The Daily Profaner: Putting Snark First, Myths Last!

Earlier this month Georgia Judge Keith Rollins put on a hood and burned a cross sent a muslim woman to jail for ten days for wearing her hijab in the courtroom, even though the Court dresscode specifically permits headwear worn “for religious purposes”. The woman was released in less than a day, as Muslim activists acted quickly to free her. In order to prevent any future spastic bigot fits, the judge and all City Court staff in Alanta will undergo sensitivity training in a new program called DON’T BE A RACIST HICK!

[AP] [Image from Jay Spears music video SMAK DEM CHRISTIANS DOWN]

This time of year a million angry Christians take up arms and scream about secularism destroying sacred traditions. In Egypt, however, they have a real problem with religion destroying the sacred institutions of their culture - and by sacred institutions, I mean bars.

Once upon a time, Downtown Cairo had a bustling, alcohol-soaked nightlife and a fairly tolerant, liberal society - except for it’s monarchical rule.  In the years since the monarchy’s ousting, the country has become increasingly restrictive religiously due to more and more people turning to the strict brand of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia. These newer, more devout Muslims are gunning for Cairo’s right to drink.

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Anjem Choudary, a Muslim lawyer and preacher, has used the grand mosque of the Internet (which can easily seat millions) to give the baby Jesus a major Islamic titty-twister:

“Every Muslim has a responsibility to protect his family from the misguidance of Christmas, because its observance will lead to hellfire. Protect your Paradise from being taken away – protect yourself and your family from Christmas.”

We must heed these most holy words; too long have we let our families engage in terrible, sinful activities like “decorating the house, purchasing Christmas trees or having Christmas turkey meals.”  Clearly we must banish this evil from among us - our children should be raised form the cradle to cock-punch mall Santas on sight for the glory of Allah.

[The Daily Telegraph via Pharyngula]

It’s the 60th birthday of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights!  The document is a profound, positive declaration of human rights - 1948’s UN gets an A for effort.  However, the document is far from complete, and is not serving to adequately address the human rights issues of the 21st century.

For example, article 16:3 sates: “The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.”  Right now - under a banner that sounds eerily like the Declaration’s language - the Vatican is opposing a UN resolution that calls for a global decriminalization of homosexuality.  

The Declaration represents the Human Rights concerns of the western world in the post war/early cold war era.  It was a time when the untidy people were forced into the shadows, a time when women were trapped in the home,  and a time when LGBTQ people were shuttered in the closet.  It was a time when racism was accepted, a time when segregation weighed on the American South, and a time when the rampant oppression of women in the Muslim world never crossed the minds of the powerful straight European men who wrote the Declaration.  These men were concerned with the repressiveness of a one party state, the horrors of genocide, and in general sense protecting the democratic, capitalistic system of the West.  

It is a tremendous landmark in the struggle for human rights, but it is not enough.

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