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During a speech Monday, President Barack Obama once again omitted the Declaration of Independence‘s mention of man’s “Creator” as the source of his “unalienable rights.” While delivering remarks at a dinner fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) in Rockville, Md., President Obama spoke about what he called the “essence” of the upcoming midterm election: As wonderful as the land is here in the United States, as much as we have been blessed by the bounty of this magnificent continent that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, what makes this place special is not something physical. It has...

A Saudi man used a loudspeaker in a crowded shopping mall in the Gulf Kingdom to divorce his wife after he saw her accept advances by a young man, the Saudi Arabic language daily Shams reported on Monday. The husband was watching his wife from a distance inside the busy mall in the central town of Madina when he saw a young man approaching her and slipping a piece of paper in her hand, the daily said. “He saw his wife putting the paper inside her bag….when she left the mall and got into the car, he looked into the...

A 23-year-old Pakistani man plans to marry two women in 24 hours, gaining national attention for his novel solution to a dilemma over wedding the woman he loves or going ahead with the marriage his family arranged. Pakistani law allows polygamy based on the concept that Islam, the main religion in the country, allows up to four wives. But men who take multiple wives usually do so years apart and must also get approval from their first wife prior to a second marriage. Azhar Haidri initially refused to marry 28-year-old Humaira Qasim – the woman to whom he has been...

A mysterious fire destroyed a mosque and its contents in Saudi Arabia but its copies of the holy Quran emerged unscathed, local newspapers said Friday. Fire fighters were baffled at the cause of the blaze that erupted inside the mosque in the eastern province of Ihsaa just before dawn and equally unable to explain how the Quran copies were the only contents that were not touched by the fire. The fire that erupted around 3am flared for several hours and destroyed the mosque, its furniture, loudspeakers and other items, the papers said. “The civil defence men, the Imam (guardian) of...

This follows an outcry over a recent wedding of a retired civil servant with another 12-year oldA Saudi cleric has married a 12-year-old girl just a few days after a retired Saudi civil servant aged 55 years was reported to have wedded a girl of the same age and triggered a wave of criticism inside the Gulf Kingdom. The unidentified Maazoun (Muslim cleric) married the 12-year-old girl in the southwestern province of Najran close to the Yemeni border after obtaining her father’s approval, the Saudi online Anabaukum paper reported on Friday. The paper said the man married the girl although...

She thought of an innovative way to mend fences with husbandA Saudi woman who thought of an innovative way to mend fences with her husband decided to give him a present that he would not refuse — a new wife. The unidentified couple from a village in the eastern province of Ihsaa fell off after the woman embarrassed her husband in front of relatives, the Saudi Arabic language daily Sharq reported on Friday. “She wanted to mend fences with her husband so she decided to get him a new wife and pay all the wedding expenses,” the paper said. “Her...

A Saudi teen age girl whose father says she has been kidnapped by a genie has remained missing more than a week after she disappeared from her house in central Saudi Arabia, a local newspaper reported on Monday. Police and residents have expanded their hunt for the 16-year-old girl while several pilots using gliders have just joined the search in the central town of Alkharj and nearby mountains and valleys, Shams daily said. “The Saudi Sky Glider Team has joined the search operation to find the girl, who has been missing since last week,” the paper said. “The pilots have...

Just when the furor over the BYU-San Diego State replay mess seemed to be subsiding a little bit, a San Diego sports radio host, Chris Ello, threw fuel on the fire with his hate-filled diatribe directed at BYU. Props to Patrick Kinahan of KFAN Radio (1320 AM) in Salt Lake City for catching the remarks (made Thursday) and replaying for his audience this morning. Here's the link to Ello's diatribe, which are as disturbing as you will probably ever hear on the radio. It will be interesting to see if this guy keeps his job. Ello later apologized for his...

The fallout continues for the Brown family of TLC’s “Sister Wives.” After the cable television series debuted Sept. 26, Meri Brown, of Lehi, lost her job. “They felt that they needed to protect the company, I think,” Meri said in an episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that aired Thursday. “It actually makes me really sad because I loved my job. It breaks my heart, definitely. ... But I understand where they’re coming from.” “Sister Wives” chronicles the lives of Kody Brown; his wives Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn; and their 16 children. The final two half-hour episodes of the...

