Religious Law

Chassidic Masters: How Could Jacob Marry Two Sisters?

» How Could Jacob Marry Two Sisters? Now this appears to contradict the traditional view that Jacob (together with Abraham and Isaac) kept all the commandments of the Torah despite the fact that G-d had not yet given them to...

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Persecution

Death for being a Christian A 15-year-old Egyptian girl, Dina el-Gohary, has written an emotional appeal to President Obama asking him to use his influence to save her father, Maher el-Gohary, who is being persecuted for his...

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Joan Smith: Modernity – an end to male-run faiths and 'honour' crimes

When demonstrators gathered in London yesterday to protest against sharia, the Archbishop of Canterbury was otherwise engaged with the Pope. It's almost two years since Rowan Williams caused an outcry when he suggested that...

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Wafa Sultan Speaks Out For Human Rights

world's most influential people. Sultan has appeared on many radio and TV shows in English, and regularly writes articles in Arabic that are read throughout the Muslim world. Her main purpose in life is to further the...

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Ibryamov Becomes Bulgaria Ethnic Turkish Party Youth Chair

Dzheihan Ibryamov is the new Chair of the youth organization of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS). Ibryamov, who is the Executive Director of the "Tolerance" Union, takes the lead of the DPS...

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University of Louisville graduate named Rhodes scholar

By Joseph Gerth • jgerth@courier-journal.com • November 21, 2009 Monica Marks grew up among fundamentalist Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eastern Kentucky — craving books and learning in a community where education wasn’t valued....

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Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam: What should Christians Do? - Michael Nazir-Ali

Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam: What should Christians Do? By Michael Nazir-Ali November 20, 2009 The Qur'an is fierce in its condemnation of apostasy (ridda) and of the apostate (murtadd). Theirs, according to it, will be a...

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Islam is not compatible with a republic

Islam is a totalitarian political ideology feigning as a religion; indeed, Islam is anti-religion. It has no belief in a God of love, but in Allah, the pagan moon god that predates the prophet Muhammad and the Quran. Islam has...

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Ask! : A Life for a Life

For the week ending 28 November 2009 / 10 Kislev 5770 by Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman - www.rabbiullman.com based on a real-life Ohr Somayach “Ask” dialogue Dear Rabbi, My Mom suffers from diabetes and it has now destroyed her...

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Pakistani forces strike again in Arakzai

The Pakistani Army and Air Force hit the Taliban again in a region considered an extremist stronghold in the northwest. Pakistani fighter-bombers hit Taliban positions in the Arakzai tribal agency in a region bordering Khyber....

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