BBC: State of Mind - Life in North Korea

Revolutionary History Lesson:
-How many types of greatness does the Great Leader have?
-Three: firstly?
-Greatness in ideology.
-Second?
-Greatness in leadership.
-Third?
-Greatness in aura.
-When we receive the Great Leader’s leadership we are destined to be eternally happy.

Chain-Smoking Indonesian Baby Continues Smoking

Japan Angry over 'The Cove'

The Cove Trailer

Kenya's Televangelism Empire

Televangelism is growing across Africa, but especially in Kenya where religious programmes are led by powerful and charismatic pastors who often preach unconventional ideas, like miracle cures for HIV and Aids.



Survey Finds Africa Is Most Religious Part Of World

Belgian Police Raid Catholic Church HQ in Sex Abuse Probe

Has Globalization Revved Up Religious Fundamentalism?

James Hoge, editor of Foreign Affairs, argues that globalization has contributed to the rise of religious fundamentalism over the last 30 years. Citing a sense of identity loss following increased mobility, Hoge theorizes that people have returned to religion in order to regain a sense of security.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Real Time with Bill Maher

DHIMMI: A BRIEF OVERVIEW
7th-21st century. The notion of Dhimmitude, originating in the 7th century, still applies today to non-Muslims under Islamic rule—whether Jews or Christians, whether in Saudi Arabia or in Sudan. Dhimmitude began in 628 CE when Mohammed and his forces conquered the Jewish oasis at Khaybar. They massacred many of the Jews and forced the rest to accept a pact ("Dhimma") which rendered them inferiror to their Muslim conquerors. Over the centuries, the ideology of Dhimmitude expanded into a formal system of religious apartheid. MORE