Critical Thoughts

Not a science fiction joke, to be sure:

Experiments to create Britain’s first embryos that combine human and animal material will begin within months after a government watchdog gave its approval yesterday to two research teams to carry out the controversial work.

Scientists at King’s College London, and the University of Newcastle will inject human DNA into empty eggs from cows to create embryos known as cytoplasmic hybrids, which are 99.9 per cent human in genetic terms.

The things people do in the name of “science” these days are very disturbing. But this is what happens when there is no religious moral compass to guide your “research” and human greed surpasses religion and reason.

So he is indeed gone. I am waiting for the day his Malaysian counterpart will join him.

Amazing how one particular Islamophobe thinks he can get away with this:

In Syriah[sic] Law, the living stand to inherit nothing from the dead Muslim spouse or kin. It seems to me the eldest son (is a Muslim) fabricated the story in order to be the sole heir of the deadman’s property[....]To think that a family receives nothing from their departed ones, the house, money and car, I’ll call this robbery. The eldest son or Baitulmal have no right to take everything from a family.

[confer Inheritance Law in Islam to see this liar exposed.]

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I wonder whether it has come across in the minds of those who like to bitch about the Islamic authorities in the country that incidents like these, unfortunate as they may be, stem from their inner Islamophobia and utter hatred and mistrust of Islam and the Islamic court system? Islam Liberals are no exception to the rule, either. After all, if the person in question had never been a Muslim in the first place, why not let the due process of the law take over to prove it?

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Very interesting read indeed from Alexander Cockburn about the realities of “modern” America. Note especially this:

…the suicide rate among middle-aged Americans has reached its highest point in at least 25 years. The rate rose by about 20 per cent between 1999 and 2004 for those aged 45 through 54 – far more than among younger adults, whose own suicide stats are also on the rise.

The previous high was in 1982, a year when there was a terrible farm crisis in the Midwest.

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