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Afghan women rally, turning men red-faced with anger…

The fact that two FEMALE MP's were able to speak out and one of them was a former army general says a lot about how we have helped improve the lives of people in Afghanistan over the last 10-years. We have enabled women to be…

Contemplating Jesus on the cross it is hard to miss how violent religion really is. For all its talk about the “peace that passeth all understanding” religion, at least in its Western constructs, is one gigantic blood-letting. Before one finds peace and unification with God there must first be blood, destruction and death. This violence occurs at all levels personal, institutional and societal.

Violence can be self imposed suffering on one owns psyche and violence to the body…

A young girl inside of Iran (this happened recently but I do not have exact date) was arrested for "bad hijab" or headscarf and was forced into the car and kicked by the cop as a sign of disrespect that she is "trash" in their minds. We can only hope that this poor sister was also not raped and we can only imagine worse...the brutal Islamic Republic of Terror…

If God is all loving, all knowing and all caring why does he allow the following to happen in the world?

1. Why does he allow sexual slavery to exist?
2. Why does he allow the child prostitution?
3. Why did he allow shaheen(5 year old girl) to be raped many times till her intestines came out and she needed…

Human Development in the Arab World: Islam is Blocking Progress

by John L. Perkins

The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 24, Number 3.…