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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 [...]
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Pakistani Governor Murdered For Opposing Blasphemy Laws
January 4th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
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 »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 »True Religion?
August 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Many a religious person defending her own religious beliefs will argue that a given politically, morally, or intellectually unflattering interpretation of her faith is simply not a true representation of her faith. While the question of who has the right or the adequate means to decisively determine with any rational clarity which competing interpretation of any [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, History, Judaism, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Pseudoscience, Rationalism, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Science, Science, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats Tags: Literalism, Philosophy of Science, Primitivism, Ronald Dworkin 12 Comments »One Nation Indivisible
June 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Just Monday morning I was riding along a Florida Highway staring with irritation at a giant billboard looking just like the one below except it had the giant word “GOD” in the middle contributing to three phrases. Atop and to the left of the word God it said “One Nation Under”, on the left [...]
Obama Acknowledges Two Father Families In Father’s Day Proclamation, Christian Right Flips Out
June 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Secular News Daily reports: As part of his Sunday proclamation, Obama included a reference to “two fathers”: Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian. Tim Wildmon, president of the far-right American Family Association, responded [...]
How The Texas Textbook Standards Got Corrupted
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke People For The American Way have an analysis of the process by which Texas’s textbook standards became tools for rewriting history according to a contemporary right wing religious political viewpoint. Here are just a few glimpses of the changes, both those merely proposed and those actually accepted by the school board, which I had not [...]
Taliban Executes 7 Year Old Boy, Accusing Him Of Spying
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke So despicable. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Islam, Koran, News, Religion, Religious Extremism, Theocracy, Theocrats, World Affairs Tags: Religious Atrocities, Taliban No Comments »Theocratic “Dominionist” Janet Porter Goes Down Swinging
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Janet Porter recently lost her radio program for her increasingly dominionist theology, which aims to further politicize Christianity and Christianize the United States government. It was Christians who opposed her and then Christians who fired her. In a new article comparing secularists to Nazis, she argues that her Christian enemies who oppose dominionism are the [...]
8: The Mormon Proposition
June 7th, 2010 Daniel Fincke 8: The Mormon Proposition, a new movie out in theaters next Friday and available on DVD in July, explores the way that a tax exempt organization has waged a “secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights”: Thanks to Richard for the link. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Film, Free Speech, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Same Sex Marriage, Theocrats, Videos Tags: 8: The Mormon Proposition, California Proposition 8, Documentary, Mormons, Proposition 8, Tax Exemptions for Churches No Comments »Florida Passes Bill Allowing Teachers To Take Part In Student-Led Worship
June 2nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Another legislature with contempt for the 1st Amendment: “I know our football team prays a lot before and after games, and those are always student-led,” [high school junior John Bielby] said. “Once a coach gets involved, it might get more influential or less influential, and it kind of becomes a slippery slope.” That’s why some school [...]
Cynically Insane Demagogue Gives Commencement Speech
May 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Here is Glenn Beck at Liberty University from May 15: Your Thoughts?
Missionaries of Hate
May 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Do American evangelical leaders really oppose Uganda’s “Kill The Gays Bill”? What exactly is the extent of their responsibility for the creation of this mercilessly unjust, religiously motivated law? Mariana van Zeller’s documentary Missionaries of Hate explores the question: Jim Burroway has more interview footage with Ugandan MP David Bahati, who introduced the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill”, including [...]
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Right Wing Politics, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Videos, World Affairs Tags: "Defend the Family", "The Pink Swastika", Adam Yamaguchi, Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009, Christof Putzel, David Bahati, Hillary Clinton, Joyce Meyer, Julius Kaggwa, Kaj Larsen, Kampala, Kill The Gays Bill, Long Jones, Mariana van Zeller, Martin Ssempa, Missionaries of Hate, Neo-Colonialism, Otto Odonga, Rick Warren, Scott Lively, Tammy Baldwin, Uganda, Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Legislation, Vanguard, Vanguard: Missionaries of Hate, Yoweri Museveni No Comments »Mikey Weinstein: Saving The U.S. Military From God
May 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Foreign Policy has a profile of Mikey Weinstein who tirelessly works to combat the efforts of fundamentalist Christians to co-opt the U.S. military for purposes of religious recruitment and religious crusades: Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein shares his hate mail with both friends and strangers the way elderly people show off photos of their grandkids. He [...]
