As you can imagine Pat Condell has something to say regarding the Dutch movie, Fitna. I had previously posted on the subject and even provided the video links to it, which are now removed from YouTube, cowards.
Here’s the Youtube video.
Found via FriendlyAtheist
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Something that continues to fascinate me since hearing of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s life is Dutch politics. In recent weeks a “right-wing” Dutch politician, Geert Wilder, has produced a short film, called Fitna (the word strife in arabic). It portrays Islam in a rather negative light. Actually it’s pretty blunt about the problems with Islam within [...]
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I hesitate to post this because well just watch… I know I can’t watch it again because something will get stuck in my eye again, stupid… um… eyelash.
Found via UDreamOfJanie
P.S. Looking for someone to blame? Start with this fucker (I’m talking about the guy in the picture, not the blog).
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I need to rant and since none of my family knows about this blog (except the wife, who will yell at me for posting this) I feel safe in ranting about them. This is specifically about a family member who has become religious and recently joined the Catholic Church. We’ll call him Dick (seems appropriate).
1) [...]
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I just read that Arthur C. Clarke has died (1917-200 in his home in Sri Lanka. He is of course most famous for 2001: A Space Odyssey but I remember his work in the Rendezvous With Rama and the subsequent sequels.
The article reports that Clarke expressed the following three wishes,
for ethnically divided Sri Lanka [...]
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Somehow I missed this really good interview with Christopher Hedges the author of American Fascists, a scathing attack on the Religious Right in America, about his new work I Don’t Believe in Atheists.
Christopher Hedges has debated by Dawkins and Hitchens,
I haven’t read the new book but it’s now on my evergrowing and seemingly never shrinking list [...]
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Since I just posted on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book Infidel I thought I would provide a link to the short film that her and Theo van Gogh created, called Submission, Part I. It is a damning commentary on muslim attitudes towards women. The video was so inflammatory that it ended up getting Theo van Gogh [...]
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Now that my work and a number of side jobs have slowed down in the last week or so I have been able to work my way through the backlog of books that I have been itching to read. My latest book was Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel.
Wow, wow, wow. I am utterly blown away about [...]
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Great article over on grist, Please stop calling them ’skeptics’. It is the third in a series of articles specifically targeting mass media treatment of people who deny global warming (Part 1 and Part 2).
The gist of the grist story (aren’t I clever) is that calling these people global warming skeptics is actually beneficial to their [...]
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I kept seeing these new items popup…
Frederick Seitz, physicist, global warming skeptic (Charlotte Observer)
Frederick Seitz, physicist who led skeptics of global warming, dies at 96 (New York Times)
Frederick Seitz, 96; Physicist cast doubt on global warming (Washington Post)
…and never quite connected the dots. When I took a moment to actually read one of the articles [...]
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