Bits And Pieces From Internet

Bits And Pieces From Internet

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BITS AND PIECES FROM INTERNET Muntadar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at Mr Bush as the president was giving a news conference during a visit to Baghdad this month. Since then a Turkish firm, which claims it made the shoes, says it has had to take on 100 extra staff to cope with the surge in orders. Martin Vennard BBC News December 26, 2008.

"This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is the farewell kiss, you dog," the man said at the press conference in Baghdad. He was Muntanther Zaidi, a correspondent for Baghdadiya, a satellite TV channel. Seconds later, the journalist hurled his other shoe with similar precision as another Iraqi journalist reached over in an attempt to stop him. "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq," he said, according to the translation. (LA Times, 15 December) Bush laughed it off. A normal reaction to being told you are responsible for thousands of deaths. The reaction of a man with principles. With a conscience. .....A laughing matter for Bush, perhaps, but it is no laughing matter for the Iraqis, or any half-decent person. It is only men like him, and like Tony Blair, who feel no shame, no remorse over the deaths they have caused. And it is precisely men like them who are in fact capable of such atrocities. Men without honour. Men without a sense of humanity. Men without mercy. The Farewell Kiss by Lily Hamourtziadou 14 Dec 2008

The American military has expressed regret “that civilians are hurt or killed while coalition forces search to rid Iraq of terrorism,” after the 11 October killing of 15 women (one pregnant) and children in an air raid near lake Thar Thar.1 The civilian death toll by US fire was 96 in October, with 23 children among them, 2

while in September US forces and contractors killed 108 Iraqi civilians, including 7 children. In August US troops killed 103 civilians, 16 of them children, and in July they killed 196. In fact, during the last five months US forces in Iraq have killed over 600 Iraqi civilians. Regrettably, as always. ..................It is the ‘price to pay’, the ‘sacrifice’ that has to be made as we fight terrorism, the ‘cost’ of this war against evil forces. That is what we say to justify these killings. But those of us who speak of this price to be paid, this

sacrifice to be made, do not pay this price, do not make this sacrifice. Our own country is not being destroyed, attacked, occupied. Our own children are not being blown up, our civilians are not becoming homeless by the millions. Those who speak of the necessity of this sacrifice, would they be prepared to pay such a price? In their own country? With the blood of their own families? By Lily Hamourtziadou in How the West Values Civilian Lives in Iraq

Americans don't know what terror is. To know terror, you have to be a Palestinian, an Iraqi, or an Afghan. Layla Anwar, an Iraqi Internet blogger, describes what terror is like. Terror is families

attending a wedding being blown to pieces by an American missile or bomb and the survivors being blown to pieces at the funeral of the newlyweds. Terror is troops breaking down your door in the middle of the night, putting guns to your heads, and carrying off brothers, sons, and husbands with bags over their heads and returning to rape the unprotected women. Terror is being waterboarded in one of America's torture dungeons. Terror is "when you run from hospital ward to hospital ward, from prison to prison, from militia to militia looking for your loved 3

one only to recognize them from their teeth fillings in some morgue." For people targeted by American hegemony, terror is realizing that Americans have no moral conscience. Terror is the lack of medicines from American embargoes that led to the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children. When asked by Lesley Stahl if the American policy was worth the children's deaths, Madeleine Albright, President Bill Clinton's secretary of state, said "we think the price is worth it." By Paul Craig Roberts in Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims

In a speech last week, Rudy Giuliani said that while the Soviet Union and China could be deterred during the cold war, Iran can't be. The Soviet and Chinese regimes had a "residual rationality," he explained. Hmm. Stalin and Mao —who casually ordered the deaths of millions of their own people, fomented

insurgencies

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revolutions,

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starved

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opposed them —were rational folk. But not Ahmadinejad, who has done what that compares? One of the bizarre twists of the current Iran hysteria is that conservatives have become surprisingly charitable about two of history's greatest mass murderers. If I had to choose whom to describe as a madman, North Korea's Kim Jong Il or Ahmadinejad, I do not think there is really any contest. A decade ago Kim Jong Il allowed a famine to kill 2 million of his own people, forcing the others to survive by eating grass, while he imported gallons of expensive French wine. He has sold nuclear technology to other rogue states and threatened his neighbors with test-firings of rockets and missiles. Yet the United States will be participating in international relief efforts to Pyongyang worth billions of dollars.

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By Fareed Zakaria in

Stalin, Mao And … Ahmadinejad?

Conservatives have become surprisingly charitable about two of history's greatest mass murderers.

