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, by LYONS Eric
Document: Discovery Magazine’s creationist article written for 3rd-6th graders on “evolution’s elaborate lie”.
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In the beginning was nothing. From nothing eventually came the Universe. Then, billions of years later, life evolved from lifeless matter. Over hundreds of (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Why Socialists are forced to discuss Islam today in almost all parts of the world? Islam has become a global question particularly for all those who want to transform the society from capitalism to Socialism. In almost all parts of the world, mainly in Asia, right wing ideas particularly the (…)
, by SULEHRIA Farooq
Summary of the contribution to the seventh Asia-Europe People’s Forum (Cluster 1, Workshop 8: The rise of religious fundamentalisms in Asia and Europe: impacts and responses), Beijing, 13-15 October 2008.
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Fundamentalism can be best defined as a counter-thesis (…)
, by CHERRINGTON Katie
Melbourne,
The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, has threatened that Catholic hospitals could be forced to close emergency and maternity wards if a proposed bill to decriminalise abortion is passed.
The bill was passed unamended in the state’s Lower House on September 12, and (…)
, by PHILPOTT Daniel
One raises critical questions about Abdullahi An-Naim’s work only in the sense that one probes the work of any intellectual giant. An-Naim’s gigantic lifelong task has been to develop an Islamic basis for human rights and constitutional government, including religious freedom and full equality (…)
, by ILTIS Tony
The visit to Sydney for World Youth Day (WYD), July 15-20, by Pope Benedict XVI and 300,000 Catholic pilgrims is set to become the scene for protests.
Ironically, the protests are being fuelled by the clumsy efforts of the NSW state government to suppress them — passing laws making it illegal (…)
, by EVANS Rachel
Pope Benedict XVI is coming to town. Sydney is once again to be subject to a special police regime as this saintly, celibate white man bravely preaches the joys of sexual abstinence in the very Circus Maximus of Sin City (Randwick race course).
Pope Benedict is also the CEO of a very big (…)
, by PODUR Justin, QURESHI Emran
Reviews of Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State, By Tarek Fatah, Wiley, 410 pages, $31.95.
Friends, When about a dozen reviews, ranging from the Toronto Star to the Ottawa Citizen praised my book, I felt a bit uneasy. Praise from the Huffington Post in LA to the Arab (…)
, by PARENTI Michaël
What is called “creationism” is the belief that in six days the Judeo-Christian god created the universe and all the earthly species including humans in finished form much as they exist today. For centuries this view prevailed throughout the western world. Even after evolutionary science had (…)
, by WLUML
Women Living Under Muslim Laws Demands the Resolution on Combating Defamation of Religions be revoked.
On 18 December 2007, the UN General Assembly adopted this resolution recommended by its Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural), and long campaigned for by the Organisation of (…)
, by Article 19, CIHRS
Subject: ISRRC - UN reccommendation protecting religion
ARTICLE 19 and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) condemn the resolution passed on March 28 by a majority of the member states of the UNHRC which amends the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, as (…)
, by SIDDIQUI Asim
A new edition of Who needs an Islamic State , by the Sudanese-born thinker Abdelwahab el-Affendi, has just been published.
The new edition provides a fascinating stock-take on the last two decades of political Islam. The goal of every Islamist group - known as “Islamic movements” in Muslim (…)
, by DAVID Randy
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s editorial Friday, titled “Checkmated bishops,” sharply rebukes the Catholic bishops for refusing to take up the activist role that the late Jaime Cardinal Sin had played in past political crises: i.e., “to make clear to the populace what (…)
, by NAMAZIE Maryam
Since I began calling myself an ex-Muslim, there have been quite a number of people questioning me on whether I was ever a ‘real Muslim’ to begin with. The BBC Asian Network host (can’t quite remember his name) even wanted to know whether I had prayed 5 times a day; attended a mosque; wore the (…)
, by FATAH Tarek, HASSAN Farzana
The tragic death of a Mississauga, Ont., teenage girl — allegedly at the hands of her own traditionally minded Muslim father — has sent shock waves across the world. Canadians are justified in raising concerns as to whether this is a sign of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in their own (…)
, by ALI Mahir
WHEN she arrived in Khartoum four months ago, Gillian Gibbons couldn’t possibly have had any inkling that she’d be headed back to England some four months later, following a stint a prison. In a statement issued last Saturday, the incarcerated 54-year-old Liverpudlian said she wasn’t keen to (…)
, by AMIN Samir
All the currents that claim adherence to political Islam proclaim the “specificity of Islam.” According to them, Islam knows nothing of the separation between politics and religion, something supposedly distinctive of Christianity. It would accomplish nothing to remind them, as I have done, that (…)
, by LEOPOLD Jason
The Defense Department (DOD) allegedly provided two fundamentalist Christian organizations exclusive access to several military bases around the country. This access became official sanction for these groups to proselytize amid the ranks, despite the fact that such activities were in violation (…)
, by BALDWIN Tom
A vegetarian Tyrannosaurus rex frolicked alongside human beings only a few thousand years ago in the Garden of Eden until Eve decided to munch on that apple, according to the Creation Museum, which opens in Kentucky today.
The $27 million (£14 million) exhibition is funded by evangelical (…)
, by FAVRET-SAADA Jeanne
In February 2006, as the “Muhammad’s cartoons” affair was raging, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference unsuccessfully called for the inclusion in the Human Rights Council Charter of the following principle: “freedom of speech is incompatible with defamation of religions and prophets.” It (…)
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