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The U.S. military is warning both active duty and retired service members that no “disrespect” of President Biden will be tolerated. The Office of Naval Intelligence’s Chief of Staff recently emailed service members to remind them of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The UCMJ prohibits the public questioning of the President, the Vice President, Congress, or the Secretary of Defense, among others. The email was obtained by the Daily Wire on Friday. It reads as follows: Given the heightened political and social atmosphere surrounding Afghanistan, it is important to remind our uniformed personnel (active duty and reservists on temporary...

The Taliban has said it will ban music in public in Afghanistan because it is forbidden in Islam, despite the assurances given by the insurgent group that it will be more tolerant than it was two decades ago. The restriction on public playing of music acts as a return to one of the harshest policies of the Taliban in the 1990s. The previous emirate only allowed religious chants, with nearly all other forms of music forbidden because it was viewed as a distraction that could encourage evil thoughts. In an interview with The New York Times, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid...

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Orange County bars, breweries and wineries were ordered to close, restaurants were told to offer take-out or delivery only, and people were told not to gather starting Tuesday, March 17, to curb transmission of the coronavirus. An order Orange County Health Officer Dr. Nichole Quick issued Tuesday prohibits public and private gatherings of any size – not including families that live together – and lasts through March 31. It exempts people and businesses performing “essential activities” including emergency responders, health care providers, grocery stores, banks, gas stations and homeless shelters. “This is not a lockdown,” Orange County Board of Supervisors...

Clerics Fear To Speak Out Against Them (headline continued) On August 2, 2016, in his column in the Saudi daily Al-Watan, Sattam Al-Muqrin criticized clerics who fear to speak out against suicide attacks, which he states are prohibited by Islamic law. According to Al-Muqrin, terrorist organizations use Islamic texts to brainwash youngsters and recruit them to carry out suicide attacks with the promise of reward in the afterlife. At the same time, clerics issue weak admonitions but otherwise do nothing to combat the phenomenon and do not ideologically confront these groups. The following are excerpts from his column:[1] {pic of...

Islamic State and “Sharia Police” stickers have been seen on vehicles in Hamburg, and some fear that extremists may try and harass residents. However, police and security services have denied these reports. At least one witness has came forward claiming that she has seen Islamic State logos and sharia police slogans on a car in Hamburg. According to the woman, she saw a car at a traffic light populated by three women wearing the Islamic full-face veil, the hood of the car was described as having a large logo on it with a blue border which read: “Sharia Police”. Now...

The Republican Party is currently trying to sort out an internal battle between its dwindling stock of moderates who are occasionally willing to work with Democrats, and its hard-right base, which views compromise with Democrats in general, and President Obama in particular, as heresy. But in a speech Monday, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the second-ranking Democrat in the House showed that there are significant fissures in the Democratic Party as well. Hoyer, though nominally Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s second-in-command, is starkly different from Pelosi and many others on the party’s left wing when it comes to economic and fiscal issues....

Quiet words from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on 3/5, directly indicated a new three-year ban, at least in offshore oil drilling leases. Pure facts dictate this move will kill any American initiative to produce all of its oil independently. More than 2/3 of the American public supports such a move per a Rasmussen poll. It is unknown why the Obama Administration would make such a virulent move, and not allow America to become more oil-independent in a time of major global political upheaval

May I please make a humble request? Is there any way you could add a button or something on the submission screen to warn of us forbidden sources before we spend the time preparing an article for posting?

(IsraelNN.com) The Arab “man in the street” living under the Hamas-ruled Palestinian Authority government is starting to realize that voting for the terrorist organization has not brought the shining salvation it promised. Thousands of Muslim worshippers living in PA-controlled territories are trying to flee their increasingly violent surroundings. Their religious leaders are doing what they can to force them to stay. Sheikh Hamad Al-Bitawi, a Muslim religious leader and Hamas member, has announced that Arab Muslims are forbidden to emigrate from Israel. Al-Bitawi ruled recently that Muslims must remain in order to counteract the fast growth of the Jewish population....

A Russian web designer went on a trip to North Korea, and shot a number of photographs, some of forbidden subjects. Here is a translation of the Russian comments, together with the pictures.http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755.http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755&page=2. The original site (in Russian), is http://www.tema.ru/travel/choson-1/. It looks like the original site has some photos that the translated one does not. BEWARE: LOTS OF PHOTOS - HIGH-BANDWIDTH CONNECTION SUGGESTED.

The "tiny cross" people at the American Civil Liberties Union are at it again. They are the folks with extra-keen eyes who search the seals of towns and counties for miniature crosses that they like to trumpet as grave threats to separation of church and state. This time around, they are leaning on the village of Tijeras, N.M., whose seal contains a conquistador's helmet and sword, a scroll, a desert plant, a fairly large religious symbol (the Native American zia) and a small Christian cross. Tiny cross inspectors are not permitted to fret about large non-Christian religious symbols, only undersized...

What is the origin of this phrase? All that is not permitted is forbidden It is the foundation for our proposed local zoning code. Can anyone give me some history, it seems very familiar.

BURAIDAH, 14 February 2004 — Saudi religious authorities have warned the public against celebrating Valentine’s Day or selling gifts related to the feast, Al-Riyadh reported yesterday. “It is a pagan Christian holiday and Muslims who believe in God and Judgment Day should not celebrate or acknowledge it or congratulate people on it,” an edict issued by the Fatwa Committee said. “There are only two holidays in Islam — Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha — and any other holidays, whether to celebrate an individual, group or event, are inventions which Muslims are banned from,” said the committee, headed by Grand Mufti...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Transportation Security Administration sought to quash efforts to unionize 56,000 federal airport security workers, saying Thursday that collective bargaining is not allowed and is incompatible with the war on terrorism.</p> <p>Passenger and baggage screeners at New York's LaGuardia and Baltimore-Washington International airports have petitioned to be represented by the American Federation of Government Employees.</p>

<p>FULLERTON -- A mom and dad decided Sunday to stop their 21-year-old daughter from seeing her married boyfriend by tying her to a bed with 30-pound chains, police said.</p> <p>Guadalupe and David Mata admitted to locking their daughter with two "giant gate locks" to prevent her from going out, said Fullerton Police Lt. Danny Becerra.</p>