Religion

2020-08-07

The Left Cries for ‘Separation of Church and State,’ but It Has No Idea What That Means

David McNamara Politics & Economics, Religion 0

Article Link: https://www.westernjournal.com/left-cries-separation-church-state-no-idea-means/

Discussion posted by: David McNamara

When it comes to the U.S. Constitution and the words of the Founding Fathers, leftists possess an almost impressive capacity for selective understanding. From the Second Amendment to the purposes and standards of impeachment, the American left can read just about anything into, or out of, the broader American founding and framework to fit its political needs. And nowhere has this been better exemplified in recent months and years than in the dialogue surrounding religious liberty — or, more specifically, the “separation of church and state.” Be honest: How many times have you heard that phrase used in political conversation? Probably a lot.

2020-08-07

Raising Muslim kids as foot-soldiers

Arye ben-Shaoul Religion 0

Article Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/raising-muslim-kids-foot-soldiers-radhika-singh/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Just as the crowd of recovered Covid-19 patients takes a position for a picture, as victors who defeated the virus, a six-year-old among them jumps in joy, sloganeering, “Hum Modi ko Marenge.” It translates as, “We will kill Modi.”… After the members of this Muslim family were discharged from Index Hospital in Indore, India, they lined up for a photo-op. Since having recovered, they have become a success story. Doctors, nurses, hospital staff, and political leaders joined the family to congratulate them on their recovery. While the burqa-clad women and men in skull caps prepared for their picture, the six-year-old child jumped in glory, announcing his ambition to assassinate the sitting Prime Minister of the country. Curiously, his family members didn’t reprimand him.

2020-08-06

‘Slaying and Being Slain’ for Islam’s Heavenly Whores

Arye ben-Shaoul Religion, War & Terrorism 0

Article Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/slaying-and-being-slain-islams-heavenly-whores-raymond-ibrahim/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Since the Palestinian Authority started its terror campaign—the second Intifada—in 2000, it has been promising terrorist Martyrs that as Muslims they will be rewarded in Paradise with 72 Dark-Eyed Virgins. The promises are given in religious lessons, statements by political figures, and poems and music videos, while funeral notices are worded as “wedding” announcements. As a recent example, the article cites a Palestinian music video that “reminds viewers that death as a ‘Martyr’ is really a ‘wedding’ to the 72 Virgins of Paradise.” Another video shows a Palestinian cleric brainwashing young children with dreams of “martyrdom” and subsequent “marriage to the Dark Eyed Virgins of Paradise”—even as the children, who appear oblivious to his words, scream “Allahu Akbar!”

2020-08-04

Private Christian university says no sex outside heterosexual marriage. LGBTQ alumni say that discriminates

CA Member Canada, Religion 0

Article Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/redeemer-university-discrimination-lgbtq-1.5651627

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

School forbids sexual intimacy outside ‘biblical intentions’ of heterosexual marriage Within a year of starting school at Redeemer University, Lauren Druif wanted out. As a queer student, she knew there was a risk of being an outcast at the private Christian school in Ancaster, a suburban area of Hamilton, Ont. But a school policy that says students will be disciplined for any sexual behaviour that occurs outside a heterosexual marriage, based on what Redeemer calls “biblical intentions,” made her feel like an outsider. “That was a huge influence on the final decision to leave…. I can’t think of anything other than discrimination to call it,” said 22-year-old Druif of Acton, Ont., who left the school in 2016.

2020-07-31

UK Cops Consider Dropping Terms ‘Islamist Terror’ and ‘Jihadi’

Arye ben-Shaoul Culture & Race, Politics & Economics, Religion 0

Article Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/07/uk-cops-consider-dropping-terms-islamist-terror-robert-spencer/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Deep-sixing reality to avoid offending Muslims. You might have thought that Absurd Britannia couldn’t possibly get any more absurd. You’d have been wrong. The Daily Mail reported Monday that British “police are considering dropping the terms ‘Islamist terror’ and ‘jihadi’ because they ‘don’t help community relations.’” The cops were apparently mum about whether jihad terrorism and jihadis themselves “don’t help community relations.” They’re much more concerned about nomenclature. If we don’t offend the poor dears, you see, all will be well, and jihad will become a thing of the past.

