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  • World Council of Churches elects Norwegian Liberal

    Created: Sunday, 30 August 2009 01:04 Author: John Draper
    On August 27 the World Council of Churches (WCC) elected as its new head Olav Fykse Tveit,  a Norwegian Lutheran, who wants it to do more to support Christians in Muslim countries.His predecessor did not make it easy since he denounced Israel's occupatio...

  • Muslims in Mali don't want women's rights

    Created: Saturday, 29 August 2009 01:05 Author: John Draper
    Mali is a Muslim country in West Africa, south of Algeria with much of it in the Sahara desert.  More than 90% of Mali's population is Muslim. It has a Parliament with a President and is one of the few real democracies in the Muslim world.  (e.g. Iran i...

  • Iranian Guards rape 15 year old boy in prison.

    Created: Monday, 24 August 2009 01:09 Author: John Draper
    The Times Newspaper reported August 22 that because a 15 year old boy wore the green wristband of Iran's opposition (photo below) he was locked up for 20 days, beaten, raped repeatedly and subjected to sexual humiliations and abuse - all in the name of Go...

  • The United Church of Canada is blind to true suffering

    Created: Thursday, 20 August 2009 16:29 Author: John Draper
    Recently, the United Church of Canada held a convention where delegations submitted resolutions for discussion. One resolution was that the Church sanction Israel for its enduring conflict with Palestinians. Specifically, the measure suggested at the Gen...

  • Britain uses comedy to reach potential terrorists

    Created: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 01:24 Author: John Draper
    A comedy called Living with Infidels will start airing on the Internet on August 20. It depicts a group of suicide bombers living in Bradford and producers of the series, which is made in London, say they have the backing of the Muslim Council of Britain....

  • The U.S. is becoming a Religious State

    Created: Tuesday, 18 August 2009 01:00 Author: John Draper
    In 2004, Police in Euless, a suburb of Fort Worth Texas, charged Jose Merced with illegally slaughtering animals (goats) within city limits.  Merced belongs to an obscure religion called Santeria that believes in doing this - they build shrines to house ...

  • Canadian Reporter Maziar Bahari on trial in Iran

    Created: Saturday, 15 August 2009 01:05 Author: John Draper
    Canadian Newspapers reported on July 9 that Iran's envoy to Canada had been called on the carpet yet again, this time for the continued detention of a Canadian-Iranian journalist detained in Tehran for the past two weeks. At the time Canadian diplomats h...

  • Muslim couple abuse BC hospitality

    Created: Saturday, 08 August 2009 01:30 Author: John Draper
    It seems that at least one Muslim couple have a persecution complex, or perhaps they think that the rules of life, commerce and hospitality in Canada are here to be abused and taken advantage of.  If I went to Pakistan or any number of Muslim countries a...
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