Just when I thought I had a full grasp of the moral depravity that is suicide bombing, another level of horror is revealed. Al Qaeda’s preferred target group for recruiting suicide bomber is—orphans. As one Pakistani political activist writes: We have observed that most of the suicides bombers are orphans who are less than 17 [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in History, Law, Religion, Terrorism
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Tagged adoption, islam, islamic terrorism, jihad, jihadi, Law, monotheism, morality, Religion
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A US soldier in Afghanistan has shot dead 15 civilians and wounded others after entering their homes in Kandahar province, Afghan and Nato sources say. He reportedly left his base early in the morning to attack village homes. Nine children are among the dead. The White House voiced “deep concern” and Nato-led forces in Afghanistan [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Defence, Funnies, Politics, Terrorism
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Tagged afghanistan, Alkozai, Hamid Karzai, kandahar, Najeeban, NATO, panjwai district, Taliban, US military, US politics
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[LE: Something I often wonder about when studying history is: why do certain civilisations develop in certain ways, and others (which are equally technologically advanced, if not more so) do not develop in the same way? I suppose it's one of the reasons why I enjoy speculative fiction so much: speculative fiction plays a game [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Guest Post, History, Law, Religion
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Tagged brahmins, china, christianity, divinely ordained law, europe, global history, Guest Post, Hinduism, History, industrial revolution, islam, japan, Judaism, Lorenzo, Mesoamerica, Middle east, Sharia, sharia law, South East Asia, Western Civilisation
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February 10, 2012 – 8:50 am
We try to avoid meta around these parts, but the trainwreck on the #equalmarriage thread has prompted some necessary thinking on all our parts, and an admission from me. First, the thinking. This blog — in having four writers with differing politics — is a risky venture. Going by other blogs around the traps, a [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Blogging, Fark!, Feminism, Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Law, Marriage, Skeptics
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Tagged #equalmarriage, abortion, Andrew Parle, Aquinas, Barry Goldwater, climate change, Israel/Palestine, Jürgen Habermas, meta, Russell Blackford, sockpuppeting, Tom G. Palmer, Will Wilkinson
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October 19, 2011 – 12:34 am
[SL: On September 18, I published a piece on the religious transformation currently going on in Europe, pointing out in passing that monotheism -- if one examines its geographic origins -- is almost as foreign to Europe as it is to India or China. In the post below, regular commenter Lorenzo has attempted to explain why: [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Feminism, Guest Post, History, Law, Religion, Skeptics
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Tagged 2005 Eurobarometer poll, Akhenaton, Byzantine Empire, cousin marriage, ibn Khaldun, islam, islamism, Kerry Greenwood, kinship, Mesopotamia, Mongols, monolatry, monotheism, Out of the Black Land, pastoralists, queer-hatred, Sassanids, social geography, Zoroastrianism
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September 13, 2011 – 5:59 am
You all know, I’m sure, plenty of redneck jokes. Do you go to the family reunion to meet women? If you divorce your wife, is she still your sister? Have you ever cut your grass and found a car? Do people come to your house every day mistakenly thinking you’re holding a yard sale? Do [...]
The former spiritual mentor to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has publicly accused his protégé of being “under a spell” as a constitutional crisis engulfs the country. The president has taken the unprecedented step of refusing to obey orders handed down by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, less than two years after the pair formed [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Defence, Funnies, Politics, Religion
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Tagged afghanistan, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Defence, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Hamid Karzai, Iran, islam, Israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nuclear disarmament, nuclear weapons
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ASYLUM seekers at a remote Cape York detention centre say they witnessed a simulated confrontation between a highly distressed man whose refugee claim had been rejected and immigration officials and security guards, less than five days before a young Hazara detainee committed suicide in March. An Afghan interpreter play-acted the role of the agitated asylum [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Funnies, Immigration, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Public Policy, Society, Terrorism
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Tagged asylum seekers, chris bowen, christmas island detention centre, christmas island riot, illegal immigration, Malaysia, Manus Island, people trafficking, Serco, villawood detention centre, villawood riot
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Pakistan’s main intelligence agency, the ISI, has said it is embarrassed by its failures on al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. An ISI official told the BBC the compound in Abbottabad where Bin Laden was killed by US forces on Sunday had been raided in 2003. But the compound “was not on our radar” since then, [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Blogging, Britain, Defence, Fark!, Funnies, Politics, Popular culture, Religion, Terrorism
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Tagged Abbottobad, al-Quaeda, Asif Ali Zardari, barack obama, central intelligence agency, CIA, damnatio memoriae, ISI, MI6, monty python, Northern Ireland, of damned memory, Osama bin Laden, osama bin liner, pakistan, president obama, the parrot sketch, the white house, tony abbot, USA
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