60ft statue of Christ goes up in flames after being struck by lightning By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 7:16 PM on 15th June 2010 Comments (50) Add to My Stories A giant statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised beside a highway has been struck by lightning in a thunderstorm and burned to the ground, police said. The 60ft-tall ‘King of Kings’ statue, one of southwest Ohio’s most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati. The sculpture, which is 40 ft wide at … Continue reading God is an Art Critic!

Women must be leaders in faith A woman led Muslim prayers in Oxford last week. Her actions and those of others like her, across faiths, deserve our support Shaista Gohir guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 June 2010 13.30 BST Article history So far, it seems only Muslim women from abroad dare lead men in Friday prayers in the UK. A Canadian, Raheel Raza, became the second Muslim woman to do so at the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford last week. An African-American convert, Amina Wadud, was the first Muslim woman to lead mixed prayers at the same centre in 2008. It’s not … Continue reading Female Imams?

Al-Muhajiroun morons re-emerge under new name Posted on June 11, 2010 by inayatscorner It appears that the publicity hungry idiots from al-Muhajiroun are about to re-emerge under the name of ‘Muslims Against Crusades’. Today’s edition of the Barking & Dagenham Post says that a group calling itself MAC are to hold a protest demonstration on 15 June at the very same time as the returning Royal Anglian Regiment march in Barking. Just 15 months ago, less than twenty al-Muhajiroun followers turned up at a similar soldiers’ returning march in Luton and held up some offensive placards. Within minutes, the images were beamed around the country … Continue reading Omar Bakris Boyfriends to Dance on June 15th?

By John Feffer The future is no longer in plastics, as the businessman in the 1967 film The Graduate insisted. Rather, the future is in China. If a multinational corporation doesn’t shoehorn China into its business plan, it courts the ridicule of its peers and the outrage of its shareholders. The language of choice for ambitious undergraduates is Mandarin. Apocalyptic futurologists are fixated on an eventual global war between China and the United States. China even occupies valuable real estate in the imaginations of our fabulists. Much of the action of Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age, for example, takes … Continue reading Turkey: Stealth superpower and Leading nation of the Muslim World?

Are roadside bombs in Afghanistan packed with HIV-laced needles? By Jeff Schogol Sgt. Tait Terzo and his bomb dog, Urmel, examine the site of an bomb blast in Jilga, Afghanistan, June 5. Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times // The Rumor Doctor,  a lovechild of the sublime and the ridiculous, felt compelled to look into a report in a British tabloid that the Taliban are using needles infected with HIV in their roadside bombs. The purpose of using the infected needles is to prick bomb disposal technicians trying to disarm the bombs, or infect troops as shrapnel, according to The Sun. … Continue reading Taliban and AIDS?

For more articles check http://www.alternet.org ot truthout.org Ten Things That Terrify Right-Wingers by: Joshua Holland  |  AlterNet (Photo: Sage Ross / Wikimedia Commons) These are some of the things that keep American conservatives awake at night. Modern American conservatism is based on an almost endless series of grievances. Author Thomas Frank coined a term for it: the conservative “plenty-plaint” — a long and ever-evolving list of personal and cultural gripes dressed up as an ideology. But there’s also fear! And while it spans the breadth of the movement, this is the year of the Tea Party revolt, when the grassroots right, disgusted … Continue reading Ten Things That Terrify The Christian Taliban!

From Bishop Alans Blog (http://bishopalan.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-press-feeds-bigotry.html) At the last census, High Wycombe’s population was 92,300, of whom 10,838 were Muslim (11·7 %). If you prick them, do they not bleed? Like the rest of us, Muslims die. Therefore it can come as no surprise that there is a demand for Muslim burials in High Wycombe. The Local Authority has to meet this. Population is growing, and room running out. It would suit Hysterical Islamophobics to be able to say space had been clawed back from consecrated ground in the local graveyard; but that would be barmy because the other 88% of … Continue reading How papers feed bigotry about Islam – by A British Bishop

Poll favourite may put anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders in Cabinet Loonwatch.com Geert Wilders (For everything on Geert Wilders, check out the Dutch site: Krapuul) Here’s something scary from TimesOnline: Poll favourite may put anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders in Cabinet By: David Charter, The Hague Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch politician who wants to tax Muslim headscarves and ban mosque building, could join the next government, the leader of the country’s biggest party said. Mark Rutte, who is tipped to be the next Prime Minister after Wednesday’s vote, told The Times that he was prepared to share power with the anti-Islamic … Continue reading Dutch to elect Village Idiot to Leadership position!

Former Christian Converted to Islam Terrorized with Anthrax? Double Standards Galore Loonwatch.com Joshua Evans Joshua Evans, a former Christian missionary and youth minister from South Carolina, converted to Islam some years ago.  He began preaching again, but this time explaining why he converted religions.  Evans relocated to Florida, and someone detonated a pipe bomb in front of the Jacksonville mosque in which he worships.  Just this week, Evans’ received in the mail an envelope full of white powder which he feared might be anthrax.  The Florida Muslim preacher was rushed to the hospital, and the substance was tested.  Thankfully, it … Continue reading Terrorized with Anthrax?

Jewish Leaders Condemn the English Defense League LOONWATCH.COM English Defense League Hooligans holding up Israeli Flag The EDL has created a Jewish division, obviously playing off of the narrative they have created for themselves as big backers of Israel. Many Jewish organizations are truly appalled by this, and rightly see this as a ploy by the EDL, and that their support for Israel is in fact founded on a foundation of Islamophobia and intimidation. A while ago we reported about a strange new nexus that has developed amongst right-wing Islamophobes. The hoisting of the Israeli flag as a badge of … Continue reading Jewish Brothers/Sisters Condemn the English Defense League