MUSLIMS in Egypt have been warned not to use Koranic verses and the call to prayer as ringtones. Egypt’s highest religious legal authority, Mufti Ali Gomaa, said today that anyone answering a phone armed with such a ringtone would effectively be interrupting Allah. The numpty declared: Putting the Holy Koran or the call to prayer [...]
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A RELIGIOUS row has erupted in South Africa over the playing of a plastic trumpet – known locally as a vuvuzela – at football matches. When played by football fans, the trumpet is said to make a profoundly irritating noise. Some say it sounds like a swarm of wasps … or even an elephant farting. [...]
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AS international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti’s earthquake victims, a US faith group is sending Bibles to Haitians in their hour of need … and Hollywood nut John Travolta has announced that he will fly “volunteer ministers” from the Church of Scientology to the devastated country. But, first, those Bibles. These [...]
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HIGH-powered rifle sights, provided to the US military by a Michigan company, are supplied complete with biblical references, an ABC News investigation has found. The inscribed scopes, made by “Christian values” company Trijicon – motto: Brilliant Aiming Solutions – are used by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan [...]
IT’S all over for Tablighi Jamaat, the Islamic group which unveiled plans about four years ago to erect a vast Muslim complex adjacent to the Olympic stadium in east London. According to this report, local authorities said today that the group failed to submit a planning application in time. Tablighi Jamaat wanted to build a [...]
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ISLAMIC fundamentalists went off on another rant in the New Year – over what was intended as “a tribute to Muslim culture”. The target of their fury was Jakub Rene Kosik, a 27-year-old DJ from Poland, whose newest composition, Mekka, Â provoked outrage on Facebook. According to this report, when Kosik checked his messages on the [...]
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