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Does it measure in cubits?
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Cubits is a Shockwave interactive that encourages children to construct three-dimensional geometric sculptures online.

Alternatively:
An ancient unit of linear measure, originally equal to the length of the forearm from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow.
 
Satirical spaghetti monster image banned by London South Bank University as ‘religiously offensive’

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Non-religious students at London South Bank University have had posters advertising their society banned for being ‘offensive’. The poster publicising the South Bank Atheist Society (SBAS) depicted Michelangelo’s famous ‘Creation of Adam’ fresco from the Sistine Chapel but with the character of god replaced with the satirical online deity the ‘Flying Spaghetti Monster’ (FSM).

The British Humanist Association (BHA) and National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Students Societies (AHS), of which SBAS is a member, have expressed exasperation and condemned the decision as ‘utterly ridiculous’ and part of ‘rising tide of frivolous censorship that is curtailing the legitimate activities of our members.’

SBAS displayed the well-known image of the FSM on their pre-prepared stall the day before the freshers’ fair last week but when they returned to the stall the following day found that the posters had been removed. When they went to print some more to replace the missing posters they were stopped by union representatives who said that the posters had been deemed offensive and that it was the union that had removed them. Initially SBAS were told that it was the visibility of Adam’s genitals that was offensive but when SBAS offered to blur them out, they were told the problem was religious offence, because it was based on religious art. Their stall was removed by the student union authorities the next day and their official complaint against this action was still unanswered by the time the fair was over, preventing them from exhibiting.

President of South Bank Atheist Society Cloe Ansari commented ‘This incident is just one of a catalogue of attempts to censor our society. I never expected to face such blatant censorship and fragile sensibilities at university, I thought this would be an institution where I could challenge beliefs and in turn be challenged. All I have seen is religious sensibilities trumping all other rights with no space for argument, challenge or reasoned debate. It is not what I expected when I came to university.’

https://humanism.org.uk/2014/02/10/satirical-spaghetti-monster-image-banned-london-south-bank-university-religiously-offensive/
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DB008 said:
Satirical spaghetti monster image banned by London South Bank University as ‘religiously offensive’
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It's not the first time in recent months that a UK tertiary college banned atheists' freedom of speech because it might offend others, even though there was actually nothing offensive apart from the fact that certain groups WANT to be offended.

LSE apologizes (sort of) to students forced to cover up their Jesus and Mo shirts

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress...forced-to-cover-up-their-jesus-and-mo-shirts/

This is an example of an "offending" t-shirt

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To make matters worse, Maajid Nawaz, a prospective Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in the UK and moderate Muslim tweeted the above image to show that not all Muslims take offence at such mundane things. Apparently he received death threats from fellow Muslims because HE WAS NOT OFFENDED and because of the tweet and there have been calls for him to be dropped as the Lib Dem candidate for Kilburn and Hampstead. Worse still, when discussing the story, the BBC would not allow two audience members to wear t-shirts with that image.

Nick Clegg attacks death threats against Maajid Nawaz - Lib Dem candidate who tweeted a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed and Jesus greeting each other

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ed-and-jesus-greeting-each-other-9086469.html

It is so sad to see a country like Britain who did so much for the cause of freedom in the 2nd world war throw their freedom away in the name of political correctness and misguided multiculturalism. I've seen this quoted and is so true: "Multiculturalism is the embrace of diversity not the acceptance of intolerance". It's a pity that the new left in particular have forgotten that.
 
Destruction of the Idols

(Damascus) - Islamic fundamentalists in Syria have started to destroy archaeological treasures such as Byzantine mosaics and Greek and Roman statues because their portrayal of human beings is contrary to their religious beliefs.

The systematic destruction of antiquities may be the worst disaster to ancient monuments since the Taliban in Afghanistan dynamited the giant statues of Buddha at Bamiyan in 2001 for similar ideological reasons.

In mid-January the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), an al-Qa’ida-type movement controlling much of north-east Syria, blew up and destroyed a sixth-century Byzantine mosaic near the city of Raqqa on the Euphrates. The official head of antiquities for Raqqa province, who has fled to Damascus and does not want his name published, told The Independent: “It happened between 12 and 15 days ago. A Turkish businessman had come to Raqqa to try to buy the mosaic. This alerted them [Isis] to its existence and they came and blew it up. It is completely lost.”
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http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2014/02/destruction-idols/
 
I'm sure something similar happened a few years back too.

