Satire: Saudi clerics “running out of day-to-day things to ban”

The fact that I need to add the word “Satire” to the title tells you that it is in fact very challenging to deploy Satire within a Saudi context. In fact, the pronouncements and actions of the various clerics make it almost impossible to discern the line between the things that are satire and the … Read more

Moving beyond “Smut for Smut”

In years gone by (since 2005), the students group known as “Atheist Agenda” at the University of Texas at San Antonio has offered to exchange bibles and qurans for free porn in the student free speech area on campus – their point being that religions are more damaging than Hustler magazine. In once sense it worked, in that it … Read more

Halloween Awards: The winner is … The AHA of Madison “God” Graveyard

Yep, Halloween has been and gone, and so if you were giving out awards for the best of the season this year, what would be your winners? My award goes to the “God” graveyard done by the Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. They wrote about it here and posted some … Read more

UK to launch “Islamic” Bonds

The UK’s Financial times and also the Wall Street Journal have announced that the UK is to start selling “Islamic” bonds. “This government wants Britain to become the first Western sovereign to issue an Islamic bond,” Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to say in a speech at the World Islamic Economic Forum in London on Tuesday. … Read more

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