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[World News]: Moscow, 29 January : Describing Russia as a key player in the search for peace in the Middle East, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said Moscow was a key ally of his people and had an important role in the 'Quartet' which devised the peace roadmap for the region. "Russia is the first foreign country I will be visiting after my election. This indicates that Russia is a key ally of Palestinians and has been playing a significant role in the Middle East 'quartet' (US, Russia, EU and UN)" Abbas said in an interview to semi-official NTV...

A recently passed German immigration law makes it easier for federal and state governments to deport suspected Islamic terrorists and fundamentalists. For the first time, officials can deport people if they have evidence to support fears the suspect may commit a terrorist act in the future. Hundreds could now face deportation, including a Hamburg al-Qaida terror suspect.

Evangelist Billy James Hargis Dies; Spread Anti-Communist Message By Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 30, 2004; Page B06 The Rev. Billy James Hargis, 79, who died Nov. 27 at a nursing home in Tulsa, was a "bawl and jump" broadcast evangelist whose anti-communist message helped him flourish during the Cold War. He was ordained at 17 in the Disciples of Christ denomination, studied at an unaccredited Bible college in Bentonville, Ark., and later received a theology degree from Burton College and Seminary in Colorado. Increasingly, he politicized his pulpit and in 1962 urged attendees of the Anti-Communist...

The Hanukkah story could be the script for Mel Gibson's next biblical epic. Will it cause the religious tensions 'Passion' did?Anyone who took offense at Mel Gibson’s "The Passion of the Christ", with its depiction of Jewish leaders condemning Jesus, should get ready soon to be offended all over again. Gibson, it is reported, has his heart set on doing a movie version of the story commemorated by Hanukkah. His text will be the novel "My Glorious Brothers" by Howard Fast. Ironically, this book is a sentimental favorite with the older-generation Jewish audience that also tends to be the main...

The London Daily Mirror's headline following George W. Bush's re-election went directly to the core of the problem: How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb? You see, according to the Mirror and to Lefty luminaries such as Garry Wills, Bill Moyers, Gerry Ferraro, Jane (Bloodlust) Smiley, Teresa Heinz Kerry and an assortment of the professoriate of institutions like Berkeley and Harvard, anyone who voted for George Bush in preference to John Kerry is stupid. That's it. We're stupid. There's no other possibility for such gross error, certainly no reason to question whether John Forbes Kerry (who served in Vietnam) was...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

...There is no doubt that John Kerry showed great skill at embracing deeply contradictory positions, but that does not make him unusual; all politicians have mastered the art of self-contradiction. What was remarkable in this election is that one candidate, President Bush, never changed: He said what he meant and meant what he said. If the Democrats could not appeal to the moral values of people, that fact must have been lost on the 48% of the voters who supported Sen. Kerry.... I am just as mystified by Mr. Friedman's lament that "Christian fundamentalists" are ruining his America by fostering...

It Will Be the Death of Liberalism Written by Raymond Kraft Sunday, October 10, 2004 It Will Be the Death of Liberalism Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America for food and war materials. Bushido Japan had overrun most of Asia, beginning in 1928, killing millions of civilians throughout China, and impressing millions more as slave labor. The United States was in an isolationist and pacifist mood, and most Americans...

AMERICA AT THE CROSS ROADS OF HISTORY When the terrorists attacked the United States on September 11th, 2001, it signaled that they were no longer satisfied to only attack US interests outside the United States. It signaled that they felt comfortable enough and were savvy enough to realize that the US is no longer a unified country, ethnically, socially, politically, or spiritually. Some may believe that it never was, and that comes from a lack of knowledge about the country. Of course, there were slaves, mostly black Africans, but there were also white slaves who bought passage to the New...

PROTESTANTS CLAIM VISIONS, PROPHETIC WORDS RESEMBLING THOSE OF CATHOLICS There are many Christian "denominations" -- by one count 34,000 that have identified themselves as Christian groups -- and often, of course, they're at odds with each other. This is especially true of "fundamentalist" Christians and Catholics. But they share some intriguing aspects. The charismatic branches of both major groups heal in a way that is similar (whereby the person prayed over often falls gently to the floor, known as "resting" or being "slain" in the Spirit); both pray in "tongues"; and many Christians receive alleged prophecy in the way of...

Pictures/Images of Christ* Exodus 20:4-6 -- Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth below, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. In this second...

