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2003-07-27 India-Pakistan

Pakistan bans latest issue of Newsweek, calls article offensive to Islam

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Posted by PD 2003-07-27 1:25:01 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Raisins, RAISINS, You mean I blew myself up for 72 ** RAISINS ** ???

Oh, THIS will hurt recruiters

From article: Luxenberg, a professor of Semitic languages at one of Germanyâs leading universities, has chosen to remain anonymous because he fears a fatwa by enraged Islamic extremists.

Gee, 'ya think? Move over Rushdie!

From article: in Sura 24, the verse that calls for women to snap their scarves over their bags

Now there's a word picture!

From article: The forthcoming book contains plenty of other bombshells

If he lives to publish...

Posted by parallaxview 2003-7-27 2:20:12 AM|| 2003-7-27 2:20:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Muhammad to the faithful, "Oops! My bad!"

Posted by PD 2003-7-27 3:43:48 AM|| 2003-7-27 3:43:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 What a coincidence! Several months ago, I banned Newsweek from my home for being offensive to common sense.

Posted by JDB 2003-7-27 4:32:01 AM|| 2003-7-27 4:32:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 And it was your action, thoughtful and selfish, that has led to this moment. I hope you're satisfied! Ha!

(Eyes flashing with indignant self-righteousness, he hit the "Submit Query" button and in an flash of irrelevant affected thought, common to his mental affliction, he wondered why it wasn't labeled something more purposeful and fulfilling... something like "Submit Righteous Indignation" or "Submit The Truth" or "Submit, I am GOD!" and then, as quickly as it had come, it was gone. And as the page refreshed he saw how pathetic, how lame, how insincere his response was... and he sighed, deeply, and thought, "Aw Fuck It." - and turned off the BBC so he could regain some perspective.

Posted by PD 2003-7-27 4:52:18 AM|| 2003-7-27 4:52:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 PD - rare form today...heh heh..lost your meds? ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2003-7-27 11:26:26 AM|| 2003-7-27 11:26:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Frank G - uh, no, I finally found 'em... but how could you know that? Spooky.

Posted by PD 2003-7-27 11:41:52 AM|| 2003-7-27 11:41:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 There may be the start of an answer - fund the Druze!

*Druze Studies Org* - Hakim was the 6th Fatimid Caliph who became the head of the Islamic Fatimid state in 996 at the age of eleven. Although Hakimâs attitude towards the emerging reform movement that later became known as âDruzeâ is not fully discernible from available sources, he is regarded within the Druze manuscripts as the founding father of Druzism and the source of its strict unitarianism. Among the reforms he introduced were resolutions to (1) abolish slavery, (2) prohibit polygamy, and (3) implement a form of separation of church and state. While these reforms did not become part of orthodox Islam, the Druzes, as well as other Islamic sectarian movements, adopted them.
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Only those members of the community who demonstrate piety and devotion and who have withstood a lengthy process of candidacy are initiated into the teachings of the Druze faith. Women may also be initiated in the Druze doctrine. The Druze tradition considers women to be more spiritually prepared than men to enter such circles because they are considered less likely to be exposed to deviant or immoral practices such as murder and adultery.
SEE ALSO *the Druze*

Posted by John Anderson 2003-7-27 2:02:02 PM|| 2003-7-27 2:02:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "the verbatim revelation of Allah, speaking to his prophet, Muhammad, through the Angel Gabriel, in Arabic."

No, it was Lucifer who told Mohammed that sheer lie!

*ducks stones*

72 raisins. And the terrorists have a fiery eternity over which to spread out the eating.

Posted by Tangara 2003-7-27 2:21:50 PM|| 2003-7-27 2:21:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Arabic, Aramaic, whats a few ~~virgins~~ raisins among ~~the faithful~~ friends?

Posted by PD 2003-7-27 2:26:57 PM|| 2003-7-27 2:26:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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