The Stealth Crusade By Barry Yeoman | Wed May 1, 2002 12:00 AM PST At 8 o'clock on a warm Monday morning in January, 20 students file into Rick Love's classroom at Columbia International University in South Carolina. Eyes glassy from writing papers all weekend, they clutch Styrofoam cups of Folgers a...
China ramps up propaganda to quell unrest Last Updated: Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 4:16 PM ET Comments103...
Racism accusations fly over man in Sudan denied emergency passport Last Updated: Friday, April 3, 2009 | 8:08 PM ET Comments360...
The biggest book of the summer is about the end of the world. It's also a sign of our troubled tim...
Monday, Jul. 01, 2002 The End: How It Got That Way By DAVID VAN BIEMA Calamity is the mother of end-of-the-world prophecy. This is true as millions of Americans, many rattled into an End Times frame of mind by Sept. 11, line up to buy the latest installment in the Left Behind series, The Remnant. It was true when the first prophecies of the End appeared in the Hebrew Bible in response to a great national catastrophe in 586...
Rockets fired from Lebanon strike northern Israel Israeli military bombs Gaza overnight as conflict against Hamas enters 13th day Last Updated: Thursday, January 8, 2009 | 2:12 AM ET Comments35...
A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook. Wayne Forrester, 34, told police he was devastated that his wife Emma, also 34, had changed her online profile to "single" days after he had moved out. The Old Bailey heard Forrester drove to her home in Croydon, south London, and attacked the mother-of-two. He stabbed her with a kitchen knife and a me...
Who speaks for Islam? by John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed 14 February 2008Washington, DC - Extremists and terrorism have too often monopolised the media's coverage and thus the message coming out of the Muslim world. But what do the vast majority of mainstream Muslims really believe, think, and feel? What are their hopes, fears, and resentments? Why is it that a robust anti-Americanism see...
Israel's anti-Arab parties By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank ...
Arab League, Muslim groups blame U.S., Britain for Jericho raid Last Updated Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:47:46 EST CBC News The Arab League and other Muslim countries have condemned an Israeli raid on a West Bank jail that netted six Palestinian militants, blaming both Britain and the U.S. for allowing it to happen. INDEPTH: ...
Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations by Firas Al-Atraqchi in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday 20 December 2005 2:07 PM GMT Armstrong was in Cairo as a guest of the American University One of the foremost authorities on monotheistic religions and traditions, Karen Armstrong's writings on Islam have come into public focus following 9-11. Born in 1944, Armstrong began her journey to faith as a Roman Catholic nun but left her order in 1969 when s...
Calls grow to free Iraq hostages by Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:03 AM GMT Palestinians are demanding that the hostages be freed Supporters and well-wishers from around the globe have appealed for the release of four Christian activists held hostage in Iraq, with Muslim groups and relatives reiterating that the four supported the Iraqi people. The previously unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigade, which kidnapped the four men from the Ch...
Israeli Arabs cannot be 'terror victims' by Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:03 PM GMT The Israeli soldier was a member of the Kach terror group The Israeli soldier who killed four Israeli Arabs in a shooting rampage on a bus has been branded a Jewish terrorist, but the people who died cannot be recognised as terrorist victims, the defence ministry says. Under current Israeli law, an assailant must be a member of the "enemy forces" against Isra...
Bloody Week in Iraq; One US Airstrike Destroys an Ambulance, A Separate US Airstrike Kills a Journalist on Live Television by Eric Jaffa September 15, 2004 Overview of recent violence, from NNN ("84 Killed, 90 Injured In Unabated Iraq Violence," September 13, 2004): At least nine people were killed in American attacks on militant positions in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja on Monday morning, taking the death toll to 84 in the una...
Jewish group wants Kazemi exhibit restored Last Updated Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:56:45 EDT CBC Arts A Jewish group in Montreal is accusing city authorities of censorship over its decision to remove a library exhibit of the work of murdered photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. On Friday, members of the Canada Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation held a mock book-banishing ceremony in front of the Côte-St-Luc library where Kazemi's photos had been on display....
Library removes Kazemi photos after complaint Last Updated Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:05:21 EDT CBC Arts An exhibition of work by slain Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi has been shut down, following complaints it was too sympathetic to the Palestinian uprising. Last week, a collection of 23 black-and-white photos Kazemi took during her travels in countries like Israel, Iran and Afghanistan opened at a municipal library in the Montreal borough of Côte Saint-...
Allah is GOD in "Aramaic", the language Jesus spoke With Ramadan around the corner (generally accepted as tomorrow if the new moon is sighted) I felt like doing some research and it turns out what my friend said is true (god is "Allah" in Armaic") and hopefully the Christians that knock on my door every few months will come back soon (although they promised to visit soon last time we spoke). It is a historical fact that Jesus spoke the "Aramaic" language so n...
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