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History of Religion in 90 seconds - Geographical Evolution (Flash)

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:35:27 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: similar to the "Map of War" in the Middle East

How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. Want to see 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds? Ready, Set, Go!

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Tags: history, religion, flash, geography, map, evolution, faith, christianity, islam, buddhism, hinduism, judaism, visualization

The trouble with Islam

Fri, 18 May 2007 22:39:48 GMT

clipped by: laceym
clipper's remarks: A few words about the world's fastest growing religion. This video got him in a little bit of hot water.
http://ummahnewslinks.com/2007/05/17/comic-in-us-hate-speech-row.aspx

Clip Source: youtube.com

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Tags: religion, politics, islam

Politican Cartoons

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:32:36 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: "The United States, some years back, found its new bogeyman "Islam" to replace its former imaginary enemy "Communism." And now the European press appears to have finally (?) found a replacement for the Jewish people that they used to malign and attack. Anti-Islam/Muslimism appears to now have officially replaced anti-Jewish sentiments in Europe.

The roots of these attacks are the same: an inability to acknowledge and respect a diversity of people that might result in a Europe that is non-White and/or non-Christian.

The anti-Muslim/Islam cartoons of today are little different than the anti-Jewish cartoons that were published by the Nazis during WW II."

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Target: Journalists!

Newsitem: Eason Jordan, a CNN news executive stated that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The Israeli Peace Plan

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The Elk-Aida Connection: Liberate Alaska!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

And now presenting... "Moderate, Pluralist Islam"

The "Center for Islamic Pluralism" was founded on March 25th by neo-con Stephen Schwartz, and others.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The finger problem

Europe resurrects its Facist past

Stalingrad surrendered.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

FOX TV: We Distort You Decide!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Everyone is innocent around here!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Positive Thinking Outside The Pine Box

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

United States' Media Propaganda!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

mosque and state

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Hate Speech

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Tags: politics, cartoons

Powell spills it about Bush / Iraq

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:40:43 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: Al-Qaeda, Powell asserted, was only 10% of the problem in Iraq and Nouri al-Maliki, its prime minister, lacked the political will to establish an effective government. After a promising start to the surge at the beginning of the year, 453 unidentified corpses were found on the streets of Baghdad last month, 41% more than the 321 bodies found in January, according to unofficial Iraqi health ministry statistics.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

THE former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2½ hours vainly trying to persuade President George W Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today’s conflict cannot be resolved by US forces.

“I tried to avoid this war,” Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. “I took him through the consequences of going into an Arab country and becoming the occupiers.

Powell has become increasingly outspoken about the level of violence in Iraq, which he believes is in a state of civil war. “The civil war will ultimately be resolved by a test of arms,” he said. “It’s not going to be pretty to watch, but I don’t know any way to avoid it. It is happening now.”

He added: “It is not a civil war that can be put down or solved by the armed forces of the United States.” All the military could do, Powell suggested, was put “a heavier lid on this pot of boiling sectarian stew”

Shi’ites will ultimately prevail

they are determined not to be ruled again by the Sunnis

Tags: iran, iraq, war, terror, bush, powell, cheney, politics, election, islam

The Execution Of A Teenage Girl

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:57:26 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: CRUELTY OF SHARIA LAW
PENALTIES imposed by Iran's religious mullahs include:
THEFT: Amputation of hands or feet for persistent offenders.
sion, death.
ADULTERY: Death by stoning.
UNMARRIED SEX: 100 lashes.
CONVERSION TO RELIGION OTHER THAN ISLAM: Death.
SODOMY: Death for adults, 74 lashes for consenting child.
LESBIANISM: 100 lashes, or on the fourth occasion death.
HOMOSEXUAL KISS: 60 lashes.
RUBBING ANOTHER MAN'S THIGHS OR BUTTOCKS: 99 lashes - on 4th occasion, death.

Clip Source: www.sundaymirror.co.uk

The Iranian judge who had sentenced Atefeh to death was left unmoved as he personally put the noose around her neck and signalled to the crane driver.

But Judge Haji Rezaii was determined she should hang, regardless of the rules of international law which say only adults over 18 can be executed, and that the courts have a duty to children and the mentally ill.

