FIDE
players and the FIDE flag Four years ago, I posted here about a
controversy over the Turks not playing the Israeli national anthem for
Marsel Efroimski, an Israeli girl who won the Girls' Under-14 World
Chess Championship at the World Youth Chess Championships, which were
played in Turkey that...
They
really meant to hit the ministry of defence, not the hospital at all,
you see. And now they will pay blood money, in accord with Sharia
provisions, for they are "preachers of Sharia and not frauds." Will
Sharia advocates in the U.S. such as the Imam Feisal Abdul...
St.
Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla after the 2011 bombing It's getting
to be an annual tradition: "The militants have struck every Christmas
for the past three years, most dramatically in 2011, when they bombed
three churches. One of them, on St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla,
on the edge...
Gregory
III And the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch, Gregory III, says that
over 1,000 Syrian Christians have been killed, and 450,000 displaced.
Where are the world's "human rights" organizations? "12 killed in
attacks against church in southern Syria," from Xinhua, December 22
(thanks to Pamela Geller): DAMASCUS, Dec. 21 (Xinhua)...
Racing
toward the Third Intifada. "Hamas, Islamic Jihad 'welcome' terror
attack on Bat Yam bus," from the Jerusalem Post, December 22 (thanks to
Pamela Geller): The Hamas and the Islamic Jihad "welcomed" the terror
attack on a Bat Yam bus on Sunday, but did not claim responsibility for
the...
I'll
drink to that "The spokesman said the policy applied throughout its
700-plus stores and to other religions as well. For example, Christians
who did not want to work on Sundays and religious Jews who chose not to
work on Saturdays would also be excused." That is not at all...
Root
cause: "Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their
possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of
Allah; they kill, and are killed..." (Qur'an 9:111) But don't talk about
that. To do so would be "Islamophobic." "At least 13 killed in
Benghazi...
Displaced
Christians at Bangui airport Shhh! "Talk about extreme, militant
Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might
undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in
our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims." -- Robert McManus,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013
"Bangui Christian-Muslim...
This
is becoming a global problem. There is a polio outbreak in Syria
because Pakistani jihadis are bringing the virus from home. A Pakistani
Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And the
Taliban have for some time been murdering people who were administering
the polio vaccine...
Marks
& Spencer gives way to the principle that where Islamic law and
practice conflict with Western law and practice, it is Western law and
practice that must give way. This is a very familiar pattern in the U.K.
and the U.S. over the last few years, and most...
Interfaith
outreach in modern, moderate Indonesia. "Indonesian Muslims protest
Christmas in the wake of warning against sharing Christmas wishes," from
AP, December 21 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA: A
group of Muslims on Friday protested against Christmas and New Year
celebrations in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province. About...
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