WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is holding the second in a sequence of hearings about violent Islamic radicalization in the U.S., a subject so controversial that the first event drew days of protests from religious and civil rights groups and tears from a Muslim congressman who testified about his religion.
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June 15th, 2011
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June 15th, 2011The Christian Legal Centre is gearing up for a legal battle which could dominate the next few years. We’re delighted that the European Court has decided to hear the cases of Nadia Eweida, Shirley Chaplin, Gary McFarlane and Lillian Ladele. The CLC will be supporting Mrs Chaplin, the nurse who was told to remove her cross, and Mr McFarlane, the counsellor who was sacked for failing to commit to provide sex therapy to homosexual couples.
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June 15th, 2011In two weeks’ time there will be a meeting in Tower Hamlets with a man called Raed Salah, a Palestinian who reportedly wrote the following piece of poetry in the Hamas journal:
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June 15th, 2011You are unlikely to read about it in the British press, but today, 15 June, is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
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June 15th, 2011The results of a national online study show that 45% of teenagers consider their parents to be their sexuality role model. Shattering stereotypes that parents and society hold about teen sexuality, the survey also revealed that only 32% looked to their friends and just 15% took inspiration from celebrities. Dr. Jean-Yves Frappier, a researcher at the University of Montreal’s affiliated CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre will be presenting the results at the Canadian Paediatric Society’s 88th Annual Conference on June 18, 2011.
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June 15th, 2011North Carolina has become the third state to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business now that both houses of the state legislature have agreed to override pro-abortion Gov. Bev Perdue’s budget veto.
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June 15th, 2011Four senior peers have accused the BBC of running an ‘orchestrated campaign’ to change the law on assisted death.
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June 14th, 2011Council of Europe Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg during his visit to Dublin last week demanded that the Irish Government should respond to the decision of the European Court of human Rights decision and legislate for the introduction of abortion in Ireland.
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June 14th, 2011Last night, courtesy of the BBC, we could watch a man being killed – voluntarily. The much-heralded climax of the documentary Choosing to Die was of 71-year-old Peter Smedley being administered a lethal dose of Nembutal helped down with a praline chocolate (this was in Switzerland, after all). In his comments to accompany Smedley's death, the presenter, Sir Terry Pratchett, declared: "This has been a happy event."
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June 14th, 2011More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children. Now, decades on, one state is considering compensation.