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Kids play the darnedest games! - Islamic Edition

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(HT: Veritas Domain ) Why, you ask?  Innocent games, you protest? To be fair, the first video is from Pakistan, and the second a feature on Palestinian media.  Yet, I can't help but think that there are more similarities than differences.

Google fears a peaceful religion

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That is the only conclusion I can come up with. Google's suggestion popups are a helpful time-saver in the search process -- begin to type a phrase and a number of completed, common searches or high-ranking page visits allow the user to navigate quickly toward his inquiry destination. Except when it doesn't work.  As you type the word "Isalm" into Google search, you''ll note that a number of suggestions begin to appear.  Add to the search phrase the verb "is" and suddenly the suggestions evaporate. However, type in "Christianity is," "Judaism is," etc., and the suggestions (many of which are inflammatory) abound.  See the image below from the original  Fox News  story: FoxNews Google claims that this is a bug.  However, the search "Islam is" works fine (with the top-ranking results being a smörgÃ¥sbord of blogs more up-to-date than this one).  What are some of the other results?  "Islam is stupid;" ...