¿Que pasaria si no existiera la religión?

Si vives en una cueva, es posible que no hayas escuchado que un Nigeriano, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab,, supuestamente bajo ordenes o trabajando con Al-Qaida, intentó cometer un acto terrorista al prender algún artefacto explosivo entre sus piernas.

Si todavia lo dudas, esto es un acto de terrorismo religioso. Este hombre no cometeria este acto tan terrible (intentar asesinar cientos de personas y niños) si no fuera por sus creencias religiosas. Es en estos momentos que uno piensa que seria de este mundo si no existiera la religión.

Yo te puedo contestar esta pregunta facilmente. Primero que todo, todavia tendriamos las torres gemelas en el horizonte de Nueva York, y volar seria mucho más fácil, pues no tendriamos que pasar por ridículas medidas de seguridad innecesarias. Como dice el experto de seguridad Bruce Schneier:

"Solo dos cosas han hecho que el volar sea más seguro [desde el 9/11]: el refuerzo de las puertas de los pilotos y el hecho que los pasajeros saben que pueden resistir a los secuestradores."

Pero si hay algo que no me va a sorprender son las decenas de personas dando gracias a Dios porque este ataque se pudo detener. Yo por mi cuenta le doy las gracias a personas valientes, como Jasper Schuringa, el cual brincó por encima de 4 asientos para apagar el fuego y detener el ataque de este fanático religioso.

Aqui les dejo el video donde Jasper cuenta su versión de la historia.

La religión no entiende el concepto de la ironia

Lean la siguiente noticia que le envió el Talibán a varias agencias de prensa:

Un grupo Taliban envió dos cartas al Club de Prensa de Lahore amenazandolos de que si los medios "no paraban de representarnos como terroristas... vamos a explotar oficinas de periodistas y organizaciones de medios".

Y es facil reirse de ellos porque son Talibanes miembros de una religión terroristas como el Islam, pero el Vaticano también sufre de una incapacidad de detectar la ironia. Solo tenemos que escuchar el sermón que dió el Papa donde hablaba de la "obscenidad de la riqueza excesiva". Me imagino que cuando acabó, fue y se acostó a dormir con su pijama de seda en su cama de oro, comiendo caviar.

Fuente: Daily Times

Esta es la cara de la maldad

Esta es la cara de la maldad. Su nombre es Samira Jassam, y en nombre de la religión se dedicaba a enviar hombres a violar mujeres. ¿Su propósito? Aprovecharse de ellas en su momento más bajo, cuando estaban avergonzadas y aterrorizadas (recuerden que en la mayoria de las situaciones se considera culplable a las mujeres cuando son violadas y son condenadas a muerte) para convencerlas de ser mártires y por lo tanto poder librarse de su verguenza y culpabilidad.

La policia de Irak la arrestó hace poco y esta se considerá responsable de reclutar a 80 mujeres para su causa y para servir como bombas suicidas.

Aqui es que puede terminar una cultura patológicamente religiosa: con parásitos como este que explotan el miedo y el odio para crear más miedo y más odio.

Fuente: news.com.au

Dios es la barrera gubernamental encontra del terrorismo en el estado de Kentucky

El sur de los Estados Unidos parece una comedia del famoso Monthy Pithon. Ahora resulta que en bajo la ley del estado, Dios es la primera linea de defensa encontra del terrorismo.

La ley, creada en el 2006, que organiza la Oficina de Seguridad, establece "la dependencia de Dios Todopoderoso como vital para la seguridad del estado".

Específicamente, se le ordena a la oficina a hacer público la protección benevolente de Dios en sus reportes y debe postear una placa en la entrada del Centro de Operaciones del Estado que contiene una declaración de 88 palabras que comienza asi: "La seguridad del Estado no puede ser lograda separada de al dependencia de Dios Todopoderoso."

Gracias al trabajo de el Representante Tom Riner, un ministro bautista, quien insertó la provisión hace dos años, los deberes religiosos del estado tienen prioridad sobre todo lo demas, incluyendo el repartir millones de dolares en ayudas federales y el análisis de posibles amenazas.

Este individuo, al igual que muchos religiosos, son tan densos que no entienden el concepto de separación de iglesia y estado.

Ahora la pregunta es, ¿a cual Dios tienen que reconocer en sus reportes?. Porque si el Dios verdadero es Allah, entonces los terroristas estan haciendo su trabajo, y rezar no servira de nada. O quizas es Zeus, asi que este no esta a favor de los terroristas ni del estado, asi que rezar sigue sin servir de nada.

Fuente: Richard Dawkins

Maestro afgano asesinado por condenar ataques de 9/11

Un maestro fue asesinado a tiros en el norte de Afghanistan después que este diera un discurso condenando los ataques suicidas. Abdul Hadi reclamó que los ataques eran contrarios al Islam y al país durante un discurso ayer en el distrito Archi de la provincia Kunduz.

