>>>>Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, kisses the Quran, as he leaves Tehran for Saudi Arabia to attend the Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting, at the Mehrabad airport, Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday.<<<<
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051206/tehran_plane_crash_051206/20051206?hub=TopStories
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From that, one would think that he got on the wrong airplane.
Someone may have taken a chance and fixed a plane to crash, then at the last minute the leader flew on a different plane.
That is too close to be a simple accident.
I skipped this batch of messages and read the last page, so am not catching up........
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Why do Moslems Underachieve?
Faith Freedom.org ^ | 2005/11/24 | Thierry Gattuso
Muslims make up 22% of the World’s population, according to the United Nations' Arab Human Development Report:
"Half of Arab women cannot read; One in five Arabs live on less than $2 per day; Only 1 percent of the Arab population has a personal computer, and only half of 1 percent use the Internet; Fifteen percent of the Arab workforce is unemployed;
60% of Muslims are illiterate”.
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How about the achievements of Muslims who live and work in the West? Well, the truth is not that much better than their cousins in Muslim countries.
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The underachievement of Muslims should come as no surprise to those of us who understand the true nature of Islam. Everything a Muslim needs to know is in the Koran, Hadith or Sunnah.
Muslims are not encouraged to seek knowledge and better themselves. Muslims are against progress, modernity and science.
Those that control Islam do not want to see Muslims educated as an educated Muslim will apply commonsense and logic to the Koran and see it for what its is, a collection of distorted Bible and Torah stories and in print the mind of a 7th century Bedouin bandit leader.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/ThierryGattuso51125.htm