Cry like a woman for a kingdom that you defend not like a man

Beautiful One-liners 1. Give ALLAH what's right -- not what's left. 2. Man's way leads to a hopeless end -- ALLAH'S way leads to an endless hope. 3. A lot of supplication will keep you in good standing. 4. He who bow before ALLAH can stand before anyone. 5. In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma--but never let him be the period. 6. Don't put a question mark where ALLAH puts a period. 7. When praying, don't give ALLAH instructions - just report for duty. 8. We don't change ALLAH'S message -- HIS message changes us. 9. When ALLAH ordains, HE sustains. 10. Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Nooh built the ark. 5

11. Most people want to serve ALLAH, but only in an advisory position. 12. Suffering from truth decay? Brush up on your Qur'an, the ultimate guide to mankind. 13. Never give the devil a ride -- he will always want to drive. 14. Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it. 15. Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back. 16. He who angers you controls you. 17. Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop. 18. Give syaitan an inch & he'll be a ruler. 19. Learn to forgive and you will be forgiven 20. ALLAH doesn't call the qualified, HE qualifies the called. 21. Read the Qur'an -- It will scare the hell out of you.

"Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement. Put them to work today." -Wilfred A. Peterson

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HIJAB Posted by a sister at http://www.singlemuslim.com What do you see when you look at me Do you see someone limited, or someone free? All some people can do is just look and stare

Simply because they can't see my hair. Others think I am controlled and uneducated They think that I am limited and un-liberated.

They are so thankful that they are not me Because they would like to remain 'free.' Well free isn't exactly the word I would've used Describing women who are cheated on and abused. They think that I do not have opinions or voice They think that being hooded isn't my choice. They think that the hood makes me look caged That my husband or dad are totally outraged. All they can do is look at me in fear And in my eye there is a tear. Not because I have been stared at or made fun of But because people are ignoring the One up Above. On the Day of Judgment they will be the fools Because they were too ashamed to play by their own rules. Maybe the guys won't think I am a cutie 7

But at least I am filled with more inner beauty. See I have declined from being a guy's toy Because I won't let myself be controlled by a boy. Real men are able to appreciate my mind And aren't busy looking at my behind. Hooded girls are the ones really helping the Muslim cause The role that we play definitely deserves applause. I will be recognized because I am smart and bright And because some people are inspired by my sight.

The smart ones are attracted by my tranquility In the back of their mind they wish they were me. We have the strength to do what we think is right Even if it means putting up a life-long fight.

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You see we are not controlled by a miniskirt and tight shirt We are given only respect, and never treated like dirt. So you see, we are the ones that are free and liberated We are not the ones that are sexually terrorized and violated. We are the ones that are free and pure We're free of STD's that have no cure. So when people ask you how you feel about the hood Just sum it up by saying 'Baby, its all good!'

The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism by Harun Yahya

..........The image formed in the eye is so sharp and distinct that even the technology of the 20th century has not been able to attain it. For instance, look at the book you read, your hands with which you hold it, then lift your head and look around you. Have you ever seen such a sharp and distinct image as this one at any other place? Even the most developed television screen 9

produced by the greatest television producer in the world cannot provide such a sharp image for you. This is a three-dimensional, coloured, and extremely sharp image. For more than 100 years, thousands of engineers have been trying to achieve this sharpness. Factories, huge premises were established, much research has been done, plans and designs have been made for this purpose. Again, look at a TV screen and the book you hold in your hands. You will see that there is a big difference in sharpness and distinction. Moreover, the TV screen shows you a two-dimensional image, whereas with your eyes, you watch a three-dimensional perspective having depth. For many years, ten of thousands of engineers have tried to make a threedimensional TV, and reach the vision quality of the eye. Yes, they have made a three-dimensional television system but it is not possible to watch it without putting on glasses; moreover, it is only an artificial three-dimension. The background is more blurred, the foreground appears like a paper setting. Never has it been possible to produce a sharp and distinct vision like that of the eye. In both the camera and the television, there is a loss of image quality. Evolutionists claim that the mechanism producing this sharp and distinct image has been formed by chance. Now, if somebody told you that the television in your room was formed as a result of chance, that all its atoms just 10

happened to come together and make up this device that produces an image, what would you think? How can atoms do what thousands of people cannot? ....

However, the theory of evolution is pressingly kept on the agenda of

science. Some people even try to represent criticisms directed against the theory as an "attack on science." Why? The reason is that the theory of evolution is an indispensable dogmatic belief for some circles. These circles are blindly devoted to materialist philosophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the only materialist explanation that can be put forward for the workings of nature. Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time to time. A well known geneticist and an outspoken evolutionist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University, confesses that he is "first and foremost a materialist and then a scientist ”: “ It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matterhow counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.” 11

These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma kept alive just for the sake of adherence to the materialist philosophy. This dogma maintains that there is no being save matter. Therefore, it argues that inanimate, unconscious matter created life. It insists that millions of different living species; for instance, birds, fish, giraffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers, whales and human beings originated as a result of the interactions between matter such as the pouring rain, the lightning flash, etc., out of inanimate matter. This is a precept contrary both to reason and science. Yet Darwinists continue to defend it just so as "not to allow a Divine Foot in the door." Anyone who does not look at the origin of living beings with a materialist prejudice will see this evident truth: All living beings are works of a Creator, Who is All-Powerful, All-Wise and All-Knowing. This Creator is God, Who created the whole universe from non-existence, designed it in the most perfect form, and fashioned all living beings.

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