It starts Friday and it will be held at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center on Lake Grapevine with activities such as boot camps, seminars and speakers.

The event will last six days, ending on Wednesday.

Speakers include Jack Graham with PowerPoint Ministries in Plano and Tony Evans, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, a national organization based in Dallas that seeks to bring spirituality to inner-city neighborhoods.

6,000 people from radio, television and other areas of Christian media are expected to attend the conference.

“A Danish paper publishes a cartoon that mocks Muslims.
An Iranian paper responds with a Holocaust cartoons contest.
- Now a group of Israelis announce their own anti-Semitic cartoons contest!” reads the homepage of Boomka.org.

It then proceeds to explains a little further: “Amitai Sandy (29), graphic artist and publisher of Dimona Comix Publishing, from Tel-Aviv, Israel, has followed the unfolding of the “Muhammad cartoon-gate” events in amazement, until finally he came up with the right answer to all this insanity - and so he announced today the launch of a new anti-Semitic cartoons contest - this time drawn by Jews themselves!

“We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!” said Sandy “No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!”“.

The website is getting several cartoon submissions but, more important, everyone agrees it’s a great attitude towards the recent holocaust cartoons contest, with humor.

Finlandian Helsingin Sanomat published an open letter to Jesus and Mohammed signed by journalist Heikki Aittokoski.

While I don’t agree with a lot of points of the letter, it’s worth reading.

Read the letter

A new movie about the final hours of Jesus will be shot.

The main role (yes, Jesus Christ) will be played by an African American, therefore presenting Jesus as black.

The actor who will represent Jesus is Jean Claude La Marre, also writing the script and directing it.

Reverend Cecil ‘Chip’ Murray, former pastor of Los Angeles’ venerable First AME Church, said about the film:

“We really need to do something about the negative imaging of black America […] Black America is the only culture that worships in the form of foreign symbols. The good that can be done is that it can help lift people’s interest and combat racism and discrimination. […] It’s more likely that Jesus was black than it was that Jesus was European.”

Recently, “Son of man”, the first movie portraying Jesus as black was premiered at Sundance. Although the points of view are different, it will be interesting to compare these productions.

The film is expected to be released in November.

Via MonstersAndCritics

Controversy arose when a Denmark newspaper featured a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed with a turban shaped like a bomb on his head. This has been in the headlines for several weeks but news keep coming in about it.

Muslims are obviously furious about this, for illustrating Mohammed as a terrorist and also we should note that he is not supposed to be depicted to prevent idolatry, making things even worse.

“Jyllands-Posten” is the newspaper that published the cartoons and, although they ran an apology signed by the editor in chief, they received a bomb threat a few days ago (the day after the apology was published actually). Their apology said:

“In our opinion, the 12 drawings were sober. They were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims for which we apologize….
Maybe because of culturally based misunderstandings, the initiative to publish the 12 drawings has been interpreted as a campaign against Muslims in Denmark and the rest of the world.
I must categorically dismiss such an interpretation. Because of the very fact that we are strong proponents of the freedom of religion and because we respect the right of any human being to practise his or her religion, offending anybody on the grounds of their religious beliefs is unthinkable to us.”

The apology should have been harder on themselves? That’s what Ahmed Akkari, a spokesman for the groups, thinks: “We lack a clear statement where the newspaper apologizes for the offense and stand[s] by it,”.

The cartoons were published last September but they have been reprinted by some newspapers, such as in a conservative Norwegian magazine and in a French newspaper, causing more repercussions. Even
a small newspaper has been shut down for reprinting the cartoons.

The main argument from the “pro-cartoons” is the free speech. But some question this, wondering what would happen if the cartoons mocked a different religion’s icon.

The latest news about the issue is very tragic. A boy was killed in Somalia during a protest.

There’s a lot to think about, but the main concern is when will it end and how…