An eye for an eye

Max.

All Volunteer

as in: Working for nothing.

Father Joe

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on July 16, 2006 at 9:23 pm3 Omar Muhammad Jackson

Islam is a monotheistic religion that acknowledges the total sovereignty of Almighty God.

President Bush tried to explain that the word, “Islam,” means PEACE. This is true but inadequate. It means SUBMISSION TO GOD. The only way to properly submit to God (Allah) is to become a Muslim.

Muhammad is the “seal of the prophets” and the QUR’AN (our Holy Book) is the completion of the series revelations received by Christians and Jews.

Allah has given us his law and we are obliged to fulfill our duties, the 5 Pillars of Faith:

1. SHAHADA (recitation of creed);

2. SALAT (daily prayer);

3. ZAKAT (almsgiving);

4. SAWM (fasting); and

5. HAJ (pilgrimage).

CREED & PRAYER

We pray throughout the day after ablutions for purification: at dawn, midday, midafternoon, sunset and nightfall. We face Mecca when we pray. When possible men pray in a MOSQUE with an IMAM (prayer leader); such is required on Friday (the holy day). The recitation of the Shahada and daily prayer are closely aligned.

FASTING

During RAMADAN (the ninth month of the Muslim calendar), we fast during the daylight hours in remenbrance of God’s revelation coming to Muhammad.

PILGRIMAGE

All Muslims should try to reach the holy city of MECCA at least once. Special rituals are conducted there during the 12th month of the lunar calendar.

ALMSGIVING

As for almsgiving, we give to the poor. In some places a Mosque will tax members and give to the needy in fulfillment of this obligation. This is similar to special collections taken up by churches.

I mention these pillars to give you a needed lesson. Those who follow these practices without compromise are the ones you call vermin. However, the West has lost its soul. Christianity with all its corruptions would leave you in a better state than the godless secularism and materialism that possesses you.

You condemn us but we believe in God. What do you believe in?

Most Christians do not attend their churches and rarely if ever pray. They give to charities when there is a tidy tax-exemption, but otherwise, especially among Republicans, condemn the working poor. How much do you make a year, $50,000, $90,000, more? Do you tithe ten percent or more to your churches, like they ask you? I bet you do not. Your pope preaches peace, but you only listen to him when it is convenient for you. I sometimes think we Muslims take the bishop of Rome more seriously than his own flock!

Abortion is illegal in Muslim countries, can you say the same? No! You murder your own children. A few of our women and children join the martyrs in witnessing for our faith and freedom. And they are driven by no selfish aim, something you cannot claim.

We will not have to fight you in the battlefield. Our seed is already planted in your cities and towns. You have no children and we have dozens. Given time, you will be the minority. The crusaders came and left, and we were still there. The British came and left, and we were still there. And I assure you, when the Jews and the white Americans are long gone, we will still be here.

Who knows, maybe one day instead of a bishop in Rome, we will talk of the Vatican as the home to the world’s chield Imam? France is already ours and America will be the “United Islamic States.” The rest of the world will follow. Then the world will know peace, and all will obey and praise Allah!

Bring our boys home

Send the old men if you must.

Home field advantage

If we don't fight them over there, we will have to fight them over here.
Let's fight them over here.

Our SS

Yes, at some point one begins to compare the other side to the Nazis, and everyone starts to squirm hoping that he notices the warning sign, but isn't there a vague similarity:
a private army, closely held, outside the law, for uses foreign and domestic, doing brutal things to people who are "problems".

Truth, Justice, or the American Way

Professor Sami Al-Arian has entered the nineteenth day of a hunger strike to protest continued government harassment.
Democracy Now.
This is sick.

Arlington, West

click
Toll nears 4000. What does the family of the lucky winner get?

Nationalization of Bear Stearns

(F)or every dollar of loan money that the Fed put up for Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase is putting up less than a penny of capital. see

The Chocolate War

This is an incomplete picture of the war in Iraq.
War is about brutal killing.
Including children.

Blogswarm

Here is your link.

If we are willing to kill Christ

I don't think that we should be given machine guns.

Tibet

"Initially led by monks, the demonstrations began peacefully on March 10, the anniversary of a failed uprising in 1959 against Chinese rule, and then spiraled out of control."

Yes the invasion of Tibet by the Chinese in 1959 is called a "failed uprising". Hard to believe.

See for yourself, here.

Too late, sorry, the article has been rewritten. The article now omits mention of the anniversary, or the word "monks", and now reads:

"The protests have been the biggest challenge in almost two decades to Chinese rule in Tibet, a Himalayan region that the People's Liberation Army occupied in 1950 after several decades of effective independence."

