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  • Why are confederate cult Christians BRAGGING about the rape of Fallugah?
    7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jane Stillwater
    http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com "American troops took Fallugah by storm this week," bragged the evening news. "Airplanes strafed insurgents and tanks rolled through the streets." Why would people who actually call themselves Christians want to make the rape of Fallugah sound like a GOOD thing? You would think, after reading the teachings of Jesus every day like they claim to do, that they would have the good grace to shut up about it. **** Every (…)

  • The conflict in Iraq has become a holy war. In both directions.
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Distant Mirror of Holy War
    By Norman Solomon
    On the surface, the most prominent headline on the New York Times front page Nov. 10 was simply matter-of-fact: "In Taking Fallujah Mosque, Victory by the Inch." Yet it’s not mere happenstance that American forces have bombed many of Fallujah’s mosques.
    For public consumption, U.S. military officers — like their civilian bosses and American journalists — usually discuss this war in secular, even antiseptic terms. When the Times quoted (…)

  • Calls for end to violence at funeral of murdered film-maker
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Isabel Conway in Amsterdam and Stephen Castle in Brussels
    The Dutch film-maker whose brutal murder sparked a spiral of racial violence in the Netherlands was cremated yesterday amid appeals for an end to a spate of attacks on mosques, schools and churches.
    On a bitterly cold Amsterdam night, the public heeded calls from municipal leaders not to turn up en masse but to follow the ceremony at home on TV.
    Theo van Gogh, a descendant of the 19th-century artist, was shot, stabbed and had (…)

  • Piranha In The Fish Tank
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Religion and politics used to be two issues polite company did not discuss at the dinner table. But as the ill-mannered Neo-Puritan Right belches and bellows victoriously over their bread, it is clear that they have changed the rules of American civility in the most unappetizing ways. A Crucifix now dangerously adorns the body politic and threatens to crucify anyone who doesn’t pander to the pious.
    At its best, religion is a deeply personal tool to build a better life, (…)

  • Who will be America’s NEXT TOP CHRISTIAN? (Jesus need not apply)
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Stillwater
    In Los Angeles, they have a TV show called "Pimp My Ride". In the red states they have a TV show called "Pimp My God". Jesus need not apply.
    Am I bitter or what? When I was a little kid, I LOVED being a Christian. Couldn’t WAIT to go to church. I just loved all that stuff about loving one’s neighbor and turning the other cheek. Yeah right. Then slowly I began to see what hypocrites that Christians were. I stopped going to church for a whole bunch of years. And then I (…)

  • Rare Sight of Jewish-Muslim Harmony Outside Arafat Hospital
    8 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At a solemn vigil outside the hospital treating Yasser Arafat, a remarkable, poignant moment of peace: A Jewish rabbi and a Muslim prayer leader shaking hands and extending hopes for the Palestinian leader’s recovery.
    Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedmann travelled from Vienna to show his support, while Kamel Titouhi came from a local mosque where he had led prayers for Arafat’s recovery.
    The two men met at what has become a small shrine to Arafat beside the main gate of the modern military (…)

  • Election 2004: Americans Endorse War, Religious Fanaticism And State Terrorism
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Election 2004: Americans Endorse War, Religious Fanaticism And State Terrorism
    “Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
    By Yamin Zakaria
    11/04/04 "ICH" — The childish charade of this so-called ‘free’ election in the US has finally come to an end. This ‘free’ election was in fact not ‘free’ at all, when you consider that it offered a limited ‘choice’ of only two candidates. This fact alone shows that the US is already very close to a (…)

  • American Board of Rabbis blasts France over Arafat
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Big News Network
    In an unprecedented and extraordinary attack on France, the American Board of Rabbis has demanded a worldwide ban on French products.
    The New York-based association which promotes Jewish unity abroad voted unanimously to call on Jewish people around the world to boycott everything French: goods, services, and even the language.
    The board is outraged at France’s providing hospital treatment for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who it describes as a ’master (…)

  • Muslims Feel Militants Have Gone Too Far
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by RAWYA RAGEH
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - Its name means "the Arab one," but that didn’t spare Al-Arabiya television from attack by insurgents who perceive it as pro-Western.
    The Saudi-owned satellite station lost five Iraqi employees when a car bomb exploded Saturday at its Baghdad bureau. It was one of several recent operations - militant groups have also kidnapped women and killed Muslims - that are drawing criticism as "un-Islamic."
    "Such operations are 100 percent wrong," said Adel Zeyada, (…)

  • When Donkeys and Elephants Fly
    2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    11-2-04
    WHEN DONKEYS AND ELEPHANTS FLY by Husayn Al-Kurdi
    There are four major dates on the US government calendar, three of them annual holidays and the fourth the quadrennial spectacle of the presidential election. On the fourth of July each year, the American people are prompted to celebrate the war exploits of the US empire, overlooking the fact that the USA lost many of its wars, including its first war against the so-called Barbary Coast pirates of North Africa and its most recent (…)