Al Qaeda Comes Down Against Bending It, For Keeping Sexy Right Where It Was
It seems as if, in a bid for popular American support, al Qaeda operatives have released a video threatening the lives of David Beckham and Justin Timberlake for "corrupting" young Islamic minds.
I, like much of the viewing public, remain mixed in my reaction to this news. On the one hand, al Qaeda. [...]
Headlines I DESPERATELY Wish I'd Thought To Write, Item #23,652
"Sheikhs on a Plane"
-James Taranto in last Wednesday's Best of the Web in reference to six Muslim clerics removed from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis due to other passengers' concerns
Heh.
Someone's Getting A Fatwa For Christmas
Imagine my total non-surprise to find out that the man behind Dashboard Mohammed, a bobblheaded version of the now-infamous "bomb turban Mohammed" Danish cartoon, is a former United States Marine (Note to the NY Daily News: There is no such thing as an "ex-"Marine, unless they've been disgraced. They're all "former" Marines.). Guy's [...]
A Chilling Vision Of The Future
Author Dan Simmons has penned a riveting short story posited on a time traveler from the future showing up in Simmons' study offering cautionary tales of the future. A pull quote from the middle of the piece:
I tried to relax. “What do you want to talk about?” I said.
“The Century War,” said the Time [...]
Photoshop Funnies In "Hail The Swirly Cone" Land
Let's pretend, for a moment, that you are an organization tasked with putting a positive spin on your medieval religion so as to make its largely anti-democratic, misogynist and xenophobic tenets seem almost palatable to Western audiences. However, you've also got to save face with your co-religionists and so you can't be seen showing [...]
There Is No Cone But Allah And Muhammad Is His Fry-Flinger
Have you heard about the latest politically correct kerfuffle involving (and I'm not making this up) British Muslims, Burger King, and a "sacreligious" frosty dessert confection? No? Apparently, Allah is actually a thick chocolate swirly ice cream cone and BK is guilty of depicting him in all his lactose-intolerant glory. A British Muslim [...]
