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  Thank you Pastor Terry Jones For your service to Islam! 1.       Thanks for making Quran a bestseller. More copies Qurans and  were sold on Amazon, local and online Islamic stores, thus providing humanity an opportunity to read and ponder over God's guidance for  humanity.   2.       Thanks for the business.  More people bought Islamic literature, along with the Quran, generating extra revenue …

  In September 1982,Israel invaded Lebanon to finish off the Palestine Liberation Organisation which had established itself there. The result was the slaughter   of   thousands of unarmed and innocent Palestinian civilians who were driven out of their homes and lands by Israelis and living in refugee camps in appalling conditions.   This genocide was committed by Israel   with the support of the so called champions of …

To begin, the mosque controversy does not involve a mosque.  It is planned as a 13-story community center encompassing a swimming pool, 500-seat performing arts center, gym,  culinary school, restaurant and, yes, a prayer space for Muslims, which already exists in the current building.  A formal mosque would forbid eating or the playing of music on the premises. I guess …

THE London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is the world’s leading think tank for military affairs. It represents the top echelon of defence experts, retired officers and senior military men, spanning the globe from the United States and Britain to China, Russia and India. I’ve been an IISS member for over 20 years. IISS’s reports are always authoritative but usually …

 The horrible era of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States yielded a one-day silly season on Thursday, covered wall-to-wall by the US cable news channels. The weird cultist Terry Jones, fired from his church in Cologne, Germany last year for abusing his congregants, preaching hate-filled sermons, and demanding absolute obedience, was favored by an unprecedented telephone call from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates …

Special to The Seattle Times Freedom of religion was one of the principles upon which our great country was founded, and we are admired the world over as a free, tolerant and literate people. We are proud of the fact that many U.S. citizens struggled to come here in order to freely practice their religions. This freedom and the diversity …