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This week Mikey joins us and Erin officially joins the team. We talk about the plagues, a Saudi girl getting a new life in Canada, China continuing to go after Islam, Trump's cabinet preaching, anti-porn fighter videos, and India vs Science.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmail us at contact@htotw.com or leave us a voice message at (541) 203-0666 or htotw.com/speakpipeSupport the show at htotw.com/donateSubscribe at htotw.com/subscribe\n\n\n\nANOUNCEMENTS\n\n\n\nErin is our new Co-Host!Episode 285\u2019s goofHumanists of Idaho\u2019s Potluck with the Atheist Nomads - January 27 in Boise\n\n\n\nDustin\u2019 off the Degree - Plagues\n\n\n\nThe Bible and Quran have lots of stories of plagues, but the most famous are the plagues in the book of Exodus.\n\n\n\nGod called Moses to leave the desert he was hiding in and command Pharaoh to free the Hebrew slaves, not all the slaves, just the ones defended from Jacob. God also hardens Pharaoh's heart, not to be confused with coronary artery disease, this just made sure that Pharaoh would be stubborn. To punish Pharaoh for his God caused obstinance God took it out on the Egyptian people with plagues they were:\n\n\n\nHe turned all of the water into bloodFrogsLiceWild animals, probably of a venomous varietyDiseases for the livestockBoilsHail stormLocustThree days of darknessDeath if the firstborn humans and livestock\n\n\n\nThe frogs and lice seem strange and really just annoying, but the rest of these are really serious. Contaminated water would make everyone sick. An invasion of venomous creatures could injure or kill everyone. Diseased livestock will reduce productivity in the case of horses and oxen, cut into food supply, and if the disease crosses to humans it could kill everyone. Boils are painful and can get infected. Hail and locust will destroy crops. Prolonged darkness is evidence of volcanic activity and could threaten crops. I think venomous creatures and dead babies obvious, but any if these plagues could cause the collapse of a civilization.\n\n\n\nMore recent examples are the bubonic plague killing \u2153 of Europe's pollution, the diseases brought to the new world killing 90% of the population of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the Potato Famine, and pioneer stories of locusts blacking out the sky and striping fields bare.\n\n\n\nNEWS\n\n\n\nMecca's Grand Mosque under attack by locusts\n\n\n\nThe holiest site in Islam is being plagued by swarms of locusts, an estimated 30,000 black grasshoppers to be precise. I predict that Christian's will call this God's judgement on Islam, Iran will call it God\u2019s judgement on Saudi Arabia, and Sunni Muslims it call it insect migration.\n\n\n\nRahaf al-Qunun has made it to Canada\ufeff\n\n\n\nRahaf al-Qunun is the 18 year old daughter of a Saudi Arabian government official and while visiting Kuwait with family she escaped hoping on a plane to Australia with a stop in Bangkok. The reason for the escape was that she wanted to be free to work and study as she wants, which is not possible in Saudi Arabia since her father would be her guardian until she gets married. She\u2019s endured physical and emotional abuse from her parents, including being locked in her room for six months because she cut her hair. And she has renounced Islam which is punishable by death.\n\n\n\nWhen she reached Bangkok a Saudi diplomat met her at the gate and took her passport which then left her stuck in the international terminal of an airport without any papers. The Thai authorities wanted to send her back to her family, but she was able to barricade herself in a hotel room. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees became aware of the situation because of her pleas for help on Twitter.\n\n\n\nIn the end she was granted asylum in Canada by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and was greeted at the Toronto airport by Chrystia Freeland, the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister.\n\n\n\nChina passes law to make Islam 'compatible with socialism' \ufeff\n\n\n\nWe\u2019ve been tracking for several months now China\u2019s actions against the county\u2019s Uighur Muslims.