Once again, Bollywood film star, Shah Rukh Khan (AKA SRK) has been detained at US immigration on the way to make a speech at Yale University. The first time Khan was detained was in 2009. Khan alleges that this was due to US prejudice toward muslims, and I couldn’t agree with him more. The US [...]

Nimrata, why are you ashamed of being Indian? I look at this picture and you look like a Farangi (If I were using Cantonese, the word that comes to mind is “gweilo”).  Did they lighten your skin up? Did they Photoshop you to change your looks? Sikhism is a noble religion.  Why did you give [...]

There is an interesting interview on today’s Newshour about the rise of the religious right in the US. One of the interviewees points out that the number of evangelical Christians in the US is declining due to its involvement in religion. I’ve found that gunloon comments tend to reinforce my belief that the US needs [...]

This book came to my attention a while back, but it is my latest read.  The title is a bit deceiving since the Lancaster County in question is now known as Lancashire most of the time. Although, some people do call it the County of Lancaster: those people are few and far between.  As I [...]

I came across these courtesy of American Creation and the post How Religious Were the Founding Fathers?: Unfortunately, both videos neglect the likes of John Witherspon and Patrick Henry who were religious types. But even the strongly religious believed that Government had no place in religion.

As salaam alaikum, mate, Keef Halik? OK, I’m not a muslim, but we’ve got a few things in common. First off, we were both born in the USA.  I bet you probably get sick when you hear Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” as well.  On the other hand, that fact makes us both US [...]

Lots of good reasons, but I like this young woman’s I just wish her mouth was in sync with what she’s saying.  She looks like a bad 1960s Japanese cartoon. And she”s cut off at the end of her speech.

Fear Monsters Freedom means being able to brandish a gun. Empathy Monsters And when you accidentally shoot yourself in the foot, to have the health insurance cover to cover it. Fear Monsters Let’s face it: Glenn Beck IS America. Empathy Monsters I’m moving to Sweden. Empathy Monsters Fear Monsters gets their political news from one [...]

When the heroes of biblical times despaired, God would speak to them. “Al Tirah! Fear Not!” God commanded. Good advice then, good advice now A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, Jedi Grand Master Yoda, known for his idiosyncratic object-subject-verb word order, shared this pearl of wisdom. “Fear is the path to [...]

I have become familiar with someone whom I shall call the Botox Bandit rather than her actual name. Mostly because Botox Bandit is the best thing to call this deluded ____. Any more facelifts and she’ll have a beard. But what got this going was that the Botox Bandit was talking about how offended she [...]

This is for a right wing, Islamophobic, racist asshole who needs to take a good look in the mirror. If she thinks that her Christianity isn’t barbaric: she needs to seriously get her shit together. This material shows actual crucifixion in the Philippines Warning: these people are really being crucified with real nails. Or maybe [...]

It’s too bad that Americans are blind to their history and what goes on outside their nation otherwise they wouldn’t ask that question. I wanted to answer that question for Americans, but I am pretty sure that they won’t hear the message. They haven’t heard the message even though it is well published. For example, [...]

I found this to be an interesting post. This seems to apply very strongly to US society where the religious right is trying to make the US a “Christian Nation” rather than the secular one it was founded to be. Religion, according to sociologists like Durkheim, plays a vital role in society. It unites and [...]

In his autobiography, published in 1791, Benjamin Franklin stated that he “did not disapprove” of a meeting place in Pennsylvania that was designed to accommodate preachers of all religions. Franklin wrote that “even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his [...]

The other non-story about Islam which is designed to raise peoples’ anger level, the “Ground-Zero” Mosque, has been pretty much shown to be a right wing media creation (and this). The outrage that Muslims would defile the memory of the WORLD Trade Centre by citizens of the US is such bullshit. I emphasised the word [...]