Este habló en una reunión de aproximadamente 700 personas, incluyendo el gobernador de Kunduz, e iba de camino a su hogar cuando fue asesinado.

El director policial Mohammad Ayub Salangi dijo que la policia esta investigando y que no se han hecho arrestos hasta el momento.

En enero, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, ministro de educación, dijo que el número de estudiantes y maestros asesinado en ataques por el Taliban habian aumentado el año pasado en una campaña para cerrar escuelas y forzar a los adolescentes a unirse a la milicia islámica.

De acuerdo a UNICEF, hubo 236 ataques escolares el año pasado.

En la provincia central de Logar, mientras tanto, el director del departamento de educación Kamaluddin Zadran dijo que tres niñas habian sido prendidas en fuego en las pasadas tres semanas.

Durante el régimen Talibán, era prohibido que las niñas fueran a la escuela.

Despues de la caida del Taliban en el 2001, se le permitió a las niñas atender a la escuela, pero muchos afganos conservadores y sin educación todavia le prohibian a sus niñas a atender.

Pirómanos atacan a escuelas de niñas a menudo. El año pasado, pistoleros asesinaro a dos estudiantes caminando fuera de una escuela en Logar.

Estadísticas demuestran que solo 35% de los estudiantes matriculados son niñas.

Aquí yo critico a todas las religiones por igual, pero tengo que admitir que algunas son peores que otras y el Islam en estos momentos esta en el tope de las peores, si no la peor religión, en existencia.

Fuente: Daily Mail

Peores líderes religiosos del mundo

Cuando el Papa viaje a los Estados Unidos esta semana, probablemente argumente que la religión es una fuerza de paz en el mundo. Pero algunos de sus amigos, líderes religios, se conocen mejor por predicar odio y violencia. Este artículo menciona algunos.

When the Pope visits the United States next week, he will likely make the case that religion is a force for peace in the world. But a few of his fellow religious leaders are better known for preaching messages of hatred and violence.

Hassan Nasrallah

Religion: Shiite Islam

Who is he?: Secretary-General of Hezbollah

Country: Lebanon

Quote: "If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak, and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology, and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice I do not say the Israeli."

Why he matters: Nasrallah and several colleagues formed Hezbollah in the wake of Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Since then, the group has become a unique entity in world politics—at once an Islamist political party, a terrorist militia, and a virtual state-within-a-state in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah's 2006 battle with the Israel Defense Forces only boosted its prestige. Nasrallah studied Islam at a seminary in Najaf, Iraq, as a teenager and follows the brand of Shiite Islam developed by Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In recent years, as he has emerged as a major power broker within the Lebanese government, Nasrallah has stopped calling for an Islamic revolution and seems willing to work within the state. Nasrallah has not moderated his stance on Israel, though, and still calls for the "Zionist entity" to be wiped off the map.

Joseph Kony

Religion: Christianity/personality cult

Who is he?: Commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)

Country: Uganda

Quote: "[The spirits] speak to me. They load through me. They will tell us what is going to happen. They say 'You, Mr. Joseph, tell your people that the enemy is planning to come and attack.' They will come like dreaming; they will tell us everything."

Why he matters: During two decades of civil war, Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has killed more people than al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah combined. Kony, a former altar boy, aims to overthrow the Ugandan government and establish a regime based on the Ten Commandments. In pursuit of this goal, the LRA has abducted over 20,000 children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves, often forcing them to kill their own parents. Although Kony frequently uses biblical passages to justify his actions and has his child soldiers make the sign of the cross before battle, he mixes Christianity with mysticism and claims to be advised by a "spirit council" from beyond the grave. The LRA is currently in the process of negotiating a peace deal with the Ugandan government, but Kony is reluctant to leave his hide-out while under International Criminal Court indictment.

Yogi Adityanath

Religion: Hinduism

Who is he?: Religious leader and member of parliament from Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous province

Country: India

Quote: "I want Muslim votes, too. But wash them in Gangajal [Ganges water] first."

Why he matters: Adityanath is an up-and-comer in India's growing Hindutva—Hindu nationalist—movement. In addition to his membership in the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he is the founder of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a radical Hindu youth movement that has been implicated in a number of incidents of anti-Muslim violence. In early 2007 he was arrested for his role in fomenting religious riots in the northern city of Gorakhpur. Yuva Vahini activists set fire to multiple vehicles including a train and an ambulance in response to his arrest. Adityanath has been released and remains in Parliament, where he is known for such publicity-seeking antics as breaking down in tears during speeches and making statements critical of Mahatma Gandhi. Adityanath's extreme views put him at odds with even the BJP, and he is now looking into starting his own party with a strictly Hindutva agenda.

