PITY the education authorities in Canada where political correctness is tying teachers in ever-tighter knots. Take the case this week of the dilemma faced by a kindergarten in Montreal, which was asked by the parents of a five-year-old Muslim girl to allow her to wear a noise-reducing headset in class … because they don’t want [...]
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JORDAN, an Islamic country surrounded by Syria, Iraq, Israel and Saudi Arabia, has – according to this guide – a night “that simply rocks”. But all this could change if the Jordanian authorities meet the demands of a bunch of lunatic Muslim “scholars” who want the country’s 60 or so nightclubs shut down. They say [...]
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A NEWLY-LAUNCHED iphone application for Catholics may not be used for confessions, says a Vatican spokesman. Father Federico Lombardi, according to this report, said that technology was no substitute for being present when admitting sins to a priest. His statement follows the launch of Confession: A Roman Catholic app aimed at helping Catholics through their [...]
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THREE Israeli rabbis have added their weight to a new ultra-Orthodox campaign which uses scare tactics to prevent their communities from surfing the Internet. The campaign claims that the internet, among other things, causes droughts and cancer. One poster in an Haredi area claims: Where there is Internet, there are no rains. Let’s remove the [...]
FOLLOWING on from a warning sounded in Rev Jim Peasboro’s book The Devil in the Machine: Is your computer possessed by a demon? comes a warning from a bunch of fundamentalist wackos in Brazil that USB connectors should under no circumstances be used as they all bear a mark of the Beast, as shown below. [...]
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