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See the cross? See it? Why are you laughing? Warning! Your salad could be making you into an Infidel! "Salafist group warns tomatoes are 'Christian,'” by Angie Nassar for NowLebanon.com, June 12 (thanks to Lachlan) ...A Salafist group called the Popular Egyptian Islamic Association has come under fire after sending out a warning on Facebook urging its followers not to eat tomatoes because the vegetable (or fruit) is a Christian food. The group posted a photo on its page of a tomato - which appears to reveal the shape of a cross after being cut in half – along with...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is demanding that the Lewiston (Maine) School District allow seventh-grader Nasra Aden to pray in school at the regularly designated times for Islamic daily prayers and in the regularly prescribed prostrated posture. The District has not been accommodating in-school prayers under the apprehension that prayers are not permitted in public schools. CAIR said it cannot accept the District’s insistence that any praying be done silently and unobtrusively. “Islam is a very vocal faith,” CAIR spokesman, Runha Amuk said. “God commands that we praise him frequently and openly. To demand silence is an insult to...

In an astonishing change of verbiage, President Obama’s favorite let’s-sit-down-to-chat Islamofacist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has left the Holocaust denial business momentarily for a new claim. Mad (our president’s endearing nickname for the little Hitler wannabe) said, “Slavery never occurred in the USA. It was a hoax to get welfare, Affirmative Action and elect Obama president. America is an enemy of Islam! We will wipe you off the map!” He claimed this just as Iran’s second underground nuke plant was exposed to the world. This precipitated a heated phone call from Dear Leader to Jihad Central in Tehran: “Hey Mad, what’s up...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Gunmen entered the third-floor offices of a Christian welfare organization on Wednesday, spraying it with automatic weapons fire and killing at least six people, police said. The shooting occurred at the offices of the Institute for Peace and Justice, a Pakistani Christian charity that does work in the city. Among the dead were three Pakistani Christians and three Muslims, police said. Four others were injured, police said. (Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)