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Islamists behead wrong person, apologize for ‘misunderstanding’

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In an appearance that was filmed and posted online [No, I’ll not post the video here], a gang of religious thugs paraded a severed head before a crowd in Aleppo. They triumphantly described the execution of what they said was a member of an Iraqi Shia militia fighting for President Bashar al-Assad. The Telegraph explains what actually … Read more

Islamic Myths: “The extremists are only a tiny minority” … what are the facts?

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There is a rather popular myth that extreme views within Islam are the preserve of tiny fringe groups, and that the vast majority of Muslims do not hold such thoughts in their heads. This is sadly not factually correct. Mainstream Islam has popularised some views that are quite extreme. To verify this as factual I’ve … Read more

Finally … a cure for Cancer has been discovered.

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The Saudi Gazette has announced the exciting news that a cure for Cancer has been discovered by Dr. Faten Abdel-Rahman Khorshid. She … yes, it’s a woman and not a man who has made … “one of the Kingdom’s greatest national achievements in the field of science“. This is truly exciting stuff, and it is fantastic … Read more

Satire: Saudi clerics “running out of day-to-day things to ban”

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The fact that I need to add the word “Satire” to the title tells you that it is in fact very challenging to deploy Satire within a Saudi context. In fact, the pronouncements and actions of the various clerics make it almost impossible to discern the line between the things that are satire and the … Read more