Online marriages fatwas, church protests, and your tax dollars paying for WUDU.

Iran: Edict authorizes online short term marriages. If you're a woman you can't go around with your hair uncovered but you can get married online, have cybersex and get paid for it.

Iranian men and women may from Wednesday contract short-term marriages online, according to a religious edict (fatwa) signed by Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Sadeghi Rouhani.The edict says that couples must clearly establish how long the marriage will last. They must also guarantee there are no legal impediments to the marriage, and agree on the amount of money the man must pay the woman when it ends.

Egypt's Parliament passes law that prohibits protests at places of worship. No surprise, the Muslim Brotherhood voted in opposition to the law. I'm thinking it sure will put a crimp in their media jihad if they can't draw the crowds in with some post-prayer death-to-the-infidel effigy-and-flag-burning! A fact that hasn't gone unnoticed by the "Minister of Religious Endowments Mahmoud Hamdi Zakzouk" who said some people were using mosques for protest after Friday prayers every week and inviting satellite television news team to the protests "to promote political ideas that have no connection to religion".

Speaking of political ideas that have no connection to religion: Sharia Protestors charged for disrupting Easter service. Protesting the Archbishop of Canterbury's calls for sharia, they carried signs that said: "Support the persecuted church" and "No to Sharia law."

No persecution in Minnesota where they fund Madrassas! Wall of silence broken at Minnesota Madrassa. When a reporter tried to get in to visit the school she was denied admittance by the Imam "due to the hectic schedule for statewide testing" When she discovered that the tests would not begin for several weeks, she emailed the Imam. He did not respond to emails or urgent phone calls looking for comment. Now a substitute teacher has come forth and puts the lie to the Imam's claim that off the fiction that the Madrassa is not a religious institution.

Arriving on a Friday, the Muslim holy day, she says she was told that the day's schedule included a "school assembly" in the gym after lunch. Before the assembly, she says she was told, her duties would include taking her fifth-grade students to the bathroom, four at a time, to perform "their ritual washing."

AKA wudu.
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