Obama's Mixed But Improved (For Now) Week on Iran and Syria

When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.



Quran 9:5; "Repentance," Dawood, p. 186
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Obama's Mixed But Improved (For Now) Week on Iran and Syria

"About sixty-one percent of the contents of the Koran are found to speak ill of the unbelievers or call for their violent conquest; at best only 2.6 percent of the verses of the Koran are noted to show goodwill toward humanity. About seventy-five percent of Muhammad's biography (Sira) consists of jihad waged on unbelievers." Dr. Moorthy Muthuswamy http://www.truthbeknown.com/islamquotes.htm
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Obama's Mixed But Improved (For Now) Week on Iran and Syria

Abu Darda said: "Let us smile to the face of some people while our hearts curse them." Al-Hassan said: "Doing taqiyya is acceptable till the day of judgment [in perpetuity]."



Wolf acting as docile pomeranian?
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Obama's Mixed But Improved (For Now) Week on Iran and Syria

When in a dialogue of importance it in a necessity to understand from what foundation of beliefs your counterpart speaks.

This Iranian state representative President can not and should not be trusted.



Qur'an (66:2) - "Allah has already ordained for you, (O men), the dissolution of your oaths"



Reliance of the Traveler (p. 746 - 8.2) Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible (N:i.e. when the purpose of lying is to circumvent someone who is preventing one from doing something permissible), and obligatory to lie if the goal is obligatory... it is religiously precautionary in all cases to employ words that give a misleading impression..."One should compare the bad consequences entailed by lying to those entailed by telling the truth, and if the consequences of telling the truth are more damaging, one is entitled to lie.
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House Republicans Target Contraception In Last-Minute Spending Bill

We should pass a law making everyone has to eat pork, and everyone has to pay for everybody's pork bill costs. How do you think that would go over?

To compare GOP

with Taliban is STUPID

off with your head, a fatwah upon your empty noggin.
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House Republicans Target Contraception In Last-Minute Spending Bill

The question is not about what is immoral for you, it's about what is absolutely immoral for them. An example would be if we passed a law saying everyone should eat bacon and everyone would have to pay a tax so free bacon would be available to all. Do you think that the Muslim population might have a problem with such a bill?
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House Republicans Target Contraception In Last-Minute Spending Bill

It's not about women, especially those with such a self serving attitude. The fact is that a majority of those innocents that have paid the price have done so not out of a need but due to a want.
About Republicans
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PARDON ME....I SAID WHAT?

Arbee:

There was an article blog posted on the Huffington Post recently, touting the fight for equality of races. The author quoted the famous “I have a dream” speech. One of the lines in that speech has often been overlooked, and that involves the word character.
Some thoughts on that subject:

http://aresponse2.blogspot.com/2013/09/it-should-be-new-day.html

This is an email response received regarding the above posting on AResponse2.  Interesting take.

1^st Comment received: I think Dr. King’s speech will go down in history as one of the most important speeches in our country.  But he was murdered shortly after his beautiful words were spoken.  It is easy for white people, who have every opportunity handed to them from the time of birth, to decide how people of minority races should feel.  Like the old saying, “you should walk in my shoes”.  If I were a Black or Hispanic American today, I would be angry.  As a matter of fact, I am a white American and I am angry.  I cannot believe that any sane person in this country would think that people of color are treated the same as whites.  I hope this opinion was respectful enough for you.  It is just one little white woman's opinion.

AR2:  Did you even read the link I posted?  Do you really think that anger is the way to correct the problem?  Do you have any positive suggestions on how to give those folks a real chance to be self-reliant and to have a real sense of equality?  Anger is easy, being constructive takes an effort.  As far as people of color being treated the same as whites, they are not. And in so many ways you would probably fail to admit.

