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Just a heads up, the link regarding same sex marriage in Nigeria is listed twice, and there’s no link about pangolins, despite their being mentioned in the title of this post.

Well, she’s dead now. I’m…numb. I do hate that her parents trotted her out for ‘tribal sovereignty’ politics. I mean, it’s bad enough to have wannabes doing this shit (and the ‘doctor’ in question was not an Indian, and is actually an ND from, where else?, Florida), but to have real Indians do it too?

From Canada…

In the researchers’ defense, I totally predicted more scandals about involuntary experimentation on ndn kids

It should be noted that Dieudonné is a Nazi sympathizer. In fact, we should have a discussion about the connection between Islamic theocracies and white supremacists. David Duke has a show on Press TV.

Yeah, Dieudonné seems like a real asshat.

Jon, what has the link you posted got to do with Dieudonne? Was that a separate point or am I missing something again? (like how to get e acute out of this keyboard in the dark…)

I’m trying to decide if I care whether Egypt banned the Moses movie because the movie said the Red Sea parted due to a miracle or because it said the opposite. The only option not open to the ambiguous, poorly written article is the most likely one that the Red Sea never parted at all.

Hmm. The actual, ya-know, BOOK of Exodus doesn’t mention the pyramids at all. A reason that some cast doubt on the whole story, though the ‘land of Goshen’ was where the short-lived Hyksos dynasty was located.

AND. The bible suggests that three days of high winds ‘parted’ the body of water. No earthquake.

The exodus story is really odd. Certainly if you study theology in Germany you learn that it’s basically rubbish. Though it’s highly possible that some people who later moved to the near East did at some time live in Egypt, there’s no evidence to suggest a large exodus. Also the Egyptians didn’t really have slaves.

Oh, and the great pyramids were built some 1500 years before Moses (if he ever lived).

Actually Moses is a part of an Egyptian name. Mws in Egyptian means “born” or “born of”, rather like the Scottish “mac” or “mc”.

Erdogan’s also claimed Muslims discovered America. But neither of those things piss me off as his letting ISIS on Turkish soil. There’s a reason I called him our century’s answer to Quisling.

Oh, on schools for husbands, what’s interesting is, something similar is being done on Rosebud by the same guy who led the honor song after KXL was defeated.

Daniela,

I personally wonder if anyone has pointed out to Erdogan that there are feminists who actually are mothers. That’s something I know. I guess feminist women must really all hate motherhood if a huge number of them are currently mothers, and expected mothers.

Misogyny like racism, makes you say incredibly stupid things.

Well, the girl has a point. No, not about rejecting mainstream medicine. What I mean is, she has a point about consent (which, of course, forcing her to take chemo would be a violation of). Though making Indians look like fools in the process is bad.

Seems like a pretty cut-and-dried case of medical ethics. Something like vaccines, where noncompliance is demonstrably harmful to others as well, is far muddier, yet we still bend head-over-heels to accommodate antivaxxers.

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I’m going to throw this article in as it looks new

Iraqi Yazidi girl tells of captivity in IS group

http://news.yahoo.com/iraqi-yazidi-girl-tells-captivity-group-104216474.html

The Chile article is in spanish…

“It is said among the Kurds that their female fighters inspire great fear in the ISIS militants, who believe that if they are killed by a woman they will not go to heaven.”

I have heard variants on this before, and heard them debunked. Usually along the lines of “smear terrorists with pig fat before killing them, so they know they are going to hell”, and invariably it turns out upon actual research that no, Islamic theology does not offer any convenient way to send someone else to hell. Is this more of the same?

Daniela,

Note about the “Masculinist India” article. The link takes you to the middle of the page for some reason. Anyone who wants to read it, should scroll to the top of the page and than start reading. I don’t know why that happened.

Anyway thanks for helping expose that sick organization. I also think we should David Futrelle for keeping up the good work fighting people like this.

Daniela,

Turns out that if you “#more-13334” at the end of the link, it fixes the problem and takes you to the top the page like its supposed to.

Masculinist India: A woman-hating "Men's Rights" group even more extreme than its Western inspirations

India enjoys pointing out that their probe (its name means “Mars vehicle in Hindi, how great is it that they just called their Mars vehicle “Mars vehicle”?) cost less to make than Gravity, as well they should, but I’d like to point out that NASA’s new Mars probe cost 9 times as much as India’s. I know NASA’s project is much larger and it only makes sense it would cost more, that just amuses me given how they happened within days of each other.