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Black XXVIII: "Dutch's Home!!"
The Reagan Revolution!! ^ | Mudboy Slim

Posted on 06/11/2004 9:14:18 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim

"Dutch's Home!!"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road")

Effete Whore'd's damned...Reagan's hearse waits...
RATS' derision towards Nancy, the Right ignores...
As Sean Hannity raves!!
Liberator's fightin' fer "the lowly"...
Hey, I'm FReer 'cuz what Reagan showed me!!
Dutch's headin' home again...Right claims his grace...we're not alone!!
We gathered outside...Leftists, you know just what we're here for!!
RATS're scair't 'cuz they're thinkin'...our Nation ain't listenin' to FOOLS anymore!!
Show a little faith, there's passion on the Right!!
RATS're poltroonish...we'll win the Big Fight!!
Folks, FReedom's all Right to me!!

Left ain't Right...we'll recover...RATS' loss is our gain!!
Right's awestruck...cut Big Guv'ment...shed programs to the States!!
Wasteful Guv'ment is FReedom's Bane!!
Righteous saviors, conspire...help US FReep!!
Normal folks...not "heroes"...we fight fer Good!!
At each election, VOTE Fer FReedom, World!!
Liberty is always Good!!
It's our chance to fight RATS' Lust Fer Power!!
Dutch, what else can we do now?!!
We'll educate Dem Lib'rals...reject Left's spin...show that Right cares!!
'Cuz the Right's future's hopeful...this Nation rejects Left's feeble fears!!
We've got one more chance to seal the deal...
Let's make that City on a Hill!!
Right's on track...Heaven's callin' "Dutch" Reagan back!!
Oh oh...come join our stand!!
Fightin' fer what's Right...come hear our Righteous band!!
Oh oh...Dutch is home...folks, Dutch is Home!!Yeah, 'neath the Dome!!
Standing out here, gettin' scorched by the sun...
Still, we'll stand and wait...we love Reagan like his sons!!
Lord, Dutch is Home!! We're Right...we're Bold!!
Dutch is Home!!

Yes, Reagan was our star...he outsmarted Ol' Gorbachev!!
Got the Country on track...now Gip's ready to take that long walk...
To where folks, they live in Peace!!
The gates're open...say "Howdy" to Saint Pete!!
We know Nancy's lonely...her loving heart is broken!!
But tonite Ronnie's FRee...after Righteous words were spoken...
There are tears in our eyes...fer all the dreams he liberated!!
We'll honor Gip's memory 'til we're olde...by rededicatin' our lives to Reagan's aims!!

[We'll] revere his name each time when we FReep!!
Ron's Revolution's grown...fight DemRATS 'til we're FRee!!
'Cuz all Dem Leftist fools don't know Ron...
RATS fear the RightWing's soaring dawn...
'Cuz when we fight righteous wars, Left's gone!!
Fight RATS' spin...John Kerry can't win!!
DeeCeeTowne's full of LOSERS...but, fer the Gip, the RightWing Shall Win!!

Mudboy Slim


TOPICS: US: Kansas; US: Virginia; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: dutch; liberator; reagan
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To: Mudboy Slim
Could get interesting alrighty !

101 posted on 06/21/2004 8:51:10 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Call me the Will Rogers voter: I never met a Democrat I didn't like - to vote OUT OF POWER !)
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To: Mudboy Slim

The Real Reagan Record
102 posted on 06/21/2004 9:21:04 AM PDT by Reagan Man (.....................................................The Choice is Clear....... Re-elect BUSH-CHENEY)
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To: Mudboy Slim; joanie-f; Landru; snopercod; scholar; MeekOneGOP; sultan88; jla; FBD; Grampa Dave; ...

PING to those interested in the topic of Islamic terrorism;

I'm curious as to your comments on the following:

What do you think is the reason for Islamo-terrorism, what do they want, why are they motivated, and what is their end game?

This religious-socio-political movement is just as dangerous in every way that Soviet style communism was, with the added twist of a death wish for it's combatants to assure they won't fear a fight to the end.

And as Joanie f noted in her post on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1156016/posts?page=1632#1632
("Fox news Paul Johnson Killed by Captors") ; the left is opposed to the war on Islamic terrorism.

As usual, leftists believe that this is somehow our (the U.S.) fault. We did something to make radical Muslims mad. There are quite a number of conservatives that believe this as well...

