Category Religion
Native Americans will ask Pope Francis to rescind ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ during his U.S. visit – U.s. – News – Catholic Online
The 84-year-old Lyons has represented Native Americans before the United Nations since 1977. Lyons helped achieve the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The last major country in the world to support that declaration was the United States. The World Council of Churches, the United Methodist Church and the Leadership Conference of Religious […]
US soldier admits killing family after raping girl | World news | The Guardian
The murders took place on March 12 in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad. Prosecutors allege that five soldiers stationed at a checkpoint there raped the girl, Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, then burned her body to hide the evidence, and killed her father, mother and six-year-old sister.The alleged ringleader, Private Steven Green, was discharged from the […]
Reagan Library Curator: Gov. Scott Walker’s Bible Story About Reagan Is A Lie | FreakOutNation
The Associated Press reports: At a 2013 Reagan Day dinner in Milwaukee, Walker told a Reagan story that he said “gives me a little bit of a shiver.” He described being invited by Nancy Reagan to give a speech at the Reagan Library near Los Angeles in November 2012, five months after he won a recall […]
Fallen SEAL Sniper Chris Kyle Believed He Was Fighting A Religious War | Crooks and Liars
Kyle seemed to consider himself a cross between a lawman and an executioner. His platoon had spray-painted the image of the Punisher—a Marvel Comics character who wages “a one-man war upon crime”—on their flak jackets and helmets. Kyle made a point of ignoring the military dress code, cutting the sleeves off shirts and wearing baseball […]
American Sniper and the Savage Problem | Lt. Philip Sheridan……….Indian Wars……………..and Lovers
“Savage, Despicable, Evil,” he writes in the book, “That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy savages. There was no other way to describe what we encountered there.” One way would be to call them the enemy, but not Kyle: Savages. He repeats it over […]
Simultaneous attacks in Egypt’s Sinai kill 25 – Democratic Underground
An Islamic State affiliate previously known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has launched several attacks against the police and the army in Sinai in recent years, particularly following the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013. But the wide-ranging attacks late Thursday, which struck the Northern Sinai provincial capital el-Arish, the nearby town of […]
Some Shiites link Saudi king’s health to end-times – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
The Shiites believe that divine Imams are heirs to the political and religious Ummah, or Islamic nation. These 12 imams are successors to the Prophet Muhammad and to the head of the caliphate, with Mahdi being the final Imam who disappeared, or went into occultation. Mahdi will be revealed only in the end-times, along with […]
USA-militär blev hackad på Twitter | Utrikes | SvD
Avsändaren lade även upp bilder på vad som framstår som olika stridsscenarion i Nordkorea och Kina. Även USA:s centralkommandos Youtube-konto kapades. Strax efter 19 stängdes båda kontona ned. US Centcom bekräftar intrånget, enligt nyhetsbyrån AFP. En talesperson för den amerikanska militären säger till NBC News att inget av materialet som lades ut av av hackarna […]
ISIS releases video of boy brutally executing 2 hostages — RT News
The video, posted online Tuesday, shows two men being interrogated, presumably by Islamic militants. The questioning is taking place in Russian, with English subtitles. Both prisoners allege having ties to the FSB on camera.The video then cuts to show the men kneeling in a field, with an armed boy and a bearded man standing behind […]
VIDEO. Plusieurs tirs et explosions contre des mosquées en France
La façade a été soufflée», a confirmé le procureur de la République à Villefranche-sur-Saône, Grégoire Dulin. «Aucune hypothèse n’est privilégiée» sur l’origine de cet acte, selon le magistrat. L’enquête a été confiée à la police judiciaire. «Je crains que ce soit lié à l’événement dramatique qui est survenu ce mercredi», a expliqué pour sa part […]
EU court removes Hamas from terror blacklist — RT News
The European Union first banned Hamas’ military wing, the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in 2002, though the organization’s social and political divisions were not put on the terror list. Following a series of Hamas suicide bombings during the second intifada or uprising in September 2003, the EU extended the ban to include the organization as […]
CIA torture report: Former Agency chiefs criticise ‘partisan attack’ on the agency – Americas – World – The Independent
George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden jointly challenged the main findings – that the CIA lied about the extent of the torture, which included waterboarding, wall slamming and “rectal feeding” of prisoners, and that the interrogations yielded no useful intelligence. “The committee has given us … a one-sided study marred by errors of fact […]
Marjory of IS civilian victims in Syria are reportedly Sunnis | Middle East Eye
The majority of IS’s victims in Syria have been civilians, he said.”Of the total number of people beheaded or shot dead in mass killings by IS, 879 have been civilians, some 700 of them members of the Shaitat tribe.”The Sunni Muslim Shaitat tribe, from the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, rose up against the group […]
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Westboro Baptist targets anti-LGBT churches in Houston | Lone Star Q — Texas Statewide LGBT News Source
Now, it appears Westboro is allying itself with the LGBT community in a more direct way — by criticizing churches that LED OPPOSITION to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance — even if it’s for very different reasons.Picketers from Westboro reportedly spent this weekend in Houston — which has become a national epicenter in the fight […]
How Jennifer Williams, A Tattooed, Blonde Muslim From Texas Became An ISIS Twitter Star
“You know you’re dealing with some serious Islamic hardliners when they blur out your face to protect Islamic modesty,” she wrote. “It’s also interesting that they chose to make it blurry rather than to black it out entirely—I suppose they did that so you could still tell that I was a blonde, white American girl. […]
U.S.: Dearborn cleric popular with ISIS fighters owes $250K for fraud | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
Ahmad Jebril, 43, who has gained an international following among ISIS fighters and sympathizers, is on probation after serving 6½ years in prison. After being released in 2012, he has used social media to become what experts say is the most popular religious leader for Islamists from the West fighting for ISIS, also known as […]
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