Apologetics
Now It’s Cool to be Arab
Anti-government protesters hold a Yemeni national flag and an Egyptian flag (left) during a massive anti-regime rally in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday (Reuters photo by Ammar Awad) By Rana Moussaoui Agence France-Presse BEIRUT – The popular revolts shaking the Arab world have injected a sense of pride in peoples across the region often labelled as […]
Arab Unrest: Mistake for the West to Intervene
Colin Wright March 2, 2011 After decades of arms sales to their oppressors, Arab protesters are rightly sceptical about our support. THE waves of unrest sweeping the Middle East suggest that democratic reform is spreading across the region. Or, at least, that’s the optimistic view being peddled in Washington and other Western capitals. Twenty-two years […]
Murder of Shahbaz Bhatti – “Now who will fight for our rights?”
Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:48 AM PST I was deeply saddened to read of the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan Minister for Minorities. A courageous Christian leader and advocate for justice, he had been outspoken against Pakistan’s blasphemy law. The report below comes from Assist News Service. ======== Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Pakistan Minorities Minister […]
The Middle East: This Time it’s Different
By Fareed Zakaria The year of the revolutions began in January, in a small country of little importance. Then the protests spread to the region’s largest and most important state, toppling a regime that had seemed firmly entrenched. The effect was far-reaching. The air was filled with talk of liberty and freedom. Street protests cropped […]
Middle East Upheavals: Watch Saudi Arabia!
Robert Fisk: The destiny of this pageant lies in the Kingdom of Oil Saturday, 26 February 2011 The Middle East earthquake of the past five weeks has been the most tumultuous, shattering, mind-numbing experience in the history of the region since the fall of the Ottoman empire. For once, “shock and awe” was the right […]
Reexamining the Islamic Threat
(A sensible perspective, ISTM, by a respected Jordanian journalist… ) By Hasan Abu Nimah Jordan Times, 23 February 2011 For much of the Western world the view has been that democratisation in the Arab world carried the risk of bringing Muslim extremists to power. Neither in Tunis nor in Egypt has this been the case. […]
The march of migrants to richer countries will become a human tsunami
Too-generous Britain sinking under the weight of world’s lazy honey bees. By Peter Bills Article from: New Zealand Herald February 19, 2011 Don the explosive-proof clothing, put on the hard hat. For here is a stroll into a minefield. It is a topic that arouses just about every emotion known to mankind _ hatred, sympathy, […]
Should churches open their worship-centres for Muslims?
Opening church doors to Muslim acts of worship takes neighborliness a bridge too far Posted: 23 Feb 2011 11:47 PM PST This article has been published in the Washington Times as “Stop opening churches to Muslims” This past week Fox News posted a report that Heartsong church in Cordova, Tennessee and Aldersgate United Methodist Church […]
The Middle East: Secular Revolutions, Religious Landscapes
*Sightings* 2/24/2011 *Secular Revolutions, Religious Landscapes* — Shatha Almutawa While the Middle East uprisings have not revolved around religion, faith has not been absent from Arab scenes of protest in the last two months. God and scripture are invoked by revolutionaries and those who oppose them for the simple reason that Arab dialects and ways […]
When is legally sanctioned killing acceptable?
(From a Facebook friend): When it is put that way, many people would probably reply ‘never’, but if pressed most of us will actually acknowledge circumstances where legally sanctioned killing is acceptable. There is something of a continuum of circumstances in this issue which might help to focus your own thoughts. Where do you draw […]
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