Agora

Shamelessly stolen from Irshad Manji’s webpage:

A priest, a rabbi, and a mullah meet at a conference about religion, and afterwards are sitting around discussing their different faiths. The conversation turns to the topic of taboos.

The priest says to the rabbi and the mullah, “You guys can’t tell me that you’ve never eaten pork.”
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It seems the Quran is under indictment in Germany. This entry will be updated. The article below is from Jyllands-Posten today:

Update: I see Pia Causa has posted about this also.
And Democracy Frontline has too.
Six Days More has some interesting commentary:

Many of us have been waiting for the inevitable collision between the emerging raft of religious vilification, “tolerance” and blasphemy laws, and the Koran, holy book of the intended beneficiaries of these new laws.
There have been a number of near-misses.

Their homepage.
A quote: “Schluss mit der falschen Toleranz für die muslimische Doppelmoral.”
Take this translation with a grain of salt - this is a translation between two non-native tongues for me - but that would go like this is English:
“End the wrongful tolerance of Moslem hypocrisy.”

Hrmm… I was wrong. They do speak my language.

Update: Found a shortened version of this article online (In Danish).

The Quran reported to the Police

By Kent Olsen, correspondent to Jyllands-Posten

A broad alliance of grass-roots movements have gone to the prosecutors of several states to hinder the dissemination of the Quran. According to the indictment, the Quran is not just a religious and historic book, but also a political book, which is incompatible with the constiution.
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I was just perusing my daily dose of the intarweb, while having a cuppa coffee when I came across this and I had to spend some time cleaning my keyboard. I bring to you - the travellers guide to Fwance:
Hat-Tip: Mr. Free Market

The following advice for American travellers going to France was compiled from information provided by the US State Department, the CIA, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and some very expensive spy satellites that the French don’t know about.

General Overview

France is a medium-sized foreign country situated in the continent of Europe. It is an important member of the world community, though not nearly as important as it thinks. It is bounded by Germany, Spain, Switzerland and some smaller nations of no particular importance and with not very good shopping. France is a very old country with many treasures, such as the Louvre and Eurodisney. Among its contributions to western civilization are champagne, Camembert cheese and the guillotine. Although France likes to think of itself as a modern nation, air conditioning is little used and it is next to impossible for Americans to get decent Mexican food. One continuing exasperation for American visitors is that local people insist on speaking in French, though many will speak English if shouted at. Watch your money at all times.
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