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Holy War Explained

Finally. [Cartoon by David Sipress, from the March 25 issue of the New Yorker]

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Time Discovers Faith’s Dark Side

In my lifetime, people of faith will probably always be allowed more manifestations of loopiness than non-believers. If, as a secular American, I go around licking fenceposts every afternoon, and...

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Taliban Victim (15) Gets Book Deal

Excellent. Can’t keep this girl down. Via CNN: The Pakistani teenager who survived an assassination attempt and inspired a worldwide movement for girls’ education will soon become a published author....

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More Education = Less Religion

Does more education lead to less religion? Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner says yes, and he bases that on a study by Daniel Hungerman, an economist at Notre Dame who studies religious faith....

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Sex Imam Beats Rap Up North; Now U.S. Gets Him

A Toronto imam who was acquitted of sex charges in Canada earlier this week was re-arrested and will be extradited to the United States, where he is wanted on charges of criminal sexual contact with a...

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NY Muslim: Long Live Sharia, Behead the Gays!

I love how, as soon as the host suggests that his views are a little extreme, this caller plays the insulted-assclown card and claims that she is maligning his precious religion. Not that she’s doing...

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And They Hanged His Head From a Minaret

More Muslim infighting in Syria. Of course, it is political war as much as religious strife, but let’s get real: How can the faithful carry out such butchery if they make simultaneous claims about...

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Egyptian Jon Stewart to be Arrested, Gagged

Imagine saying this on TV — in a country whose overwhelmingly Muslim and notoriously restive population put an Islamist president in office only last year. “Anyone can form a group in the name of...

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Your Easter Crucifixion, Courtesy of Saudi Arabia

Via Jonathan Turley, an example of judicial overkill: Saudi Arabia has long shocked the world with its medieval Sharia justice system, but nothing prepared most of us for the recent execution in Jazan,...

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Nigerian Believers Perpetrate Attacks, Reprisals

Nigeria’s people of faith just can’t stop spreading divine love. At least 36 people have died and dozens of houses have been burned in religious clashes central Nigeria over the past week. The military...

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A Debt, a Daughter, and an Islamic Solution

Tribal customs, culture, and religion are often inextricably linked, and such is the case here: Taj Mohammad, a resident of an Afghan refugee camp, where he lives with his wife and eight children, says...

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Lego: The Muslim Empire Strikes Back

If you want proof that religion and child-like make-belief are indistinguishable, have I got a story for you. No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke. From the U.K. Independent: Austria’s Turkish community...

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‘The Will of God’: Son Murders Father in Church

Mysterious ways: Witnesses say the 25-year-old man accused of walking into an Ohio church and fatally shooting his father after an Easter service Sunday was yelling about God and Allah after the...

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Burka Bicyclists

Women in Saudi Arabia may now ride bicycles, provided they adhere to “modest” dress codes and are in the presence of a male guardian. Which somehow reminded me of this old NSFW Queen video — a mullah’s...

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Collaborate and Live. Fight Each Other and Die.

Dr. Abdullah Badr, an Egyptian Muslim scholar, said during a conference last week (video here) that a true Muslim should love and help fellow Muslims, but that it’s a believer’s duty to hate...

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‘Derogatory’ Bloggers in Custody in Bangladesh

Glad police in Bangladesh are cracking down on dangerous crime. Police arrested three persons, including a student of Dhaka University, from different parts of the capital Monday night for writing...

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Muslim Vandals Attack Dawkins Website

This is currently the front page of Richard Dawkins‘ website (Wednesday 10:30 EST.) Islamist goons think they have the right to prevent others from speaking, even more so than other stripes of...

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Saudi Court May Order Man’s Spinal Cord Severed

From YNet, with thanks to BangsNaughtyBits for the tip: A Saudi court has ruled that a man who paralyzed his best friend should now himself be crippled in an ‘eye-for-an-eye’ punishment, the Saudi...

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Amen. I Mean, Right On.

Via BrightRock.

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The Little Girl Who Inspired This Blog

I’d had the idea for Moral Compass since early 2011, I think. Maybe it was earlier than that, but that’s when I registered the domain name and asked an illustrator to create the rotating banners at the...

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