Mina, a childhood friend, said Atefeh was abused by a close relative. "She never dared talk about it with an adult," said Mina. "If she had told her teacher they'd have called her a whore. Tell the police? They lock you up and rape you." Atefeh first appeared in court, accused of having sex with an unmarried man at 14. Over the next two years she was accused of the same crime with different men.

Rezaii told her she would hang for her "sharp tongue" and that he would put the noose around her neck himself. It became a personal crusade

Her life is also the subject of a secretly filmed documentary, Execution of a Teenage Girl

Tags: sharia law, execution, ampute hands or feet, adultery, theft, conversion to another religion

The Biggest Threat to the West Lies Within Itself, Not with Islam

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:32:52 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Simon Jenkins on threats to peace and democracy.

This defeatism led the American Congress to allow its president to authorise torture and detention without trial in what Senator Robert Byrd called “the slow unravelling of the people’s liberties”. It enabled a British Home Office to curb free speech and habeas corpus. It arms police, fortifies buildings and impedes the free movement of citizens. It makes every Christian suspicious of every Muslim.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

The biggest threat to the West lies within itself, not with Islam

The chief threat to world security at present lies in the capacity of tiny groups of political Islamists to goad the West into a rolling military retaliation.

Extremists on each side feed off the others’ frenzied scenarios so as to garner money and political support for their respective armies of the night. Each sees the other as a cosmic menace and abandons communal tolerance and peaceful diplomacy to counter it.

To portray Islam as a whole as a concerted threat to western security, and to imply that the West’s democratic institutions and freedoms are not proof against that threat, is absurd and close to treason. Then to demand that western freedoms be dismantled and stored away for the duration of a “war on terror” is to wave the flag of surrender.

I believe in the robustness of the democracies created in the West over the past half-century. I am not sure that our leaders do.

Tags: terrorism, islam, christianity, religion, freedom, war, peace, democracy, west, torture

Jihadist Video Shows 12 Year Old Boy Beheading Man

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:08:15 GMT

clipped by: joaaron2468
clipper's remarks: 12! 12! 12! What the F@#$. The Boy was 12 and doing this crap. Now you tell me, Where will the outrage be say, from the CAIR organization, denouncing such a horrible act. The BOY was 12 for God sake. He did not need to be part of a beheading. If Islam and Muslims do not speak out then there is no hope for Islam.

Clip Source: www.breitbart.com

Jihadist Video Shows Boy Beheading Man

KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan (AP) - The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair

A video circulating in Pakistan records the grisly death of Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a top Taliban official who was killed in a December airstrike in Afghanistan.

An Associated Press reporter confirmed Nabi's identity by visiting his family in Kili Faqiran, their remote village in southwestern Pakistan.

The video, which was obtained by AP Television News in the border city of Peshawar on Tuesday, appears authentic and is unprecedented in jihadist propaganda because of the youth of the executioner.

The footage shows Nabi making what is described as a confession, being blindfolded with a checkered scarf.

Tags: science, war, religion, politics, news, internet, education

State of the world as we end 2007

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:38:23 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: This is an incredibly powerful paragraph. I wonder if when George Bush looks at the cover of Time Magazine and stares into the eyes of Vladimir Putin, he still says, "ah, those trusting eyes of Vlad."

The U.S. is getting completely outplayed at the chess table and its leaders don't have a clue.

Clip Source: observer.guardian.co.uk

For a vast number of the world's people, democracy is an aspiration that comes some way after security and prosperity. The two great powers of the communist era end this year more confident than at any moment since the fall of the Wall. And what is interesting is that their sense of purpose and defiance is accompanied by doubts in the West about the strength of our economies and uncertainty about the direction of our democracies. Forget Islam and Islamism: these are the important undercurrents of 2007.

Tags: politics, news, world, democracy, putin, russia, china

Muslims don't hate the USA

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:25:23 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: More worried that Americans hate them

Clip Source: www.eatbees.com

The Muslims I know are more resigned than angry. Many are convinced that the West is making war on Islam, but after decades of American support for dictators in their part of the world, and centuries of having their religion misunderstood, they don’t expect much.

