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Saudi Pick-Up Lines

The Muslim News reports on the phenomenom of “flirtatious taxi drivers [who] get on women’s nerves.”
And with pick-up lines like this, it’s no wonder why.
More often than not women find that the driver wants to flirt and sometimes makes disgusting advances.
Sana M, a mother of a teenage girl, recounts experience once when she was traveling [...]

Grand Mufti of Hate

Grand Mufti of Hate

Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti and ZZ Top impersonator Abdelaziz al-Sheikh doesn’t think the Saudi government’s idea to invite Jews to a conference on interreligious dialogue has any legs.
So to speak.
Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti Abdelaziz al-Sheikh has rejected an attempt by the government to open interreligious dialogue with Jewish rabbis (as opposed to Christian rabbis, I [...]

More Gallup Dishonesty

The authors of “Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think” continue to produce articles with bits and pieces of their worldwide poll of Muslims with furious spinning to make Muslims look as much like Westerners as possible. This is not surprising – co-author John Esposito has written a number of apologetic books [...]

Turner Screws Tighter, Cause He’s Got One Loose

In an interview for Charlie Rose’s PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner shows how compatible with ex-wife ‘Hanoi’ Jane Fonda he really was.
For instance, here’s his thoughts on what will happen if global warming is not addressed immediately:
We’ll be eight degrees hottest in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of [...]

At Long Last

The Jerusalem Post reports on a welcome – yet long overdue – development.
As peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians gather steam, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday urging that the issue of Jewish refugees be part of any agreement.
While the Palestinian claim of a “right of return” for its refugees has [...]