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Last week a heinous, conscience-shocking injustice occurred when the brave, openly gay, Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato (pictured above) was murdered shortly after a Ugandan newspaper featured him on the cover with the headline: “100 PIctures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak” and the words “Hang Them” next to it. The AP photo of the newspaper [...]
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TOP Q: Where Are The Lines Between Peaceable Death Penalty Advocacy And Criminal Incitement?
January 29th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Bible, Bible, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Free Speech, Free Speech, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Today's Open Philosophical Question (TOP Q) 
Tags: Death Penalty, Hate Speech 
1 Comment »Daily Hilarity: Radical Muslim Snacks
January 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'ThreatDown – Radical Muslim Snacks, Flying Robot Drones & Coked Up Vacuums<a> www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive Your Thoughts>?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Islam, Islam, Parody, Parody, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Satire, Satire, Videos No Comments »Pakistani Governor Murdered For Opposing Blasphemy Laws
January 4th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Enraging news: Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — The governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province was assassinated by his own security guard Tuesday, according to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, apparently because he spoke out against the country’s controversial blasphemy law. The security guard was arrested, Malik said. The shooting occurred at Islamabad’s Kohsar Market, which is frequented by [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Free Speech, Free Speech, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocrats, Theocrats Tags: Blasphemy Laws, Pakistan, Rehman Malik 1 Comment »On Gary Bauer’s Claims That American Muslims Get Better Treatment Than American Christians
December 31st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Gary Bauer makes the ludicrous case that left wing “elites” and Muslims have a common cause of destroying Judeo-Christian culture and so have conspired together to make America more hospitable to Muslims than to Christians: If Muslims were treated like Christians, Muslims would be mocked by late night TV talk show hosts and lampooned in [...]
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Religion, Religion, Theocrats, Theocrats Tags: Gary Bauer, Tolerance 4 Comments »On The Uses And Abuses Of Religion In Art: The Lines Between Expression, Tolerance, Respect, Fear, and Torture
December 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Gary Bauer thinks Christians aren’t treated as well as Muslims in America because there are greater quantities of art works which use Christian symbols in ways that offend Bauer’s sensibilities than there are ones that use Muslim symbols in ways that would offend Muslim sensibilities: in a variety of contexts, American Muslims are treated better [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Featured, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Islam, Islam, Koran, Koran, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics Tags: Blasphemy, Christianity, Cruelty, Danish Cartoons, Gary Bauer, Mockery, Muslims, Offending Religious Sensibilities, Respect vs. Fear, South Park, South Park Depicting Mohammed, Tolerance, Torture 3 Comments »How Christian Beliefs And Values Are No More Creditable With America’s Founding Than Islamic Ones
December 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Gary Bauer displays a hilarious sense of grievance in his article “If Christians Were Treated Like Muslims”. I want to take a few posts to fully dissect all of its self-absorbed, phony, distorted victimhood. The first three sentences merited a full post themselves, so here we go. Bauer starts out with the following falsehood: Few [...]
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, Islam, Koran, Koran, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Religion, Religion, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats Tags: American History, Declaration of Independence, Dr. Gary Bauer, Gary Bauer, Intolerance, Persecution Complex, Tolerance 2 Comments »Projecting US Pathologies Onto Muslims
October 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Glenn Greenwald offers a mirror for those of us who worry about the elements of theocratic expansionism which are enough a part of the Koran and early Islamic history to be considered potentially dangerous forms of the religion itself on its own terms (and not just of its appropriation by political agents): I’m always amazed [...]
Islam And Gays
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Some perspectives, none good: If you can find some pro-gay statements from Muslims, I’d be delighted to run them. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Islam, LGBTQAA, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates Tags: Dawah, Khalid Yaseen No Comments »ZJ On “The Ground Zero Mosque”
August 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke 5 of the best minutes of discussion on this topic anywhere on the internet: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Islam, Islam, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion Tags: zinnia jones, zj, ZJemptv 1 Comment »Olbermann Details All The Evidence Of Obama’s “Secret Muslim Faith”
August 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The depth of the conspiracy is so chilling: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Islam, Islam, Political Satire, Political Satire, Politics, Politics Tags: George W. Bush, Keith Olbermann, Secret Muslim No Comments »Hitchens On Crass Responses To The Proposed Ground Zero Islamic Center
August 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Noting the shadiness and creepiness of public remarks by Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the plan to build a mosque blocks away from the former site of the Twin Towers, Christopher Hitchens is nonetheless repulsed by the tactics adopted by his opposition. Starting with Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, he writes: [...]
Posted in Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, History, Islam, Islam, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: 9/11 Victims, Abraham Foxman, Andalusia, Cordoba House, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, María Rosa Menocal, mosque, Mosque Near Ground Zero, Newt Gingrigh, Spain, The Ornament of the World, The Weekly Standard 1 Comment »NonStampCollector Issues A Challenge To Monotheists
August 7th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In a nutshell, the question is, what proof is there that there is one god and not multiple? Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Christianity, Christianity, Islam, Islam, Judaism, Judaism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Religion, Religion Tags: Monotheism, NonStampCollector 2 Comments »France To Ban Burqa-Like Veils
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke EuroNews.net writes: A law banning the wearing of a full Islamic veil in public in France has been adopted by the lower house of parliament. The ruling UMP and the New Centre party voted for the ban on the burqa or niqab while the Socialists, Communists and Greens abstained. The law goes to the upper house in [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Feminism, Feminism, Free Speech, Free Speech, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, News, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Women's Issues, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Burqa Ban, France, French Burqa Ban, Veil No Comments »“Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” Advocates Under Threat
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The New York Daily News reports: A CHARISMATIC terror leader linked to the botched Times Square car bomb has placed the Seattle cartoonist who launched “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day” on an execution hit list. Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki – the radical who has also been cited as inspiring the Fort Hood, Tex., massacre and the [...]
