At the crossroads of civilisations Jul 6, 2008
From the bitterness of an ethnic and religious war, a country emerges full of hope, and with lessons that a multicultural, multi-religious nation like ours should heed ... How did a country that had mosques, churches, and synagogues co-existing peacefully for centuries become a byword for the horrors of a religious war. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
A war for religious freedom Jul 5, 2008
For many colonists, the War for Independence was a religious war -- yes, a holy war ... For the founders, it was a religious war in the sense that their greatest ally was God. (Albany Times Union)
He's Gonzo But Not Forgotten Jul 4, 2008
That's why this film about one of the funniest and most electrifying writers of the 20th century begins, droopily, with Thompson writing on 9/11 and warning, without wit, of a religious war inflamed by intolerance on either side. Whether you consider those remarks prescient or silly, they're not what made Thompson who he was. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Rumsfeld's torturous defense Jul 3, 2008
When will people realize that this is a religious war. The Western mind cannot come to grips with that fact; we call it a war on terror. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
* [HARDCOVER: US] Viewing Africa's turmoil through the eyes of children Jun 29, 2008
Religious war, tribalism, the power of the military and the influence of oil money are among the many facets here; conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone are among those specifically invoked. Despite such dramatic density, the arc of the story is as self-evident as the epiphany that comes to Jubril. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Read Article » Jun 26, 2008
"Anytime the Western countries go to war in the Middle East, it becomes a religious war," said Rosie Malek-Yonan, the author of "The Crimson Field," a historical novel depicting the 1914-18 massacre of Assyrians during World War I under similar circumstances. Malek-Yonan, who testified on the issue of Christians' safety in Iraq at a congressional hearing in 2006, accused the United States Army of failing to protect the Christians out of concern that special attention to this minority would play... (International Herald Tribune)
Naman Crowe: How many believe we're in a religious war? Jun 18, 2008
Naman Crowe: How many believe we're in a religious war ... What we have here is an ironic example of a Christian coming straight out and claiming that the situation we re in today is nothing less than a religious war between Christianity and Islam, in a struggle to the death to see which one survives ... He uses the term radical Muslims, as if he were making some distinction, but it is pretty obvious by his words and arguments, such as Judeo/Christian influence gives democracy its best (and in... (Catoosa County News, GA)
Mr Market combats the Taliban May 31, 2008
Religious war or not, the Taliban need to pay their soldiers princely sums of money (by local standards) to fight the war against NATO in the country. With their coffers depleted and their own expenses on fuel and food going up, it is likely that the Taliban would face greater pressure. (Asia Times Online)
'Baggage'... May 23, 2008
He thinks it is our duty to have a RELIGIOUS WAR, and the best way to do this is to DESTROY IRAN, and McCain is happy to have their support. Do you really want McCain to be in charge when "he is happy to have the support of" SERIOUS lunatics like this. (The Drudge Report)
Lebanon crisis sparks regional row May 14, 2008
"It is quite clear, almost all Lebanese politicians said ... we do not have ethnic or religious war. It is the war of the innocent people of Lebanon against [US president] Bush's expansionism." Lebanon, meanwhile, experienced a day of relative calm. After fighting broke out early on Tuesday in the northern city of Tripoli, the army stepped up street patrols in an attempt to restore order. (Aljazeera.Net)
No Jihadis Here! May 2, 2008
Religious war was the only thing he had in mind: It is preferable not to begin hostilities with the enemy before having invited the latter to embrace the religion of Allah except where the enemy attacks first. They have the alternative of either converting to Islam or paying the poll tax (jizya), short of which war will be declared against them. (Human Events Online)
Journey through terror Apr 16, 2008
In the Irish context it took me some time to realise this - that the historical roots of the conflict lay in Britain's partition of Ireland and not in some ancient religious war between Catholics and Protestants. Many could never have envisaged a former IRA man in government. (BBC News -- UK)
