TENSIONS are rising in the Israeli city of Safed, following a recent edict issued by Safed Chief Rabbi, Shmuel Eliyahu, forbidding Jews to let apartments or sell property to non-Jews because: It causes evil and makes the public commit the sin of intermarriage. The apartheid edict issued by the state-funded fascist rabbi sparked a disturbing [...]
A FUNDIE Christian couple who relied on prayer, not medicine, to cure their dying toddler son was convicted last week of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment. Herbert and Catherine Schaible of Philadelphia face more than a decade in prison for the January 2009 pneumonia death of 2-year-old Kent. Jury foreman Vince Bertolini, 49, told The [...]
A GROUP of circus acrobats called Fratelli Pellegrini (Pellegrini Brothers) yesterday gave Pope Ratzinger an eyeful of toned, rippling flesh during the pontiffs his weekly general audience (see video below). [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rbxov7CVi8[/youtube] After removing their shirts, the hunks formed a human tower of for Ratzi and a group of Vatican officials. According to this report, at [...]
AN Indonesian court yesterday sentenced a 64-year-old American to five months in jail for blasphemy for pulling the plug on a mosque’s loudspeaker during a prayer reading. The August 22 incident, according to this report, occurred during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and resulted in retired Californian engineer Gregory Lloyd Luke, 64, needing a [...]
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POLAND needs saving from the “scourge” of secularism, and some daft Catholic priest hopes that the erection of a 187-ft statue of Jesus Â- the world’s tallest – will stem the rising tide of disbelief in his country. Said the Rev Sylwester Zawadzki, the priest who inspired the construction of the figure in Swiebodzin, a [...]
A DOCTOR was arrested last week on suspicion of violating Pakistan’s contentious blasphemy law by discarding the business card of a man who shared the name of Islam’s “prophet”, Mohammed. Naushad Valiyani, a Muslim doctor in the southern city of Hyderabad, was arrested on Friday after a complaint was lodged with police alleging his actions [...]
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