Posted on 06/05/2007 5:58:01 AM PDT by rjp2005
The fact all this stuff has never been reported is a complete indictment of the drive-by media. If they weren’t so busy being shills for leftists and running down conservatives, they might actually have time to do their job. That, of course, would presuppose they know what their job is and they know how to do it and will actually set aside their prejudices and report the news. Of course, that is assuming too much.
Me too. There's no doubt in my mind which 'angel' appeared to Mohammed.
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Bukhari:V1B1N3-V6B60N478 "The commencement of divine inspiration to Allah’s Messenger was in the form of dreams that came true like a bright light. The Prophet loved the seclusion of a cave in Hira. The angel came to him and asked him to read. The Prophet replied, 'I do not know how to read.' The Prophet added, 'Then the angel caught me forcefully and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it any more. He released me and asked me to read. I replied, "I do not know how to read." Thereupon he caught me again and pressed me till I could not bear it any more. He asked me to read but I replied, "I do not know how to read or what shall I read?" Thereupon he caught me for the third time and pressed me, "Read in the name of your Lord who has created man from a clot. Read! Your Lord is the most generous." Then the Apostle returned from that experience; the muscles between his neck and shoulders were trembling, and his heart beating severely. He went to Khadija and cried, 'Cover me! Cover me.' She did until his fear subsided. He said, 'What’s wrong with me? I am afraid that something bad has happened to me.' Khadija replied, 'Never! By Allah, Allah will never disgrace you....'"[This is from the Sira... (The Sira along with the Hadith and Koran form the corpus of Islam's holy texts)]
Ishaq:105 "Aisha said that when Allah desired to honor Muhammad, the first sign of prophethood was a vision in brightness of day shown to him in his sleep. [In other words, he was dreaming.] He liked nothing better than to be alone. When he left Mecca and there was no house in sight, every stone and tree that passed by said, 'Peace be unto you, Allah’s Apostle.' Muhammad would turn around and see naught but trees and stones. [In other words, he was stoned.] He stayed seeing and hearing things as long as it pleased Allah. Then Gabriel came to him with the gift of Allah’s grace [the spiritual beating] while he was on Hira in the month of Ramadhan. The Apostle would pray in seclusion on Hira every year for a month to practice Tahannuth as was the custom of the Quraysh in the heathen days. [In other words, Muhammad was a heathen and the Islamic Pillar requiring Ramadhan fasting was pagan.] Tahannuth is religious devotion [to pagan idols]. After praying in seclusion, he would walk around the Ka'aba seven times. [The centerpiece of the Hajj Pillar is pagan as well.]"
Ishaq:106 "The Prophet set off to Hira with his family. When it was night, Gabriel brought him the command of Allah. 'He came to me,' the Apostle said, 'while I was asleep, with a coverlet of brocade whereon was some writing, and said, 'Read.' I said, 'What shall I read.' He pressed me so tightly that I was near death. Then he let go and said, 'Read!'" This happens twice more, then... "When I thought I was nearly dead I said, 'What shall I read; only to deliver myself from him, lest he should do the same thing to me again. He said, 'Read in the name of your Lord who created man of blood coagulated. Read! Your generous Lord taught by the pen.'" Then the illiterate man said, "So I read it, and he departed from me. I awoke from my sleep. These words were written on my heart."
Ishaq reports: "None of Allah’s creatures was more hateful to me than an ecstatic poet or a man possessed. I thought, 'Woe is me, I'm a possessed poet.'" The worst thing that can befall a man or woman is to be possessed by the devil. He or she loses all sense of decency. To his credit, Muhammad recognized what had happened. To his shame, he damned three billion souls along with his own.
Ishaq:106 "I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself and be at rest." There was no doubt in his mind. During the violent encounter with the spirit in the darkness of that cave, Muhammad had been possessed by the Devil. He wanted to commit suicide - something that Satan could not allow. He had big plans for his prophet.
Ishaq:106 "So I climbed to the mountain to kill myself when I heard a voice saying, 'Muhammad, you are Allah’s Apostle.' I raised my head to see who was speaking and lo, I saw Gabriel in the form of a man with feet astride the horizon." How, pray tell, would our terrified and possessed poet distinguish between Gabriel and Lucifer? And since the first revelation was sinister, that’s a problem.
Bukhari:V9B87N113 "The Prophet said, 'A good dream is from Allah, and a bad dream is from Satan.'"
By his own account, this was a bad dream.
If they use them the US will respond with a nuclear "blanket" that reaches from Karachi to Bandr Abbas.
That’s a small comfort for everyone dying off cancer here in America.
I really dont understand you people who claim our retialiation is some sort of comfort.. at that point who gives a f?
You underestimate their patience. Remember, they waited 8 years after 1993 to hit the Trade Centers again.
The Dems will never allow us to retaliate with nukes. No way.
And, the US President could order such an act without any input from Congress if we were attacked.
He could order the launch of 5,000 warheads...and they would be launched immediately. No consultation with the Congress whatsoever.
Thanks for #24. I’ll have to bring myself to read the Koran one of these days.
Reading the Koran isn’t going to help you.
The Koran’s chapters are organzied by their length. They are not organized by chronology or context. It’s like someone took a book, ripped out every page, throw the pages in the air, and then reassembled it however the pages landed.