Snake-Handling Reality TV Pastor Dies After Snakebite

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ign=nprnews&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=twitter

"I feel in my heart, because God opened it up to me, if I stopped taking up serpents I would die and go to hell," Coots told NPR at the time. "It is in the Bible, and we tell people because it's in the Bible you must believe it."

Say no more...
 
250 jihadis spark UK terror alert

THE full scale of the terrorist threat to Britain can be revealed today with the disclosure that about 250 British-based jihadis who went to train and fight in Syria have returned home.

Senior security officials say the high number of “returnees” ”” five times the figure that has been previously reported ”” underlines the growing danger posed by “extremist tourists” going to the war-torn region.

MI5 and police have already thwarted one serious plot last autumn by a cell of “returnee” jihadis who were allegedly preparing a Mumbai-style gun attack on civilians, probably in a crowded public place in London.

The security services are closely monitoring the 250 returnees, who include several veteran hardliners who have fought in Afghanistan or Pakistan. They are suspected of wanting to carry out attacks here or of inciting others to do so.
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http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/article1376586.ece
 
First case of polio discovered in Kabul since 2001


A three-year-old girl has been diagnosed with the first case of polio since 2001 in the Afghan capital Kabul, the Ministry of Public Health said on Tuesday.

The child, called Sakhina, was a member of the Kuchi nomadic tribe that moves freely across most provinces in Afghanistan and her family was living in the Kasaba district in eastern Kabul.
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The battle to eradicate polio is being undermined by the spread of the virus in Pakistan, where vaccinators are routinely killed by the Islamist Taliban, who see the program as part of a plot to sterilize Muslims. It is the only country in the world that recorded an increase in cases in 2013 according to the WHO.
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http://www.dailyzone.com/articles/29/20140211/first-case-of-polio-discovered-in-kabul-since-2001.htm
 
Back to the middle ages, go Saudi....


Women’s visits to hospitals without male guardians banned

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) has officially prevented women from visiting medical clinics without male guardians.

This came after a member of the Council of Senior Scholars issued a “fatwa” (edict) prohibiting women from visiting male doctors without having male guardians present.

“Islamic law does not permit women to visit their doctors without male guardians,” said Qais Al-Mubarak, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars. “Women are prohibited from exposing body parts to male doctors in Islamic law, especially during childbirth. This does not include medical emergencies. Islamic jurisprudence makes exceptions,” he added.

Male guardians can only be the next of kin in Islam. They are sons, grandsons, husbands, brothers, fathers or uncles.
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http://www.arabnews.com/news/525696
 
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“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg
 
Yet another cover up by the Catholic church of child sexual abuse, this time at a Toowoomba Catholic school.
After the school principal was informed of the abuse, it was more than a year before he reported it to police. And all the while, the offender who was employed as a ‘child protection officer’ at the school, continued to rape and abuse these little nine year old girls.
When asked why he took so long to inform the police, the principal stated that he acted on instructions form the Catholic education system to whom he reported it.

Meanwhile, a none too bright woman who is still employed at the school says she can’t understand why the abused girls ‘didn’t have the courage to come forward and report the abuse’. Clearly this foolish female can’t understand that little kids being abused are often threatened into silence by the abuser.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-...use-toowoomba-catholic-school-teacher/5264230
 
bunyip said:
Yet another cover up by the Catholic church of child sexual abuse, this time at a Toowoomba Catholic school.
After the school principal was informed of the abuse, it was more than a year before he reported it to police. And all the while, the offender who was employed as a ‘child protection officer’ at the school, continued to rape and abuse these little nine year old girls.
When asked why he took so long to inform the police, the principal stated that he acted on instructions form the Catholic education system to whom he reported it.
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Furthermore, the same principal decided it would be useful to have one of the little girls re-enact what happened with the abuser by mimicking the event with her father!!
How obscene. How is it possible that such people were (still are?) employed to care for and educate our children?
 
Julia said:
Furthermore, the same principal decided it would be useful to have one of the little girls re-enact what happened with the abuser by mimicking the event with her father!!
How obscene. How is it possible that such people were (still are?) employed to care for and educate our children?
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In my opinion the principal should get fifteen years with a non-parole period of ten years, for covering up a crime like this. Only then might these morons understand that concealing crimes against children is just not acceptable.

As for the perpetrator of the actual crimes - castration, then life imprisonment with his file marked ‘never to be released’.
 
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