Apologetics
Outrageous: opposing Ground Zero’s Park 51
Outraged, And Outrageous By ANNE BARNARD and ALAN FEUER Published: October 10, 2010 PAMELA GELLER’S apartment, in the fashion of the blogosphere, doubles as her office. It is a modern full-floor unit in a high-rise on the East Side of Manhattan that could belong to a socialite or the editor of a lifestyle magazine. There […]
Theodicy and the 2004 Tsunami
David B. Hart ¢â‚¬â„¢s essay from the March 2005 issue of First Things, written in light of the tsunami that devastated the South Asian coastline in December 2004. No one, no matter how great the scope of his imagination, should be able easily to absorb the immensity of the catastrophe that struck the Asian rim of the […]
Martyrdom and Acquiescence
– Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“Iran Targets Christians with a Wave of Arrests, ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“Egyptian Copts Mark Christmas Cautiously, ¢â‚¬ and ¢â‚¬Å“Anti-Christian Crimes Downplayed, ¢â‚¬ were all Friday headlines that set the tone for weekend coverage of bad news. Google some words like ¢â‚¬Å“Christian Martyrs ¢â‚¬ and scroll down from early Christian accounts to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. You […]
THE BURQA AND LIBERATION
“Tis very easy to see they have more Liberty than we have, no Woman of what rank so ever being permitted to go in the streets without two muslims, one that covers her face all but her Eyes and another that hides the whole dress of her head and hangs halfway down her back …You […]
Bees are dying off worldwide and our entire food chain is in peril
Dear friends, <https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bees/?cl=897408805&v=8125> Bees are dying off worldwide and our entire food chain is in peril. Scientists blame toxic pesticides and four European governments have already banned them. If we get the US and the EU to join the ban, other governments across the world could follow, and save bees from extinction. Sign the petition […]
Nuclear Power (Alexander Downer)
WHEN I visited Finland for Australian EU consultations in 2006, I visited a nuclear power plant at Olikiluoto on the Gulf of Bothnia. There were two 860 megawatt power stations (and a third under construction). To be frank, I didn’t make the visit with any preconceptions about what a nuclear power station would be like. […]
Iran’s Baha’i Minority Suffers Increasing Persecution
Sightings 1/6/2011 – Elise Auerbach Seven leaders of Iran ¢â‚¬â„¢s Baha ¢â‚¬â„¢i community were sentenced to twenty years in prison by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran last August, a sentence that was reduced to ten years in September. They were convicted on serious but baseless charges including ¢â‚¬Å“espionage for Israel, ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“insulting religious sanctities ¢â‚¬ and ¢â‚¬Å“propaganda against the […]
Depleted Uranium: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan are no Joke
The horrors of the US Agent Orange defoliation campaign in Vietnam… could ultimately be dwarfed by the horrors caused by the depleted uranium weapons which the US began using in the 1991 Gulf War (300 tons), and which it has used much more extensively–and in more urban, populated areas–in the Iraq War and the now […]
Laos: the deadly unexploded cluster bombs
At the Vienthong primary school in Laos’ Xieng Khouang province, six students take out hand puppets made from clothing scraps and colored felt. Their audience ¢â‚¬” a class of around 15 children ages 3 to 5 ¢â‚¬” sits in a semicircle in a darkened classroom as the young puppeteers begin the show. The puppet theater […]
Islamic mosque near Ground Zero?
Warning to the US: Don’t Play by Islamic Rules DOUGLAS MURRAY January/February 2011 What was your first reaction back in May when you heard of plans to build a mega-mosque near the site of the Twin Towers in New York? Did you assume it was a tasteless joke? Did your jaw drop? Or did you […]
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