YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 04 2007 | society, culture, religion, HIV/AIDS, human rights, life style
Prophet Mohamod's words: "'If one part of my body hurts, my whole body hurts'," she said. "I take this to mean that if one member of my community hurts, we all hurt."
Quoted: The previous day, several of them had denounced homosexuality as un-Islamic and evil. Today, Abu al-Sameed had something to tell them. "As a gay Muslim, I feel unsafe, unloved and unrespected in this space," he said. "Were I to become HIV-positive, the first thing I would lose is my Muslim community. I couldn't come to you guys for support."
YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 29 2007 | african, culture, society, religion, race and integration
YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 29 2007 | people, culture, religion, tradition
Quoted: “The primary reason I am here is because of gender equality,” said Rebecca Israel, 25, who was raised in an Orthodox family. Ms. Israel attended D.C. Minyan and Tikkun Leil Shabbat, which she visited one recent Friday, until she moved a year ago to New York, where she goes to Kehilat Hadar. “If Judaism is central to my morality, then its practices needed to reflect the morality that I learned from it. In religious practices that limit women’s participation, Orthodox shuls were not living up to that equality that is important to me.”
YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 19 2007 | bbc, world, news, religion
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YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 23 2007 | religion, politics
YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 18 2007 | general, los angeles, religion
you got to be kidding me!!! I guess it is comforting to know where else the 10% goes >>>>
Quoted: Religious organizations buying a lot of coverage may need to prove that they're taking precautions to lower the risk of sex abuse.
But insurance companies created these abuse-specific policies only after the lawsuits of the mid-80s forced them to make large payouts. Until then, general liability policies didn't specifically rule out sex abuse, so churches that needed to pay damages argued that insurers should pay.
YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 18 2007 | news, bbc, Africa, religion
"They say Sharia is for the Muslims. As for me, my religion does not stop me from selling or taking alcohol, why should they try to interfere with my business?" she asks
Quoted: The Sharia police, or Hisbah, say they will soon begin raids on "pleasure island" in northern Nigeria's ancient Muslim city of Kano.
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