cohenite, it's just as well Muslims have you around to tell them just what they believe, eh?

Since you've been so busy learning about other cultures, you may not have had time for you own, so this handy guide might help. I can't vouch for its accuracy though. I mean, who ever heard of using gefilte fish to lure gerbils? Completely impractical. Current pest practice involves a vacuum cleaner, although any sucker will do.

The kippa is widely understood as both a practical tool and cautionary reminder of the importance of personal hygiene in a desert culture where water is scarce and toilet paper unobtainable. It's carried on the head to proclaim the regularity of the wearer's bowels by inference from the colour of the kippa. In more devout communities direct inspection using the traditional art of cohenoscopy is common (popularly known as "having a butchers") which is performed in the "boning room".

Next lesson we'll consider the proper use of matzoh in contraception, part of our new series on making the most of your dough. A special bonus: chat-up lines guaranteed to work on Palestinian prisoners. You'll be irresistible!

All part of the comparative religion hour on Radio YHWH. All the hits you never saw coming.

Sign of a beaten debater resort to ridicule and an attempt to belittle the opponent.

Anti's post was too academic for me I'm afraid. I didn't understand a word. Must have been whatever was in that Hooka,I think.

Josephus,

Sign of a beaten debater when he posts his own warped opinion as substance.

Like this, for instance:

"Some men in the Iraqi armed forces find men more sexually attractive than women in burkas, as they say sex with women are for babies, sex with men is for pleasure. So women in burkas are not sexually attractive to some Muslim men."

"Sign of a beaten debater..."

Welts, I would have thought.

Does Sharia Law mandate this? With a cane?

Some of the illogic in this debate, Josephus, would be analogous to judging and characterising all Christians by the standards of the Westboro Baptist Church...

Which I don't, by the way... the truth and the light.

Anti; yeah I'm not sure what you're getting at either.

I had a yarn with a woman today who noted the only possible reason for wearing a burqa was to resist the elements when living the desert.

There is no such reason for wearing one in a modern Western society.

The conversation is meandering so in an effort to refocus it can we have some opinion as whether the burqa should be banned in public and reasons for or against that proposition?