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Draw Muhammad Day was yesterday, here's my contribution:
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This is so awesome, one of Saudi-Arabia's religious Brownshirts, a nasty thug member of the "Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice"*, approached a couple he suspected of violating that countries tyrannical laws against unmarried men and woman interacting like normal human beings. The Brownshirt busybody demanded they confirm their identity to him, then something unexpected happened:
"For unknown reasons, the young man collapsed upon being questioned by the cop.
"According to the Saudi daily Okaz, the woman then allegedly laid into the religious policeman, punching him repeatedly, and leaving him to be taken to the hospital with bruises across his body and face."
Apparently people are becoming fed up with these scumbags, and they are growing bolder in speaking and acting up against tyranny, in no small part thanks to the Internet:
“To see resistance from a woman means a lot,” Wajiha Al-Huwaidar, a Saudi women’s rights activist told The Media Line. “People are fed up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the price for the humiliation they put people through for years and years. This is just the beginning and there will be more resistance.”
“The media and the Internet have given people a lot of power and the freedom to express their anger,” she said. “The Hai’a are like a militia, but now whenever they do something it’s all over the Internet. This gives them a horrible reputation and gives people power to react.”
Source: Saudi Woman Beats Up Religious Cop
* Read this story if you want to know just how evil the Saudi "Morality" cops are, and how courageous this woman's action was:
Saudi police 'stopped' fire rescue
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At least that I know of. At work a colleague was talking about a documentary he he had seen, something about weird worms, and apparently also about Darwin. At the mention of the name this suit from Sales or Administration, or something like that gets all defensive, asks "you don't actually believe in evolution?", etc.
I'm sitting between the two of them and I reply that I sure do believe in evolution and the Creationist suit begins the whole routine:
"Darwin was wrong about lots of things," "the transitional species are missing, even "It's still a theory," I kid you not.
I explain how Darwin was amazingly right about most things, that a theory is a scientific explanation and that the word does not imply uncertainty or lack of evidence, that the evidence for evolution is overwhelming and icludes fossils, genes, phylogeny, etc.
I explained how one human chromosome matches two ape chromosomes and how there was obviously a fussion even in our lineage. He replied to that with the lame line about how that proves a common designer and I answered that it really didn't, it was just a post hoc rationalization and that evolution actually explained and had predicted the similarities.
He finished by offering to lend me a DVD to which I joked hat I hoped it was not Kent Hovind's. He answered "oh, so you know him?"
I've had this kind of RL argument with believers in all kind of paranormal, New Age stuff, but this was my first live Creationist. They are rare here, or at least the know to shut up about it. I'm glad that years of debating Creationists and learning about evolution prepared me to be able to speak up and answer Creationist nonsense when I encountered it.Current Music: Sturmlied-Allerseelen-Edelweiss |
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40 years ago today.
And for anyone who doubts it:
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I'm finally at my new place. It's still a bit of a mess, lots of boxes and not enough furniture, but it's getting there.
I'll post pictures soon.
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May. 7th, 2009 @ 11:30 pm
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Just learned from Atomic_Roses that one of my favorite authors, JG Ballard, has died.
RIP
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