Sharia and Islam

CNN's Soledad O'Brien sits down with Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman, who describes the basics of Sharia law and the difference between Islam and Sharia law. O’Brien chronicles the dramatic fight over the construction of a mosque in the heart of the Bible belt on “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door.”



Islam comes from the root word Salaam, which means peace. It also means submitting one's will to Allah(swt).The word Salaam is also an attribute of God .In this context, it means ‘TheGiverofPeace’. Muslims greet each other with Assalaamualaikum which translates to wishing peace for one another.Even when wronged, theGlorious Qur’an advises Muslims to struggle against the temptation for hostility: "And not alike are the good and the evil. Repel (evil) with what is best,when lo!he between whom and you was enmity would be as if he were a warm friend..."(Al- Qur’an41:34)TheQur’an refers to Paradise as the“abodeofpeace”.Thus peace is a goal that Muslims are required to strive for ,In their ownselves, in their families and in their communities. It is ironical therefore, that Islam is perceived by many as being the motivation behind the want on killing of innocent people.

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. -John 14:6

Is Greece finally on the mend after economic crisis?

CNN) -- Greece is on the way to economic recovery as investor faith returns to the recession-ridden eurozone nation, an executive at Greece's largest bank has told CNN.

Petros Christodoulou, deputy chief executive of the National Bank of Greece, said that a drastic drop in government borrowing costs since the outbreak of the crisis in 2009 marks a "great improvement and a great perception of the country" by foreign investors.

 

Speaking to CNN's Max Foster in Athens, Christodoulou said: "Are we out of the woods with 8% yields in government debt? Not yet, but we are on the right path."

 

He added: "All this eventually proliferates into everything that happens in Greece, starting from the banking sector which is in the center of the economy and this is good news going forward."

 

 

 

Personally, I think this is only propaganda put out by the Greek Government and its Bankers to make people "think all is well" when it is not and on the edge of a major revolt in Greece.

"GREEK GOV'T ABOUT TO FALL" - Reuters Sept 27th 2013
Greece may face snap elections. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras may have to
choose going to a national ballot and fears this destabilizing after a statement from Army Special Forces telling the government to resign and be replaced, which would suspend deals Greece had under its bailouts. The tone suggested a direct intervention in the democratic process which the Greek government finds very troubling."



Credits to worldarts.

Sochi 2014: Gay athlete promises openly defiant stance at Games

 

 

 

CNN) -- He's unlikely to break a world record or even win a medal but New Zealand's Blake Skjellerup is likely to generate plenty of headlines if he gets to February's Winter Olympics.

The speed skater is currently the only openly gay athlete who could compete in Sochi, at a Games already tinged by Russia's controversial laws on homosexuality.

 

The June ruling prohibits the distribution of information to minors promoting same-sex relationships and the public discussion of gay rights, but Skjellerup has promised not to shy away from the issue.

Instead, he's planning to tackle it head on.

Is there any reason why some people don't want to respect the principles and laws of other countries? Imagine if Russia, by hosting the games, must all of a sudden abide by the laws of all competing countries? Your sexuality is a private affair.. or isn't it?

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27

"Peter´s bones and the eyes of faith"

(CNN) -- Pope Francis generally comes off as so hip, so completely at home in the 21st century, it's tempting to forget he's also a deeply religious believer and therefore sees the world fairly differently than most of his fellow celebrities and pop culture icons.

We'll get a reminder of the point on Sunday, when Francis presides over a service in Rome's Basilica of St. Peter featuring a rare public exhibit of what Catholic tradition regards as the bones of Peter, the Church's first pope.

 

The secular mind can't help asking, "Are these really Peter's bones?" and "How do we know?" For believers such as Francis, however, the more relevant question is, "What spiritual message do they have?"

 

In a nutshell, the pope, as well as the throngs of believers who'll line up to see the bones, will venerate them not on the basis of empirical evidence, but a spiritual conviction that they evoke the very origins of the papacy and of Christianity. They invite devotees to see themselves as part of a 2,000-year "communion of saints" whose original leader was a poor fisherman, who the Bible says denied Jesus three times, yet whose faith was so strong in the end that he gave his life to defend it.

The exhibit is designed to wrap up a "Year of Faith" for Catholics around the world originally launched under Pope Benedict XVI, and carried to its conclusion by Francis.

 

 

In my opinión, they are praising Peter´s bone more tan Christ itself. They see these act as a "spiritual message," but it´s absurd, since God would manifest His power by some different action rather than this. It´s really difficult to accurately establish if these were Peter´s bone. They should focus on how to preach the Gospel, instead of venerating too much this bones.

Should Our Daughters Come to Our (Gay) Wedding?

By MARC PEYSER

One morning when I was making breakfast before school, my second-grade daughter, fresh off her school’s diversity unit on homosexuality, decided it was time I had a lesson in gay rights. First, she said, you should never use the word “gay” in a negative way, as in “That’s so gay!” Very interesting, I said, plotting to push a little deeper into this intriguing topic. So what is “gay,” I asked? Gay is when two boys like each other, and lesbian is when two girls like each other, she explained. Did she know anyone who was gay or lesbian, I asked? “I’m pretty sure I’m a lesbian because all my friends are girls,” she declared. Did she know anyone else? “Well, Larry only plays with boys, so he must be gay.” Anyone else? Nope.

Now I happened to know that she was acquainted with at least two other gay people, so I reminded her about them. “How about me and your Dad?” I asked. She thought a minute, then shrugged her shoulders. “Oh, yeah.”

