. . . jihad is not “a problem of poverty, insufficient education or any other social precondition,” but rather a “religious obligation.”
A book review of "Heretic"
Source : New York Times
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. . . I went to the office of Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority, commonly referred to as NADRA, to follow up on an unanswered request to change my registered religion from Muslim to Jewish. There, an official told me that, as per policy, changing my religion from Islam to any other faith would not be allowed.
Source : The Huffington Post
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In 325, the Roman Emperor Constantine I gathered bishops from around his empire at the Council of Nicaea to hammer out a solution to this and other debates raging in the early church. The council decided that Easter would be observed on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Source : The Huffington Post
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One of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, the Bnei Menashe are descendants of the tribe of Manasseh who were banished from Israel over 2,700 years.
Source : The Jerusalem Post
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