Sharia Law: Decidedly Not PC

An Afghan college student downloaded an article and was sentenced to death by religious “scholars” who “lacked the sophistication to understand the difference between downloading an article and writing it.”

Here’s the money quote:

"The judges did not even know the difference between a keyboard and a monitor."

And why should they? As any religious kook will tell you, the modern world is a wicked, wicked place. The Bronze Age, however, was awesome.


Tags: islam, sharia law, fundie follies, wtf

Overheard. . .

…on the way to my polling place this morning:

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to assume that a black man will become president before a woman does—after all, black men were granted the right to vote before women were.

…at the market this afternoon:

The machines didn’t work—I wouldn’t be surprised if all us Democrats just voted for George Bush again!

Tags: super tuesday, barack obama, hillary clinton, 15th amendment, 19th amendment, voting machines