Of course, our girls (now ages 8 and 10), know we’re gay. We’ve certainly never hidden it from them, as if two guys out for a walk with a BabyBjörn and a MacLaren would be inconspicuous, even in the liberal cocoon of Upper West Side Manhattan. It’s just that while “gay” in school might be singled out for special consideration, at home we’re just our girls’ dads. No adjectives need apply.
Yet in the last month or so I’ve been wondering if our daughters’ blissful nonchalance about our sexuality was in danger of dissolving. Now that the Supreme Court has cleared the way for us to marry — and the feds have agreed to adjust the tax code and other laws accordingly — we’ll soon head to City Hall to get hitched. The question is: Should we invite the girls to the blessed event?




First of all, God created man and woman; therefore, they shouldn´t get married. They are ruining their daughter´s life. I feel so sad for them, because hearing all this things their parents teach them,  and knowing they are so mistaken. Since they are their parents, the girls will be sure that their parent´s gay marriage is something normal and a good decisión. The girl´s life will be marked forever with that mistaken conception about life. In my opinión, the girls shouldn´t go into their marriage, but the best thing would be their parents to understand that God created man and woman, not man and man relationships.

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27.

 

Would the Mafia target Pope Francis over Vatican reforms?

(CNN) -- "I don't know if organized criminals have the capability to do something to the Pope. But they are certainly thinking about it."

These words, uttered in a recent interview by an Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor, don't quite justify the alarming worldwide headlines they provoked, but at the same time it would be rash to dismiss them out of hand.

 

The new Pope represents a serious threat to some established criminal interests at a critical moment in the long history of the Mafias' relationship with Catholicism -- a past marked by both intimacy and violence.

 

The Pope has nothing to do with their problems. I don´t understand why they want to make him pay, something he´s not responsible for. And even if he was responsable for something he´d made, we are not call to take revenge in our enemies.The mafia should feel embarrased for their way of thinking toward a Chatolic authority.

 

Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. Romans 12:19

 

 

"Sochi Winter Olympics 2014: US won't stop athletes supporting gay rights"

The head of the US Olympic Committee says he will not discourage athletes competing at next year's Winter Olympics from supporting Russian gay rights. USOC chief executive Scott Blackmun is telling athletes to be conscious of the host nation's recent anti-gay laws. Blackmun says the US Olympic movement is one of tolerance, and while he encourages those wanting to speak out to do so, athletes must be wary of the possible consequences.


I can´t believe the head of the US Olympic committee supports gay rights. We have gotten so, up to a point that huge events such as this, are allowing gays in their competitions. Kids see the competitions, and they could perceive a bad influence from this competitors. They simply shouldn´t support gay rights, that´s my point of view.

"Important archeological discoveries at Lake Karla in Thessaly"

Archeologists discover farm house, Neolithic settlement, inn, ceramic furnace and scores of artifacts.

The archeological digs in the Lake Karla in Thessaly have uncovered four sites of interest. The archeological sites were discovered during excavations that were intended to turn the lake into a main water reserve.

Amongst the finds are a huge farmhouse at “Tserli” from the Hellenistic period (2^nd century BC) with many rooms and about 500 artifacts; a Neolithic settlement surrounded by a yard and scores of ceramics and later Neolithic idols at Amygdale 1; a farm house including a ceramic furnace, also from the Hellenistic period that probably operated as an inn at Amygdale 2 and parts of a stone wall, desk, graves and an interesting square construction, from the Mid Bronze Age at Amygdale 3.

The Central Archeological Council decided to preserve on-site the Hellenistic farmhouse at Tserli, with its many rooms and rectangular courtyards, as well as monuments not affected by the water reserve and which can be integrated into the naturalist promenade to be developed. The rest of the findings will be transferred nearby.

Recently, I studied the Greek civilization in my History class; therefore, this news appeared really interesting to me. I hope that with this artifacts found, archaeologists can discover and learn more about the amazing Hellenistic culture.

Europe real´s debt crisis

By Fareed Zakaria

 

“Europe is always thought of as having a sovereign-debt crisis, and it has. But the origins of the euro disaster lay less with government profligacy than with excessive private borrowing,” The Economist says. “True, Greece got into trouble because its government spent too much and collected too little in taxes. But elsewhere the bust followed a private-sector binge: mortgage debt in Ireland and Spain; corporate borrowing in Portugal and again in Spain (see article). In all three countries household and corporate debt combined were way over 200 percent of GDP before the crisis, much higher than in America (175 percent) or even Britain (205 percent).”

“Unfortunately, the euro zone has made less headway than other places in reducing this private-debt burden.”




Since some years ago, Greece has been falling into a serious economic crisis. The answer to this problema would require a more organized government. But first of all, they need God´s providential help, to get out from that hole. The Bible also exorts us to pay the tax that we owed, and in Greece it is said to be collected Little amounts of taxes.

Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:7-8




http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/25/what-im-reading-europes-real-debt-crisis/?iref=allsearch

Germany accepts a third gender

(CNN Español) – Germany will become the first european country to accept a legal thrird geneder in newborns.

 

The government created a new category called "undetermined sex".

This will allow babies with both sex characteristics to be registered with an undefinite gender.

The German press assures that this is a "legal revolution" which is intended to avoid innecessary sufferings to people who born uncertain in their gender.

 

 

 

Where in the Bible says that a third gender exists? Nowhere! The Bible clearly says that God created man and woman only. I am really concerned and preoccupied about this type of thinking. We are created in God´s image, and He is the One Who desides our gender, not us.

 

So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27

 

 

 

http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2013/11/01/alemania-reconoce-un-tercer-genero-para-los-recien-nacidos/