In 1959, the Dali Lama fled to India. (Wikipedia)

Have you watched the videos?

Ivaw.org
The site is down a lot it seems, which is sort of good, maybe.
And why is all of this testimony not newsworthy?
Beats me.

Democracy Now! Monday
Democracy Now! Tuesday
Democracy Now! Wednesday

March 19th

Five glorious years.

We must maintain the zinc standard

Says that wit, Ron Paul, to the suggestion that we change the composition of the nickel, because zinc is too expensive.

Peace

March 6 - 10

Blogswarm

Be There.

The Right to Bear Arms

Is that camera on? YouTube Yes officer.

Longest Walk - Feb 11th

[site]

FLASH Federal Reserve District Three, Philadelphia

has decided to print its one hundred dollar denominated bills in Shanghai to reduce labor costs.

Buffalo Turkey Arms

Bush buffalos Congress into selling nuclear arms to turkey. Story.
Coverage of reaction.

Manifest Destiny

74'40" or fight

Peach Mint

mmm. Peach Mint.

Constantine's Sword

A film

Substitution in a Free Market

(aka) Let Them Eat Cake.

Step One

Get out of the handbasket.

New Orleans Flood

Canals: man made waterways
These were not the river banks that failed.

Cofer Black advises Mitt Romney on torture

Democracy Now! story transcript
Cofer Black is with Blackwater

The rich He has sent away with empty hands

(Luke 1:52-53).

Q: What are the Iraqis fighting about?

A: Should the USA have an embassy in Bagdad?

Fear is Torture

techniques: sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, drugs, pain
goal: panic, intimidation
US Army manual
History of CIA mind control efforts

Liberty Dollar

What is the deal with the raid?
"Mail fraud" is the basis of another case: Strange Culture.
A professor was arrested for his show on gm seed.
Ameros for sale.

The result of the fall of the Soviet Union

Cheap vodka.
Attention Russians who lost everything: please drink responsibly.
Coming soon to an ethanol store near you.

Every Child Left Behind

David Simon on expendable people.

You get free cheese only in a mousetrap

popular Russian saying.

Carried Interest

"Carried Interest" is the name of the contingency fee that private equity fund managers receive in lieu of a fixed salary.
It is often 20% of the profits of the fund.
This income is taxed as capital gains(15%). More.

Shake and Bake, in Fallujah 2004

The military use
of white phosphorus
is a breach
of International
Humanitarian Law.



Daily Kos

Blessed are those who would lay down their livesfor their friends

Too bad that pretty much means war these days.

Election Fraud in 2004

Democratic dirty tricks to keep Ralph Nader off the ballot in 2004.
Don't expect petition drives to be allowed.

Not the brains of the organization

Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, in 1978

In 1981, he died unfortunately in a plane explosion.
The talked-about sea-level canal never developed.

First Lady of Iran

Or possibly, Press Secretary.

Why Haven't the Aliens Invaded Yet?

Once they used up all their oil, their civilization collapsed.

Illegal Combatants

Court-martial for the Commander-in-Chief

General Sanchez says a court martial is appropriate.

Five million dinar (currency)

Excuse me, that cookie is 8 million dinars and you only gave me 5.
Hyper-inflation: coming to a country near you.

Communist

to robber barons in 17 years.
You like the new Gazprom headquarters? The new energy Tsar?
Chechnya

Vietnam

is cutting its purchases of US Treasuries

Telegraph

State of the Union

"The Yank and the Brit could not be less prepared or more poorly positioned. They already live beyond their means. They can expect no wage gains. Their costs are rising. And with three billion Asians hard on their heels, they can’t expect a breather – prices will continue to rise; wages will not. What’s worse, the street value of their most cherished asset – their houses – is going down."
The Oil Drum

Junie B Jones

Boo! ... and I mean it.

The Secret Plan

The government has a secret plan.
Continue as usual for as long as possible.
What a Way to Go

We are not too dependent on foreign oil

We are too dependent on oil period

Oil Corrupts

The day that the Burmese military shot into the unarmed rally was also the day that the Indian Oil Minister was in Rangoon, signing oil and gas contracts with the military junta.
Pakistan Daily Times

Occupation is liberation

for which see

Love it or leave it

Leaving, but taking the land with.

10000 year supply of hydrogen discovered

Used at current rates.

The Learning Curve

"You have to ask yourself what interest we had 40 years ago for going to war in Vietnam. You’d think that in this country with so many smart people, that we can’t possibly do the same dumb thing again. I have this theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves."
Seymour Hersh, in an article about the break-up of Iraq.
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” Aldous Huxley