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If Masjid Al Aqsa could speak
By SARAH SALAMA, Contributing Writer   

 

There has to be some kind of error,

for all I have seen is terror.

My insecure yet holy city,

is overflowing with nothing but pity.

I witness the cries of my people.

Out loud and in silence.

During the day and night.

While some eat and some starve.

They cry for a better tomorrow.

They cry for rights.

They cry for the honor of their land.

The land of which

my heritage,

my beginnings,

and my story

are forever engraved in.

And as I glisten over the horizon,

which no able eye can miss

I just like to think and reminisce,

before the times my city was wasted

into this massive, and Blood filled abyss.

The times I really was a holy and respected city.

When I was a center for knowledge.

When scholars from all over flocked to learn in my kingdom.

When the citizens traded goods with justice and freedom.

Now, generations of Hate, and lives are just wasted

And again we lay in the same situation.

Oppression.

With out a doubt there are many questions.

Unspoken yet explicit.

When will she be free?

When will victory come upon her?

When will she hold her banner up high?

That is, the glorious banner of Palestine.

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AN INTERFAITH VIEW: Onward, Christian soldiers?
By LAWRENCE SWAIM, Columnist   


When Michael "Mikey" Weinstein went to the Air Force Academy in the 1970s, he was harassed and badly beaten for being Jewish. But over the years, things seemed to get better for Jews in the American military — there was dialogue with Christians, where before there’d been confrontation. So it was especially traumatic when Weinstein was told in 2004 by his son, Curtis, who was then a cadet at the Air Force Academy, that non-Christians were again being targeted. This time the goal wasn’t only to harass them. Now the goal was forced conversion to Christianity.

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HLF mistrial a case ‘strung together with macaroni noodles’
By PARVEZ AHMED, Contributing Writer   


Against heavy odds, the American justice system has prevailed once again.

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The world needs Scriptural Reasoning
By REV. CONNIE REGENER, Columnist   


WHERE THE

CROSS MEETS THE CRESCENT

Reflections on Muslim and Christian Spirituality in the Southland

I will never forget the pained look on the faces of my Muslim friends after Pope Benedict XVI’s Regensburg address of Sept.13, 2006.

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Cashing in on terror
By ROBERT SCHEER, www.truthdig.org   


Not to stoke any of the inane conspiracy theories running wild on the Internet, but if Osama bin Laden wasn’t on the payroll of Lockheed Martin or some other large defense contractor, he deserves to have been.

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