The peaceful West is becoming a war zone, courtesy of the religion of peace. Islamic immigration has cost the westerners countless lives, enormous amount of tax money and their freedom… - Ali Sina

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The website, posted by a group called the Al-Ikhlas Islamic Network, argues in Arabic that lighting fires is an effective form of terrorism justified in Islamic law under the "eye for an eye" doctrine.
The posting — which instructs jihadis to remember "forest jihad" in summer months — says fires cause economic damage and pollution, tie up security agencies and can take months to extinguish so that "this terror will haunt them for an extended period of time".

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The government is considering plans that would lead to thousands more British Muslims being branded as extremists, the Guardian has learned. The proposals are in a counterterrorism strategy which ministers and security officials are drawing up that is due to be unveiled next month.
Some say the plans would see views held by most Muslims in Britain being classed by the government as extreme.
According to a draft of the strategy, Contest 2 as it is known in Whitehall, people would be considered as extremists if:
• They advocate a caliphate, a pan-Islamic state encompassing many countries.
• They promote Sharia law.
• They believe in jihad, or armed resistance, anywhere in the world. This would include armed resistance by Palestinians against the Israeli military.
• They argue that Islam bans homosexuality and that it is a sin against Allah.
• They fail to condemn the killing of British soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan.

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The everyday tension has been increased by the recent marriage between a Christian young man and Muslim young woman in the village. This has irritated the Muslims, who are now trying to do whatever they can to make the Christians pay for what they believe to be an affront.

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Since the beginning of the year, people have been abandoning the Swat Valley by the thousands. These include many families and a number of teachers, who have formally stated that they are going on vacation. One mother who left the district recounts: "All the best teachers from my children's schools have left. I do not think they will go back. According to my relatives there, many children have gone back to school, but there are now too few teachers."

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Peter Jacobs, executive secretary of the commission for justice and peace, says that one must not jump to conclusions. He tells AsiaNews that "what happened in Mumbai and last night in Peshawar is terrorism, plain and simple. Just as in Mumbai it was said that investigations should be awaited before issuing accusations, we should do the same for Peshawar." "The two governments [of Pakistan and India] must work together to secure justice and order in the region."

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Islamabad (AsiaNews) -The controversial peace agreement between the government of the North-West Frontier Province and the Taliban militia group Tahrik-e-Nifaz Shariat Muhammadi could mark the end of the armed conflict, at the cost of new suffering and persecution. Those who will pay the consequences would especially be the women and religious minorities. This is what is feared by human rights activists, according to whom the introduction of sharia - Islamic law - in exchange for the ceasefire in the district of Malakan is a "defeat for democracy and the rule of law."

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The service wasn't shabby either: Michelle Obama stepped into the role of lunch lady, dazzling the crowd of homeless men and women as she doled out food.

Mrs. Obama’s visit was not announced in advance and came as a complete surprise to patrons.

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In August 2008, when the pirates became especially active off the Horn of Africa, Andrew Mwangura, head of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, declared that Al-Shabaab, a group of jihadists in Somalia, use piracy to fund their jihad: “According to our information, the money they make from piracy and ransoms goes to support al-Shabaab activities onshore.”

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"'The world is presented with that grim spectacle, "the strength of civilisation without its mercy." At a thousand yards the traveller falls wounded by the well-aimed bullet of a breech-loading rifle. His assailant, approaching, hacks him to death with the ferocity of a South-Sea Islander. The weapons of the nineteenth century are in the hands of the savages of the Stone Age."

""Their system of ethics, which regards treachery and violence as virtues rather than vices, has produced a code of honour so strange and inconsistent, that it is incomprehensible to a logical mind. "

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The outbreak of disease in people caused by a new influenza virus of swine origin continues to grow in the United States and internationally. Today, CDC reports additional confirmed human infections, hospitalizations and the nation’s first fatality from this outbreak. The more recent illnesses and the reported death suggest that a pattern of more severe illness associated with this virus may be emerging in the U.S. Most people will not have immunity to this new virus and, as it continues to spread, more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths are expected in the coming days and weeks.
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CDC’s Division of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) continues to send antiviral drugs, personal protective equipment, and respiratory protection devices to all 50 states and U.S. territories to help them respond to the outbreak. The swine influenza A (H1N1) virus is susceptible to the prescription antiviral drugs oseltamivir and zanamivir.

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Q5. Is the seasonal influenza vaccine effective against swine influenza?

There are certain similarities between the H1N1 human influenza viruses (covered by the seasonal vaccine) and the new H1N1 swine influenza viruses so one can not rule out some cross-protection. However, investigations need to be undertaken to determine whether this is the case. Those investigations are under way, but will take quite some time.

Q7. Why do the situations in the US and Mexico represent a new problem?

The novel swine influenza virus that has now been found in the two US states California and Texas and in Mexico contains pig, bird and human genes, in a combination that has never been observed before anywhere in the world. In addition there is a every indication that this virus has been transmitting from human to human and the resulting illnesses have been severe in a substantial number of cases in Mexico.

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So what about Saudi aid to the suffering Pakistanis? On April 23, the Saudi King gave Pakistan 150 tons of dates, as "humanitarian aid."

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As a species, he says, we need to learn modesty, that we can't overrun everything. "If I had more intellectual athleticism I would tackle the problem of why I think other creatures have a right to live. I do think that, but can't justify it in a very convincing way."

