Have you seen the little three-part drama on Jesus and Mo?
It started with Mo doing some web surfing on the evidence for Jesus.
Oh no! It’s too poignant.
The next one is even more poignant.
How does it end? See for yourself.… Read the rest
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Ah the supposedly “liberal” Anglican church.
Peter Jensen, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, is not “liberal.” He demonstrates this in his explanation of the Anglican demand for wifely sumbission in the Sydney Morning Herald.
… Read the restMany of our young people want to be ”wives and husbands” rather than simply ”partners” and in their weddings they come as ”bride and groom” rather than simply two individuals. They believe that expressing these differences, including different responsibilities, makes for a better marriage.
Both kinds of promise are provided for in the Sydney Anglican diocese’s proposed Prayer Book, which has been the subject of commentary this week.
There is nothing new in this – it is the same as the Australian Prayer Book which
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Jane Caro is feeling sympathetic toward men. It must be embarrassing “to see your normally rather pleasant and decorative gender being represented by such a pack of loudmouthed fools.”
Men like Todd Akin for instance. Or the Anglicans.
In what they clearly regarded as a great leap forward into the 15th century, the Sydney Anglicans triumphantly announced that they had changed the female version of their wedding vows so that women no longer promised to obey, but merely to submit.
And the difference is…?
… Read the restThe next bloke to trash the male gender’s reputation was ex-Liberal Party machine man, Grahame Morris. Asked what he thought of the ABC’s 7.30 presenter Leigh Sales’s withering interview with Tony Abbott, he remarked that
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She started the hashtag #destroyingthejoint in homage to Alan Jones and his ilk and its been trending just a little bit.… Read the rest
Alan Jones today accused women of “destroying the joint” as he widened his attack on Julia Gillard to take in other female public figures.… Read the rest
But the headline alone is funny enough -
Lost Lake District fell walkers rescued twice
What, I thought, they were rescued and then ran away and got lost again? And the answer is yes.
Volunteers from three rescue teams were call on Friday when a man aged 73 and his daughter in her 50s failed to turn up at accommodation near Keswick.
Rescuers were called the next night to search for the same man, who had been joined by a second daughter.
Team leader Mike Park said the group lacked basic equipment like maps.
Did they think that’s just how fell walking is done? You tramp along, you get lost, you get rescued, you have a good sleep, you … Read the rest
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More on the zealous imam who tried to frame a child for “blasphemy,” from the BBC.
A Pakistani imam has been remanded in custody, accused of planting pages of the Koran among burnt pages in the bag of a Christian girl held for blasphemy.
They still don’t quite spell out that there were no pages of the Koran in the girl’s trash bag until the imam planted some, but that appears to be what they’re saying.
Prosecutors say Imam Khalid Chishti will himself face charges of blasphemy…
Imam Khalid Chishti allegedly told a witness, after tampering with the girl’s bag, that this was a “way of getting rid of Christians”, a prosecutor said.
He shouldn’t be charged with blasphemy, … Read the rest
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The imam was arrested after his deputy and two others told a magistrate he added pages from the Koran to the burnt pages brought to him by a witness.… Read the rest
The Islamabad police have arrested a prayer leader for fabricating evidence to implicate that 13-year-old girl in “blasphemy.”
… Read the restPolice have arrested prayer leader Khalid Jadoon on charges of fabricating evidence, which he had used to accuse Rimsha Masih of committing blasphemy by allegedly burning Quranic pages, Express Newsreported early on Sunday.
Express News correspondent Qamarul Munawar said that Hafiz Muhammad Zubair, who witnessed Jadoon adding pages of the Quran, recorded a statement with the Rawalpindi magistrate on Saturday.
According to Zubair’s account, he was sitting in Iteqaaf in the mosque when some people handed burnt pages to the prayer leader. After a little while, Jadoon added additional pages of the Quran to the pile.
Zubair, in his statement added
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Richard Bartholomew takes a close look at the ghastly Rao Abdur Raheem, the lawyer intent on persecuting the girl of 13 who may have thrown out a few pages of a primer on the Arabic alphabet.
