Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
First, from the Times of Israel:
The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza City, killing Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas’s armed wing — the equivalent of an army’s chief of staff — and his son, Mohammed al-Homs. Palestinian sources put the death toll at up to nine by evening.
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Hamas’s armed wing warned that in assassinating Jabari, Israel “had opened the gates of hell on itself.”
Next, from a blog post by Joel C. Rosenberg: Read it all
Some laws, codes, and ordinances boggle the mind for their brazen assault on freedom.
“It shall be prohibited for any person or group of persons to loiter or congregate on Bourbon Street for the purpose disseminating any social, political, or religious message between the hours of sunset and sunrise.”
Threatened With Arrest for Preaching on Bourbon Street After Sunset
A Christian died for his faith in Tunisia. (That’s in Africa, right?)
Was he praying as he died? If so, what would a Christian be praying as a Muslim slices off his head? Read it all
Last year I was dismayed and alarmed when I learned that the name Christian Aid Ministries had to be drug into the mud of this case. (See: USA vs Timothy David Miller)
Yesterday that concern was validated with news that Janet Jenkins’ civil lawsuit against Kenneth Miller was also directed against CAM (and others). Read it all
Our whole family along with several others brothers from NY arrived at Burlington Court about 8:50 am to find a line stretching out the front door and down the sidewalk. Read it all
A pastor from Virginia was convicted Tuesday of helping a woman flee the country three years ago, when she was on the brink of having to turn custody of her young daughter over to the woman who was once her partner in a Vermont civil union.
The jury issued its verdict against the Rev. Kenneth Miller after several hours of deliberations in the case, Read it all
Muslims are feared. Muslims are vilified. Muslims are hated.
Not by everybody, of course, and likely not by a majority either. But the adherents of Islam and Islam itself just don’t get a lot of good press and positive attention.
And speaking of Muslims and Islam, what do you know about Ramadan? Read it all