On one of the holiest nights of Ramadan, Marwa Atik chose a crowded Southern California mosque to debut her latest creation. It was just after midnight when the 20-year-old walked into the Islamic Center of Irvine, Calif., dressed in a long, flowing burgundy robe, her head wrapped in a charcoal chiffon hijab, trimmed decoratively with gold zippers. After the group prayers, sermon and Koran recitation, a woman approached Atik, gesturing to the scarf. "OK, I want one," she said excitedly. "How can I get it?" Atik has taken the scarf worn by Muslim women and turned it into a canvas...

Published on National Catholic Reporter (http://ncronline.org) Home > Blogs > Michael Sean Winters's blog > Election Time: The Catholic Vote Election Time: The Catholic Vote By Michael Sean Winters Created Oct 14, 2010 by Michael Sean Winters [1] on Oct. 14, 2010 Distinctly Catholic [2] Yesterday, Catholic University’s Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies [3]had a panel at the National Press Club, examining the Catholic vote and the upcoming midterm elections. The panel included CUA politics professor Matthew Green, who addressed the electoral landscape this year, Public Religion Research Institute’s CEO Robert Jones, who presented the results of...

Before I make some of you angry and before you protest and say, "You are intolerant," I want you to open the attached video file. Watch and read the subtitles of this television interview with an Islamic authority figure. He explains the "etiquette" a husband is to use when beating his wife. Without giving away anything, after watching it, ask yourself: Where have all the feminists gone? Is the feminist movement dead? Or, are those lashing tongues reserved only for use against loving Christians? And by the same token, are they terrified and silenced by Islamic power and money?

Afghan teenager whose mutilated face shocked the world unveils her new image. An Afghan teenager who was horribly mutilated by her husband under Taliban rule was all smiles as she unveiled her new prosthetic nose for the first time. Aisha, 19, shocked the world when she appeared on the cover of Time Magazine to lift the veil on the plight of many women in Afghanistan. Yesterday, she bravely faced the public wearing a prosthetic nose - one that gives her some idea of how she will look after having reconstructive surgery.

COLORADO SPRINGS, - Attorneys for a Colorado Springs middle school student say they will sue the principal for not allowing the pupil to wear his necklace cross outside his shirt. Lawyers for the American Center for Law & Justice sent a letter to the principal of Mann Middle School in Colorado Springs' District 11 saying not allowing the student to wear his rosary violates his constitutional rights, The Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs reported Monday. Spokeswoman Elaine Naleski said the district allows all religious symbols, including crosses, head scarves worn by Muslims, the Star of David, to be worn openly...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Facebook campaign launched in support of a Mormon church leader's sermon on same-sex relationships has drawn more than 4,500 responses. The "I support Boyd K. Packer" page was started Oct. 5, two days after the senior leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called homosexual attraction unnatural and said gays can and should change. By Monday afternoon, more than 4,500 people had joined the page as fans. Packer, 86, is the second-ranking leader in the church and next in line to be president of the 13.5 million-member faith. He was speaking...

<p>USAToday, today, in the tradition of Jacques-René Hébert gave a half-page of its not-so-valuable-anymore space to biology professor Jerry Coyne to describe the ways in which science is superior to faith.</p> <p>Coyne, besides teaching evolution and ecology at the University of Chicago, is an outspoken atheist who believes the religious inhibit the progress of man, a view shared by many men of history like Hébert and Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot.</p>

Senior pastor of Penang Grace Assembly of God, Lee Wei Ming experienced an evil and dispirited youth of being a pimp when he was young. 36-year-old Lee believed in God when he was 19. During an interview with Guang Ming Daily he said remorsefully that his life would have ended at 19 if not for his faith in God. Gambling and playing truant He recalled that after a road accident happened to his foster mother, causing her to be paralysed, he strayed from the right path while he was still in primary school. He always skipped his class to gamble...

Three healers from Terengganu Islamic Foundation (YIT) claim they captured 12 more djinns from the house of Siti Balqis Mohd Nor after she disappeared again on Saturday night. Her family thought her ordeal was over when two bomoh captured nine djinns on Friday and put them in sealed containers. Yesterday, however, the 22-year-old, who is the eldest of four children, claimed she was whisked away to a cave about 15km from her home in Kampung Gong Nangka here. She mysteriously disappeared at 7.30pm, minutes before state religious and information committee chairman Khazan Che Mat, YIT director Kamarul Al Amin Ismail...

~ Memorial Thread ~ FReeper redrock has gone Home ~~ October 6, 2010 ~ FReeper redrock is a Vietnam Veteran, an Army Medic. Rest in Peace, Mike. Abide With Me Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim; its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not, abide with me. Not a brief glance I beg, a...