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Latest Articles: Religion
NY Temple Plot Jury Hears Suspect Rant About Jews
Post Date: 2010-08-30 13:56:47 by Murron
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NY Temple Plot Jury Hears Suspect Rant About Jews By TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- A man accused of plotting to bomb New York synagogues and shoot down military planes ranted against Jews and mused about "taking down" targets in the United States, according to audio tapes played Monday at his federal trial. Courtroom sketch of James Cromitie, right The tapes were secretly recorded by a paid informant testifying against James Cromitie and three other men who were arrested in 2009 on their way to the synagogues. The informant, Shahed Hussain, met Cromitie in 2008 after being sent by the FBI to infiltrate a Newburgh, N.Y., mosque. While wearing a wire, he ...
Authorities Investigate Shots Fired Near Islamic Center Site (Tenn): Fire at Tenn. Mosque Building Site Ruled Arson (Tenn)
Post Date: 2010-08-30 02:28:42 by Murron
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Authorities Investigate Shots Fired Near Islamic Center Site Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a complaint about shots being fired near the construction site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro on Veals Road off Bradyville Pike. A group of congregation members were at the site looking at the damage done to construction equipment over the weekend when they heard nine shots fired from two directions. Around 3:15, they reported hearing six shots coming from one direction, and about three minutes later they heard three more shots from another direction, said Saleh Sbenaty, a congregation member and MTSU professor. He wasn’t sure if the shots were being fired ...
Former president's investing may have cost church $15 million
Post Date: 2010-08-28 23:06:21 by Skip Intro
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Foursquare sinner forgiven Former president's investing may have cost church $15 million Saying he has "been to hell and back,'' the former president of one of the nation's best-known Pentecostal churches is in San Francisco this week seeking forgiveness for his role in a huge evangelical investment scam that could cost his flock some $15 million. The Rev. Paul Risser, the disgraced leader of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, appeared to receive that forgiveness Wednesday, as nearly 3,000 church members stood in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel to salute him with rousing choruses of "Amazing Grace.'' The weeklong annual ...
Ground Zero Mosque Imam (Feisal Abdul Rauf): Obama Took Speech From Me
Post Date: 2010-08-26 21:20:55 by Murron
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Ground Zero Mosque Imam (Feisal Abdul Rauf): Obama Took Speech From Me Rauf claims his book forms heart of Cairo address to Muslim world JERUSALEM – Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the controversial Islamic leader behind the proposed Ground Zero mosque, has claimed President Obama's historic address to Muslim world was "all taken" from Rauf's book. "If you examine this chapter you will find that the (Obama) speech in Cairo was all taken from this section," Rauf stated in a February recording, which was first posted by Islam critic Walid Shoebat. Rauf mistakenly referred to Obama as "Bush" but was clearly speaking about Obama's address to the ...
Man Is Arraigned in Anti-Muslim Stabbing of Cabdriver
Post Date: 2010-08-25 18:35:02 by Brian S
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Pool photo by Steven Hirsch Michael Enright, right, with his lawyer, Jason Martin, at his arraignment on hate-crime charges Wednesday. Update, 5:24 p.m. | The man charged with the anti-Muslim slashing and stabbing of a cabdriver was arraigned Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime, first-degree assault as a hate crime and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. An emergency medical technician said that had the cut been any deeper or longer, the driver would have died, prosecutors said. Judge ShawnDya L. Simpson ordered the man, Michael Enright, 21, held without bail. James Zaleta, an assistant district attorney, ...
Poll: Americans Believe Islam No More Prone To Violence Than Other Faiths
Post Date: 2010-08-24 17:19:51 by Brian S
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Americans doubt that Islam is likelier than other faiths to encourage violence, but their overall view of the religion has worsened over the past five years, a poll revealed on Tuesday. Americans doubt that Islam is likelier than other faiths to encourage violence, but their overall view of the religion has worsened over the past five years, a poll revealed on Tuesday. Muslim worshippers in Paris AP Sept. 3, 2004 Hundreds of Muslim worshippers praying in Paris on September 3, 2004. Photo by: AP In a survey that underlined the complex views people have about Muslims, 51 percent agreed that a Muslim center should not be built near the former site of New York's World Trade Center, ...
