Posted on 11/10/2004 3:37:38 PM PST by no.radar
Arabs, and Muslims in general, consider dogs unclean, like pigs. This site suggests that the source of that is not Koranic, but in Hadith. (Hadiths are secondary traditions -- supposedly hearsay from Mohammed his ownself):
http://www.submission.org/pets/dogs2.html
Here is a non-muslim site which cites many more sources of this weird Islamic tradition, and some of the very bizarre things in Hadith. Because there is so much Hadith and it is so patchwork, anyone wanting to believe damn near anything can tease it out of Hadith:
http://answering-islam.org.uk/Silas/dogs.htm
A religion that thinks Man's Best Friend is a devil, might have at its head a supernatural creature, but it ain't God.
Now, a lot of Muslims around the world don't follow these silly superstitions -- a lot of them wouldn't know a Hadith if you handed it to them -- and keep dogs for pets just as we do. In Afghanistan, dogs are bred for herding and fighting (which latter was banned by the Taliban but has come back), but some people get very attached to them. In Turkey, they have purebred kennels and dog shows and no one thinks anything of it.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
"I was simply making a statement that Wagner scene from "Apocalypse Now" was a symbolic slap in the face of the troops in Vietnam (at least I think that is what Coppola meant it to be). "
Well I guess I'm just too dumb to get it - I was there - VN -'66 to '70 - loved the movie and the music.
Anyone who has spent any time in the villages in the MidEast has probably seen these "masculine" men wearing the seffahs (sp) stop and squat and pee on the street.
That whole part of the world is a sh*thole!
If they really wanted to torture the terrorists, they'd blast "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" by the Nose from Malibu.
Cover tunes of Sabbath, War Pigs, Iron Man, Metallica, Enter Sandman and a few other songs. Sung in Arabic by a girl here at Purdue Univ. and played by some of his friends. they sound pretty wicked. He sent an E-M telling me he shared them with all his buddies.
Bless you - no offence meant - no offence taken - age? We continue to mellow - I was still a firebrand at 51 -
Let's just support the killing of radical Muslims - done.
I've heard specifically that it does. When I play my CD, and Enter Sandman comes I crank up the volume joke with my kids that we're in terrorist-interrogation mode.
Me too and don't think you are too dumb to get it because I never thought the movie was anti anything until I read what Coppola said about it. Some liberal co-workers told me regarding their take on the Wagner scene.
It is one of the best scenes from any movie I have ever seen and wish I had seen it on the big screen.
I like being nice. It takes alot outta me being mean....lol
LOL!
We blast it only when we're riding through Democrat towns...;))
You'd love listening to "Don't Fear The Reaper" whilst driving down a deserted midnight city street.
It's *so* "The Stand".
[yes...as a matter of fact, my life *does* include a soundtrack]...;)
Like the tag line somebody does not know what they created with that Jesus land thing.
(Peace sells, but who's buying?) One of my all time favorites in fact it used to be my tag line until some folks began mistaking me for a pacifist.The first I heard of these psyops guys playing music was when Noriega was holed up in that Catholic church and they started playing Nohwere to Run but the best was in the first Gulf war when for weeks before the ground assault they played a continuous loop of Terrible Teds Strangle hold.
EXIT LIGHT!
ENTER NIGHT!
.....rofl!
I love that song.
It's just *so* ~dark~....>:-)
Did you know that they flushed Noriega from his hidey-hole by playing Jethro Tull's "Too Old To Rock And Roll; Too Young To Die" -very- loud in an endless loop?
Ian Anderson's still peeved about that.
LOL!
It was about 4-5 of us at time and we went for the -movie-!
Ouch...hurt thier pride and then put a bullet in their head.
It was almost too much to bear on the big screen.
The theater I saw it in had the speakers set on stun, I think.
[late 70s...they were testing the whole "surround sound experience" deal]
They air actually vibrated around you when the helicopters were flying.
"Remember all the great Marine WW II movies...witht the Japs yellign out in the darkness."bae Ruith sucks!" and "Maline, you die!"
It wasn't just movies. My uncle fought on Guadalcanal. He remembered hearing "Hey Joe! Come on! We gotta case oh beero!
See post 193.
[and get *out* of my head...you're tracking dirt on the carpet]...;))
bttt 200
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