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• If I were Taliban’s Advisor

  
  Truth Spring — Authority: 395
  By Anwaar HussainListen up Government of Pakistan. If I were a Taliban advisor, this is what I would advise them;First and foremost I would tell Hakimullah Mehsud, the Shadow of God, to raise the golden whip of religion a little higher and continue wielding it at that height flogging all and sundry every once in [...]
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• Pakistan: What to do about religious fundamentalism?

  
  Indus Asia Online Journal (iaoj) — Authority: 484
  By Farooq Tariq, Lahore Courtesy: Links Internatioal “ Let’s deal with the ISI and the Pakistan military and let’s go recruit these mujahideen. Here is a very strong argument which is… it wasn’t a bad investment to end the Soviet Union but let’s be careful with what we sow… because we will ...
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• The Talibanization of Pashtun Culture: destruction of cultural identity

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  The Taliban have apparently been fighting for the institutionalization of the Muslim Sharia law, imposing extremist views on the population. These militants and religious fundamentalists forced ‘their ultraconservative brand of Islam in and around the Swat.’ In the process, they have also been ‘displacing ...
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• Dangerous Liaisons

  
  Philosophy On The Mesa — Authority: 124
  The Guam legislature is considering a bill to establish domestic partnerships for gays. The Catholic Archbishop with jurisdiction over Guam naturally disapproves, and in a pastoral letter , argues that homosexual relations are “objectively disordered”, and warning the legislature that the bill’s passage would ...
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• BJP stoking religious fundamentalism, says Congress

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Lucknow, Oct 27(IANS) Charging the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with stoking religious fundamentalism, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh Tuesday said using religion as a medium to spread hatred was not allowed by any faith.Singh, who was in the city to attend a function of the Youth Congress-affiliated Anti ...
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• Applied Rational Choice Theory: How To Choose a Religion

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  This is hilarious, actually. And yes, it is satirical… or is it?
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• Imagine How This Would Be Reported If They Were Muslims

  
  harmonicminor.com — Authority: 135
  Jerusalem’s “chastity squad” is branching out and has recently begun operating in the capital’s Beit Israel neighborhood. According to local residents, several of the neighborhood’s inhabitants have been violently attacked by members of the “modesty guard”. (full article…)
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• Utah Legislators Discuss Non-Existent Sex Education Bill – and get fed misinformation and pass a ludicrous motion

  
  One Utah — Authority: 535
  The Keystone Kops were a silent film series about a group of bumbling, incompetent police officers who were more likely to blow up the police station than arrest criminals. They were apparently the inspiration for yesterday’s hearing on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake. Lawmakers spent two hours debating sex education ...
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• Religious Hysteria… Somehow, It Almost Always Turns Against Women

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Video here . BBC NEWS | South Asia | Village ‘witches’ beaten in India via kwout Now might be a good time to revisit Kai Erikson’s Wayward Puritans for an interesting study of how accusations of possession and witchcraft are almost always directed at women and involve both symbolic and materials ...
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• How Womens Bras Undermine the Muslim Nation

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 165
  According to this article by Alaa al Aswani, author of The Yacoubian Building , Chicago , and Friendly Fire , a Somali woman was arrested and publicly flogged for wearing a bra. Her charge was that wearing Read More......( read more )
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• What the US Media Chooses to Ignore

  
  harmonicminor.com — Authority: 135
  The use of Baluchi elements, for example, is problematic, Robert Baer, a former C.I.A. clandestine officer who worked for nearly two decades in South Asia and the Middle East, told me. “The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda,” Baer told me. ...
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• Waziristan–The Battle Begins

  
  Truth Spring — Authority: 395
  By Anwaar HussainFinally, the battle on the one-time protégés begins–the battle that was first promised in June and troops had been gathering on Waziristan’s horizons for the past four months. The critical delay not only enabled the militants to overcome the reverses they had suffered in the Malakand region ...
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• Rehearsing Mormonism’s Persecution Narrative (Further Thoughts on Religious freedom)

  
  One Utah — Authority: 535
  On cue and without any sense of irony, Joe Cannon in this morning’d D-News published the editorial Mormons are entitled to defend their freedom of religion . The editorial begins with a brief paragraph describing Dallin Oaks’ speech on religious freedom then offered a swipe at critics of the speech: Some ...
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• Is Religious Freedom Endangered?

  
  One Utah — Authority: 535
  I touched on this the other day in my post about Dallin Oaks’ comments but I want to expand on it. Oaks argued that respect for religion has declined in our society, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of people who are nonbelievers and an increase in criticism of religious belief all of which ...
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• When Church Becomes State

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 733
  When you’re in the PeaceCorps, you expect culture shock. But it’s generally not supposed to come fromyour countrymen. Among many foreign experiences I had in Honduras a decade ago,interpreting for a brigade of fundamentalist Christian doctors was perhaps themost disturbing. They set up their operationsin our ...
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• Family Values!!

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Four weddings? The Moonies prefer 20,000 – Asia, World – The Independent via kwout
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• Dallin Oaks: Crybaby Buffoon of the Week

  
  One Utah — Authority: 535
  You know, it’s not often I get the chance to say one of the leaders of a religious denomination is so full of shit his eyes are green but Mormon Elder Dallin Oaks has given me the chance. (For those not in the know, Elder is his actual title, not simply a term of respect.) From today’s Trib : LDS apostle ...
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• This is Zionism

  
  harmonicminor.com — Authority: 135
  Throughout Israel, young Jewish men are forming vigilante groups to end interracial relationships between Arab men and Jewish women, which are occurring with increased frequency as Jewish settlements dig deeper into Arab territory. The vigilantes say Arabs lure Jewish women with money and “bad boy” personalities. ...
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• Hello Masters! Are You Home?

  
  Truth Spring — Authority: 395
  By Anwaar HussainWith the audacious Taliban attack at the GHQ main gate this Saturday, the very portal wherefrom these creatures came slithering out more than two decades back, the affair between the creator and the creations has come full circle. Knock knock, said the hypnotized oddballs, rudely shaking their masters ...
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• Book Review: Republican Gomorrah

  
  One Utah — Authority: 535
  Max Blumenthal’s Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement that Shattered the Party is a hit and miss book – Blumenthal shrewdly documents the carnival of personal dysfunction that defines so many leading figures on the American Right, offering a broad analysis drawn from Erich Fromm’s Escape From Freedom . ...
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