2020-07-30

HASSAN: Erdogan turns a major Christian site over for Islamic prayer

IRWeasel Culture & Race, Religion 0

Article Link: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/hassan-erdogan-turns-a-major-christian-site-over-for-islamic-prayer/wcm/287f57b4-ecd3-4869-91cd-93ffd6a00fe9/

Discussion posted by: IRWeasel

On Friday, July 24 the Hagia Sophia, the citadel of Eastern Orthodox Christianity for several centuries, became the scene of Islamic congregational prayer for the first time in over eighty years. Patriarch Kirril of the Russian Orthodox Church expressed concern over the move. Pope Francis also mentioned his “pain”, as have other Christians and some Muslims over what constitutes the further Islamization of Turkey by a president who deems himself a latter-day caliph.

2020-07-30

The Democrats declare a Jew ban

Arye ben-Shaoul Politics & Economics, Religion 0

Article Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/07/democrats-declare-jew-ban-jeff-ballabon/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Anyone concerned with Jews and Israel should be horrified by the Democrats’ newly released 2020 platform. It directly threatens the Jewish state, employs double-talk calculated to stoke antagonism between the American left and Israel, and pays passing lip-service to opposing antisemitism, but in the gaslighting way Linda Sarsour and Ilhan Omar do; to deny it where it exists and point fingers elsewhere. In both narrative and policy, the platform crosses over the line into deep antisemitic territory. It’s a dangerous acceleration of an approach first tested when Joe Biden was Vice President and in which he played an active role.

2020-07-30

Egypt imprisons female TikTok influencers

Arye ben-Shaoul Culture & Race, Gender & Sexuality, Religion 0

Article Link: https://www.dw.com/en/egyptian-tiktok-stars-jailed/a-54371869

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Two years in prison, plus fines of almost €16,000 ($ 18,800) each: that was the verdict handed down to two young Egyptian influencers by a Cairo court earlier this week. Three other young women were also sentenced to two years in prison, and on Wednesday another woman was fined and sentenced to three years for a similar conviction. In their rulings, which can still be appealed, the judges accused the defendants of posting “indecent” dance videos and “violating the values and principles of the Egyptian family.” The women incited “debauchery” and also encouraged human trafficking, according to the prosecution’s statement, which specifically named two of the defendants: Haneen Hossam, a 20-year-old student, and Mawada Eladhm, 22.

2020-07-29

Seth Rogen: ‘I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel’

ursula Culture & Race, Politics & Economics, Religion 0

Article Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/29/seth-rogen-israel-palestinians-jewish-actor

Discussion posted by: ursula

The Canadian-US actor, who attended Jewish camp and whose parents met on a kibbutz in Israel, said the fact that the Jewish state was created on land where Palestinians were living had always been omitted. More than 700,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes or fled fighting in the 1948 war that led to Israel’s creation. Today, those families and their descendants make up around 5.6 million refugees. Among Zionists, there is anxiety that North American Jews, who could possibly outnumber Israeli Jews, are becoming less supportive of the Jewish state, even as surveys often show the opposite. The debate has frequently reignited after high-profile figures, often Jewish, express views that are highly critical of Israel.

Islamophilia, Not Islamophobia, The Problem

2020-07-29

Islamophilia, Not Islamophobia, is the Problem

Arye ben-Shaoul Culture & Race, Religion 0

Article Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/07/islamophilia-not-islamophobia-problem-frontpage-editors/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

The uncritical, uninformed, absolute defense of Islam has to end. We’re often told, by Muslims and by non-Muslims with a severe case of Islamophilia, that “Islamophobia” is the problem, post-9/11. “Islamophobia.” What a word. Its World War Two equivalent would have been Naziphobia. The best quote I’ve read on “Islamophobia”, and often misattributed to Christopher Hitchens, is from Andrew Cummins, who wrote, “Islamophobia. A word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.” To claim that there is some kind of inherent “irrational fear” of Islam within us, independent of what Islam is and what Muslims do, is irrational. To push this myth of “Islamophobia”, one would need to ignore the unignorable fact that 230,000+ human beings have been murdered in the name of Islam since 9/11/01

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