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An End to the Agony

It is an amputation of a healthy, sensitive body part that is performed without specific medical need, and without the patient's consent.

(TEL AVIV) - Germany's parliament may soon approve a law to protect religious circumcision, this to counteract a Cologne court ruling last June that pronounced the practice unlawful.

This is wrong - the German government should rethink. I say this as a Jewish parent from a proud rabbinic lineage, with relatives killed in the Holocaust; I say this as the maker of "It's a Boy!" - the 1995 British TV documentary that first broke the taboo on showing the hidden toll of circumcision.

Iraq Records Huge Rise in Birth Defects: `New Study Links Increase with Military Action by Western Forces`

There is 'compelling evidence' to link the increased numbers of defects and miscarriages to military assaults

(LONDON THE INDEPENDENT U.K.) - "...a new study reports a 'staggering rise' in birth defects among Iraqi children conceived in the aftermath of the war.

"High rates of miscarriage, toxic levels of lead and mercury contamination and spiralling numbers of birth defects ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs have been recorded..."

China Syndrome: Could Romney be The Manchurian Candidate?

Romney holds major stock in company that demanded the U.S. flag to be lowered while Chinese workers replaced the Americans... a preface to Red Dawn?

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Presidential Canidate Romney holds a major amount of stock in a company called Sensata.

Professor Mahmoud Ayoub Receives 2012 Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Institute of Islamic Thought

A noted scholar in the history of religion, the beloved Professor has been an extremely valuable resource in my research.

(BOSTON / HARTFORD) - Professor Mahmoud Ayoub, Faculty Associate in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary, is a rare and valuable man.

I am so pleased to bring our readers this news about his receiving the 2012 Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).

Waiting for Women

'Breathes there a man with soul so dead that never to his wife has said'... “WILL YOU PLEASE HURRY UP?”

(PORTLAND, OR) - During my adult life I have always found myself standing at the front door of the house WAITING, watching time ticking away wondering what the hell she could be doing that is keeping her. This time it's the car keys she can't find. And it's my fault she can't find them! I should never have let her use them.

At Last, the True Ministers of God Have Spoken-Hallelujah!

Let’s draw up the bill of particulars that is hidden from the world, the subtext, the unsaid prayer no one in this American government wants revealed and certainly no one in Israel wants displayed publicly.

(LAVERNE, CA) - “Where are the Priests, the Rabbis, the Imams, the quiet Buddha monks, all who claim to love humankind? Why does silence reign? Whose voice are we afraid of?

Where are the voices of our leaders…?” These are words I wrote in October of 2004 in an article titled “The Destructive Power of Faith: Killing for Christ.”

Oregon Blown Away By the Columbus Day Storm 50 Years Ago Today

October 12, 1962 is a day that lives in infamy- in Oregon, anyway.

(SALEM) - With little fear of exaggeration, it can be stated that the Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was the most powerful windstorm to strike the Pacific Northwest in the 20th century.

Certainly no windstorm since has generated as much widespread devastation as the Big Blow, not even close.

New `Retaliatory` Attacks on Myanmar`s Rohingyas

Rohingya activists have alleged that Myanmar's Buddhist protesters have launched fresh attacks on Muslims in retaliation to last week's attacks by Muslims on Buddhist temples and houses in Bangladesh.

(LONDON) - Nurul Islam, a Rohingya activist in Bangladesh, told DW that a number of Myanmar Buddhists took out a protest rally on Sunday against the attacks on Buddhist temples and houses in Bangladesh.

He alleged that the protesters attacked a 400-year-old mosque and burnt hundreds of copies of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, and other religious texts.

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Tattoos Lead to Rape Charges in Oregon

But what is rape in Oregon?

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - 18-year old Stephen Matt Lister screwed up, there is no question about it. Police say he has been giving tattoos to underage girls and that he had sex with at least two high school girls in the process.