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Agreeing to an ECG and Muhammad’s Fatal Accident
Prophetic Medicine and Not Bleeding Into My Risotto
Why 18+
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Last year I began boycotting my neighborhood Pizza Pizza after they announced that halal toppings were an option. Recently, I abandoned my convenient German Doner Kebab (GDK) restaurant after noticing a sign guaranteeing that the chain only served meat from animals that had been tortured to death. I may live long enough to have to learn how to cook.
I am at a stage in my life, and my writing, where I have little to add to my published scholarship. It's revisit, rehash and recycle time. Having said that, among the déja vu material you will find in Farewell Postings is a sprinkling of new stuff posted to my website, but never published, going back to its inauguration April of 2003.
It's been fun!
LUCETTE'S PASSING
Funeral Arrangements and Grave Markers
CANADIAN HEADLINES
Supreme Court of Canada will hear legal challenge on Quebec secularism law (Bill 21) CBC January 23, 2025
Secularism on trial: Supreme Court sees record number of interveners in Bill 21 case Montreal Gazette, July 30, 2015
Playing Into the Hands of Islamists
A New Guide to Combat Islamophobia Globe and Mail, March 3, 2025
Why the Lies about Islamophobia, Jihad and the Sharia
Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public CBC August 28, 2025
Pray for Me if You Want. Just Don’t Make It a Production
Canada to fall far short of 2030 emissions targets Globe and Mail, Sep 18, 2025
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9/11
When Killing 2,996 People Is Like Killing All of Mankind
A PERVERSION OF A CELEBRATION OF LIFE
A Celebration of Life as a Reason to Yearn for Death
A SAD AND JOYFUL POSTING
ABROGATED REVELATIONS
BATTLE OF UHUD
Death as an Opportunity Not To Be Missed
CHARLIE HEBDO
CHILDREN AND SCRIPTURAL SADISM
Alice Does Not Like Gods Who Scare Children
DREAMS IN ISLAM
I Dream of Lucette, He Dreamt of a Baby and the Koran
GHOSTS AND ZOMBIES
Talking to the Dead and the Undead
Ghosts and Other Manifestations
HELL VS. THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
What Worries Me About the Afterlife
IMMIGRATION
Souls That Need to Be Persuaded to Change
Risking the Wrath of the Enemy Within
ISLAMOPHOBIA, RACISM AND FRIENDSHIP
You're An Islamophobe and a Racist, Admit It!
KHAIBAR (KHAYBAR) AND A FATEFUL TREATY
My Passing May Mimic Muhammad’s Official Cause of Death
Making Like the Illiterate Prophet
PALESTINE
A Path to Peace Between Palestinians and Israelis
Dead Palestinian Children! Who's To Blame
REMEMBERING NICHOLAS, JAMES, JOHN AND ROBERT
What Facial Hair Can Tell You About a Man's Radicalism
SAUDI ARABIA VS. IRAN
THE NEW CHOSEN PEOPLE
THE REAL MUHAMMAD
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
A Reminder That the Bed of a Holy Warrior Is Not One of Roses
Of Veils and the Lasting Influence of Two Teenage Girls
WOMEN
Why the Self-Loathing and the Danger it Represents
XMAS
A Xmas Wish and the Koranic Conception and Birth of Jesus
I asked my deeply religious brother, whom I admired, to confirm his address so that I could send him Farewell Postings for Christmas. He declined stating: “I have a library full of books that give me Hope, Comfort, Peace & Love. Unfortunately Secular Humanism gives me none of that so I cannot and will not have any books that promote that kind of teaching be on the shelf alongside them.”
He asked if I was offended. I said no. Still, it saddens me to think that, like what transpired at a mosque coffee shop, his Evangelical congregation would also probably ask me to leave should I darken their doorstep.
No Therapy for Her, No Coffee for Me
OVERLOOKED POSTINGS ABOUT PILLARS
An Expanded Declaration of Faith
How Compelled Giving Became a Pillar
GETTING STUDENTS TO DO WHAT ALLAH'S ANGELS DO
THE ARABS OF LAWRENCE AS AN ABERRATION
They were a people of primary colours, or rather of black and white … They were a dogmatic people, despising doubt, our modern crown of thorns. They did not understand our metaphysical difficulties, our introspective questioning. They only knew truth and untruth, belief and unbelief, without our hesitating retinue of finer shades.
This people was black and white not merely in clarity, but in apposition. Their thoughts were at ease only in extremes … they never compromised; they pursued the logic of several incompatible opinions to absurd ends, without perceiving the incongruity.
They were a limited, narrow-minded people, whose inert intellect lay fallow in curious resignation. Their imaginations were vivid, but not creative.
T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
It wasn’t easy, as God readily admits, getting the Arabs to buy into his black and white vision of everything. He had to open one of the gates of Hell and show them the punishment before they would finally give in to “utter despair.”
23:76 We seized them with the punishment; but they would not submit to their Lord and they would not supplicate.
23:77 Until We opened up against them a gate of terrible punishment and, behold, they were in utter despair.
In the Koran, you get a glimpse of the Arabs before Islam; not as unthinking pagans as Allah would have us believe, but as rational to the core and spiritual human beings, in the best sense of the word. This is evident in their coherent, logical, reasoned response—which God denounces as following their fancies—when told to accept, without question, what an illiterate revealed He wrote in a book on display in Paradise.
45:20 This (Qur’an) is an illumination for mankind, a guidance and mercy unto a people who believe with certainty.
A group of Arab men’s fancy, of which Einstein would have approved, was their explanation of aging, and life and death (Revelation 45:24).
45:22 Allah created the heavens and the earth in truth, so that every soul may be rewarded for what it has earned; and they shall not be wronged.
45:23 Have you seen him who has taken his fancy as his god and Allah has led him astray knowingly, and set a seal upon his hearing and his heart, and placed a veil upon his sight. Who, then, will guide him besides Allah? Do you not remember?
45:24 They say: “There is nothing but this our present life. We die and we live and we are only destroyed by time.” However, they have no certain knowledge of this; they are only conjecturing.
Conjecturing correctly as it turned out. The period before Islam is generally referred to by Muslims as Jahiliya, the time of ignorance, when world views as numerous and as varied as the colours of the rainbow flourished. Then Muhammad came along and that multi-coloured view of the universe changed to black and white, and humanity’s relationship with its Creator was demoted to that of mere supplicants of a vain and vengeful God.
VITA ADAE ET EVAE
In researching the lives of Adam’s wives, the mythical Lilith and the biblical Eve, for someone who has the skills to do for Genesis 1 and 2 what Timothy Findley did for The Flood in Not Wanted on the Voyage, I came across a dialogue about the life of Adam and Eve believed to have been written at the time of the Gospels.
Satan will continue to harass the first couple (or the second, if you consider Lilith to be the first man’s first wife) after they were expelled from Paradise, prompting Adam, during an encounter where Satan again deceives Eve, to ask him why. In the Latin translation of The Life of Adam and Eve, the fallen angel explains to Adam why he got them kicked out of Paradise and why he continues to stalk them.
All my hatred and envy and sorrow are because of you. It is because of you that I have been expelled and deprived of my glory which I had in the heavens in the midst of angels. It is because of you that I was cast out of heaven onto the earth… When God created you and blew the breath of life into your nostrils, God instructed the archangel Michael and the other angels to worship you because you were made in the image and likeness of God. But I was created first, and superior to you humans, how could I be expected to worship you? I told Michael and all the other angels that I refuse to fall down and worship a human.
The Koran gives credence to Satan’s explanation in six retelling of Adam’s creation.
QUE SERA SERA
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