Charlie Brooker Apr 12, 2008
Oh, and it's essentially a religious war because the humans believe in lots of old-school multiple Gods, like the ancient Egyptians (who they may or may not be closely related to), while the Cylons believe in "the one true God", who presumably has a microchip for a face and sits on a big throne of pixels in the sky. In other words: if you haven't watched the show before but fancy tuning in this week, don't bother. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Wilson's last words Mar 31, 2008
ON READING the obituary (March 27) of , a columnist whose conservative views I respected but did not share, I was reminded that the last two words of the last column he wrote for the Globe were "Respect Islam." I am sure that he was appalled by neo-conservatives whose implacable hostility toward the Palestinians and the millions of Muslims who identify with them has brought our country to the brink of a global religious war. STEPHEN McKNIGHTNeedham. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
'Fitna' Debut Exposes Europe's Muslim Agenda Mar 31, 2008
It points out t 00004000 o a secular Europe what a religious war looks like. The film was made by Dutch legislator Geert Wilders. (Human Events Online)
Post a comment » Mar 29, 2008
It's a religious war the Christians are losing. Muslims are out reproducing (check google scholar) and out maneuvering. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Marshall Talks Iraq, Economy in East Dublin Mar 27, 2008
they don t want to fight a religious war, Marshall said. Asked about the morale of American troops in Iraq, Marshall said it was great and the soldiers feel what they are doing is important. (Dublin Courier Herald, GA)
The mustard seedin global strategy Mar 26, 2008
Where will the Pope find the sandals on the ground in this new religious war. From the ranks of the Muslims themselves, evidently. (Asia Times Online)
Hollywoods Holy Week Christophobic Fantasy Mar 22, 2008
The son is under the influence of a Bible-spouting pastor who runs the Angelgrove Camp, where he is preparing Christian children to fight a religious war ... The son is under the influence of a Bible-spouting pastor who runs the Angelgrove Camp, where he is preparing Christian children to fight a religious war. (Townhall.com)
Seminary attack sparks fears Mar 8, 2008
Together with the grief and sorrow, there is going to be a lot of angry talk about good and evil, about a religious war over the Holy Land. HILMI MUSA LEBANON'S AL-SAFIR. (BBC News -- Africa)
Politics and the Bible shouldn't mix Mar 6, 2008
The framers of the Constitution were well aware of the horrors of a church-and-state union, for Europe had seen nearly 14 centuries of religious war and oppression. The Crusades, the Inquisition, the witch hunts and the deportations of religious minorities were all biblically based. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Sewickley native steps up for peace in six-month crusade Mar 4, 2008
In April 2006, Brandon Wilson began a 2,620-mile walk to promote peace on a path where Crusaders waged a religious war more than nine centuries ago. On the six-month trek from northern France to Israel he found that most people he encountered wanted peace, and he returned with a sense of renewal and profound gratitude for the countless meals, aid and directions strangers gave him. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Porsche Should Go Green to Beat Big-Carbon Tag Feb 27, 2008
Once CO2 is considered the one and only yardstick, we are on the verge of a religious war,'' he added. Clearly, environmental questions affect businesses. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Halting Kenya's Chaotic Spiral Jan 30, 2008
On a visit to Kenya six years ago, I acquired a copy of "Inside Sudan: The Story of People to People Peacemaking in Southern Sudan." Published by the New Sudan Council of Churches, the book described in detail peacemaking strategies pursued in the midst of southern Sudan's complex tribal and religious war. The strategies included using tribal reconciliation rituals to coax tribal leaders into negotiating or to help amenable leaders draw antagonized and alienated tribesmen into a peace process... (Townhall.com)
Our one-way trip to disaster Jan 28, 2008
In the 2006 State of the Union address, Bush repeated that "we will never surrender to evil," but now he was explicitly associating it with what he called "radical Islam." This careless labeling took the bus into the mine field of religious war. What is most notable about the 2006 speech, however, is that New Orleans, still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, barely appeared in it. (Boston Globe)
