{"id":3417,"date":"2011-11-05T05:38:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T11:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2011-11-05T17:37:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T23:37:31","slug":"those-wacky-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3417","title":{"rendered":"Those Wacky Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We keel you! (Part 241).<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 French magazine fights back after firebombing. <\/a>Cartooni-jihadis also swarmed its Facebook page, leading the group Reporters Without Borders to call on Facebook to “renounce censorship” and let the editors access their own page.<\/p>\n

I give them credit for guts: They plan to republish the “guest-edited by Muhammend” edition.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Arab spring? Let the killing begin! Coptic Christian high school student murdered\u00a0 by his own teacher (with help)<\/a>. Does teacher-education in Egypt include a course on strangling and bludgeoning, or is that learned in continuing-education classes? This sheikh perhaps inspired him.<\/a><\/p>\n

I expect that we are going to see a whole lot of Coptic Christians in North America very soon, the ones who survive.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Toy guns made in China are part of an anti-Islamic plot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Refresher: Aisha\u00a0 <\/a>was the prophet’s 9-year-old wife. And he consummated the marriage right away. But, hey, it’s a different culture, and who are we to judge?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong>An Islamist group whose name means “Western education is forbidden” kills 63 people in Nigeria.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We keel you! (Part 241). \u2022 French magazine fights back after firebombing. Cartooni-jihadis also swarmed its Facebook page, leading the group Reporters Without Borders to call on Facebook to “renounce censorship” and let the editors access their own page. 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