JERUSALEM — Prominent ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbis are targeting a new foe in the decidedly impious world of the Internet: They’ve demanded a boycott of their community’s own Web sites, accusing them of disseminating “gossip, slander … filth and abominations.”
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Ultra-Orthodox seek boycott of their own Web sites
The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today called on the California Republican Party to repudiate anti-Islam comments posted on Facebook by a Republican member of the Lancaster, Calif., city council.
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CAIR: Calif. GOP Asked To Repudiate Councilwoman’s Anti-Islam Posting (OfficialWire)
A long awaited report from a French parliamentary committee released today recommends a ban on women wearing the Muslim full-face veil in hospitals, schools, government office and on public transport.
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French Parliamentary Report Urges Ban of Full Face Veil In Public Buildings and Transport
So far, nothing I have seen coming out of Haiti has changed my mind about how journalists should approach the basic “theodicy” story. I’ve said it several times already ( click here and then here ), I am really not that interested in what American religious broadcasters or even articulate American academics have to say about the role that God or the spirits did or didn’t play in causing the hellish earthquake that rocked Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area. What matters to me are the voices of people in various faith groups — in Haiti.
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Haitian voices: God and the quake
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister has called on the international community to band together against enemies calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments were clearly directed at Iran. He spoke Monday at a ceremony held at Israel’s national Holocaust memorial where the blueprints of the notorious Auschwitz death camp were unveiled
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Netanyahu says world must learn from Holocaust
ROME — Pope Benedict XVI decried Monday what he called “growing aversion” to the Christian faith in the world. The pontiff in his homily in a Rome basilica didn’t single out any geographic area, but his worry about the plight of the Christian minority in the Middle East will shape discussions Mideast bishops will hold later this year at a special meeting at the Vatican.
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Pope decries ‘aversion’ to Christians
A couple of years ago, Kenneth Copeland made a distinguished list – not the Lamb’s Book of Life, the final 12 on American Idol or even a follower on my Twitter account. No, after decades of proclaiming faith in that noted southern drawl, he bellowed his way on Sen.
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Kenneth Copeland: The government, the sheep, now the lost
It appears as if as atheists increasingly, and refreshingly, get tire of the New Atheism prompted definition of atheism as a “lack of belief in god(s)” and come right out and affirm a positive affirmation of God’s non-existence they …
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Atheism is Dead: Another Atheist Gives Up the Ghost – On the …
A parliamentary panel that wants Muslim women to stop veiling their faces recommended Tuesday that France ban such garb in public facilities, including hospitals and mass transit, and a leading panel member said he foresees such an interdiction by the end of 2010.
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French report wants limits on Muslim face veil
In an unpublished opinion which sets out none of the relevant facts, the 9th Circuit last Friday in Lowry v. Yavapai County Board of Supervisors , (9th Cir., Jan. 22, 2010), rejected a pro se appeal in a case in which plaintiffs claimed that a zoning decision violated their free exercise rights.
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9th Circuit Rejects RLUIPA Zoning Challenge In Brief Opinion