Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2015

ANNUAL BLOG REPORT XIII

I have now been blogging for 13 years and published 2765 posts. Pageviews so far: 695,844. I will update this post with a podcast session in the near future.

Podcasting will continue to be my main focus during the rest of this year and for the years to come. I haven't been active on this blog lately, and I had thoughts on putting it on hiatus for some time, but then this happened at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas on May 3:




Please listen to my interview with Bosch Fawstin (September 7, 2011).


I have now decided that I will update EGO blog on a regular basis, at least a couple of times per week. The main topics (labels) will be: cat, politics and religion.

Related: my post, Annual Blog Report XII.

Sunday, November 9, 2014

CIRCUMCISION AND RELIGION

It is time to ban circumcision. This cruel practice is linked to irrational ideas by religious leaders.

Listen to Dr. Leonard Peikoff's answer to the following question:

Do you think the legal guardians of a male child have the right to circumcise him before he is old enough to refuse? www.Peikoff.com, April 25th, 2011.

Check out the Intactivist of the Month (of April, 2011): Penn Jillette.

Monday, January 30, 2012

PHOTO SUNDAY

I have added the following photo to the site called Photo Sunday ("Fotosöndag" in Swedish):

The School of Athens - #FS120129
The School of Athens - #FS120129

The theme of this edition of Photo Sunday is heaven - hell ("himmel - helvete" in Swedish). I took a picture of Raphael's painting, School of Athens, with the Instagram app on my iPhone 4S and then I used the Hefe filter and the radial (circle) focus feature, zooming in on Aristotle (representing the rational alternative to heaven and hell, i.e., reality) and Plato (symbolizing heaven and hell, i.e., religion).

Related: My post, PHOTOBLOGGING.

www.fotosondag.se

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

NYC MOSQUE AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

I am for property rights, but you have to support it in a contextual way. I wonder about Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf and his plan to have the grand opening of the mosque on September 11, 2011... What kind of activities will be held linked to the mosque when you have a person who says this about Hamas and has published a book with the title, "The Call From the WTC Rubble: Islamic Da'wah From the Heart of America Post-9/11" (in Arabic: Seruan Azan Dari Puing WTC: Dakwah Islam di Jantung Amerika Pasca 9/11).

Here is an excerpt from Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury's article, Rauf and his mosque at Ground Zero:

The Ground Zero mosque plan is more than a little reminiscent of a program initiated by Rauf's late father in 1965. That year, Muhammad R. Abdul Rauf moved to New York to plan and head a huge Islamic Cultural Center that took decades to realize. He bought prime Manhattan real estate at 96th St. and 3rd Ave - roughly two thirds of a city block - apparently with $1.3 million in funding from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Libya. The late Rauf long retained some of that land in a personal trust. But when construction started on the $17 million mosque in 1984, it had received funding from 46 Islamic nations. By 2010, the enormous Islamic complex had added another two buildings. Since 1984, its founders-envisioned apartment unit has been restricted to Muslims alone.

Whenever Feisal first considered building a mosque across from Ground Zero, he had the idea firmly in mind by 2004, when he wrote What's Right with Islam. The book was translated into many languages. In Indonesia's Bahasa, its title translates as "The Call from the WTC Rubble." Rauf promoted the book in December 2007 at a Kuala Lumpur gathering of Hizb ut Tahrir – a terror outfit banned in Germany since 2003, and also outlawed in Bangladesh, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, among other places - and ideologically akin to the Muslim Brotherhood. Both seek to replace the U.S. Constitution with Islamic law [Sharia], and eventually impose Islam and Sharia law worldwide. Most North American Muslim Brotherhood organizations avoid widely publicizing that aim. The Hizb Ut Tahrir however, at a July 2009 Khalifah conference at a suburban Chicago Hilton, openly promised to replace capitalism with Islam and Sharia law. (WeeklyBlitz.net, May 29, 2010.)

You could find several cases of links between leading people of mosques in Sweden and terrorist groups. Read my posts, TERRORIST LINKED TO MOSQUE IN STOCKHOLM and AL SHABAAB MEETING IN GOTHENBURG. From the article, Swedes recruited by Somali terror group:

Somali Islamic insurgency group Harakat al-Shabab Mujahideen ("Movement of Warrior Youth"), better known as Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, is thought to have recruited dozens of Swedish youth to engage in terrorist acts, according to Göteborgs-Tidningen. ...

At a mosque - a converted food hall - in Gothenburg's Gamlestan quarter, a Danish-Somali man who tried to assassinate Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist who drew the controversial Muhammad cartoon published in Jyllands-Posten, tried to recruit followers, according to a Danish newspaper.

