Tag: Quran
The Meaning of the Koran
By ROBERT WRIGHT September 15, 2010.
Print: New York Times
Robert Wright tries to show that the Koran is saying the same thing as the Bible.
Queensland lawyer Alex Stewart smokes pages from the Koran and Bible
The Courier-Mail, AAP September 13, 2010.
Print: Adelaide Now
In a stunt posted on YouTube, an Australian burns both the Koran and the Bible, testing pages from each as rolling paper for a marijuana joint.
Afghanistan’s dirty little secret
Joel Brinkley September 1, 2010.
Print: San Francisco Chronicle
For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. In Kandahar, population about 500,000, and other towns, dance parties are a popular, often weekly, pastime. Young boys dress up as girls, wearing makeup and bells on their feet, and dance for a dozen or more leering middle-aged men who throw money at them and then take them home. A recent State Department report called “dancing boys” a “widespread, culturally sanctioned form of male rape.”
Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from perverse interpretation of Islamic law.
No mosque at Ground Zero
Pat Condell June 9, 2010.
Video: YouTube
Pat Condell tells Americans why they should stop the planned building of a Mosque at Ground Zero.
Pakistan: Who’s Attacking the Christians?
Omar Waraich / Gojra August 5, 2009.
Print: Time
A number of factors contribute to growing religious intolerance: a harsh blasphemy law and the increasing presence of radical Islamist organizations
Six Christians killed over Quran claims
Associated Press August 1, 2009.
Print: msnbc
In eastern Pakistan, homes torched over allegations holy book was defiled
Things on which the Bible and Quran agree
by Steve Wells May 5, 2009.
Print: Dwindling in Unbelief (blog)
In previous posts I’ve mentioned a few things that the Bible and Quran agree on. But I thought it might be useful to make a list and include them all here.







