Posts Tagged ‘Religion’

Sami Jamil Jadallah - Jerusalem for All

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By Sami Jamil Jadallah
Jerusalem, that Holy City dear to all three Abrahamic religions and dear to Jews, Christians and [...]

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Clash of civilisations? Jürgen Todenhöfer’s corrective

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Earlier this year an extensive advertorial was published in The New York Times by author Jürgen Todenhöfer, based on his book Why Do You Kill Zaid?
The author has also made sections of the book freely available online (http://www.whydoyoukillzaid.com/en/mainmenu/home.html — in German, English, Arabic and Persian) and is donating all of the royalties to finance medical [...]

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Gilad Atzmon - Tractatus Logico Palestinicus

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1 “What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about, we must pass over in silence.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein 1918)
1.1 Humanism and ethics are ends worth fighting for.
1.2 Western politics and political discourse (on the other hand) are concerned with power and hegemony.
1.3 Hence, humanism and ethics are foreign [...]

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Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, was an American

This item was filled under [ Islam, Racism, Religion, USA ]

Gen. Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president yesterday and slammed McCain’s smear campaign of Obama as some kind of secret Muslim terrorist sympathizer (see video). Powell talked about a Muslim-American soldier killed in the Iraq war. Kareem Khan was only 20 when he was killed by a bomb in Baquba-Iraq last year with only [...]

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Zeitgeist: Addendum

Recommended by one of my blog readers, if you have couple of free hours today, it is a must see video. Otherwise bookmark it for you weekend.
Learn how money is made. Find out if the world is heading to economical disaster.
This video will try to answer so many questions, many of us asked themselves several [...]

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“NOT ONLY” in Arabia!

This item was filled under [ Asides, Human Rights, Israel, Judaism, Religion, Zionism ]

Woman beat, threatened by ‘modesty squad’
Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed ‘chastity guards’
Aviad Glickman
A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the ‘modesty squad’ who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships with men, an indictment filed [...]

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Saudi Arabia: Sex-segregated sidewalks and women’s car driving

This item was filled under [ Human Rights, Islam, Religion, Saudi Arabia ]

One more brain fart by Saudi Mutaween:
Saudi Arabian religious police call for sex-segregated sidewalks - Saudi Arabia’s religious police are insisting that authorities of Medina, one of Islam’s holiest cities, should build separate sidewalks for women, the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said Friday.
The country’s Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), [...]

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Thus Spoke the Fascist Israeli

Lieberman wants Gaza cut off
Israel’s strategic affairs minister called for cutting power supplies to the Gaza Strip.
Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday he was preparing a proposal for the Olmert government
to declare Gaza, from which cross-border rocket salvoes have surged this month, an independent and hostile political entity. That, he said, would empower Israel to suspend electricity [...]

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Israel’s modesty buses?

This item was filled under [ Culture, Human Rights, Israel ]

I’m not going to compare religions here, everyone has his own sh*t.
Have you heard of “Israel’s modesty buses”? In case you didn’t, this is not a good story for those who care about women’s right.
When on the bus, I tried to buck the system, moving my way towards the driver but was pushed back towards [...]

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How Big is Islamic Threat to Europe?

This item was filled under [ Islam, Religion, Terrorism ]

[By bendib.com]
How funny can the world be? Let’s find out…
Thanks to Robin, she sent me a link for an article (By Kristoffer Larsson) titled:”The Islamic Threat to Europe: By the Numbers.” So far so good!
Larsson start his article by describing how and why the U.S. media is focusing best of its attention on Islamism (as [...]

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Canada: Muslim girl ejected from football because of hijab

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[Via: altmuslim.com - by Zahed Amanullah] Eleven year old Asmahan Mansour was ejected from a soccer game in Quebec for wearing a hijab, despite being allowed everywhere else she played.
In Gurinder Chadha’s 2002 film Bend it Like Beckham, the young, female, British Indian protagonist fought against the prejudice of her well-intentioned family to pursue her [...]

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The myth of Muslim support for terror

This item was filled under [ Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Opinion, Regional, Terrorism, USA ]

The common enemy is violence and terrorism, not Muslims any more than Christians or Jews.
By Kenneth Ballen
Those who think that Muslim countries and pro-terrorist attitudes go hand-in-hand might be shocked by new polling research: Americans are more approving of terrorist attacks against civilians than any major Muslim country except for Nigeria.
The survey, conducted in December [...]

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Calling Middle East School Bloggers

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Are you a school student and you having a blog? I know that many of my friends (bloggers) are collage or university students, but I don’t know of any school bloggers, do you? (And by school I mean students who are 18 years old or less).
Why I’m asking is because of the following email which [...]

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‘Little Mosque On The Prairie’ on CBC

This item was filled under [ Islam, Noteworthy, Religion ]

I was told that a new comedy/sitcom aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is called “Little Mosque on the Prairie” and it is amazing. So I went searching for some background of the show and came up with these four clips from one of the episodes. I must say, I loved it. It is [...]

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Religion thing

This item was filled under [ Christianity, History, Islam, Judaism, Religion, Too Much Free Time ]

Here is a quick roundup of “religious” news:
- Muslims forced to lift veil at airports (I don’t blame them) and the plan has been attacked by unions, which claim it would impose intolerable demands on their members, particularly female officers who would be the only ones allowed to look under veils!
- Should Muslims wish Christians [...]

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Is Bethlehem Dying? A NYT Ad!

This item was filled under [ Breaking News, Christianity, Palestine, Peace, Religion ]

The Council for the National Interest Foundation is leading campaign to tell the Bethlehem Story in a Christmas Eve New York Times Ad:

CNI president wrote:
Over the weekend we received nearly one hundred generous donations and much excellent feedback on our Christmas Eve New York Times advertisement titled “Is Bethlehem Dying?” After just three days, we [...]

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Bethlehem mayor appeals the world not to forget the Birthplace of Jesus Christ

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Bethlehem Mayor, Victor Batarsa, said on Monday that Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, is facing the most difficult economic, political and touristic conditions as a result of the continuous and illegal practices of the Israeli occupation against the city and the surrounding area.
During a press conference on Monday, Batarsa stated that the Wall forced [...]

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Opera Idomeneo, Mohammed and Bikini

This item was filled under [ Art, Breaking News, Egypt, Human Rights, Islam, Religion ]

Although from different continent, the following two examples show just how ignorant and stupid some people can be about their knowledge of Islam.
The first one comes right from one of the capitals of Islam, Cairo. This first story shows how stupid can some Muslims be:

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Christian Zionism: The Doomsday Code

This item was filled under [ Islam, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Racism, Religion, USA, Videos, Zionism ]

You ask: Why do they hate us? What did God tell them? What are the Christian Zionism after? Who are they? What they believe in? Is their hands full of blood (our blood)? Are they the terrorist of our time? Are they the most savage extreme of our time? Who is behind them? If God [...]

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The Land of Speaking God and Lying Prophets

This item was filled under [ Breaking News, Christianity, Religion, USA, Zionism ]

If you lost God, you can always find him if you stick around to U.S. administration.
After God spoke to Bush, now it is the turn of his prophet (don’t ask me who is the prophet of whom), Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. And the top US general witness this and defended the leadership of Rumsfeld, saying [...]

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