Professor John Miller has an air-tight defence against the copy of Ayatollah Khomeini’s “Blue Book” that Mark Steyn promised to send him.  Whatever it says, he won’t believe it.
The Blue Book “is a collection of quotes purportedly from him, but without any documentation”.
[…]
[N]o one has verified that the Ayatollah ever said: “A man who has [...]

Father Metta’os Wahba, an Egyptian Coptic Christian priest, has been convicted of marrying a Muslim woman to a Christian man and sentenced to five years with hard labour. The woman was raised Muslim but converted to Christianity as an adult. Egypt does not recognise conversions from Islam to Christianity so, in the eyes [...]

A town in Turkey named Batman has finally noticed that several films have been made about some character with the same name as their fair city. The mayor is suing for using the city’s name without permission.
Holy lawsuit, Batman!
“There is only one Batman in the world,” [Batman mayor Huseyin] Kalkan said. “The American producers [...]

Sixteen-year-old Maria Asya Ahmed Mohammed (at right) has been released from prison after serving two years of a 3-1/2-year sentence for killing her uncle.
She stabbed Sayeed Mohammed in self-defence in July 2006. The altercation followed years of family conflict over her father’s conversion to Christianity in 1998. Maria, her mother, and a brother [...]

So says the head honcho of some Iranian student organisation:
The head of Iran’s student Basij organization, Reza Saraj, has said that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama learned his “Yes, we can” slogan from Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
Mr Saraj also says “the decision makers and power centres” in the United States had Obama elected in order to [...]

The collect for today, the commemoration of Charles Simeon (1759-1836), Priest, Evangelical Divine (source):
O eternal God,
who didst raise up Charles Simeon
to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ
and inspire thy people in service and mission:
grant that we, with all thy Church, may worship the [...]