NZ: What happens in Antioch…

…doesn’t happen in New Zealand!

US: For the lunatic in YOUR life…

Three degrees of hold in every can!

Climate control shampoo.

Swaziland: High-flying witches brought down to earth

HIGH-FLYING witches face arrest and a heavy fine if they break new laws, authorities in Swaziland have said.

US: God is a terrorist, says Bachmann

Drones are being targeted on Heaven as we speak…

Turkey: ‘I felt freedom when I took off my headscarf’

Shame about the death threats, though.

US: Second child of faith-healing couple dies

A Philadelphia couple — serving 10 years’ probation for the 2009 death of their toddler after they turned to prayer instead of a doctor — has violated their probation now that another of their children has died.

Ireland: Foetuses – 1: Women – 0

The Irish Catholic Church nails its blood-soaked colours to the mast.

Global: The huge scale of the Islam problem

Jerry Coyne passes on a report about just how many Muslims worldwide are opposed to justice, tolerance and an open society.

Chile: Baby burned alive for being ‘Antichrist’

Chilean police on Thursday arrested four people accused of burning a baby alive in a ritual because the leader of the sect believed that the end of the world was near and that the child was the antichrist.

Global: It’s not ‘Islamophobic’…

…to mistrust people who want to kill you.

Afghanistan: Woman killed for ‘dishonouring’ family

The public killing of a woman in Afghanistan is further proof that the authorities are still failing to tackle the shocking levels of gender-based violence in the country, Amnesty International said today.

Australia: Melbourne University condones Islamic gender segregation

The Left is furious when private clubs exercise that freedom….

US: Celebrity idiots, part MCCXLVIII…

Cupping therapy is an ancient alternative medicine in which a local suction is created on the skin.

Nigeria: I want to pray for you…

…can I have your underwear?

US: You probably knew this, but…

Yes, the Boston bombers were radical Muslims.

Australia: Female guru recommends self-immolation

Well, what else does ‘ignite your own spirit’ mean?

Nigeria: 185 killed in gun battle with Islamic activists

Fighting between Nigeria’s military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation’s far north-east, officials say, as insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers sprayed machine-gun fire into neighbourhoods filled with civilians.

SMH

US: Irony alert: when a young woman warns her church that it’s driving young people away…

…the church drives her away.

El Salvador: Want an abortion?

Then die, witch, die!

Iraq: Bomb kills 27, including children

The latest bombing struck at 10pm on Thursday in the west Baghdad suburb of Amriyah, leaving 27 dead and more than 50 others wounded, security and medical officials said.

UK: Are Islamists really THAT stupid?

No, it’s not the toilets

Apparently.

US: Cultists at play

Ain’t it the truth?

US: When he was good, he was very, very good..

PZ Myers, on the ‘Islamophobia backlash’:

When the popular culture has been howling for centuries in protest at any expression of the idea that there is no god, you don’t get to use the word “backlash” any more, OK? You don’t get to pretend that this nonsense is something new. It’s just a “lash”, yet another in the commonplace droning torrent of complaint. And they don’t have a single original idea in that complaint, either.

Pharyngula.

Israel: Women with gall in shawl Wall brawl

A long-running battle over worship at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest shrine, has been rejoined as Israeli police arrested five Jewish women who wore prayer shawls at a morning service, contrary to Orthodox practice enforced at the site.

UK: Karen Armstrong tells us how to find God…

…Just keep talking till you run out of nonsense.

UK: Margaret Thatcher on global warming

Clear-sighted as usual.

Australia: Protecting a cultural right to abuse

Yes, there are reasons why people from tribal cultures move out, go to cities and emigrate to the West. They’re not just being silly.

Nepal: Woman beaten and abused for ‘witchcraft’

Nepal’s women’s commission has condemned an attack in the remote west of the country on an elderly woman accused of witchcraft.

Afghanistan: Six more deaths

A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east.

Israel: Victims of the Nazis? No, only women!

The Sisterhood has covered Haredi exclusion of women from the Israeli public sphere for some time now. When it comes to the removal of women’s images from public view, we’ve seen the disappearance of women from advertisements; the photoshopping of female leaders like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton out of news photos; the blurring of women’s and girls’ faces on memorial notices and even the erasing of a pair of women’s shoes from an innocuous photo of a family’s shoe drawer.