As Suharto clings to life, Indonesians draw mystical connections Jan 26, 2008
When a religious war gripped Indonesia's Molucca Islands at the beginning of the decade, both Christians and Muslims turned to mysticism, performing animist rituals before fighting each other. All six presidents of Indonesia - each a devout Muslim - paid respects to the spirit world, visiting sites said to hold mystical power, consulting with seers or collecting tokens of magic like the Indonesian dagger called a kris. (International Herald Tribune)
Islamofascism's ill political wind Jan 21, 2008
What Bin Laden could not have imagined was that he would find like-minded partners-in-conflict coming to power in Washington, advancing his religious war, every bit as sure of God's sponsorship as he. James Carroll's column appears regularly in the Globe. (Boston Globe)
Anti-War Billionaire George Soros Funded Iraq Study Jan 14, 2008
Terrorists must be frustrated to have so openly declared a religious war upon any who are not Muslim, and have so many deny that they want to fight. The choice for all free nations is not between war or peace, it is between fighting or surrendering. (Newsmax)
America, where hope never dies Jan 7, 2008
While the other major candidates have blandly promised to "end the war in Iraq", as if America has the power to end a civil and religious war in the middle of the Islamic world, McCain, a former navy officer and veteran Washington legislator, was the only candidate to support Bush and the increase in American troops in Iraq. The surge has paid off, thanks largely to the violent exc 00004000 esses of the al-Qaeda fighters inside Iraq, which turned the local population against them. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Huckabee Attack Ad All Over Internet, Cable Jan 3, 2008
He denied seeing Iraq as one element in a larger religious war and said he saw the current terrorist threat as something that grew out of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s. "If people go back to the writer Sayd Qutb in 1962, you see where the major influence of people like Osama Bin Laden comes from.". (ABC News)
Breaking the Golden Rule of Politics Jan 2, 2008
That cleared the way for Buchanan to declare in his address: "There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the Cold War itself.". Many conservative evangelicals loved the bellicose rhetoric, but moderates were offended, and national news media responded with increased scrutiny of the campaign's religious politics. (Time.com)
A fresh blow for Pakistan Dec 28, 2007
A religious war is the West's worst nightmare and the situation will be enough to justify President-General Pervez Musharraf again declaring martial law, with Western acquiescence. There are surely more convincing grounds for him to do so now, as Pakistan genuinely descends into deep crisis, than the phony reasons he cited for last month's state of emergency following Bhutto's return from a decade in exile. (Yahoo News -- Pakistan)
No holy war in the heartland Dec 20, 2007
If you watch the Sunday morning talk shows or read the weekly newsmagazines, there is a religious war erupting on the road to Des Moines. Here's the narrative: Romney is stumbling in Iowa because the former governor of Massachusetts is a Mormon and evangelical Christians who make up more than a third of the state's GOP voters won't support a Mormon for president. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
Ron Paul: 'Listen to what he has to say' Dec 17, 2007
The Army and Marines exist to kill people and blow up their stuff - not drive up and down streets policing a religious war. If the "terrorists" really want to blow up Cleveland, why not just come here. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Roger Cohen: The Euro-American religious divide Dec 13, 2007
Indeed, the devastating European experience of religious war and intolerance played an important role in the founders' thinking. Seen against this backdrop, Romney's speech and the society it reflects is far more troubling than Europe's empty cathedrals. (International Herald Tribune)
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The Mitt-Mike Religious War - HUMAN EVENTS ... The Mitt-Mike Religious Warby Posted: 12/11/2007 ... Four weeks before New Hampshire and three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican race has become a proxy religious war. (Human Events Online)
The Mitt-Mike Religious War Dec 11, 2007
Four weeks before New Hampshire and three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican race has become a proxy religious war ... Four weeks before New Hampshire and three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican race has become a proxy religious war. (Townhall.com)
