Terry Firma, though born and Journalism-school-educated in Europe, has lived in the U.S. for the past 20-odd years. Stateside, his feature articles have been published in the New York Times, Reason, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Wired. Terry was the founder and Main Mischief Maker of Moral Compass, a now-dormant site that pokes fun at the delusional claim by people of faith that a belief in God equips them with superior moral standards. He was the Editor-in-Chief of two Manhattan-based magazines until he decided to give up commercial publishing for professional photography... with a lot of blogging on the side. These days, he lives in an old seaside farmhouse in Maine with his wife, three kids, and two big dogs.
Recently, British-born religious scholar and law expert Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar was the invited speaker at the Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, Florida (Sanford is adjacent to the Orlando Airport and 20 miles from downtown Orlando). A local resident did some Googling and found a 2013 video in which Sekaleshfar opines that the killing of homosexuals is an act of compassion. Read more
I wonder where Omar Mateen, who mass-murdered 49 patrons of a Florida gay club early yesterday — the publicized count of 50 includes himself — got the idea that homosexuality is an affront. Couldn’t have been his Muslim father, Seddique Mateen, who condemned the “incident,” after all. Sort of. Read more
Yesterday, I explained how the Freedom From Atheism Foundation lied by blaming godless activists for banning large groups of Christians from the site of the Reason Rally. In truth, the request to keep a distance was made by the Washington D.C. police. To be precise, the cops asked one particularly large group of Christian would-be attendees to reconsider showing up together, because large, planned demonstrations and counter-demonstrations require permits… for which the Christians hadn’t applied. The FFAF chose to disregard that inconvenient truth. It blamed unnamed atheists, and asked innocently why the godless are so intolerant, and so afraid of Christians like Ray Comfort, who were only going to be there to show unbelievers some love. Well, here is some of that love that (predominantly) Christians would like to have given us. Read more
