Bibles with ‘Allah’ are Confiscated

 http://www.latimes. com/news/ nationworld/ world/la- fg-briefs30- 2009oct30, 0,7232083. story
 
October 30, 2009
 
MALAYSIA
Bibles with ‘Allah’ are confiscated

Malaysian authorities have confiscated more than 15,000 Bibles because they referred to “God” as “Allah,” a translation that has been banned in this Muslim-majority country, Christian church officials said.
The Rev. Hermen Shastri, general secretary of the Council of Churches of Malaysia, said [...]

Torture Was Taught By CIA Declassified manual details the methods used in Honduras; Agency denials refuted

By Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, and mark Matthews
The Baltimore Sun, Monday 27 January 1997, Final Edition
WASHINGTON — A newly declassified CIA training manual details torture methods used against suspected subversives in Central America during the 1980s, refuting claims by the agency that no such methods were taught there.
“Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual — 1983″ [...]

MEETING GOD

There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God.
He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase
with Twinkies and a six-pack of root beer, and he started his journey.
When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman.
She was sitting in the park just [...]

An email from Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas leader (dated 26th Jan08)

Dear friends,
First of all I would like to tell you how much I appreciate your encouraging e-mails, they mean to me a lot, this letter for every one of you, individuals, institutions, churches, organizations, agents, publishers, movie makers, Christians, Muslims, Jews and whomever wrote me to support or even for other purposes.
I am very [...]

Press Release: Gaza Crisis

In the name of Allah, Most gracious, Ever Merciful Press Desk Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat International 16 January 2009 PRESS RELEASE As the war in Gaza nears its fourth week, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat takes this opportunity to condemn the continued attacks which are leading to a humanitarian disaster. Innocent men, women and children are losing [...]

Abrahamic faiths on birth of Jesus

The full text of a Christmas message from Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The full translation of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Christmas message that will be broadcast on Channel 4 tonight:
“In the Name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful.
“Upon the anniversary of the birth of Jesus, Son of Mary, the Word of God, the Messenger [...]

Evangelical foreign policy is over — By Andrew J. Bacevich

http://www.boston. com/bostonglobe/ editorial_ opinion/oped/ articles/ 2008/11/06/ evangelical_ foreign_policy_ is_over?mode= PF 
WITH Barack Obama’s election to the presidency, the evangelical moment in US foreign policy has come to an end. The United States remains a nation of believers, with Christianity the tradition to which most Americans adhere. Yet the religious sensibility informing American statecraft will no longer [...]

Interventionism, Not Muslims, Is the Problem — by Jacob G. Hornberger

One of the popular post-9/11 sentiments has been the one that holds that Muslims are bent on conquering the world. The notion is that Muslims hate Christianity and Western freedom and values and that such hatred is rooted in the Koran and stretches back centuries. Thus, the United States has been drawn, reluctantly, into a [...]