Jihadists Seize 'Brides' From Syrian Schools

A rebel fighter stands atop a former base used by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq 
and al-Shah after rebel fighters recaptured it in al-Dana town in Idlib province.

Jihadists are seizing girls from Syrian schools and colleges to serve as "brides", claim activists.
In the town of Raqqa, northern Syria, liberal rebels have been driven out, and fighters from the Islamist groups Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) hold sway.

Many are foreign-born, and are promised brides by recruiters in return for fighting under the black flag of jihad.

A number of foreign women, sometimes accompanied by their children, have joined the jihadist groups, but men still greatly outnumber them, and some have started to "recruit" brides from the local community, seizing girls against their will.

One of these was 21-year-old Fatima Abdullah, from a tribal area outside Raqqa, whose brother joined ISIS, and promised her to a Tunisian fighter. She resisted, but her family backed the union, and she killed herself with rat poison.

Five activists confirmed the story to the Sunday Telegraph.

One local woman told the newspaper that she had gone to a jihadists' recruiting office to speak to a unit of female jihadists. Among them was a divorced Frenchwoman who had come to Syria with her 12-year-old daughter and four sons to join the militants.

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Incredible Sight as a Quarter MILLION Turn Out in Peru March for Life

Highlighting Peru's officially recognized Day of the Unborn Child, artists sportsmen, TV personalities, politicians, clergymen and musicians posed for photos endorsing the country's March for Life.

(Lima, Peru)—"We all have a child within us," was the slogan for this year’s March for Life in Peru on March 22, which summoned 250,000 people in Lima alone, according to organizers. The turnout more than doubled that from last year and broke the record in Latin-American as the biggest pro-life demonstration ever. (Photo via LifeSiteNews.com) 

With thousands more participating in five cities, including 50,000 in Piura, Peruvians from all over the country got out to the streets to demonstrate their support for the pro-life cause.

The mainstream media barely covered the event, however, and some outlets even stated that "hundreds" of people showed up, showing pictures of small groups of people or even pictures from last year's march.

With 2,500 young volunteers helping with the organization, the march was a peaceful "party" to call everyone to defend life from conception until natural death.

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Sharia Law to Be Adopted into UK Legal System for First Time

Sharia principles are to become enshrined in the UK legal system for the first time, with The Law Society publishing guidelines for drawing up documents according to Islamic rules, which would exclude non-believers and encroach on women’s rights.

 

The new guidelines were produced by The Law Society earlier this month. Under the guidance, High Street solicitors will be able to write Islamic wills which will have the power to exclude non-believers completely and deny women an equal share of an inheritance.

“The male heirs in most cases receive double the amount inherited by a female heir of the same class. Non-Muslims may not inherit at all, and only Muslim marriages are recognized,” states the document.

Any children who have been born outside of marriage and even kids who have been adopted will also not be recognized as legitimate heirs.

It also advises lawyers to draft special exclusions from the Wills Act 1837, which would allow gifts or money to pass to the children of an heir who has died, as this practice isn’t recognized in Islamic law.

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Reinstate Lesbian Teachers Caught Having Sex in Classroom, Court Orders

A five-panel appellate court has ruled that having sex in a public school classroom is no reason to lose your job.

 Justices with the Manhattan Appellate Division have ordered James Madison High School to reinstate two lesbian teachers whom they fired after a janitor found them having sex inside a classroom during a school event.

French teacher Cindy Mauro, 38, and Spanish teacher Alini Brito, 34, went to a bar after school, then returned to attend a school singing competition in January 2011.

They left the event and went into Room 337, when the custodian found the pair engaged in sexual activity. Both were naked from the waist up.

The school fired the pair, both of whom had tenure.

The teachers denied any wrongdoing, saying that Brito needed to get something to eat to stabilize her blood sugar, and filed a lawsuit.

On Thursday, the panel ruled, "The penalty of termination of unemployment is shockingly disproportionate to [their] misconduct."

They added that the teachers had gone beyond the call of duty by attending the school event, as they "were not required to do so."

"They were both good at what they did," their lawyer, Michael Valentine, said.

The opinion was signed by justices Richard Andrias, Leland DeGrasse, Helen Freedman, Judith Gische, and Angela Mazzarelli.

