Archive for the 'Afghanistan' Category
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
The picture above appears in an article by military correspondent Michael Yon. It was found in Afghanistan and basically defines Christian crosses as a mark of evil that must be destroyed. Here’s a translation of the poster: *Destroying the cross is an Islamic obligation* 1. Christians want to publish and spread their unholy and cursed […]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Culture & Religion, Culture Clash, Islamist Radicals
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
This is actually a tale of two countries with very different cultures- Canada and Afghanistan. A Canadian Muslim is on trial for the ‘honor killing’ of his 3 daughters and his first wife in 2009. Incredibly he was recorded telling his 2nd polygamous wife that he would do it again 100 times. What did his […]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Canada, Culture & Religion, Honor Killings, Muslim Culture, Polygamy
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Saturday, April 9th, 2011
(Terry Jones by Getty Images via @daylife) The ‘Quran burning’ story has a life of its own particularly in the Middle East. Now as many as 43 deaths have been attributed to the burning and the ‘blame game’ continues. Here are some updates just from this week: Controversial Quran burning pastor Terry Jones visited Orange […]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Blasphemy Laws, Freedom of Religion, Islamist Radicals, Pakistan, Quran
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
(Afghanistan via Wikipedia) As crazy as it seems to those of us in the West, Muslims in the Middle East continue to be angry over a Quran being burned by some marginal church in Florida. In Afghanistan today the riots continue all over that country, stores are being destroyed, cars are being burned, hundreds […]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Blasphemy Laws, Freedom of Religion, Islamist Radicals, Middle East, Quran, Taliban
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
I know that it is April fools but this story as crazy as it seems is not a joke. A Quran was burned in Florida and thousands rioted in Afghanistan and killed 8 UN workers that had nothing to do with the original offense. Not only that, but two of the workers were actually beheaded. […]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Islamist Radicals, Quran
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Image via Wikipedia We posted previously about Said Musa a Red Cross worker facing death and persecution in Prison for converting from Islam to Christianity. Now there are reports of a second man facing persecution and death in Afghanistan -Shoaib Assadullah. His capitol crime?- converting to Christianity and giving a Bible to another person. In […]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Sharia Law
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Saturday, September 11th, 2010
The pictures are still horrific and engender in us all a remembrance of where we were when we first heard about the 9/11 attacks. Nearly 3,000 died and two wars resulted from the event and we can now say that the world is a much smaller place than it use to be. But how shall […]
Filed under: 9/11/01, Afghanistan, Christian living, Christian Witness, Christianity, Culture & Religion, Islam, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism, Toleration, War on Terror
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
(Image by The Pageman via Flickr) I guess if you want your 15 minutes of fame in America and around the world the ‘best’ thing you can do right now is threaten to burn a Quran? It sure worked for ‘Pastor’ Terry Jones now he is known from shore to shore in America and his […]
Filed under: 9/11/01, Afghanistan, Culture & Religion, Culture Clash, Free Exercise of Religion, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Speech, Islam, Palestinian Territory, Quran
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
(Image via Wikipedia) A 7-year-old boy was publically hanged by Taliban militants in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand province. According to reports, the child was accused of ‘spying’ for the Afghani government. Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai responded to the news: “A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a […]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Culture & Religion, Islam, Jihad, Taliban
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