religious objections to construction project

[ajva]

You may have seen this.

The best bit, and the bit that perhaps sums up just why I eventually became an atheist is this:

Hindu hardliners say the project will destroy what they say is a bridge built by Ram and his army of monkeys.

:o)

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[booklectica]

In a very slightly similar vein:

In Schmoozing with Terrorists, published this week, journalist Aaron Klein conducts interviews with several jihadists, during which he asks their opinions on various celebrities.

To summarise: holy warriors seem to have got pretty exercised about that kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears at the 2003 MTV video music awards... Abu Abdullah, a senior member of Hamas's military wing, has a strategy for handling the ladies. "At the beginning," he tells Klein, "we will try to convince Madonna and Britney Spears to follow Allah's way."

...Abdel-Al, a like-minded leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, concurs: "If these two prostitutes keep doing what they are doing, we of course will punish them. I will have the honour - I repeat, I will have the honour - to be the first one to cut off the heads of Madonna and Britney Spears."

(As the article goes on to say, can you technically be anything other than the first person to cut off someone's head?)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2168902,00.html