Muslims avoid pork, too Leopatrizi/Getty Images In the Quran, certain foods, called "haram," are considered impure, with pork being one of them. Although the dietary laws in the Quran go back as far as Jewish food laws do, modern science has since supported the rationale behind thehalal ...
infinite possibilities of legitimate and kindly research open to anyone with enough industry and ingenuity to discover innocent methods of exploration, they set up a boycott of brains and a ritual of sacrifice of dogs and guinea pigs which impresses the superstitious public as all such rituals do....
It strikes me that we could avoid a lot of very pointless squabbles if we could just find different words for racism-as-individual-prejudice and racism-as-structural-inequality; clearly, tacking on the modifier ‘systemic’ isn’t doing the job. But semantics aside, the approach has some uti...
Does Ubisoft have any Muslims on staff? Maybe I can play a Ubisoft game to figure out whether or not I should hate them. Help me, Ubi. I'm adrift in the waters of moral ambiguity and only by considering all perspectives can I hope to discover what's right. ...
Immune systems that because they do not get much practice are misdirected, and that react much more violently and vigorously than they could when parasites were present and moderating the immune system’s response. The parallels with modern humans, out of shape and on the couch reacting with ...
This Is Why Dogs Spin Around Before They PoopMost dog owners have probably been puzzled and possibly impatient waiting for their dog to do its business. Instead of just finding a soft area of grass to go number two, they make a whole ritual out of it, spinning in a circle before finally...
Its clergy habitually wants Muslims to live like the Arab tribes of 7th-century uncivilized Middle East, in the name of Sharia'h Law—confining women inside the veils and oppressed by exploitative medieval practices of instant triple talaq, Halala marriages and polygamy. Fortunately, Indian ...
And even when they do, it will be to a point lower than they were before their problems. Syria and Sudan, including South Sudan, and Yemen are others that will not recover in this decade, or until long after we are on the down-slope of peak oil. That brings to the US and Canada....