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I saw a poster today which transfixed me.

It had a large cross, red, white and blue with stars and stripes. Above it was written, "Kill in the name of Jesus." And to the lower side, in smaller letters, "Our god is better than their god."

The whole thing was labelled, "fundamental hatred."

Wow.

Whoever designed that one had succeeded in being almost blasphemously funny, mordantly ironic, and deeply Christian all at the same time. 

On one level, the poster makes fun of certain right-wing, pro-war interpretations of Christianity which seem to be gaining a lot of traction nowadays in the US.

From the desk of Shaykh Waswas al-Wahhabi,  in Riyadh...

Q:  Is it acceptable in Islam for a man to have a cell phones with with a hot  pink cover, and the ring-tones set on "I want your sex"? And is bluetooth ok, if it is only used with the intention of marriage?

A:  My dear brother in Islam, thank you for the confidence you place in us; may Allah enable us to answer your question.

Cell phones are without doubt a blight on the Umma. Nowadays, even when one goes to make tawaaf around the holy Ka'ba, one is constantly disturbed by the noise of their ringing, as well as by being forced to listen to even the intimate conversations of their ill-mannered owners. And the use of cell phones to facilitate sin is all around us.