Sheikh Yerboubis

In Somalia, Islam is now the excuse for feeling up strange women:

The insurgent group Al Shabaab has sent gunmen into the streets of Mogadishu to round up any women who appear to have a firm bust, residents claimed yesterday.

The women are then inspected to see if the firmness is natural, or if it is the result of wearing a bra.

If they are found wearing a bra, they are ordered to remove it and shake their breasts, residents said.

Finally, an argument for Islam that might fly in the West, at least if you’re a guy…. But if they hassle that much over bras, they must stone for silicone.
H/T: Report on Arrakis, via Ace.

Two – two – two faiths in one!

I’m really picking on ECUSA today. No, I don’t have a hardon about Episcopalians. It’s just that there’s SO MUCH today. Like this tale of a priestess who thought she could be a priestess and a Muslim at the same time:

But Redding said she felt her new Muslim faith did not pose a contradiction to her staying a Christian and minister.

“Both religions say there’s only one God,” Redding said, “and that God is the same God. It’s very clear we are talking about the same God! So I haven’t shifted my allegiance.”

ECUSA did the right thing for once and defrocked her (or should that be “dehajibed”?

The Diocese of Rhode Island, where Redding was ordained, told her to leave either her new Muslim faith or the ministry. A diocese statement said Bishop Geralyn Wolf found Redding to be “a woman of utmost integrity. However, the Bishop believes that a priest of the Church cannot be both a Christian and a Muslim.”

The decision was doubtless made easier by Redding taking on an anti-womyn religion that doesn’t recognize the sacrament of abortion. This is serious; it’s not like openly living as the male lover of another man, which is good for a bishopric.

But I have to wonder why Redding didn’t think she could surrender to God as a Christian. Or why she swallowed the Muslim “same God” Flavr-Aid, when their gods have quite different messages. I’m really seeing a total failure here to understand “mere Christianity” and have to wonder what they’re teaching in their seminaries. Oh yeah…that. And it’s funny that both of today’s clueless are female. Maybe the Anglican Catholics had a point when they bolted over ordination of women.

UPDATE: Here’s more:

She calls Christianity the “world religion of privilege.” She has never believed in original sin. And for years she struggled with the nature of Jesus’ divinity.

And she’s a dry drunk, though coming from good family.

I have some sympathy, as most people’s notion of Original Sin is, to be blunt, blasphemous: that God personally hates you because of something your Ur-ancestors did, and the only way he’d quit hating you is to pledge fealty to the Child he abused by having Him come down here. I don’t have it all figured out yet myself, but my notion of Original Sin is more like a genetic defect: we’re broken, and God had to fix us in order to hang with us, because God and sin are incompatible. And I accept it out of deep cynicism born of experience: the belief that everything and everyone is ultimately effed up and that nothing we can do will make the world right.

I’d assume that somebody who’d been through divinity school would have a reasonably sophisticated understanding of Original Sin. But then, I’d expect such a person to be a Christian too.

CAIR upset by situation at Hopkins

CAIR wants to meet with the mayor of Cleveland. 

The Cleveland-based chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations said earlier this month that Standard Parking Co., a group contracted by the city to handle parking operations, prohibits cab drivers from leaving their vehicles while they wait in line to pick up arrivals at the airport.

The policy also bans prayer in the taxi queue and prohibits other cab drivers from advancing vehicles in the taxi line for the praying driver.

If seen praying, they will be in violation of the policy and could be banned from picking up fares.

It seems there are two issues here: prayer, and traffic management.  Keeping cabbies from leaving vehicles is fine if needed to keep traffic moving smoothly, even if that does not permit Somalis to pray in the manner to which they have become accustomed.  And of course that would also apply to cabbies leaving their own cabs to cover for their praying colleagues, though that might be a point for compromise.  But banning prayer in the taxi queue is simply anti-religious. Yes, it’s a “private company” doing so, but it’s a company which has been given a city monopoly, so by extension, this is a church-state issue.  How can you ban somebody from praying in their own cab? Perhaps the way to handle this is for CAIR to fund a lawsuit by the cabbies against Standard Parking. That should back them down.

The comments on this piece are interesting. What I want to know of these legal Somali immigrants is this: how many of you paid your own way here, how many were funded by private charity, and how many were imported here as refugees by the US government? I’ve got no problem with the first 2 classes of people. But I highly doubt the wisdom of government schlepping a mess of Muslims into the country.

And I like that “religious advocacy group” label… would that apply to most evangelistic associations?

ELCA sniffs Hamas heinie

Tomorrows jaunt will be to the ELCA church in Ravenna, mostly so Rusty can see the difference. I went out looking for info on when the service was, and got reminded of my problem with ELCA. First, there was the lack of a map link. Ok not a biggie, would have been nice.

