Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/5/2011

Scientists at the University of Tel Aviv tagged a vulture and fitted it with a radio transmitter as part of a study of migration patterns. The bird wandered all the way to Saudi Arabia, and when it alighted, it was captured and denounced by the locals as a spy for the Mossad. News of the event spread rapidly throughout websites in the Middle East, and it was denounced as a “Zionist plot”.

In other news, 500 religious scholars of the “moderate” Barelvi group Jamaat-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat have warned Muslims not to mourn for assassinated Governor Punjab Salman Taseer, or they may suffer the same fate.

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Thanks to Andy Bostom, C. Cantoni, DB, DF, Gaia, Insubria, JB, JD, KGS, Srdja Trifkovic, Steen, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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