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Monday November 8, 2010


NewsBytes – Religion – Islam

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His wrath upon their heads By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post

The blood of Baghdad screams out to heaven and earth. …what happened last Sunday was so utterly horrific that it merits special, and thunderous, condemnation, backed up with lethal force if necessary. …an al-Qaedaaffiliated terrorist group stormed into the cathedral of the Syriac Catholic Church, Our Lady of Deliverance, during the evening Mass. They immediately killed the priest offering the Holy Mass–three priests in all were murdered. They began shooting members of the congregation, and held hostage others who took refuge in a locked room. When the security forces stormed the church, the jihadists killed as many as they could, and some of them set off the suicide bombs on their belts.

The blood on the altar makes it clear. No amount of goodwill, no amount of dialogue, no amount of circumlocutory evasions, no amount of supine prostrations–nothing will dissuade the jihadists. The jihadists respect neither man nor God, not even their own. https://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/wrath+upon+their+heads/3774404/story.html

Obama piles more military pressure on Iran – conspicuously

In the last few days, three aircraft carriers, four nuclear submarines and marine assault units have piled up opposite Iranian shores. the French carrier Charles de Gaulle with strike force has joined the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Harry Truman and their strike forces in the Persian Gulf.

https://www.debka.com/article/9132/

The Closing of the Muslim Mind – Michael Cook

A deformed theology has produced a dysfunctional culture.

https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_closing_of_the_muslim_mind/

Vatican synod sees growing concern over Islam

Bishops and other experts to address the synod have sought to draw a sharp distinction between “moderate” Muslims and “extremists” who support a radical and political version of Islam. But for Christians on the ground in Muslim-run countries, such distinctions are often hard to maintain. Marco Impagliazzo, a history professor at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy and president of the Community of Sant’Egidio said Christians are essential to preserving authentic Arabic culture.

Without Christians there will be little support for moderate elements within Islam. “Without then,” he explained, “Islam would be more alone and fundamentalist. Christians present a form of resistance to an Islamisizing ‘totalitarianism’. Their permanence in the Middle East is in the general interest of the societies and of Islam.”

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-synod-sees-growing-concern-over-islam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29

Islam’s tentacles enveloping U.S.

‘Every time we allow a mosque to go up, it’s like planting IED’

https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=204613

National Security Experts: Shariah Law Is ‘Preeminent Totalitarian Threat of Our Time’

A team of national security experts assembled by the conservative Center for Security Policy, a Washington, D.C., think tank, issued a report last week warning of that Shariah law–which they described as a “legal-political-military doctrine”–is the “preeminent totalitarian threat of our time.”

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75520

Algeria: Christians on trial for breaking Ramadan fast

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/09/algeria-christians-on-trial-for-breaking-ramadan-fast.html

Australia: Judge bars 14-year-old Muslim girl from being taken out of country to thwart parents’ plans to marry her to stranger

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/09/australia-judge-bars-14-year-old-muslim-girl-from-being-taken-out-of-country-to-thwart-parents-plans.html

‘Today’ Air-Brushes Muslim Identity Of Possible Anti-Pope Plotters

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/09/18/today-air-brushes-muslim-identity-possible-anti-pope-plotters

Mollifying Muslims,and Muslifying Mollies – Steyn on America

Too many people in the free world have internalized Islam’s view of them. A couple of years ago, I visited Guantanamo and subsequently wrote that, if I had to summon up Gitmo in a single image, it would be the brand-new copy of the Koran in each cell: To reassure incoming prisoners that the filthy infidels haven’t touched the sacred book with their unclean hands.

One reason why I am skeptical that the Internet will prove the great beacon of liberty on our darkening planet is because most of the anonymous entities that make it happen are run by people marinated in jelly-spined political correctness. SteynOnline, for example, is already banned by the Internet gatekeepers from the computers at both Marriott Hotels and Toronto Airport.

Given his highly selective enthusiasms, you can hardly blame a third of Americans for figuring their president must be Muslim. It is a basic rule of life that if you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. Every time Muslims either commit violence or threaten it, we reward them by capitulating.

https://www.steynonline.com/content/view/3505/26/

Catholic Church Backs Muslim Struggle to Build Milan’s First Mosque

While New York frets over the construction of an Islamic cultural center and mosque near ground zero, Milan is pushing back against construction of its first mosque. Local Muslims have found an unlikely ally in the Catholic Church.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2010/0921/Catholic-Church-backs-Muslim-struggle-to-build-Milan-s-first-mosque

Now chanting “USA” at a football game is offensive to Muslims

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/09/now-chanting-usa-at-a-football-game-is-offensive-to-muslims.html

Is Tolerant Islam a myth? by Michael Coren – Mercator.net

Dhimmitude is the natural consequence of the jihad mindset. As a Muslim you conquer, dominate and convert because Islam is to triumph. That you would then respect those who do not become Muslim is self-contradictory. Those who reject Islam are considered immoral and the immoral are never to be trusted. This is why it is so difficult to form a working relationship between the West and genuine Islam, even when it appears to be moderate. We have to question motives, we have to understand intentions.”

renowned author Bat Ye’argues that Islamic fundamentalism has found its way to Europe because most Muslim moderates are frightened of speaking out and European intellectuals and activists have been seduced by its anti-American dynamic.

“There are courageous Muslims who do resist but it is difficult and dangerous. There is an underground of sharia law across Europe, with terrible treatment of women. This is combined with the threat of violence aimed at anybody who speaks out against what is going on.

https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_myth_of_tolerant_islam/

Lorne Gunter: It’s not irrational or bigoted to expect Canadian Muslims to renounce terror

https://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/30/lorne-gunter-its-not-irrational-or-bigoted-to-expect-canadian-muslims-to-renounce-terror/

Germany’s Multicultural Failure

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said last Saturday the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other . . . has failed, utterly failed.” Today, her party offered a position paper stating Germany should offer “no tolerance” to those who refuse to integrate into German society, including consequences for residency. “

https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/10/germanyrsquos-multicultural-failure

Kuwait: Islamic fundamentalists preventing the construction of a church in Kuwait

Around 460,000 Christians have to share four official churches—two Catholic, an Evangelical and an Anglican—plus the Coptic church under construction

https://www.speroforum.com/a/42824/Kuwait—Islamic-fundamentalists-preventing-the-construction-of-a-church-in-Kuwait?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+speroforum%2Fnroq+%28Spero+News%29

Holy War Over Ground Zero by Joseph Bottum – First Things

The attempt to build a large, new mosque and Islamic center anywhere near the site of the World Trade Center is so offensive, so bizarre, and so deliberate that it should be stopped.

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/09/holy-war-over-ground-zero

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