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Vicar accused of orchestrating a hate campaign – against herself!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

GOD’S representatives on earth – the Islamic ones in particular – are a pretty talented bunch when it comes to whipping up hatred. But in a bizarre twist to common clerical behaviour, a woman vicar stands accused this week of orchestrating a hate campaign – against herself!
Methodist minister Rev Janet Magee, 62, is alleged to [...]

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Veiled Saudi women expose one eye too many – the shameless hussies!

Monday, October 13, 2008

SAUDI Arabia’s second biggest industry – the first being oil – must surely be the production of mad Muslim clerics.
As soon as one utters a fatuous fatwa, another dozen or so clerics – candidates all for the bughouse – clamour from behind to utter something even more foolish.
Latest in line is Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan, who [...]

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Holy shit! Councillors told not to eat during Ramadan meetings

Thursday, August 28, 2008

IN a revolting display of dhimmitude, Tower Hamlets Council in East London have told non-Muslim councillors that they must not eat or drink in committee meetings while Muslims are fasting during Ramadan.
According to the Telegraph today, all members of the council , where 36 percent of the population is Muslim, were sent an email asking [...]

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Non-Jew awarded damages for not being served kosher food in jail

Sunday, August 17, 2008

YET another one for the “You Couldn’t Make it Up” archives …
Michael Fegans began a prison sentence in Arkansas in 1991 for aggravated robbery, second-degree battery, and attempted escape.
He entered the state Department of Correction a Baptist, but then converted to a sect called the Assemblies of Yahweh, which requires its members to follow Old [...]

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Don’t push your luck!

Saturday, July 26, 2008

HERE’S another tale for the You Couldn’t Make It Up archives: a 36-year-old Wiccan woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot while giving thanks … for a run of good luck.
Katherine Gunther, of Lebanon, Indiana, pierced her left foot with the sword while performing the rite at Oak Hill Cemetery.
According to Worldwide Religious News, Gunther [...]

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