PUTRAJAYA, 26 Jan — Buku Wanita Islam dan Cabaran Terhadap Fahaman Islam Yang Melampau boleh menimbulkan keraguan dan kegelisahan awam, kata Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim), Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz. Beliau berkata kandungan buku itu didapati bercanggah dengan Garis Panduan Penapisan Bahan-Bahan Penerbitan Berunsur Islam yang dikeluarkan jabatan itu pada tahun …
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Umat Islam diminta waspada bacaan bercanggah syariat Islam (The Malaysian Insider)
Bangladesh has taken another step toward banning religious-based political parties. Earlier this month, the country’s Supreme Court reinstated a constitutional ban on such parties. (See prior posting .) Now, according to RTT News today, the Election Commission has written to three Islamic political parties directing them to amend their charters to remove various religious references
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Bangladesh Takes Next Step To Ban Religious Political Parties
If the expectation is that greater religious devotion will be welcomed, then the expectation is that religion and religious theism are looked upon favorably — and, by implication, that secular atheism is rejected. …
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Sexy, Stressful Religion: Sex and Stress Drive Religious Behavior …
I’ve just finished reading The Gospel Truth: A Lectionary-Based Catechism for Adults , by Kenneth Ogorek, sent to me by The Catholic Company . For each of the Sunday liturgies in all three cycles, the book includes the Gospel reading, a short discussion linked to relevent sections of the Catechism, three questions for reflection (one intended for children) and some suggestions for further reading from both scripture and the Catechism.
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The Gospel Truth
WARNING: Highly likely to offend die hard religious types. Lots of foul language.
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Jim Jefferies On Religion Horrible Blasphemy Panda
HI KELLY: I’m a guy in high school, and my friends all call me a “chubby chaser,” meaning I like girls who are fat. I say it’s not true; I just like girls who aren’t super-skinny. Anytime I mention a girl I like, my friends ask if she weighs more than they do or if I can get my arms around her to hug her, etc
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Teen Talk: Teen sees girls’ inner beauty; buddies are stuck on a scale
Channeling his inner “kinder,” Michael Glassman found a way to get kids into gardening. Kinder (rhymes with “tinder”) is a pint-size skateboarder turned backyard farmer. In puppet form, he stars in Glassman’s new book, “Kinder Gardens: Growing Inspiration for Children” (Schiffer Books, $12.99, 64 pages), which he created with TV producer Lisa Ely
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New book ‘Kinder Gardens’ plants garden ideas for kids
Co-owner Cheryl Winn straightens up what’s left of the inventory at The Naturalist last week. Soon enough, the toy bugs and the rocks and binoculars and bird feeders will be gone as The Naturalist shuts down after more than 31 years in downtown Davis.
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The Naturalist, a beloved store in downtown Davis, is closing after 31 years
Harjinder Singh Sandhu and Purneet Singh Chhina, both Sikhs were kidnapped, beaten and, their bodies dumped in the back of a car. Harjinder Singh Sandhu, 28, lived in Brampton, he had a reputation liked to durgs and 26-year-old Puneet Singh Chhina was of Nepean, Ont, Sandhu was facing drug-related charges in Windsor at the time of his death
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Two Sikh men kidnapped and killed
PARIS — A parliamentary panel will recommend on Tuesday that France ban face-covering Muslim veils in public locations such as hospitals and schools, but not in private buildings or on the street, the group’s president said. The decision appeared to indicate that the 32-member, multiparty panel had heeded warnings that a full ban of the all-encompassing veils would be unfair, possibly unconstitutional, and could even cause trouble in a country where Islam is the second largest religion.
