I spent last weekend in Dublin at the World Atheist Convention, where one of the big concerns was Sharia courts ( Read more... )

Penn Jillette and my friend Matt (aka Extreme Elvis) kinda know each other, and occasionally trade email. Matt pointed me to this PennPoint, where Penn Jillette is defending the iSlam app by Emory Emory against his "liberal friends", Matt being one of those friends. I'm a fan of both Penn Jillette and Extreme Elvis, but I come down closer to Matt ( Read more... )

loic recently commented that Lars Vilks is a total anti-Islamic douchebag. And I agree. His cartoon is offensive for many reasons:

- Depicting anyone as a mangy street dog is intuitively offensive in any culture. Even dog culture ( Read more... )

May 20 is Everybody draw Mohammed Day. While I am a friend and supporter of the Muslim community, I don't think their rules apply to me any more than the Jewish rules about Kosher apply to me ( Read more... )

A few years ago I was horrified by my fellow humans' treatment of my then-local mosque so I paid them a visit to relay the message "hey, sorry, some of my fellow humans are jerks". And it was a really positive experience. It reinforced my opinion that while there's some freaky stuff in every religious text most religious people are good people ( Read more... )

I talk with a lot of different people with a lot of different opinions, and I know a few people who are worried about an Islamic takeover of Europe and the United States. The threat starts gradually with Muslim women wearing veils, Muslim children wearing school uniforms, Muslim congressmen swearing an oath on the Koran, moves on to establishing ( Read more... )

I was reading soldiergrrrl's post in which she mentions Rev. Dr. Ann Holmes Redding, a Christian priest who is also a Muslim and says "You cannot, in any way, reconcile being a 'practicing' Muslim with being a 'practicing' Christian". I am neither a practicing Christian nor a practicing Muslim but I thought there was some wiggle room. Based on my possibly ( Read more... )

On the way to work this morning I heard something on NPR about the Moral Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). MILFs are frequently spotted in Singapore. Osama Bin Laden met with MILFs in the Philippines. The 9/11 commission also documented the activities of MILFs. Unfortunately I can't find anything about MILfs on today's Morning Edition.

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Today "Vent with Michelle Malkin" blew the roof off Islam in America with a shocking exposé: a lone moderate among a sea of radicals has the nerve to condemn terrorism and promptly gets banned from his mosque and threatened with violence.

This brouhaha happened the last week of November 2006. By December 1st, less than one week later, 77 days ago ( Read more... )

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