Monthly Archives: February 2006
COMMENTARY: A Ugly Double Standard Is at Work in This `Clash of Civilizations’
By James Rudin — February 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Scholars have said the controversy surrounding the recent publication of 12 cartoons in European newspapers that depict the Prophet Muhammad and other Islamic symbols is symptomatic of a clash of civilizations. Riots prompted by the cartoons, along with the Sunni insurgency in Iraq and Iran’s defiance over its nuclear […]
COMMENTARY: Why I Pray for My Patients in Surgery
By RNS Blog Editor — February 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) I vividly remember a day in 1984 when I thought a woman would bleed to death on my operating table. She had come to the hospital with an enlarged heart and needed immediate surgery. At first, the operation seemed to go well. But then, she wouldn’t stop bleeding; we […]
Investigators Say Alabama Church Fires `All Linked’
By RNS Blog Editor — February 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ Drawing 50 more federal agents to a force already 150 strong, authorities have widened their investigation of a string of Alabama church fires after two rural black churches were destroyed and two others damaged Tuesday (Feb. 7). Teams of federal, state and county officers are trying to […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 9, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Pope Prays Turkish Priest’s Death Will Spark Interfaith Dialogue VATICAN CITY (RNS) Amid appeals for the Vatican to harden its stance toward Islam, Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday (Feb. 8) expressed hope that the murder of an Italian priest in Turkey would strengthen the push for dialogue between religions. Before […]
Opening words at the funeral of Coretta Scott King
By Tracy Gordon — February 9, 2006
Quote of the Day: the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook, on Coretta Scott King “We thank you, God, for allowing us to know a woman named Coretta Scott King. Thank you for her witness, her walk, her work. Thank you for her elegance and her eloquence. … Thank you, God, that we were able to touch […]
More on Danish cartoons; Evangelicals v. global warming; Alabama church fires probe widening; Tony M
By RNS Blog Editor — February 9, 2006
We continue to publish updates and different angles on the Danish cartoon story in Wednesday’s RNS report. Elizabeth Bryant in Paris reports that Europe’s Muslims are calmer about the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad than Muslims in other parts of the world: Nursing an almost empty cup of coffee in a cafe Wednesday (Feb. 8), […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service London Jury Convicts Muslim Cleric Who Plotted Assassinations Overseas LONDON (RNS) Controversial Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been convicted of stirring up racial hatred in Britain and inciting his followers to murder Jews and non-Muslims, including foreign leaders, in the name of Islam. After deliberating four days, a jury […]
Muslim-Americans Defend Free Speech, Despite `Blasphemous’ Cartoons of Prophet
By RNS Blog Editor — February 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist and misogynist have offended Muslims in the U.S. as they have Muslims worldwide. But the debate raging among Muslim-Americans on college campuses, the Internet and in Islamic media has its own unique flavor because of this country’s constitutional commitment to free […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service London Jury Convicts Muslim Cleric Who Plotted Assassinations Overseas LONDON (RNS) Controversial Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been convicted of stirring up racial hatred in Britain and inciting his followers to murder Jews and non-Muslims, including foreign leaders, in the name of Islam. After deliberating four days, a jury […]
Moderate Muslims, Christians Worry Hamas Will Restrict Religious Freedom
By RNS Blog Editor — February 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ Moderate Muslims and Christians in the West Bank and Gaza say they fear that Hamas, which scored a stunning victory in last month’s Palestinian elections, will apply a strict interpretation of Islamic law that will hinder religious freedom. But so far, Hamas has not acted on promises to […]
COMMENTARY: Cartoons Irresponsible, But Violence Inexcusable
By RNS Blog Editor — February 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Watching the Muslim indignation at caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad spill over into outbursts of anger and violence, I find myself, an American Muslim woman, wondering. Which would make the prophet sadder _ the libel of his character by Danish non-Muslim cartoonists or the actions of his followers that […]
Examples of `Spiritual Cinema’
By RNS Blog Editor — February 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Here are some of the movies on DVDs that have been distributed by the Spiritual Cinema Circle (http://www.spiritualcinema circle.com), which charges $21 a month for one DVD with four films. “The Collector of Bedford Street,” about a mentally disabled man and the relationship he builds with his Greenwich Village […]
For $21 a Month, Web Site Provides Films With Spirit, Not Dogma
By RNS Blog Editor — February 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Fed up with Hollywood schmaltz and gore _ not to mention $10 theater tickets _ Zully Rosado of Passaic, N.J., took a step last year to find more fulfilling movie experiences. The law student joined The Spiritual Cinema Circle (http://www.spiritualcinema circle.com). With about 20,000 members around the country, the […]
COMMENTARY: Diversity a Concept American Religion Discusses, But Doesn’t Embrace
By Tom Ehrich — February 8, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) On Saturday, my wife and I took an outing into cultural diversity. We delivered our son to orchestra rehearsal, where he joined an ethnic kaleidoscope _ African-Americans, Asians and Caucasians _ seeking to master classical music. We proceeded to an Asian market that sells Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese and Chinese. […]
Muslim-Americans’ reaction to Muhammad cartoons; The Spiritual Cinema Circle
By RNS Blog Editor — February 8, 2006
In Tuesday’s RNS transmission we continue to report on Muslim reaction to the publication of Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Omar Sacirbey writes about Muslim-Americans’ conflicted feelings on the issue: Cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist and misogynist have offended Muslims in this country as they have Muslims worldwide. But the debate […]
