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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in front of new construction in the Jewish settlement known to Israelis as Har Homa and to Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim, in an area of the West Bank that Israel captured in a 1967 war and annexed to the city... Reuters/Ronen Zvulun/Files MITZPE KRAMIM, West Bank (Reuters) - A day before his surprise election victory last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood against the backdrop of a construction site in Har Homa, a towering settlement in the occupied West Bank, and pledged to go on building. The next week, however, his office ordered local authorities to put the brakes on plans to erect hundreds of new homes at Har Homa, a settlement Netanyahu authorised in 1997 during his first term in the face of fierce international opposition

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Posted By richards on April 6, 2015

Regrettably in Islam it is the other way around: it is those seeking religious reform who are the fringe element.

By John Lloyd

If a young woman, before her marriage or after it, is found to have had sexual relations with another man not her betrothed, she is sentenced to be stoned to death. By contrast, a man who rapes or seduces a young girl usually must pay a fine to her father, and offer to marry her himself.

This punishment, ordained by God, is not confined to the ideologues of Islamic State. It is to be found in the holiest books of Jews and Christians: in a part of the Jewish Torah, known to Christians as Old Testaments book of Deuteronomy.

The Jewish literary critic Adam Kirsch writes that in Deuteronomy, we find the same kind of panic about female sexuality, the same need to control womens feelings and behavior(while) under Talmudic law, (a woman) is not a legally competent individual, but the responsibility of a man.

The Talmud is a compendium of centuries of Jewish thought and commentary on the Torah.

Why, then, should those born within the cultures of the two older monotheistic faiths Judaism, the oldest, and Christianity recoil in horror from the obedience of some Muslims to these commands of God, since our cultures contain the same observances and our cultures holy figures approved them?

Because both Christianity and Judaism were profoundly changed by the Reformation and the European Enlightenment. The Enlightenments apostles included large figures from the Christian tradition David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Rene Descartes; and from the Jewish, in Baruch Spinoza and Moses Mendelsohn. They, and a legion of others, thought freedom and toleration were essential to the pursuit of enquiry, both religious and secular. Their belief became, especially in France, a cause, a militant proclamation of freedom of thought and of publication, a definition of the rights of man.

Man to a degree meant also woman but far from completely. The idea of male supremacy continues worldwide. Only under the influence of liberal and socialist reformers, emancipatory movements and feminism did (some) cultures recognize real, substantial equality of the sexes rarely completely.

Islam did not join the renaissance, the rebirth, of Judaic and Christian cultures that began at the end of the 1500s and then evolved over centuries. Islam has within it millions of devotees who are liberal in their thoughts and actions, and who believe that nations should be secular, tolerating all religions and those with none. But the religion and the commentators on it do not lend them support: the religion still, in theory and in much of its practice, aspires to be the spine to a nations politics, the guide for its judiciary.

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Posted By richards on April 6, 2015

General News of Monday, 16 March 2015

Source: Nii Oto Blafo

Counsel to the Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Olalekan Ojo has faulted some important aspects of the COREN/NBRIRI investigative report submitted to the coroner by Engineer Victor O. Oyenuga who also doubles as witness representing both professional bodies.

According to Mr. Ojo, there are contradictions between the deposition submitted to the coroner by Engineer Oyenuga and the COREN/NBRRI report concerning the quality of concrete used in the construction of the collapsed building.

While his deposition stated that the concrete and other materials used in the building were of good quality, the report of the COREN/NBRRI investigation committee, of which he is a member, stated that the concrete failed.

Speaking further during cross-examination by Mr. Ojo, Engineer Oyenuga agreed that he was never at the site of the collapsed building fuelling speculations that the report must have been doctored by external forces bent on embarrassing the church and its founder, Prophet T.B. Joshua.

This speculation arose from the behavior of the Chief Magistrate, Oyetade Komolafe who allowed The SCOAN counsel only one hour to cross examine the COREN/NBRRI witness, a measure that was never applied when counsel to the Lagos State Government, Akingbolahan Adeniran cross-examined the same witness a day earlier.

