Monday, September 12, 2016
Father Morris: When Tragedy Strikes, Americans Turn to God
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9/11 Anniversary
Clinton’s Dr.: She Was Diagnosed with Pneumonia
Sunday, September 11, 2016
An Impossible Right: Why 'Same-Sex Marriage' is Wrongheaded (2013)
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same-sex marriage,
USA
Video Appears to Show Clinton Collapse as She Leaves Event
Indonesia Proposes Alcohol Ban in Bali
The proposed bill to outlaw the production, sale and consumption of alcohol across the whole of Indonesia carries a prison sentence of up to ten years for violators. If passed, it would crush the tourism sector, industry chiefs have warned.
“No matter how beautiful the country is, if they can’t find alcohol, they [tourists] won’t want to come here,” said Hariyadi Sukamdani, the head of Indonesia's Hotel and Restaurant Association.
A ban would particularly damage the resort of Bali, one of Indonesia’s 34 provinces. » | Nicola Smith | Sunday, September 11, 2016
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alcohol ban,
Bali,
Indonesia
Czech Republic: Anti-Islam Demonstrators Rally Outside Saudi Embassy On 9/11 Anniversary
Jihad Exposed in America
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America,
Jihad,
Robert Spencer
Clinton Not Feeling Well, Leaves 9/11 Event Early
Judge Jeanine: Your Apology Isn't Going to Work, Hillary
Clinton and Trump Commemorate 15th Anniversary of 9/11
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9/11 Anniversary,
Ground Zero,
New York
Muslim Scholar: No Separation of Church and State in Islam
Writing in Friday’s LA Times, Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World, states that Western suppositions that all religions are basically the same and want the same things is fundamentally wrong.
These differences, Hamid contends, run all the way from views of the sacred text (Muslims believe that every single word of the Qur’an comes directly from Allah) to an understanding of the nature of the state and its relationship to religion.
Hamid declares that the difference between Christianity and Islam regarding the state stem from the differences in each faith’s central figure. Whereas Jesus preached giving to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s, Muhammad united faith and the state in his own person.
“Unlike Jesus,” Hamid states, “Muhammad was both prophet and politician. And more than just any politician, he was a state-builder as well as a head of state. Not only were the religious and political functions intertwined in the person of Muhammad, they were meant to be intertwined.”
“To argue for the separation of religion from politics, then, is to argue against the model of the very man Muslims most admire and seek to emulate,” Hamid argues. » | Thomas D. Williams PhD | Saturday, September 10, 2016
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Non-Believers in the Muslim World: A Tale of Two Identities | Ali A. Rizvi
This talk is about the experiences of non-believers and apostates in the Muslim world. Ali’s communication with hundreds of ex-Muslims in Muslim-majority countries as well as in the West has provided valuable insights into how secularism could be promoted in the Muslim world.
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atheism,
Muslim world
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