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Culture Of India | Agra Fort

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:55:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Indian culture is rich and diverse and as a result unique in its very own way. All the useful information about indian history, indian religion,indian temples,indian monuments,indian festivals,indian mythology and many more.

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Culture Of India

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Biggest Counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history: Feds Seize N.Y. skyscraper, 4 mosques

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:25:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Religious backlash possible
It is extremely rare for U.S. law enforcement authorities to seize a house of worship, a step fraught with questions about the First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

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Breaking news: Feds move to seize N.Y. skyscraper, 4 mosques

Prosecutors say building owners helping to illegally funnel money to Iran MSNBC hat tip pon

NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company.

The assets include Islamic centers in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston, more than 100 acres in Virginia, and a 36-story office tower in New York.

Seizing the properties would be a sharp blow against Iran, which has been accused by the U.S. government of bankrolling terrorism and seeking a nuclear bomb.

Tags: islam, terrorism, iran, usa, religion, freedom

Sex, Religion, Nature ....NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:27:19 GMT

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190,374 people are having sex right now, 212,130 are kissing, and

1 poor bastard is reading emails.

Why not discard religion and just teach the Golden Rule?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:59:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This may be duplicate, but I'm too excited by these questions and the answers Karen provides.

Clip Source: blog.ted.com

With the launch of the Charter for Compassion, it's the TED Blog's pleasure to unveil Karen Armstrong's responses to the top 10 questions asked and voted on by the TED and Reddit community. (See all the questions users asked.) She covers the nature of compassion, the history of the conflict in the Middle East, and tough questions such as these:

Religion seems to cause racism, extremism -- why not get rid of it?

What's the point of a God that doesn't intervene?

Why not discard religion and just teach the Golden Rule?

A Q&A that rewards deep reading. Enjoy!

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The Similing Way..

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:49:43 GMT

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Clip Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com

Sufism, generally referred to as the mystical or "inner" dimension of Islam, which tends to put a focus on one's individual relation to God through guidance from a spiritual elder, has been around almost since the beginning of the religion. It is worldwide.

Somehow, for all of my stuttering, stammering, rationalizing, sometimes authentic, mostly sinful, always perplexed approach to faith, it has been these austere Sufis, with their stentorian obeisance to a higher principle, their complete surrender to the authority of a saintly figure, their often pre-modern outlook, who have been most inclined to embrace me without asking questions. They retain a view towards chaos of the world that is not merely hopeful, but outright cheerful, a smile stretched eternally onto the face of the faith. For all of us melancholics and obsessives and loners and miscreants, with our spiritual gastroenteritis and Nietzschean dyspepsia, the existence of the Sufis is thoroughly soothing, even if we never join

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Culture Of India | Fatehpur Sikri

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:38:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: indian culture is rich and diverse and as a result unique in its very own way. All the useful information about indian history, indian religion,indian temples,indian monuments,indian festivals,indian mythology and many more.

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Fatehpur Sikri

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Culture Of India | Delhi Culture

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:29:41 GMT

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Delhi Culture

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Culture Of India | Festivals In India

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:44:43 GMT

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Festivals In India

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'Counterfeit clergy' back DC's same-sex 'marriage' push

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:30:55 GMT

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'Counterfeit clergy' back DC's same-sex 'marriage' push

The District of Columbia City Council has changed a proposed ordinance legalizing same-gender "marriage" to supposedly add protection for pastors. The ordinance was supported by a coalition of area clergy.

"Well, this is just a cheap political stunt," he responds. "These are a group of leftist secularists essentially dressed up in the garb of clergy....[W]hat do you do call clergy who abandon the fundamental tenets of their faith and adopt instead the lies of the world? I call them counterfeit clergy."

Barber adds that "they want to have their religion cake and eat it too." He explains.

"They are going to push a leftist political agenda that runs completely counter to biblical principles," he asserts. "The ridiculous and oxymoronic notion of same-sex marriage flies in the face of every major world religion."

Culture Of India | Ramayana and Mahabharata

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:06:12 GMT

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Ramayana and Mahabharata

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Culture Of India | Indian History

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:18:59 GMT

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Indian History

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Culture Of India | Temples In India

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:34:22 GMT

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Temples In India

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Labeling Nidal Hasan a "Jihadist" Sidesteps Calling Him an American

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:53:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This shooter wasn't some mysterious other or foreign power. He was, like Timothy McVeigh, like Seung-hui Cho, like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, a citizen of the United States—and he chose a particularly American methodology for his terror.

Clip Source: www.doublex.com

I'd argue that we're looking beyond his religious beliefs because that's what we as a society do. When we look at other religiously motivated domestic terrorists, like Eric Randolph (who bombed both the Olympic Park and an abortion clinic), we don't accept religion alone as a motivation. It's just not enough to explain how an American would look other Americans in the face and then end their lives

If we write Hasan off as nothing but a religious zealot, we're missing the bigger picture

This shooter wasn't some mysterious other or foreign power. He was, like Timothy McVeigh, like Seung-hui Cho, like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, a citizen of the United States—and he chose a particularly American methodology for his terror.

When we put aside the idea of Hasan as part of a jihad, we're not avoiding reality—we're looking it squarely in the face. We have met the enemy, and far too often, he is us.

Tags: living in america, religion, domestic terrorism, violence, major nidal hasan, fort hood, tragedy

The The "The Beat(en) Generation"

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:41:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced
By the greedy hands of politics and half truths

The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination

We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes
And hypnotised by the satellites
Into believing what is good and what is right

You may be worshipping the temples of mammon
Or lost in the prisons of religion
But can you still walk back to happiness
When you've nowhere left to run?

If they send in the special police
To deliver us from evil and keep us from peace

Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
When they tell us justice is being done
That freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun?

The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination

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When you cast your eyes upon the skylines of this ...
Once proud nation
Can you sense the fear and the hatred

Growing in the hearts of it's population?

Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:08:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: First of all it must be the sign of bad taste to simply underscore somebody's religion, ethnicity, race, political believes, color of eyes or skin or hair, sexual preferences or affiliations with any social group. Hence make the life determining decisions on it. Any person is innocent unless convicted by Court of Law. And in any case deserve respectful approach. One can imagine how stressful and damaging this situation can be for teenager...

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Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question

LONDON — The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself.

Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide?

David Lightman with his daughter, who was denied admission to the Jews' Free School because her mother's conversion was not recognized. But a court ruling has voided the admissions policy.

The case began when a 12-year-old boy, an observant Jew whose father is Jewish and whose mother is a Jewish convert, applied to the school, JFS. Founded in 1732 as the Jews’ Free School, it is a centerpiece of North London’s Jewish community. It has around 1,900 students, but it gets far more applicants than it accepts.

Because M’s mother converted in a progressive, not an Orthodox, synagogue, the school said, she was not a Jew — nor was her son. It turned down his application.

Tags: jews, archaic perception, religion, state separation, education, judaism