Papers connect Iraqi spies to African terrorist group BAGHDAD--Saddam Hussein's regime was linked to an African Islamist terrorist group, according to intelligence papers. The documents provide the first hard evidence of ties between Iraq and religious terrorism. Secret dossiers detailing the group's discussions with the Iraqi Intelligence Service were found in the spies' Baghdad headquarters, among the detritus of shredding. The papers show how an Iraqi diplomat in Nairobi, Fallah Hassan Al Rubdie, was in discussion with the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan guerrilla group with ties to other anti-Western Islamist organizations. While the United States has long argued that...

<p>A Florida company has announced plans to develop a service that would allow consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skin.</p> <p>Applied Digital Solutions CEO Scott Silverman said he believes the company's VeriChip -- a subdermal microchip that uses radio frequency signals to broadcast an identification number to a scanner -- could someday replace credit cards. Under Silverman's plan, rather than swiping a bank card to make purchases, micro-chipped customers would scan themselves using special readers.</p>

How Prayers PollDebunking myths about the religious right. By Steven WaldmanPosted Friday, October 10, 2003, at 9:42 AM PT I heard about this guy who called himself "evangelical," said he lived a "Bible-centered life," had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ … and voted for Al Gore over George W. Bush.A confused, lonely, iconoclast? Actually, in 2000, at least 10 million white "evangelical Christians" voted for Gore.Many people, especially secular liberals, misunderstand the nature of religion in politics—which is, to be fair, ever shifting. To them, if it's not about Jerry Falwell or Joe Lieberman, it's kind of a blur. So,...

Bill Maher: Mel Gibson and Tom DeLay Are Anti-Semites Controversial TV talker Bill Maher attacked religious conservatives in an early morning interview on Wednesday, claiming that movie star Mel Gibson and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay were "anti-Semitic." "I do think Mel Gibson is anti-Semitic," Maher told radio host Don Imus. "So, by the way, is Tom DeLay. So, by the way, are all these Christian right people who pretend to be friends of Israel." Then Maher accused Christian fundamentalists of befriending Israel only because, ultimately, they'd like to see Jews die: "You know, this is the sickest thing. They...

September 22, 2003, 8:43 a.m. Dean and the Fundamentalists What the doctor gets away with. By John J. Pitney Jr. Imagine a major presidential candidate saying: "I want my country back! We want our country back! I am tired of being divided! I don't want to listen to the priests and rabbis anymore." Across the political spectrum, people would immediately denounce that candidate as a bigot. Pundits would draw comparisons to the Know-Nothings. There would be calls for an apology, if not a withdrawal from the race. And the words would haunt the candidate forever. Now substitute "fundamentalist preachers" for...

A court in the Moroccan city of Casablanca has sentenced ten Muslim fundamentalists to death. Eight men received life sentences; several others were sentenced to twenty years. The radical Muslims are members of the Salafia Jihadia, the movement held responsible for the suicide attacks in Casablanca on May 16th, in which 40 people were killed. The convicts were already in custody at the time of these attacks on charges of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping and extortion. Immediately afterwards, the Moroccan authorities said they would crack down hard on all forms of terrorism.

NATO troops arrest former Bosnian Muslim commander in Srebrenica Friday April 11, 2003 SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) NATO-led peacekeepers in Bosnia have arrested Naser Oric, a Bosnian Muslim wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, NATO in Bosnia said Friday.Oric, 35, was the wartime army commander in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where the worst massacre of civilian Muslims during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war took place. He was arrested late Thursday.However, Oric, who was in charge of the defense of the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica from Bosnian Serb forces during the war, is accused of war crimes...

Only once did the audience assembled in the main sanctuary of the Lincoln Square Synagogue a week ago Saturday night break into applause. That moment was when Charles Krauthammer, the scholar-in-residence that weekend, told us that Jews had nothing to fear from the Christian right; on the contrary, those Christians were allies, lovers of Zion, our staunch support. My host, Tally Rand, a member of the congregation, nodded and smiled, acknowledging that this website had got that right from the start. Mr. Krauthammer dealt deftly with the oft-heard argument that the Christian right is pretending its affection and is interested...

Jason Burke investigates the network of Islamic radicals who found a haven in England and turned its capital city into Londonistan, the world HQ for jihad atrocities Mohammed was surfing the internet when he heard the shouting. He ran down the stairs from his cheap flat overlooking north London's Seven Sisters Road and out into the street. It was bitterly cold. Two friends were outside. 'The police are in the mosque,' they told him. From overhead a helicopter sent a powerful beam of light against Finsbury Park mosque - a modern brick building with dark windows and a minaret above....