Jihad Jane
A lot has already been written on the fact that Islam does not overtly forbid images of the prophet Mohamed. The Quran says nothing about it.
The real reason that there’s not supposed to be any images of Mohamed is that after he died there was a real threat of his followers trying [...]
Islam’s Legacy: CNN’s ‘Generation Islam’
Thing is, there was a time when Islam was not the West-hating, fanatic group they are perceived to be today. By the 13th century Muslims were no longer out conquering lands or invading countries. Persia was peaceful (for the most part.) This was a time when Islam was at the forefront of philosophy, architecture, mathematics, and liberal thought. It was the Muslims of that era who first distilled alcohol and created booze as we know it today. It was these Muslims who saved the works of Plato and Aristotle from destruction under Rome, and proliferated thought that eventually became “western philosophy”…
Vatican to join with repressive Islamic states to crush gay rights at UN
Forget the Vatican’s hatred of Mohamed. Forget the Inquisitions and the Crusades. Islam and the Vatican can now finally step up and be good friends after all these centuries. So long as they have someone else to religiously persecute and kill, they can now be good friends at the UN…
Proposed UN declaration may provoke Muslim [...]
The Names of God
The following is an excerpt from The Heathen’s Guide to World Religions, (P. 17&18), explaining where the names of God came from. The dialogue here begins just after Moses was tossed out of Egypt, when he was stuck tending sheep for Jethro…
Moses and the Sheep
Living well is the best revenge.
~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
Moses does [...]
The Theft of “Good”: How Christianity Stole Decency
Every time Christianity finds a human trait or action that is beneficial to society (say, giving food to starving children) they decide that they own the concept. From that time on, the action becomes a “Christian act”, and the non-religious are left out of it. Their logic works like this: Giving food to starving children is a Christian act. Atheists are not Christians. Therefore, Atheists do not give food to starving children.
The Myth of Good and Evil: From Hitler to Mother Teresa
These days, the archetypes of good and evil in our society are Mother Teresa and Hitler, respectively. If you start with these two as the paradigms, it becomes pretty easy to figure out what “Good” and Evil” are really all about.
I admit that I have never met Adolf Hitler. Fortunately for this blog [...]
Steamy Hot, Man-on-Man, Gay Islamic Sex
On Nov. 24, a reporter named Adel Hussein was sentenced to six months in jail by a court in Irbil, Iraq. His crime was ‘indecency’. Of course, this is an Islamic court, so their definition of ‘indecency’ is, by default, absolutely bugshit insane.
How the Christian Right are paving the way for Militant Islam
You see it on bumper stickers every day: “Jesus is Lord”. “King of Kings”. “Lord of All.” Were people voting with their bumpers, Jesus would win by a landslide.
But when the American right speaks of religion in politics, they are referring to Christianity. When they fight for more religion in the [...]
The Bully Cries Foul: Religion on the Ropes
The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) —This week the OIC won United Nations backing for a draft resolution that would outlaw “defamation of religion” throughout the world.
(Read the whole ridiculous article here)
For thousands of years, religions have been saying that Humanity is evil. Because of our evil, we are told that a just and [...]
