A Second Greens-Controlled Sydney Council Eyes BDS http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ It seems that deep inside the bowels of the Green-controlled Leichhardt Council in inner Sydney lurks the Boycott Derangement Syndrome bug that infected nearby Marrickville Council until its recent flushing by sane elements. The Australian newspaper reported last week that an analysis by Leichhardt Labour councillor Darcy Byrne has found […]
No Sex in Space, Yet, Official Says http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110424/sc_space While humans have been a spacefaring species for more than 50 years, it’s quite possible we have yet to perform that most basic of acts — sex — beyond terra firma. Yet. Rumors have long swirled that astronauts may have hooked up in orbit, perhaps even as […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110424/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians JERUSALEM – A Palestinian policeman opened fire Sunday at a group of Israelis who had come to pray at a Jewish holy site in the West Bank without authorization, killing one and wounding four, the Israeli military said. The shooting threatened to inflame tensions in the West Bank, where Jewish settlers and Palestinians live […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/97/saudi_arabia_and_the_arab_spring_the_forgotten_uprising Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring: The Forgotten Uprising The West has a damaging tendency to ignore events inside Saudi Arabia. But we can ill afford to overlook current upheavals in the Kingdom. With the unprecedented events taking place in the Middle East, it is difficult to keep one’s attention focused on the various […]
We All Live in a Settlement http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2008/06/we-all-live-in-settlement.html To a Western Liberal it has all sorts of things to do with colonial powers and the third world. Which is somehow why a handful of Israeli towns are to be considered settlements while their own suburban homes built on former Indian lands aren’t. To Muslims though the […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Freedom of speech is governed by legal restrictions and public mores. And what most of us have discovered is that a multicultural society means more ‘mores’ and more people to offend. That has taken us from one general set of social speech codes that governed such things as obscenity and public abuse, to a […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/23/sex-trafficking-us-called-epidemic/print/ CHUCK NEUBAEUR Jane’s” eyes are pictured here in a hallway at Children of the Night in Van Nuys, Calif., April 20, 2011. “Jane” was rescued off the streets of Portland, Ore., two years ago when she was just 15. “This place has helped me so much. I was so different when I first got […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/04/nazareth-banner-hung-near-basilica-of-the-annunciation-says-whoever-seeks-a-religion-other-than-isla.html Nazareth: Banner hung near Basilica of the Annunciation says “whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers” That’s Qur’an 3:85. And this is not at all the first time similar banners have been hung to intimidate Christians […]
Time to change tune on official multiculturalism By Licia Corbella, Calgary Herald Mahfooz Kanwar, a member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, says he has some better ideas. “I’d tell them, this is Canada, and in Canada, we teach music and physical education in our schools. If you don’t like it, leave. If you want to […]
http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/02/African-American-And-Orthodox-Jewish.aspx African American and Orthodox Jewish Black converts to Orthodox Judaism discuss what drew them to their new faith and the challenges they face from both communities. BY: Debra Goldberg In Brooklyn, they stand out not only for their skin color but also for their religious piety. In the neighborhood of Crown Heights, where the […]
