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The head of a major Pakistani political party is calling on the nation’s Supreme Court to ban the Bible because it blasphemes Islam. On May 30. Maulana Abdul Rauf Farooqi, leader of the large Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, claimed that the Bible contains passages that are extremely insulting to Islam’s prophets. He specifically cited the story of…

  A Chinese Christian seeking political asylum was turned back by Canadian officials who didn’t like his answers about Jesus. “The man’s inability to attribute human characteristics to Jesus formed part of the board’s decision to deny his refugee claim,” writes Douglas Quan in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper. Wu Xin Wang came to Canada in…

  Student baseball player Mike Milligan is embarrassed that Goshen College where he is pursuing a degree has banned playing the “Star-Spangled Banner” at athletic events. Why? Because the song is violent. Francis Scott Key was sitting in a British prison ship, worried that America might not survive the War of 1812. The White House had been torched…

  Is the state of Louisiana protecting the public? Or the funeral industry? On Monday, wearing his monk’s robe, Abbot Justin Brown of St. Joseph’s monastery near Covington, Louisiana, told U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duvan that his monks only want to make affordable coffins for the cash-strapped public. He said the only people who ever have opposed the…
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