A Taxpayer Protest Against A Global War Nov 27, 2007
This attack will be interpreted by many Shiites in the Middle East as a religious war. The 2 million Shiites in Saudi Arabia (heavily concentrated in the oil-rich Eastern Province), the Shiite majority in Iraq and the Shiite communities in Bahrain, Pakistan and Turkey could turn in rage on us and our dwindling allies. (CBS News)
A Reader Writes: The real horror is not knowing Constitution Nov 27, 2007
The horrors of the English Civil War were still fresh 125 years later: a conflict where Protestants and Catholics good Christians allbutchered each other in a religious war where the goal, earthly power, was at root. The bloody history of Christianity (i. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
On the road with Michael Chabon's 'Gentleman' Nov 17, 2007
Filaq's crusade is referred to as a religious war. If anything, it represents a wish fantasy: Muslims and Jews banding together to restore order to a fallen kingdom. (Boston Globe)
Fighting faith Nov 16, 2007
Terrorists in Iraq and Iran and jihadist organizations across the world are fighting a religious war ... These principles, however, do not apply to radical religious warriors. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
Letters to the Editor Nov 14, 2007
It becomes a religious war. In the Bible, God says man has dominion over everything that walks, crawls, creeps, flies, climbs, swims, etc. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
S A Aiyar: Pakistan needs KPS Gill Nov 11, 2007
Bhindranwale envisaged a religious war in which Sikhs would beat Hindus. His communal warmongering won him Sikh popular support for years. (India Times, India)
What does He think? Nov 10, 2007
" FNG wrote on Nov 8, 2007 8:44 AM:" I'm sorry, when did the US declare that this was a religious war. If anything, it is the extremists on the other side who are killing in God's name. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
FBI: Potential Christmas attacks at shopping malls... Nov 9, 2007
The Blotter: Exclusive: FBI: Al Qaeda May Strike U.S. Shopping Malls in LA, Chicago. TOP BLOTTER CATEGORIES. (The Drudge Report)
Holland: Iraqis Oppose Troop Mandate Nov 9, 2007
Iraq is not in the midst of an incomprehensible religious war over some obscure theological differences between Sunni and Shiite Muslims but is deeply and profoundly divided over fundamental questions about the future of the country. In cutting the nationalist majority in the parliament out of the process of governing, the Maliki administration, Bush administration and, apparently, the U.N. secretary-general are making political reconciliation much more difficult. (Zmag.org)
Inside story of the Western mind Nov 6, 2007
religious war, you had better know something about religion ... If we are in a fourth world war, as Norman Podhoretz proclaims, it is a religious war. (Asia Times Online)
A Woman's Quest to Find Her Past and a Future She Must Fight for -- Author Kimberly Vogel Weaves a Fascinating Tale of One Woman's Discovery of Herself and a War She Must Stop to Save the Future Nov 3, 2007
Though she doesn't know about her parents or their religion, she is thrown into a religious war that wiped out the previous generation, including her parents twenty years ago. As Viki tries to figure out who she is, then and now, she struggles to stop the fighting before those she has come to know and care about are wiped out as well. (Primezone Releases)
Islamofascism: Londonistan Calling Oct 31, 2007
Britain is headed for an uncivil, religious war if it keeps doing nothing. So is the rest of Europe. (Investors Business Daily)
Scott sharpens up for final 'Blade Runner' Oct 30, 2007
Religious war could, with the usage of nuclear weapons, bring about this kind of an understanding. A very dark, a very fearful world where technology completely annihilates the human species. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Reaching For Peace, Receiving Violence Oct 28, 2007
We are almost setting the stage here for a religious war. The head of the Palestinian negotiating team, Ahmed Qureia was quoted in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz on October 12 saying, "If the talks fail, we can expect a third, and much more severe, intifada.". (CBS News)
Bangalore-Mangalore passenger trains likely in November Oct 17, 2007
Do you think that the positive reaction to BJP's 'Religious War' will help to create govt through its own power. Yes. (Udayavani)
Religious turmoil in Tudor England seen to have modern parallel Oct 15, 2007
