Sunday, February 10, 2008
Thus Saith The Lord: Use Your Turn Signal!
A quickie: via Angry Arab, I learn that a fatwa has been issued condemning reckless driving. Lick this link to read the article in Arabic. For all I know, it's the announcement of Al Jazeera's Spring lineup. One day I plan to be able to read these myself.
This is, of course, hilarious to anyone who has driven or ridden in a car in the Arab world. "Reckless" doesn't begin to describe the general traffic flow. It makes L.A. look like a sleepy suburb down south.
This can only be a good thing, given the huge number of traffic fatalities in the Arab world. I'm glad to see Islam employed to encourage people to save their lives. I'd like to see Christian "fatwas" focus more on this kind of thing than on condemning gays to hell and supporting bad social policies.
And yes, I know that Islam is much more interested in doing unambiguously good things than in promoting terrorism, as some folks would have us believe.
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This is, of course, hilarious to anyone who has driven or ridden in a car in the Arab world. "Reckless" doesn't begin to describe the general traffic flow. It makes L.A. look like a sleepy suburb down south.
This can only be a good thing, given the huge number of traffic fatalities in the Arab world. I'm glad to see Islam employed to encourage people to save their lives. I'd like to see Christian "fatwas" focus more on this kind of thing than on condemning gays to hell and supporting bad social policies.
And yes, I know that Islam is much more interested in doing unambiguously good things than in promoting terrorism, as some folks would have us believe.
