Offensive Facebook Pages Censored — Read between the lines. This is a blasphemy case. Nobody wants to admit it.

Abu Dhabi: The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) instructed all internet service providers in the UAE to block a specific site on Facebook that is insulting to God, the prophets and Islam.

“TRA received numerous calls and complaints from internet users expressing their anger against unidentified people who created a site on Facebook that is offending to God, prophets, messengers, the Holy Quran and even to all God’s books,” said Mohammad Al Ganem, TRA General Manager.

“The creator of this site which he named ‘God and Prophets’ Site’, attributes divinity to himself and spreads distorted writing pretending they are verses from the Quran. He also declared writing a new book falsifying himself as a god. He spreads talk that is insulting to the prophets and to their holy stature. This is considered to be a felony according to the federal law.”

New witness comes forth — Yeah, this is the “liberal” area in the Middle East.

Ayman Najafi, 24, and Charlotte Adams, 26, are awaiting the outcome of an appeal against a conviction for public indecency in a Dubai restaurant on November 27.

The witness is understood from sources close to the case to have been present at the restaurant, but not to be one of the four friends with whom Najafi and Adams were eating.

The couple are hoping that a verdict will be given in their favour at a hearing on April 4, after they told an appeal court judge on Sunday that they had merely kissed each other on the cheek in an innocent greeting.

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Woman crashes car while shaving her crotch — This stuff in Florida just writes itself!

Megan Mariah Barnes, a 37-year-old Florida resident, was so excited to be meeting her boyfriend in Key West that she decided to use the travel time to do a little extra grooming.

But Ms. Barnes, cruising Highway 1 behind the wheel of her Ford Thunderbird, wasn’t applying extra lipstick or tweezing her eyebrows; she was preparing her bikini line by doing a little lady gardening.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Barnes’ Thunderbird rammed a pickup truck causing minor injuries to the three passengers inside. Barnes, whose ex-husband was with her in the vehicle, drove about a half-mile past the accident scene, where it is alleged that she pulled over to switch places with her former hubby so that Barnes wouldn’t appear to have been behind the wheel.

Found by Adam Merkley.

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