Archive for the 'Islam' Category
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
TODAY - January 19, 2010
Bible codes found on military weapons
Rifle scope with Bible verse inscription (ABC News)
Bible codes found on military weapons
A contractor has been inscribing coded references to Bible verses on rifle scopes for years. The controversy
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My story pales in comparison…
The Vatican has only one chance.
If the Pope’s troops take it the distance, […]
Posted in Military, Religion, Pentagon, Islam, Weapons, Holier Than Thouists-Conservative Evangelical Arm, Holier Than Thouists--Muslim Arm, Bible |
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Archbishop faces calls to go over sharia remark
Sat Feb 9, 2008 1:57pm GMT
By Adrian Croft
LONDON (Reuters) - Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the world’s 77 million Anglicans, faced calls to resign on Saturday for suggesting that the introduction in Britain of some aspects of Islamic law was unavoidable.
The Archbishop of Canterbury tried to quell the […]
Posted in Law, Religion, Great Britain, Islam |
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Untraceable e-mails spread Obama rumor
By: Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin
Oct 13, 2007 08:30 AM EST
When Fox News aired a report in January claiming that Sen. Barack Obama had been educated at a radical Muslim madrassa, his campaign beat the story back — hard — with the candidate himself going on television to call it “ludicrous” […]
Posted in Hillary Clinton, Islam, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama, Holier Than Thouists-Conservative Evangelical Arm, Ann Coulter, Judaism |
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Arab princesses kicked off British Airways plane to jeers and whistles after refusing to sit next to male strangers
By RAY MASSEY
Last updated at 11:45am on 28th July 2007
The delayed plane sat on a baking Italian runway for almost three hours
Three Arab princesses were thrown off a packed British Airways flight after refusing to sit next […]
Posted in Great Britain, Islam, Italy, Airlines, Qatar |
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
As a Roman Catholic of some ilk, I know from Holy Days. Nevertheless, I am beginning to feel that Islam may celebrate too many special religious days and–by observing newspaper reports over the past twenty years–all of the Holy Days seem to carry “most sacred” as a qualifier. When one considers the carnage which occurs, […]
Posted in Iraq, Islam, Violence |
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
I really can’t blame him for his angry. Couldn’t Hezbollah have donated one of their out-of-date uniforms to this auxiliary?
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Clashes in Beirut Lebanese army soldiers arrest a Hezbollah
supporter brandishing a knife in Beirut. (Getty Images)
Please find this in the Photo Gallery of The Washington Post.
Posted in Lebanon, Islam, Hezbollah |
Friday, January 19th, 2007
A friend in Chicago thinks the charge will be misdemeanor-terrorism, but I heard al-Sadr’s alibi is solid because he was out of the country doing Mission brand fig promos.
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(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
Main aide of Muqtada al-Sadr arrested
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested one […]
Posted in Iraq, al-Maliki, Islam, War, Muqtada al-Sadr |
Monday, January 15th, 2007
This would have caused consternation to any number of U.S. adherents to the Nation of Islam and would have certainly precluded Riyadh as a venue for the Professional Bowlers Association matches.
“Will Saudis Ban the Letter ‘X’?
(My old electric Smith-Corona did this with much less fanfare.)
By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
January 15, 2007
The letter “X” soon may be […]
Posted in Movies, Books, Oddity, Islam, African-Americans, Bowling |
Thursday, January 4th, 2007
I had failed to realize that DC cab drivers’ passing male African-American fares was a tenet of yet another religion.
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Booze, dogs too much for some Muslim cabbies
“Drivers refuse service to passengers, Minn. airport officials put up a fight
Updated: 3:17 p.m. ET Jan 4, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS - Some Muslim cab drivers are refusing service to a growing […]
Posted in Religion, Transportation, Islam, Minnesota, Pets |
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
All of ‘em went to Tennessee, Abdul.
‘In Letter, GOP Rep Fears Influx of Muslims
By Paul Kiel - December 19, 2006, 4:29 PM
In a letter sent out to select supporters earlier this month reacting to the controversy (among certain extreme conservatives, at least) over Muslim representative-elect Keith Ellison’s (D-MN) decision to be sworn in on the […]
Posted in Republicans, Religion, Cong-HOUSE, Neo-Romanovs, Islam, Virginia, Rep. Virgil Goode |
