Feb 23 2014
Pluralism was once the hallmark of the Arab world, so the exodus of Christians from the Middle East is painful to one Islamic scholar By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 February 2014 Tarif Khalidi is a big, bearded bear of a man, the kind you would always choose to play Father Christmas, or perhaps a …
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Feb 15 2014
The Old Testament’s made-up camels are a problem for Zionism By Andrew Brown, Thursday 13 February 2014 08.59 EST There are 21 references to camels in the first books of the Bible, and now we know they are all made up. Some of them are quite startlingly verisimilitudinous, such as the story of Abraham’s …
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Feb 09 2014
Why the Christian right’s persecution fantasies are so dangerous By Amanda Marcotte, Friday, Feb 7, 2014 07:52 AM CST Christian conservatives feel aggrieved and they want to be heard. The problem is that their specific grievance—that everyone else hurts their feelings by not admitting we’re inferior—kind of sounds, well, hard to sympathize with. They …
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Feb 09 2014
The number of women sentenced to death across the Middle East has very little to do with justice By Robert Fisk, Sunday 9 February 2014 The execution of women holds a special revulsion for Westerners, especially – let us be honest about this – when the women are decapitated, hanged or shot in the …
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Feb 08 2014
Did the Age of Genocide Begin in Sochi? By Joshua Keating, Feb. 5 2014 3:51 PM Of the myriad controversies surrounding the upcoming Olympics, one that’s gotten relatively little attention—at least outside Russia—is the ongoing campaign against the games by the global Circassian community. The choice of Sochi as a venue has highlighted a …
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Feb 04 2014
Understanding the faith of Cathy McMorris Rodgers By Matthew S. Rindge (Religion News Service), January 31 SPOKANE, Wash. — The Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union speech introduced many Americans to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. While those of us in Spokane are already familiar with our congresswoman, little is known about her alma …
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Feb 02 2014
Read Genesis carefully Dear editor: Re. Everette West, Daron McClain and whoever else believes in an eternal hell, there is no such place. The scriptures teach that hell was created for the devil and his angels and anything that was created has an end. And there is life after we leave here. And all …
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