Every so often, I hear someone claim that honor killings have nothing to do with Islam. While it's true that the practice is actually older than the religion (it is, after all, the "new kid on the block" compared to the other two Abrahamic Religions), it seems as though this barbaric ritual has found fertile ground in this religion. While the practice has its roots in much older Arab patriarchal societies t ...

If you're planning to take a pilgrimage to Medina, you might want to make sure that you're practicing "Islam" the way the locals want you to. That's a lesson a Canadian Imam by the name of Usama Al-Atar learned rather painfully, as he was singled out from a prayer group, strangled, beaten, and then taken to jail. According to CTV, he's been released, but details are extremely sketchy. The police claim that ...

It's hilarious how most Muslims are convinced that their restrictive religious repression of women is somehow intended to protect them. You hear this all the time in Islamic countries; they think we let our women "run around unprotected" while they "bravely" restrict every part of their lives in the misguided belief that it's really all for their own good. The culture of Islam makes women seem like dangerou ...

Remember Becky Fisher? She's the nutjob behind Jesus Camp, and while that terrible nightmarish camp was shut down following the movie, it appears that she hasn't slowed down one bit. Here she is in Singapore doing the exact same shtick, with the added element of "teaching" kids how to raise the dead. She also has them pray for America to be "changed": it seems she's rather unsatisfied with "democracy" and i ...

Oh crazy bigoted religious people...I'm not sure they know what they want, sometimes. Take this clown, Pastor Scott Lively. Last year he came under fire for publishing a book called "The Pink Swastika", where he claimed Nazi Germany was being run by homofascists (his word). He was laying low for a little while, but now he's back to blaming gays for everything. This time, he believes they will bring about th ...

When innocent people are killed and the fog of war has yet to be lifted, it's not uncommon for the press to assume that any terrorist actions must be the work of Islamic fundamentalists. As far as they are concerned, only the Muslim faith can indiscriminately kill innocent civilians. How easily they forget men like Timothy McVeigh or Scott Roeder; men motivated by their religion (in their cases, Christianit ...

In the slums of Khanewal, Pakistan, the poor and indigent who suffer from treatable illnesses are sent, often by physicians wishing to unload their patients, to the Islamic equivalent of exorcists. They are called Pirs (or Peers), meaning "old man", and these "saints" often perform barbaric torture rituals they believe can clean people of djinns, or demons. One victim of their archaic stupidity was a woman ...

It looks as though the Netherlands is split down the middle over the courts decision that Geert Wilders did not incite hatred against Muslims. Judge Marcel van Oosten ruled that some of Mr. Wilders' comments may have been "crude and denigrating" but they did not amount to inciting hatred against Muslims and remained within the boundaries of free speech. Even Mr. Wilders' most inflammatory statements, includ ...

Gary Smith was a friendly and popular religion teacher with a promising career, until four thugs, incensed by their fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, decided to beat him to within an inch of his life to teach him a "lesson" for educating women about their nonsense religion. Gary Smith, 38, was beaten as he walked to Central Foundation Girls' School in Bow, east London, last July. The gang left him unc ...

Remember Harun Yahya? He's the Turkish creationist that published a book called "The Atlas of Creation", his attempt to "prove" that animals were created spontaneously by his personal God. Most of the pictures in this massive 768 page monstrosity are ripped right off the Internet. One picture of a fly is in fact a metal lure. Yes, he's that fucking incompetent. Harun Yahya is the pseudonym of Adnan Oktar, 5 ...