"There are no supporters of al-Shabab here," mosque spokesman Abdi Fatah Shidane told Göteborgs-Tidningen.

Young men in Sweden are brainwashed, trained and recruited by terrorists on Somali terrorist movement al-Shabab, according to an informant who spoke to the paper. One recruit was arrested in connection with death threats against Danish People's Party leader Pia Kjærsgaard. (TheLocal.se, May 5, 2010.)

It is important that the resistance against the building of the mosque is based on rational arguments and that you prevent that the demonstrations against it will be hijacked by "dark elements" (read: collectivists) as it happened in Gothenburg, Sweden. I think that Dr. Leonard Peikoff and Amy Peikoff have given the best arguments for not having a mosque in New York city, near Ground Zero.

Check out Bosch Fawstin's piece, TOWERING Over islam.

Image source: fawstin.blogspot.com

UPDATE: Read The Devastating Symbolic Attack On America by The Charlotte Capitalist.



UPDATE: 07/01/10:

Go to The Rule of Reason blog and read The Insidious Ground Zero Mosque by Edward Cline.

My post has been picked up Zimbio.

Friday, April 2, 2010

T.G.I.L.F

From my post, T.G.I.F:

In the Swedish calendar, Good Friday is called "Long Friday." I think that the word long is more suitable than good. It's nothing good with this Friday at all. But luckily the secularization has emerged and the market forces have taken over, so nowadays you could conduct some business, eat at a restaurant, go to the movies, et cetera. I have learned that people from an older generation had a hard time to come up with something fun to do during this day. This day was totally "dead" (if you don't mind the pun) and the only thing you could do was to sit at home and wait for the next day to come. (EGO, 04/09/04.)

TGILF
Morris is taking a nap and I am watching Lasse Hallstrom's movie, Chocolat.

Check out Friday Ark #289 at The Modulator.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

LENT TIME

How will you celebrate Easter? I will watch Lasse Hallstrom's movie, Chocolat. I will take some time and go through my post, FOOD FOR THOUGHT, and plan for the future.

Please listen to my Easter greeting.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

NEW REVOLUTION IN IRAN?

Here is an excerpt from Melik Kaylan's article, Iran On The Brink:

Iran's turning point might come this week or in a month when the Nawrouz (Iranian new year) celebrations kick in, and no amount of nuclear enrichment claims will change things in the long run. On Bahman or Revolution Day (Feb. 11) the regime appeared to have won the numbers game against protesters, having bribed and bused in street-loads of pro-government supporters and stifled opposition turnout. Even then, according to various sources, protests erupted in disparate neighborhoods and massively in provincial cities. State television had to dub away outbursts of anti-government chanting registered on tape during its own rallies. (Forbes, February 12, 2010.)

Do Not Read This

More cartoons by Cox & Forkum on Iran.

Related: My post, HELP IRAN ELECTION DOT COM.


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Thursday, November 12, 2009

BANNED IMAGES OF MUHAMMAD

Have you seen the "banned images" of Muhammad? For more information, read the following:



In 2008, under the glare of the controversy over the Danish cartoons, one of Flemming Rose’s few appearances on an American campus was sponsored by Dr. Gary Hull, director of the Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace at Duke University. Dr Hull has for five years taught and supervised the Power of Ideas, one of Duke’s most popular honors programs. In late 2001, he made national news when he posted an article calling for a strong military response to the 9/11 attacks. Duke pulled his website, but reinstated it after the action gained wide publicity. (About page - MuhammadImages.com)




"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."George Washington


Related: My post, MUHAMMAD CARTOON CONTROVERSY: ONE YEAR LATER.



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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Offering Peace of Mind

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

AL SHABAAB MEETING IN GOTHENBURG

I am reading in the local newspaper (Gothenburg's Post) that the spiritual leader of Al-Shabaab, Xasaan Xuseen, will attend a meeting at the Bellevue Mosque in Gothenburg. According to the newspaper, his mission for the visit is to collect money and recruit new members.

In the news: EU sends warning to Somali militants. [Via Terror Free Somalia Foundation.]

The Swedish special envoy to the Somali Peace Process, Mr Joran Bjallerstedt, ruled out any quick-fix measures in the rehabilitation of Somalia.

In a subtle warning to the militia, Mr Bjallerstedt dismissed them as “having no idea beyond the overthrowing the legitimate government.”

He noted that with the collapsed infrastructure in Somalia, the Al Shabaab militia would find it hard to run the country should they overthrow the government.

“... these insurgents will just cause problems within small territories in Somalia, they cannot manage the whole country,” he said. (July 1, 2009, Daily Nation.)


Related: My post, TERRORIST LINKED TO MOSQUE IN STOCKHOLM.