This and other Arabic-language forums hosted discussions on the latest news from Iraq, provided a place for swapping tips on tradecraft, circulated religious justifications for jihad, and acted as intermediary between would-be fighters and their would-be recruiters.
They circulated spiritual information.
As word of the upcoming vote began to circulate, various religious leaders, academics, actors such as Meryl Streep and Lena Dunham, and groups like the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) signed aletter opposing the proposed policy.
In 1991, an anonymous and illegally published book titled "Realities and Judgments" began circulating among the religious intellectuals in Qum and Tehran.
When rumours began circulating during a religious procession that a suicide bomber was about to blow himself up on the bridge, the resulting panic led to a stampede that caused the railings to give way.
Protestant groups were also allowed to open a circulating library of religious books, and Jews were permitted a few months ago to reopen a long-shuttered Jewish Club in Havana's historic center.
And the Rev. Seamus P. Finn, representing shareholders from the Catholic organization Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, has been circulating a letter among religious organizations — groups that control more than $100 billion in assets — to express displeasure with the nation's retailers.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nondenominational organization that litigates on behalf of religious interests, is circulating a petition under the heading: "The Obama Administration is giving you one year to stop believing" (a reference to the one-year delay the regulation offers to religious employers).
News of that hearing, and of some horrific recent incidents in which clerics were reportedly beheaded, killed and targeted for assassination, have been circulating furiously in the American religious media, electronic and otherwise.
It also is the case that several parallel non-Jewish religious accounts were circulating Mesopotamia and in ancient Israel (the Gilgemish Epic, for instance), which bear remarkable similarities to Israel's Noah account, while also being quite distinct in terms of emphasis.
