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Some useful fatwas:

A well-known Saudi religious scholar recently advised that a woman could become kin to a man—and thus be alone with him without violating the Islamic ban on gender mixing—by giving him five sips of her breast milk. This religious ruling, or fatwa, followed one in Somalia prohibiting Muslims from watching the soccer World Cup; one in Malaysia saying Muslims should not do yoga; two in Egypt, one saying married couples should not disrobe when having sex and the other one labeling Facebook users sinners; and one in Pakistan forbidding polio vaccination because it’s a Western plot to harm Muslims.

Yes, these rulings are certainly fascinating, but what’s the real issue?

The purposes of some of these fatwas, which are supposed to be based in the knowledge and wisdom of those who issue them, are quite disturbing and are tarnishing the image of Islam. For Muslim governments, this expansion of fatwa-issuing is becoming a growing concern.

Tarnishing the image? Au contraire, I’d say these fatwas are downright entertaining. It’s the beheadings and bombings of infidels that is tarnishing the image of Islam.

Question: When visiting a muslim gay bar, is dancing permitted?

Next on the agenda: school uniforms.

h/t chip

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“Dirty Jew, go back to your own country,” a group of Moroccan youths shouted..

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, May 2010; – “If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that, somebody …. Home-grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”
“Faisal Shahzad, June 2010 – “I am part of the answer to the U.S. terrorizing the Muslim nations and the Muslim people, and on behalf of that, I’m avenging the attacks,”

I speak only as an unemployed, hijab wearing, 28 year old, unemployed Canadian-born Meshkhesian Turk named Mohammed.
h/t BCF

Ripped from tomorrow’s op-ed: “Suicide Donkey Can Hardly Be Called Coward“

Everybody draw Mohammed. And bring your dancin’ shoes, infidel!
(You too, Facebookers.)

Via NewsRealBlog, where there’s also a transcript.
h/t John B.

…administered by woman with no distinguishing characteristics whatsoever.
Seemingly out of the blue, Muslim group offers condolences.

Events in London, Toronto, and Ottawa are scheduled for early June – details here. Sponsored by the IFPS, they will also be appearing with Michael Coren on Thursday, June 3rd at 6:00 pm.

Just another chapter from Ali Baba and the forty peeves.

Egyptian intellectuals slammed calls to ban the Arabian Nights tale hundreds of years after its emergence in the literary scene under the pretext of immorality and warned of the ‘bedouinization’ of Egyptian culture.
A recent republication of the centuries-old classic triggered controversy as a group of Egyptian lawyers called to ban the new version on the basis of depiction of sexuality and use of offensive language.

I know what you’re thinking – “Egypt has intellectuals?”

“For example, the sexual relationship between the slave and the princess reveals how the marginalized are objectified and how in a repressive society the bodies of the members of royalty become a dream for the frustrated working class.”
Through the relationship he has with his mistress, Diab explains, the slave finds a means to conquer to the ruling class that oppresses him and his people.

Apparently they do!

King Abdullah of Saudia Arabia orders “Istisqa” (rain-seeking prayers) to be performed throughout the Kingdom.
Allah answers:

Update: Lots more pics of Riyadh flooding here.

I’m not sure I believe this story, but it’s always interesting how little anyone cares about what Arabs do to Palestinians:

Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said.
“This is a terrible crime committed by Egyptian security against simple Palestinian workers who were trying to earn their daily bread,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum to The Associated Press. “It was a killing in cold blood. Hamas and all the Palestinian people condemn it strongly.”

Americans hunt Pakistani jihadist.
Pakistan hunts (and supposedly kills) German jihadist, part of a German jihad colony in Waziristan.