The former Kuwaiti information minister said on the 9/11 anniversary that Muslims should condemn terrorist Osama bin Laden with the same energy they expended on the fatwa against Salman Rushdie:

Tefla said much damage has been caused to Muslims because the world is contrasting Muslims’ tepid approach to bin Laden to their overwhelming response in the 1980s to British author Salman Rushdie and his controversial book “The Satanic Verses.”

Against Rushdie, Tefla wrote, “We rattled and sharpened all of our rhetorical sabers, our religious legal rulings [fatwa], [alerted] our guards, our ports, our airports and our border crossings in order to prevent his entering [our countries] and the distribution of his book, since it does damage to Islam.”…

“Have we earmarked a reward for anyone who kills bin Laden as we did for anyone who kills Rushdie on account of his book?

Around a year ago, it seems that Sukhmani Singh Khalsa, a student and conservative columnist at the University of Tennessee, wrote a column criticising University Issues Committee for being liberal and one sided. (The Issues Committee is the body that invites speakers on to campus)

Upon reading Sukhmani’s column, one of the committee members, Justin Rubenstein, emailed some of the others, saying:

if you see one of those ragheads, shoot him right in the fucking face. [Sukhmani deserves] torture that would put the Spanish Inquisition to shame.

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according to a report on “Population and Development” from India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, indian adolescents are having sex. often. without birth control.

wait–which indian kids are they talking about? surely not MY virginal cousins who’ve been shoved spitefully in my face for my entire life as paradigms of modest perfection. i kid. okay, i don’t. bitter! party of one!

my shock and scorn aside, i present most of the brief article below:

In the chapter on Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development, the report says: “Sexual relations among adolescents tend to start early, involve multiple partners and often are casual. They are also characterized by lack of contraception or condom use, and occasionally involve coercion and non-consensual experiences.”

The report further says that misconceptions aside, a large number of teenagers don’t even know the correct way of using a condom. “Young people between the ages of 10 and 25 years make up for 50 per cent of new HIV infections,” it concludes chillingly.

Only 59 per cent adolescents know about condoms and 49 per cent about contraceptive pills, the report says. “Instead of asking adolescents not to have sex, we have to give them information on how to protect themselves,” says Anjali Gopalan, director, Naz Foundation India. “Children are not stupid, they will protect themselves if they know how.”

and to think, vinod and i posted within minutes of each other…if young people in india are behaving this way, it’s quite possible that “India is already in first place”. sigh.

I have no way of intelligently commenting about this one –

NEW DELHI (AP) – India has the world’s largest number of HIV-infected people, the head of a top international AIDS-fighting fund said Wednesday, dismissing official figures. “I don’t believe in the official statistics. India is already in first place,” said Richard G.A. Feachem, executive director of the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Latest U.N. data show the HIV virus has infected 5.6 million people in South Africa and 5.1 million in India. But Feachem said he and many other experts believe India’s actual figure is much higher, surpassing South Africa’s.