2^nd Comment received:  yes I did read the link and agreed with a lot of it.  But then that is the way white people would like the world to be.  I admit I do get angry~~~~~ angry at the arrogance of white people.  The race problem was not settled with the freeing of the slaves or with Dr. King's beautiful words or with the Black Panthers or with giving black people more opportunities just because they are black.  This race problem will not be over for hundreds of years, as it was hundreds of years in the making.  I don't think you can make an angry person less angry by words.  It will take time and lots of it.  It will not happen in our lifetime as I once thought it would.  The anger is not just from black people but just as many white people are angry too.  Just look at the angry people when we had the first 1/2 black president elected.  I have friends that hate President Obama and when I ask them what they hate, they can't give me an answer but they are sure to tell me it's not because he is black!   I don't think this problem will be solved until we are not black or white but we are a race of honey colored green eyed wavy haired people.  I wish I could be here to see it.  Until that time I will try to view other people's feelings from their point of view.  I think that would be a constructive first step.  White people better learn to get along with other people that are not white or are not born again Christians or of the same sexual preference as they are.  It is really not that complicated.

AR2 response:  It has been about a week or so since the above conversation took place and since it has continued to pester my mind, I find it necessary to respond.

The original posting referred to Rev. King’s speech and the oft forgotten phrase related to his fervent hope that his daughters would see the day when a person was judged not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character.  The basic premise was that our societal character is what creates the inequality. The anger propagated by the hate mongers on both sides of the issue, who continue to dwell in the sewer of the past, can only see through glasses colored through those times.  As they speak, so they teach and another generation continues the hatred and misunderstandings of the past because of the osmosis of prejudice and mistrust.  One of my favorite readings is AS A MAN THINKETH, and it presupposes the necessity of self-review of our own beliefs.

The discussion that came out of that article prompted just such a review, and brought to my mind my struggle with such sites as the Huffington Post and Roots.  It is really difficult to carry on meaningful dialogue with those who are so intent on defending their ground that the original subject does not matter. There is almost nothing in the response I received regarding anything related to character.  There is much related to the thoughts produced by anger and prejudice.  Rather than working toward a better understanding of viewpoint, acceptance of others, and seeking mutual solutions, blame and derision seem to be the standard argument.  The comments of the responder did, however, cause enough turmoil in my thoughts to spawn another fury of typing.  Hopefully I can respond to the subjects embedded in the comments as received.  I posted my answer to the first comment and you can see it above.  It was the next comment that struck me with a sense of futility of getting through the barriers of so many prejudices.  I would classify myself as one who is strong and fervent in my desire to make my side of the story understood, and it has taken a few days to understand why the second comment advanced my need for further discussion. Discussion not of the original article but rather one regarding the points brought up in the comments.

Prejudice is a very insidious sickness of the human condition and is usually only apparent in the other guy.  Unfortunately, it will eventually infect all of us in one way or the other, forming our attitudes and affecting our interaction with others in our world.  Christ said “Be ye as little children”. If only we were able to maintain that degree of innocence.  I can truly attest to this regarding racial prejudice.  I grew up in a small town of approximately 600 people. When I reached the age of high school, the only people I didn’t like were bullies, Japs and Germans. .That was because I had some actual mental or physical contact with those groups.  All other people were just that, people.  I never learned to distrust or to think that colored people were any different from me.  It wasn’t until many years later that I learned why.  I had never had any contact with people of any other color so I had never learned prejudice. For that, I feel blessed and fortunate.  I thank you Lord, for those years of innocence.  That brings me back to the children.  Children are colorblind. They will play, argue and make friends with any other child until one of them crosses the line of civility, and that is one of their guidelines. I think that is the kind of personal judgment that Rev. King was referring too.  

I did learn in later years that my contact with colored races during my formative years was so minimal due to the cities “Sundown Law”.  People of color were not allowed in the city limits after sundown and knowing this they just never came into our area.  My innocence was paid for with that which remained hidden to my nature, prejudice, bigotry and mistreatment.  I could feel guilty about those things but that would be misplaced guilt.  I could spend my time trying to make retribution for that but it wasn’t me that created the circumstance.  I could be aware of how wrong that law was.  I could have compassion for those who were harmed.  Having the compassion does not mean that I have to accept the blame for an act in which I was not involved.  I can, out of compassion, understand the current plight and work toward improving it.  I also feel anger toward the ignorance of the past actions of mankind in their injustice toward their fellow man.  Color is not the first to be touched by prejudice and bigotry there are few if any throughout history that have not been under that attack.  I am currently one of those who feel its sting.  I am one of those arrogant white people who want the world to forget all of our races past transgressions.   I am one of those religious fanatics who believe in the deity and the graces offered by my Savior Christ.  I am one of those traditionalists who believe that marriage is reserved for the union of a man and woman.  I am one of those who fervently wish we had a different President of our country.  I am one of those who wish our young people would pull their pants up, turn their hats around, and respect the lessons learned in the past.  Just because I believe these things does not negate my belief in the fact that we all put our lives on pathways of our own choosing.  The mile walked in my moccasins may be different but I also understand that your mile is unique to you and I hope your journey ends well.  God speed.

