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2014-09-02 Arabia

Saudi religious policeman beat up Briton; wife slaps back on face

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Posted by Fred 2014-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The Briton, a convert to Islam, is a longtime resident of the kingdom and married to a Saudi woman,

Is the Brit now done with his stupid, friggin experiment with Islam?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-02 11:05|| 2014-09-02 11:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Bugger all, Inshallah. But what can you expect from a religion which prays with its butt in the air?

Can I say the word "Butt" and the word Allah in the same sentence? Is that still PC and totally Religion of Peace? I wouldn't want to offend any Moslems...or anyone named Hussein...or Abdrool or Muckmud. The Crusaders use to call a certain individual Mahound.
But that was in the 12th century....

Posted by Goober Poodle7799 2014-09-02 13:21|| 2014-09-02 13:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Can I say the word "Butt" and the word Allah in the same sentence?

Dunno, Poodle-Noodle, old fruit. Let's see...

Mahound likes to sniff Allah's butt, but
He can't get a drop of that rotgut.
He fiddles and yearns
And he whines and he burns...
Two hogsheads remain in that butt, shut.

So, can we? Man proposes, Fred disposes.

Also, who the hell has been hiding Chesterton's Lepanto from me all these years? Wow!

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-02 15:43|| 2014-09-02 15:43|| Front Page Top

#4 An excellent work. Thank you for the read. I, mice elf, prefer the following, as it cuts to the chase...as is me wont:

There will be no Peace

W. H. Auden

(Written in 1956)

Though mild clear weather
Smile again on the shore of your esteem
And its colours come back, the storm has changed you:
You will not forget, ever,
The darkness blotting out hope, the gale
Prophesying your downfall.

You must live with your knowledge.
Way back, beyond, outside of you are others,
In moonless absences you never heard of,
Who have certainly heard of you,
Beings of unknown number and gender:
And they do not like you.

What have you done to them?
Nothing? Nothing is not an answer:
You will come to believe - how can you help it? -
That you did, you did do something;
You will find yourself wishing you could make them laugh,
You will long for their friendship.

There will be no peace.
Fight back, then, with such courage as you have
And every unchivalrous dodge you know of,
Clear on your conscience on this:
Their cause, if they had one, is no thing to them now;
They hate for hate's sake.

Posted by Anice Nim 2014-09-02 16:07|| 2014-09-02 16:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Jeebus, sent from Rantburg to read Chesterton!

That once went singing southward when all the world was young,

Posted by Shipman 2014-09-02 17:56|| 2014-09-02 17:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Nim's is good too,
But take the time to read Lepanto.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-09-02 21:40|| 2014-09-02 21:40|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Jeebus, sent from Rantburg to read Chesterton!

I vaguely remember reading enough that I should have known better, but I've always thought of him as kind of a square. A drudge, anyway. My loss, apparently. I'll save looking up that line you quote for an unusually receptive moment.

Auden -- another cat I seem to have criminally underestimated. Memorisation material there, Nim!

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-02 22:51|| 2014-09-02 22:51|| Front Page Top

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