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Teacher at Trojan Horse school who said Islam was the 'true religion' and Christians and Jews were ignorant is found guilty of misconductA former teacher at two Birmingham schools linked to the Trojan Horse scandal could face a lifetime ban from the classroom after he told pupils that Christians and Jews were 'ignorant' and Muslims have 'the true religion'. Wakass Haruf, 30, was found guilty of 'professional misconduct' for making the 'inappropriate' comments during a playground sermon to mark Islamic Friday prayers in June 2013. A panel said that while Mr Haruf's comments to pupils during the sermon were...

Marriage makes people happier than religious beliefs, earning six-figure salaries and having children, a study for the Office of National Statistics has found for the first time. The ONS has found that being married is 20 times more important to a person’s well-being than their earnings, and 13 times more important than owning a home. The figures also indicate that having children has almost no impact on a person’s day-to-day happiness, although it does make them feel life is more “worthwhile”. …

Elder M. Russell Ballard Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles The growing prominence of the Church and the increasing inquiries from others present us with great opportunities to build bridges, make friends, and pass on accurate information.Brothers and sisters, since the sesquicentennial anniversary in 1997, there has been a dramatic increase worldwide in inquiries about the Church. This growing interest is fueled by our rapid growth, by events like the Winter Olympics here in Salt Lake City, and by the prominence in their chosen professions of many of our individual members. I am sure that these questions come...

There's no helping you. This site is now just a diversion -- like a train wreck. This site is inherently for and about raving egomaniacs, and Jim's site policies -- which amount to excluding reality and actual dialogue in favor of political/militaristic pornography -- is conducive to cognitive dissonance, which at the times your worldview is threatened leads you into psychotic breaks (on the political cognitive plane, that is, and just maybe in other realms too). Not to mention that your baseline politics is based in mythology about American demographics, science, economics, ethics etc. You spoonfeed each other in the...

We both know that I don't have to tell you what America is faced with regarding Islamism and Muslim terrorism. You must be at least as knowledgeable as I am as to its aims and ultimate consequences. Because of your political office, perhaps you know even more than I, and therefore maybe you are even more afraid than I am. In that regard, other than fear for your own personal safety at the hands of a Muslim intent on killing you for speaking up, why is it that no elected American officeholder has mentioned the separation between the United States...

Public prayer vigils are popular for "people of faith" on the left and the right to make statements of support or protest for various things. Are such vigils appropriate? Perhaps for pagans. But apparently not for Christians, according to the Bible: And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synogogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your...

Foster Mother Arrested For Using Duct Tape On Kids Three Children Have Been Placed With Other Families POSTED: 11:58 a.m. EDT April 17, 2003 UPDATED: 2:04 p.m. EDT April 17, 2003 LEVITTOWN, Pa. -- A Levittown, Pa., woman, honored last year for her work as a foster mother by a local organization, is now under arrest for allegedly wrapping up her foster children with duct tape. Middletown Township police said Colleen Broe, 34, was charged Wednesday with felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and false imprisonment for restraining the children by using duct tape. Her husband, Neil Broe,...