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Muslim soldier to be executed for killing his comrades
A US military jury has imposed the death penalty on a Muslim soldier who
launched a fatal grenade and rifle attack on his comrades in the run up to
the invasion of Iraq. Sgt Hasan Akbar, 34, quietly apologized yesterday for
attacking his fellow soldiers in the early morning of March 23 2003...more>>> |
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Soldier who killed comrades
claims he was harassed about his Muslim faith
The father of an Army sergeant accused of killing two officers at the start
of the Iraq war urged the military Wednesday to investigate religious and
racial harassment he said his son faced from fellow soldiers before he
unleashed the grenade and rifle attack. "as soon as I am in Iraq, I am going
to try and kill as many of them [comrades] as possible,'' the solder wrote
in his diary....more>>> |
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UN Women's Conference
Questions Link Between Islam and Violence Against Women
Yakin Erturk of Turkey, the U.N. special rapporteur on violence against
women, says violations of women's rights know no religious boundaries.
"Religion is used as a political tool whether in Muslim societies or
Christian or Jewish or any other society," she said. "But because of the
Islamophobia that has emerged throughout the world, attention has turned to
Muslim countries as if there's a specificity there which promotes and
perpetuates violence against women...more>>> |
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Evangelical groups make plans
to remove liberal US judges
An audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times features two of the
nation's most influential evangelical leaders, at a private conference with
supporters, laying out strategies to rein in judges, ..."There's more than
one way to skin a cat, and there's more than one way to take a black robe
off the bench," said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family
Research Council...more>>> |
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Radio host fired after talk
about whether pope will go to heaven
Evangelical Christian talk show host Marty Minto, who questioned Roman
Catholic beliefs and entertained a caller's question about whether the late
Pope John Paul II would go to heaven, has been fired from WORD-FM...more>>> |
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 Former
Muslim appointed Dean of Jerry Falwell's evangelical university
LYNCHBURG, Va. -- The new dean of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty
University theological seminary is a former Sunni Muslim who plans to turn
out a hipper generation of graduates by relating to them with lyrics from
rapper 50 Cent, TV's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and the latest movies
and film stars. Ergun Mehmet Caner cracks one-liners as easily as he quotes
a Bible verse...more>>>
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Mormons still practicing
proxy baptisms for dead Jews and Popes
A delegation of five Jews met Sunday and Monday in Salt Lake City with
church leaders and historians and agreed to form a committee to explore how
to halt proxy baptisms — the Mormon practice of posthumously baptizing
non-Mormons, including Holocaust victims and other Jews....more>>> |
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 IMF
says oil could hit $100 per barrel
China's growing thirst for petroleum, tight supplies and little spare
production capacity will keep oil prices volatile through 2030, with the
possibility of spikes as high as $100 a barrel, the International Monetary
Fund said Thursday....more>>> |
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"The dribble effect" What happens
when we run out of cheap
gas to guzzle?
Now we are faced with the global oil-production peak. The best estimates of
when this will actually happen have been somewhere between now and 2010. In
2004, however, after demand from burgeoning China and India shot up, and
revelations that Shell Oil wildly misstated its reserves, and Saudi Arabia
proved incapable of goosing up its production despite promises to do so, the
most knowledgeable experts revised their predictions and now concur that
2005 is apt to be the year of all-time global peak production. It will
change everything about how we live....more>>> |
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 $130
million Hollywood movie about the "Crusades" upsets Muslims
“We have Christians who think this movie is pro-Muslim and Muslims who think
that this movie is pro-Christian. It will make both go and see the movie,
which is positive for improving understanding,” actor Khaled El-Nabawy, who
plays the role of a Muslim scholar in the “Kingdom of Heaven,” told Reuters.
