Blog Entries tagged 'Islam'

To Mosque Or Not To Mosque? Asks AWR Guest Blogger Susan Corso

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Susan notes: in this guest blog post originally published in the Huffington
Post, spiritual author, speaker, teacher and AWR friend and fan Dr.
Susan Corso (pictured left) suggests her fellow Americans rethink their collective response to the Ground Zero mosque debate &ndash [...]

There Are As Many Truths As There Are People To Tell Them

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Over the last couple of days, I’ve watched more-than-I-care-to-see versions of Israeli soldiers storming a Freedom Flotilla ship that sought to bring supplies to the blockaded Gaza strip in Palestine.

As a paciivist, I find the escalating violence, hatred and [...]

5 Steps To Turn An Innocent Child Into A Suicide Bomber

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:00:00 +0100
Documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy spent a year with Taliban recruiters and children who were training to become suicide bombers.

Her mission? To understand how the Taliban convert children into live ammunition, and why the childre [...]

One Woman�s Wish May Change The Course Of World Religions

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00:00 +0100
Susan notes: The Charter for Compassion has been signed since I published this in September 2009. Find out more and sign it yourself here.

In February 2008, former nun and religious scholar Karen Armstrong shared a wish with the worldwide TED co [...]

Is There a Terrorist Under That Hijab?

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +0100

Like Neda Agha Soltan
(the young Iranian women who was shot and died in the streets of Tehran
in post-election unrest), and Rachel Corrie (a Jewish peace activist who was crushed to death by a bulldozer trying to protect Palestinian homes in Gaza), Marwa Al Sherbini seemed an unlikely candidate
for martyrdom.

A pharmacist by profession, the 31-year-old mother of a three-year-old
boy was several months pregnant with her second child when she walked
into a German courtroom [...]