Some folks think that maybe it is our defense of Israel? ...maybe it was our attacking Iraq?... etc.

- Robert Spencer and Ibn Warraq discuss this in their books:
"Onward Muslim Soldiers", and "Leaving Islam"

Mud would you ping your FRiends, who are interested in making their thoughts as to the motives of Islamo-terrorists?

I'd think it would make for some interesting conversation. The only way this terrorism can ever be overcome (imo) is if a majority of folks understand who and what their motives really are.


Regards


103 posted on 06/21/2004 10:02:26 AM PDT by FBD (...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
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To: FBD

WHY JIHADIS?

1) Satan stirs them up individually and collectively for his goals of stealing, destroying and killing as a way to get back at God for not allowing satan to be God.

2) The Moslem/Arabic culture has felt squashed, maligned, 2nd rate, put down, one down, weak, ineffectual, neutered etc. for centuries. Individuals and the culture, much like the Chinese are eager to correct such feelings and realities as they perceive them. The top dog on the hill is the prime target out of those frustrations.

3) It appears to me that there are more dysfunctional families in Islam than even in America. Such wind up the personality and other craziness and cause people to blame and seek instant, childish, violent redress.

4) The Koran not only gives them excuse but orders them to engage in such if they want to make Heaven or pretend to love God, from their perspective. I believe that Allah is actually the satanic moon god of Mohammed's time. Which gets back to 1) above.

5) Individual and collective jealousy.

6) Emasculated, neutered individuals who are angry for a list of reasons are eager to have a CAUSE to act out their emotions through. For God and country, culture is a pretty powerful cause.

7) Many are ignorant, uneducated, poor and very angry. Prime candidates for cultish religious and charismatic manipulation.

8) Many dream of creating a totally Moslem planet with Sharia law controlling all countries. Such dreams for some are their total reason for living . . . as well as for dying. Everyone likes to win and be top dog.

I think 10% of Moslems given to such goals is probably conservative--especially after one factors in those complicit with safe houses, money, family/business etc. help. And I think this fact is little understood or believed by the masses of our population and seemingly by too few legislators.

all imho, of course.


104 posted on 06/21/2004 10:16:37 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: Quix; Mudboy Slim

ping to Quix's interesting comments, on Islam.

When you get a chance Mud, I'd like your perspective on this too, bud.

By the way, that Virginia Islamic Center that you drive by...is that one of the places on Steven Emerson's "Jihad in America" map?
Is it possible that the cops aren't there as much to protect the Muslims as it is to provide surveilance of the place, you know; right down license plates, etc?

I mean, I'd like to think WE are being protected from THEM, as well as protecting THEM from any percieved, or imagined threat that they may percieve of those of US that think they might be involved in terrorist activities here in the U.S.

Regards


105 posted on 06/21/2004 10:41:23 AM PDT by FBD (...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
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To: FBD

THX.

Another reason,

9) Poor peoples tend to often have a serious problem with covetousness and greed.

Especially angry, abused poor people.

Which leads to

10) Feeling abused by corrupt, hypocritical politicians and autorcratic tribal rulers.


106 posted on 06/21/2004 10:45:56 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: MeekOneGOP; GeorgeW23225; kristinn; Angelwood; LiberteeBell; 1 Olgoat; 103198; 11Bush; ...

Thanks to GeorgeW23225 fer the invite!!!
ATTENTION VIRGINIA FREEPERS & PROTEST WARRIORS!!

On Saturday, July 3rd, A.N.S.W.E.R. and local "sympathizers" (IndyMedia) will have a Anti-War, Anti-Bush, Anti-America, Anti-Everything, march in Richmond, Virginia starting at Monroe Park at 4:00 pm. Let's join forces and gather at Monroe Park at 3:00 pm to show these left wing nuts, that we will NOT let them take over the streets. We also need to let the local "Media" know that we will be there!! Stand up for our Commander-in-Chief, our Troops, and our Country!! PLEASE BE THERE !!

Please e mail me directly for more information.

Thanks!! GeorgeW23225@webtv.net

FReegards...MUD


107 posted on 06/21/2004 11:07:59 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: FBD
"...is that one of the places on Steven Emerson's "Jihad in America" map?"

Nope...it wasn't on there.

"Is it possible that the cops aren't there as much to protect the Muslims as it is to provide surveilance of the place, you know; right down license plates, etc?"