Far from hating America, my friends are more likely to worry that Americans hate them. They see how Muslims are portrayed in our media. We see angry men burning flags, raising rifles in the air, throwing rocks and blowing things up. In Morocco they refute this with warmth and candor, and exaggerated shows of hospitality.

Yet they worry about us. Is America really a democracy? Are we morally lazy? How we can accept what has been done in our name? They wonder how could we have invaded a nation that was no threat to us. Why haven’t we challenged our leaders? Are we really that spoiled? Are we so concerned with our own comfort, that we tune out what is happening just because it is far away?

Tags: islam, muslims, war on terror

Adult breast-feeding sucks

Fri, 25 May 2007 17:03:38 GMT

clipped by: laceym
clipper's remarks: I don't know what to say.

Clip Source: www.iol.co.za

Cairo, Egypt - Al-Azhar University, one of Sunni Islam's most prestigious institutions, ordered one of its clerics Monday to face a disciplinary panel after he issued a controversial decree allowing adults to breast-feed.

Ezzat Attiya had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying adult men could breast-feed from female work colleagues as a way to avoid breaking Islamic rules that forbid men and women from being alone together.

In Islamic tradition, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers. It means the child could not marry the nursing woman's biological children.

Attiya - the head of Al-Azhar's department of Hadith, or teachings of the Prophet Muhammad - insisted the same would apply with adults.

He argued that if a man nursed from a co-worker, it would establish a family bond between them and allow the two to work side-by-side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual relation.

Tags: wtf

The myth of Muslim support for terror

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:18:47 GMT

clipped by: schreibe

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Opinion
The myth of Muslim support for terror

WASHINGTON - Those who think that Muslim countries and pro-terrorist attitudes go hand-in-hand might be shocked by new polling research: Americans are more approving of terrorist attacks against civilians than any major Muslim country except for Nigeria.

The survey, conducted in December 2006 by the University of Maryland's prestigious Program on International Public Attitudes, shows that only 46 percent of Americans think that "bombing and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians" are "never justified," while 24 percent believe these attacks are "often or sometimes justified."

Contrast those numbers with 2006 polling results from the world's most-populous Muslim countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. Terror Free Tomorrow, the organization I lead, found that 74 percent of respondents in Indonesia agreed that terrorist attacks are "never justified"; in Pakistan, that figure was 86 percent; in Bangladesh, 81 percent.

Do these findings mean that Americans are closet terrorist sympathizers?

Hardly. Yet, far too often, Americans and other Westerners seem willing to draw that conclusion about Muslims. Public opinion surveys in the United States and Europe show that nearly half of Westerners associate Islam with violence and Muslims with terrorists. Given the many radicals who commit violence in the name of Islam around the world, that's an understandable polling result.

But these stereotypes, affirmed by simplistic media coverage and many radicals themselves, are not supported by the facts - and they are detrimental to the war on terror. When the West wrongly attributes radical views to all of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims, it perpetuates a myth that has the very real effect of marginalizing critical allies in the war on terror.

Tags: war, politics, government

Evolutionary Metaphysics - Shattering the Sacred Myths

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:50:20 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: Contents

Clip Source: www.evolutionary-metaphysics.net

1. Troubled Times
2. The Story of Human Evolution
3. Advancing Technology
4. The History of Ancient Israel
5. Ancient Greek Philosophy
6. A Rational History of Christianity
7. The Rise of Modern Science
8. Hinduism and Buddhism
9. A Rational History of Islam
10. Analysis of Ancient Beliefs
11. The Rise of Modern Democracy
12. Sexual Morality
13. Modern Materialism
14. Deepening Consciousness
15. Politics and Religion
16. Replacing Religion with Science
17. Evolutionary Metaphysics
18. Peace and prosperity

Evolutionary Metaphysics means “to contemplate the existence of the universe in light of the theory of evolution”.

Throughout history and still today, the vast majority of people have been conditioned to believe in religious myths and philosophical ideals that may seem very real but which in fact have no basis in reality.

This book will attempt to explain why these myths and misconceptions are still so popular. And it will try to convince you not to commit to any belief about our existence that cannot be proven beyond doubt.

