Tag Archives: Bahá’í

Typhoo Going Fairtrade

I have been informed that Typhoo is responding to Traidcrafts and the WIs Make it Fair campaign and become the first of the UKs big five tea producers to go Fairtrade. Fantastic news in my opinion, hopefully its a 100% … Continue reading 

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A Rose by Any Other Name

Back to one of my favorite topics, the Malaysian Allah problem, ever so quickly just to catch you up, in the Malaysian language, the word for God is Allah. But the Muslim dominated government has banned non-Muslims from using the … Continue reading 

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Human Rights Day

Today (December 10th 2009) is Human Rights Day, so to honour this, please read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which is found below. God Bless Michael Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and … Continue reading 

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Non-Baha’is at Feasts

Last week the Baha’i community which I belong to receive a letter from the Universal House of Justice (UHJ), forwarded to us by the National Spiritual Assembly (NSA). And the contents of the letter say so much about our community … Continue reading 

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God or Allah… Again!

One of my very first posts on this blog was a look at the problem in Malaysia of how the countries Christians are not allowed to refer to God as Allah, which is Malay for God. Well I have read … Continue reading 

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Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights

This week the Islamic Republic of Iran gave the British Museum a two month deadline to lend them the Cyrus cylinder, an artifact discovered in the ruins of Babylon in 1879, and widely believed to be the first human rights … Continue reading 

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Drop Your Bombs between the Minarets

On the 29th November, the Swiss will vote in a referendum which proposes to outlaw the constructions of Minarets at Mosques in the country, and it’s a heated battle that really symbolises the rampant Islamophobia present in Western Europe today. … Continue reading 

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Trying to Attain Detachment

I have taken a couple of weeks from Blogging to get my head sorted as I realised after my last posts that I was having some serious problems reaching the state of detachment I attain to and I needed a … Continue reading 

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The Passing of a Generation

These past few weeks have seen the deaths of the last British Tommy’s to have fought in the Trenches on the Western Front of World War I. Yesterday Harry Patch the last survivor was buried with full military honours as … Continue reading 

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Newcastle Walk for Peace – After the Fact

Today was the Newcastle upon Tyne Walk for Peace, I have already talked about what it was so I will simply talk about how it went. Myself and Ineke took the bus from mine, I live round the corner from … Continue reading 

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