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BLOG DESCRIPTION: Global news reporting and opinion from eyewitnesses.

MY REVIEW:
I’m not quite sure about this blog. Let’s just say it has political
views I disagree with. (I’m all for the ban on burkas, and I wish a ban
on the Muslim religion was not far behind. And I seriously doubt if Pat
Tillman was murdered because he was about to become an anti-war icon!)

So…check it out for yourself. Several writers contribute to the blog, from around the world, from their own viewpoint.

Sample post:

Is Europe reverting to Religious Witch Hunting?
by SamRatan1 May 23, 2010

Hardly
a day goes by without news about the restrictions that European
countries have been introducing on Muslim proponents, much of which
appears to touch upon a sign of visible expression of faith as is the
case with the Burqa, a female full body veil that can make a woman
literally invisible. The Belgian government has now made it unlawful for
women to be veiled in public places. France, a leading light in the
secular democratic world, has prohibited the use of veils in public
places. The Swiss population in a majority vote has banned minarets; A
mosque yes, but no minarets may be built in Switzerland. And some
politicians want to introduce a general Burqa ban, though Swiss hotels,
banks and other businesses that profit from these customers prefer not
to proscribe such dresses; Understandably, considering their dependence
on such customers.

Looking at the practical aspects of
being confronted with someone who is masked makes it impossible to
identify the person in question. Recently, a local flight in India made a
priority landing because a fully veiled passenger, who could not be
identified, refused to lift her veil for identification. Some countries
have implemented legislation prohibiting the use of masks in public
places, this as a form of protection, when identifying people by law
enforcement agencies. Some put up the argument that the woman has the
right to decide whether she wants to be veiled, others say that the veil
is not a religious requirement and is the right of the woman in
deciding to wear one or not.

Today this appears to
have seriously cut into the freedom of religion enshrined in democratic
governments. We need to recall that women have been veiled for ages both
for religious and other secular reasons such as fashion or plain
protection from the elements.

We seem to be
attempting to tackle a problem in dealing with symptoms that have far
reaching implications in a secular world. In looking for a panacea for
many of our questions, we seek answers in the metaphysics of religious
justification for the present and future expectations. Our yearning for
paradise has not diminished and religion has been able to offer answers
that science has yet been unable to do, albeit answers that merely
promise rewards with no proof.

Oil and water do not mix
and attempts to find commonality between common concepts of universal
law and religious tenets of right and wrong have been not successful.
Every attempt at a common civil code that is universal and acceptable
has not been successful, where religion is relegated to the private
arena of one’s beliefs. This is like asking someone to be a KKK member
in private (if that is the person’s choice) but at the same time swear
allegiance to the US Constitution in public. Politics cannot be yet
bereft from religious faith and here lies the conundrum.

Without
going into the discordant and disparate notes that major monotheistic
religions have evoked and the continuous attempts to interpret these in
varying contexts, it appears to be an impossible task to reconcile these
to come to a common and universal agreement. The deliberations of many
learned men and women have brought us no closer to what can be perceived
as common and universal understanding of what is acceptable. Are we
doomed to continue to perish at the religious battlefields that have
torn man asunder, or does the answer lie in a complete disavowal of
religion?

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