Jon Huntsman got out of the Republican presidential contest a few days ago but I am now just getting to writing about it. But, I have a couple of things to say. It is most unfortunate that a candidate who believes in not just the threat of man made climate change, but...
What would Allah say? It isn’t clear that he would say, “Stop it.” http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/does_islam_promote_violence " ““Fight in the cause of God those who fight you,...
For a long time the social conservatives have been persecuting cultures other than theirs. Hollywood, homosexuals, single mothers, the Inner City, the academia, the arts culture, the youth cultures and the minority religions have all been viciously attacked. But the same...
Christopher Hitchens died yesterday, December 15. Mr. Hitchens had battled cancer for quite a while. He was an atheist and a supporter of reason and humanity over dogma and superstition. He was an excellent writer and debater. His book, God is not Great, I found a...
Muharram began at sunset on Saturday, November 26, 2011, and ends at sunset on Monday, December 26, 2011. What is Muharram? Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar. Instead of joyous celebration,...
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If there is one thing you can count on, it is that Christian fundamentalists (which make up a sizable percentage of the Republican party) hate Muslims. Maybe more so than they hate atheists or gays or immigrants or Wiccans or feminists or union leaders. Now, I'm no great...
Camp Pendleton in California is one of the biggeest U.S. Marines military bases in the U.S. It is also a place recently where former marines put up a large 12 foot tall Christian cross on the top of a hill at the base. This type of act is unfortunately, very, very common....
Gary Boisclair is a a Christian conservative running for the U.S. Congress in the state of Minnesota against Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison. Well, Mr. Boisclair believes that Ellison shouldn't be in the U.S. Congress because there are many bad things (which there are) in...
Australian aborigines used to believe that all things in nature - plants, rocks, streams - had special significance. This attitude would logically lead to careful treatment of nature, and it did.
The environmental science came up with similar conclusion, but from a...
by Karen Fish It didn’t happen in Tehran. It didn’t happen in Damascus. It happened today in Paris, France. This morning the office of the French Magazine Charlie Hebdo was bombed for putting a caricature of...
Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born, a gifted Muslim preacher and savvy Internet operator, became a powerful al-Qaida tool for recruiting in the West, its English-speaking voice spreading a terrorist credo via a blog,...
They inhabit self-imposed ghettoes, subject to derision and worse, the perennial targets of far-right thugs and populist politicians of all persuasions. They are mostly confined to menial jobs. They are accused of spreading crime, terrorism and disease, of being backward...
by Karen Fish Anders Behring Breivik acted alone. Maybe there was another shooter. It may have been Anders Behring Breivik and one other man. It was an isolated incident: not. In fact it was a continuation...
There are many who claim that the “family unit” – which they use to mean one particular kind of a family unit – is the basis of society and the reason for its successes. Nothing could be further from the truth. The family unit existed in Europe, Middle East and...
Islam glossary OK, nice to know some terminology though exploring this, even at the surface, it says this is not for me. All religions have some sort of self-selection aspect. " “Glossary of Islamic terms By...