Clip Source: www.evolutionary-metaphysics.net

The birth of the universe
The formation of the earth
Organic molecules
The first spark of life
Single cells
The process of evolution
Multi-celled animals
Sensory perception
Predators and prey
Plants
Reptiles
Mammals
Dinosaurs
Learned behavior
Cooperation and competition
The extinction of the dinosaurs
The evolution of mammals
Tree dwellers
The ancestors of humans
The power of speech
Human migration
The development of culture
Farming villages
The Bronze Age
The rise of empires
Ancient temples
The Iron Age
The art of writing

Tags: evolution, metaphysics, philosophy, history, religion, myths, faith, book, ebook, free, literature

'God doesn't give two shits' - Insightful comment from a young clipper

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:38:08 GMT

clipped by: sohil
clipper's remarks: Right on ajt167

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

benedict is undoing many good things that JP2 did

benedict is alienating people of his own church and other denominations and religions as well. how anyone can have the audacity to say that their religion is the only true one, or that other christians aren't true christians, is beyond me. my church broke away from the roman catholic church about 100 or so years ago. i personally think God doesn't give two shits about apostolic succession, or what, if any, church you go to, or what name you call him, or what gender you're attracted to, or if you had sex before you were married, or your views on stem cell research, or if you believe in him/her/it at all. i think he just wants people to be kind to each other, live your life the best you could, and be happy. and i DON'T think that the pope or anyone else knows any more or less than me about what God wants.

Tags: religion, comments, clipmarks, god, pope, christianity, islam, hinduism, alienation, gay

Demystifying "modesty"

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:39:46 GMT

clipped by: Deepti
clipper's remarks: I have seen most of these on women here in the UAE, I never really thought about there being any difference among them...

Clip Source: www.gulfnews.com

The veil takes many forms throughout the Islamic world.

Niqab: A veil that covers the face except the area around the eyes. It can be worn with a separate veil for the eyes

Al Amira: A two-piece veil comprising a close-fitting cap and a tube-like scarf

Chador: Worn by Iranian women, it is like a full body cloak that can be accompanied by a smaller headscarf under it

Khimar: A long veil that hangs just above the waist covering the hair, neck and shoulders

Shayla: A long and rectangular headscarf wrapped around the head and tucked or pinned in place around the shoulders

Burqa: It covers the entire face and body and leaves a thin screen to see through

Hijab: A square scarf that covers only the head and neck, leaving the face visible

Tags: islam, women, veils, modesty, muslim, middle east, arab, culture, religion

Saudi Arabian rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:30:29 GMT

clipped by: michellezm
clipper's remarks: Words fail me!

Clip Source: www.news24.com

Riyadh - A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The 19-year-old woman - whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms - was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape", the Arab News reported.

But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia's Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.

A court source told the English-language Arab News that the judges had decided to punish the woman further for "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media".

Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine known as Wahhabism and forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public.

Tags: saudi arabia, muslim, islam

Clipmarks | Antara's 'islam' clips

History of Religion in 90 seconds - Geographical Evolution (Flash)

The trouble with Islam

Politican Cartoons

Ever been a Muslim?

Bring 'em home, Rummy, Bring 'em home!

the spread of american democracy

Internment camps for Muslims in America?

The Enemy of "Freedom!"

Target: Journalists!

The Israeli Peace Plan

The Elk-Aida Connection: Liberate Alaska!

And now presenting... "Moderate, Pluralist Islam"

The finger problem

FOX TV: We Distort You Decide!

Everyone is innocent around here!

Positive Thinking Outside The Pine Box

United States' Media Propaganda!

mosque and state

.

Powell spills it about Bush / Iraq

The Execution Of A Teenage Girl

The Biggest Threat to the West Lies Within Itself, Not with Islam

The biggest threat to the West lies within itself, not with Islam

Jihadist Video Shows 12 Year Old Boy Beheading Man

State of the world as we end 2007

Muslims don't hate the USA

Adult breast-feeding sucks

The myth of Muslim support for terror

Opinion The myth of Muslim support for terror

Evolutionary Metaphysics - Shattering the Sacred Myths

'God doesn't give two shits' - Insightful comment from a young clipper

Demystifying "modesty"

Saudi Arabian rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes

Opinion
The myth of Muslim support for terror