“My attitude toward anti-gay stuff was not to try to bring people along gently, gently, and show people by my evident humanity their callousness. I just wanted to throw something up in peoples’ faces.”

With a bill called “the Preservation of Religious Freedom Act.”

Al-Qaradawi is widely respected throughout the Middle East and has a popular weekly TV show on Islamic law on Al-Jazeera.

Religious laws are religious hatred, intolerance, discrimination and fanaticism turned into state policies. In most parts of Africa, they are a disaster.

These “crimes” usually involve flight from unlawful forced marriage or domestic violence. Some women and girls have been convicted of zina after being raped or forced into prostitution.

She had refused to marry the much older man, but submitted to family pressure; he abused her, she left, her father tied her up and dumped her in the river.

“We write to express our concern at this decision…It appears to cut across two thousand years of Christian tradition and the very clear teaching in the Bible.”

Six weeks after a schoolgirl was reportedly raped in Betul, India, her mother was allegedly shot dead by the accused and his friends in front of the family.

A shaken 14-year-old told police two men came in with guns, pulled pillow cases over some of their heads, and pushed them into a van. Whee, training exercise!

There were at least 360 judicial killings in Iran (up from 252+ in 2010), at least 82 in Saudi Arabia (up from 27+), and at least 68 in Iraq (up from 1+).

“We want people to know we are huge, we’re everywhere, and we are growing.”

Everything.

On many occasions I asked people the blunt question, “What do you find so objectionable about evolution?”  Never once did anyone reply, “It is contrary to the Bible.”

Farooq Murad, Secretary General of the MCB, said, “marriage in Islam is defined as a union between a man and a woman.” Or a man and two women, or three, or four.

A Muslim preacher who said homosexuality was ‘unnatural’ and gays needed to be ‘treated’ has been barred from speaking at an event for the Islamic Society at U of Hertfordshire.

And they do a good job of it, too!

“We have the numbers to be taken seriously,” said Paul Fidalgo, spokesman for CFI, one of the organizations sponsoring the rally. “We’re not just a tiny fringe group.”

“These pages hurt the sentiments of the country’s majority Muslim population and the followers of other religions.”

Some politicians and activists believe it is their ‘God-given-right’ to interfere in the most private of decisions of both women and men.

Their “true stories” are now easily debunked on Snopes, their critiques against gay rights and women’s rights are quickly rebutted across the blogosphere…