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Islamic Fire

Those Danish cartoons keep firing up the Muslims [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,398532,00.html]. Then again, pretty much anything fires up the Muslims. A reader writes: > Anonymous post for your blog (because my husband does not want me to write or say anything in

Condoms Don't Stop AIDS?

Brian Saint-Paul points out that condoms don't stop the spread of AIDS in Africa [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/183/story_18348_1.html]. Excerpt: > [A] March 2004 article in the medical journal "Studies in Family Planning." Titled "Condom Promotion for AIDS Prevention in

A Little Good News in Muslim Britain

Britain's religious hate bill--designed to give Muslims even more protection, to the detriment of free speech--didn't pass yesterday [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SB2BW35M5WQKLQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/02/01/nrelig01.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/01/ixportaltop.html] . Previous post about

$$$ for Christian Groups

> President Bush's $15 billion effort to fight AIDS has handed out nearly one-quarter of its grants to religious groups, and officials are aggressively pursuing new church partners that often emphasize disease prevention through abstinence and fidelity over condom use. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060129/

Taliban Coming to Dinner

David Pearson at "Suicide of the West" observes Western ease while Islam keeps marching forward [http://suicideofthewest.com/?p=71]: > In the Chicago suburb of Bridgeville, Ill., the fundamentalist leadership of a local mosque is wildly popular [http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110007880]. One of the

Wolf Crosses Over?

They say feminist Naomi Wolf is now a Christian [http://www.sundayherald.com/53663]. Could be. I'm neither convinced nor skeptical. I'm just waiting to see: > Today, Wolf seems sharp and incisive . This is no Valley Girl on some psychobabble trip. But when one of

French Canadians

> A court in Lille handed down its sentence on a French Parliamentarian Tuesday, fining him 3000 Euros and forcing him to pay an additional 6000 Euros to be split between three homosexual activist groups who brought the charges against the MP. Christian Vanneste, a member of the UMP representing

Mercy Murdering

Oops, guess we shouldn't have tried to kill her: > Haleigh Poutre, the brain-damaged girl at the center of a passionate end-of-life debate, was transferred yesterday from a pediatric intensive-care unit to a Brighton rehabilitation center, two days after the state's top child-protection official saw her

Hamas Victorious

Will the West ever learn? Muslims can't be placated. Hamas, still vowed to Israel's destruction, wins overwhelmingly [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/26/palestinian.election/index.html], despite the forced eviction of Jews last year. Maybe we could just give them Israel, the

Let Them Eat Soup . . . Or Not

Is this like that Seinfeld episode when Elaine tried to give away the muffin stumps to the homeless shelter? > Charity groups with far-right links serving pork soup to homeless people face a crackdown by French officials. > Protesters have accused the groups of deliberate discrimination against Jews and Muslims,