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The fun-loving gang at Chick Publications have a new one, Allah had no Son, which offers evangelical Christians Chick's comic-book take on the notion that Allah was originally an Arabic Moon god, which, I suppose, makes Islam a sort of failed polytheism.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3651,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3651","url_meta":{"origin":1145,"position":4},"title":"Is ‘Urban Fantasy’ the new ‘Chick Lit’?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Clad in furs, Princess Tamara of the Realm of Snark rides in off the steppes, followed by her horde of sword-swinging commenters. They come to plunder the genre-fiction shelves. And to denounce the \"pussification of vampires.\"","rel":"","context":"In \"books\"","block_context":{"text":"books","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4025,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4025","url_meta":{"origin":1145,"position":5},"title":"The Geography of Metal","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Metal bands expressed in terms of population, from Steve Sailer. 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