Storm blogging

I don't know if DC is getting pounded with these storms because of the hurricanes (thank you gays in Florida!) or if this is just some fluke, but I am getting sick of these storms. I was going to go to Rehoboth Beach this weekend, but the forecast there was just as bleak, so I've chosen to stay home, and I feel stuck at home because of the storms. Anyway, just explaining why I am going to be blogging for the rest of Saturday night.

An interesting storm is brewing against Thomas Friedman's claim that no fatwas have been issued against suicide demons. Charles Kurzman of UNC has compiled a list of fatwas that have been issued against these monsters.

Remember when Iran came out aginst the attacks of 9/11?

Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i, supreme jurist-ruler of Iran:
“Killing of people, in any place and with any kind of weapons, including atomic bombs, long-range missiles, biological or chemical weopons, passenger or war planes, carried out by any organization, country or individuals is condemned. ... It makes no difference whether such massacres happen in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Qana, Sabra, Shatila, Deir Yassin, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq or in New York and Washington.”
Islamic Republic News Agency, September 16, 2001, http://www.irna.com/en/hphoto/010916000000.ehp.shtml

President Muhammad Khatami of Iran:
“[T]he September 11 terrorist blasts in America can only be the job of a group that have voluntarily severed their own ears and tongues, so that the only language with which they could communicate would be destroying and spreading death.”
Address to the United Nations General Assembly, November 9, 2001, http://www.president.ir/cronicnews/1380/8008/800818/800818.htm#b3

It's a shame the bushies had to spoil this and create new terrors for the world.