Has anyone else seen this story? The Saudis are actually going to execute a woman for the crime of witchcraft. From the BBC,
The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read.
Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made [...]

Much has been written about Comedy Central’s decision to not allow South Park to include an image of Mohammed in one of their episodes. Not only is the blogosphere abuzz but the MSM has also taken an interest.
For those who have never seen the show it is an animated half hour program centered around a [...]

Staying with the religion theme for a moment the Gospel of Judas, lost for some 1,700 years, has been fully restored and translated. The book, unveiled at National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, D.C. contains a big surprise.

The Bible’s New Testament Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John - depict Judas Iscariot, one of the [...]

I’m sure by now everyone has heard the story in which a Florida State University professor says that Jesus may have actually walked on a patch of ice. Now I’m not a religious man, at least not in the sense of the mainstream organized variety but I have a problem with this theory. Notwithstanding the [...]

In my previous post I criticized the violent reaction to the cartoon debacle on two points:

The satirical cartoons sought to draw a connection between Islam and the extremists who use it to justify their violent actions. Their very reaction proves the point. The defense rests.
Those feigning shock and horror do so under the pretense that [...]

I wasn’t going to weigh in on the cartoon furor as many others have already done so but this whole thing has really gotten out hand. While sitting back and taking it all in I’ve made a couple of observations.
First, the cartoons, created in the spirit of satire, attempted to draw a connection between violence [...]

Officials at the University of Manitoba had long suspected a copy of the King James Bible in their possession was a first edition but could never prove it - that is until now.

Scholars at the University of Manitoba received a priceless pre-Christmas present recently, when a tome in their collection turned out to be [...]

I wasn’t going to weigh in on the Christmas tree vs holiday tree kerfuffle but since the story has generated so much attention and since I’ve been discussing the issue on blogs and forums all over cyberspace I may as well put pen to paper as it were.
Of course by now we all how the [...]

This is indicative of the vitriolic crapola Arabs are subjected to on a daily basis. A so-called Egyptian professor, in an interview with Saudi tv, charged the Zionists were responsible for the act of mass murder on 9/11.

The following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian professor Abd Al-Sabour Shahin, which aired on Saudi Channel [...]

The liberals are going to get brain spasms over this one.

A state university in New Jersey has reprimanded a student-employee for describing homosexuality as a “perversion” in a private e-mail that he sent a female professor, after she sent him an unsolicited announcement about a university event that promoted lesbian relationships.But Jihad Daniel, 63, who [...]