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From a letter in the  Valley News, published in the Upper Valley (Vt. and NH) (Published in print: Friday, December 26, 2014)     Real Teachings of the Koran   To the Editor: I have never read the Koran. What little I know about it tells me that it does not promote ...Read More...

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Story here. He was a doctor, treating Libyans. His wife was a doctor, treating Libyans. It didn't matter. He was a Copt; so was his wife; and they had daughters, one of them deemed old enough -- she was 13 years old --- to take away, and no doubt to gang rape, and then to dispose of, because she ...Read More...

The reconversion movement here. There is a moral difference between the way Hindus became Muslims (to avoid being killed, to avoid the Jizyah that sustained Muslim rulers and the Islamic states, to avoid all of the disabilitis imposed on non-Muslims under Muslim rule) and the way they became Christians ...Read More...

The only secure place for Christians in the Middle East is Israel. If Israel is pushed back, dismembered, destroyed, there will be no such place, and the Christians of the Middle East will have no remaining refuge or neighboring support, and that will be the end of the Christian presence in the area, ...Read More...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, a carney-barker peddling his patently patent-medicines, in his little daily hour of excitable special effects and nonstop chatter. A natural star, forsooth, in the miserable firmament of daytime television. It's tempting to ignore him, as one among so many, and to let him count his ...Read More...

From a FoxNews story: "Al-Kaseasbeh was carrying out air strikes against the militants when his warplane crashed near the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the Islamic State group's de facto capital. The group has executed captured Iraqi and Syrian Muslim soldiers in the past -- it follows an extremist ...Read More...

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Operation "Muhammad Messenger of God" in the Persian Gulf, involving ships and planes and missiles, all sending, in coordinated fashion, a message of peace, here. ...Read More...

Here. Do those who rule the Islamic State of Iran really think a nuclear weapon will help them against Sunnis such as these? And Sunnis such as these are everywhere that Sunnis are to be found. Do those who rule Iran think that a nuclear exchange with Israel would make Sunnis pledge allegiance to ...Read More...

Egyptian cleric Ali Gomaa sets out his own reasons for describing Human Rights Watch as being staffed by  "stupiramuses."  ...Read More...

Hind Al-Fayez was treated with contempt by a fellow, but male, member of the Jordanian Parliament. She refused to shut up and sit down, as he had directed her to do, and for this she was made much of, the heroine of an hour, bravely standing up for the rights of women. She doesn't care for how Muslims ...Read More...

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. ...Read More...

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At Brandeis there are apparently students who think that what one sends out to the world on a Twitter account is somehow to be thought of as private speech, especially if that one who is tweeting or twittering is someone like Khadijah Lynch. They therefore think it not right, not fair, for someone else, ...Read More...