Monday, April 30, 2007

Can We Trust The BBC?


On this Blog Week In Review podcast, we hear an interview with Robin Aitken, the former BBC journalist and on-air personality, who left the network and has written a new book, titled Can We Trust The BBC?. You can say he’s the British version of Bernard Goldberg, the former executive producer at CBS who exposed the bias in the American media around the time of Rathergate. Aitken discusses in depth the BBC's biases regarding Iraq, Israel, and the Palestinians. For those who still hold out a belief that the BBC is entirely objective, it’s an eye-opener.

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Monday, April 23, 2007

Supreme Court decides partial-birth abortion ban constitutional

Take a look at the legal and ethical implications of this ruling, as Greg Koukl explains in this Townhall.com piece how the logical slippery slope of banning partial-birth abortion can slide our nation towards a more pro-life posture.

Presidential Candidates react to ruling

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Are Muslims above the law? Sometimes.

A growing Muslim population in the West has increasingly pitted Islamic teaching against traditional Western values. It appears that this tension has increasingly resulted in the West becoming “de-Christianized” while simultaneously becoming more “Islamo-cized.” If a Christian principle, for instance, counters a prevailing national law, the Christian side is often dismissed, harassed, prosecuted, or persecuted and labeled “closed-minded," "bigoted," "intolerant," or "judgmental.” On the other hand, if a Muslim follows Islamic teaching that runs counter to national law – like wife beating – there appears to be increasing favoritism shown towards Islamic law. Take, for example, the recent wrong-headed effort at “cultural sensitivity” – possibly influenced by intimidation – in Germany, where Judge Christa Datz-Winter placed the Koran above the German constitution. As stated in the New York Times:

“…The judge turned down the wife’s request for a speedy divorce, saying her husband’s behavior did not constitute unreasonable hardship because they are both Moroccan. ‘In this cultural background,’ she wrote, ‘it is not unusual that the husband uses physical punishment against the wife.’”
This has resulted in a political backlash. Fox News reported:
“Lawmakers from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats said traditional Islamic law, or Sharia, had no place in Germany. ‘The legal and moral concepts of Sharia have nothing to do with German jurisprudence,’ Wolfgang Bosbach, a lawmaker with the Christian Democrats, told N24 television.”

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

The Intolerance of Today’s Tolerance Movement

There is a modern myth that true tolerance consists of neutrality. Nothing could be further from the truth. One can not tolerate something unless one disagrees with that thing. This important point has been lost in the modern perversion of the word tolerance. Now, if you think something is wrong, one is considered intolerant. In his Townhall.com article entitled "Gen. Pace & the Myth of Moral Neutrality,” Greg Koukl writes that the buzz surrounding Gen. Pace's moral comments "reflects one of the most entrenched assumptions of moral relativism in our society today: that there is such a thing as morally neutral ground, a place of complete impartiality where no judgments nor any forcing of personal views are allowed. Each of us takes a neutral posture towards the moral convictions of others. This is the essence of tolerance, or so the argument goes."

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Monday, April 02, 2007

Coach Tony Dungy not intimidated by gay activists

Watch this clip as he responds to the pressure.

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