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Episcopal Church does Lenten series on Islam
From here:
Islam is the second largest religion in the world — and the fastest growing — yet few Americans know anything about it.
That, according to the Rev. Peter Whalen of Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and pastor Kent Lewis of Christ Lutheran Church, could be a grave error, and the root of future misunderstanding.
Together, the two churches will be hosting a five-week class about the religion every Wednesday night during Lent except Ash Wednesday. The first class will be March 16, beginning at 7 p.m. at Church of the Redeemer.
And why not? The Episcopal Church has misrepresented Christianity long enough; it’s time for Islam to have a turn.
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2 million Egyptians in Tahrir Square chant "To Jerusalem we are heading, martyrs in the millions."
So much for a peace-loving Egyptian secular democracy.
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Teacher attacked for teaching other religions to Muslim girls
From here:
Four men launched a horrific attack on a teacher in which they slashed his face and left him with a fractured skull because they did not approve of him teaching religion to Muslim girls.
Akmol Hussein, 26, Sheikh Rashid, 27, Azad Hussain, 25, and Simon Alam, 19, attacked Gary Smith with a Stanley knife, an iron rod and a block of cement.
Mr Smith, who is head of religious education at Central Foundation Girls’ School in Bow, east London, also suffered a fractured skull.
The four now face a jail sentence.
Detectives made secret recordings of the gang’s plot to attack Mr Smith prior to the brutal assault.
The covert audio probe captured the gang condemning Mr Smith for ‘teaching other religions to our sisters’, the court heard.
The RE teacher was targeted as he made his way on foot along Burdett Road in nearby Mile End on July 12 last year, Snaresbrook Crown Court was told.
Prosecutor Sarah Whitehouse told the court: ‘The evidence from what was said on the probe points overwhelmingly to a religious motive for this attack.’
We have a cornucopia of assorted crimes that have been deemed “hate crimes” because the victim falls into a select category : there are, among others, hate crimes against Muslims, hate crimes against homosexuals, racial hate crimes and hate crimes against women. I notice that this particular thoroughly hate filled incident against a member of that most ridiculed minority – school Religious Education instructors – is not described as a hate crime. Does anyone doubt that if the teacher had been a Muslim and the criminals Christians or, even worse, Jews, we would have seen “Hate Crime” blaring from every headline?
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Loony Muslim cleric coming to the US to agitate for sharia law
From here:
A hardline Muslim cleric who sparked anger across the U.S. with his anti-American comments in a television interview this month is to hold a protest outside the White House.
British extremist Anjem Choudary – who once said ‘the flag of Islam will fly over the White House’ – has announced he will lead a demonstration calling on Muslims to establish the Sharia law across America.
The rally, planned for March 3, is to take place just weeks after his on-screen row with Fox News presenter Sean Hannity.
Mr Choudary, 43, called Americans ‘the biggest criminals in the world today.’
Anjem Choudary has the dubious distinction of being one of the few people to be dismissed as a ‘sick, miserable, evil S.O.B’ at the end of a TV interview.
Whether Choudary and his henchmen will be allowed into the US to peddle Islamism is in doubt.
What is in no doubt at all – other than the accuracy of the above epithets – is that, if Choudary had his way, he would not allow any criticism of sharia law, let alone demonstrations against it.
Here is the Hannity interview:
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If I Ruled the World by Hackphlegm Imadinnerjacket
If I ruled the world, every day would be a gloomy kind of thing,
This would be the only song that you could sing.
And we’d stone you if you have a little fling.
If I ruled the world, every beard would be big enough for nesting birds,
Every voice would be suppressed, never heard,
Take my word, you would hate each day that occurred.
My world would be a sharia place,
Where burglars would lose their extremities.
My world would cover every beautiful face
With a sack that comes right down to your knees.
If I ruled the world, I would drive each person around the bend.
There’d be jihad that no man could end,
No my friend, not if I ruled the world.
Every head would be held up high
On a pole: gays would be the first to die.
If the day ever dawned when I ruled the world.
© 2011 by grinning dwarf nuclear powered music.
With apologies to Tony Bennett:
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A church shares its building with Muslims
Heartsong Church in Cordova, Tennessee has invited local Muslims to share its building.
From here:
One of the most troubling components in the current dialogue about relationships between Jesus followers and Muslims is the charge that Muslims do not worship the one true God, indeed that they are idolaters. I wonder if people who say that would make the same charge against Jews who also do not accept Jesus as the Messiah. The Muslims with whom I share relationships of love and trust tell me they worship the same God I do and the Jews do. According to my faith, they cannot do it to the fullest because Jesus is the full revelation of God—God in flesh and blood. But who am I to say that they do not worship the one true God according to their understanding? Jesus reserved his sternest warnings for those who would dare take the place of God and pass judgment on the heart of another. Heartsong and I do not dare do this. Be careful, sisters and brothers, that you also do not.
The problem with arguing that Muslims worship the same God as Christians simply because they say they do, is that it can be said by anyone who worships anything that falls roughly into the category of “a god” – Gaia, Anuflac and Gorgastriaum included.
As the author of the above article acknowledges, if Christians are right, Jesus is the highest revelation of God to humanity and insofar as a religion doesn’t acknowledge that, it has things wrong and is worshipping, at best, something less than God, and, at worst, something opposed to God.
So should a church share its building with Muslms? Only if it’s to encourage them to convert to Christianity.
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Some Muslim families coming to Canada don’t want to be Canadian
From here:
WINNIPEG — A dozen Muslim families who recently arrived in Canada have told Winnipeg’s Louis Riel School Division that they want their children excused from compulsory elementary school music and coed physical education programs for religious and cultural reasons.
“This is one of our realities in Manitoba now, as a result of immigration,” said superintendent Terry Borys. “We were faced with some families who were really adamant about this. Music was not part of the cultural reality.”
Britain is finally waking up to the fact that living in Britain entails becoming British:
The Prime Minister also hit out at Labour’s experiment with multiculturalism – calling it a failure. He says society has failed to provide a strong sense of what it means to be British, making it easier for extremists to prey on youngsters seeking something to identify with.
He added: ‘We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values.
Canada should do the same.
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Imam guilty of raping boy at mosque
From here:
A Muslim cleric has been convicted of raping a young boy as he attended Islamic education lessons at his mosque.
Mohammed Hanif Khan, 42, was also found guilty by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court of sexual activity with a child, as well as the two counts of rape.
The charges relate to two boys who attended the mosque in Capper Street, Stoke on Trent, where he was imam, in 2009.
Prosecutor Tariq Bin Shakoor told the jury part of Khan’s job was to lead prayers and give Islamic education lessons to boys at evening classes.
He told the court one of the boys claimed in police interviews that he was singled out by Khan after evening prayer on several occasions. He was sexually assaulted in various areas of the mosque which were not covered by CCTV, Mr Shakoor told the court.
The other boy was assaulted when he was an overnight guest at Khan’s house, the jury of six men and six women were told.
Some have enjoyed claiming that the sexual abuse of young boys by Catholic priests was caused by their not being allowed to marry: having no wife led to taking a catamite instead. Imams must be driven to the same extreme by having too many wives.
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Freedom Fighter Neha
A clip from the documentary “Freedom Fighter” from OFWI. Neha is a Christian girl from Pakistan who was raped at the age of 2 years old by an 18 year old man. This was an attempt to force convert Neha’s family from Christianity.