Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year

Tripping Along The Ledge


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Faith Alive

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1. Down with this sort of thing… Saudi woman beats up virtue cop.

2. That’ll learn him! (1) Pakistani barber trims Muslim man’s beard. In retaliation, a mob breaks his ribs, wrist and legs… and then rape him.

3. A Mormon checks in to a hotel. As he’s leaving the front desk, he says to the clerk “By the way, I hope your porn is disabled.” Read the rest of this entry »

“WHAT KIND OF PERSON WOULD USE THIS? A PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT?”

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Oddly heart-warming video from the New York Times today about two Pakistani brothers who chanced their way into a most unlikely business venture. Two working class entrepreneurs in Karachi have amassed a $1m fortune exporting leather fetish and bondage gear to Europe and the U.S. But their employees have absolutely no idea what the products they’re manufacturing are used for.

FAITH ALIVE


1. Taliban fighters hand out 37 lashes against a teenage girl in the Swat valley, Pakistan earlier this week, for attending market with a man who was not her husband.
2. Genius YouTube video blogger proves the existence of God. Yip, it’s a pretty watertight case he makes.
3. Ultra-Orthodox newspaper airbrushes women ministers out of photograph of incoming Israeli cabinet.
4. Christian power ballads? Hell yeah!