Well, there you have it. I have no idea if this really bypasses the law or not but it certainly illustrates that Muslim women won’t be doing away with their burquas or niq?bs just because they’re not allowed on the street with them.
(via The Friendly Atheist)
(via Dangerous Minds)
From Raw Story:
Holy day Internet blackout on ministry websites fuels secular, religious tensions
Israeli government offices that provide a wide array of public services are pulling the plug on online payments on the Jewish Sabbath and holidays, creating a potential new source of friction between the religious and secular in the Jewish state.
Ultra-Orthodox Cabinet ministers are leading the charge to enforce the religious prohibition on spending money on Jewish holy days. But for non-religious residents, tourists and foreign workers, the planned ban joins two leading ills of Israeli life — red tape and religious restrictions — in a marriage of inconvenience.
(via J-Walk)
From Black and WTF.
From Reason:
And the intellectual case against O’Donnell is overwhelming. A précis for those who have avoided the Delaware drama: O’Donnell lied about attending a Master’s degree program at Princeton University; claimed that her political enemies are creeping in the bushes outside her house; is opposed to the sinister habit of masturbation; is a supporter of the “ex-gay” movement, despite the inconvenient revelation that her former staffer Wade Richards “returned” to homosexuality and denounced those peddling “cures” for his sexuality; filed a $6 million lawsuit against the conservative group ISI for “gender discrimination”; was denounced by her former campaign manager as a “fraud” who uses campaign donations to pay rent and utility bills; and has implied that her Republican opponent is gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
As the former head of the clumsily named Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT), O’Donnell was the Tipper Gore of the 1990s, attending lewd and lascivious rock concerts just to tell stoned, Satanist teenagers that they were going to hell. “Walking through the crowd I also noticed more pentagrams than crosses around the teenage necks,” she gasped. At a 1997 music festival in Washington, D.C., the Catholic killjoy “distributed thousands of brochures with information on the failure rate of condoms, on AIDS, on sexually transmitted diseases, abortion, pornography and the movement of former homosexuals.”
If you’re a normal person, you’ve always wondered why Amazing Larry was wearing a feathered multi-colored mohawk that day in PeeWee’s basement. A Sex Pistols fan? A racist who openly mocks Native Americans? A kinky costume for Pee Wee’s blue film festival after the meeting?
Turns out the setup was cut out of the film:
And now you know.
(via PoeTV)