Bill Donohue of the Catholic League said the lack of media coverage that the three-year-old story received displayed a blatant double-standard.

"If two priests were caught having sex in a classroom and were given the green light by church authorities, it would be the lead story on the national evening news," he said.

"This is nothing more than a passing local story," because the women were lesbians, public school teachers, and had obtained tenure, conditions he said represent a "trifecta."

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Christians Ordered to Teach Wiccan, Pagan Rites

A dispute over whether government can require Catholic schools to teach Wiccan and pagan rites as equal to the Ten Commandments and the resurrection of Jesus is heading to Canada’s highest court.

“Faith-based educational institutions should be free to live and operate according to the faith they teach and espouse,” said Gerald Chipeur, Q.C., of the Canadian firm Miller Thompson LLP.

“If the government can force Loyola High School to violate its faith, then the government can do the same to others,” said Chipeur, a  lawyer affiliated with the Alliance Defending Freedom.

The battle is over a government program adopted in Quebec in 2008 called “Ethics and Religious Culture” that is mandatory for all public and private schools. It presents all religions, from Christianity to Wiccan, “as equally valid” and requires schools to teach the beliefs in that fashion.

It also bans teachers, including those at private, denominational or church schools, from expressing their opinion that their own school’s faith is preferred.

The government order was challenged by Loyola High School, which is run by the Jesuits, a Roman Catholic order founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola. The school provides an education that is “publicly faithful to the authoritative teachings of the Catholic church.”

ADF filed a brief with the Supreme Court of Canada in support of the Catholic school after the court granted permission for other denominations to present arguments in the case.

The school had asked not to be exempted from the required teachings but to be allowed to make modifications in support of its religious faith.

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The Church's Male Exodus

The men have decided. Church  is not for them.

Increasingly, men and boys are abandoning their congregations. As we conducted the research for our recent book Why Nobody Wants to Go to Church Anymore we noticed men were leading the exodus. Statistics show that America's pews are disproportionately populated with 61 percent females and 39 percent males.

We wondered why. After digging deeper, we heard several recurring themes:

Feminization. Many men say the current church is designed for feminine tastes. Everything from the decor to worship behavior seems just a bit too "girly" for many guys. "It's intimidating for a man to hold hands in a circle," says David Murrow, author of Why Men Hate Going to Church. "A male visitor detects the feminine spirit the moment he walks in the sanctuary door. He may feel like Tom Sawyer in Aunt Polly's parlor."

One-way communication. Many men no longer desire to sit at the feet of a preacher and passively take in a lecture. This week popular Christian author Donald Miller admitted in his blog that he rarely attends church anymore. "I don't learn much about God hearing a sermon," he wrote. He said, like most men, he finds that the typical church service "can be long and difficult to get through." Other men told us that, rather than sit passively through a church service, they want to offer their thoughts, and join the conversation.

Avoidance of tough questions. Many men have serious questions about matters of faith. They feel their questions are unwelcome. David, a college student, told us how his difficult questions about the canonization of the Bible were deflected and dismissed. Frustrated, he left the church. He wasn't looking for an easy answer from a clerical know-it-all. He simply wanted a degree of honesty, authenticity, and humility.

Lack of adventure. Church happenings are too programmed and predictable for many men. They're looking for a little risk and challenge–just as the original disciples encountered while living with Jesus. But, as David Murrow says, "the actual mission of most congregations is making people feel comfortable and safe–especially longtime members."

Even the concept of discipleship has been stripped of its original meaning. It's been reduced to a sheltered academic exercise in most churches. Their discipleship programs amount to no more than a Bible study class. Murrow is looking to return to a real biblical process to disciple men. He calls it Men's League. It engages 12 men at a time in a year-long series of "ordeals"–challenging experiences that build healthy reliance on Christ.

Efforts such as these may help men get to know the real Jesus. Not the fragile-looking Jesus they remember from the faded portraits in the church hall. But the real, gritty carpenter who camped with fishermen, stood up to his threatening critics, withstood harrowing abuse, carried his own cross timbers, and conquered death itself. That's a man–and Lord–men today would find magnetic.

Thom Schultz - holysoup.com

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