Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with religion www.salem-news.com 2010 There are few crimes more despicable then stealing your neighbour’s water.and polluting what’s left, then watching him and his children suffer thirst, disease and ruin. Most of us would want nothing to do with the perpetrators of such evil. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/water-thieves-sl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/water-thieves-sl.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:45:00 PST The West Bank and Gaza are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. Restrictions on movement, home destruction and widespread violence against Palestinians, have created an ongoing emergency. http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/unrwa-gaza.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/unrwa-gaza.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:57:00 PST The Global March to Jerusalem/GMJ commences on 30 March and coincides with the 36th anniversary of LAND DAY. As “reality leaves much to the imagination” [John Lennon] I imagine the third intifada could finally erupt if those two events were joined into from every city, town and village throughout Israel by contingents of nonviolent residents. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/global-revolution-ef.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/global-revolution-ef.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:00 PST A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization is calling on the DOJ's Civil Rights Division to investigate acts of “coercion and intimidation” in the FBI’s Portland Field Office. The agency is accused of pressuring Muslims into giving up constitutional rights if they wish to return to the U.S. from overseas. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/muslim-coercion.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/muslim-coercion.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:58:00 PST Students United For Palestinian Equal Rights has organized a wide-ranging conference that is designed to analyze the events of the Arab Spring. The event will examine its regional and international implications, and its effects on the future of Palestine. http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/super-pdx.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/super-pdx.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:03:00 PST The Israeli occupation authorities plan to demolish a renewable energy project; the only source of lighting for the houses in a Palestinian village near Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The people of Al-Mnazel received the demolition notice advising of Israel's plans to destroy the solar panels which provide them with electricity. http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/solar-destruction.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/solar-destruction.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:08:00 PST Voltaire’s wit often illuminates truth. Consider this revealing “thought” as expressed recently in Alert, the voice of AIPAC to its membership: “Some Americans believe if the Israelis strike Iran, the U.S. will pay the political costs anyway, so it would be better for the Americans to do the job and do it properly...” http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/israel-war-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/israel-war-bc.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:02:00 PST Three were arrested at Al-Walaja village Video of the event today at Al-Walaja- they were later released. Herzliya conference, action item to do for Brussels Air, Youth Conference in Palestine in July, and more. http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/palestine-conference-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/palestine-conference-mq.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:04:00 PST Blogger Noam Sheizal writes that most Israeli voters have no interest in ending the country’s 44 year military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Sheizal, a columnist for +972, concludes in his FP essay, that the “peace camp” has disappeared from Israeli politics. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/gershowitz-attacks-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/gershowitz-attacks-jw.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:24:00 PST I was initially perplexed by the Zionist influence within the NYC Quaker Seminary. Why would Zionists send their kids to a Quaker school? Clearly the discrepancy between Quaker pacifism and Zionist militancy must be blindingly obvious to every Jewish nationalist parent. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/american-dilemma-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/american-dilemma-ga.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:16:00 PST "In contrast to the murderous vision of violent extremists, we are joining with allies and partners around the world to build their capacity to promote security..." wrote U.S. President Barack Obama. The report details the United States’ own vision of violent extremism being directed against Iran. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/violence-dollars-yaw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/violence-dollars-yaw.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:20:00 PST American exceptionalism takes many forms. One of the least noticed is the preference for circumcision of boys. Other than among Muslims and Jews, for whom it is a religious or at least traditional requirement, cutting off part of the penis is alien to most other cultures and usually only carried out for medical, or occasionally aesthetic, reasons. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/flap-circumcision.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/flap-circumcision.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:26:00 PST A photographer and two women were injured at this Friday’s anti-occupation demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. The civilians injured in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh today required hospitalization, according to reports from several eyewitness. http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/west-bank-.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/west-bank-.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:10:00 PST In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/tears-gaza.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/tears-gaza.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:53:00 PST Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in London recently. Did anyone know? Did western media care? No. Not until reports appeared that Jewish community leaders cancelled a meeting with him after intervention by Israeli PM Netanyahu's office... http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/palestine-leaders-sl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/palestine-leaders-sl.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:10:00 PST There was a moment in a report from Tunisia by the BBC’s Wyre Davies when I could not stop myself laughing. I was listening to it on the Corporation’s generally excellent World Service radio. In my view this particular BBC service is generally excellent because unlike all other BBC news and current affairs outlets, radio and tv, it often reflects some of the truth about what is happening in and over Palestine that became Israel. http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/no-israel-ah.