Religion

ISIS have begun harvesting human organs after a group of scholars ruled that the taking of organs from captives was allowed.  The January 31st document says that taking organs from a living captive in order to save a fellow Muslim’s life is permissible. The Times Of India reports: Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the authenticity of the document. US officials say it was among a trove of data and other information obtained by US special forces in a raid in eastern Syria in May.

For "Americans" Christmas is a typical winter festival and nothing more. It has little or nothing to do with the Jesus of history.

Christmas Has Been Hopelessly Corrupted By Greed, Consumerism and Insensitivity

The over-prescribing of psychotropic drugs to children, some still in the crib, is alarming. Parents, physicians and educators must remember to "do no harm."

The governments of both Somalia and Brunei have prohibited public festivities celebrating Christmas saying that they could damage the Muslim faith. Of course, as we saw yesterday, this kind of suppressive, micro-aggression is already here in America (at Cornell University) but while Mistletoe and crosses are banned here, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has banned "hats or clothes that resemble Santa Claus," fearing they could "provoke al-Shabab to carry out attacks."