July 12, 2007Muslim Missionaries, Christian MissionariesPosted by TMLutas
I've no idea whether this Pajamas Media story on breaking the oil/Al Queda link is accurate but this caught my eye:
If true, breaking Saudi Arabia's oil wealth by moving off oil is going to have a tremendous impact on the religious balance of the planet. Mosques will close, muslim charities will drastically cut back operations and the muezzin's call to prayer in some places may have to revert back to good old lung power. Christianity will not be similarly discomfited. That's going to be an interesting factor in the struggle over Africa among other places. July 06, 2007Immigration Reform IIPosted by TMLutas
This July 4th, I read the Declaration of Independence it didn't strike me at the time but one of the reasons we broke away from England seems a bit apropos regarding immigration:
Programs for 'temporary workers' with long stays in the US and no path to citizenship isn't exactly the same thing, but it rhymes. We need to do better than that. |
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