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The Islamic police in Jordan have arrested 8 Christians for the horrendous crime of propagating the Christians faith. This is how Islamic countries keep their citizens in bondage to Islam. The government outlaws conversion from Islam, as well as proselytism among Muslims. Religious freedom? Forget about it.
Muslims work hard to convince Americans how wonderful Islam is, right? Well, simple ask them very politely to provide you one example of an Islamic country that is the role model for Islam where freedom of religion is the norm. There isn't one. The truth about Islam can be found in studying Islamic countries, especially its country of origin - Saudi Arabia. All the rhetoric from Muslims in America who are freely propagating their religion without persecution can't hide this fact. Islam is as Islam does.
Americans need to speak up more often in interfaith forums and letters-to-the-editors how Islamic countries treat Christians.
Eight people have been arrested in Jordan for propagating the Christian faith, according to a Saudi newspaper.
Jordanian security forces arrested eight people, mostly foreigners, after they were caught distributing missionary material to Bedouin families north and east of the Jordanian capital, Amman, the Saudi daily Al-Watan reported.
The authorities received information about the missionaries from local residents who said these foreigners were offering humanitarian assistance to poor Muslim families and distributing fliers promoting Christianity.
Sources said they were "enticing" impoverished youngsters by paying them money and calling on them to marry foreign girls.
Islam is the state religion in Jordan, though christianity is a recognized religion in the country.
Evangelism is a practice frowned upon in the Muslim world, and often associated with Western imperialism.
Additional resource:
Global Mapping International - the world of Islam
Not exactly a warm welcome for President Bush, the first American president to officially visit Tanzania. Clinton signed the Burundi Peace accord there but it wasn't an official visit:
(Xinhua Photo/Yi Gaochao)
About 2,000 Muslims marched through Tanzania's capital on Friday and burned U.S. flags in protest against a visit by President George W. Bush.
Chanting "Bush is an oil thief" and "evil is not a foreign policy", the demonstrators, some wearing traditional Muslim dress including the Islamic women's black bui-bui, tried to march from the city's centre to the U.S. embassy on its northern outskirts.
They were diverted to open ground by a small force of police but tore down U.S. flags erected for Bush's visit this weekend and burned them. The police did not intervene and there was no violence.
The protesters chanted "Who is a terrorist? Bush."
The demonstration, which began after Friday prayers, caused a major traffic jam across the narrow Selander bridge leading out of Dar es Salaam.
One of the march organisers, Sheikh Mussa Kundecha, told Reuters: "We will be the first to receive Bush by protesting against him and cursing his visit."
...But Muslims are angered by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, by U.S. backing of an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia to help defeat Islamists -- and the subsequent rendition of Muslim suspects -- and by Tanzanian anti-terrorism laws which they say discriminates against them.
The fortified U.S. embassy was moved to its current location after the previous building was badly damaged in a 1998 bomb blast linked to al Qaeda and coordinated with a devastating attack on the American mission in neighbouring Kenya.
Great pictures but weird, overall! You need to watch this one - there's an anger to it. Are there machine-gun sounds at the end of it? OMG - yes! It's 3:29 long.
Is there really an Islamic Court in Texas? Come to find out in a divorce case that was appealed in 2003 the court uphelded an arbitration agreement based on sharia law. It takes your breath away, doesn't it? It could be a dangerous precedent for our democracy and will likely provide a narrow framework of legal remedies for Muslims living in America.
Anytime, any religious agreement is allowed to dominate over all other legal remeidies, it should get your attention.
Critiques of sharia law have argued for quite a while now that Islamists are chipping slowly away at our laws. This case could be a good example:
1. The Parties agree to arbitrate all existing issues among them in the abovementioned Cause Numbers in the appropriate District Court, which includes the Divorce Case, the child custody of the [sic] Noor Qaddura and Farah Qaddura, the determination of each party's responsibilities and duties according to the Islamic rules of law by Texas Islamic Court.
2. All parties agree to sign the Texas Islamic Court required legal forms, and each party pays his required fees.
3.The panel of arbitrators of Texas Islamic Court will be formed according to the rules and regulations of Texas Islamic Court. However, the parties agree and suggest the following names for the panel:
Mujahid Bakhash, the Imam of the Islamic Association of Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Texas. Main El-quda, the Imam of the Islamic Society of Arlington, Arlington, Texas. .Abdel Salam Abu-Nar, the Imam of Dar Assalam Islamic Center, Arlington, Texas
4. Each Party will submit all of his documents, exhibits, and evidence to Texas Islamic Court.
5. The parties agree that the Ruling of the Texas Islamic Court in the above mentioned Cause Numbers is Binding, and Final, and no party will take any appeal or future legal action of any matter afterwards.
...We reverse the trial court's orders denying Appellants' motions to stay litigation and to compel arbitration in these two consolidated cases. We render judgment that the Arbitration Agreement signed by the parties is valid and enforceable and covers all disputes between the parties that arose prior to the date the parties signed the Arbitration Agreement, including all matters that were the subject of the partial summary judgment previously granted by the trial court.
So in Texas, be well aware if you sign an agreement at a Texas Islamic Court you could forefit some of the rights you might have in a regular court that other citizens get.
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What can you say about a national organization like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who sides with illegal foreign nationals against a state? This is exactly what happened in Oklahoma Friday when a third lawsuit, in as many court jurisdictions, was filed against the state of Oklahoma and its citizen-supported anti-illegal foreign national law, HB 1804.
How dare this national organization, who clearly favors slave labor, sue Oklahoma and its citizens!
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ACTION ALERT: Every American who believes it's the right of citzens and their own state laws to determine the direction of their own state should call or write the U.S. Chamber of Commerce expressing outrage.
Please don't let your busy schedule stop you for standing up for your rights. A million phone calls can make a difference. Help us by spreading the word.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
1615 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20062-2000
Main Number: 202-659-6000
also consider contacting the U.S. Chamber regional office for Oklahoma:
Southwest & South Central Regions
Phone: | (972) 387-1099 ex 4282 (Pete) (972) 387-1099 ex 4252 (John) |
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has joined forces with the Oklahoma City and Tulsa chambers to sue the state over its immigration reform law.
The U.S. Chamber filed for an injunction Friday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
The lawsuit targets specific aspects of House Bill 1804. Among other things, the new law creates state barriers to hiring illegal immigrants, requires proof of citizenship to receive certain government benefits and makes it illegal to knowingly transport illegal immigrants.
Through the injunction, the U.S. Chamber is seeking to stop the implementation of two sections of the measure.
The lawsuit challenges a requirement that employers doing business with the state use the federal government's voluntary experimental program for verifying work eligibility.
It also challenges require ments for businesses to verify the work authorization status of individual independent contractors to avoid state tax penalties.
I've been keeping track of our state's fight here.