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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A woman badly beaten by her boyfriend faces a battery charge for slapping him after he was arrested. The boyfriend, meanwhile, has been freed of his charges. Cynthia Williams' face was fractured in several places and she suffered small cuts on her head and body when her boyfriend beat her repeatedly as she screamed for help Jan. 9, according to police reports. After an Orange County Sheriff's Office deputy placed boyfriend Peter Lamb Reddy in handcuffs, Williams couldn't resist the urge: She slapped Reddy in the face. "You shouldn't have done that in front of me,"...

Please read article at its source since this is an article from Washington Post via Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.I resent it when conservative Christians are referred to as right wing religious fanatics, and Muslims are referred to as "fundamentalists." Here's the paragraph that really got to me:Muslim stand-up comics are increasingly in demand by both Muslim and non-Muslim groups. Canadian filmmaker Zarqa Nawaz produces what she calls "terrodies," or comedies about terrorism, and has named her company FUNdamentalist Films. (I'm not laughing, are you?)

The Truth About Mel Gibson'sThe Passion Of The Christ  On February 25th, 2004 , a new movie directed by superstar Mel Gibson opened in thousands of theatres throughout the United States . It was Ash Wednesday, as it is called by many, when the new movie, The Passion Of The Christ, was presented to the general public. The general consensus of massive multi-million dollar ministries was, “This is a ‘must-see’ movie!” At this point, we must remember that we are living in the end-time, and that these last days are days of great deception and strong delusion.  Jesus himself said...

<p>HAMILTON, Canada- City hall has ordered an 80-year-old man to lay down his bow and stop playing the violin in his house.</p> <p>"Honest to God, this is the shock of my life," Metro (Mitch) Elash said. "Maybe I'm supposed to apologize to someone, but I don't know why."</p>

<p>Senior officials of the Phoenix Diocese acknowledged Wednesday that they unwittingly approved a man with a 20-year criminal record to serve as a priest in one of the most prominent Hispanic parishes in the Valley.</p> <p>The same man, who never was a priest, duped the Tucson Diocese just a month earlier.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- The exploitation of children as soldiers is an increasing concern for the U.S. military that will continue until a clear solution is developed for dealing with armed child combatants before, while and after they are encountered, according to participants in a recent think tank seminar in Quantico, Va.</p>

Pair attempts to take child from mom, Couple pose as DCF workers in second such kidnap attempt BY CHARLES RABIN crabin@herald.com For the second time in less than a month, two people identifying themselves as Department of Children & Families workers tried to talk a Miami mother into giving up her child. Both attempts failed, but they had similarities, according to police and witnesses: Two people showed up at the homes claiming to be with the DCF, demanding the woman give up her daughter. They also carried personal information about the child and family members on DCF letterhead. The first...

Posted on Sat, Jun. 15, 2002 Black coalition: Repeal gay-rights section BY KARL ROSS kross@herald.com Leaders of a coalition of black religious and rights organizations announced Friday they would mobilize their membership to support a Sept. 10 referendum to repeal protections in the Miami-Dade County code for gay men and lesbians. 'We are urging all citizens and Christians to vote `yes' for the repeal of this ordinance, especially the clergy,'' said the Rev. Joe Silas, president of People United to Lead the Struggle for Equality, or PULSE. The group's executive director, Nathaniel Wilcox, is co-chairman of Take Back Miami-Dade, the...

FBI investigates Army imposter 2002-06-05 By The Associated Press The FBI is investigating a man who called himself an Army captain and looked through a briefcase and laptop computer belonging to a victim of last month's deadly interstate bridge collapse. The man, wearing fatigues and a beret, showed up within two hours of the Interstate 40 collapse and told the mayor he was in charge. He identified himself as Capt. William Clark. Mayor Jewell Horne said Wednesday that the man told her Army Capt. Andrew Clements had died in the river and that his briefcase and laptop were in the...

I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession of individuals dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at Israel, hold up photographs of Israeli leaders on whose foreheads they have drawn the swasitka, incite people to hate the Jews. And who, in order to see Jews once again in the extermination camps, in the gas chambers, in the ovens of Dachau and Mauthausen and Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen et cetera, would sell their own mother to a harem. I find it shameful that the Catholic Church should permit a bishop, one with lodgings in the Vatican...

He spoke there at the invitation of the director of the Muslim Institute of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, on April 9, 2002 (Holocaust Remembrance Day, I guess he forgot to remember).