Nope...I would venture that writing down license plate numbers is strictly verboten...MUD

108 posted on 06/21/2004 11:11:50 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Quix
"WHY JIHADIS? 1) Satan stirs them up individually and collectively for his goals of stealing, destroying and killing as a way to get back at God for not allowing satan to be God."

So being Muslim means being a devil-worshiper?! Naww, I believe Mohammed's Allah is the same God the Christians and the Jews and the Hindus pray to...Allah is NOT Satan, imho.

FReegards...MUD

109 posted on 06/21/2004 11:15:36 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Reagan Man
Thanks fer the link, my FRiend...

"Ronald Reagan inherited an economy that was in the midst of its worst crisis since the Great Depression. In January 1981 the unemployment rate stood at 7.4 per cent, on its way up to 10 per cent. Persistent double-digit inflation had pushed interest rates to an unbelievable 21 per cent. Real pre-tax income of the average American family had been dropping since 1976, and - thanks to bracket creep - after-tax income was falling even faster. The supply of oil and other raw materials seemed precarious. The outgoing President warned of a bleak economic future.

That era, roughly coinciding with the Carter Administration, was the last time liberal policies held sway over the economy. Two years into Ronald Reagan's Presidency the economy began to recover. By most conventional indices the recovery was strong and sustained, outlasting Mr. Reagan's Presidency by nearly two years. And yet it was widely felt that the recovery was illusory - "smoke and mirrors," as Mario Cuomo memorably put it - and that the stock market crash in 1987 was merely the foretaste of the post-1990 recession. We propose to examine these claims in detail in the balance of this section."
— Mr. Rubenstein is NR's economic analyst.

FReegards...MUD

110 posted on 06/21/2004 11:18:47 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Cyber-Band
Join us over at the FReeper Canteen!!

WOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...MUD

111 posted on 06/21/2004 11:25:11 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Quix; Mudboy Slim; Landru; joanie-f; Mia T; jla; MeekOneGOP; Happy2BMe; sultan88; Grampa Dave; ...
"Another reason [for Islamic fanatical appeal]
9) Poor peoples tend to often have a serious problem with covetousness and greed.
Especially angry, abused poor people."

But this religion doesn't just appeal to the poor, or the ignorant. Consider that one of the most radical is a multi-millionaire, and there are even characters with Ph'D's that advocate violence.

Many wealthy Saudi Muslims are educated at Harvard, so there are some other reasons, as well to the Islamic-cult appeal. The answer is similar to the Utopia that Communists once envisioned, only this has religion attached to it.

I also believe you are going to see a lot of Leftists hop on the Islamic bandwagon, just like they did with EST, Transcendental Meditation, etc. Many Leftists love flirting with cults.
As an example; we had the Rajneeshspuram cult out here in Elgin, Oregon. Rich liberals gave up all their worldly posessions, meanwhile their Bagwhan leader had 50 Rolls Royces. In the end they tried to take over the town of Elgin, by busing in followers and registering them to vote. Then they tried to poison the town by dumping poison in the water system, and they also poisoned food at a resteraunt buffet.
Any of this sound like something Islamo-terrorists might do? Yup.

Btw, have any of you read Dr. Ali Sina's story? It's powerful.



"Why I left Islam", by Dr. Ali Sina



Here's a snippet:
"Nothing is more difficult to get rid of than religion. This is truly the most potent narcotic if it is administered to a person from childhood. Yet as intelligent people it was not possible for these great minds to accept the Quran for its face value. Therefore they tried to find esoteric meanings in meaningless verses of the Quran and it was they who gave birth to a new religion that had nothing to do with what was taught by Muhammad. Yet this religion was palatable to those with brains."

"Thus we have two Islams. One that makes strives to attribute mystical significance and otherworldly meanings to the inane teachings of the Quran, as is professed by Sufis, and the other that rejects any interpretation of these verses beyond their literal meanings, as is practiced by the majority of Muslims with their hub in Saudi Arabia among the Wahhabis. And of course there is a myriad of sects that go in between these two extremes, each interpreting the Quran according to their own whims and caprices, each calling others mortad or heretics and constantly making war among themselves to impose their own "right" version of the pure Islam on others."

"However, the real Islam is not what its philosophers and mystics have inferred but what is in the Quran and that is the Islam of the fundamentalist and the terrorist."- Dr. Ali Sina...an EX-Muslim.



