GYMNAST Farah Ann Abdul Hadi blitzed the Southeast Asian Games last week, bringing home six medals, including two gold, for Malaysia.
Not that the country’s religious hardliners noticed the impressive tally ”” they were too busy looking at the 21-year-old’s vagina.
Federal MP Jamil Khir Baharom announced a review of “Islamic compliance for clothing used for sports and other fields” following complaints the shape of Abdul Hadi’s “aurat” (genitalia) could be seen through her standard-issue purple leotard.
A Brisbane hospital can perform a blood transfusion on a young Jehovah's Witness boy despite his parents objecting on religious grounds, a Queensland judge has ruled.
The seven-year-old was referred to the Brisbane facility from a regional hospital in 2008 over a case of jaundice, before his significant liver disease was uncovered.
He will require a life-saving transplant in the next two or three years and has been placed on a waiting list, however such a procedure is likely to involve administering blood products.
The boy's parents objected to this on the basis that they believe blood is sacred and to agree to accept a blood transfusion would be to infringe a biblical injunction to abstain from blood referred to in the book of Acts.
"They are, however, obviously concerned about their son and for his health and are willing to agree to a liver transplant," Supreme Court Justice James Douglas said in a written judgment.
"They are anxious in that context to receive an assurance that every appropriate and reasonable blood conservation measure be used before the doctors resort to the administration of a blood transfusion."
Under Queensland's Transplant and Anatomy Act, medical staff can administer blood products without the parents' consent if they believe it would save a child's life.
Religion is Crazy.....
Judge rules on Jehovah's blood transfusion
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/judge-rules-on-jehovahs-blood-transfusion-20150625-ghxsfp.html
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — The IRS is getting pressured to begin cracking down on televangelists following a John Oliver segment on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight.”
Oliver blasted televangelists this past Sunday for what he called “seed faith,” where they tell donors they will reap the rewards by giving money to them.
“They preach something called the prosperity gospel which argues that wealth is a sign of God’s favor and donations will result in wealth coming back to you. That idea sometimes takes the form of seed faith – the notion that donations are seeds that you will one day get to harvest,” Oliver said in the segment.
He continued, “The argument is ‘sow your money into the ground, you will reap returns multiple times over,’ except as an investment you’d be better off burying your money in the actual ground because at least that way there’s a chance your dog may dig it up and give it back to you one day.”
People have donated millions to televangelists through the “prosperity gospel,” believing by giving money, God will help them.
“They keep trying to send more money, more money, more money so they can get healed,” Trinity Foundation president Ole Anthony, whose group investigates religious fraud, told CBS News.
Anthony explained to CBS News that televangelists are able to receive millions because the IRS has turned a “blind eye” to their tax-exempt churches.
“A few years ago, the IRS named Scientology a church. Since that happened, anybody can call themselves a church,” Anthony said.
CBS News reports the IRS only conducted three church audits from 2013 to 2014 after suspending them completely from 2009 to 2013.
11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
How would a moral God come to the conclusion that a people working together was a bad thing. Why is nothing being beyond their achievement a bad thing? There is nothing in the bible that says the people's motives were bad. So they wanted to build a high tower. I think everyone would agree there was no way the people could build a tower to the heavens. If anything, it sounds like a fearful God, fearing his creation may one day surpass him.
So a God who is moral, set about breaking up a people of one voice and in the end setting up the causes of many of the wars we've endured over the millennia.
The people who were attacked by the Christians didn't have a God of their own, so Mohammed had to invent one to give his own people belief that they had a powerful entity on their side.
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He said, although it was sad and should not happen, the Hajj pilgrims were prepared for the possibility of a stampede.
"On the one hand, it is very sad to hear that some 700 people have lost their lives, but on the other hand, any Muslim who goes to Mecca is prepared for the ultimate," Mr Patel said.
"It's unfortunate for the families that somebody they love has passed away, but the ultimate is that if you have the unfortunate that you pass away in Mecca then you go straight to heaven," Mr Patel said.
"So that's one of those things that there is the silver lining.
"Something like this, you take it in your stride.
"If it happens, it happens, and if you're lucky or unlucky, depending on which way you look at it."
How dare they impose this on Australian manufacturers.
I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT READ.
DICK SMITH'S MESSAGE TO ISLAM
There should be more leading Australians like Dick, he gets to the bottom of important issues and anything
that amounts to selling out Australia is very important. Please pass this on and on and on.
A WARNING FROM DICK SMITH:
I would have thought Dick Smith would know how this game is play?
If he want to sell to Muslims, stick a Halal logo on it. Just like he stick the Australian Flag on his Aussie Mite...
If sticking both flag and Halal won't sell properly, then separate the shipment, or pick which market makes more money.
How dare they impose this on Australian manufacturers.
I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT READ.
DICK SMITH'S MESSAGE TO ISLAM
There should be more leading Australians like Dick, he gets to the bottom of important issues and anything
that amounts to selling out Australia is very important. Please pass this on and on and on.
Update 18 December 2014 - HOAX EMAIL
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I would have thought Dick Smith would know how this game is play?
If he want to sell to Muslims, stick a Halal logo on it. Just like he stick the Australian Flag on his Aussie Mite...
If sticking both flag and Halal won't sell properly, then separate the shipment, or pick which market makes more money.
I would definitely not agree with any religion trying to force a company to provide them funds in any way, but at the same time if these people willingly choose to have dictated what foods they are able to purchase, well that's their religious and personal freedom.
Hmm, it's a matter of how willing they really are.
Threats of being branded an apostate which still carries a death sentence in Islam if you try and give up your religion doesn't sound particularly voluntary to me.
Freedom OF religion should also include freedom FROM religion.
The KA charges for Domestic Kosher certification, between $500 and $2200. For export certification, between $2200 and $6600. The final fee will depend upon the difficulty of supervision and is determined at the time of the issuance of certification.
Halal certification has opened up foreign markets, allowed the company to increase its volume of production, provided 65 locals with employment and stabilised the product price, Byrne said.
The prices of certification are low and much the same as gaining gluten-free or vegan certification, he said. The $1,400 certification that guaranteed the product was free from alcohol (found in vanilla essence) and gelatine, which is an animal by-product, as well as being hygenic was “money well-spent”, he said.
Mohamed El-Mouelhy, of Halal Certification Authority Australia, said the $10 billion halal export market (a third of Australian food exports) in Australia is booming. Bega Cheese has gone from employing 100 locals to over 500 locals after their certification. The dairy farmers' cooperative-owned factory is now exporting food around the world, he said.
Why does no one have an issue with kosher certification?
I'm an atheist but somehow I think I am more supportive of religious freedom than those who claim a faith in some sky god.
I would definitely not agree with any religion trying to force a company to provide them funds in any way, but at the same time if these people willingly choose to have dictated what foods they are able to purchase, well that's their religious and personal freedom.
Religious freedom and tolerance seems to be degenerating into freedom and tolerance for a person's own religion and intolerance and restrictions for all others. You can see this increasingly in the USA. You can see the likes of bernardi and his ilk would love to move Australia to some form of theocracy, though they'd prob try to call it something else just so it doesn't seem too much like the setup they have in Saudi Arabia.
Because the jews are very influential.
If you say "boo" against the jews, they have a "special word" to brand you with - "anti-semite".
I have just said enough to be labelled as such. What a crock of SH*T.
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