Poking Fun, In Good Faith

Posted April 25, 2004, 3:49 p.m.

I enjoyed this article and thought you all might want to read it. This is probably a closer representation of most of the Muslims I have met than the typical stereotypes.

Poking Fun, In Good Faith—Muslim Comics Laugh In the Face of Intolerance (WashingtonPost.com [no longer available]).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.

Arnold H. Glasow

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Henry Ford

If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Elon Musk

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

Isaac Asimov

They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer—not an easy answer—but simple.

Ronald Reagan

We have to view technology as what it always has been—a tool for the betterment of the human condition. We should neither worship at the altar of technology nor be frightened by it.

Nate Silver

The young . . . are jubilantly repeating our depraved Russian blunders . . . , under the impression that they are discovering something new.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

Charles Spurgeon

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

C.S. Lewis

I feel convinced that my preservation was not altogether accidental, but was indeed the work of divine power.

Nikola Tesla

Regulate the mind, and then the body will spontaneously go right.

Siddhartha Gautama

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Stephen King

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Freeman Dyson

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Woodrow Wilson

Freud had a point. He was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him.

Jordan Peterson

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Ovid

We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.

John Gardner

Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists.

Carl Sagan

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Oscar Levant

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