Muslim Cleric Who Led Friday Prayers In Egypt Friday Supports Death For Apostates

February 21, 2011 By 2 Comments

Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s show ash-Shariah wal-Hayat has an audience of 40 million.  He is the head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, is a trustee of Oxford University, and is considered a leading Muslim Brotherhood intellectual.  He returned to Egypt from exile after the fall of Hosni Mubarak and led Friday prayers on February 18. [...]

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“If You Believe In God, You Have To Believe In The Devil”

February 20, 2011 By 1 Comment

Last summer there was a cheesy ad for the latest Exorcist film, and the tagline epitomized and exploited a key twist of twisted religious logic.  The film’s tagline was “If you believe in God, you have to believe in the devil.”  What’s the idea behind this?  

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Birther Madness In The Republican Party

February 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Anderson Cooper interviews Montana State Representative Bob Wagner who refuses to admit that he knows either that President Obama was born in America or even that being born in America makes someone a citizen: Stupefyingly, Representative Wagner is representative of more than 50% of likely Republican primary voters: Birthers make a majority among those voters [...]

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Islamic Apologist, Shabir Ally, Argues Quran And Evolution Are Consistent

February 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Of course I disagree, but I’m sure glad he thinks so and hope more Muslims do too. Your Thoughts?

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Muslim Mob Burns Churches, Demands Death Penalty Over Christian Man’s Leaflets “Insulting” Islam

February 9, 2011 By 3 Comments

The usual outrageous outrage: A Muslim mob burned churches and clashed with police in Indonesia on Tuesday as they demanded the death penalty for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam, police said. Two days after a Muslim lynch mob killed three members of a minority Islamic sect, crowds of furious Muslims set two [...]

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Should We Fear An Influential Muslim Brotherhood Would Push Authoritarian Islamic Policies?

February 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Nathan Brown is a political science professor at George Washington University and director of the school’s Institute for Middle East Studies.  He gives an overview of the Muslim Brotherhood’s evolution from their found through to today, explains how their renunciation of violent means came to pass decades ago, why al-Qaeda sees them as sell outs, [...]

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Just How Much Control Over Their Children’s Thought Are Parents Entitled To?

January 31, 2011 By 18 Comments

In reply to yesterday’s open philosophical question whether a Swedish law banning any school, even private ones, from indoctrinating students by teaching their religious tenets as truths (with the ulterior motive of undermining Islamic schools’ abilities to radicalize their students), Mary Young makes a rigorous and eloquent case against such bans well worth highlighting (and [...]

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TOP Q: Where Are The Lines Between Peaceable Death Penalty Advocacy And Criminal Incitement?

January 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Last week a heinous, conscience-shocking injustice occurred when the brave, openly gay, Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato (pictured above) was murdered shortly after a Ugandan newspaper featured him on the cover with the headline: “100 PIctures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak” and the words “Hang Them” next to it.  The AP photo of the newspaper [...]

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Daily Hilarity: Radical Muslim Snacks

January 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'ThreatDown – Radical Muslim Snacks, Flying Robot Drones & Coked Up Vacuums<a> www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive Your Thoughts>?

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Pakistani Governor Murdered For Opposing Blasphemy Laws

January 4, 2011 By 1 Comment

Enraging news: Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — The governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province was assassinated by his own security guard Tuesday, according to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, apparently because he spoke out against the country’s controversial blasphemy law. The security guard was arrested, Malik said. The shooting occurred at Islamabad’s Kohsar Market, which is frequented by [...]

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