Roshonara Choudhry would still be continuing her studies to become a teacher, if she hadn't been seduced by Islamic fundamentalism. Instead of living a comfortably being a contributing member of society, she'll be spending her life in jail for the attempted murder of MP Stephen Timms: Choudhry stabbed Mr Timms, 55, with a kitchen knife at his constituency surgery. She told officers she had intended to kill ...

In an attempt to hide the fact his candidate knows almost nothing of the founding document of her country, Jonathan Moseley, campaign manager to "witch-in-denial" Christine O'Donnell is offering a whooping 1000 bones to anyone who can prove the phrase "Separation of Church and State" is in the Constitution. It's actually a pretty weak offer, since he's technically correct in stating the specific phrase is i ...

In most Muslim countries, it's impossibly hard to be a woman. For starters, men have all the power, relegating women to the role of caretakers and not much else. Men also absolve themselves from any crime or misdeeds; if a husband beats his wife, she is to blame for not having been servile enough or not having been mindful enough of his moods. It's so nutty that when a rich Egyptian real estate tycoon paid ...

The Texas Board of Education, an oxymoron if I've ever heard one, continues to display its utter ignorance and xenophobia as it continues to try to edit out of their schoolbooks any elements they see as "pro-Islamic" and "anti-Christian". If you're wondering exactly what that means, don't worry: it just implies anything involving a favorable mention of the accomplishments of Middle Orient cultures will be e ...

If there's one thing you have to credit religion with, it's their ability to insert themselves into things, often painfully and occasionally in a way that merits jail time, but mysteriously enough results in no real punishment. Religion is so skilled at doing this they manage to convince throngs of people to believe without them, the fabric of their lives would fall apart. Take marriage for instance, how ma ...

A senior official at the Vatican is urging Christians to have more children, in light of the fact Muslims have, on average, more kids than their Catholic counterparts. They are visibly nervous over the prospect of the religion overtaking Christians in terms of sheer numbers, and they believe more warm bodies are needed to counter this. I actually have a simpler idea that will help everyone. It's a well know ...

Indonesian Muslims are being told to adjust their prayer antennae to improve transmissions to Mecca: Indonesian Muslims have been praying in the wrong direction, the country's highest Islamic authority has said. The Indonesian Ulema Council told the country's Muslim populace in March to turn west when they offered their daily prayers. Muslims are supposed to face the Kaaba, the religion's most sacred site i ...

You may not like some of the things Mark Zuckerberg has done to Facebook (especially their fucked up lack of privacy), but I doubt most of you are seriously considering hurting this dude. Then again, you aren't the government of Pakistan, which seems intent on trying to prosecute the goofy CEO for his involvement in hosting the "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" Facebook page. It's become pretty clear the West's ...

As a North American, I've never really understood the rest of the world's fascination with football (what we continue to call soccer just to spite the rest of you). I mean, for fuck sake, you have entire matches that are scoreless. Scoreless! How am I supposed to feel excited for a sport where a lot of nothing is happening? Say what you will about my chosen sport; at the very least in mine, someone is actua ...

Ayaan Hirshi Ali has written a new book out called Nomad, which picks up where Infidel left off and covers Hirshi Ali's move to the United States from Europe. She's been on a book tour for the past few weeks, and I recently caught her on Real Time with Bill Maher and the Colbert Report. She didn't get to say much on Real Time but she did mention something on Colbert about offering up more moderate religions ...