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Too Late For Murdered Girl, Saudis Warn of the “Dangers of Christian Internet Websites “ Posted in Christianity, Culture, Current Events, Fundamentalism, God, Heresy, Islam, Legalism, Religion, Social and Politics with tags Christian persecution, internet evangelism, Jihad, ritual killing, Saudi

Please read Sumbul Ali-Karamali's op-ed, Of Documentaries and Dehumanization, at Juan Cole's website Informed Comment. In just a few paragraphs, you can get a quick picture of the roots of Islam, to hopefully destroy the false impressions created by the US government and their lapdogs in the US traditional media.

A Modality of the Created August 7, 2008 Peace, one and all… ‘For the goodness that is proper to God is not the moral opposite of evil, rather it is situated on a different plane altogether, that of al-Haqq, the absolutely Real, the only ‘opposite’ to which is unreality or nothingness.  Thus,

Lebanon is a nation blessed with natural beauty, but cursed by ongoing rivalry between opposing religious and sectarian factions which refuse to live in harmony with one another. Deadly gun battles between rival sectarian factions in the northern city of Tripoli have temporarily ended as the nation’s military entered the area in order to restore some semblance of peace and order.

Allah, Yamn al-Qayamah And Jannah: The Beginner’s Guide To Islam Islam is the second most popular religion in the world with approximately 1.5billion followers worldwide. In this modern world we live in, it is amazing how little people know about the faith. This article intends to outline the basics of Islam.

Marie Colvin at The London Times, reports on troop movements and successes in Iraq. Of course nobody in the domestic press has bothered to notice, since apparently success isn’t the picture the domestic mainstream media has decided it wants to paint in this election year.

Infuse Your Heart With Mercy July 3, 2008 by Abdur Rahman Peace, one and all… When writing to one of his provincial governors, Imam Ali (may God ennoble his countenance) said: ‘Infuse your heart with mercy for the subjects, love for them and kindness towards them.  Be not like a ravenous

I missed this piece from yesterday’s ‘On Faith’ section of The Washington Post, unfortunately. It reports that 85 Saudi Shi’a clerics publicly responded to a tediously retroactive comment by Sunni clerics last month. The King is trying to get Saudis to respect each other, no matter their sectarian beliefs.

During initial months after the over throw of Saddam Hussein, many Sunni Iraq leaders and groups were subject to revenge attacks by Shiites who had suffered under the regime of Saddam Hussein who was a Sunni. About a year ago, the Sunni Accordance Front withdrew from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Maliki charging they were not being accorded equal rights at governance.

The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future June 30, 2008 by Admin The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future. One of the least remarked upon aspects of the war in Iraq, at least in the American press, has been how conflict and instability in that