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  • U.S. Church Alliance Denounces Iraq War
    22 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BRIAN MURPHY, AP Religion Writer Sat Feb 18, 1:05 PM ET
    PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - A coalition of American churches sharply denounced the U.S.-led war in Iraq on Saturday, accusing Washington of "raining down terror" and apologizing to other nations for "the violence, degradation and poverty our nation has sown."
    The statement, issued at the largest gathering of Christian churches in nearly a decade, also warned the United States was pushing the world toward environmental catastrophe (…)

  • Brazil president urges world churches to support social reform
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Brown
    Porto Alegre, Brazil (ENI). Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has appealed to a global gathering of church leaders to support his country’s efforts to construct a more egalitarian society.
    "Religious organizations have played an irreplaceable role in transforming Brazil," Lula da Silva told delegates at the World Council of Churches ninth assembly on 17 February, referring to a wide-ranging programme of social reform he introduced after being elected (…)

  • Special report: America’s Long War
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US introduces radical new strategy
    de Simon Tisdall, Ewen MacAskill and Richard Norton-Taylor
    Concern is growing in Europe about US plans to involve governments in an expanded, all-out campaign against Islamist extremism from north Africa to south-east Asia, using beefed-up special forces, hi-tech weaponry and more intrusive surveillance and intelligence gathering.
    The Pentagon plan, designed to fight what it describes as "The Long War", envisages "long-duration, complex operations (…)

  • Misunderstanding Muslims
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by James Carroll
    When the Koran was said to have been denigrated by American guards at Guantanamo last year, Muslims reacted with rage, but most observers in the West misunderstood why.
    It was easy for Christians and Jews — the other ’’people of the Book" — to think that such an insult to the Koran was like an insult to the Bible. That would be sacrilege enough, but it was worse than that.
    Drawing analogies between religions can mislead, but the Koran stands in Islamic belief more as (…)

  • Bigotry on the loose
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carl Bloice
    It wasn’t Copenhagen, it was Washington and something that transpired there recently was ugly and more than a little frightening. Bigotry was on the loose.
    It wasn’t covered much by the country’s major media, and those that did cover it seem to have missed a critical piece of the story which was reported by slate.com and the Financial Times.
    Michael Scherer wrote that of the attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Omni Shoreham Hotel (…)

  • Editorial: Jew Gotta’ Friend At Google
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hate speech claim laughable, but there’s a more serious issue
    NEW YORK, NY — (OfficialWire) — 02/14/06 — As a Jew (my mother was Jewish and so ’am I) I am expected to automatically detest those who might speak against the popular belief associated with the "H" word. We are expected to speak in hushed tones in observance of ’The Holocaust’, praise and support those among us who have sought or seek to hunt down and kill anyone with direct knowledge of the horrid events of the Second World (…)

  • The Pipeline To War
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Barry Chamish
    Imagine a dozen cartoons serving the same purpose as Pearl Harbor or Sarajevo, being the final straw that led the planet into world war. Now imagine the cartoons were a staged event, designed purposely to drag us into unimaginable violence. If that is the case, then those who foisted the plot on an unsuspecting world, would be guilty of super-mass-murder.
    And what if the latest candidate for the Attila the Hun award goes to Daniel Pipes? That is precisely what is being (…)

  • Those Danish Cartoons: Don’t Be Fooled This Isn’t an Issue of Islam versus Secularism
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT FISK
    So now it’s cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed with a bomb-shaped turban. Ambassadors are withdrawn from Denmark, Gulf nations clear their shelves of Danish produce, Gaza gunmen threaten the European Union. In Denmark, Fleming Rose, the "culture" editor of the pip-squeak newspaper which published these silly cartoons—last September, for heaven’s sake—announces that we are witnessing a "clash of civilisations" between secular Western democracies and Islamic societies. This does (…)

  • The Road to the Muslim Holocaust
    9 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "We are being challenged by Islam these years - globally as well as locally. It is a challenge we have to take seriously. We have let this issue float about for too long because we are tolerant and lazy. We have to show our opposition to Islam and we have to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on us because there are some things for which we should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction”. Queen (…)

  • What Kind of Damage The Julland Posen Newspaper Has Done
    8 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As you all know that Islam and Muslims respect all religions and the means of media in Islamic countries did not contempt any religion. That respect is a basic rule in Islam, as can be concluded from many verses in the holly Quraan, For example the verse 108 says:- . The Danish newspaper (Jyllands Posten ) exposed to Islam and prophet Mohammed in insolent and sarcasm method. If one recalls that , according to Islamic faith, drawing images of the prophet is not allowed he can imagine (…)