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A mobile phone advertisement featuring an illustration of Jesus winking and giving a thumbs-up has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). This isn't the first time the ASA has adjudicated on religious matters and I think it's wrong that they do. Generally speaking, the ASA should only regulate ads that are misleading or deceptive ( Read more... )

DOWNLOAD: Fitna (w/ English subtitles), 33MB

I've just finished watching Fitna, the fifteen minute video about Islamic extremism put together by Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP who has been denied entry into the UK this morning because of a British Home Secretary ban. Wilders was due to attend a screening of his video at the House of Lords today ( Read more... )

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Today is Tamil New Year. It is also New Year's in neighbouring Kerala where they celebrate Vishu. Other parts of India are also celebrating their harvest festivals and New Year's including Baisakhi in Punjab (among Hindus and Sikhs), Rongali Bihu in Assam and Naba Barsha in Bengal (lit. New Year). They call India a land of festivals and true to its ( Read more... )

1393, from Anglo French parochiel (1292), from Old French parochial, from Late Latin parochialis "of a parish" (c. 600), from parochia (see parish). Parochialism in the sense of "limited and narrow character or tendency" is first recorded 1847.

This is the difference between the West and the Rest (BBC)

--How It All Began (BBC), Q&A (BBC), and The Letter (Times)
--Sura Al Baqarah 2:216 and Sura At Tawbah 9:24 [English Translations]
--Sura Al Baqarah (Wikipedia) and Sura At Tawbah (Wikipedia)
--Terrorism Act 2000 (Wikipedia), Terrorism Act 2000 (Wiki CrimeLine UK) and Section 57 (UK ( Read more... )