The golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect, but obedience.
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This coming Friday, 27 March, British television series Unreported World will present a report about honour crime in Turkey. Unreported World travels to Turkey to investigate honour killings, which have now reached record levels, with more than 200 girls and women killed in the past year alone. And in a chilling new development, the programme [...]
Historian J. Wesley Bush, who blogs at Russian Policy Daily, translates portions of an interview with the head of Russia’s Family and Childhood Foundation. Note the bit on forced abortions (emphasis added). Chastnyi Korrespondent has an interview with Sveta Rudneva, head of the “Family and Childhood” foundation of Russia. Like many Russians, she’s worried about [...]
Last week, a Christian leader alleged that terrorists are being trained in the bush of northern Nigeria. Now comes a police intelligence report saying much the same thing. A Shiite Muslim sect is engaged in gun-running and training of militant youths drawn from 13 states in the predominantly-Muslim northern Nigeria as well as neighbouring Niger [...]
Dennis Prager’s latest column, “Brilliance Is Overrated”, is spot on: Most Americans upon hearing that someone has attended Harvard University assumes that this person is not only smarter than most other people but is actually a more impressive person. That is why, for example, people assume that a Nobel laureate in physics has something particularly [...]
Scientists at the Université de Montréal have discovered that impulsive young men are more likely to drive under the influence of cannabis (DUIC) and more likely to be involved in motor vehicle accidents. “We observed that dangerous driving behaviours are interrelated. Individuals scoring high on impulsivity or sensation-seeking scales demonstrated an elevated risk of driving [...]
Medical scientists have identified a link between chronic usage of marijuana and an obscure severe vomiting syndrome. Marijuana, a commonly abused drug among high school and college students, is linked to a severe form of vomiting syndrome and compulsive bathing behavior. This form of severe vomiting sickness is increasingly recognized with widespread abuse of marijuana. [...]
“Forced To Marry” will be shown this evening on CBC Newsworld’s The Passionate Eye at 10 pm ET/PT. (11 pm Atlantic Time.) Presenter Saira Khan journeys to Pakistan and reports the stories of two British women of Pakistani descent who were coerced into marrying men they hardly knew. Entrepreneur and TV presenter Saira Khan travels [...]
