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POPSCatholic-Shiite Dialogue - Reasonable Understanding Against the background of these existing contacts between the Vatican and Muslim authorities, one can look forward with anticipation to the first meeting of the Catholic-Muslim Forum, scheduled for early November. The forum was founded following a meeting in the Vatican in March this year, which itself was the result of a letter written in October 2007 by 138 Muslim scholars from 43 countries to the pope and other representatives of the Christian churches. The topic of the forthcoming meeting is to be "Love of God and neighbour." The Vatican-Shiite dialogue is also set to continue: another colloquium is planned for two years time in Tehran. See also: The Vatican and leading Iranian theologians on "Faith and Reason in Christianity and Islam" . Deutsch: Vatikanisch-schiitischer Dialog - Vernünftige Verständigung
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POPSThe Curse of Arabia - No Democracy in the Arab World Trotz zaghafter Reformen in einigen arabischen Ländern ist die Mehrheit der autoritär regierenden Herrscher nicht bereit, ihre Machtbefugnisse einzuschränken. Wahlen dienen den autokratischen Machthabern in der Region oft nur zur eigenen Herrschaftsakklamation. Autoritäre Herrschaft in der arabischen Welt - Der arabische Fluch Die US-amerikanische Geostrategie verdankt ihren Impetus vor allem den Angriffen vom 11. September 2001 und der gemeinsamen Front in Afghanistan und Irak. Diese Strategie war einer der beiden wichtigsten Pfeiler der amerikanisch-saudischen Achse. Diese Allianz hatte in der islamischen Welt zur Folge, dass eine neue Form transnationaler antiwestlicher Subversion gerechtfertigt erschien - ein Grund dafür, dass die arabischen Ordnungsstrukturen sich verfestigt haben.
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POPSDreams "Days are the spaces between dreams." Lawrence Durrell
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POPSRoger Waters: Leaving Beirut Are these the people that we should bomb Are we so sure they mean us harm Is this our pleasure, punishment or crime Is this a mountain that we really want to climb The road is hard, hard and long Put down that two by four This man would never turn you from his door Roger Waters Another video of Waters's song (with a short introduction) See the complete song text on this page (mit einer Übersetzung ins Deutsche).
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POPSMargaret Lemon, Anthony van Dyck's model
Van Dyck's early portraits of Margaret show a flirtatious young woman with a brilliant complexion, dark brown hair, and brown eyes. His fascination with her is attested to by the number of times he chose to paint her. The Van Dyck paintings for which she modelled are many and varied and include mythological subjects, such as Cupid and Psyche and a lost portrait of Margaret as Flora, which survives in a preparatory sketch , as well as religious works, including two Lamentations (Alte Pinakothek, Munich; Royal Museum of Arts, Antwerp), for which Margaret served as model for the Virgin Mary. Her impact on Van Dyck's art can be measured both by the length of time she acted as his model and by the number of paintings for which she is known to have posed. Twelve of these paintings, either originals or contemporary copies, survive, including five portraits. No other seventeenth-century woman without substantive ties to the aristocracy was painted as often.
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POPSWhat Religion's Blind Stranglehold on America Is Doing to Our Democracy to go from "there is a fixed truth" to "I have that fixed truth." Words alone are rarely enough to reassure the uncertain. In fact, the more people rely on faith talk to pursue certainty, the more they may actually reinforce both anxiety and uncertainty. It's a small step indeed to move beyond the issue of individual self-control to controlling others through the passage of laws. All too often, the faith-talk view of freedom ends up taking away freedom. In itself, faith in politics poses no great danger to democracy as long as the debates are really about policies -- and religious values are translated into political values, articulated in ways that can be rationally debated by people who don't share them. The challenge is not to get religion out of politics. It's to get the quest for certitude out of politics .
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POPSHal Lindsey's THERE'S A NEW WORLD COMING This is what everyone ought to know about the religious vapor in the heads of some bigoted politicians: Hal Lindsey's exciting explanation of the Book of Revelation God defend us against his zealots.
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POPSPeter Chamberlin: Judgment Day Further excerpts: The criminal producers of our horror movie/psy-war operation intend to establish a new world order based on the ashes of the old. Their utopian world will be a world without conscience or morality, as it will be built upon the deaths of billions, who will have been harvested in the final act of this terrible horror script. Their perfected world (based on death) of unlimited profit to a very limited elite will come into being when Bush gives the order for the attack upon Iran. The world has been transformed by Bush’s war strategy into a very unstable swirling cauldron of pent up fear and hatred. The decision that he has made to escalate the wars (when his version of diplomacy visibly fails), seeking vindication through the total destruction of all opposition, is a suicidal decision.
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POPSDomestic Abuse Up Close: Man Beats Wife, Forces Their Son to Film It (VIDEO) This is a video a man made his 13 years old son take of him insulting and beating his wife. It shows how justified abusers feel about their behavior. Watch to the end to see what the sentencing judge makes of it... And read the bloody blasted damned comments some cretins have not been ashamed to write on YouTube. When I was watching it the first time, I frantically cried Merde !
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POPSChristian Zionism conjuring up the end of time They back the hardline Israeli government without reservation, support the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians and offer crucial moral support for the illegal usurpation of Palestinian land - just to gear up the end time scenario.
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