Counsel to The SCOAN also questioned the absence of the signatures of all members of the COREN/NBRRI investigation panel on a report with high legal and social magnitude. Mr. Ojo also wondered how a member of the committee who never visited the site of the collapsed building arrived at his report.

Reacting, Engineer Oyenuga said the report of their investigation was based on assumptions. He further postulated the Structural Engineering, in its entirety, is based on assumptions. This elicited surprise and disappointment from professionals within the court who felt embarrassed at hearing such. Furthermore, in his oral statement during the cross examination, he admitted that the structure was good but their reports, which was based on assumption, faulted the foundation.

The SCOAN counsel also told the coroner that he would respectfully abide by the rules of the court and would not be intimidated or discharge his duties to his client with fear. He frowned at the glaring bias with which the inquest in being conducted and urged the court to uphold the tenets of fairness and equity in the conduct of the inquest.

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Posted By richards on April 6, 2015

Moroccan Haroset Balls, Savory Brisket and Carrot Souffle!

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First Family Freedom: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama host a Passover Seder dinner in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House on April 3.

Published April 05, 2015.

Moroccan haroset balls, savory holiday brisket and carrot souffle were on the menu at the annual White House Seder.

The guests finished the meal with raspberry ganache marjolaine, and triple layer chocolate macaroon cake, according to the White House.

The guest list for Friday nights seder was not made public. It is the seventh time that President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have hosted a White House Seder.

Susan Barocas, a Washington-based filmmaker and foodie, served as guest chef for the meal, alongside White House chef Cris Comerford, according to the White House, to create the meal that incorporated both Ashkenazic and Sephardic traditions and which included dishes prepared by family members of several of the Seders attendees.

In recounting the story of the Exodus from Egypt, the joined their guests in performing the Seder rituals and followed the Haggadahs command that we see ourselves as though we personally were liberated from Egypt. And they acknowledged how this story has inspired generations of Americans in the struggle for civil rights, according to the White House.

President Obama issued Passover greetings on Friday to those celebrating Passover in the United States, in the state of Israel and throughout the world.

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BBC Dateline London, featuring Jonathan Sacerdoti discussing Israel and Gaza. BBC Dateline London, featuring Middle East specialist and i24News UK correspondent Jonathan Sacerdoti Discussing the ongoing Israeli military engagement in Gaza during Operation Protective.... By: Dateline London

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Israel to resume Gaza operation as truce with Hamas crumbles BREAKING NEWS 01 AUG 2014 HQ Thanks for watching! By: narutoX

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CMI-5 Sandstone Pre-Release Working Group, April 15-16 25 Mar 2015 CMI-5, a soon-to-be standard which is also conformant to the Experience API (xAPI), will be the focus of a 2-day summit on April 15th and 16th in Alexandria, Virginia. The meeting will take place at the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab. ADL has recently inherited CMI-5 and the other work formerly done by AICC (Aviation Industry CBT Committee) and fully supports the direction of this profile of xAPI.

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CMI-5 Sandstone Pre-Release Working Group, April 15-16 25 Mar 2015 CMI-5, a soon-to-be standard which is also conformant to the Experience API (xAPI), will be the focus of a 2-day summit on April 15th and 16th in Alexandria, Virginia. The meeting will take place at the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab.

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[zahy-uh-niz-uh m] /za nz m/ IPA Syllables a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel. Related forms Expand Zionist, noun, adjective Zionistic, adjective anti-Zionism, noun anti-Zionist, noun, adjective non-Zionist, noun, adjective pro-Zionism, noun

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RISING anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and fear of foreigners must be challenged, a prominent churchman has told worshippers as he warned that many religious people do not feel safe in Scotland.

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RISING anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and fear of foreigners must be challenged, a prominent churchman has told worshippers as he warned that many religious people do not feel safe in Scotland.

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IRAN: Iran has no intention of destroying Israel and has actually saved the Jews three times in history, but the current Israeli regime is a threat to Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said in an interview with American media.

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