On Saturday, June 12th, Republican powerhouse, Sarah Palin, shot down claims that she has received breast augmentation after recent photographs of her bustier self went Web viral.

Pamela Geller, a blogger and conservative activist who one commenter on New York’s Gawker blog calls a “poor man’s Ann Coulter,” has decided to take her fab Upper West Side stylings this week to dress up dowdy NYC buses with this cheerful message: 

The popular Lebanese singer Mohammad Iskandar recently released an Arabic song entitled “Jumhoriyet Albi” (The Republic of my Heart) in which he encourages women to not pursue careers or education in exchange for taking care of his “heart.” In Lebanon and Syria, many women took offense to the song’s lyrics and demanded its omission from the Syrian radio waves via street protests. 

Muslims love many things, including forwarding junk emails to friends and family. They do it out of love and out of not understanding how the Internet works. How thoughtful!

It’s hard to find “the one.” Perhaps the hardest part of finding someone is making the first move (especially if you’re Muslim), but that hasn’t stopped some Muslim guys from coming up with creative approaches to landing a girl. I’m all for creativity and I understand that it’s difficult for Muslim guys to gauge whether a Muslim girl is interested in him or not, but believe me, the following methods arenot the way to go about finding your life partner.

Amid recent speculation that Simon Cowell, the bitingly witty judge of American Idol and Britain’s Got Talent fame, may convert to Islam in advance of marrying his Muslim fiancee, we at Elan couldn’t help but wonder: how awesome would that be?!?! ...just for story value? 

Last week, everyone in the world survived April Fool’s Day with their dignity intact, except Jordan. A Jordanian newspaper ran a front page story claiming that space aliens had landed in the city of Jafr, causing residents to flood the streets with panic, lock up their children, and above all, lose their minds. It’s no doubt hilarious and reminiscent of H.G. Well’s reading of War of the Worlds over the radio back in 1938. The jokesters involved with the hoax apologized for the inconveniences caused as they obviously only meant to entertain people.

Apparently, a Minnesota Church recently bought an advertisement in the St. Cloud Times to bring attention to the “Moslem Threat” in America. In it, Pastor Dennis Campbell does his best to scare the Obama-hating crucifixes off his Christian constituency by outlining the preferred ‘Moslem’ method of takeover. 

Oh France, you’ve really done it this time. First, the French took issue with the Muslim headscarf. Then they figured, let’s go after the ‘Burqa’ to really make Muslim women look like “us”. And, while the French are busy thinking up their next plot to defame the religion of Islam, it seems that some Muslims in France are embarking on their own misguided attempts to thwart the French discrimination. This is one weird preemptive strike though. 

For a while I couldn’t tell how NBC’s Community felt about Muslims. Abed, the Muslim character on the show, is amiable and so sagaciously uncharismatic that he’s actually intriguing the same way space aliens and insects are. Usually Community stays away from controversial “Islamic” topics but last week’s episode was a cluster bomb of ignorance.