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/no-israel-ah.php Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:25:00 PST Yesterday, Amira Hass reported in Haaretz the Israeli military are now pumping “nausea-inducing chemicals,” into cars at a Bethlehem checkpoint, as a new search method. Hass describes the IDF first pulling over cars, then: ...once parked, the passengers are asked to roll up all windows, apart from that of the driver – and exit the vehicle. Two tubes are then connected to the vehicle... http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/checkpoint-chemicals.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/checkpoint-chemicals.php Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:51:00 PST We’ve been sent a transcription of PSC Chair Hugh Lanning’s speech at the PSC AGM where he tries to justify, on the grounds of racism, anti-Semitism and prejudice, the expulsion of ex-PSC Chair, Dr. Francis Clark-Lowes. To support the PSC EC decision Lanning quotes Dr. Clark-Lowes saying, "I said I was proud to call myself a Holocaust denier – it is the capital ‘H’ I believe we must question." http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/gilad-psc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/gilad-psc.php Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:23:00 PST Occupation rule's cynical game with the small village of Aqaba. Brigadier General Almaz makes a personal visit, promising to "look into the complaints". Then, his representative issues 25 demolition orders - in a village consisting of 45 houses in all. http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/aqaba-village.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/aqaba-village.php Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:04:00 PST The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed the withdrawal of an anti-Islam speaker, retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin, from an upcoming prayer breakfast at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. CAIR recently joined with VoteVets.org, a coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, in asking the academy to retract an invitation because of Boykin's Islamophobic views... http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/islamophobe-speaker.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/islamophobe-speaker.php Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:42:00 PST Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress - was considered a terrorist by the U.S. and British governments all the way into the 1990's. He is the ultimate victim/survivor of those who use the 'terrorist' label as a tool of war. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/terrorism-realities-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/terrorism-realities-tk.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:41:00 PST Last week The New York Times published an opine by Ronen Bergman, who answered his own question in “Will Israel Attack Iran?” “After speaking with many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the military and the intelligence, I have come to believe that Israel will indeed strike Iran in 2012...” http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/vanunu_update-ef.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/vanunu_update-ef.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:11:00 PST One very well informed and courageous Israeli who thinks the answer is “Yes” is Merav Michaeli, a radio and television presenter who also writes for Ha’aretz. She is completely without fear when it comes to telling it like it is. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/israel-doomsday-ah.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/israel-doomsday-ah.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:19:00 PST Before the South Carolina primary, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson gave $5 million dollars to an independent PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. That worked so well that a second $5 million dollar gift was soon on its way to that same pro-Gingrich PAC, Winning Our Future, keeping the former House Speaker in a tight two man race with Mitt Romney. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/friedman-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/friedman-jw.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:44:00 PST We all know it is not just American and Lebanese politicians who use Palestinian refugees as political footballs during electoral campaigns. But they are currently the two most egregious apart from most Zionist politicians in temporarily occupied Palestine. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/sabra-shatila-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/sabra-shatila-fl.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:12:00 PST Israeli Mossad agents posed as CIA officers in order to recruit members of a Pakistani terror group to carry out assassinations and attacks against the regime in Iran, Foreign Policy revealed on Friday, quoting U.S. intelligence memos. Foreign Policy's Mark Perry reported that the Mossad operation was carried out in 2007-2008, behind the back of the U.S. government, and infuriated then U.S. President George W. Bush. http://salem-news.com/articles/january292012/cia-mossad-br.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292012/cia-mossad-br.php Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:05:00 PST As an American Muslim, I am a great admirer of the Jewish people, especially American Jews. I think we Muslims can learn a lot from the way Jews have made their presence felt in American society. For example, I marvel at the chutzpah of the Beth Shalom Temple in Corona, California... http://salem-news.com/articles/january292012/shameless-chutzpah-kb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292012/shameless-chutzpah-kb.php Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:59:00 PST Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. once stated: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." It does matter that a mother died this week who has not seen her two sons for years (one for 9 and the other 18 years) because they are in Israeli jails and the jailers refused family visits. http://salem-news.com/articles/january292012/restiamo-umani-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292012/restiamo-umani-mq.php Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:14:00 PST Human rights, Genocide, peace, politics, a broken earth, and Salem-News.com. Our goal as an Oregon news family is to cover subjects that others ignore. Salem-News.com, our greater family, is essential media - more needed in this world than ever before. I won't mention every person with the group, though I wish I could, there are so many champions among them. http://salem-news.com/articles/january282012/tim-bonnie-king.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january282012/tim-bonnie-king.php Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:09:00 PST “Prof. Israel Finkelstein & Neil Silberman, Two of archaeology’s leading scholars shed new light on how the Bible came into existence. They assert, for example, that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob never existed, that David and Solomon were not great kings but obscure chieftains and that the Exodus never happened.” http://salem-news.com/articles/january282012/bible-unearthed-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january282012/bible-unearthed-ae.php Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:16:00 PST