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Hezbollah has also been accused of obstructing the election of a new president, leaving Lebanon leaderless for the past two years. A pro-Iranian Hezbollah supporter holds up a poster of assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, on Thursday. While some Lebanese believe Hezbollah hijacked Lebanon’s political system, it also held it up. Lebanon has already suffered a year of lower-level fighting between Israel and Hezbollah along its southern border. But Lebanese political leaders are still relishing Hezbollah’s decline, he said, even some among the group’s Shia Muslim co-religionists.

Persons: Hassan Nasrallah, ” Fouad Siniora, ”, Rafik Hariri, Marwan Naamani, Sarah Zaaimi, Firas Maksad, “, ” Maksad, Nabih Berri, Jeffrey Feltman, Berri, Israel –, ” Ibrahim Moussawi, —, Siniora Organizations: NBC News, United, Getty, Hezbollah, Hariri, & Middle, Middle East Institute, WikiLeaks, Security, Keystone, —, The Washington Institute Locations: BEIRUT, Lebanon, Israel, Beirut, Iran, United Nations, Lebanese, Syria, AFP, Washington, U.S, Paris, Tehran, Riyadh, Jerusalem, “

☆ Netflix's 'Unsolved Mysteries' examines the murders of Jack the Ripper. Meet four men suspected of being the notorious serial killer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Jon Pizer/Leather ApronAn illustration of Jon Pizer in Netflix's "Unsolved Mysteries." NetflixThe police started looking into a suspect dubbed "Leather Apron" following the death of Polly Nichols, the Ripper's first victim, on August 31, 1888. Crime historian Adam Wood explained in the Netflix series that a man called Jon Pizer was later identified as "Leather Apron." Pizer told an inquest into Chapman's death on September 12, 1888 that he used the leather apron nickname. The website states Pizer told the Press Association after his release: "They found nothing in my possession that would incriminate me, thank God.

Persons: Jon Pizer, Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Adam Wood, Jack, Richard Jones, Pizer, Nichols, Chapman Organizations: Netflix, Press Association Locations: Whitechapel

☆ Josh Hawley tweeted out a misattributed quote from a segregationist newspaper on the Fourth of July
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

On the Fourth of July, Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted a quote he attributed to Patrick Henry. The quote argues that America "was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians." But it didn't come from Henry — it comes from a segregationist newspaper in Virginia in 1956. It came from a 1956 article in "The Virginian," a since-shuttered segregationist newspaper. "The above quotation from the will of Patrick Henry is a notable example."

Persons: Sen, Josh Hawley, Patrick Henry, Henry —, —, Republican Sen, Patrick Henry —, United States —, Jesus Christ, Henry, Hawley isn't, David Barton, Seth Cotlar, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Hawley Organizations: Service, Republican, United, Willamette University, Twitter Locations: America, Virginia, Missouri, United States, Henry's

☆ Opinion | Why These Six Americans Moved Away from Organized Religion
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Nones” — the term of art for those who say they have no particular religious affiliation — is an unsatisfying label. I’m not the first to notice that it sounds like “nuns” when said aloud, and that, as a result, it can confuse people who aren’t steeped in sociological jargon. But more crucially, “nones” obscures the diversity of backgrounds and beliefs among the millions of Americans who fall into this very broad category. Previously, nones had been defined by what they aren’t — adherents to a religious tradition — rather than who they are or what they believe. “They haven’t really thought about truth, meaning, etc.,” he said.

Persons: “, I’m, ”, nones, David Campbell, Geoffrey Layman, John Green, Campbell, religionists, Secularists “ Organizations: Notre Dame

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