Discussion (16)¬

1. That guy over there says:

   September 4, 2024 at 12:56 pm

   Trust me, bro!

2. Chris K says:

   September 4, 2024 at 1:37 pm

   Is there a typo – a superfluous “I am” – in the first panel? Shouldn’t “confirms that I am in the Koran” actually be “confirms that in the Koran”?

3. Len Koz says:

   September 4, 2024 at 4:29 pm

   Would I lie to you?

4. JCS says:

   September 4, 2024 at 4:32 pm

   lol – Circular Formula Error

5. M27Holts says:

   September 4, 2024 at 4:46 pm

   Pointing out the fact that Mo just made it all up could get you prosecuted in the UK…and a criminal record…🤬

6. Donn says:

   September 4, 2024 at 7:32 pm

   Could, but not really, right? I mean, Author is fairly discreet about his identity, but he has naught to fear from the UK criminal justice system anyway, because it isn’t a criminal offense, is it?

7. M27Holts says:

   September 4, 2024 at 8:41 pm

   Yes. It’s Hate Speech and it is a criminal offence…

8. M27Holts says:

   September 4, 2024 at 8:43 pm

   Basically a blaspheme law through the back door…

9. Rebecca says:

   September 5, 2024 at 12:58 am

   Or as my mother put it, Because I said so, that’s why.

10. Author says:

    September 5, 2024 at 8:01 am

    Good spot, Chris K. It’s not a typo, just a clumsly, ambiguous construction. It means “confirms that I am God’s final prophet in the Koran”. Thanks for pointing it out. I’ll be more careful in the future!

11. paradoctor says:

    September 5, 2024 at 5:46 pm

    Chris K, Author: you just need a comma between “confirms that I am” and “in the Koran”.

12. Ferrous Patella says:

    September 5, 2024 at 7:42 pm

    Tautologist are gonna tautologize.

13. M27Holts says:

    September 6, 2024 at 1:38 pm

    Iron Knee-cap…sounds like a school metal band…

14. Donn says:

    September 7, 2024 at 10:37 pm

    Reading up a little on the various acts concerning hate crimes in the UK … In the verbiage, it looks to me like Author for example can say what he wants about the likelihood that Mohammed’s claims are valid.

    In the circumstances of hatred based on religious belief or on sexual orientation, the relevant act (namely, words, behaviour, written material, or recordings, or programme) must be threatening and not just abusive or insulting.

    Wikipedia helpfully includes some examples, and the one I found interesting was one Harry Taylor, who left anti-religious literature in an airport prayer room and got smacked down for it. Would we do that? Well, I hope not.

    Mohammed was a wacko, and I don’t mind saying so, but you need to think about whether it’s in a context that calls for it. An airport prayer room was not such a context, and Mr. Taylor’s defense could only be that he was too obtuse to understand this.

    He might even so have gotten away with it, if the material hadn’t included a lot of crude sex stuff, guaranteed to not help your case. The cartoon where a smiling Jesus on the cross appears next to a can of new “no nails” adhesive – that might have gotten a laugh, and a “condition of this offense.”

15. Rrr says:

    September 8, 2024 at 2:27 pm

    Ferrous & M27:
    Or a West Indian woke wok steel band?

    Paella is also traditionally cooked in such vessels.

16. M27Holts says:

    September 9, 2024 at 2:20 pm

    Donn. Whilst wearing a T-Shirt with the slogan…”Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into Buildings” I was asked to remove the “offensive and Islamophobic” T-shirt by a policeman in Manchester. And I have been asked to leave and barred from several pubs in Manchester and twice in different parts of Yorkshire. Though I wore that top in a stag pub crawl in Chester and only received positive comments until I was too pissed to understand English….🤣