Some churches have realized what TBN declared a long, long time ago – let’s just make Christianity one big clique and only talk to other Jesus thinking folk.
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Florida church wants to burn Qu’rans and bring marshmallows for Jesus
Thursday's Connector: Tony Blair CNN (blog) The global film competition is an opportunity for young people to express their faith through film – whether it be Christianity, Hinduism or Islam.
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Thursday’s Connector: Tony Blair – CNN (blog)
Absence of women The Australian This world would be a much better place if all religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism allowed women to rule equally with men. …
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Absence of women – The Australian
Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education reports on efforts launched in Germany to integrate its large, mostly-Turkish, Muslim population. A key part of the plan is to create a generation of German-trained imams. The German Council of Science and Humanities is creating a group of academic institutes at state-financed colleges to critically examine Islamic theology and teach it in a German university setting to future imams, male and female religious teachers, public intellectuals, scholars and faith-based social workers.
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Germany Plans University Level Programs To Train Muslim Religious Leaders
Syria’s education minister has issued a decree banning women on university campuses from wearing veils that cover their faces. The minister’s decree follows a decision last month to dismiss 1200 Syrian school teachers who wear the face veil in class. Education officials, at the time, stressed that Syria was a “secular society,” and that extremism is “unacceptable.”
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Syrian Education Minister Bans Full Face Veils in Universities
Suspected Muslim militants shot and killed two Christian men who were due to appear in court on charges of blasphemy against Islam in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Brothers Sajid Emmanuel, 30, and Rashid Emmanuel, 32, were assassinated by masked gun men Monday, July 19, inside a district court building in the city of Faisalabad.
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ndonesia’s top Islamic body says it may forbid followers from drinking the world’s most expensive coffee — extracted from the dung of a civet cat — over concerns it is unclean. Indonesian Muslim groups have been criticized for issuing a raft of fatwa covering the spectrum of human behavior though they have no legal standing and are often ignored by most.
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Indonesia Muslim group may ban Kopi Luwak, world’s most expensive coffee
Yesterday’s Tulsa World reports that Oklahoma’s Nov. 2 ballot will include State Question 755 which would amend the state constitution to prohibit state courts from considering or using international law or Sharia law. ( Ballot language .) Titled by the legislature the “Save Our State Amendment” ( full text of HJR 1056), the proposed amendment reads: The courts provided for in subsection A of this section, when exercising their judicial authority, shall uphold and adhere to the law as provided in the United States Constitution, the Oklahoma Constitution, the United States Code, federal regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, established common law, the Oklahoma Statutes and rules promulgated pursuant thereto, and if necessary the law of another state of the United States provided the law of the other state does not include Sharia law, in making judicial decisions
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Oklahoma’s November Ballot Will Include Constituitonal Amendment To Bar Courts’ Use of Sharia Law
OK, so this comes from the Rev. Dusty Ray, pastor of Heartland Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn., where he is one of the leaders of a movement opposing the construction of a new 52,000-square-foot, “megachurch”-style Islamic center, including a mosque. (Who knew Murfreesboro, Tenn., had such a thriving Muslim community?)
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Unintended Ironic Quote of the Year
The Shabab militant group widens its reach beyond Somalia, taking responsibility for two bombings in Uganda that killed 76 people The streets of Mogadishu echo with the footsteps of Shabab fighters, the rattle of their rifles and their recitations of a medieval version of Islamic law that espouses public beheadings and the stoning of adulterers.
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Somalia’s Shabab fighters go international with Uganda blasts
We welcome the following guest post from Samira Mehta, a graduate student in American Religious Cultures at Emory University who is writing a dissertation on Christian/Jewish interfaith families in the U.S.
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Nikki Haley and the Construction of South Asian Identity
In its 2010 National Security Strategy, the Obama administration sought to sever the relationship between Islam and terrorism, rejecting the use of terms like ‘Islamic terrorist’ and ‘jihad’ to describe acts of terror. The linguistic change was a policy shift from the Bush administration and part of Obama’s overall strategy to reinvent America’s relationship with the Muslim world
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What to call terrorists?
