When Religion and Justice Mingle

I've got to hand it to Saudi Arabia. It may produce some of the world's most violent terrorists.

But its legal system is just as violent and barbarous.

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports.

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism and punishes unrelated men and women who are caught mingling.

But then when religion and justice mingle the result is always toxic.

It can bring out the worst in everyone.

Bahrami, who moved to Barcelona after the attack to get medical treatment, said the court had originally ruled that she was entitled to have the man blinded in only one eye in Iran because "each man is worth two women".

"He will be anesthetized and will not suffer pain. His face will not be disfigured because only a few drops (of acid) will be needed, he will not have the internal injuries which I had..."

And is yet another reason I would almost be prepared to hitchhike all the way to Calgary..... just to ride on the atheist bus.

Does religion lift up humanity....or BRUTALIZE it?

You be the Judge.

I'll drive the bus....

My Horrible Night With Kathy Shaidle

Golly. I'm so excited. I just heard that Kathy Shaidle is going to be on TV !!!!!

Oh I know that some progressive bloggers are understandably upset.

But you know the last time I saw Shittle on TV she was so unintentionally hilarious I practically shittled myself. So WTF?

8:01 pm: OMG it's started ....and there she is....*gasp*..... all tarted up like a drag version of Sunset Boulevard's Norma Desmond.

With a hooker's dress, a tacky pearl necklace....and a Daffy Duck delivery.













I'm weady for my close-up Mr Pwaikin....

8:04 pm: She's SPEAKING !!!! Something about somebody being dismembered by a chainsaw. Oh boy this could be EXCELLENT !!!!!

But wait who's he? And why is he interrupting her ?????













Oh God no. It's some wacky psychology professor who believes the atheist bus is a stunt, because humans aren't supposed to be happy, Stalin killed millions of people because he was an atheist, rational thought is dangerous, and snake handlers are intelligent. Huh? Whatever. How come nobody mentioned there were going to be OTHER guests?

8:12 pm The professor and all the other boring guests are yapping away about....um.... something. But it's been AGES since Shittle was on .....and she's looking PISSED.














And I'm furious too. After all the free publicity TVO got for having her on the show this is practically FRAUD. I feel like calling the CRTC ....or the Human Rights Commission... and filing a complaint.

8:20 pm She said something again.... and managed to work the "Islamic Threat" into her answer !!!! It was so short and my dog farted so loudly as she said it, I couldn't figure out what she was blabbing about. But it must have been REALLY bad because they're cleaning the camera lens.

Geezus. I should have warned them she spits like a cobra.

8:30 pm Oh this is bad.....I mean good. Now she's fixing her beady eyes on the progressive Christian...I think it's the Islamic-green dress she's wearing. Maybe she thinks she's a Muslim !!! Gosh I hate to get my hopes up. But Five Feet of Fecal Matter is looking awfully DANGEROUS...














8:31 pm Oh no. Steve Paikin got between her and the poor Christian....before she could strangle her with her pearl necklace. Or just bite her. Damn.

8:35 pm Gawd. How LONG is this program?

8:40 pm ZZZZZZZZZ..... if this borefest goes on any longer I'm going to scream. Or sue Scott Tribe for false promotion.

8:45 pm OMG. They let her speak again, and now she's calling Obama a MARXIST PROFESSOR !!! Uh oh. Paikin is looking nervous, fumbling for the taser in his pocket....and wondering whether to press the emergency button.

8:50 pm They haven't gone back to her again. It's like she's not even there. Like the hooker got the hook. ZZZZZZZZZZZ.....

8:57 pm It's ALMOST over. Whew. But Shittle is BACK !!!! Babbling something about how the Culture Wars are still raging in her head....along with the rest of her demons. But nobody is listening.... just trying to figure out how they're going to get out of the studio ALIVE...as soon as the lights go out.

And she knows it....














Knows that this was her big chance to fool people into thinking she was sane. And she BLEW it.

Just like I know she'll NEVER be invited back again. And some researcher at TVO is probably going to be fired for not updating the rolodex...and thinking Shittle was a Relapsed Catholic....instead of a racist homophobic MANIAC.

Oh yeah....as for the atheist bus. If the Christianists don't like it.....TOUGH.

Because after my horrible night with La Cucaracha...Our Lady of the Cockroaches... and all that religious horseshit.

This is MY bus......

Religious Fanatic Threatens Quebec Teen

I was quite amused to see that a teenager in Quebec has been poking fun at religion by among other things, drilling holes in a holy cracker.

A devilishly mischievous Canadian boy who mocks a central Christian ritual on YouTube has caused an international stir and earned the wrath of the Catholic Civil Rights League, which has called for his offensive, and popular, videos to be removed from the Internet.

The teenager from Quebec named Dominique, who tags himself "fsmdude," has posted 40 videos in which the Catholic Civil Rights group maintains he desecrates the host, the small circular wafer that Catholics ingest during Eucharist service.

"I'm attacking the belief," Dominique says, holding up a wafer, "that this thing, this cracker, is someone that can feel pain." He calls the host "just an object you can eat."

Which seems pretty harmless to me. Just one more bit of payback for the misery the Catholic Church inflicted on Quebec during the so-called Great Darkness. With Dominique as the new face of the Quiet Revolution.

So I was disgusted to see that he had to pull down his videos after his father received a disturbing letter.

I will not inform the general public about where he lives. I have informed the Church in Québec and other organization whom act in defense of the Catholic Church. I will not inform the public because with the emotions involved with attacks against any religion someone might do him harm. I don't think that is what Jesus would want.

It took a lot of work but it was not that hard to find out were Dominique lives. Eventually someone else will find out were he lives. I can only hope they will be concerned for Dominiques safety as I am.

I will continue to pray for Dominique & the rest of your family. Good bye.

Now first of all I want to say that the family should hand the letter in to the police, so they can try to catch this deranged religious fanatic and lock him up in a jail ....or an insane asylum.

Secondly I want to express my TOTAL solidarity with Dominique, and remind him that it's not for nothing that one of the most popular swear words in Quebec is HOSTIE!!!! Which is usually followed by CRISSE DE TABARNAC !!!!

So don't give up. Eh?

Thirdly I want to know what's more DISTURBING? Pretending that you are eating the flesh of Christ and washing it down with his blood? Or drilling a hole in a cracker and feeding it to the ducks? Huh?

Yup. It's not too hard to get the parable of this story.

Religious fanatics are crazy and DANGEROUS.

Religion is the bonfire of free and intelligent thought.

And a holy cracker is a cracker is a cracker.

Unless it's a PIZZA...



Oh yeah...one more thing. The religious hatemongers who have made life hell for women and gay people for so long, can threaten a Quebec kid.

But they better not bother me. Because I hate bullies.

And I am not afraid...