A Pakistani man discovered that his mustache could cost him his life, when he was abducted and instructed to trim his facial hair because it is offensive or against the rules of Islam. One would think that the religious zealots of Pakistan have better things to do then run around a look for people with… Continue Reading
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Tag Archives: Islam
When Religions Drift Away
One of the sad thing about religions is that once they embrace the core principles of the belief they continue to evolve, sometimes creating next to insane ideas on the way. We have already seen that in the case of the Cairo crazed religious leader who simply told females to stop touching cucumbers and other… Continue Reading
2011 Personal Daily Journal From the Stone Age
While surfing the net yesterday I saw something that really caught my attention, and even though it is not my habit to pick on innocent bystanders but this one really shows the chains of religion on (what seems like) a young man who is trying to understand what is the right thing to do. When… Continue Reading
Sharia Would Not Work Well for Us
One of the things many people living in the West ask when they are told about the Muslim vision of a global Sharia governance is why would they care about it, they wrongly assume that Muslims will set their own law and live with it happily, while letting non Muslims carry on with their normal… Continue Reading
Ten Year Old Mistakes
Ten years ago, after the 9/11 attacks, many of the world leaders went out of their way to explain to their people that the actions did not reflect the religion of Islam and everything it stands for, like many obedient citizens around the world I too listened and nodded as they talked about “the religion… Continue Reading
Dalai Lama Asks Us Not to Hold Dogma Accountable
Apparently there are many different meetings and conferences these days, just hours before the world remembers the September 11th, 2001 attack, that are trying to get as many different religious leaders in them to tell the world what is the hard learned lesson that we all learned on that terrible day – do not hold… Continue Reading
The Egypt Israel Issue
In the recent weeks there has been mounting tension between Arabs and Israelis, as well as Muslim and Jews, in the south of Israel, along the Israeli-Egypt boarder as well as with the boarder with Gaza (which, in contrast to what many think, is a boarder, meaning no Israelis occupy Gaza and there is a… Continue Reading
God Loves You (Not You, You!)
The idea that you can be special without doing anything special, without any effort or thought, just by being, is one we have to credit religions with. After all it is the Jewish faith that explicitly tells Jewish believers that they are the “chosen people” and that god has a special relationship with them, this has spread more in the… Continue Reading
About Islam
As you probably saw in the last post I’m starting to add some of Sam Harris’s wisdom to the site. I am personally in debt to Mr. Harris for helping me into the final stage of Atheism and rejection of (mostly) organized religions. One of the videos that focused on Harris thoughts toward Islam starts… Continue Reading