Posted in Honor Roll, Iran, Islam, Society on Aug 31st, 2006
You hafta love Islam. There’s just so much room for maneuver.
Take lying for instance. It’s not only allowed, but encouraged when dealing with infidels. Here’s an excerpt of the article Lying in Islam by Abdullah Al Araby from IslamReview.com:
…passages from the Quran clearly reveal that Muslims’ unintentional lies are forgivable and that [...]
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Posted in Iran, Islam, Nazi Germany, Shiite, Sunni on Aug 30th, 2006
Enter the Mahdaviat.
We’ve talked about the Nazism at the roots of the Palestinian national movement. We’ve hinted at the genocidal racism at the roots of other Sunni radicals.
But, what about the Shia?
What lies at the root of Shiite radical Islam?
Something far, far more frightening than neo-Nazi ideology. When dealing with Nazis, you can at least [...]
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Posted in History, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Shiite, Sunni on Aug 29th, 2006
To outsiders, the difference between the Sunnis and the Shiites seems rather vague and esoteric. They both absolutely believe and venerate the Qur’an (aka Koran), the holiest book of Islam. They both call themselves Muslim. They both go on Hajj every year to Mecca, in Saudi.
But, they seem to have spent the last 13 centuries [...]
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Posted in History, Islam, Judaism, Saudi Arabia on Aug 28th, 2006
I was going to talk about the threat from other radical Islamic groups, but I think that we need to take a step back and look at the basic structure of Islam before putting Muslim radicals under our microscope.
First up: Mohammed
He was an ambitious, silver-tongued young man who grew up in the later part of [...]
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All last week, I went on and on, ad nauseum, about the Nazi ideology that lies at the heart of the Palestinian national movement. The Palestinian nationalists were such a great place to start because their Nazism was so obvious. Their founders used Mein Kampf as their second bible, and their followers have made it [...]
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