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Yesterday that recently vanquished cliché, the Arab street, returned to remind us that there are some things that even the most enlightened Westerners don't get about Muslims -- their fanaticism about the Koran. Newsweek, which had only a few months ago been jubilantly celebrating the new People Power rising up in the Middle East, apparently ran an article in which it was alleged that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, in order to annoy the Muslim inmates, had deposited copies of the Koran on or in the toilet bowls of the prison facility. There was even a rumor that a copy of...

Is the Bible from God or Men?By Perry B. Cotham   Introduction The Bible is either the inspired word of God or it is not.  If it is, then it is true and must be believed and obeyed.  If it is not true, then it is of human origin and the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetrated, since it claims to be from God.  By the Bible, I mean the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments.  This is not a study as to which books are canonical or if other books should be included in the Bible. ...

Editor's note: Readers may also be interested in New Jersey: An Islamic Murder of Coptic Christians?.Anyone following the investigation into the mid-January slaughter of the Armanious family (husband, wife, two young daughters), Copts living in Jersey City, N.J., knows who the presumptive suspects are: Islamists furious at a Christian Egyptian immigrant who dares engage in Internet polemics against Islam and who attempts to convert Muslims to Christianity.The authorities, however, have blinded themselves to the extensive circumstantial evidence, insisting that "no facts at this point" substantiate a religious motive for the murders.Somehow, the prosecutor missed that all four members of this...

The Cave Of Lot's Seduction And The Monestary It InspiredBy konstantine D. Politis Special to The Daily Star Monday, October 25, 2004The cave of Lot's seduction and the monastery it inspired Jordanian site of Deir Ain Abata testifies to a thriving Byzantine and Umayyad-era Christian community Amman: The ruins were first discovered during an archaeological survey at the south-east end of the Dead Sea in 1986, near a spring named Ain Abata. After further investigations it was evident that the site - near today's Ghor al-Safi, the biblical city of Zoara - was none other that the Sanctuary of Agios...

The family of a slain motorist has filed suit against the maker of a video game that two teens claim inspired them to shoot at passing cars on a Tennessee highway Grand Theft Auto, a video game that allows players to "fire" on people and cars in realistic, shoot-'em-up fashion, is a cash cow that propelled manufacturer TAKE2interactive to the top of the video game industry. For the middle and high school students who play the game for hours on end, it's a means of escaping the monotony of teenage life. But for two stepbrothers, 16-year-old William and 14-year-old Joshua...

<p>COLORADO SPRINGS - Seventy-three seconds into the launch of the Challenger, the shuttle exploded in a violent fireball. The crew of seven was incinerated.</p> <p>The horrifying images numbed a nation. But for one 10-year-old girl in San Jose, the tragedy inspired a lifelong sense of purpose and determination that would serve her well 17 years later when she, too, confronted mortality, in the cockpit of a warplane over Iraq.</p>