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Posts Tagged ‘religous persecution

To All The Ethiopian Jews Around The World…I Celebrate Your Existence

December 11, 2009

Recently a very scholarly Jewish friend of mine was surprised to hear from me that there are in existence a whole community of black Ethiopian Jews that live about a block down the street from him in Southern California. He was resisting the fact that black Jews existed, but did not want to acknowledge that […]

Islamophobic Swiss Vote To Ban Minarets On Mosque

November 30, 2009

Minarets (Turkish: minare,[1] from Arabic manāra (lighthouse) منارة, usually مئذنة) are distinctive architectural features of Islamic mosques. Minarets are generally tall spires with onion-shaped or conical crowns, usually either free-standing or taller than any associated support structure, states a source from Wikipedia …http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret The main function of the minaret is to provide a vantage point from which […]