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Panel to favor partial ban on full veil in France
Paul Harvey At the 2010 American Historical Association, my co-editor Randall Stephens organized a session “American Religious Historians Online,” featuring presentations by the likes of Randall himself, Kathryn Lofton (Yale), Gary Laderman (Emory, and editor of Religion Dispatches ), Rebecca Goetz (who started blogging at Historianess back in the Stone Ages), and myself. I was not present at the session itself, but Randall read my presentation for me
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Blogging and the (Non-) Democratization of American Religious History
There is justice in the world, just not very much: notwithstanding its absence of useless three-dee visuals and merchandising-friendly battle dragons, Mad Men won well-deserved SAG awards for best drama and best performance by an ensemble. Call it quaint , but I much prefer to see extra dimension where Mad Men ‘s creators put it. And thus the terrorists have lost — this time
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The Dimensions Reside Chiefly in the Acting and Storytelling
I really need to be clear that as an atheist , I don’t pretend to “know” that there are no supernatural entities. I agree with those who label themselves as agnostics that there is no way to ever know the unknowable with an absolute …
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Atheism, Agnosticism and Teenage Rebellion : Greg Laden's Blog
O heavens. It appears that Sam Harris and company are now defiling the very grave of Socrates by making definite claims about the shortcomings of faith as a truth-finding mechanism and the really existing consequences of religious enthusiasm — so unlike wiser men writing in gentler times . Look away if you have a weak stomach: many of the claims are expressed with a bluntness that doesn’t seem crafted to flatter a worldwide majority of religious believers.
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The Truth Pressed Flat
What does the judge know, after all? In passing sentence on the Edlington boys last week Mr Justice Keith described the case as “exceptional”. But in a speech in Gillingham, David Cameron appeared to suggest that it was anything but.
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The Edlington boys are not beyond redemption
It’s judgment day, the war criminal is being brought to trial. Tony Blair’s appearance at the Chilcot inquiry on Friday is turning into a voyeuristic spectacle, a modern-day equivalent of the public hangings where crowds gathered around the gallows to jeer.
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Chilcot is a stage for Labour’s psychodrama
The horrific pictures on our television screens since the earthquake struck Haiti to its core have struck a chord with us all. They also touched those in the harder, usually more impervious world of business
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Friends, countrymen, lend them your ideas
‘God willing, our raids on you will continue,” said Osama bin Laden — or someone purporting to be him — in a message broadcast on al-Jazeera over the weekend. The blunt message to “Obama from Osama” is intended to reaffirm that, despite Barack Obama’s overtures to the Islamic world, he and his country remain infidels, every bit as evil as they were under George W. Bush
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Al-Qaeda is losing. Prepare for a daring hit
Back in November, the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church published a document called “God’s Renewed Creation: A Call to Hope and Action.” It was essentially an update of an earlier document, a theological statement about environmental concerns but also addressing poverty and proliferation of weapons and violence.
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The Bishop vs the IRD
On December 1, 2009, CBA (which was formerly called the Christian Booksellers Association, back when Christian bookstores sold more books than gifts and other merchandise) asked the Department of Justice to investigate alleged predatory pricing by big-box stores and online retailers that threatens the very existence of the nation’s dwindling number of Christian retailing outlets. On January 7, 2010, Adelle M.
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People of the (Christian) book
A glitch in the “don’t be evil” company’s search engine appeared to censor searches for information about Islam. And after nearly three weeks, the company is finally fixing the problem.
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EXCLUSIVE: Islam Is … Finally Being Fixed on Google (Fox News)
Year after year, America’s cultural conservatives say the same thing after the March for Life in Washington, D.C . All together now: “Where’s the coverage in the mainstream press?
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Abortion issue will not die soon
A Malaysian court on Monday overturned a government ban on a book about Islam, in a decision hailed as a landmark for freedom of speech.
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Malaysian court overturns ban on Islam book (AFP via Yahoo! News)
ShoesForHaitNow.com has a simple goal: collect 100,000 pairs of shoes to send to the people of Haiti. BlogCatalog and BloggersUnite have offered their support to the Shoes For Haiti Now project.
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BlogCatalog Accepting Donations For ShoesforHaitiNow.com
After 33 years as a Scientologist, the past 13 as the star of Scientology’s recruitment video, Larry Anderson is walking away. He says the church failed to deliver the spiritual gains it promised.
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Star of Scientology recruitment film wants his money back
There was a particular point during my years as a Buddhist when I was struggling with the question whether to give up the vows I had taken as a Buddhist nun and to return to lay life. Aggravating my struggle was the sense that I had somehow irrevocably blown it, that I was hopelessly confused.
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Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul
I want you to meet three of my newest and closest friends. Sophie Sadie and Jack! Yep, we met in the most conspicuous manner. Read the rest at Laced With Grace today and discover how I experience Him in a profound way. You can too
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Oh Here We Go Again. Another Wacky Story.