Brickbat: A Teaching Moment

An Egyptian court has fined Dimiana Abdel-Nour 100,000 pounds (about $14,000) for blasphemy. Three of Abdel-Nour's fourth-grade students said she feigned nausea when talking about Mohammad, the founder of Islam, and said the late Coptic Pope Shenouda performed more miracles than Mohammad.

Comments

[cavalier973]

...and said the late Coptic Pope Shenouda performed more miracles than Mohammad.

Well, he did. That's scientific fact!

[Snark Plissken]

They both pale before the number of miracles The Anointed One has performed.

[cavalier973]

There was this one time, when President Obama was at a wedding, and he turned beer into urine, right in front of everybody!!!

It's true!

[Atanarjuat]

He would also snatch a joint someone was smoking and turn it into a much shorter joint.

[Gene]

Yeah, thanks for the fucking roach.

[Rich]

"Pale"?

RACIST!

[GILMORE]

"the late Coptic Pope Shenouda performed more miracles than Mohammad"

meh. most of his were card tricks. its like home runs in baseball. you cant really ever beat the old guy's stats. plus, how'd he go out? on a flying horse? BZZZZZZ. sorry, bud, you can miracle away all day but if your closing act doesnt have a ressurection or trqnsmogrification, forget it. stick to the catskills, you're not ready for the big show.

[RBS]

Three of Abdel-Nour's fourth-grade students said she feigned nausea when talking about Mohammad

If you see something, say something.

[BlueBook]

What if you actually happen to get nauseous while discussing the Prophet? Just choke it down?

[Rich]

She should have feigned her menstrual period.

[JeremyR]

Er, didn't you get the memo? Reason seems to be advocating the return of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which means no more Christians in Egypt, not just stupid stuff like these fines...

[Plopper]

When did they say this?

[John C. Randolph]

More like, Reason advocates that the US government fuck off and leave Egypt to its own devices. This may result in the Muslim Brotherhood regaining power, but probably not, since they were just overthrown in the biggest protests Egypt has seen since Mubarak was toppled.

Got anything else you want to pull out of your ass?

-jcr

[GILMORE]

Not wantimg to militarily intervene in ever ME nation unilaterally means the US is pro Muslim Brotherhood. DUH. also, when we do intervene and it blows up in our face? it means we *tried*, which matters.

(note = hawkish libertoids are capable of some pretty incredible feats of logic gymnastics. im not nearly the 'non interventionist' type, but i read Foreign Policy, which makes me a cheese eating intellectual appease monkey, apparently. being pro "bombs away" means never having to admit you are retarded)

[Neoliberal Kochtopus]

Reason seems

There are the weasel words right there. See, Jeremy can say whatever he wants because he said "seems", which is really just code for, "I am going to emote rather than present evidence and then use my emotions to draw an unwarranted conclusion." Then when you call him on it, he'll go all Jezebelian and say, "it's how I FELT about Reason's position!"

[Fist of Etiquette]

She should have counter-accused her accuser of calling him a thug. And she should have accused the judge of calling him a pedo. And whichever of the group of accused doesn't float is innocent.

[BlueBook]

$14,000 is pretty steep. I once ticked off my bible-thumping 5th grade teacher by questioning her assertion that the world was 6000 years old. All I got was a stern look of disapproval and a mild verbal rebuke. Plus she was kinda hot (by horny adolescent boy standards) so I couldn't complain.

[Old Man With Candy]

I taught my son well- he just got disciplined in his religious group (don't blame me, my ex-wife sends him there) for pointing out that Jesus was a zombie.

[UnCivilServant]

Revenent, he was able to vocalize.

[Night Elf Mohawk]

Citation needed.

[Night Elf Mohawk]

That speech is what distinguishes revenants from zombies.

[Old Man With Candy]

Where does this fit on the Dybbuk axis?

[Rich]

$14K?!

Take the lashing, Dimiana.

[GILMORE]

yeah, $14K ? hopefully theres a showcase showdown where she can swap that for a month in a dark cellar with rats or something. Bob? hows about door #2...

[KDN]

Three of Abdel-Nour's fourth-grade students said she feigned nausea when talking about Mohammad, the founder of Islam, and said the late Coptic Pope Shenouda performed more miracles than Mohammad.

"Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw
one of the babies and the baby looked at me."

[KDN]

The hell? How was that a reply?

[GILMORE]

I don't know if you're talking about me or you. But I appreciate the Ralph Wiggum reference. Apropos. One wonders what would have induced the rest of the kids in class to also rat her out.

re: the $14K punishment... yeah, the point was that once you've gone overboard into Full Retard punishment of 4th graders... what the hell, why not be honest about it and just go full on torture? They're just trying to make their irrational abuse seem less inhuman by making it a dollar figure. Its' not like the 4th grader has a swiss bank account to draw on.

[Loki]

Three of Abdel-Nour's fourth-grade students said she feigned nausea when talking about Mohammad

What if she wasn't feigning?

[GILMORE]

Take Mohammed 5 times daily for social acceptance.

Side effects: may cause stomach cramps, night sweats, explosive diarrhea, scabies, beheading. Do not mix with alcohol, humor.

[John C. Randolph]

Can we get some mullah to issue a fatwa that spamming is blasphemy, and get a couple of these assholes beaten to death?

-jcr

[KDN]

No way. AnonBot's comment's are often on-topic and contain hilarious nonsense.

Now the "I like Marco said couldn't believe that my sister's friend's mother's boyfriend's brother-in-law's parole officer was fired and now bought a Maserati with the $17,000 he made in 8 hours by searching Google" guys? Yeah, somebody needs to sew their assholes shut and keep feeding em, and feeding em, and feeding em.