Another mob attack on Christian worshipers in Bekasi on Sunday has led to renewed calls for police and national leaders to crack down on the apparently swelling tide of religious violence. About 20 members of the Batak Christian Protestant Church in Pondok Timur Indah were chased and beaten with sticks by a mob believed linked to the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) after they tried to conduct Sunday services at a field in Ciketing, Bekasi. Muslims nationwide have condemned the hard-line Islamic organization for an attack on a church group on Sunday, saying the incident had tarnished the image of Islam
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Hardline Muslim Thugs Attack Indonesian Christians
I herein respond to Eli’s plea that someone, anyone, with living offspring and functioning neurons address the pro-breeding ravings of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (RSB).
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Kids and BMWs, Ends and Means, Sense and Nonsense
The Egyptian Muslim scholar and popular TV preacher angers some fundamentalists with statements such as, ‘The West is the victim of the Arabs, not the other way around.’ The mellifluous man in the sleek gray suit can make an Islamic radical wince in a nanosecond.
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A provocative voice of moderate Islam
In July I made the following new squidoo lenses relating to spirituality: Susan Seddon Boulet Goddess Paintings An artist whose art is still popular in the pagan scene, Susan Seddon Boulet will mostly be remembered for her goddess art. The mystical style of her paintings (mostly, but not exclusively, water color) strikes a core in many.
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New spiritual ‘lenses’ – pages on squidoo
Randall Stephens Peter Marshall has long kept an active commentary page on his petermarshallministries.com site. He’s mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any more! (He seems to have been mad as hell for a for some time now, so this is not a news flash.) Marhsall is the author of The Light and the Glory , now revised, a Christian bookstore bestseller and a staple of homeschooling curriculum. (John Fea has written a cogent essay and several posts on Marshall and his career.) Marshall, along with another popular Christian historian David Barton, served as a history curriculum adviser for the Texas State Board of Education
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This Land is My Land, You Got That?
WASHINGTON — Fifteen young American religious scholars and 14 teaching assistants from Al Azhar University, one of the oldest and most influential Islamic institutions in the world, spent two weeks together this month at Georgetown University in an attempt to bridge the divide between the Muslim world and the United States.
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Visit seeks to bridge the gap
The Greater Los Angeles Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations cites the organizers’ call for protesters to bring their dogs — considered an insult to Muslims. A loosely organized protest planned this week over a proposed new mosque in Temecula whose organizers urged demonstrators to bring their dogs was sharply denounced by a Southern California Islamic organization Tuesday.
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Islamic group denounces planned Temecula mosque protest
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