Posted on 08/01/2006 9:58:32 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
IDF: 400 Hezbollah down, 1200 to go
Israel sends up to 10,000 troops into southern Lebanon
Israeli Commandos Raid Hezbollah Hideout in Baalbek Hospital
Wanted to be 1000!!!!!
LOL, good grief! Even the ones who still live in the ME?
darn...
I'd love to hear it. :-)
I'm fascinated these days with the *history* of religions. That tells a separate story than the *theology* of religions.
I know the info is still biased, depending on the point of view of the tellers, but reading several accounts leads to a synthesis of information, rather than more polarized arguments.
Pinz
Thank you for that overview. It's exactly the kind of description that I find so intriguing. :-)
Pinz
I hadn't heard that, but there are a LOT of other religions that aren't too far away from that. However, he is very tolerant of other religions and was furious when the Iraqi Christians were attacked. He issued a fatwah condemning it. He's not much of one for issuing fatwahs since his school of thought is that Imams should merely guide and not command. He is also constantly insisting that the Sunni,Shiia, Christian and Kurds MUST get along together and put their differences behind them.
pala whatever not spelled right but spell check let it in.
Japanese had similarly been indoctrinated. They believed they were to be the dominant people in the future as the radical Moslems believe today.
When the Japanese were defeated in WWII they were certain they were defeated. They could no longer have any delusions about their status since their country had been razed.
In the same way the radicals in the ME have to know they have been defeated. While I certainly pity the innocents in Lebanon, the Israelis need to make them and all the radicals certain that terrorism leads to utter defeat.
re: Green Helmut guy-
Hopefully the Mossad and CIA know or will know who he is and who he works for
I know. I'm challenging all of us who know what is going on to challenge the media and our spokespersons.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.muslm.net%2Fvb%2Fforumdisplay.php%3Ff%3D63&langpair=ar%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
I will admit that he has been fairly useful. :)
yeah but then its like trying to get a drop of black paint out of a bucket of white
Yes, I saw it. I edited that graphic and posted a sanitized version about two days ago.
Okie doke- I gotcha. My apologies if I misunderstood your original post.
As yet another body was removed from the wreckage yesterday morning, Naim Raqa, the head of the civil defence team searching the ruins, hung his head in grief: "When they found them, they were all huddled together at the back of the room ... Poor things, they thought the walls would protect them." "Where is the humanity? Why are these massacres being committed against civilians?” asked Naim Raqa, the head of the Lebanese civil defence unit in nearby Jawaya, who was helping the rescue.
Naim Raqa, head of civil defense in the nearby town of Jouaya, sat on a pile of rubble, his black uniform covered in a fine concrete powder.
"I was in Qana in '96," the exhausted rescue worker said. "Israel, when it is weakened, commits bigger massacres.
"We were told about this massacre -- I don't know what time it was. We couldn't move at night, even in ambulances, because of the shelling. They should allow us to move so we can work." He wiped beads of sweat from his brow.
"They were still asleep, hiding. They were all near the walls, huddled in fear. We found many of them like this," he said, drawing his knees and elbows into his chest in a fetal-like position. "The poor things thought the walls would protect them. I had the honor of removing about 15 of them."
His break was interrupted by a colleague calling for stretchers as the bodies of two more young boys were removed, their tiny pajama shorts and T-shirts covered in soil and dust.
Raqa didn't wait for the stretchers to arrive. He scooped up one child; a bystander carried the other
The Sufis have always been considered heretical by mainstream Islam.
However, many Westerners get into Islam through Sufism, because they somehow seem to believe that chanting and spinning around and getting dizzy constitute a "mystical experience." The result is that there are some Western-dominated Sufi sects that basically serve as the open door for flaky "seekers." Ex-actor Ian Dallas (aka Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Murabit) is the leader of the Murabitun World Movement, an international sufi brotherhood. Check it out, if you want something really scary:
http://murabitun.cyberummah.org/index.htm
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