Archive for the 'Culture & Religion' Category
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
(Image by Getty Images via @daylife) This week Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi has been visiting in Italy and has caused a stir by giving away Qurans and telling everyone that Europe should convert to Islam: "Islam should become the religion of all of Europe.” “Islam is the last religion and if we are to have a [...]
Filed under: -Jihad, -War on Terror, Culture & Religion, Islam, Libya, Terrorism
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
(Image by Getty Images via @daylife) The Backers of the Ground Zero mosque are hoping to raise at least $70 million though tax-exempt public bonds to build the $100 million plus facility. The bonds could be issued through a local development corporation created for that purpose and would be one of the least expensive ways [...]
Filed under: 'Ground Zero Mosque', -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, 9/11/01, Culture & Religion
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
(Image by Zooomabooma via Flickr) The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization, could continue to base its hiring practices and decisions on matters of religious faith. A three judge panel majority opinion declared that World Vision was a “religious organization” and qualified for the religious [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Free Exercise of Religion, -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, Court Decisions, Culture & Religion
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
(Image by Getty Images via @daylife) There are over a million Jews living in NY City and the Jewish community was particularly affected by the 9/11 attacks and even salt has been poured on with the popular Arab urban legend/conspiracy theory that blames it all on them or the Israelis. So you would expect that [...]
Filed under: 'Ground Zero Mosque', -Church and State, -Free Exercise of Religion, -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, 9/11/01, Culture & Religion, Islam, Judaism
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
(Image via Wikipedia) Is President Obama a Muslim? No! But he is very sympathetic to Islam. Also apparently 24% of the country think he is while only 47% believe that he’s a Christian. His father and his step father were Muslims and a good share of his extended family in Africa. Plus over the years [...]
Filed under: -Politics & Religion, -Sharia Law, Barack Obama, Christianity, Culture & Religion, Egypt, Islam, Saudi Arabia
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
In a chilling development House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for an investigation of ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ opponents and their funding: "There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how … this opposition to the mosque is [...]
Filed under: 'Ground Zero Mosque', -Politically Correct, -Politics & Religion, 9/11/01, Culture & Religion, Islam
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
The ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ controversy keeps on going. President Obama weighed in over the weekend with a few comments that hit the fan so to speak. One observation he made is that Islam should be treated just like any other religion in America and I totally agree. In a previous post I commented that I [...]
Filed under: 'Ground Zero Mosque', -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, 9/11/01, American Church, Culture & Religion, Islam
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