re: #2 palmerskiss

if you dont mind - can you give me some time to do some further research on the author and the Saudi law? probably manage to get a response to you by tomorrow morning at the latest.

Of course, take your time—I’m in no rush. It’s just that there are some stories that make my Spidey sense tingle, especially when they have to do with cultures or religions that seem strange or scary or incomprehensible to us (Westerners).

As a Muslim, stories related to Islam & Muslims are the ones I’m obviously most likely to notice, but really nowadays anything that smacks of ZOMG, look at what those people are doing!! raises a red flag for me. Too much click-bait competition out there, you know?

Like the stories about an Egyptian “farewell intercourse” law that supposedly legalized necrophilia, Tunisian girls traveling to Syria for “sex jihad”, the Muslim Brotherhood using puppies as firebombs, etc. They all smelled like B.S. to me and they all turned out to be exactly that.

FWIW, I didn’t doubt those stories because I think Muslims are incapable of doing weird/bad stuff, but because those particular things were nonsensical and designed to push very specific buttons.