Carnal Reason

Posted on September 27th, 2006 by pwyll
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Guardian Unlimited
Suspected Taliban gunmen shot dead a leading women’s rights campaigner in Kandahar yesterday in the latest assassination of a government official in the restive southern provinces.
Women’s Affairs director, Safia Ama Jan, was killed on the city outskirts as she left for work yesterday morning. The assailants shot her four times in the head, through [...]

Posted on September 26th, 2006 by pwyll
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Fox News:
BLAINE, Wash. — Four Canadian border crossings were shut down Sunday as about 60 of Canada’s unarmed border guards walked off the job after they were warned that a person classified as “armed and dangerous” may be headed into Canada.
The walkouts — permitted when the guards perceive threats to their personal safety — [...]

Posted on September 25th, 2006 by pwyll
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Via Deutsche Presse-Agenteur, hat tip, Dhimmi Watch
Berlin- One of Germany’s leading opera houses, Deutsche Oper Berlin, announced Monday that it was cancelling a controversial production because of the likelihood that it might offend Muslims. The original opera, Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, makes no reference to Islam, but director Hans Neuenfels introduced a scene to [...]

Posted on September 25th, 2006 by pwyll
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Secrets of South Park:
Stone, who was raised Jewish, says he’s not religious. Parker says he considers himself religious, but it would take him a long time to explain it. Both say they believe in God.
“I believe there’s something going on that we don’t know,” Parker says. “That’s as far as I can go.”
“Recently, atheists and [...]

Posted on September 24th, 2006 by pwyll
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Does AP stand for Al-Qaeda Propaganda?

Posted on September 24th, 2006 by pwyll
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