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Fisher-Price “Dawah Doll” brings the deen
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Aziz Poonawalla
Awesome. Parents are outraged about the messages they’rehearing from a doll. It’s Fisher-Price’s “Little Mommy Real Loving BabyCuddle and Coo” doll. Some people claim they can hear it mumble “Satan is king” in one track; then clearly speak “Islam is the light” in another. The Associated Press, among many others, have investigated – here’s their…
self-inflicted wound: was Ashley Todd the final nail?
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Aziz Poonawalla
The story was sensational, and suspiciously stereotypical in invoking racial prejudices and conservative dogma about liberals’ irrationality. Sure enough, it was also a hoax: Ashley Todd, of College Station, Texas, confessed to making up the story about an attacker scratching a letter “B” into her face with a knife and will be charged with filing…
Can you be a muslim and a christian?
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is unusual, to say the least: A Seattle Episcopal priest who claims to be both Christian and Muslim has been restricted from public ministry and will be defrocked unless she “reclaims” Christianity by next April, the Episcopal Church announced.…Redding, who teaches at a Jesuit seminary in Seattle, according to Episcopal News Service, told ENS…
Yikes, Ike … Remembering Rita
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Aziz Poonawalla
My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in the Gulf Coast region – especially my family there and all the friends I accumulated over the 9 years I spent living there before moving to Wisconsin in June 2007. It looks like Ike is going to hit Houston and Galveston hard: I pray that this…
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