112 posted on 06/21/2004 11:28:31 AM PDT by FBD (...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
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To: FBD
"Many Leftists love flirting with cults."

Let's be FRank...modern Lib'ralism is becoming a cult in and of itself...MUD

113 posted on 06/21/2004 11:32:07 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: FBD

Please take me off your ping list. Thank you.


114 posted on 06/21/2004 11:39:40 AM PDT by carton253 (Re: The Reagan Presidency: Not bad. Not bad at all.)
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To: Mudboy Slim

Thanks once again, Mud. Great words to be sung to a great tune.

I've missed Ronald W. Reagan for the past 10 years. I'd like to imagine that during the extremes of the Clinton years, he would have had something to say that would have brought Americans back to their senses and I also like to imagine that the 1996 election would have had a completely different outcome and therefore, we wouldn't have had to go through Monica and all the other junk that idiot forced on us.

Rest in peace, Ronald W. Reagan. We will remember you forever, and I can't wait until I meet you once again, and get to ask a dozen questions I've always wanted to ask.

God bless Nancy and his children. Give them grace to handle the loss of this great man.

My heart simply breaks for Nancy. Losing a soulmate, losing someone who wrote the lovely notes he did, is something she lost over the past 10 years but it is always so final when death final occurs.

TNT


115 posted on 06/21/2004 11:40:19 AM PDT by TruthNtegrity (We must all work hard to insure Pres. Bush's re-election by a landslide!)
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To: FBD

Jihad came on 9/11 - Afghans and Iraq were conquered soon after - BUMP.


116 posted on 06/21/2004 11:40:42 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Ronald Reagan to Islamic Terrorism: YOU CAN RUN - BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!)
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To: MeekOneGOP; Mudboy Slim; Reagan Man; Reaganwuzthebest; Smartass; devolve; potlatch; PhilDragoo; ...
This just might be the only RAP music I will ever listen to - BUMP!

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[We'll] revere his name each time when we FReep!!
Ron's Revolution's grown...fight DemRATS 'til we're FRee!!
'Cuz all Dem Leftist fools don't know Ron...
RATS fear the RightWing's soaring dawn...
'Cuz when we fight righteous wars, Left's gone!!
Fight RATS' spin...John Kerry can't win!!
DeeCeeTowne's full of LOSERS...but, fer the Gip, the RightWing Shall Win!!


117 posted on 06/21/2004 11:45:00 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Ronald Reagan to Islamic Terrorism: YOU CAN RUN - BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
Allah and the God of the Christian/Jew cannot be the same because of what Islam does to Jesus. Jesus is regulated to a position lower than Muhammad. Jesus failed to communicate God's will correctly, hence the need for Islam.

Furthermore, Islam is quite frank - Allah has no Son...

If Allah has no Son, then the Christian God, who sent His Son into the world to save the world from its sin cannot be the same.

118 posted on 06/21/2004 11:45:43 AM PDT by carton253 (Re: The Reagan Presidency: Not bad. Not bad at all.)
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To: FBD; sultan88; Mudboy Slim; joanie-f; Landru; snopercod; scholar
"What do you think is the reason for Islamo-terrorism, what do they want, why are they motivated, and what is their end game?"

______________________________

* * * * * *

WND Exclusive


FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
Radical Islam's 'plan'
to take over America

Arab-American author outlines secret
20-year strategy to undermine country


Posted: August 4, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for the last 25 years.


© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

A refugee from the Muslim Middle East thinks he has discovered Islam's 20-point plan for conquering the United States by 2020 – a plan revealed in the latest issue of Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Anis Shorrosh, author of ''Islam Revealed'' and ''The True Furqan,'' is a Christian Arab-American who emigrated from Arab-controlled Jerusalem in January 1967.

''The following is my analysis of Islamic invasion of America, the agenda of Islamists and visible methods to take over America by the year 2020,'' Shorrosh says. ''Will Americans continue to sleep through this invasion as they did when we were attacked on 9/11?''

1. Terminate America's freedom of speech by replacing it with statewide and nationwide hate-crime bills.

2. Wage a war of words using black leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and other visible religious personalities who promote Islam as the religion of African-Americans while insisting Christianity is for whites only. What they fail to tell African-Americans is that it was Arab Muslims who captured them and sold them as slaves. In fact, the Arabic word for black and slave is the same, ''Abed.''