But then…a whole mess of ELCA bishops were in Gaza recently, and they’ve written all kinds of silly things.

From there the ELCA and ELCIC leaders drove across the West Bank city of Ramallah to meet with representatives of the office of the president. Rafiq Husseini, chief of staff, said he believed Palestinian Christians were being targeted by Israel to leave the West Bank.

Once Christians, who at one time made up 22 percent of the population but now total no more 1.5 percent, are gone, Husseini said he fears the West will lose interest in the then-Muslim country.

As far as your typical American is concerned, there are no Christians in Gaza. And if Israel is targeting them, it’s either because they’re firing rockets into Israel (which would be a self-defeating and un-Christian thing to do) or because Hamas is picking Christian settlements to fire from, either using Christians as human shields or putting them in danger in order to drive them off themselves.

Al-Tamini is a member of the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, consisting of Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders. He noted that half the world’s population is either Christian or Muslim. “It is our destiny to live together as Muslims and Christians with mutual respect,” he said.

I’m all for mutual respect. Dhimmitude isn’t respect. I respect your right to be wrong, and I expect you to respect my right to preach the Gospel.

Which of course is the problem with this focus on Palestinians. Yes, there’s a humanitarian need there. But the biggest thing that Gaza needs from the Lutherans is Jesus Christ. And where is their humanitarian concern about Jews getting bombed? Someplace somewhere near German Lutheran concern over Jews 75 years ago?

Now that we have that cleared up

I’m a Muslim!

Ali said the ad accurately describes Abraham, Moses and Jesus. “A Muslim is anyone who submits their will to God,” he said. “By that definition Abraham and all the prophets are Muslim because they submitted their will to God.”

OK, I’m a very bad Muslim, but I try. But Al Quada, the Taliban, Hamas etc. aren’t Muslims at all…unless you think it’s God’s Will for us to kill others. See, we’ve just made the entire world Islamic, except for parts of the Middle East. And we didn’t need a jihad to do it, just some city buses.

A shocking idea for airline passengers

“We wish to clear up any misconceptions regarding the EMD Safety Bracelet for Airline Security,” the company said. “The bracelets remain inactive until a hijacking situation has been identified. At such time a designated crew member

…or a hijacker

will activate the bracelets

…including the ones the hijackers have already removed

making them capable of delivering the punitive measure – but only to those that need to be restrained.

And what will be the criteria of “need”? Complaining about lousy service?

We believe that all passengers will welcome deliverance from a hijacking, as will the families, carriers, insurance providers etc.

I’m sure they will. Because anyone with a lick of sense will avoid airplanes like the plague if this ever becomes reality, making passengers into approvers by default.

Maryland courts trump sharia divorce

Hey, I-slammer men:

If you’re living in America, and want to ditch your wife by saying “I divorce you” three times in Pakistan, do it before she files for divorce in an American court. I can’t believe this case got as far as it did.

I-slammers invent phone rape

Our friends in the Religion of Peace Piss have invented a new twist on phone sex: phone rape. A Tunisian family claims that their 20 year old daughter lost her virginity during a phone call, that her hymen ruptured and there was bleeding. Well, maybe she should have kept her fingers out of there. And as for rape…’scuse me, but the defining element of rape is lack of consent. Would somebody explain to be how one can have non-consensual phone sex?

If this girl is suddenly used merchandise and thus unmarriagable, it will be a good thing that she won’t be spreading her family’s stupidity genes.

Piss be upon them

So, how many people are going to die in Dubai because you can no longer put the patient’s name on a urine/stool specimen if they happen to be named after one of the 99 Names of Allah, a prophet, or a saint? Yes, they have numbers. But it’s easy to confuse numbers.

In the US, we don’t have the God-name problem, except for our southern neighbors who name their kids after the 2nd Person of the Trinity. But almost everyone is named after a saint. It seems to me that if you’re that sensitive about having God’s name on a jar of shit, you should just quit naming your kids after God, particularly if you want them to grow up to blow up around women and children.

UK majority-Muslim school says no to homo propaganda

Two primary schools have withdrawn storybooks about same-sex relationships after objections from Muslim parents.Up to 90 gathered at the schools to complain about the books which are aimed at pupils as young as five.

Bristol City Council said the two schools had been using the books to ensure they complied with gay rights laws which came into force last April.

The decision was made to enable the schools to “operate safely” after parents voiced their concerns at meetings.

Ha! I guess when your school is 70% Muslim, you have to pay attention to the parents, if you don’t want to be blown away. Such a pity that Christians are to emulate the Prince of Peace. Though there is Biblical warrant for driving out teachers and overturning their desks.