Al Shabab, an Islamic faction in Somalia, says it is behind two bombings in Kampala that killed at least 74 people watching Sunday’s World Cup final. The group, tied to Al Qaeda, vows more attacks. A powerful Al Qaeda-affiliated militant faction in Somalia claimed responsibility Monday for two bomb attacks in Uganda’s capital that killed at least 74 people who had gathered to watch a broadcast of Sunday’s World Cup championship game, sparking fears that Somalia’s long and bloody conflict may spill into neighboring countries
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Somali militant group claims responsibility for Uganda blasts
Paul Harvey While some of you reprobates were out testing the new micro-beer selections on the 4th of July, some of us were putting our long personal nightmare (a book manuscript) finally to post and ready to be shipped out for its deployment — at long last! (I tested out a new bottle of Old Raj gin, the best bottle of alcohol God ever invented, at the end of all this, so I’ll have to join the reprobate category). Our contributor John Fea was finishing up his book Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction; and yes, John, finishing is a good feeling
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Finishing the Columbia Guide to Religion in American History (I’ll Drink to That!)
Controversial Islamic televangelist Zakir Naik’s talk at North America’s largest Islamic gathering Saturday night was cancelled.
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Talk by controversial Islamic preacher cancelled
A Malaysian reality TV show aims to pick a young Muslim leader in a blend of doctrine and drama that is a natural fit for a nation that has held to Islamic traditions while welcoming Western culture. The 10 young men have washed corpses according to Islamic rites, cried while counseling unwed pregnant women and joined a police crackdown on teenage motorcycle racers — all before judges on national TV.
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So you think you can be an imam?
كتب / عصام مدير – مشرف مدونة التنصير فوق صفيح ساخن : الوقوف على “قمة جبل” من الجبال شيء، أما اتخاذ موقفك عليه، لقيمة معنوية كبرى ازاء حدث جلل، فهو شيء مختلف تماماً لدى الواقف والوقفة. فما بالك إن كانت “قمة الجبل الجليدي” (كناية عما تحتها من تراكمات التحديات)، في تطاولها واستعلائها ذلك، بها من “زمهرير” البرودة بقدر ما فيك من “لهيب” الموقف و”شعلة” الشغف؟ إنها تلك اللحظة في جبين الزمن التي يذوب فيها الجليد ويتجلد فيها حامل المشعل فيدرك بخلجات الروح خلسة كيف كانت النار برداً وسلاماً على نبي الله الكريم ابراهيم (عليه السلام).
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"قمة الجبل الجليدي" في صورة مقلوبة
So the first time I uploaded this video it made it to the front page of Digg.com and then was taken down from youtube for being ‘inappropriate’ (only after it became popular I might add.) A bunch of other people uploaded it to their youtube accounts, which I am very thankful for, and now I’m re-uploading it to mine. Still hope to get an animated version done sometime, but for now..
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Religion!
A new poll suggests a majority of Britons associate Islam with extremism and the repression of women, but one London-based Muslim organization has launched a public relations campaign to give the religion a new face.
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Poster campaign aims to improve image of Islam in the UK
LONDON, June 8 (UPI) — British prison inmates are allegedly converting to Islam to get the protection of powerful Muslim gangs and for other advantages, a study indicated.
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Many British prisoners convert to Islam
LONDON – Some inmates in UK prisons are converting to Islam for the perks. Thats one of the conclusions of a new study of jails here by Britains Chief Inspector of Prisons Dame Anne Owers.
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LIVESHOTS: Inmates Converting to Islam for ‘Perks’?
RantRave | Published Opinion. Scientology is growing in india RantRave | Published Opinion. You may think of the more common ones such as Hinduism or possibly even Islam when you think of India
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Scientology is growing in india – RantRave | Published Opinion.
Dutch voters seeking fiscal discipline and tighter immigration laws appear ready to back a new right-wing government in a national election Wednesday and may even double their support for strident anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.
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Anti-Islam parties expected to gain in Dutch vote
The head of a Muslim village last week ordered 250 Christian families to leave their homes in Khanewal district, Punjab Province, local residents said. Abdul Sattar Khan, head of village No. 123/10R, Katcha Khoh, and other area Muslim residents ordered the expulsions after Christian residents objected too strenuously to sexual assaults by Muslims on Christian girls and women, said a locally elected Christian official, Emmanuel Masih
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Muslims Order Christians to Leave Village in Pakistan
Conversion to Islam consists simply of declaring a belief in one God and the prophet Mohammad.
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Often, converts to Islam are diligent followers
Prisoners are converting to Islam because of the “perks” they can receive in jail, a report has claimed.
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Prisoners converting to Islam for ‘perks’
A majority of people in Britain associate Islam with terrorism and the repression of women, a poll has shown.
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