Arrested For Being A Single Man In A Shopping Mall
July 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Saudiwoman writes: I have to tell you what I was up to last night. My very dear friend Tine has finished her time here in Saudi and is leaving soon. Unfortunately, being cooped up in expat compounds; she has never had a chance to see muttawas in action. These lions of Saudi morality are a [...]
Posted in Islam, Islam, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Morality Police, Muttawa, Saudi Arabia No Comments »Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Cases Against Islam And For America
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke “Islam” means “submission to the will of Allah”, a doctrine which requires from the individual to become a slave. In my view, it’s bad. Islam limits the imagination to what you can find in the Koran and to follow in the example of the prophet Mohammed. I think that’s bad and that’s what keeps people [...]
Posted in Islam, Politics, Religious Extremism, Videos Tags: Avi Lewis, Ayaan Hirsi Ali No Comments »Threatened With Death Penalty, Maldivian Skeptic Of Islam Recants
July 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke A while back I highlighted the story of a Maldivian man who was attacked by a crowd for expressing his lack of belief in Islam during the Q&A session by a the visiting Indian scholar Dr. Zakir Naik. Maldives is a state where it is illegal to not believe. Now, via Atheist Media Blog, here’s video [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, News, News Discussion, News Discussion, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Skepticism, Skepticism, Theocracy, Theocracy, Videos, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Maldives, Mohamed Nazim, PZ Myers, Zakir Naik 3 Comments »A Dictatorship Of Relativism?
July 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke BBC Radio 4 analyzes the pope’s catchphrase, “a dictatorship of relativism”, used for describing the secular West. Here’s the program description: The idea that no one has a monopoly on the truth seems to be fixed in the modern Western psyche. But it’s an idea that is under attack. Pope Benedict claims that we are [...]
Posted in Authority, Authority, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Cutural Criticism, Ethics, Ethics, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Metaethics, Metaethics, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Ann Widdecombe, Europe, Leslie Green, Marcello Pera, Moral Aboslutism, Moral Relativism, Rowan Williams, Ruzwan Mohammed, Simon Blackburn, Stephen Wang, United Kingdom No Comments »Contrasting Muslim And Western Psychologies: The Locus Of Control
July 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Nicolai Sennels spent several years working with criminal Muslims in Copenhagen (where as of March 2009 “70% of the prison population in the Copenhagen youth prison consists of young man of Muslim heritage.”) He writes the following about the different ways that Westerners and Muslims view the locus of control: There is another strong difference between the [...]
Posted in Islam, Islam, Psychology, Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology, Sociology, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Copenhagen, Denmark, Islam In Europe 8 Comments »Daily Hilarity: Children’s Guide To Religion
June 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Thanks to Das for the hilarious find: “Sometimes I think God drinks my tears and pees them back on my life.” Your Thoughts?
Penn Jillette Again On The Difference Between Muslims And Christians In Taking Criticism
June 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I already highlighted Penn Jillette’s Vanity Fair interview in which he praised Christians for being better at taking criticism than Muslims, but this quote from his new Las Vegas Weekly interview, which I found via Boing Boing and Reddit, conveys his feelings as much as his thoughts, and those feelings are both depressing on the one [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Free Speech, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: Bullshit, Las Vegas Weekly, Penn and Teller, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Penn Jillette, Scientology 2 Comments »Spanish Senate Votes To Ban The Burqa
June 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke The New York Times reports: MADRID — In a significant escalation of Spain’s debate over how to handle radical Islam, the Senate on Wednesday narrowly and unexpectedly approved a motion to ban Muslim women from wearing in public the burqa or other garments that cover the whole body. The vote, 131 to 129, was another setback [...]
“The Law Of God Which Is Above Human Rights”
June 20th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Any religion, or interpretation of a religion which takes the view that the law of God can be above human rights cannot be immune to violating human rights. In this case, we have an Iranian cleric calling for unveiled women to be treated like criminals as though they were drug traffickers, robbers, or terrorists: Guardian [...]
Posted in Islam, News, News Discussion, World Affairs Tags: Ayatollah Ahmad Alam Hoda, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, Iran No Comments »Bruce Bawer: Multiculturalism, Freedom of Speech and Appeasing Islam
June 20th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Bruce Bawer is a gay liberal and the author of Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom and While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within. And below is a powerful speech. If you don’t have time for the whole thing, at least make time for the first part: The description of the video [...]
Muslims Illegally Shutting Down Streets Of Paris For Prayer
June 20th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Last week we mentioned that a proposed street festival of pork and wine protesting Muslims praying in the streets was prohibited from occurring in Paris. Here is footage of such prayer sessions, which apparently are meant to be an act of civil disobedience: Thanks to Tony for the link. Your Thoughts?
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