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"Have you not seen those who repay the grace of God with unbelief...in hell shall they burn." 14:29

                                                                 German police arrested Arid Uka in the murder of two American soldiers kil...

                                                                     We interrupt this reading of the Koran with a news flash from NPR, Nat...

"Be they men or women, the hypocrites are all alike. They enjoin what is evil, forbid what is just, and tighten their fists." 9:6...

"Believers, know that the idolaters are unclean." 9:27

"How can you trust them? If they prevail against you, they will respect neither agreements nor ties of kindred. They flatter you with ...

"God and his apostle are under no obligation to the idolaters." 9:1

"The basest creatures in the sight of God are the faithless who will not believe..." 8:51

"Their prayers at the sacred house are nothing but whistling and clapping of hands.’Taste then the scourge, because you disbelieved....

“Who is more wicked than the man who denies the revelations of god and turns away from them?" 6:157

"They follow nothing but idle fancies and preach nothing but falsehoods." 6:110

The previous three posts are from the first page  of the Koran. On nearly every page that follows there is similar castigation of everything...

"When they meet the faithful, they declare: 'we, too, are believers.' But when alone with their devils they say to them: 'w...

"And when they are told: 'believe as others believe,' they reply: 'are we to believe as fools believe?' It is they who...

"There is a sickness in their [unbelievers] hearts which God has aggravated: they shall be sternly punished for the lies they tell....

"As for the unbelievers...grievous punishment awaits them."  

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Google, I don't want Arab singles ads. Take them down. I need a break. 

I love Mr. Wang Yi's writing and asked him for permission to publish this email. I also love the Chinese aphorisms. Mr. Yi and I have be...

                                                                     Sheik Abdul Majid al-Zindani, above, described by The New York Times a...

                                            That is the opening sentence in the Koran. J Now I’m going to show how easy it would be for I...

There's this "European Heaven/European Hell" joke. There are many variations on it. This is a simple one: European Heaven Is...

                                                                     The caption to this photograph, from Reuters, in The New York Times , ...

                                                                      "A Revolution is not a dinner party."                     ...

                                                                     "'So far, Tahrir is my favorite place,' said Mr. [Aart] B...

                                                                         Shoulder in sling I went to Tahrir Square yesterday where New York...

It was the policy of the United States government under President George W. Bush that democracy was the answer to what ailed Iraq. The Unite...

                                                                "This is the Arab world's Berlin moment. The authoritarian wall ha...

"[The rebels] ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their...

                                               If Not Now, When. The message is "clear as a bell" according to Thomas L. Friedm...