SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Some parents of middle school students in a South Carolina school are upset with a social studies curriculum that requires sixth-graders to learn the Five Pillars of Islam and affirm that Islam “is a religion of peace.” ...
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Anti-Muslim Protests: Should Christians Participate?
How should Christians approach interacting with other groups with whom they strongly disagree? For example, recently there was a clash between anti-Muslim protest in Arizona’s capitol of Phoenix and others who came to support it in the face of the ...
Read More »President’s Religious Freedom Appointee Part of Muslim Event Calling for Limiting Freedom of Speech
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Qasim Rashid, an American-Muslim human rights activist, said in a speech at Howard University that America’s free-speech model is in desperate need of an update. Rashid believes that cyber-bullying laws should be used to limit freedom ...
Read More »When A YouTube Video Won’t Work, Try Outright Banning
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is working to ban defamation of Islam, especially speech that links Islam or Islamists to terrorism. The part of Obama’s speech before the UN where he said, “The future must not belong to those ...
Read More »NATO Base Attacked in Afghanistan and Nine Killed in Car Bombing
Jalalabad, Afghanistan —Violent protests against the foreign presence in Afghanistan continued on Monday as an apparent suicide car bomber took the lives of at least nine people. The attack on a military airport in Jalalabad (eastern Afghanistan) is the latest ...
Read More »Sharia Law: Coming to a Courtroom Near You?
“We struck and then we hid. We talked peace while planning destruction. We used our own brothers’ suffering as fuel against those who were more sympathetic of such things. We sowed discontent.” – A Star Curiously Singing Those words from ...
Read More »Getting to the Bottom of the Fort Hood Tragedy
This week’s newsletter really cannot begin without a mention of the tragic mass shootings and deaths of our brave young men and women serving honorably at Fort Hood Army Base near Killeen, Texas. As could be expected, few military or ...
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