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- LIFESTYLE
- February 6, 2015
What is liberty? It is freedom from undue restraint; it is the sum of the rights and immunities of all the citizens of an organized civil community, with provision for guaranteed protection against interference with their civil, political, personal, and religious activities. What pictures the word &”liberty&” conjures up! It brings to mind opened prisons,
READ MOREAqsa Parvez was just 16 when her father, Muhammad Parvez, murdered her.1 Allegedly it was for her audacity to refuse his injunction that she wear the hijab, a Muslim head scarf. According to Aqsa's friends, Aqsa had been at odds with her father and other members of the family over the issue for some time.2
READ MOREAn adjunct fellow at the Claremont Institute in California, Dr. Paul Marshall tells us in Religious Freedom in the World (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman) that "by religious. . . persecution, I do not mean human rights violations against 'religious' persons. . . . Rather, we are concerned . . . with the persecution where
READ MOREReligious Freedom or Religious Fundamentalism? By Bert B. Beach Originally, the term fundamentalism began to be used in the United States in the 1920s. At that time it referred to a traditionalist movement confronting "liberal religion," particularly "higher criticism," heavy concentration on the sociopolitical gospel, and godless evolution. Since then, it has become clear that
READ MOREJust a few weeks ago, it appeared to many knowledgeable observers that Americans’ religious rights had received a death sentence. And ironically, it came in a case involving a literal death sentence. Domineque Ray, a Muslim man in Alabama facing execution, requested an imam to be by his side in the execution chamber, but the
READ MOREDuring the night of March 27, 2005, large graffiti was written on the walls of the Adventist Theological College in Belgrade, Serbia, with these words: "Death to Adventists" and "Death to Sabbatarians." In 2004, 26 Adventist churches and institutions were attacked. In all, more than 100 incidents targeting religious minorities were recorded that year. Similar
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