Last week I attended a typical charity dinner, celebrating the raising of $15 million to make needed additions and renovations to San Fernando Cathedral here in San Antonio. It was an ecumenical event and ministers from several faiths stood up and gave speeches. I noticed how nervous the local Muslim cleric looked and thought he was courageous to have come. After I got home, I discovered that a popular nearby Persian restaurant had its glass door smashed in by vandals.

This made me reflect on how Tuesday’s terrorism is being touted as a religious act by the perpetrators. This gives rise to an automatic reaction in those of us who are under attack: we hate the religion that is terrorizing us.
read more

Where do terrorists come from? How can you convince someone to commit suicide in order to kill innocent civilians, by strapping on a bomb or piloting an airplane into a building? An English school librarian who witnessed Muslim pupils celebrating the terrorist atrocities in America says she believes that fundamentalists who follow an extreme form of Islam are deliberately brainwashing Asian children.

The librarian says she saw 15-year-old pupils cheering and chanting anti-American slogans when one of their classmates walked into a room, punching the air and shouting about the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. ?I was sickened,? she says. ?I thought, ?Dear God, how can they behave like this??
read more

Anne Strieber’s new diary entry reflects on the futility of fighting wars over religion, and makes the point that religious wars are almost always actually over other things, such as land, and that soldiers are inspired by cynical leaders to die for their faiths, while the leaders have hidden motives, often that are self-serving in the extreme. To read it, click here.

NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any links removed.read more

We have received hundreds of requests to listen again to the beautiful statement about America that Whitley made on Dreamland on Saturday, September 15. This two and a half minute statement is available as an Inside Interview, and you can listen by clicking here.

NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any links removed.read more