Hold Damascus Responsible
[NY Sun title: “This Cease-Fire Won’t Hold”] “There will be an international force [in Lebanon], because all the key players want it,” an American official asserted recently. He appears to be right, as even the Israeli government has embraced the plan, announcing it “would agree to consider stationing a battle-tested force composed of soldiers from European Union member states.” The key players might “want it,” but such a force will certainly fail, just as it did once before, in 1982-84.
Piggybacking on Terror in Britain
Two days after British authorities broke up an alleged plot to blow up multiple aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean, the “moderate” Muslim establishment in Britain published an aggressive open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair. It suggested that Mr. Blair could better fight terrorism if he recognized that the current British government policy, especially on “the debacle of Iraq,” provides “ammunition to extremists.”
Novel Set in Post Tsunami Indonesia Explores Human Tragedies
Gold and Fishes by Donna Carrick is a stunningly researched novel set in Indonesia about overcoming personal and global catastrophes. (PRWEB Sep 22, 2006)
Kurtis Blow and Holy Hip Music Form Strategic Alliance to Distribute Music Ministry Recordings Worldwide
Holy Hip Hop Music and Pastor Kurtis Blow announced today that they have entered into a multi-year, multi-album strategic alliance. The terms of the agreement provide generally that: Holy Hip Hop Music and Pastor Kurtis Blow will collaborate, as a part of its exclusive agreement distribution with EMI Gospel, to produce, distribute and market Music Ministry Recordings with the first retail CD release slated for Spring 2007. (PRWEB Sep 22, 2006) Trackback URI: www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/Q3Jhcy1aZXRhLVRoaXItSG9yci1JbnNlLVplcm8=
Gutsy Sacred Music Festival Features 9 World Premieres, Dave Brubeck Work, Intercultural Concert
A gutsy music festival featuring premieres of nine bold works from Eastern and Western religious traditions, a rarely performed spiritual composition by legendary jazz musician Dave Brubeck and a transformative intercultural concert that weaves sacred music from earliest biblical times to the "golden age" of medieval Spain, when Islamic, Christian and Jewish faiths enjoyed an unrivaled harmony, will be held at Merkin Concert Hall in New York Nov. 4-5. (PRWEB Sep 26, 2006) Trackback URI: www.prweb.com/dingpr.php/U3VtbS1aZXRhLUVtcHQtU3VtbS1JbnNlLVplcm8=
Strange Logic in the Lebanon War
[NY Sun title: “Press Bias Exposes Strange Logic of War”] As staff at some of the world’s most prestigious press organizations effectively take Hezbollah’s side in its war with Israel, they inadvertently expose a profound transformation in the logic of warfare. Some examples of their actions: Reuters: Adnan Hajj, a freelance photographer with more than a decade of experience at Reuters, doctored his pictures to make Israeli attacks on Lebanon look more destructive and Lebanese more vulnerable.
Pope Benedict Criticizes Islam
[NY Sun title: “The West Should Be Free To Criticize Islam”] Pope Benedict XVI “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” These words, expressed six centuries ago by a Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologus, in dialogue with an Iranian scholar, spur three reflections.
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