media and Communications authority “over his assertion that the prophet Muhammad ‘married a nine-year-old and consummated it when she was 11′”. […]
50 years of history in 3 minutes: ‘We didn’t start the fire!’
Whether you’re a Billy Joel fan or not, you probably recognize his great song, “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” Here it is, set to pictures. I never did know all the words. A review of 50 years of history in less than 3 minutes! Thanks to Billy Joel and some guy from the University […]
Anti-gay laws and the right to privacy
JUSTIN GLYN AUGUST 07, 2011 What is the Government’s role in your love life? As privacy law reform is in the news these days, I was interested to see reference to a famous decision in the ’90s which raised just this question. Late last month, Navi Pillay, the UN Human Rights Commissioner, went on YouTube to […]
The London Riots – On Consumerism coming Home to Roost
09/08/2011 By Zygmunt Bauman These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with randomly scattered explosives: one can be pretty sure that some of them, some time, will explode ¢â‚¬“ but one can ¢â‚¬â„¢t say with […]
Democracy, in the American tradition
Lakoff: How to Rescue the American Dream from the GOP’s Nightmare The Republicans are redefining “democracy”–but it’s time to remember what the real dream of democracy meant. By George Lakoff and Glenn Smith /July 28, 2011/ | Democracy, in the American tradition, has been defined by a simple morality: We Americans care about our fellow […]
NORWEGIAN MASSACRE SHOWS WHY LIMITATIONS MUST BE PLACED ON COMPUTER GAMES
This article is an edited version of one written by Mr Jim Wallace Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby for The Australian newspaper. AS the witness accounts of the killing spree of Anders Behring Breivik were first told by survivors, there was for me a chilling resonance in their words and imagery. At the […]
They Died in Vain; Deal With It (War in Afghanistan)
Published on Monday, August 8, 2011 by CommonDreams.org by Ray McGovern Many of those preaching at American church services Sunday extolled as ¢â‚¬Å“heroes ¢â‚¬ the 30 American and 8 Afghan troops killed Saturday west of Kabul, when a helicopter on a night mission crashed, apparently after taking fire from Taliban forces. This week, the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) […]
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