Comments on: texts

By: Flea

Flea — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:18:23 +0000

ot: This deserves a take!! Mo and jesus are gonna like it. And, I know, your job couldn’t be easier here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/6241861/Child-abuse-common-in-other-churches-says-Vatican.html

By: DonR

DonR — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:35:24 +0000

One senses a bumper Blasphemy Day edition of J&M approaching…

By: Toast in the machine

Toast in the machine — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:11:23 +0000

Tariq Ramadan was quite well known in the UK media a few years ago. He was taken uncritically as a moderate voice of Islam until very recently, appearing on mainstream serious news programmes without question or criticism, though he seems to have slipped out of the limelight in the last year or two.

I can’t vouch for the source (but this is from about four years ago:),

Mastering the art of taqiyya (double speaking to fool the unbelievers), Tariq Ramadan has enchanted many with his apparent moderation. But a careful examination of his words reveals that Professor Ramadan is not what he seems and claims to be. Yes, he says that he “agrees with integration” of Muslims in the West, but he is careful to say that “we [Muslims] are the ones who are going to decide the content.” He mollifies by saying that he accepts Western secular law, but, here’s the catch, “only if this law doesn’t force me to do things against my religion.” And when he is cornered with questions on the brutality of some punishments of Islamic law, such as stoning, he tells us that he is against them, but (there is always a “but”) they are in Quranic texts and so he cannot fully condemn them and we have to settle for “an absolute moratorium on all physical punishments.”

- note the ‘moratorium’ – not a repeal or rejection, just a suspension of its implementation.

He’s also known for being the grandson of Hassan Al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic radical movement that gave birth to al Qaeda and Hamas.

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:52:38 +0000

Hey, it’s Friday, that’s a perfectly good excuse!

:- )

By: zoidberg

zoidberg — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:18:13 +0000

Yeah, just realised the err of my ways and now I feel stupid. Forgot that the last special guest writer was a posted by the “Archbishop of Canterbury.”

Can’t even use “it’s Monday” as an excuse either. Oh well…

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:54:03 +0000

He’s a very shady character; I rather think that’s why he’s being made mock of.

By: zoidberg

zoidberg — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:36:03 +0000

Sorry J&M, but isn’t this Tariq Ramadan bloke a bit of a shady character?

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/tag/Tariq+Ramadan

By: JohnnieCanuck

JohnnieCanuck — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:00:34 +0000

For someone who’s not political, he certainly has the ‘non-committal’ and ‘tailored for the audience’ tactics well in hand.

By: wright

wright — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:36:53 +0000

Exactly, Didac. There are folks who look at the Bible and Koran and see precisely what they want to see. When I was a Christian, I cherry-picked my own doctrine and ignored the rest.

When I finally realized that not only I but every other Christian I knew was doing it… That’s pretty much when I stopped being a believer.

By: Daoloth

Daoloth — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:28:22 +0000

To all true non-believers:
http://mail.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
International blasphemy day is fast approaching and people might want to think about participation.
To put you in the mood, try this on for size:
http://ladyboyjesus.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/blasphemy.jpg

All together now:..”Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me…for me!…for me!”