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As long as the world's fastest-growing religious-political system -- now encompassing one-fifth of the world's population – considers digital currency haram, or forbidden, it is unlikely that such a system would gain widespread global acceptance. But what if cyrptocurrencies now considered haram by Muslim leaders could be made halal, or acceptable, under Sharia law? And what if I told you efforts are underway to do exactly that?

In recent weeks many people across the globe have been moved and outraged by the story of little Alfie Evans, whose life hung in the balance in a British hospital and whose fate was taken from the hands of his parents by the National Health Service (NHS) and the courts ... Alfie was forcibly removed from his breathing devices but continues to breathe on his own. The NHS and the courts would not even allow Alfie to go home with his parents, and when the nation of Italy offered to fly him to a Rome hospital for experimental treatment (at...

Mad Maxine is having a temper tantrum because the facts are prevailing. The Time 100 honoree (why?) told the magazine during its ceremony that she wants Trump to “just get out” of office. “If you had to give some advice to President Trump, what advice would you give him?” a Time reporter asked Waters on the red carpet. “Please resign so that I won’t have to keep up this fight of your having to be impeached, because I don’t think you deserve to be there. “Just get out!” she declared.

Full title of Article: "Congressman Louie Gohmert Just Absolutely Wrecked Robert Mueller With Epic 48-Page Investigative Blowout; We Have it Here" Excerpt: “What I have accumulated here is absolutely shocking upon the realization that Mueller’s disreputable, twisted history speaks to the character of the man placed in a position to attempt to legalize a coup against a lawfully elected President,” writes GOP Congressman Louie Gohmert. [The article then links a full PDF of Gohmert's article that exposes the full extent of Mueller's long-standing corruption. Please read it.]

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is mulling job offers from at least one mainstream media network television news team and two law firms who would hire the embattled public servant as a partner, according to sources in the Justice Department. The problem is Rosenstein still employed by the Justice Department. Perhaps not for long. But he might be looking for a way to parachute out before he is fired by President Trump. Or have a landing pad in case he is fired. NBC News has discussed a position with Rosenstein as an on-air pundit and analyst, sources said. And a...

I am considering donating my car to a charity. The internet is full of charities that want the car but there is very little on the money management "internals" that say how the money is distributed. The BBB says some give as little as 4% up to 44% but usually they don't name names at either end of the spectrum. Any Freepers out there with recommendations and positive experiences? My preference would be to donate to Disabled Veterans, Veterans or animal welfare organizations in that order.

She is brilliant and she is dedicated and she is tough,” said the president of the United States in 2013. “She also happens to be, by far, the best looking attorney general in the country.” That would be former California Attorney General Kamala Harris, daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, and now the state’s junior U.S. senator. As it happens, Barack Obama was not the first prominent Democrat to be dazzled by the UC Berkeley beauty. As speaker of the California State Assembly from 1980 to 1995, Willie Brown was by far the Golden State’s most powerful shot-caller. In 1994...

For over a century, Chicagoans grew up with a signature memory: special days downtown, shopping at Marshall Field’s and Carson’s, the great rival retail giants down the block from each other on State Street. (shown here: Carson's longtime downtown landmark by Louis Sullivan, sold off years ago). Smaller stores came and went, but Field’s and Carson’s were the giants, the dominant figures in Midwestern retail for generations. Macy’s bought out the struggling Field’s chain over a decade ago and cremated the brand name while keeping the stores. Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. wasn’t so lucky; its current holding company, Bon-Ton,...

The people of Syria are speaking out against media reports which suggest the Assad government has planted informants to deny the alleged chemical attack in Douma. One America’s Pearson Sharp is in Syria and has this exclusive report.

It’s time to see if Democrats are serious about their alleged support for campaign finance laws We always hear Democrats talking about how they want to pass new campaign finance laws.So I’m curious to see if these same Democrats will want to enforce the campaign finance laws that are already on the books.Hillary Clinton committed $84 million in campaign finance law violations. So far, not a angle Democrat has called for her to be prosecuted.By comparison, the Obama administration sent Dinesh D’Souza (who had previously made an anti-Obama film) to prison for a $20,000 campaign finance law violation. D’Souza did indeed...

