Muqtada al-Sadr urges rejection of US-Iraqi pact

Waving Iraqi flags and green Shiite banners, protesters chanted slogans condemning the pact. The demonstration in the mostly Shiite eastern part of Baghdad was staged under tight security, with soldiers and police manning checkpoints along the route.

“I am with every Sunni, Shiite or Christian who is opposed to the agreement … and I reject, condemn and renounce the presence of occupying forces and bases on our beloved land,” al-Sadr said in a message read to the crowd by a senior aide.  >>>>>

This demonstration is in Baghdad; where the US has purportedly given them freedom.  There are many in the West who don’t believe that Christians are opposed to anything related to the U.S. occupation.  Very few asked the Christians in Iraq or anti-War activists of the West.

Sharia law inevitable in Uganda’s legal system

In Britain, the common law system is available to everybody but to Muslims it is impotent when it comes to civil issues regarding marriage, divorce and other disputes whose dispensation in heaven is perceived as more crucial than any ruling that might be handed down by an English judge in a horsehair wig.

Ugandan Muslims have advocated Sharia law to deal with these importance issues because secular laws cannot address them to the satisfaction of our conscience. Therefore, Sharia law is inevitable in any community where Muslims are a part.  >>>>>

Philippine Muslim rebels to take case to UN

He criticized President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s government for backing out of the deal after 11 years of negotiations, and said militants within the rebel ranks who are opposed to the peace process may stage fresh attacks.

“After long years, we came to a point that seemed to bolster what the anti-negotiation groups are saying: that the government could not be trusted,” Iqbal said.  >>>>>

Exodus of Christians as killers step up religious cleansing in Iraq

Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister, has ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the problem. Yesterday the UN expressed concern at the recent violence against Mosul’s Christian community.

Some Christians blame al-Qaeda for the attacks while others speculate that Kurdish elements might be involved as part of a political ploy to coerce minority sects into supporting Kurdish parties before forthcoming provincial elections. This allegation is strongly denied by the Kurdish authorities. >>>>>

There is still nothing conclusive as to which side or who did it.  This doesn’t stop the West from capitalizing on this to make it appear as if Christians are not free under Islamic rule.  There is no Islamic rule in Iraq; and secondly, both Christians and Muslims in the region are both Iraqis and Arabs, excluding the Kurdish and other ethnic differentials.  This is a phony instigation effort to work towards continuing to divide the society into smaller groups, one especially that the West is nurturing to eventually help its agenda upon their resettlement in the region.

Cong gives facelift to its campaign, hires PR agency

The Congress seems to hope that the minorities will come back to its fold.

CNN-IBN has learnt that the party’s poll campaign will highlight the fact that associating Islam with terror attacks is not right as in the case of Jamia encounter.

The Congress has raised questions and that attacks on Christians in Orissa and Karnataka show that under the NDA, minorities are unsafe.  >>>>>

When you have to hire a public-relations firm to handle your image, there is a serious question about your behavior.

The Jihad Seminar

This legislation makes it unlawful for someone, on the ground of the religious belief or activity of another person or class of persons, to engage in conduct that “incites hatred against, serious contempt for, or revulsion or serious ridicule”. There is a similar provision about racial vilification. However, there is a defence for conduct that was engaged in “reasonably and in good faith” in the performance of an artistic work or in the course of a discussion or debate for any genuine academic, artistic, religious or scientific purpose. >>>>>

Islam, Arab-Muslim world in American electoral speech

The marginalisation of Islam and Muslims has been spreading industry in the United States since the September 11, 2001 attacks. It lives on the relative ignorance of the American people in international issues and their sometimes strange relationship to the otherness, this ambivalent and complex relation with the other.

Among Republicans, this policy of fear is one of the major components of the winning electoral strategy since the departure of Bill Clinton. Charlie Black, one of McCain’s gurus, said in the June issue of Forbes magazine that “what we would need, is a good attack”.

In substance, it would be enough to have real or made-up terrorist attacks against American interests for the popularity of the republican candidate to pick up again.  >>>>>

Oil, war, lies and bulls**t

There’s hardly any doubt that the George W Bush administration lied rather consciously about the cause of invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. President George W Bush also has been deliberately untruthful to the American public on a number of domestic issues, such as illegal, indiscriminate wiretapping of US citizens, torture of foreign detainees and American political prisoners, and limitless encroachment on civil, human, and legal rights of the American citizenry at large.  >>>>>

India and Israel don’t add up to a Christian response against Islam

Hindutva groups are meeting Zionist organizations to learn about strategies to advance religious nationalist agendas and suppress any criticism of their political movements.