In December 2010, Raheem created a self-described “lawyers’ forum”, called the Movement to Protect the Dignity of the Prophet; according to the New York Times, the group produced a petition in support of Qadri which was signed by a 1,000 lawyers in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Members of the group also reportedly ”greeted Mr. Qadri’s… court appearances by throwing rose petals”.
Qadri, you’ll remember (yes you will, because I blogged about it a lot!), is the bodyguard who shot Salman Tasser to death … Read the rest
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Jessica Valenti is not much charmed by the Republicans’ fetishization of motherhood and “moms” as a compensation for their attack on women’s actual rights and needs.
… Read the restThese days, “mom” is king. It was perhaps the most frequently used word at the Republican National Convention this past week, where Ann Romney, mother of five, said, “It’s the moms of this nation . . . who really hold this country together.” Paul Ryan said his mother is his role model, and Chris Christie all but called himself a mama’s boy.
Republicans’ efforts to woo women have become fever-pitch pandering as the party tries to undo damage from comments such as Rep. Todd Akin’s remark that a “legitimate” rape victim can’t get
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No matter how many platitudes are thrown around, this is the party that wants
motherhood not to be a choice, but to be enforced.… Read the rest
It’s all the fault of that mouthy woman.
… Read the restWhen misfortune hits a village, there is a tendency in some countries to suspect a “witch” of casting a spell. In Ghana, outspoken or eccentric women may also be accused of witchcraft – and forced to live out their days together in witch camps.
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The witch camps appear to be unique to northern Ghana. But Ghana shares with other African countries an endemic belief in witchcraft with illness, drought, fires and other natural disasters blamed on black magic. The alleged witches are nearly always elderly.
An ActionAid report on witch camps, published this week, says that more than 70% of residents in Kukuo camp were accused and banished after their husbands
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In Ghana, outspoken or eccentric women may be accused of witchcraft – and
forced to live out their days in witch camps.… Read the rest
Fun and games in the LAPD – headline -
Woman dies after genital kick from LAPD officer
Huh. That can’t be right. Kicking women between the legs is just a joke, as any fule kno.
… Read the restThe Los Angeles Police Department is investigating at least five officers after one of them allegedly stomped on a woman’s genitals and she later died of suffocation.
Patrol car video camera captured a struggle between police and Alesia Thomas and several officers on July 22, according to the Los Angeles Times.
LAPD Cmdr. Bob Green admitted to the Times that a female officer had followed through with a threat to kick Thomas in the genitals when she resisted being put into the patrol car.
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A priest in Australia has been charged with hiding child sexual assaults by another priest.
He didn’t just hide them, either, he caned two boys who reported being assaulted.
… Read the restFather Brennan, 74, was arrested and charged yesterday with two counts of misprision of a felony – failing to disclose a serious crime – relating to alleged child sex offences by defrocked priest John Denham against two boys in the late 1970s.
The offences allegedly occurred at St Pius X, in the Newcastle suburb of Adamstown, where Father Denham was a teacher and Father Brennan was school principal.
In addition Father Brennan, of Toronto, south of Newcastle, was charged with assaulting the two boys by caning them after they allegedly reported
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He was also charged with assaulting two boys by caning them after they allegedly reported being sexually assaulted by another priest.… Read the rest
Since we’re talking about it – Las Meninas.
From the Wikimedia Commons.… Read the rest
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State prosecutors charged the miners under the apartheid-era “common purpose”
doctrine.… Read the rest
Five men allegedly shaved off the hair and eyebrows of a young woman and paraded her in the streets of a village in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police officials said Tuesday.
The incident occurred yesterday in Layyah district, 350 km from Lahore, after the married woman was accused of having “illicit” relations with a man.
According to an FIR registered by police, Parveen Bibi, 25, the wife of Sabir Husain, had a quarrel with her sisters-in-law.
Yesterday, her brothers-in-law Muhammad Pervaiz and Muhammad Zafar and three other men shaved off her hair and eyebrows. They then blackened her face and paraded her through the streets of their village.
Five men bullying one woman. How picturesque.… Read the rest
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