Gilliver's Travels
Peripatetic
See this link for a vast collection of images of Muhamed, created over the centuries, and seemingly unnoticed by today's bunch of rabble-rousing politicians who call themselves mullahs.
Pictures of the prophet -- produced by Muslims -- are nothing new. The current storm over the cartoons is totally synthetic. As is so often the case, holy books and ancient rulings get deliberately misinterpreted to serve political ends. The relatively recent fashion for Hijab enforcement is another example of religious tradition-manufacturing on the hoof.
In Britain, we have a long tradition of poking fun at religion. In a free society, believers in irrational superstition should be able to take rational criticism on the chin. Whether their supernatural preference is for Jesus, Buddha, Hans Christian Andersen, or the Brothers Grimm, it just doesn't stack up.
Unlike race, religion is only an option. You are allowed to think for yourself and escape. Which is why perhaps the most perplexing and embarrassing examples of religious delusion are Wusslims - those white, hijab-clad converts from tree hugging sometimes to be found in your local Body Shop.
Pictures of the prophet -- produced by Muslims -- are nothing new. The current storm over the cartoons is totally synthetic. As is so often the case, holy books and ancient rulings get deliberately misinterpreted to serve political ends. The relatively recent fashion for Hijab enforcement is another example of religious tradition-manufacturing on the hoof.
In Britain, we have a long tradition of poking fun at religion. In a free society, believers in irrational superstition should be able to take rational criticism on the chin. Whether their supernatural preference is for Jesus, Buddha, Hans Christian Andersen, or the Brothers Grimm, it just doesn't stack up.
Unlike race, religion is only an option. You are allowed to think for yourself and escape. Which is why perhaps the most perplexing and embarrassing examples of religious delusion are Wusslims - those white, hijab-clad converts from tree hugging sometimes to be found in your local Body Shop.
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