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• Rising of the Moon: Sindhis Demand Freedom

  
  Sherryx's Weblog — Authority: 112
  Sultani-e-Jumhoor ka aata he zamana Jo Naqash-e-kuhan tum ku nazer aye mita do Sindhies come out in thousands to demand freedom! The oppressed nationalities of Pakistan are now demanding their rights. The ruling elite and its allied middle classes are devoting all their energies to destroy PPP, but their acts are ...
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• The farce of Indian Secularism!

  
  Janamejayan's Weblog — Authority: 127
  To be in mainstream education is communal!! Saturday, 07 November, 2009 , 03:20 PM  In order to speed up the process of implementation of the proposal to establish the much delayed  Central Board for Madarsa Education , the  Union Human Resource (HRD) Minister, Kapil Sibal , had a detailed discussion with ...
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• The Role of Religion in Building Coalitions Over Healthcare

  
  Hallowed Secularism — Authority: 118
  11/8/2009—The House of Representatives passed its version of healthcare reform yesterday. Hopefully the Senate will do the same in due course. I haven’t been following the legislative changes in detail, but the final version was sufficiently neutral on abortion that Democrats for Life felt able to support the ...
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• “Bring Back Jinnah’s Pakistan” II

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 525
  Ardeshir Cowasjee writing in Dawn:There has to be something seriously wrong with a country in which many of its citizens are still arguing as to whether it should or should not have been made, or debating as to whether it came into being by accident, intent, design or even intrigue. All possible accusations have been ...
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• First Group of "Traditionalist" Anglicans in Britain Votes to Enter Catholic Church

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  By Hilary WhiteROME, November 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move that is a surprise to no one, the UK branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), the largest of the groups that broke away from the mainstream Anglican Church over the ordination of woman and the latter’s support for active homosexuality, ...
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• Saving the Soul of Secularism

  
  Notes from underground — Authority: 120
  Recently someone sent me, quite unsolicited, a link to this article Saving the Soul of Secularism : Since February 2003, millions in the U.S. and around the world have participated in marches, rallies and varied protests, making a bold, ethical stand against U.S. military aggression. Citizens have engaged in ...
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• Freedom from Religion

  
  Harry's Place — Authority: 668
  This is a guest post by Gabriel In 1985, the Canadian Supreme court ruled that The Lord’s Day Act, the law that forbade stores from opening on Sunday, was enforcing a Christian belief and therefore violating the rights of all Canadians. The Lord’s Day act, thanks to the 1982 introduction of the Charter of ...
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• Whose authority?

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 152
  By Justin Thacker, Guardian  When is a right not a right? When it concerns the education of children. The respective (and entirely contradictory) decisions of the children’s secretary Ed Balls and the European Court of Human Rights this week would be laughable if they weren’t both so serious. In the ...
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• Europe’s humanist population is to selfish to have children

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 146
  The Daily Telegraph, reported today that, “Europoe is ‘dying’ because its secular population is too selfish to have children, according to the leader of Britain’s Jewish community. Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, claimed that the continent’s population was in decline because people cared more about shopping ...
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• Bibles in Pollock Halls? You’ve got to be joking…

  
  The Not-Quite-So-Friendly Humanist — Authority: 446
  Unfortunately not. The Christian Union at the University of Edinburgh have put forward a motion for the student association’s AGM to allow themselves or another organisation to put Bibles in each of the bedrooms in Pollock Halls. If you’re a student at Edinburgh University, I urge you to read this post, although ...
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• Chief Rabbi: ‘Europe will die by selfish secularism’

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 619
  Europe is a “dying” continent because its secular culture means people are too selfish to marry and have children, warned the Chief Rabbi yesterday. Lord Sacks blamed Europe’s declining population on a culture of “consumerism and instant gratification”. Quoting the famous slogan used by cosmetics company ...
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• A couple of quotes on humanism and secularism

  
  Martin In The Margins — Authority: 415
  First, Austin Dacey (via B&W ) on the futility of seeing secular humanism as a replacement for religion: Humanists are right to think that there is more to life than atheism, but wrong to think that they are the ones to provide it. It is not the job of religion’s critics to organize a ...
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• An invitation to young atheist writers

  
  The Freethinker — Authority: 520
  IT’S always good to learn of efforts to promote atheism on the internet, so we were naturally delighted by the news that a new blog, which aims to give a voice to young freethinkers, went “live” this week. Young Freethought is the brainchild of student Michael Campbell, Chief Editor, who says it was created: ...
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• Iraq Election Law Stalls

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 514
  The Huffington Post is reporting that the Iraqi Council of Representatives ended their session today without approving a new election law. According to the article, “the head of Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission, Faraj al-Haidari , earlier this week warned lawmakers that if they did not have an ...
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• Support campus secularism

  
  Terahertz — Authority: 423
  The Secular Student Alliance helped the UAAA from our first day. The first year we set up and club’s fair we had a huge box of stickers, wristbands and business cards from them. If they get just $7500 in donations by December 21st, they will have reached their $50,000 donation goal and Todd Stiefel will match ...
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• Italy can’t make 2 plus 2 equal 5

  
  Sanity Injection — Authority: 120
  I have often blogged in support of religious expression against what I perceive as excessive repression in the name of secularism. However, it does happen that sometimes the secularists are in the right. So it is with a recent case in the European Court in which the Italian government lost its attempt to defend the ...
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• Planning Is a New Variety of the Sin of Pride

  
  The Row Boat — Authority: 112
  Jean-Luc Marion wrote, at the opening of his book God without Being, “One must admit that theology, of all writing, certainly causes the greatest pleasure.” Today, at the remarkable online journal Triple Canopy , I’ve got an essay that’s about the closest thing I’ve so far come to writing theology. ...
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• [2108] Of a liberal separation between religion and state

  
  the __earthinc — Authority: 117
  An optimist may take the view that politics is unifying. A realist will understand that politics is divisive. It is possible that this realization is the reason why the Sultan of Selangor expressed his concern about the use of mosques for political purposes. For better or for worse, political activities in mosques are ...
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• New Dimension in India’s Anti-Christian Violence Feared

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Concern grows that Hindu terrorists could become more apt to target Christians.PUNE, India, November 5 (CDN) — After the recent arrests of numerous Hindu terrorists for exploding bombs, authorities increasingly view Hindu rightwing extremists as a threat not only to Muslim and Christian minorities but also to ...
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• Our Army Chief indicts Manmohan Govt.

  
  Janamejayan's Weblog — Authority: 127
  India allowed perpetrators of terror attacks to escape: Army chief Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, November 04, 2009 India had repeatedly allowed the perpetrators of terror attacks to get away, Indian Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor said on Wednesday while stressing that the country could not “afford a repeat of ...
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