Seriously, though. I love Colbert, but I thought this bit was kind of amusing and indicative of a general attitude.
He started out making a joke about a seder for dogs. And if there are jewish dogs, then soon there will be christian dogs, and then, 700 years later, there will be muslim dogs. Of course, [...]
Pope to Muslims: Religion rejects violence – Africa – msnbc.com
“Genuine religion … stands at the base of any authentically human culture,” he said. “It rejects all forms of violence and totalitarianism: not only on principles of faith but also of right reason.”
(unless its the One True Catholic Church, in which case, CRUSADE ON, BROTHER!)
The pope [...]
Boy,l we sure did make things better than under the Taliban…
The pocket-size translation of the Quran has already landed six men in prison in Afghanistan and left two of them begging judges to spare their lives. They’re accused of modifying the Quran and their fate could be decided Sunday in court
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Sadly, in much of the middle east, serving a little time is the best possible outcome. She’s lucky she wasn’t stoned to death. Probably because she’s from the UK, and doesn’t have a family who would rather slaughter their daughter than put up with her evil ways.
Dubai jails UK woman for adultery – CNN.com
A British [...]
Lets summarize first.
Rick Warren is anti-gay.
Dr Warren said that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. “We shall not tolerate this aspect at all,” Dr Warren said.
Rick Warren is anti-woman (see #32) I don’t see how you can tell a woman to let a man beat her instead [...]
Wow, I didn’t realize how horribly dangerous we were.
Now, while I think that Rob Sherman (if he’s who I think he is) is using his child, I agree with his cause.
I also think that anyone who finds their faith threatened by someone believing something else, or by someone rejecting that faith, then they really don’t [...]
This is actually unfortunate. Forget the fact that a number of people might just go nuts (I’m thinking thats a small number…they probably already went nuts when he married a catholic in the first place). Now this man’s opinions on Islamic extremism will carry zero weight with, well, Muslims.Imagine the reverse. Like, [...]
Let’s see, first its Hagee who thinks that we should be working to bring about the apocalypse so Jesus will come back, and who thinks the holocaust and other attempts to wipe out the jews are due to the jews themselves, and says equally disgusting things about gays and Catholics.Now, John-boy has picked up Rod [...]
And today’s installment of ‘Pot, meet kettle’:
Cleric attacks hardliners over wedding dance | Oddly Enough | Reuters A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has issued a rare public attack on
religious hardliners angry over a video showing him dancing at a
wedding in the conservative Islamic state, a newspaper reported Tuesday. … Obaikan, an adviser [...]
Honestly. When the government executes you for being gay, isn’t that almost the definition of systematic oppression?‘Discrete’…the same way light skinned black people could pass if they were discrete. The same way apostates can get along fine if they are ‘discrete’.The UK and most, if not all, of Europe is suffering from a deep and [...]