Athuraliye Rathana

Religion: Theravada Buddhism

Who is he?: Monk and member of parliament

Country: Sri Lanka

Quote: "Peace negotiations simply made the LTTE [Tamil Tigers] stronger. We mustn't talk to them; we can crush the LTTE. It is like surgery."

Why he matters: Most people didn't take the Chinese government too seriously when it accused the Dalai Lama of inciting violence in Tibet, but it's actually not unheard of for Buddhist monks to forgo their traditional pacifism. Sri Lanka's Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) party is comprised entirely of Buddhist monks from the dominant Sinhalese ethnic group, and its seven members of parliament advocate a militant, ethnonationalist agenda. The party's leader, Athuraliye Rathana, has been nicknamed the "war monk" for his staunch advocacy of military force against the Tamil Tiger rebels who have fought a 25-year insurgency against the state. (For what it's worth, the Tigers exhibit some cultlike characteristics as well.) Athuraliye has worked to scuttle a Norwegian-brokered peace settlement, saying that the Tamils should be crushed militarily and that Sri Lanka has always been a Sinhalese kingdom. The JHU has also sponsored legislation in the Parliament that would ban Sri Lankan Buddhists from converting to Christianity.

Dov Lior

Religion: Hasidic Judaism

Who is he?: Head rabbi of Kiryat Arba settlement

Country: Israel

Quote: "A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew's fingernail."

Why he matters: Lior is the chief rabbi for Kiryat-Arba, a Jewish settlement near the turbulent West Bank town of Hebron, and leads the council of rabbis for the West Bank settlements. He has stated repeatedly that the killing of Palestinian civilians is compatible with Jewish law and that the commandment "thou shalt not kill"applies only to Jews. Rabbi Lior gave a eulogy at the funeral of Baruch Goldstein, the Jewish doctor who gunned down 29 Muslim worshippers at Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque in 1994. Lior has also issued a religious ruling forbidding Jews from employing Arabs or renting them property.

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BBC asustado de permitir chistes sobre el Islam

El comediante Ben Elton ha acusado a la cadena BBC por aparentemente prohibir chistes sobre imams porque la corporación esta asustada de permitir chistes sobre el Islam.

Comedian Ben Elton has accused the BBC of prohibiting jokes about imams and said the corporation was too "scared" to allow gags about Islam.

He told Third Way, a Christian culture magazine: "I think it all starts with people nodding whenever anyone says, 'As a person of faith ...'

"And I believe that part of it is due to the genuine fear that the authorities and the community have about provoking the radical elements of Islam.

"There's no doubt about it, the BBC will let vicar gags pass but they would not let imam gags pass.

"They might pretend that it's, you know, something to do with their moral sensibilities, but it isn't. It's because they're scared."

He added: "I wanted to use the phrase 'Mohammed came to the mountain' and everybody said, 'Oh, don't!, Just don't! Don't go there!'

"It was nothing to do with Islam, I was merely referring to the old proverb, 'If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain'. And people said, 'Let's just not!' It's incredible."

Elton, 48, told the magazine: "I'm quite certain that the average Muslim does not want everybody going around thinking, 'We can't mention you. We've just got to pretend you don't exist because we're scared that somebody who claims to represent you will threaten to kill us."'

The comedian, an atheist whose children attend a Church of England school, said Britons should be taught the essentials of Christianity, if only for cultural reasons.

But he also said that "lack of faith" should be taught in schools.

"I think the concept that faith in itself is a good thing should be questioned from day one, which it isn't," he said.

"There's a presumption that if you're a religious leader you are in some way already halfway up to the moral high ground and your opinion has more relevance than anyone else's."

A BBC spokesman denied the claims, saying: "No subject is off limits for BBC comedy.

"The treatment should not cause harm or offence as defined by the BBC's Editorial Guidelines or breach other BBC Guidelines.

"There is no evidence that the BBC is afraid to tackle difficult subjects."

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Página Liveleak remueve video controversial anti-Koran el viernes, citando una grán cantidad de amenazas

Video-hosting site LiveLeak pulled the controversial anti-Quran film Fitna Friday afternoon, citing a barrage of threats.

The 17-minute film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, posted Thursday, received more than 3 million views before being taken offline. Fitna juxtaposes passages from the Islamic holy book with graphic footage of terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe. In one scene,the sound of paper ripping can be seen as a reader pages through the Quran.

Put together as a warning that Islam poses a threat to the Netherlands, Fitna includes newspaper headlines about terror attacks, graphic images of beheadings at the hands of Islamic radicals, and a riot-provoking Danish cartoon from 2005 that depicts the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.

In place of the video Friday afternoon, a brief and poignant message appears on-screen: "Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature.... LiveLeak has been left with no choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.

"This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net.... We would like to thank the thousands of people from all backgrounds and religions who gave us their support."

Wilders released the 17-minute film via LiveLeak despite concerns voiced by the Dutch government and international organizations.

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UPDATE: Una copia del video puede ser vista en Google Video.