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March 25th, 2015

Many thanks to Saudi Arabia for this week’s strip.

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Discussion (23)¬

  1. Max+T.+Furr says:
    March 25, 2015 at 12:24 pm

    Hah! The power of myth! Religious absolutism is the slipperiest material on Earth. It’s like trying to pin down a drop of mercury. They always have an out because it’s all fiction and they can make up as they go.

  2. WalterWalcarpit says:
    March 25, 2015 at 1:17 pm

    Wow! Gotta love that second paragraph in the OIC statement.
    Spoing!

  3. RuthlessGoat says:
    March 25, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    “You’re too judgmental!”
    “Really?” “I’ll be the judge of that.”

  4. Tomas says:
    March 25, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    Another take on this:
    https://www.facebook.com/163273817080319/photos/a.249751588432541.59537.163273817080319/820157014725326/?type=1

    Translation:
    Margot: NO, don’t flog him to death! He just blogged!?
    Saudis:
    – WHAT?!! What is she saying?!
    – She offends us!!!
    – I… I’m chocked!
    – Recall the ambassador.

  5. IanB says:
    March 25, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    “should not, be based on a single and centric perspective that seeks to remake the world in its own image; and conform all according to its convictions”

    Damn there goes another irony meter launching it’s internal parts into orbit

  6. Ophelia Benson says:
    March 25, 2015 at 5:01 pm

    Wo! I’m writing my currently-due column for Free Inquiry on THIS VERY SUBJECT.

    What a joke, isn’t it? “rich and varied ethical standards” oh fuck OFF.

  7. Author says:
    March 25, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    I look forward to reading that, Ophelia. It’s almost beyond belief how disingenuous SA and the OIC are being.

  8. Ophelia+Benson says:
    March 25, 2015 at 5:38 pm

    “We are culturally relativist theocrats!! Also two-legged quadrupeds!!”

  9. Nassar+Ben+Houdja says:
    March 25, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    Who is the one to judge
    The imams, of course, with a grudge
    Quotes form the Qur’an the moan
    While sinners they stone
    Their enlightenment is a dirty smudge.

  10. inquisador says:
    March 25, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    Oh I see! The OIC is a one-way window on the wicked western world.

    Irony? Hypocrisy? Huh? More western blather and deflection by the morally bankrupt infidel!

  11. white+squirrel says:
    March 25, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    Taqiyya
    The Islamic Principle of Lying for Allah against infidels

  12. djpdummy says:
    March 25, 2015 at 9:39 pm

    We only lie to you in your best interest.

  13. djpdummy says:
    March 25, 2015 at 9:41 pm

    But we do lie. TAQIYYA

  14. pfzzzer says:
    March 25, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    Thank the Gods for Google and Wikipedia… would never have understood without 🙂

  15. neil98 says:
    March 25, 2015 at 11:20 pm

    In the context of a self-serving statement from a totalitarian theocrat, there is something very chilling about the phrase “diverse social norms”.

  16. white+squirrel says:
    March 26, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    the context of a self-serving statement from a totalitarian theocrat.
    a good description of the quran Neil98

  17. white+squirrel says:
    March 26, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    and for context read con-text

  18. Theo+H says:
    March 27, 2015 at 1:28 am

    If I hadn’t double checked the URL I would have thought this was an article on The Onion!

  19. plainsuch says:
    March 30, 2015 at 8:15 am

    The OIC stressed that the world community, with its multiple cultures, diverse social norms, rich and varied ethical standards and different institutional structures, can not, and should not, be based on a single and centric perspective that seeks to remake the world in its own image; and conform all according to its convictions, references, historical background and philosophical, social and political roots.

    No problem. I too believe that Islam can not and should not remake the world in its own image; and conform all according to its convictions, references, historical background and philosophical, social and political roots.

    What prestigious Western PR firm is running their media campaign? Should we tell the OIC that they are being taken for an expensive ride?

  20. Shaughn says:
    March 30, 2015 at 10:45 am

    Should we tell the OIC …

    What? And lose all the profit?

  21. niall says:
    March 30, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    I have just been listening the BBC Radio 4 ‘Saffron Censorship: India’s Culture Wars http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nt2bx . Maybe J&M could develop into a bit of a ménage a trois with the arrival of a Hindu lodger?

  22. white+squirrel says:
    March 30, 2015 at 7:11 pm

    Should we tell the OIC …

    What? And lose all the prophet?

    yes

  23. white+squirrel says:
    March 30, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    a Hindu lodger?

    just one ?
    one for each hindu deity surely?

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