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gleuschk : Is Barack Obama Muslim? - keep handy for those email forwards
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nelson : Curry and mole are persian - Interesting story of how Mexican and Indian cuisine was influenced by the spread of
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15 month ago
deusx : Tay al-Ard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Tay al-Ard (طی الارض or طيّ الارض or طیّ الارض - literally "folding up of the earth") is the name for thaumaturgical teleportation in the Islamic religious and philosophical tradition."
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nelson : Yazidi - A syncretic religion in northern Iraq, sadly in the news now for an "honor killing'.
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nelson : Book of Curiosities - lovely annotated 11th century manuscript
gleuschk : Book of Curiosities - can't get it to load -- come back later
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Maps of War has a Flash map supposedly illustrating the evolution and territorial expansion of the world's religions - Frankly it's a pile of balls. Firstly it represents legally atheistic countries as Christian, does not distinguish between radically different sects of the same religion and totally ignores polytheistic religions. Judaism gets a particularly hard represen
Matthew M. Boedicker : history of religion in 90 seconds map - (via boingboing) [via]
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jimray : Va. Congressman fears more Muslims elected - Xenophobic asshat
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deusx : Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered - Los Angeles Times - "By criticizing itself, apologizing and offering concessions — all things the Islamic world has yet to do — the West reaffirms that Islam has a privileged status in the world. "
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24 month ago
deusx : Charles Krauthammer - Tolerance: A Two-Way Street - washingtonpost.com - "Religious fanatics, regardless of what name they give their jealous god, invariably have one thing in common: no sense of humor."
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24 month ago
deusx : TigerHawk - Infantilizing Muslim "rage" - "The Muslim "street" did not respond until Friday, when the leaders of the Muslim religion called for their faithful to surge into the streets in an orgy of rage and violence. Not content only to burn Christian churches (neither of which follow the Cathol
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plasticbag : Islam vs. Christianity - it comes to a head on The Daily Show - Frankly it's about time a primetime TV show tried to answer the question, "Which religion is correct?"
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25 month ago
deusx : Opinion Journal - Islamofascism - "Beware of a religion without irony."
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30 month ago
deusx : Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder: The ironies of the cartoon jihad - "When Jews saw how Gentiles played hockey that is how Jews found out that instead of becoming a hockey player they would become dentists, and that way they decided to let other people play the game while they found a way to make a profit from it. "
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30 month ago
deusx : Swamppundit - A Respectful Rant - "The New York Times declines to publish the Danish Mohammed Cartoons out of, it says, respect for Islam. This is, of course, a crock."
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32 month ago
WillPate : Quranic Verses - a photoset on Flickr - Quranic verses describe the pictures that inspired of them. Islam as seen by Flickr user *Muhammad*.
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33 month ago
jimray : Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda - New York Times
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38 month ago
deusx : FOXNews.com - Politics - Tancredo: If They Nuke Us, Bomb Mecca - And so, we make an enemy of the entire Islamic culture for a few thousand years.
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