These U.S.-based groups have helped strengthen India-Israel ties and propagate the notion that Hindu and Jewish Americans are victims of a common enemy defined as “Islamic terrorism,” for example, through organizations such as Democracies against Terror which is an alliance of Zionist and Hindutva activists based in Fremont, Calif.

In response to the linked article:  India Loses Her Palestinian Heart and Gains a Calculating Israeli Mind

The problem with this type of thinking is that eventually, the practicing Jewish and Hindus will be met with a logical argument about their respective fundamental beliefs.  The Jews believe in monotheism, as do Muslims and Christians.  Hindus believe in polytheism, a clear antithesis to all three of the Abrahamic faiths.

Since there is a posturing by the Zionists and Evangelical Christians to set up the stage for the ‘end of time,’ then this political move will speak volumes as to which side each group is expected to be on.  If the belief is that during Armageddon, there will be a war against the non-believers; the polytheistic Hindus, would clearly be amongst those on the side against the God of the Christians, Jews and Muslims-at least in theory. Correct?

This alliance may be what causes the true-believing Christians and Jews will gain faith and shift their loyalties in greater mass away from the pro-Zionist, pro-nationalist cause.  Then those racing up to this expected phase in God’s plan will start to realize the earthly plan may not be in accordance to what each respective religious group believes its respective God wants.  And if these groups are desiring to move collectively with their religious-nationalist agendas; then why is it bad for Muslims to discuss the same in political discourse without being labeled as Islamo-Fascist?  Why would the U.S. support this non-secular position unless it is somehow blackmailed into doing so?

This agenda does not bode well for the world in general.  Israel has a present stockpile of nuclear weapons without complying to the same standards countries that don’t have nuclear weapons do comply with.  But now the U.S. and Israel are supporting India’s right to seek out such weapons.  That fact alone should bring alarm to all countries around the world – especially Pakistan, Iran and countries with significant Muslim populations – that there is a far greater sense of geopolitical hypocrisy that may just blow up in the very faces of those creating this mess.

Unfortunately, most countries in the game tend to believe that their agenda is well in-line with God’s plan, even if it is contrary to what God Himself has directed them, according to their own respective scriptures.

Jordan’s symbol of peace -Jesus Mosque

“This is a message to the world that Muslims consider Jesus Christ their own messenger because he informed humanity beforehand that the Prophet Mohamed was coming,” the mosque’s prayer leader, Belal Hanini, told DPA.“It also proves that Islam is a religion of tolerance and has nothing to do with extremism,” he said. >>>>>

The picture in the article is presumed to be a cut and paste from stock photo and does no justice to the article itself.

Hindu-Christian clashes kill 1 in eastern India

Relations are usually peaceful between Christians, who account for 2.5 percent of India’s 1.1 billion people, and Hindus, who make up 80 percent.

However, Orissa has a history of Hindu-Christian clashes, usually sparked by Hindu suspicions over missionary work. Hard-line Hindu groups claim that Christian missionary groups are forcing or bribing people to convert. Christian churches deny anyone has been pressured or paid to change their religious beliefs.  >>>>>

BOOK EXPOSES UNSEEN ENEMY IN THE CHURCH: Author Andrew Michael Teneriello releases ‘Blinded by the Devil.’

The book exposes readers to an enemy they cannot see, one who he says is controlling many of the Christian churches today with their own form of doctrine that corrupts the words of the New Testament.

In the book he lists the churches he feels are operating in darkness as well as the criteria for these churches. He tells the reader how they can be set free, through the power of God. >>>>>

Hopefully it would include the War on Terror, which has caused many Christians and Jews to knowingly and unknowingly kill many others from the People of the Book, based on the corrupted understanding of Old and New Testament interpretations. This is, without a doubt, amongst the biggest crimes against humanity of those whose purposes are ‘Judeo-Christian’, shaded by secularist identity, people(s).

Mayor defends his call for temple impact study

“Mayor Green is well known for his extreme right wing, hardline Christian Jihadist views which were exposed when he offended Australia’s Muslim population by likening these Australians to a bird flu epidemic.”  >>>>>

Islamophobia, xenophobia or racism in general should not be tolerated as he holds his post in a so-called ‘democracy,’ or a nationalistic-religious-monarchy (which happens to be what most Christians of this mentality loathe about some Middle Eastern countries, supposedly).  It’s very interesting how he holds the view that Christianity must be protected; therefore, other religions “should not trespass,” (pun intended).  However, when it comes to missionary work, no passport or law should stop them from encroaching onto other lands, with or without guns; and contribute to the work of the Lord – even with the spilled blood of the innocents.  And we have a problem with Islam?