To trade one form of prejudice for another doesn’t make you better or different but it can make you a bigot of another color. arbee

IT SHOULD BE A NEW DAY (IN MEMORY OF Martin Luther King)

“We all stood - amidst this brotherhood of humanity - rapt with attention as King told of his dream of an America where his four little children would one day live in a nation where they would not be judged "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character".  Martin Luther King.

What a powerful phrase. It should replace the tired worn, “we shall overcome”, rhetoric of the past. Why are there not thousands of voices condemning the continuation of a fight against those who would continue a fight in anger when achievement in harmony would be so much better? The blame of failure to succeed lies within the individual and those who instill beliefs of blame upon others.”  (huffington post)

Kings words that day are revered today as a battle cry.  Not the words about character,

(they would be pointing the finger in an unpopular direction) but the call to overcome unfairness.  We have too many churches, learning institutions and politicians clinging to the injustices of the past rather than the possibilities of the future.  

If an honest appraisal of our race problems in the United States were to be taken, one would have to admit to great movements toward equality in most areas of our society.  We hear only about how badly we mistreat our African American populace and other people of color.  This is in fact true, but the reasons are most likely not due to prejudice.

We continue to hear about the disproportionate numbers in regards to unemployment, incarceration, conviction rates and income.  We get bombasted with media hype about how Latinos and African Americans are viewed as dangerous by the rest of us.  About how we view them as incapable of holding higher paying jobs.  Once again there is truth in those statements, but the reasons are most likely not entirely due to prejudice. The responsibility for curing social illnesses is one we all bear each and every day. If we as individuals do nothing to make our neighbors existence on this planet better, then we are failing both them and ourselves.  As a society, we need to start treating cause rather than blaming the symptoms on someone else.

Martin Luther King’s dream consisted of an uplifting of his people into a place where their character replaced color as criteria for equality or inequality.  There can be no denial of his character or the character traits that he propagated within his community.  Whether or not he would be happy with the advances we have made regarding racial equality is not the question.  Would he be promoting the anger, the resentment and the entitlement mentality?   I don’t think so.  He was a person who accepted his responsibility as a leader and acted in that manner.

We no longer have that many heroes in our society who promote good behavior, a high ethical standard and the Good Samaritan attitudes that I was privy to in my formative ages.  The Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy’s have all been replaced.  Heroes expounding the feats required to overcome evil are at a minimum, while being replaced by examples of a more dubious nature.  Our young people are in an atmosphere constant input from those outside their immediate influence.  This is not limited to any one ethnic group but spreads across all boundaries within our country.  Our society is what the majority holds sacred in its cumulative beliefs, ethical sensitivities, and whatever seems popular.  Character is only relevant to now, in the new society, not what was or what may be a better for the individual in fact.  Age old mores of value are being eroded by the constant waves of anger, mistrust, and feelings of being denied, the “you owe me because I exist”, perks of life.  It is as if the past descriptions of morality and respect for others have been replaced in the new heroes with the attitudes promoted by gangsta rappers, shock entertainers, anarchists, rebels, violent videos.  It is no longer an “in thing” to be a law abiding, hardworking, responsible young adult who works toward achieving successes in their life.

The society and country we are to be exists in the nourishment we provide the minds of our children.  It rests upon each of our shoulders to insure the quality of character that will enhance the beliefs of the future in a positive manner.  All people of all groups within our great country have the responsibility of positive example, remembering that we are all members of the family we call humanity.

AN AMERICAN SPEAKS ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN ADVANCES

   Sometimes it is a lot easier for me to accept the wisdom of others into my tent.

BILL HAS GONE AND DONE IT AGAIN...

They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't, ...
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.
$500 sneakers for what?
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12?
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father? Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?

Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from??
We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa .....

I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.
I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ......... And all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.
People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.
Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard..
We cannot blame the white people any longer.'

~Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D.

WELL SAID, BILL
It's NOT about color...
It's about behavior!!!