The film " Kingdom of Heaven
is by “Gladiator” director Ridley Scott, depicts a 12th century
Muslim-Christian battle for Al-Quds...more>>> |
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Two-thirds of world's
resources 'used up'
The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by 1,360
scientists from 95 countries - some of them world leaders in their fields -
today warns that the almost two-thirds of the natural machinery that
supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure....more>>> |
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U.S. spending $23 million
this year to support anti-Castro movement inside Cuba
Far from the White House and Havana, in strip malls and nondescript
buildings along South Florida's sunlit streets, a multimillion-dollar
infusion from the U.S. government has rejuvenated Cuban-American non-profit
groups providing assistance to Cuba's tiny opposition movement....more>>> |
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 Paul
Wolfowitz, the Pentagon’s architect of the Iraq invasion is dating Muslim
feminist
Wolfowitz is said to be so blinded by his relationship with Riza, that
influential members of the World Bank believe she played a key role in
influencing the Pentagon official to launch the 2003 Iraq war. As his
trusted confident, she is said to be one of most influential Muslims in
Washington....more>>> |
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 Movie
about a bad man, a good woman and Jesus cashes in at Box Office
Tyler Perry's hit "Dairy of a Mad black Woman" has the catch-all thrills of a Bollywood film – romance,
intrigue, laughs, tears and, above all, prayer. Online magazine Salon calls
it churchotainment. The film earned $21.9 million in three days. Its budget was $5 million,
which means it broke even before the sun set on opening night....more>>> |
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 Evangelist
plans to die live on World Wide Web admission $3
Yshua Lord of Host 666Israel, the man who tattooed the infamous "666" on his
forehead and has prophesied the slaughter and destruction of every Christian
man, woman and child, is himself preparing to face death. He'll allow all so
interested to view his last days via webcam beamed directly from his home...more>>> |
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Ex-cons accused of killing Coptic Christian family in New
jersey
Coptic Christians and Muslims alike expressed relief yesterday following the
arrest of two former convicts charged with binding, gagging and cutting the
throats of four members of a Coptic Christian family last January in what
prosecutors called a robbery that went awry...more>>>
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Rogue weeds defy rules of genetics
Mendelian inheritance, the central tenet of genetics, is under attack from a
few scrawny weeds that have not read the textbooks. The weeds are somehow
inheriting DNA sequences from their grandparents that neither of their
parents possessed - which is supposed to be impossible....more>>> |
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 Scientists
find what appears to be "soft tissues" from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil bone
The US researchers tell Science magazine that the organic components
resemble cells and fine blood vessels..."It still has places where there are
no secondary minerals, and it's not any more dense than modern bone; it's
bone more than anything." ...more>>> |
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 Attorney
for Schiavo's parents says the severely brain-injured woman cried and yelled
she wants to live
Barbara Weller was in Terri Schiavo's room at the Woodside Hospice in
Pinellas Park, Fla., when the encounter took place, according to activist
Randall Terry, who spoke with WorldNetDaily from outside the building as
demonstrators continued a vigil....more>>> |
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 Woman leads US Muslims to prayer
More than 100 men and women attended the service and sermon given by Amina
Wadud, professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. The
location was moved to an Anglican Church building in New York after mosques
refused to host the event...more>>> |
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'Blair Witch' creator skips Hollywood and takes new
project to Web
"There are a handful of executives out there who are the gatekeepers of what
gets made and seen -- or not," Myrick said. "I've pitched so many ideas and
come away frustrated. So we just decided to do it ourselves." The world
premiere will be available for free at
www.strandvenice.com.... or read
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Battle looms in 19 US states over teaching evolution
WICHITA – A battle is intensifying across the nation over how students are
taught about the origins of life. Policymakers in 19 states are weighing
proposals that question the science of evolution. The growing trend has
alarmed scientists and educators who consider it a masked effort to replace
science with theology....more>>> |
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Blind since birth, Turkish artist can paint in perspective
January 29, 2005, BOSTON - Painter Esref Armagan baffles scientists in
Boston who are trying to understand how a man who has never seen can paint
pictures that the sighted easily recognise - and even admire...
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 Muslim
fundamentalists
suspected in slaying of Coptic Christian family in New Jersey
January 16, 2005, JERSEY CITY,
USA -- Father of murdered New Jersey family was threatened for making
anti-Muslim remarks on the internet, the family of four were murdered in the
home.
Monica Armanious is seen in an undated photo released by the Hudson County,
N.J., prosecutor's office Friday, Jan. 14, 2005. The bodies of Hossam
Armanious his wife, Amal Garas and theirtwo children, Sylvia Armanious,16,
and Monica, were found with their throats slit at their home in Jersey City,
N.J., Friday, according to police. (Photo: Hudson County Prosecutors Office
via The Star Ledger)...more>>> |
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