Archive for the 'Culture Clash' Category
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
A Christian orphanage has been destroyed and at least 18 Christians have been killed as violence continues against Christians in the state of Orissa.
The latest round of trouble,which includes 92 incidents of violence against Christians, began with the murder of Hindu leader Swamiji Laxmanananda Saraswati and four others on Saturday (Aug. 23). The [...]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Here’s an article by Daniel Pipes: "Barack Obama through Muslim Eyes". Daniel Pipes documents here how the Muslim press has responded to the religious background and Christian affiliation of Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
The California Supreme Court has now ruled that the state can force healthcare professionals to provide services that may be against their religion. In an unanimous decision on Monday, California’s Supreme Court ruled that Christian doctors may not refuse to perform services like artificial insemination for homosexual patients.
This was a case where Christian doctors [...]
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Here’s another one of those fascinating stories that seem almost surreal to most Westerners–stories that can’t possibly be true! Saudi Arabia has given us a lot of them lately.
Like the American lady executive who was arrested and went to jail for being at ‘Starbucks’ with a business associate–or the Saudi woman who was [...]
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Masab Yousef, the oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a political leader of the Hamas organization of the West Bank, speaks out about his faith in Christ and gives some insight into the terrorist organization that he was raised in. He gave his life to Christ in 2004 after reading the Bible and finding [...]
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
A federal judge has ruled that a 43-foot-tall cross, part of a memorial to fallen American veterans, does not violate the constitution. The site was originally erected on Mt. Soledad in 1954 as a memorial to those who died in the Korean War.
It has become a point of controversy in the San Diego [...]
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
According to a survey released this week, nearly one third of all Muslim students believe it can be acceptable to kill in the name of Islam, while 60% of the students involved in Islamic societies would condone it.
40% of the students also supported the introduction of sharia law in Britain and 33 per [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
The Amish community has been building sturdy homes, barns, and structures for several hundred years. Now a judge has ruled that 8 men must stand trial for violating building codes in Morristown Town, N.Y.
The Amish men do not deny the charges nor do they wish to comply with the codes which they say [...]
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Christian missionaries who were evangelizing a "gay pride" event in Philadelphia in 2004, were arrested and charged in 2004 for "ethnic intimidation" at the parade. The state legislature had added homosexuals to a Pennsylvania law protecting minorities from so-called ‘hate crimes’. The evangelists attending the event were charged under that law for preaching against [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
A number of different ads supporting Islam are being paid for by the Islamic Circle of North America who ironically is one of the organizations listed in the infamous 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memo which called for a "Grand Jihad" for:
"eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by [...]
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