Today's Fresh Blogs...

• USA: Christian Pastor Brings Aggressive Proselytizing to Mosque Door

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Religious Tolerance, Christians, Muslims, United States

  The following article states several times that Muslims are forbidden from proselytizing. That’s not quite true; what is forbidden is to insult the deities and religions of non-Muslims. Insulting the religions of others leaves Muslims open to having their own religion insulted in retaliation. Christians to seek converts at mosques’

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• You're A Racist If You Don't Support Voluntary Segregation At Colleges/Universities

  Published: August 11, 2007, 2:39 am

  Tags: Hypocrisy, Tolerance, Liberals Lefties, Diversity, Free Speech

  In an editorial for a school newspaper, I criticized how the school's four ethnic theme dorms (African-American, American Indian, Asian and Latino) stereotyped minorities by categorizing individuals by race rather than considering broader personal experiences and values. The response: How dare I condemn the established multicultural institutions

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• Just As The Swallows Return To Capistrano...

  Published: August 11, 2007, 6:16 pm

  Tags: San Francisco, Fire, Tolerance, Liberals Lefties, Higher Education, Discrimination

  ...the chickens are coming home to roost at San Francisco State.This week's Campus Alert also emphasizes the fact that the College Republicans' suit challenges not only the investigation, but SFSU's pernicious speech codes in total. As we point out, among other unconstitutional mandates, SFSU's codes require students to be civil' to one

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• US: Lawsuit Filed Over Racial Profiling; Man Not Allowed to Board Plane While Wearing Peace Slogan in Arabic & English

  Published: August 11, 2007, 3:09 pm

  Tags: Religious Tolerance, United States

  Passenger sues over Arabic T-shirt Dino Hazell (Associated Press) A discrimination lawsuit charges federal officials and JetBlue Airways with racial profiling for refusing to let a passenger board an August 2006 flight at Kennedy International Airport because he wore a T-shirt inscribed with an Arabic phrase. The incident is part of a

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• NY: Khalil Gibran International Academy in Jeopardy; Almontaser Forced to Resign

  Published: August 13, 2007, 11:12 pm

  Tags: Religious Tolerance, United States, Education

  Debbie Almontaser has stepped down as Principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, the Arabic language & culture school due to open this September in New York City. Having read the account in the New Times (below) and the inflammatory NY Post articles Intifada Principal Resigns and Intif-adios, it really seems to me that this woman

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• Brooklyn: Diverse Neighborhood of Immigrants, Very American

  Published: August 14, 2007, 11:18 pm

  Tags: Religious Tolerance, United States

  Brooklyn street proves yes, we all can get along Rick Hampson (USA TODAY) What is it about Coney Island Avenue? That’s what Brooklyn College sociologist Jerry Krase wonders as he rides the B68 bus along this 5-mile commercial strip, which is populated at various stops by pockets of West Indians, Latinos, Pakistanis, Indians, Orthodox Jews,

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• Backlash Against Hiring Only Liberal Professors?

  Published: August 17, 2007, 7:23 pm

  Tags: Tolerance, Liberals Lefties, Higher Education

  Academic radicals have for years controlled campus debate by blackballing internal opponents, intimidating students and crying censorship whenever their views or actions were challenged.They got away with such behavior for two principal reasons: A sympathetic media assured the nation that universities were in the front lines of the fight for

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• Norway: Christians, Muslims defend right to convert

  Published: August 23, 2007, 7:32 pm

  Tags: Islam, Christianity, Religious Tolerance

  Two important Christian and Muslim groups signed a joint declaration Wednesday supporting the right to convert between religions without fear of harassment as a basic religious freedom.

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• Democrats Agree with Deporting Hispanics

  Published: August 27, 2007, 12:32 pm

  Tags: Political Commentary, Gonzales, Deporting, Hispanics, Ridiculed, Alberto, Sadly, Resignation, Tolerance

  party of tolerance has shown that they are in favor of deporting Hispanics and that they have little regard for the hard work they do. This is evident by all the statements of Democrats with regard to the resignation of Alberto Gonzales. Even though Gonzales was doing a job that other... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• The Whiners Are At It Already

  Published: August 30, 2007, 9:54 pm

  Tags: Tolerance, Global Warming, K 12 Issues

  It's the ninth day of school, and today the vice principal came in to talk to me about an anonymous parent complaint.Apparently someone is now scared for his/her grade, because in a lesson about the difference between correlation and causation I briefly discussed global warming and the associated temperature and CO2 graphs. While someone might be

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• USA: Anti-Muslim Nitwittery from Rep. Peter Hoekstra

  Published: September 1, 2007, 10:41 pm

  Tags: Religious Tolerance, Muslims, United States

  Peter Hoekstra is outraged that the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State and other branches/agencies within the Federal government are hosting booths at the annual ISNA meeting in Illinois. He’s trying very hard to equate this middle-of-the-road Muslim group with the likes of al-Qaeda. Hoekstra need not worry. If Osama

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• Matthew Shepard storybook celebrates tolerance and diversity

  Published: August 28, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Matthew Shepard, Tolerance, Wyoming, Books, Arts Education

  From the Matthew Shepard Foundation: Small Bear, Big Dreams is the Matthew Shepard Foundation's Pre K-12 educational program that teaches the values of respect for all people and focuses on the acceptance and understanding of individual differences. Small Bear, Big Dreams chronicles the life of Matthew Shepard in the form of a children's

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• Saudi Arabia: Shia Pilgrims Beaten, Harassed at Grand Mosque

  Published: September 4, 2007, 10:08 pm

  Tags: Religious Tolerance, Muslims, Saudi Arabia

  On August 5, the Saudi religious police (the Muttawa) allegedly rolled out the red carpet for a group of British and American Shia pilgrims by beating, harassing and detaining them. Welcome to the Holy Land. Unwelcome pilgrims For many Shias, an attack on Shia umrah pilgrims two weeks ago recalls a painful history of abuse in Mecca, and shatters

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• Germany: Suspicion Again Directed at Turkish Community

  Published: September 8, 2007, 11:06 am

  Tags: Religious Tolerance, Muslims, Germany

  Arrest of One Turk in Germany Brings New Scrutiny to a Society of 2.7 Million Mark Landler and Nicholas kulish (NY Times) As Germans struggle to make sense this week of reports of a foiled terrorist plot, they are questioning whether their Turkish minority historically moderate and for the most part comfortably settled is quite what they

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• US: Federal Prisons Purge Religious Texts Based on Arbitrary and Limited List

  Published: September 10, 2007, 8:12 am

  Tags: Religious Tolerance, Crime Punishment, United States

  Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries Laurie Goodstein (NY Times) Behind the walls of federal prisons nationwide, chaplains have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries. The chaplains were directed by the Bureau of Prisons to clear the shelves

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