Squirrley Islamophobia & The Rapture Rupture (Update)

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Islamophobiapalooza www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Here’s a couple of clips from last night’s Daily Show that capture the absurdities of the current wave of Isalmophobia sweeping the US, and the desire among both Christians and Muslims for bringing this sorry world to an …

Gozer Gingrich v. The Kenyan Anticolonialist

Ghostbuster’s Gozer the Traveller taking the form of the dreaded Gangrene Gingrich Not much time for writing today, so forgive this extensive cut and paste job, which pretty much covers the arguments surrounding 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich‘s latest lurch to the right to capture what’s left of the party’s base, aka the Teabaggers. HuffPo’s Sam Stein has the headline …

Terry Jones — Um, Make That Satan — Is Back In The News

Tempers are flaring again in the backward community Church of the Burning Book, run by Pastor Terry Jones. . .

Afutilestan (IX) XI

On the ninth anniversary of 9/11 (the day that America became unhinged and ushered in a lucrative national security state), we remember the innocent victims and the heroes who lost their lives trying to save them and others. Seven thousand miles away, a hundred thousand American troops and another hundred thousand plus private contractors and NATO troops are supposedly fighting …

Turning Back The Hands Of Time

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Weekend at Burnies www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Debating the nuances of evolutionary religion While the context is the Mad Pastor Terry Jones‘ proposed  burning of the Quran this Saturday, Jon Stewart and John Oliver take a peek under the hood of  what The …

Open Cordoba House (Update)

Mezquita, or Mosque-Church, in Cordoba, Spain If I were to write a script that pitted a protagonist who spent his life building bridges between peoples of diverse faiths and cultures against  a hate filled, bigoted antagonist dedicated to tearing them down,  I couldn’t find a better ‘ripped from the headlines’ duo to base it on than Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf …

Christian Taliban To Burn Qu’rans

Christian Taliban leader Terry Jones burned in effigy in Afghanistan This Saturday on the ninth anniversary of 9/11, members of a small Muslim hating Christian group, ironically called Dove World Outreach Church, plan to burn a pile of Qu’rans to demonstrate their hatred of Islam. It’s not like we haven’t been down this road before. Five years ago reports of …