When Ashley, I can't remember her last name, just read an e-mail from a viewer that said she clearly gave away the locations of Israeli soldiers in Ramallah, she said: "blah, blah, blah, we didn't say on the air where they were (as if the PLO and Hamas can't tell by watching it on tv), and then she said AND ANYWAY, we don't broadcast in Ramallah."This woman is either an idiot, or she's evil, or both.

Posted on Wed, Mar. 27, 2002 Terror suspect to be deported(but front page link title is "INS may deport terror suspect") BY ALFONSO CHARDY AND ELENA CABRAL achardy@herald.com Federal immigration officials plan to deport a young Pakistani in custody at Krome detention center on terrorism charges after FBI agents investigated him for allegedly plotting to bomb South Florida power plants -- including a Florida Power & Light facility at Port Everglades. Patricia Mancha, a spokeswoman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami, said her agency has placed 19-year-old Imran Mandhai of Hollywood in ''removal proceedings,'' a legal phrase meaning...

Los Angeles casting director Brennan du Fresne, Ransom Everglades class of '90, played host to Janet Reno during Elton John's post-Oscars charity bash Sunday."Seemed like she got more attention than Halle Berry, who was there with her Oscar." says Brennan, 30. The former attorney general, now running for governor, rubbed elbows with a bunch of celebs--John Goodman, Jamie Foxx, Sissy Spacek and daughter Schuyler Fisk, Sting and producer-wife Trudy Styler, Lionel Richie, and Scrubs star Donald Faison. Brennan's mom, Miami attorney Elizabeth du Fresne, 59, has been a Reno pal for 30 yers. Brennan's casting credits include Wag the Dog...

Booted from a Colorado-bound American Airlines flight: Miami lawyer Alan Kluger--and he is steaming.A flight attendant claimed Kluger "caused a disturbance" according to a Miami-Dade police report.As Kluger, 51, and son, Jesse, 20, taxied for an 8 a.m. takeoff aboard a Boeing 757 for a "spring break" ski trip to Vail on March 9, a female flight attendant took breakfast orders and told two fellow first-class passengers there was no raisin bran left, says Kluger, just eggs.He, too, wanted something other than eggs, he says, and the attendant replied, "Eggs--or nothing." Kluger says he turned to Jesse and said: "This...

Song of Songs, or "Canticles," or as it is also called "The Song of Solomon," is a collection of love lyrics of sheer beauty, tender and exquisite. We walk amidst country scenes where doves hide in the clefts of the rocks, gazelles leap over the hills, trees are clad in varied foliage, and flowers with bright colors and richly scented perfumes are everywhere. The golden sun of Palestine plays over the landscape, and the gentle breezes of spring blow across green meadows and fields.There are two opinions about the Song of Songs.One holds that it is a poetic drama which...

FAMILY MOURNS THEIR `PROUD' MARINE, LOVING SON For months, Tamara Rodriguez worried that her only child, a U.S. Marine, would be sent to fight the war in Afghanistan, where he could be killed. She never imagined his life would end in a freak accident at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where he was based. Lance Cpl. Roger Dieguez Rodriguez, 20, died Wednesday after he was crushed by the barrel of a 15,740-pound mobile howitzer during a training accident, officials said. He suffered injuries to his lungs, chest and heart and died shortly after arriving at New Hanover Regional Medical Center ...

Posted on Sun, Feb. 17, 2002 Americans in Mecca Say Sept 11 Deepened Faith BY NADIM LADKI MECCA, Saudi Arabia - (Reuters) - Like all Americans, New Yorker Mariam Faraj was horrified by Sept. 11. But the 46-year-old convert to Islam said the suicide attacks -- and a backlash against Muslims that followed -- had failed to shake her faith. Performing the haj pilgrimage to Mecca for the second time in four years, Faraj, who was born in Italy and used to be called Renata Solimine, recounted her shock as she watched events unfold near to her New York home ...

My title: Give me your tired, your poor who overstay their visas and enter illegally, we don't have time to police them...but We don't want you stinking, English speaking, over educated, self sufficient, law following, foreigners who enroll your kids in English classes, attend church and think American citizenship is a privilege. What did I do wrong? By David Kiefer Of The Examiner Staff David Ong felt helpless. His wife and two children had come off their Asian Airlines flight more than six hours before, and Ong was unable to see them -- or even talk to them -- and ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Arab American Institute wrote to President George W. Bush asking that he insist that Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly clarify or "apologize and make amends" for hateful remarks he made about Islam. Should the Attorney General fail to do so, AAI called on the President to seek his removal from office. Speaking about Islam in an interview with syndicated columnist and radio commentator Cal Thomas, Attorney General Ashcroft reportedly said, "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which ...