What Does the Koran Say About Muslim Soldiers?

"In the wake of the Ft. Hood shootings by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an uncomfortable and unjust spotlight has been trained on Muslim-American soldiers serving in the armed forces. To be blunt, their loyalties are...

Chinese Jeans Anger Iranians

A Chinese clothing manufacturer has caused a stir in Iran by selling jeans with a sentence from the Qur'an inscribed on them. The sentence reads "In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful"...

Modern day science and the Koran – part three

" Recap Part one Some time ago I read a pamphlet on science in the Koran and it was aimed at the young Islamic students. The problem I found with the claims that selected verses in the Koran were expanded to...

Modern day science and the Koran - part two.

Recap – from part 1…  " Some time ago I read a pamphlet on science in the Koran and it was aimed at the young Islamic students. The problem I found with the claims that selected verses in the Koran...

Modern day science and the Koran (part one).

Some time ago I read a pamphlet on science in the Koran and it was aimed at the young Islamic students. The problem I found with the claims that selected verses in the Koran were expanded to suit the needs of...

Death for Stand-Alone Translation of Koran in Afghan? 20 Years

UPDATE: Not this time, just 20 years in prison! "Chief judge Abdul Salam Qazizada invoked Islamic Shariah law when reading out the sentence, saying death would not have been an extreme punishment."He who commits such an act is an infidel and should be killed" according to...

Salman Rushdie Speaks Out About The Satanic Verses Death Sentence

When British author Salman Rushdie wrote the now infamous book The Satanic Verses he probably didn't expect that it would mean living with a death sentence, but for the past 20 years that is exactly how he has...

December 8, a day of religious festivals all over the world

I am always uplifted by this time of year because it reminds me of just how much all the religions of the world have in common.  Almost every major religion has some sort of winter festival taking place...

Iran vice-president under fire over Koran "dance"

A close associate of Iranian President Ahmadinejad  has come under fire for hosting a ceremony where women in traditional dress carried in the Koran to music. The head of the hardline Islamic Coalition Front calls ceremony 'Violation of the holy...

Anti-Sharia Law Petition for the UK

A new anti-Sharia law petition for Britain is due to expire on January 1, 2009. For British citizens ONLY. PETITION HERE: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/shariastop/ STOP SHARIAH NOW (related...

E-mail Scammer Offers Qur’an Signed by Obama

During this presidential election season, I’ve written my fair share of posts about Barack Obama, his involvement with unscrupulous characters and the possibility that he isn’t even a legal citizen of the...

LittleBigPlanet of sony: delayed over Koran Phrases

Sony entertainment has delayed the worldwide launch of its latest game LittleBigPlanet, because of the concerns that the background music mentioning phrase sfrom Koran can offend muslim across te world. " ...

It Is Time For Equality Now

Cases of human rights abuses are a growing problem. I would like to highlight the case of Kobra Najjar, an Iranian woman sentenced to death in her home country. Kobra's crime ? Suffering domestic violence at the hands of her, late, heroin addict...

'Tempo' loses legal battle to RAPP

Money talks, it's all about the money...."In what was called a "grave for press freedom" in Indonesia, a court here ruled Thursday in favor of a pulp and paper firm in a long-standing dispute with Koran Tempo...

The Koran: Words beyond worth

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorHaving read the Koran cover to cover and being Catholic having the Bible drilled into me as a child the comparisons are eeriely similar, both preach tolerance,...

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