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There is nothing funny about the declaration of the ‘Caliphate’

And I am not laughing.

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Members loyal to the ISIL wave ISIL flags as they drive around Raqqa

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Initially published in Turkish Hurriyet Daily

It may be amusing to some, but there is nothing funny about the declaration of the “Caliphate”  by the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The rise of rejectionist groups is testimony to an older, deeper struggle that still haunts the region today. It would be folly to dismiss Islamist rejectionism as a fringe ideology. The new Caliphate may be “ahistorical,” but there is growing support for this much-indulging myth among some Muslim youth. After a century of poisonous politics in the Middle East, many prefer to escape to the past instead of facing the painful present.

Rejectionist radicals are not new in the Arab world. In 1970s Egypt, an agricultural engineer, Shukri Mustafa, who turned radical in prison in the 1960s, founded the first rejectionist group, Takfir-wal-Hijra (meaning “excommunication and exile”). In his book…

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Burning Bridges

Night Owl Poetry - Dorinda Duclos

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 Through the smoke
I can still see you
Standing
On the other side

Your eyes ablaze
With the fire
Set upon the bridge
That now severs us

No chance to cross
As flames touch the night
The fear of being scarred
Ever fuels the heat, until

There is nothing but ashes
Burning embers
Absent confessions
Wafting away in the breeze

©2014 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved

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Queso gouda vegano

Queso gouda vegana Queso gouda vegano

Agregamos a nuestra lista de quesos el famoso gouda. Ideal para derretir en pizzas, bocadillos calientes y lasañas.

Receta para dos bloques de 220 grs cada uno.

200 grs de tofu, 2 patatas cocida, 2 cucharadas de margarina vegana, 1/4 taza leche soja, 1 cucharada aga-agar, 1 pizca de  pimiento rojo en polvo, 1 cucharada de mostaza, sal y  pimienta a gusto.

Preparación: en un bowl colocamos las patatas previamente cocida y el tofu. Trituramos con la minipimer. Le agregamos 1 pizca de pimiento rojo en polvo, 1 cucharada de moztasa, sal y la pimienta. Volvemos a triturar todo y reservamos. El una cacerola calentamos a fuego medio la leche con la margarina y cuando esta se derrita agregamos el agar-agar, siempre revolviendo. A los 6 minutos apagamos el fuego, juntamos la leche con el tofu y revolvemos nuevamente. Aceitamos los moldes y vertemos la mezcla en cada uno. Dejamos enfriar a…

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To Be A Christian In The “Islamic State”

Stories like this have been produced as propaganda forever and since it is based on a story from Assyrian International News Agency – I suspect disinformation. Ever since “Huns bayoneting Belgian children” posters during WWI, the “enemy” always commits unspeakable against children and women…

The Dish

Well, you may be able to imagine. Andrew Doran and Drew Bowling report on the plight of Mosul’s terrified Christians:

On June 23, the Assyrian International News Agency reported that ISIS terrorists entered the Iraqi Refugees in Erbilhome of a Christian family in Mosul and demanded that they pay the jizya (a tax on non-Muslims). According to AINA, “When the Assyrian family said they did not have the money, three ISIS members raped the mother and daughter in front of the husband and father. The husband and father was so traumatized that he committed suicide.”

Although few reports from ISIS-occupied Iraq can be corroborated, the group’s record of torture chambers, public executions, and crucifixions lends credibility to nightmarish accounts from the ground. Since the fall of Mosul, a litany of evils has replaced the liturgies of the Christians there: a young boy ripped from the arms of his parents as they ran from…

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Quote For The Day

The Dish

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Hobby Lobby In ACA Contraception Case

“The New Testament never — not one time — applies the “Christian” label to a business or even a government. The tag is applied only to individuals. If the Bible is your ultimate guide, the only organization one might rightly term “Christian” is a church. And this is only because a church in the New Testament is not a building or a business, but a collection of Christian individuals who have repented, believed on Christ, and are pursuing a life of holiness. Journalists or cultural commentators might use the phrase “Christian business” in colloquial or cultural terms, but conservative evangelicals must admit that the term makes no theological sense for them given their views of salvation, sanctification, and revelation,” – Jonathan Merritt.

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