The One With Aldacron

So what do you do with two young, consenting adults who run away to get married because their families don’t approve of their relationship? Why, you stand them in front of a mosque and shoot them, of course. What else would rational and peaceful people do? This particular example of Islamic peacefulness is brought to [...]

The 21 surviving Koreans who were held hostage by the Taliban recently returned home and are now speaking about their ordeal. What they are saying shows the dark side of Islam, but also highlights the sort of contradictions that are prevalent in every religion. One of the hostages describes how they were repeatedly beaten by [...]

I get the impression that there aren’t many groups of people who take offense at more things than Muslims. In Afghanistan, the US military decided to distribute a bunch of soccer balls to children and found themselves confronted with a demonstration. Some Muslims were offended because the Saudi flag, which itself includes a verse of [...]

Recently, someone posted a comment to my post entitled More Cartoon Spawned Violence. I started to type up a reply comment to focus on a couple of points the writer made, but I decided to make a new blog entry instead since I have rather a lot to say. Regarding my opinion that the Bush [...]