3. Engage the American public in dialogues, discussions, debates in colleges, universities, public libraries, radio, TV, churches and mosques on the virtues of Islam. Proclaim how it is historically another religion like Judaism and Christianity with the same monotheistic faith.

4. Nominate Muslim sympathizers to political office to bring about favorable legislation toward Islam and support potential sympathizers by block voting.

5. Take control of as much of Hollywood, the press, TV, radio and the Internet as possible by buying the related corporations or a controlling stock.

6. Yield to the fear of the imminent shut-off of the lifeblood of America – black gold. America’s economy depends on oil and 41 percent of it comes from the Middle East.

7. Yell ''foul, out-of-context, personal interpretation, hate crime, Zionist, un- American, inaccurate interpretation of the Quran'' anytime Islam is criticized or the Quran is analyzed in the public arena.

8. Encourage Muslims to penetrate the White House, specifically with Islamists who can articulate a marvelous and peaceful picture of Islam. Acquire government positions and get membership in local school boards. Train Muslims as medical doctors to dominate the medical field, research and pharmaceutical companies. (Ever notice how numerous Muslim doctors in America are, when their countries need them more desperately than America?) Take over the computer industry. Establish Middle Eastern restaurants throughout the U.S. to connect planners of Islamization in a discreet way.

9. Accelerate Islamic demographic growth via:

10. Reading, writing, arithmetic and research through the American educational system, mosques and student centers (now 1,500) should be sprinkled with dislike of Jews, evangelical Christians and democracy. There are currently 300 exclusively Muslim schools in the U.S. which teach loyalty to the Quran, not the U.S. Constitution. In January of 2002, Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in Washington mailed 4,500 packets of the Quran and videos promoting Islam to America's high schools – free of charge. Saudi Arabia would not allow the U.S. to reciprocate.

11. Provide very sizeable monetary Muslim grants to colleges and universities in America to establish ''Centers for Islamic studies'' with Muslim directors to promote Islam in higher-education institutions.

12. Let the entire world know through propaganda, speeches, seminars, local and national media that terrorists have hijacked Islam, when in truth, Islam hijacked the terrorists.

13. Appeal to the historically compassionate and sensitive Americans for sympathy and tolerance towards Muslims in America who are portrayed as mainly immigrants from oppressed countries.

14. Nullify America's sense of security by manipulating the intelligence community with misinformation. Periodically terrorize Americans with reports of impending attacks on bridges, tunnels, water supplies, airports, apartment buildings and malls.

15. Form riots and demonstrations in the prison system demanding Islamic Sharia as the way of life, not America's justice system.

16. Open numerous charities throughout the U.S., but use the funds to support Islamic terrorism with American dollars.

17. Raise interest in Islam on America's campuses by insisting freshman take at least one course on Islam.

18. Unify the numerous Muslim lobbies in Washington, mosques, Islamic student centers, educational organizations, magazines and papers by Internet and an annual convention to coordinate plans, propagate the faith and engender news in the media.

19. Send intimidating messages and messengers to the outspoken individuals who are critical of Islam and seek to eliminate them by hook or crook.

20. Applaud Muslims as loyal citizens of the U.S. by spotlighting their voting record as the highest percentage of all minority and ethic groups in America.

Shorrosh is a member of the Oxford Society of Scholars, has traveled in 76 countries, and is a lecturer and producer of TV documentaries. ''Islam Revealed'' is a bestseller now in its eighth printing. His forthcoming 10th book, from which the 20-point plan is abridged, is titled ''Islam: A Threat or a Challenge.''

''The True Furqan'' is also available for viewing on Islam-Exposed.org. Shorrosh's new website is Focusing-on-Islam.com.

119 posted on 06/21/2004 11:50:32 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Ronald Reagan to Islamic Terrorism: YOU CAN RUN - BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
One more thing...

Let's look at the different means/definition of salvation.

Judaism speaks of national salvation - at the end of the world, Israel will be in its own land, ruled by its own king and serving God.

Christianity speaks about the idea that every single person in the world can be saved from his sins... personal salvation.

Islam speaks about ruling the world. "Allah sent Mohammed with the true religion so that it should rule over all the religions." The Islamic idealogy is not that the whold world would become a Muslim world, but that the whole world wouild be subdued under the rule of Islam.

Islam's early history bears that out.

120 posted on 06/21/2004 11:50:42 AM PDT by carton253 (Re: The Reagan Presidency: Not bad. Not bad at all.)
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