A thin, dusty line is about the only thing separating Kenya, one of the Western world?s closest allies in Africa, from the Shabab, a radical Islamist militia that has taken over much of southern Somalia, beheading detractors, stoning adulterers and threatening to kill any Americans or Europeans who get in their way.
In the News
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July 21st, 2009
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July 21st, 2009
Muslim extremists early yesterday morning killed a Christian convert in Mahadday Weyne, Somalia, 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Mogadishu.
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July 21st, 2009
Devon Humanists are calling for Devon County Council to reconsider public funding for 'faith' consultations, calling the present system discriminatory and a waste of public resources.
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July 21st, 2009
I made the parallel with abortion for two reasons. One to demonstrate how a society which looks down on the Nazis, the eugenicists, the sterilisers and the killers of the mentally handicapped in the 1930s, now permits the mass killing of healthy babies, and also the killing in the womb of the supposedly handicapped, on the grounds that they are handicapped - though we would never accept this with babies outside the womb.
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July 20th, 2009
The role of homosexual sex in the transmission of the virus that causes AIDS in Africa has been long ignored, say the authors of a new study in the medical journal Lancet.
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July 20th, 2009
Four-and-a-half centuries of Scotland's social and religious history was closed yesterday, but only a couple of dozen people turned up to publicly mourn the passing of strict Sabbath observance.
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July 20th, 2009
Alzheimer's disease could eventually be reversed, claim scientists, after discovering that stem cells can 'nurse' the brain back to health.
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July 20th, 2009
A group obsessed with creating a Caliphate based on Muslim religious law - Sharia Law - in the United States and other nations held their first US conference on Sunday, July 19, 2009 in a Hilton hotel in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn.
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July 20th, 2009
Choirs have been banned from singing carols in parts of Parliament this Christmas because they have been putting MPs off their lunch, it was claimed.
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July 19th, 2009
Are we going to do the same thing to the unwanted old that we do to unwanted babies? That is to say, are we going to kill lots of them off, and pretend that this is just fine?