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  mazsa 22:10 on April 28, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Bias ( 8 ), God ( 10 ), Human ( 44 ), Religion   

  

  How to build a religion: “FANCY founding a religion? Keen to reform a flagging faith? Here a few tips on how to attract and retain followers, thus ensuring that your gospel spreads far and wide, affording spiritual solace to as many souls as possible.

  At the outset, you must realise that success is unlikely if you go wholly against the grain of human nature. Granted, religion is all about forging the perfect man, or at least ensuring that, as far as possible, he lives up to divine expectations. But preternatural power has forged man in such a way that he will swallow some of your ideas about how to achieve this more easily than others. [...]” http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/04/science_and_faiths

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  mazsa 20:38 on April 18, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Censorship ( 17 ), Constitution ( 79 ), Hungary ( 51 ), Politics ( 73 ), Religion   

  

  Hungary’s parliament passes controversial new constitution: it is the government’s attempt to cement its power beyond its term, eliminates the system of checks and balances, forces its Christian ideology on the country and limits civil liberties.

  “The new constitution’s preamble is laden with references to God, Christianity, the fatherland, the “Holy Crown of Hungary,” and traditional family values, raising opposition fears about the future rights of Hungary’s atheists, homosexuals and single-parent families. [...]” http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14998392,00.html

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  mazsa 12:02 on March 27, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Constitution ( 79 ), Ethics ( 31 ), Human ( 44 ), Philosophy ( 38 ), Religion   

  

  Seven Laws of Noah: “This code is a set of moral imperatives that, according to the Talmud, were given by God as a binding set of laws for the “children of Noah” – that is, all of humankind. According to Judaism, any non-Jew who lives according to these laws is regarded as a Righteous Gentile, and is assured of a place in the world to come (Olam Haba), the final reward of the righteous.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah

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  mazsa 09:00 on March 27, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: India ( 3 ), Pakistan, Religion   

  [Video:] Respect: Pakistani Actress Defies Mullah Accusing Her of Immoral Behavior

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  admin 10:39 on February 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Bill of rights ( 6 ), Constitution ( 79 ), Democracy ( 15 ), Egypt ( 11 ), Religion   

  #Egypt: Yuppie Revolution Is Over, Islamist Revolution Has Begun:

  Now that Mubarek is gone, the western media mostly has moved on to the next revolution, secure in the perception that Egypt is moving in the right direction. But that is a false comfort. [...] over a million Egyptians turned out in Tahrir Square last Friday to cheer the vile anti-Semitic Sunni cleric Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who had been exiled by Mubarek, and who espouses the fundamentalist Islamic view that Jews must live as Dhimmis under Islamic control. http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/02/yuppie-revolution-in-egypt-is-over.html

  

  Google executive Wael Ghonim, who emerged as a leading voice in Egypt’s uprising, was barred from the stage in Tahrir Square on Friday by security guards, an AFP photographer said. Ghonim tried to take the stage in Tahrir, the epicentre of anti-regime protests that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, but men who appeared to be guarding influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi barred him from doing so. http://www.hindustantimes.com/Egypt-protest-hero-Wael-Ghonim-barred-from-stage/Article1-663996.aspx

  The end of the Camp David accords? Two million Egyptians aim to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem:
  

  For those whose Arabic is a bit weak, the first commenter on YouTube translated what they were shouting into English.
  “To Jerusalem We go, for us to be the Martyrs of the Millions.” http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/02/end-of-camp-david-accords-two-million.html

  Transcript: Leading Sunni Scholar Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi Calls for the Egyptian Army to Replace the Government and Prays to Allah for the Conquest of the Al-Aqsa Mosque http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/2815.htm

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    admin 00:07 on February 26, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    http://www.dissentmagazine.org/democratiya/article_pdfs/d13GardnerRich.pdf

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    admin 07:46 on March 5, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    http://www.ted.com/talks/wael_ghonim_inside_the_egyptian_revolution.html

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    admin 02:19 on March 14, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/6725963/part_5/arabian-nightmare.thtml

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    admin 07:20 on March 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/2011/03/21/the-egyptian-evolution/

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    admin 00:48 on March 27, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/islamist-group-is-rising-force-in-a-new-egypt-94057

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    admin 18:23 on June 10, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13183