In a shocking development, Ananova reports:
Police in Iran are reported to have taken 14 squirrels into custody - because they are suspected of spying.
We have footage of one of the suspected spies here.
Meanwhile, residents of Basra continue to fight giant badgers — allegedly released by the British — that stalk the streets at night, eating unsuspecting human prey.
Abu Aardvark asks:
Could the giant man-eating honey badgers compete with the insurgency or the Mahdi Army for kill counts? Could the giant man-eating honey badgers offer a common enemy for embattled humanity? Perhaps a reason to keep American troops in Iraq even if al-Qaeda is trounced?
Video footage of a captured badger over the fold.
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So you missed the badger-squirrel connection then!
Wrong forum and offensive and all that, but I’m curious as to how educated Muslims maintain a genuine “we’re all brothers/sisters” attitude to the Ummah in the face of this sort of nonsense. I don’t, for example, regard UFO nuts as belonging to the same cutlure as I do.
Muslims refer to other Muslims as brothers and sisters, and view them as family. Just as one cannot choose one’s relatives, Muslims cannot choose one’s fellow Muslims. We do give appropriate support to any Muslims as one would to a member of one’s family.
Sometimes there is a tension between one’s obligation to a fellow Muslim and the apparent criminality or absurdity of their actions.
Thanks.
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