The Hadith and Sira (the other Islamic holy texts) were written to make the Koran make sense and its these texts that Muslims really go to if they want guidance.
You’ll need something topical or contextual to give order to it all if you really want to understand it. I suggest reading the following:
Prophet of Doom
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Prophet_of_Doom_Islams_Terrorist_Dogma_in_Muhammads_Own_Words.Islam
Islamic Terrorism Timeline
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Terrorism_Timeline.Islam
Islamic Holy Text Quotes by Topic
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Quotes.Islam
Also, go to the Jihad Watch blog and Dhimmi Watch blog to get daily updates on how Muslims follow thier religion today.
Deterence?
How can you deter people who think if they die in the context of a jihad for the sake of Allah they will go to heaven?
Do you know that in Islam there is no greater goal than to die in Jihad for allah?
MAD isn’t deterence for Muslims, it’s a catalyst.
Or, that the hard-core Jihadi's are willing to sacrafice EVERY Muslim city and 1/3 of the population in order to dliver 1-2 nukes in the US?
Such a belief is naieve. These poeple love power too much for that. They also, believe it or not, love their families and their S I C K culture. They'll not trade their total destruction for a symbolic hit on the west.
No, it'll be when they expect to prevail that we'll see attacks of consequence.
He?
We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.
- Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Khomeini, Holy City of Qom 1980
After decades of struggle the Palestinians are convinced that they have finally discovered Israel's Achilles' heel. Ismail Haniya, another Hamas leader, was quoted in March of last year in The Washington Post as saying that Jews "love life more than any other people, and they prefer not to die." In contrast, suicide terrorists are often said to have gone to their deaths smiling. An Israeli policeman told me, "A suicide bomber goes on a bus and finds himself face-to-face with victims and he smiles and he activates the bomb—but we learned that only by asking people afterwards who survived." This is what is known in the Shia Islamic tradition as the bassamat al-farah, or "smile of joy"—prompted by one's impending martyrdom. It is just as prevalent among Sunni terrorists. (Indeed, the last will and testament of Mohammed Atta, the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers, and his "primer" for martyrs, The Sky Smiles, My Young Son, clearly evidence a belief in the joy of death.)
Are these commentaries on the Koran, analogous to the Talmud and Mishna? Who wrote them, and who "canonized" them?
It’s important to note that Mohemmed didn’t write a single line of anything. Mohemmed was illiterte and he could not read nor write. The Koran was an oral tradition, until the Shiites in Baghdad wrote them down more than a hundred years later.
From Prophet of Doom’s Islamic Terror Timeline:
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islamic_Terrorism_Timeline_1000-Year_Crusade.Islam
750 CE: The Battle of Zab was fought. With the fall of Damascus to Shia Muslims, Islam experienced the end of the aggressive Umayyad Dynasty and the rise of the Abbasids.
They took their name from Muhammad’s uncle, al-Abbas, because his descendants had revolted against Umayyad control. Under the Umayyads, non-Muslims in occupied territories had been relegated to slave status. The Abbasids were more content, so long as the conquered paid their taxes.
The capital of the Islamic world was moved from Damascus, Syria to Baghdad, Iraq. The flea- and lice-infested, sun-baked, mud-hut towns of Mecca and Medina were ostracized for more civil, less Islamic cultures. It was in Baghdad that the religion of Islam was born. The first written edition of the Qur’an was compiled in Kufu, on the outskirts of Baghdad, sometime around 725 CE. Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah, known as the Sira, or Biography of Muhammad, was compiled in Baghdad in 750 CE (some say 768). Without this early biography chronicling Islam’s beginnings, the religion would not exist, as nothing would be known of its lone prophet and Allah’s singular voice. No Ishaq, no Prophet, no Prophet, no Islam.
Then in 850 CE, Bukhari and Muslim would compile the most authoritative Hadith collections depicting the words and deeds of Muhammad and his Companions. Their topical collection becomes the basis for Salaf, or fundamentalist, Islam. In these texts, Muhammad explained the Qur’an and established Islamic Sunnah and Sharia Law by clarifying his message regarding jihad, fighting, the slave trade, booty, taxation, the virgins in paradise, oppression, the intolerance of women, Christians, and Jews, as well as his open hostility to freedom of choice, and affinity for pagan ritual.
Next, the History of al-Tabari, depicting Muhammad’s rise to power, was compiled in Baghdad between 870 and 920 CE. Tabari’s Hadith-based depiction of Muhammad’s words and deeds as they were passed on by way of the Prophet’s Companions (the same folks who passed on the Qur’an), remains the oldest unedited, uncensored, and unabridged account of Islam’s beginnings. It is the story of a ruthless terrorist, money-grubbing pirate, and sexual pervert. While it is astonishing that anyone trusts Muhammad’s witness, this prophets words and deeds explain why Muslims were plundering the world.
What’s especially interesting here is that all five of Islam’s oldest scriptural sources are Shia, including the Qur’an. The Sunni Umayyads didn’t bother compiling or conveying any religious texts. The entire basis for the religion of Islam was compiled in Persian Baghdad, one hundred to three hundred years after it was allegedly conceived by Muhammad.
Not with obama in office.
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