Religion

Fear and fundamentalism as the ‘modesty police’ patrol Gaza

Photo: AFP Police in Gaza have arrested at least 41 men on charges of immodesty this April, writes Phoebe Greenwood. And now the city is gripped with fear that Hamas is driving the population towards militant Islamic fundamentalism. It’s three weeks since his arrest but Ismail Halou still has streaks of purple bruising on the soles of his feet. The… Read more →

Weinstein says those (Christians) guilty of this “treason” must be “punished.” Under federal law, the penalty for treason is death.

Photo: Breitbart “Today, we face incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized and twisted version of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates in our nation’s armed forces.” Those words were recently written by Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), in a column he wrote for the Huffington Post. Weinstein will… Read more →

Man stabs choir members at end of church service

(CNN) – Mass had just ended at St. Jude Thaddeus Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the choir had begun its closing hymns when it happened. A 24-year-old man jumped several pews and rushed toward the choir with a knife in his hand, screaming, “Fake preacher!” He stabbed four choir members during the attack Sunday morning — before several parishioners jumped… Read more →

Syrian prime minister survives Damascus bombing, six die

Photo Credit: Reuters/SANA/Handout (Reuters) – Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halki survived a bomb attack on his convoy in Damascus on Monday, state media and activists said, as rebels struck in the heart of President Bashar al-Assad’s capital. Six people were killed in the blast, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, the latest in a series of rebel attacks on… Read more →

President Obama: GOP involved in an orchestrated and historic effort to roll back the clock to the 1950s when it comes to women’s health

So when politicians try to turned Planned Parenthood into a punching bag, they’re not just talking about you; they’re talking about the millions of women who you serve. And when they talk about cutting off your funding, let’s be clear: They’re talking about telling many of those women, you’re on your own. They’re talking about shutting those women out at… Read more →

PENTAGON BLOCKS TROOPS’ ACCESS TO SOUTHERN BAPTIST WEBSITE

Photo: Breitbart. As first reported by Fox News’ Todd Starnes, Pentagon leaders have blocked soldiers’ access to the website of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The SBC is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States with 16 million members, making it the second-largest religious denomination is the entire country after Roman Catholicism. The SBC is also the largest evangelical Christian denomination… Read more →

German Jihadists: Officials Fear Return of Syrian War Veterans

Both Photos: (AFP) German security officials believe that a number of Germans have teamed up with radical Islamists on the frontlines in Syria. What worries them most are the training and ties they’ve gained abroad — and whether they’ll continue the jihad once home. The trail of Ibrahim R. ran cold in March 2013. The young man from the southwestern… Read more →

Putin on Boston blasts: We suffered from terrorists, called ‘insurgents’ by West

The deadly bombing of Boston Marathon confirms Russia’s position that terrorists are a common threat to all nations and must never be supported for political gains, says Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin was commenting in Moscow during his annual Q&A session on the flood of comments in the US, many of them from common people, which blamed Russia, where the… Read more →