The Slow, Whining Death of British Christianity
Post Date: 2010-08-21 19:53:45 by Ferret Mike
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And now congregation, put your hands together and give thanks, for I come bearing Good News. My country, Britain, is now the most irreligious country on earth. This island has shed superstition faster and more completely than anywhere else. Some 63 percent of us are non-believers, according to a 2006 Guardian/ICM poll, while 82 percent say religion is a cause of harmful division. Now, let us stand and sing our new national hymn: Jerusalem was dismantled here/ in England's green and pleasant land. How did it happen? For centuries, religion was insulated from criticism in Britain. First its opponents were burned, then jailed, then shunned. But once there was a free marketplace of ideas, ...
NYC Mosque Draws Interfaith Support In California
Post Date: 2010-08-20 15:28:53 by Brian S
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(08-20) 12:20 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- More than 30 Southern California religious leaders gathered Friday in downtown Los Angeles to show their support for plans to build a mosque and community center two blocks from ground zero, despite widespread opposition to the project. The leaders representing more than a dozen faiths issued an open letter at a news conference in front of the Islamic Center of Southern California. They said growing "fear and hysteria" over the New York mosque is un-American and based on a distortion of the facts. The letter was signed by 71 faith leaders, including Jews, Muslims, Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, ...
Exposed! Ground Zero Imam Calls for Return to Most Radical Form of Islam in History
Post Date: 2010-08-17 14:08:34 by Murron
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Exposed! Ground Zero Imam Calls for Return to Most Radical Form of Islam in History What so called “moderate” Muslims say to the western press and what they say to the Arabic press is often as opposite as night and day. Walid Shoebat Exposes 911 Mosque Imam Rauf GROUND ZERO IMAN CALLS FOR RETURN TO MOST RADICAL FORM OF ISLAM IN HISTORY! Proof: Feisal Abdul Rauf’s Arabic Language Interview Just who is ‘moderate’ Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf? He’s no moderate at all. He’s the funder of the controversial Ground Zero Mosque in New York and a financier of the Turkish Flotilla, along with the Turkish government that funded the terrorist group IHH which has ties to ...
Ground Zero Mosque founder–Faisal Abdul Rauf in Arabic: "Our Goal Is To Establish Sharia"
Post Date: 2010-08-14 20:56:10 by Murron
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Ground Zero Mosque founder–Faisal Abdul Rauf in Arabic: "Our Goal Is To Establish Sharia" Fort Cordoba, ground zero NYC Mosque, will be the main Taqiyya Center and outpost in the USA and along with the new London England mega Mosque, at the Olympic site, will be the guiding lights for Dah’wa and “Aslim Tuslam”….. Watch this PJTV Interview by Roger Simon with Walid Shoebat on “NYC Ground Zero Mosque Founder Exposed…?” Little is known regarding the founder of the Ground Zero Mosque Faisal Abdul Rauf or his views on Islam. Many view him moderate and others connect him to his father’s affiliation to the Muslim Brotherhood. While ...
The Founding Fathers on Islam (again)
Post Date: 2010-08-14 13:42:51 by Murron
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May 06, 2006 The Founding Fathers on Islam (again) First me, then Bostom, then Fitzgerald. Obviously, great minds think alike. Jefferson, the Adamses, and making sense: In a recent article prompted by his reading of Joshua London’s Victory in Tripoli, Andrew Bostom, who compiled The Legacy of Jihad, adduces from London’s text a number of telling descriptions of Islam and of Muslims by some of the most important figures in American history. Two of them were Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, in 1786 ambassadors (Jefferson in Paris, Adams in London) from the newly-established American Republic still under the Articles of Confederation (the Treaty of Paris had been signed in 1783, ...
