Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/19/2012

The Guinness Book of World Records has certified a mosque in the Russian city of Kazan as having the largest Koran in the world. The book in question measures about six feet by four feet, and weighs nearly a ton.

In other news, Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik says that the psychiatrists who examined him are wrong, that he is sane. He has instructed his lawyer to present a defense in court which acknowledges his full responsibility for his actions.

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