Posted in Fundamentalism, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Rights, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats Tags: Campus Crusade, Campus Crusade for Christ's Military Ministry, Christianity in Military, Marines, Mikey Weinstein, Militaristic Religion, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Muslims in US Military, Navigators, Proselytization In Military, Religion In Military No Comments »Pakistan Blocks Access To Facebook Over “Draw Mohammed Day”
May 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Out of solidarity with the recently threatened South Park creators, tomorrow will be “Draw Mohammed Day”, an international day of defiance and protest by secularists against religious extremists’ attempts to silence free expression through death threats. A Facebook group was created advertising this event. Pakistan considers Facebook‘s willingness to allow such free speech so inappropriate [...]
Posted in Cultural Secularism, Islam, News, News Discussion, Political Secularism, Religious Extremism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Theocrats, World Affairs Tags: Depictions of Mohammed, Draw Mohammed Day, Facebook, Khoram Ali Mehran, Mohammed, Muhammad, Pakistan, South Park No Comments »Saudi Girls Pepper Spray Religious Enforcers
May 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke On the heals of the story we highlighted the other day in which a Saudi Woman attacked a member of the Saudi Commision for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice for harassing her over her clothing, Ashaq Al-Awsat reports another heartening incident along the same lines: Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat- Members of Khobar’s Commission [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Law, News, Religious Extremism, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Theocrats, Women's Issues, World Affairs Tags: Asharq Al-Awsat, Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Dr. Mohamed bin Marshood al-Marshood, Khobar, Saudi Arabia No Comments »Saudi Woman Beats Up “Virtue Cop”
May 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The Jerusalem Post reports: When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried couples illegally socializing, he probably wasn’t expecting much opposition. But when he approached a young, 20-something couple meandering through the park together, he received an unprecedented whooping. A member of the Commission for the [...]
Patrick Henry College
May 16th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A look inside a college devoted to creating theocratic American political leaders and soldiers: Your Thoughts?
Sarah Palin And Her Naked Theocratic Intentions
May 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I keep wanting to give a thorough response to every bit of ignorance, revisionism, corruption, self-contradiction, condescension, unfounded persecution complex, hypocrisy, and philosophical crudity in this video, coming not only from Sarah Palin but also from Bill O’Reilly, but each line from both of them is so packed with them, that I keep getting overwhelmed [...]
Poisoned For Going To School?
April 26th, 2010 Daniel Fincke First it was malicious misogynists attacking Afghani school-going girls with acid in their faces, now it appears they’re being poisoned: Local doctors suggested the Taliban may be the perpetrators of possible poison attacks. At least 88 girls and teachers became ill in separate cases at three girls’ schools. The cause of the illnesses was not known, [...]
Posted in Feminism, Islam, Religious Extremism, Theocrats, Women's Issues Tags: Acid Attacks, Afghan Human Independent Rights Commission, Afghanistan, Dr. Mohammad Qasam Khamoosh, Kunduz province, Poison, Religious Misogyny, Syed Karim Talash, Taliban, Terrorism, Violence Against Women No Comments »Thomas Jefferson vs. Sarah Palin
April 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Keith Olbermann compares the two great American leaders’ views of God and state: Your Thoughts?
He Came From A Very Good Christian Family
December 1st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Maurice Clemmons, the murderer shot and killed in Seattle today years ago had his sentence famously commuted by Governor Mike Huckabee, who we all know makes no bones about his desire to base U.S. law on his perception of God’s law. Here’s some of his Christian judgment about who deserves mercy under such laws: Clemmons [...]
Ross Douthat Claims Arguments Against Gay Marriage Lose Because They’re Just “Too Abstract”
November 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Ross Douthat half admits to the intellectual bankruptcy of his opposition of to same-sex marriage and then tacitly demonstrates it with his pathetic reply when pushed to address the topic last month at the New School: “I am someone opposed to gay marriage who is deeply uncomfortable arguing the issue in public.” Mr. Douthat indicated [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Atheism, Christianity, Civil Rights, Faith, Featured, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, News, News Discussion, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Same Sex Marriage, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Theocrats Tags: New School University, Russ Douthat, The New York Times No Comments »Encouragements Of Imprecatory Prayers Against Obama
November 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So insidious: Over the past few days, a Biblical verse has reportedly topped the google trends charts. It is also turning up in bumper stickers and tee shirts across the country. It reads: “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8” But what do you see when you look up that Psalm? “May his days be few; may [...]
Maine And Abominations To God
November 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Blaghag is impressed with Maine’s biblical stance on homosexuality and can’t wait for them to follow through on the implications of these verses from Leviticus and Deuteronomy next: 9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, [...]
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