Here is what is to be done in the United States: Subject religious organizations to the same requirements as secular non-profit organizations: demonstrate they perform a quantifiable public good to receive tax-exempt status. Do not donate any funds, labor or resources to Islamic organizations: there are secular equivalents to any Islamic organization for those who [...]
On the morning of Sunday, September 11th 2011, I will be drinking coffee with sugar and cream and eating a croissant. I will do this in commemoration of the victory of the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over the Ottoman Empire near Vienna on September 11th, 1683. Wikipedia: Battle of Vienna Culinary Legends [...]
Amnesty International has made its name as a champion of free speech, campaigning on behalf of prisoners who have spoken out against oppressive regimes around the world. But when it comes to speaking up about the organisation itself … well, that seems to be a different story. Last week [February 2010] Gita Sahgal, a highly [...]
Driven by thirst, I eyed a fine icicle outside the window, within hand’s reach. I opened the window and broke off the icicle but at once a large, heavy guard prowling outside brutally snatched it away from me. “Warum?” [Why?] I asked him in my poor German. “Hier ist kein warum” [Here there is no [...]
via youtube. Mr. Condell says (0:22 – 0:53): “People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue. But there’s a difference between practicing your religion, which everyone has a right to do, and rubbing your religion in people’s faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what’s happening here. I’d be interested to know just [...]
