Screwballs in the News

Screwballs in the News

Culling out the most ridiculous features of recent news items is always a challenge, what with all the absurdities and screwballs in the competition, but here are some of the best:

Swede Charged With Hate Speech: Swedish Democratic Leader Jimmie Akesson published an opinion piece in Aftonbladet asserting “that the spread of Islam represents the country’s ‘greatest external threat since World War II.’ “

Assertion of the obvious is apparently frowned upon by some in Sweden.

Akesson was roundly condemned and ”reported to Sweden’s highest legal official by the Centre Against Racism.”

No refutation of Akesson’s position was offered but the head of the Centre did say, “We are of the view that the article agitates against Muslims when it points at Islam as the greatest threat to Sweden:” http://bit.ly/UOwlP.

What with the continuing worldwide jihad being waged against Western Civilization by Islamic Fundamentalists, Akesson’s contention seems to hold great credibility. His critics failed to present any other viewpoint on what does pose the “greatest external threat” to Sweden if it is not Muslims.

Bra-less Somalis: Masked, unthreatening Muslim men in Somalia are publicly whipping Muslim women who dare to wear bras because they are practicing “deception.”

To further humiliate the Somali fair sex, “After the public whippings, the women are forced to remove their bras and shake their breasts.”

As one Muslim woman complained, “They first banned the former veil and introduced a hard fabric which stands stiffly on women’s chests. They are now saying that breasts should be firm naturally, or just flat.”

The hardline Islamic group Shabaab which amputates the feet and hands of robbers “has also banned movies, musical ringtones, dancing at wedding ceremonies and playing or watching soccer:” http://bit.ly/mG8Fq.


Drunk Man Stabs Son: Seemingly infuriated and inebriated Vermonter, Nazeih Hammouri, allegedly stabbed his 19 year old son in the stomach with a corkscrew following an argument over a clogged toilet. . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1275)