God hangs on by a vote at the Supreme Court. ========== May 5, 2014 7:13 p.m. ET The Supreme Court did a good turn for religious freedom on Monday, ruling that prayer is permitted at government meetings and doesn’t amount to an endorsement of religion. The disconcerting surprise is that the decision was only 5-4. Greece v. Galloway dealt with a challenge to the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Religious Persecution’ Category
Prayer in the Public Square
May 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Religious Persecution, US ConstitutionThe Middle East War on Christians
April 18 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionAh, the liberal press’ indignation is almost unbearable… ======= This week, as Jews celebrate the Passover holiday, they are commemorating the Bible’s Exodus story describing a series of plagues inflicted on ancient Egypt that freed the Israelites, allowing them to make their way to the Holy Land. But over the past century, another exodus, driven by a plague of persecution, has swept... Read more
When the Arab Jews Fled
October 14 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Politically correct, Religious PersecutionI guess it depends on who writes the history books… =========== smaller Larger facebooktwittergoogle pluslinked ininShare.0EmailPrintSave ↓ More . . smaller Larger By LUCETTE LAGNADO Fortunée Abadie is still haunted by the day in 1947 when mobs stormed the Jewish Quarter of the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo, shortly after the United Nations vote that laid the groundwork for the creation of Israel. Aleppo, a city where... Read more
Muslims, Mormons and Liberals
September 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Obama, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, The LeftThe best “talk” on this subject that I have read. Excerpt: ” . . . the most “progressive” administration in recent U.S. history will make no principled defense of free speech to a Muslim world . . .” ========== ‘Hasa Diga Eebowai” is the hit number in Broadway’s hit musical “The Book of Mormon,” which won nine Tony awards last year. What does... Read more
Sunni Sect’s Ruthless Violence against Christians
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Obama, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionAny problems here…?? ========= Boko Haram, the violent Nigerian Islamist group, whose name means “Western civilization is forbidden,” struck again yesterday in pitiless bombing attacks against Christian worshippers as they celebrated Christmas. One blast targeted congregants as they left Christmas-morning Mass at the St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, a suburb of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. The priest said that 35 bodies were recovered... Read more
An ‘Arab Winter’ Chills Christians
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionWho is speaking for these people? Or do they deserve their lot? ================== By SAM DAGHER WSJ_December 5, 2011 BARTELLA, Iraq—The plight of Iraqi Christians since the fall of Saddam Hussein has been agonizingly personal for Aram Butrus Matti. Hanging on the wall in his parents’ home here in northern Iraq are photographs of his cousin Yonan, his cousin’s spouse and their three-month-old son, who... Read more