Christian girl, kidnapped and converted by Muslims, returned to family

The Multan bench of the Lahore high court ruled yesterday that Saba Younas, the Christian girl kidnapped together with her sister Aneela on June 26 by a group of Muslims, and forced to become a Muslim and to get married, is an adult, because she is over the age of 16. So her conversion and marriage to one of the kidnappers have been found to be “voluntary”, and the request that she be returned to her Christian family has been denied. >>>>>

The moment she states that she was ‘kidnapped,’ ‘forced’ to be married or ‘forced’ to become a Muslim; it just became an un-Islamic.  Each of the three matters are forbidden in Islam. It seems that a party or both may have illfully used the name of religion in its wrong sense to justify their claim(s).

Iraq gets its first Christian militia – with a little help from the peshmerga

“The terrorists want to kill us because we are Christian. If we don’t defend ourselves, who will?” asked militia group leader Abu Nataq.

Associated with the “Crusader” invaders and regarded as well-off, Iraqi Christians are often victims of sectarian violence, killings and kidnappings at the hands of both Sunni and Shiite Islamists, as well as criminal gangs. >>>>>

This only helps to further divide the secular nation of Iraq. It’s amazing what the West would do in those nations in order to divide and conquer. No matter how positive of a spin this article has, a Christian militia would be unheard of in a democracy that the U.S. believes in. An interesting point here is that this village seemed to have been thriving and living in peace prior to either of the invasions of Iraq – which is contrary to what the Western powers would like us to believe.

“The terrorists want to kill us because we are Christian. If we don’t defend ourselves, who will?” This quote sounds like it came out of the neo-conservative chapter of an RNC playbook.

Indo-Israeli Lobbies Obstruct Cultural Cooperation

However, all these measures are proving fruitless due to a deliberate anti-Muslim campaign, launched by the Indo-Israeli lobbies, creating obstacles in global cultural cooperation. America and its allies continue to kill many innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Palestine through heavy aerial bombardment and ground shelling in the name of war on terror. The occupying forces have been using every possible technique of state terrorism in these territories which have become the breeding grounds of a prolonged interaction between freedom fighters and state terrorists, thwarting global cultural unity. >>>>>

Indian police told to shoot religious rioters

BHUBANESWAR, India (AFP) — Indian police were ordered to shoot on sight to end Hindu-Christian clashes on Wednesday as Pope Benedict XVI “firmly condemned” violence that has killed at least nine people.  >>>>>

Sounds like the Muslims are not the only ones the Hindus are having a problem with. Good call on the Pope trying to further diffuse without necessarily placing any blame.

So What If He Were Muslim?

Once Barack Obama emerged as the Democratic candidate, it was clear the presidential contest would become a referendum on race. It was not, however, supposed to be a journey into the terrain of religious fears and prejudice. But because many Americans think Obama is not what he actually is, it has become that. Beneath the candidate’s Christian exterior, they suspect, beats the heart of a Muslim.  >>>>>

The problem is not with the Muslims, but the hatred of those who use religion, or lack thereof, as an excuse for their hatred.  While there should be a difference placed on the value of one’s convictions – there shouldn’t be an issue, as long as one doesn’t hijack the Constitution based on his religious beliefs.  No matter what is said about Muslims, the are the only major group from the People of the Book who has not hijacked U.S. Constitution to date.  

Philippines says to review, not cancel, peace deal

The Philippines said on Thursday it would review a peace deal with the country’s biggest Muslim rebel group after fighting broke out this week, softening an earlier stance that the agreement would be cancelled.  But a senior leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rejected calls for re-negotiating the deal, throwing efforts to end the decades-long conflict in the mineral and resource-rich Mindanao region into further disarray.  >>>>>

Interesting how the MILF  doesn’t want to re-negotiate and THAT’s what is throwing efforts…into further disarray.  Many statutes regarding fraud and/or breaching contracts in the U.S. start out by explaining that a law is needed to protect against these actions in order to prevent people from acting in an uncivil manner.

Atlanta’s biggest mosque opens

Al-Farooq Masjid, Atlanta’s largest mosque, opened its doors on 14th Street N.W. on Sunday, proudly showing off to invited guests the $10 million edifice with it 65-foot-high dome over the main prayer hall.  “It’s with a sense of humbleness and gratitude toward God Almighty that he has allowed us to see the completion of this mosque,” said Dr. Khalid Siddiq, a Cobb County resident and long-time leader in Atlanta’s Muslim community. “The community has been trying to build this mosque for the last 10 years.”  >>>>>