It's a religious war -- one where the opposing factions both believe they are following the dictates of faith, doctrine and divine sanction, where both believe that God is on their side. Are we talking about the Middle East -- in particular, the conflict in Iraq which is driven by warring religious dogmas both internally and externally. (StarPhoenix)
Exclusive: Chuck Norris refutes accusations of religious intolerance in armed forces Oct 8, 2007
" They should not be hindered from handing out Bibles without offering Qurans at the same time. That is their Constitutional right! And if civilian or nonprofit groups like the or churches partnering with them want to support the Christian ministry on the battlefield, it is their Constitutional right as well. Just as it is mine to encourage people to join them! Christianity is not the enemy The fact is, our country is more obsessed with highlighting Christian fundamentalist abuses than we are... (WorldNetDaily)
Christopher Buckley: The Forbes 400 Through History Sep 23, 2007
es; quarrel eventually led to the resumption of fierce religious war, for reasons that to this day continue to elude scholars. Following Louis' death in 1715--attributed to an ill-fitting culotte--Antoine left France under a cloud, never to return. (Forbes -- Business)
Carroll: Fundamentalism Sep 20, 2007
Our war against the Soviet Union was a religious war ... even more, when this nation took the 9/11 assaults as a religious war, Muslims attacking us good, virtuous -- we didn't call ourselves Christians, but we were an inch away from it -- that's when we began to make our part of this mistake. (Zmag.org)
Transcript: Democratic Response to Bush's Radio... Sep 16, 2007
To win the war against international terrorism, we must stop frittering away our resources military, diplomatic, and economic on an endless religious war in Iraq. With its TV ads, the Presidents address, and every other available means, the Administration is pulling out all the stops to make the case to stay the course for an endless war in Iraq. (Fox News)
Alireza Jafarzadeh: What Gen. Petraeus Should Tell... Sep 11, 2007
Some others say it is too late; that Iraq is lost to extremists and the sectarian religious war backed by Tehran. This defeatist attitude must be repelled. (Fox News)
'Was recorded in same location'... Sep 11, 2007
The Blotter: Second Bin Laden Tape Expected. TOP BLOTTER CATEGORIES. (The Drudge Report)
--WND Exclusive-- Sep 11, 2007
"After we put aside that you are the terrorists and we are resistance movements leading a legitimate religious war that will not accept any compromise, I must say how foolish it is of Bush to launch a war against something called terror," said Adassi. Lesson No. 4: Islamic terror groups share the same goal. (WorldNetDaily)
Exclusive: Chuck Norris dates tension with extremist Muslims to American Revolution Sep 10, 2007
Once a religious war, always a religious war. Whether justified as vengeful sentiment for the Crusades or not, Islamo-fascism cannot see any argument or altercation with the West outside the lens of a religious one. (WorldNetDaily)
OSAMA RAMBLE: INSANE TAXES, GLOBAL WARMING AND MORTGAGES! Sep 8, 2007
The West is in a religious war with Islam. There can be no peace until a reformation occurs within Islam and the radicals are rejected. (The Drudge Report)
Java versus Microsoft for SOA Aug 30, 2007
"I don't think this is as much a religious war as some people make it out to be, at least on the back end, the infrastructure end," said Bradley F. Shimmin, principal analyst of application infrastructure at Current Analysis LLC. "Most SOA server platforms support both Java and .NET environments fairly equally." ... "I don't think this is as much a religious war as some people make it out to be, at least on the back end, the infrastructure end," said Bradley F. Shimmin, principal analyst of... (Search Webservices)
It must be the endof secularism ... Aug 21, 2007
Secular liberalism stands helpless before a new century of religious wars, Columbia University Professor Mark Lilla concedes in "The politics of God", a despairing vision of the political future published in the August 19 New York Times Magazine ... For the few of us who asked not how to avoid religious war, but ... Before all these dreadful people brought faith back into politics, Lilla avers, 17th-century British philosopher Thomas Hobbes had saved civilization from religious wars by changing... (Asia Times Online)
Post a comment » Aug 21, 2007
It's a religious war the Christians are losing. Muslims are out reproducing (check google scholar) and out maneuvering. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
