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To: KylaStarr
">>McALLEN, Texas – In the silvery-blue light of dusk, 20 Brazilians glided across the Rio Grande in rubber rafts propelled by Mexican smugglers"

Why can't we load up the Rio Grande with crocodiles? REALLY BIG ONES!

280 posted on 06/05/2005 5:49:51 AM PDT by WestCoastGal (Sr "Ya gotta go through hell before you get to heaven")
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The Woman Who Went To the Front of the Mosque
The Washington Post ^ | June 5, 2005 | By Teresa Wiltz, Washington Post Staff Writer

Posted on 06/05/2005 7:49:26 AM PDT by aculeus

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. It was two days after she appeared on "Nightline" talking about her fight to change her mosque that the death threats began. The first call came on her cell phone. The caller left a message, in Urdu: "If you want to stay alive, keep your mouth shut." Otherwise, he said, he would "slaughter" her, halal style, saying a prayer as he slid a knife across her throat. If she didn't shut up, he'd slaughter her mother and her father, too. Think before you speak, he said. I know where you live. I know where your parents live.

Then he called her parents' home 10 minutes later. Just to reinforce the message.

It's not a message that Asra Nomani, Muslim, unwed mother, former Wall Street Journal reporter, author and left-leaning feminist, is planning to heed (although she did contact the FBI and her local police).

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


282 posted on 06/05/2005 7:55:22 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: WestCoastGal
Why can't we load up the Rio Grande with crocodiles? REALLY BIG ONES!

Animal cruelty issues putting them in muddy water?

509 posted on 06/07/2005 6:00:33 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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