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Written by dailyclarity on Jan-1-09 11:11am
From: mydailyclarity. com
According to Turkish sources Hezbollah has said it will attack Israel from Southern Lebanon if ground troops are sent into the Gaza. Israel must be wary of this development given their experiences in the 2006 war against Hezbollah. If Hezbollah does get drawn into [...]
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Tags: Christianity · Egypt · Hebron · Iran · Iraq · Islam · Israel · Jordan · Kurdish Hizbullah · Lebanon · Main Issues · Middle East · Terrorism
December 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
ISTANBUL - Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in the United States, a cultural and social highlight in the region. It is the sister event to Switzerland’s Art Basel, the most prestigious internatıonal art show for the past 39 years
Turkish artist Gülay Alpay will create worlds within [...]
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Tags: Christianity · Islam · Religions
Christian infighting in Jerusalem
By Michael Hirst
BBC News
The argument over rights within Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre is as complicated and seemingly intractable as the Middle East conflict itself.
But when the dispute descends into violence, battles are pitched with crucifixes and staves rather than missiles, guns and stones.
Many Christians believe the church [...]
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Tags: Armenia · Christianity · Greece · Israel
Norman Stone
Published 06 November 2008
Between Russia and the Middle East, the Caucasus is one of the world’s most diverse regions - and as recent fighting in South Ossetia and Abkhazia showed, still boiling with ethnic tensions. Norman Stone reviews a history which makes sense of this complexity
The Ghost of Freedom: a History of the Caucasus
Charles [...]
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Tags: Armenia · Armenian Question · Azerbaijan · Baku · Christianity · Georgia · History · Islam · Judaism · Nagorno Karabakh · Russian Federation · The Ottoman Empire · UK
The dark Islam image on Occident infuriates and infuriates Eastern-Muslims. When I went to Mecca . I said to the Muslims who were angry about that image that they were the guilty of the things like that. Because, as they haven’t explained Islam enough, unfortunately the ones who listens to these made up things can [...]
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Tags: Authors · Christianity · Islam · Mehmet Fatih ÖZTARSU · Middle East · Religions · Saudi Arabia · South Korea · USA
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
An Anglican bishop says the credit crunch is God’s way of punishing Britain for being too materialistic.
The Rt Rev Wallace Benn, Bishop of Lewes, thinks the country is obsessed with cash, which has a ’stranglehold’ over our lives.
The credit crisis has been caused by greed and ‘God has allowed it [...]
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Tags: Christianity · UK
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ANKARA, Turkey - The head of the European Jewish Congress says Turkey has a key role in promoting tolerance and dialogue between the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths.
Moshe Kantor says Turkey represents “moderate and tolerant Islam,” which puts the country in position to help fight xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism.
Kantor was speaking to The [...]
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Tags: Christianity · Islam · Judaism · Religions
Islam should be treated more sensitively by the media than Christianity, according to the director general of the BBC
By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:39PM BST 15 Oct 2008
Mr Thompson had earlier warned of a “growing nervousness about discussion about Islam” Photo: OLI SCARFF
Mark Thompson claimed that because Muslims are a religious minority in [...]
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Tags: Christianity · Islam · Religions · UK
Brenda Shaffer works to define cultural domination on states’ foreign or domestic affairs in “Is there a Muslim Foreign Policy?”article. With some examples, Shaffer is explaining this event us. Firstly, Shaffer begin the article with Huntigton’s thesis: “The Clash of Civilizations”
Samuel Huntigton’s thesis bases on idea that culture has main role in defining of policy. [...]
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Tags: Armenia · Azerbaijan · Christianity · Georgia · Iran · Islam · Mehmet Fatih ÖZTARSU · Nagorno Karabakh · Religions · Russian Federation · Southern Caucasus
September 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments
BRUSSELS, Belgium: The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians urged the European Union on Wednesday to take on Turkey as a member if it improves democratic and human rights standards.
“Europe needs to bring Turkey into its project,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I told the European Parliament.
“What I and the majority of the people of Turkey wish is [...]
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Tags: Christianity · Cyprus/TRNC · EU Members · Enosis · Greece · Religions