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Tweet of Mickey & Minnie in Muslim attire stirs Egyptian fury
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Naguib Sawiris A Christian businessman who is one of Egypt’s richest entrepreneurs, has run afoul of the internet’s social media after sending out a message of Mickey and Minnie Mouse dressed as conservative Muslims. The cartoon, which was already circulating by email and on various websites, shows the Disney cartoon figures in full Muslim attire. Mickey is wearing a traditional Islamic…
Jewish leader’s blog too controversial for America On Line’s “The Huffington Post”?
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David Harris is Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee. The New York Times has called the AJC, which was founded in 1906, “the dean of American Jewish organizations.” So it’s not that radical of an outfit. But the position taken by David Harris on what is being called ”the Gaza flotilla” — boats attempting to run Israel’s…
Kidnapped 9-year-old Pakistani girl told to go kill policemen
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Nine-year-old Sohana Jawed was snatched off the street, drugged, outfitted in a suicide vest and told to go kill Pakistani policemen. The third grader refused to cooperate, throwing off the vest as she ran toward police screaming for help, according to Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. Dressed in her blue school uniform and a white headscarf, Sohana…
Evangelicals wade into circumcision debate
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By ADELLE M. BANKS c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) The National Association of Evangelicals is siding with Jews and Muslims in opposition of a proposed ban on infant male circumcision in San Francisco. “Jews, Muslims, and Christians all trace our spiritual heritage back to Abraham. Biblical circumcision begins with Abraham,” NAE President Leith Anderson…
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