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Vyckie was on CNN last night, so now more people know something about Quiverfull.
Mick Hartley shares the Times’s reporting on Tom Holland’s talk at the Hay Festival on Tuesday:
Historian Tom Holland gave the inaugural Christopher Hitchens Lecture at the Hay Festival yesterday. From the Times (£):
The taboo of not speaking about the prophet Muhammad has to be broken to deradicalise jihadists, an acclaimed author, historian and film-maker said yesterday.
Tom Holland, who produced Islam: the Untold Story for Channel 4, said that the “moral perfection” of Muhammad had to be questioned and that to do so required non-Muslims to break the “unspoken blasphemy taboo that has taken hold in the West”. [Read more…]
The Sunday Times (South Africa) tells of how Boko Haram is making life hell for the people it doesn’t murder.
In a makeshift hut sheltered from a stinging desert wind, Adama Issaika holds her infant daughter close. Three months ago, she stood helpless as gunmen from the Islamist group Boko Haram lined up her husband and relatives against a mosque and shot them dead.
“My littlest boy, Alirou, reached out and touched his father on the ground,” she recalled. [Read more…]
Bangladesh has banned an Islamist group.
The Ministry of Home Affairs said Monday that the Ansarullah Bangla Team had been banned in response to a request by the police because it has threatened and killed bloggers, writers and activists. Junior Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said the decision was warranted under Bangladesh’s antiterrorism law. Since February, three bloggers who criticized radical Islam have been killed, including Avijit Roy,42, an American citizen of Bangladeshi origin.
And as the horse disappears over the horizon, the blot on the barn door slides firmly home.
The Vatican’s “secretary of state” is sad about the Irish vote.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin says the church needs to do a better job of forcing its warped and antiquated views on every human being.
“The Church must take account of this reality, but in the sense of reinforcing its commitment to evangelization,” he said. [Read more…]
Guest post by Bruce Gorton.
There are relatively few things which anger me more than child abuse.
When I read about Josh Duggar’s abuse of his own sisters, my blood ran cold.
When I read Christians defending it, by saying he was “playing doctor” with his sisters, my blood ran colder.
When I read Christians commenting about how atheists are full of hate, and have nothing but spite for Christians in response to it, my blood stopped running.
It had turned to ice. [Read more…]
Samantha Field at Defeating the Dragons explains how Josh Duggar is getting away with it.
The biggest reason why Josh will get away with sexually assaulting five girls is purity culture. If you’re a regular reader that connection should be apparent right now, as I’ve frequently talked about how my belief in “purity”kept me from talking about my rape for years.
Everything about this situation was not just mishandled, it was covered up. On purpose. That makes any mandatory reporter that knew about this a criminal (at the minimum, the church leadership and the original police officer, who did not file a report), and it makes Jim Bob and Michelle, in the words of Jesus, hypocrites and vipers. White-washed tombs, full of dead men’s bones and rotting corpses. [Read more…]
And yet, there are people even more horrible than the Duggars – people who consider the Duggars “liberal.” Ahahahahahahaha I know, I know. Suzanne Calulu writes about some at Vyckie’s blog.
by Zsuzanna Anderson from her blog Are They All Yours? – My Thoughts on the Duggars
Editor’s note: Zsu’s solution? Kill all pedophiles. No therapy, no prison time, just execute them. What would Jesus say about that? Zsuzsanna’s husband is Pastor Steven L. Anderson, you know, that nice man that called for all homosexuals to be killed last year so that AIDS would be wiped out.
We have for years held and publicly stated that the Duggars are liberal and worldly, even as they are known for being “fundamentalists”. Maybe their beliefs are, but what they are publicly willing to take a stand for is weak and anemic. Example: Never answering whether or not they spank their children, which they obviously did, while telling the world over and over again about their positive approach of praising good behavior. Deceptive at best.
Oh those wicked liberals, pretending they don’t spank their children. Whereas I, wicked liberal that I am, think the problem is that the Duggars hide how awful they are – not that they hide how godly and righteous they are.
