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U.S.C.I.R.F. Hypocrisy Regarding Iran is Blatant

Let's put the real facts about Iran into place...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - America, the country that arrests decorated Marine combat veterans over Facebook posts, and destroys families for possessing a natural plant, marijuana, is politically attacking Iran again.

This time, it is over an 8-year sentence from a man the U.S. government itself has dubbed, Iran’s “Hanging Judge”.

An Open Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper

“Whenever government surrenders its moral authority by aiding oppression and evil, then I am absolved of all allegiance to it, and I know no ruler save God Almighty, and no law but that of conscience itself.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - I doubt that if one of your own kids was savagely raped, strangled to death and thrown into a garbage pit somewhere, you’d look too kindly on a government that gave $57 million to the killer’s employer, especially when the latter had been caught red-handed concealing the crime.

But that’s what you’ve just done, according to your own Federal Budget. Your government has given that much money to the Roman Catholic Church and its agencies across Canada.

Sri Lankan Govt. Withdraws Funds from TNA Councils

“They do not want us to spend these funds for development work because they fear we will win votes at the Provincial Council elections...” - M. K. Sivajilingam

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The Government has withdrawn more than Rs 560 million allocated for development work to Northern Province local councils controlled by the Tamil National Alliance.

The move comes in a year during which Northern Provincial Council elections will be held as pledged by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Hindus Term Canada Billboards in Hungary Targeting Roma as Racist

It is unfortunate that Canada spends taxpayer’s money on a campaign also reportedly including newspapers, radio-spots, and bus-shelter notice.

(RENO) - Hindus have termed Canadian government billboards in Hungary targeting Roma (Gypsy) asylum-seekers as highly inappropriate and blatant racism.

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, said that this unprecedented billboard, with such an unwelcoming tone was prejudiced, intolerant and racist.

80,000 to President Obama-Hold Israel Accountable

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Jewish Voice

(WASHINGTON DC) - The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Jewish Voice for Peace announced that they are running a full-page ad in today's special presidential inauguration edition of the influential Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call.

This is distributed to nearly 20,000 Capitol Hill staffers and elected officials.

Christians Live Under a Feeling of Insecurity In Pakistan

Threatened, harassed, and shot at multiple times, one Christian family man is speaking out.

(LAHORE, Pakistan) - Shamoun Patras was home with his family when Muslim men, who are reportedly drug sellers, opened fire on his home.

He says they opened fire on his house and when he came out to see what happened, they also fired at him.

Are Zionists Now Calling the Shots in the Anglican Church?

Read the signs? Surely they were plain to see. The forces of evil had already pushed some societies into the moral cesspit.

(LONDON) - Rowan Williams’s role as a figure of unity in the worldwide Anglican Communion, which is represented in over 130 countries, meant that he was in a position to “bring the needs and voices of those fighting poverty, disease and the effects of conflict, to the attention of national and international policy makers and donor agencies".

Or so we were told.

Smoking & Drinking Jesus on Shiv Sena ex-Corporator`s Calendar

Religious community in Asia receives apology for offensive image of Jesus.

(MUMBAI) - The ex-Shiv Sena corporator, Tanaji Lonkar and publisher, K Sagar of the offensive calendar featuring a smoking and drinking Jesus has tendered an unconditional apology to The CSF and other community groups which had taken exception to it.

The CSF, MCYF, AOCC and CPF had filed police complaints in different police stations of Mumbai, like Vakola and Mahim. Joseph Dias, the CSF general secretary has also taken the issue up with the union minister for communications, Milind Deora to get the picture off the internet.

On Earth: You`re Either a Superior Jew OR an Inferior Gentile Anti-Semite (GAS)

“However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as anti-Semitic.” -U.S. State Department, Office of Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism

(WASHINGTON DC) - The political, not religious, ideology of Zionism arose out of the hatred of Jews in Christian Europe and Russia.

The founders of Zionism concluded that this hatred is due to the Gentile world being afflicted with a permanent disease, a genetic disorder of psychosis that is hereditary, irrational, and incurable...

Sacramento Museum Showcasing Hindu Gods

The art had a long and rich tradition in Hinduism and ancient Sanskrit literature/

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Renowned Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento is exhibiting various Hindu deities in its current “Celestial Realms: The Art of Nepal” exhibition, which will continue till February 10.

Its 44 works reportedly include bronze-stone-wood sculptures, paintings, ritual objects, tribal pieces and masks; dating as far back as eighth century...