Obama Makes Clear Support For Ground Zero Mosque
Post Date: 2010-08-14 12:44:31 by Murron
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Obama Makes Clear Support For Ground Zero Mosque ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON – After skirting the controversy for weeks, President Barack Obama is weighing in forcefully on the mosque near ground zero, saying a nation built on religious freedom must allow it. "As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," Obama told an intently listening crowd gathered at the White House Friday evening to observe the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. "That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance ...
Obama Sends Ramadan Wishes
Post Date: 2010-08-11 17:48:49 by Brian S
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US President Barack Obama on Wednesday offered best wishes to Muslims in the United States and around the world as they observe the holy fasting month of Ramadan. "All of us must remember that the world we want to build -- and the changes that we want to make -- must begin in our own hearts, and our own communities," Obama said in a statement released by the White House. The US president said he looked forward to hosting a White House Iftar dinner, the meal that breaks the daily fast. Obama said the rituals of Ramadan "remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam's role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human ...
Religious Right Group: 'No More Mosques in the United States'
Post Date: 2010-08-11 17:32:17 by Brian S
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Anti-mosque fever is all the rage nationwide, not just in lower Manhattan. Everyone's doing it! And now the American Family Association, a religious right heavyweight, has taken it to a new level: no more mosques in the United States, period. Bryan Fischer, the AFA's Director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy, has thoroughly analyzed this particular issue of government and public policy and come to the conclusion that mosques are dumb and should be banned. Permits should not be granted to build even one more mosque in the United States of America, let alone the monstrosity planned for Ground Zero. This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated ...
Mormons Try Rebranding: “We’re Just Like You!”
Post Date: 2010-08-10 22:49:57 by Skip Intro
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The Mormons are embracing their inner Mad Men with an extensive TV ad campaign that rebrands the Church of the Latter Day Saints as “normal” (video below). Lots of churches use advertising, of course, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but the uncomfortable subtext here for people of faith is that good brand management often succeeds where the good book on its own fails. The Mormon repositioning is an admission that a central part of its faith — the two years of required missionary work that often consists of knocking on strangers’ doors to share the good news — has ruined the church’s corporate image, per the Star Tribune: In a recent study by the ...
God Stopped the Oil Spill
Post Date: 2010-08-06 13:00:58 by Bartcoprules
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The oil spill started immediately after Obastard started the crap with Netanyahu and made demands on Israel and it's land. And the spill was uncontainable by man. Then, Obastard softened his position, Netanyahu came back to the States, and they had a nice meeting, and notso many demands were made. Obastard BACKED OFF! Shortly after that, the oil spill stopped. And like a miracle, the oil in the gulf just " dissappeared". --- When anyone takes the time to observe - you can CLEARLY see the hand of G-d working for the people of Israel. He has kept His covenent with them. I believe.
New Chromosome Research Undermines Human-Chimp Similarity Claims
Post Date: 2010-08-05 17:34:54 by WhiteSands
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New Chromosome Research Undermines Human-Chimp Similarity Claims by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D., & Brian Thomas, M.S. * A recent high-profile article in the journal Nature released the results of a study with implications that shocked the scientific community because they contradict long-held claims of human-chimp DNA similarity.1 A previous Acts & Facts article showed that much of the research surrounding the often touted claims of 98 percent (or higher) DNA similarity between chimps and humans has been based on flawed and biased research.2 The problem is that the similarity has been uncertain because no one has performed an unbiased and comprehensive DNA similarity study until now. ...
Tim Lahaye, Evangelical Christian Minister, Warns Obama Bringing Us Closer To 'The Apocalypse'
Post Date: 2010-07-28 21:41:41 by Skip Intro
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Tim Lahaye, Evangelical Christian Minister, Warns Obama Bringing Us Closer To 'The Apocalypse' Evangelical Christian minister Tim LaHaye says that the policy initiatives put forth by the Obama administration are bringing the country "closer to the apocalypse." LaHaye issued the dire warning in an appearance this week on Mike Huckabee's talk show on Fox News. "Our present president doesn't seem to get it," LaHaye explained. "He doesn't understand that some of the things he's introducing that many of us call 'raw socialism' -- it's a different name, but it's essentially government control and government domination of ...
