Category: Islam
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Score one for the fundamentalist thugs
COPENHAGEN – Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who has been attacked and repeatedly threatened over a drawing of Prophet Mohammed, has been placed on indefinite leave by his newspaper “for security reasons,” he told AFP Thursday. “It is forced vacation but it looks a lot like I’m being retired,” the 75-year-old cartoonist said, adding that he…
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Everybody draw Mohammed Day
Mark it down: May 20. My stick figure will be appropriately blasphemous.
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Keep your theocratic hands off my free society
Memo to Muslims offended by South Park’s depiction of their prophet: I’m offended that your religion facilitates the third-class treatment of women, and death for gays. And don’t tell me both sides could learn from the other — it’s all on them. Live in the Dark Ages if you want, but keep it to yourself.…
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Islamic fundamentalist website threatens lives of ‘South Park’ creators
Is there a verse in the Koran that requires adherents to be humorless, intolerant, cowardly AND irrationally violent? On Sunday, Revolutionmuslim.com posted an entry that included a warning to South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone that they risk violent retribution – after the 200th episode last week included a satirical discussion about whether…
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Hero in a burka
A brave Saudi housewife has reached the final of the Arabic version of the X Factor after lashing out at hardline Muslim clerics on live TV.Wearing a black burkha, mother-of-four Hissa Hilal delivered a blistering poem against Muslim preachers ‘who sit in the position of power’ but are ‘frightening’ people with their fatwas, or religious…
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not mutually exclusive
Deranged killer or terrorist assassin? I doubt the families of those slaughtered by Nidal Malik Hassan are concerned with such parsing, though it’s a debate certain to dominate cable news and talk radio. Never mind that Hassan is most likely mentally unstable AND a radical Islamist. Early accounts indicate that he thought of himself as…
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