Parents, pastors, politicians and educators will join a Muslim imam at a mosque Friday in Oakland County, Michigan, to pray and discuss how to make their schools and community safer in an era of mass school shootings. The Muslim Unity Center, a mosque in the wealthy Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, is hosting an "Interfaith Prayers and Symbolic Walkout Vigil" April 20 that feeds off of the anti-gun fervor created in the wake of the Parkland High School mass shooting that killed 17 students in February.

Bryan Sharpe, a black conservative, explains why he guilted Starbucks into giving him free coffee This guy is brilliant and hilarious!In this video, a black guy tells a white Starbucks employee that the company is giving free coffee to black people as reparations. The employee says it’s true – and that she had read it on her Twitter the previous evening. After the black guy gets his free coffee, he gives it away to a stranger:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-HrbZ3cpwgIt turns out that the black guy is a conservative named Bryan Sharpe. He says he did what he did to make fun of liberals. He...

There has been some criminal activity discovered linked to the Clinton-Bush Hurricane Katrina Fund and Clinton Foundation. According to sources the Katrina Fund is missing large amounts of money and should be investigated for the missing funds. The entire Clinton-Bush Hurricane Katrina Fund was set up to help the victims, and operated by Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. But it looks like the innocent victims were stollen from by the ones claiming to help them in the first place. Typical actions from the Clintons… We shouldn’t expect anything different I guess. Their Foundation definitely tells us a different story...

Columbus, Indiana hosted its first LGBT pride festival April 14, and by all accounts, it was a success. The event was planned and spearheaded by a high school student named Erin Bailey who began planning the event as a school project. More than 1,000 people reportedly attended, and the town’s population of 47,000 welcomed them generously with rainbow banners in the streets. The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT rights organization, supported, promoted and attended the event as well. When the event was first announced in late March of this year, it received recognition from dozens of international media outlets that...

The slime ball has the audacity to judge Trump from his perch on CNN?! 1. In 1986 Toobin took “The Oath,” marrying fellow Harvard student Amy McIntosh and promising to be faithful to her. They have two teenage children. 2. It did not take long for Toobin — who has been called “The Tiger Woods of Legal Journalism” because he shares Tiger’s “weakness for women and wandering eye” — to break that oath. 3. By the mid-1990s, Toobin was aggressively hitting on women, using “disgusting, ” “shockingly sexual come-on lines.” According to one of the women (apparently book editor and...

<p>1. Restaurants/coffee shops like Starbucks exist, in case the Social Justice Warriors weren't aware of this, to sell things to paying customers.</p> <p>2. These shops usually have chairs and tables. These are not "free" for anyone to use. They are provided as an included benefit, a lagniappe, for those who actually do pay for food or coffee.</p>

""FEDS DROP BOMBSHELL: Comey & Lynch Colluded with Clinton Campaign to Entrap, Wiretap Trump; Illegal Scheme Involved Entire U.S. Intel Community"""" Loretta Lynch’s Justice Department and James Comey’s FBI worked together with the Hillary Clinton campaign to entrap Donald Trump and associates — including his eldest son — prior to the 2016 presidential election, according to records and testimony of federal law enforcement insiders. One high ranking official in the Justice Department called it a sweeping “highly illegal” scheme to ensure Hillary Clinton’s election to the White House. “This was clearly a scheme using Justice (Department) resources and State (Department)...

Whoever was surprised by the hate-fest against the National Rifle Association and conservative Americans in general that followed the Parkland, Florida school shooting must not have been paying attention. Over the past half-century, a ruling class formed by our uniformly leftist educational system and occupying the commanding heights of corporate life, governmental bureaucracies, the media, etc. accuses its targets of everything from murder and terrorism to culpable psycho-social disorders (racism, sexism, and so forth). Leaders, marchers, and rioters speak from identical scripts. They do not try to persuade. They strengthen their own side’s vehemence. They restrict opponents from speaking on...

I'd like to be able to see and/or search all keywords that have been used with FR posts - for example, https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/maga/index (and exclude those that have never been applied to a post - for example, https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/abomasum/index).

While President Trump has talked about gaps in our immigration system with regard to the border wall, the refugee program, the diversity visa lottery and chain migration, he has yet to say anything about what may be the most dangerous open gate of all for Islamic radicals. The "R" class of visas for so-called religious workers apparently flies completely under the radar of the Trump administration. Shockingly, the number of such visas issued grew during Trump's first year in office and was 3.7 percent higher than under President Obama's final year.