What no Muhammad?

A friend brought this article over at the Wall street journal to my attention, it seems that a German Islamic scholar,Muhammad Sven Kalisch, has suggested that perhaps the prophet Muhammad never existed Unfortunately the article doesn’t go into much detail about his thinking, but there is of course a forth coming book, what I find interesting so far and will I suspect prove even more interesting when the book comes out is peoples reactions to this idea. As the professor says questioning the existence of Jesus and the historical accuracy of religious books is a well established tradition except in … Continue reading

An excellent idea

Just saw this on Facebook via a friend and it really is an excellent idea that’s worth doing and passing on: ‘Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go into any bookshops you may pass and move as many copies of Blair’s new autobiography to the ‘crime’ section as possible.’ +10

Warning labels for journalism

Once more just redirecting you to someone else’s genius idea (or less honestly sharing a link), but the idea of warning labels for journalism is just too excellent not to share. Tom Scott has produced a set of warning labels for sticking onto news reports and has made them downloadable as a PDF for avery labels. As he puts it: “It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content. I … Continue reading