Military, Diversity & the Muslim Community

This will air tomorrow, 11.17.09, morning on the local Charlotte NC NPR show "Charlotte Talks" on WFAE at 9AM EST, you can stream the show live, or archived later, at the link. Show is an hour long.

Today, we’ll look at how the military and other large organizations manage diversity. A representative from Fort Bragg will share the Army’s policies regarding religious and cultural diversity. We’ll also hear from a Muslim Imam who was a military veteran and member of the Charlotte City Council and from a local resident who grew up in an Islamic country but now calls Charlotte home. They hope to provide understanding on faith, culture and diversity in the military, government and corporate worlds.

Guests:

Osama “Sam” Wazan – Retired Executive of a Software Company, Muslim

Nasif Majeed – Imam, Former City Council Member and military veteran

Ltc. Rafael Boyd – Program Manager, XVII Airborne Corps, Equal Opportunity Office, Fort Bragg

God and Guns

With More Children at Peril, a Call to Unarm

Pfleger is taking aim against gun violence and using the church to do so. He is flying the flag outside his parish upside down, a sign of distress used only in extreme emergencies. He says the city of Chicago is in just such an emergency.

"It's an epidemic," says Pfleger. "I've had four funerals of young children so far this year. A 13-year-old going to the store, a 15-year-old killed on a bus. All gun [crimes]."........

The report, and video of, above follows a report from the previous day, below, about a preacher allowing the parishioners of his church to bear arms during church services.

The Right to Bear Arms Heats Up

They clutched their Bibles and wore their handguns on their hips at New Bethel Church in Louisville, Ky., after Rev. Ken Pagano encouraged parishioners to pack both their Bibles and heat to celebrate their right to bear arms -- even in a church sanctuary......

"To have someone bring a gun into that kind of space and to lift it up as if it were a symbol of goodness is horrific," says Rev. Serene Jones, president of the Union Theological Seminary........

As is further stated in the Video, if church's, or any house of worship, allow this that church ceases to be a church!

America in the 21st century, heading into the 19th, advancing backwards, rapidly, while the rest of the planet continues trying to move forward!

A Land Called Paradise

$3 Billion Propaganda Organ

Robert Parry

The GOP's $3 Billion Propaganda Organ

or at original site HERE

Robert Parry writes: "The American Right achieved its political dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, the Washington Times, according to a 21-year veteran of the newspaper."

A long report but interesting read, especially for those who don't know about Moon and his use of a twisted religious ideology and politics, nor the depths of corruption and propaganda that certain power hungry individuals will embrace!