Jesus' Baptism Site May Soon Be Off Limits
Post Date: 2010-07-22 19:40:51 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Some 3,000 years ago, it is said to be the area through which the Israelites first crossed into the Promised Land. Around 2,000 years ago, it is said to be the site at which John baptized Jesus. Today, thousands of pilgrims and tourists drive in buses to the lower reaches of the River Jordan, many of whom choose to dip in the waters they see as holy. That opportunity may soon dry up as Israel's Health Ministry considers whether to declare the area off limits. Sewage and pollution are making the water unsafe for humans, according to environmentalists who want to see the river restored to its former glory. "It's very significant because it's ...
Arab guilty of rape after consensual sex with Jew
Post Date: 2010-07-21 18:40:38 by jwpegler
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A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew. Sabbar Kashur, 30, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday after the court ruled that he was guilty of rape by deception. According to the complaint filed by the woman with the Jerusalem district court, the two met in downtown Jerusalem in September 2008 where Kashur, an Arab from East Jerusalem, introduced himself as a Jewish bachelor seeking a serious relationship. The two then had consensual sex in a nearby building before Kashur left. When she later found out that he was not Jewish but an Arab, she filed a criminal complaint for rape and indecent ...
Obama Moves away from 'Freedom of Religion' toward 'Freedom of Worship'?
Post Date: 2010-07-18 18:37:34 by A K A Stone
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Since the initially strong language on religious freedom used in President Obama's Cairo speech, presidential references to religious freedom have become rare, often replaced, at most, with references to freedom of worship. A purposeful change in language could mean a much narrower view of the right to religious freedom. Does this change of language indicate a change of policy? As Catholics, this is an area where we must remain vigilant. These small changes can be used to change our perception of rights and freedoms. "Religious freedom, in turn, which men demand as necessary to fulfill their duty to worship God, has to do with immunity from coercion in civil society. Therefore it ...
House Republicans: Bible Doesn’t Mean We Need To Care About Foreigners
Post Date: 2010-07-16 12:05:14 by Brian S
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Shakespeare once wrote that "the devil can cite scripture for his purpose," but it appears that some hardcore anti-immigration members of Congress can do the same.At a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention testified in favor of comprehensive immigration reform by saying that members of his denomination "recognize a biblical mandate to care for 'the least of these among us' (Matthew 25:34-40), to care for the 'strangers' who reside in our land (Leviticus 19:34; Hebrews 13:2) and to act justly and mercifully (Micah 6:8)."Conservative white evangelicals have traditionally favored harsh ...
American Jewish Leader: Israel Is Trying To Delegitimize Liberal Judaism
Post Date: 2010-07-15 14:22:10 by Brian S
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The Israel Police's decision to arrest a woman for carrying a Torah scroll at the Western Wall demonstrates the will of the government to "delegitimize liberal streams of Judaism", an American Jewish leader said Monday. Vice President of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Steve Wernick was present at the Western Wall when police detained Anat Hoffman, the leader of the Women of the Wall group, after she was caught holding a Torah scroll in violation of a High Court ruling prohibiting women from reading the Torah at the Western Wall. An Israeli woman of the Women of the Wall group, prepares to open a Torah scroll at the Western Wall, Judiasm's ...
French Parliament Approves Ban On Face Veils
Post Date: 2010-07-13 11:20:37 by Murron
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French Parliament Approves Ban On Face Veils PARIS – France's lower house of parliament has approved a ban on burqa-like Islamic veils, a move that is popular among French voters despite serious concerns from Muslim groups and human rights advocates. There were 336 votes for the bill and just one against at the National Assembly. Most members of the main opposition group, the Socialist Party, refused to participate in the vote. Following Tuesday's vote, the ban on face-covering veils will go in September to the Senate, where it also is likely to pass. Its biggest hurdle will likely come after that, when France's constitutional watchdog scrutinizes it. AP – FILE - ...
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