Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Muslim Business Card of Death edition.

One leg up Christianity has over Islam is that most practitioners have long ago abandoned the prosecution of blasphemy laws whereas it’s still a serious crime in many Islamic nations. It doesn’t help when the authorities take a zero-tolerance approach to anything that could possibly be conceived as being blasphemous whether that was the intent . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Muslim Business Card of Death edition.

Which way is it to Mecca again?

One of the inherent risks in getting overly specific in how your religious ceremonies are performed is the chance that someone will screw it up and call everything into question. For example you probably shouldn’t get too specific about things like which direction to face while praying:

Mecca mosques ‘wrongly aligned’

Some 200 mosques in . . . → Read More: Which way is it to Mecca again?

Iraqi woman orders the rapes of 80 women to make them into suicide bombers.

Here is what unwaivering belief in a paradise in the afterlife can lead someone to do:

A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.

Samira Jassam, 51, was arrested . . . → Read More: Iraqi woman orders the rapes of 80 women to make them into suicide bombers.

Muslim cleric says Mickey Mouse must DIE.

Actually he was talking about mice in general because they are, apparently, “Satan’s soldiers” and thus evil incarnate. What he’s upset about is the fact that Walt Disney and many other creators of cartoons have turned the horrible little critters into characters loved by children:

According to a translation prepared by the Middle East Media . . . → Read More: Muslim cleric says Mickey Mouse must DIE.

Jesus to return in 20 to 25 years, but as a Muslim.

Apparently worried that Evangelical Christians were hogging the Creationist Wackadoo spotlight too much, a Muslim creationist by the name of Harun Yahya is pushing books touting the Islamic version of creationism to various scientists and academics around the world. He’s also predicting that Jesus will return “really soon now”, but it not as a Christian:

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Islam is the “religion of peace and love”… eh… not so much. Part Two:

Here is the sort of peace and love the religion of Islam promotes:

My daughter deserved to die for falling in love’ – The Observer

For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. ‘If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed . . . → Read More: Islam is the “religion of peace and love”… eh… not so much. Part Two:

Fasting Muslim falls asleep while driving, dies.

For a month every year Muslims are supposed to fast (i.e. not eat any food) during daylight hours – this is known as Ramadan. Most cope with this fine (and if you’re ill you can eat food). But one guy from my home town, despite feeling rather tired, decided to drive. And fell asleep. Alas, . . . → Read More: Fasting Muslim falls asleep while driving, dies.

Islamic body in India declares health insurance illegal.

Man, it sucks to be a sick Muslim in India:

NEW DELHI: Comparing the benefits of health insurance policy to gambling, key Islamic organisations have termed the policies as “illegal” and directed Muslims to keep away from them.

At a seminar to deliberate whether insuring health was permissible under Islamic law Shariat, the Islamic . . . → Read More: Islamic body in India declares health insurance illegal.

Islamists call for the death of a British teacher over a teddy bear.

One of the big news stories over here in Britain at the moment is the jailing of a British schoolteacher in Sudan for ‘insulting Islam’. Her crime is that, during a classroom exercise, she asked her pupils to name a teddy bear, and the children chose the name ‘Muhammad’. As well as being the name . . . → Read More: Islamists call for the death of a British teacher over a teddy bear.

Man sees Allah’s name on a chapatti.

It’s not just Christians who find Jesus or the Virgin Mary on pieces of toast – a Muslim man from Bradford in England has found the arabic script for Allah, the Muslim God, on a chapatti.

He showed it to his stunned family and since then neighbours and members of the Muslim community have flocked . . . → Read More: Man sees Allah’s name on a chapatti.