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Finally a test is available. I scored 71%, a passing though not impressive grade. While you’re at it, check out the ASS-O-TRON

It’s been quite a week in the wonderful world of Islam…Nigerian Islam’s encounter with that powerhouse of subversion, the Miss World contest, has been unedifying, to put it mildly. First some of the contestants had the nerve to object to a Shariah court’s sentence that a Nigerian woman convicted of adultery be stoned to death…

New York Times OP/ED, November 27, 2002

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For now, Mr. Gore can only attempt to explain what motivates the ceaseless lampooning he continues to face from America’s columnists and commentators. “That’s postmodernism,” he offered. “It’s the combination of narcissism and nihilism that really defines postmodernism, and that’s another interview for another time, if you’re interested in it.

From New York Observer Interview, Front Page Noverber 28

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What is the ‘@’ sign called?

Ampersand, asterisk, tilde, comma, parentheses. Most of the commonly used symbols in the English language have particular names associated with them, so we can talk about them without having to say “you know, that squiggly symbol that kind of looks like the letter S.” With the emergence of the Internet, and with it, the important role that the ‘@’ sign plays in e-mail addresses, this once uncommon symbol now has a lot of people wondering what to call it.

Officially, this symbol is called commercial at. Unofficially, most people seem to refer to it as the at sign or just at. Recently, there has also been a movement to call it the atmark. There are also numerous nicknames for it, including snail, curl, strudel, whorl, and whirlpool.

From the Internet Public Library, University of Michigan

It seems to me that if we use 3% less oil, the evil oil-producing countries will raise prices to make up the difference, and they’ll be able to fund terrorism a few more years before running out of oil. Therefore, if you’re not already driving an SUV, the terrorists have won.

Dogbert from DILBERT and the WAY of the WEASEL

No more “May I have your name and address please!”

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Excerpt:

(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.

(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them – peace be upon them all.

It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah’s Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour, sex, or language.

Full Text from The Observer (UK)