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A series of famines and plagues, beginning with the Great Famine of 1315-1317 and especially the Black Death of 1348, reduced the population perhaps by half or more as the Medieval Warm Period came to a close and the 1st century of the Little Ice Age began. Along with depopulation came social unrest and endemic warfare. Soil exhaustion, overpopulation, wars, and epidemic diseases helped cause hundreds of famines in Europe during the Middle Ages, including 95 in Britain and 75 in France.[1][2] In France, the Hundred Years' War, crop failures and epidemics reduced the population by two-thirds.

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The bomb threat was allegedly made against another Air France plane days before Flight 447 took off, but the bomb threat could establish an intent to strike against one of their planes.

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The French government has not ruled out terrorism — but no terrorist groups have come forward to claim responsibility.
Today the pilot told French reporters: "It is highly likely a bomb went off on board.
"In my opinion, there is no other option than the highly likely theory that a bomb went off on the plane, perhaps even a large bomb that destroyed the plane in mid-air leaving no chance to send a message."

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America does not presume to know what is best for everyone, just as we would not presume to pick the outcome of a peaceful election. But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. Those are not just American ideas, they are human rights, and that is why we will support them everywhere.
There is no straight line to realize this promise. But this much is clear: governments that protect these rights are ultimately more stable, successful and secure. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them. And we will welcome all elected, peaceful governments – provided they govern with respect for all their people.
This last point is important because there are some who advocate for democracy only when they are out of power; once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others. No matter where it takes hold, government of the people and by the people sets a single standard for all who hold power: you must maintain your power through consent, not coercion; you must respect the rights of minorities, and participate with a spirit of tolerance and compromise; you must place the interests of your people and the legitimate workings of the political process above your party. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy.

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Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort – that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur. There is so much fear, so much mistrust. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward. And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country – you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world.
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort – a sustained effort – to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.

It is easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path. There is also one rule that lies at the heart of every religion – that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

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After nearly 14 centuries of Islamic "civilization", the Arabian Peninsula remains one of the most primitive and impoverished regions on the planet. I have lived and traveled there, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Nowhere on the planet have I encountered a people and culture more devoid of social, political, economic, psychological and ethical merit than the Arab tribes.

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If we really want to try and understand why the Western world is always urged to pay up for failing Muslim states, then we should consider all the factors that come into play.

1) Muslims are inherently unable to think outside the box. Islam itself contains superstitious pseudo-science, and first and foremost Islam is a totalitarian strategy, designed to subjugate people, rather than to alleviate socioeconomic problems with the interest of the general public in mind. Indoctrination starts early in madrasas, and is handed down from one generation to the next.

2) This intellectual incapability leads to Muslims absolving themselves from any responsibility towards one another. Any perceived wrongdoing, poverty, instability or inequality has to be consistently attributed to outside forces, like the West or the Jews. Despicable Crusader and anti-Zionist theories only serve to keep these myths into place, enhancing the vicious circle of distorted thinking and cementing the hatred even more.

3) The emphasis of Muslim rhetoric therefore has to lie with 'victimization', and here's where the PC/MC left has stepped in to further this ridiculous notion, because they feel the self-indulgent need to prove this point beyond all doubt, in order to enhance their own self-righteousness and moral supremacy over the common man in the West.

In the end, according to PC/MC 'logic' our society needs to dumb down as much as the Muslim states on the planet already have done, otherwise the left will never be able to prove this point.: "Muslims ARE victims, whether you can't accept this now is beside the point, one day you WILL be convinced !" And that's the main reason why they feel this has to be hammered down our heads time and time again ! To the Left, victimization rules all, there's no other logic to it.

Last but not least, when we start thinking of the autodestructive immigration policies and the fact that the left has systematically chosen to flood Western countries with Muslim immigrants rather than others (who could've been well-integrated) only supports my view: the left is actually preparing the ground work for the establishment of Islam, because they erroneously assume that Muslims are doing their bidding in 'helping them to prove their point', while in actual fact, the opposite is true !

Our societies will therefore dumb down deliberately by the machinations of the unbelievably dumb social democrat movements in the West, who have colluded in their quest with the even dumber Muslim societies around the globe ! The very people we have no use for in the West ! Besides dumb they are equally dangerous. Both of them !

#23 "There were, originally, countless contradictory versions of the Koran until Caliph Uthman ordered the Qur'an collected into one volume about 40 years after Muhammad died. (about 650 AD) cf. Hadith 709 & 507. The only reason the modern versions of the Koran have only small variations between the various versions, is because a formal edict was issued in 800 AD that outlawed, under pain of execution, the possession of any Koran version other than the one chosen by Caliph Uthman. (Basically, Caliph Uthman chose a version of the Koran that we(sic) was familiar with.) Historically, it was not even the best choice, but the most convenient choice. Contrary to Muslim claims, there are no ancient copies of the Koran dating before 745 AD in museums."

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Q1. Why would God want his creation to not ask, questions, criticize, debate or experiment ideas that he gave us? This can only happen to cover up lies. This is the reason why we can’t question clergy about things like What’s the proof that God exists and what’s the proof that Muhammad is the prophet of God. Seems like a great deceit to make sheep out of humans. Only truth can stand the fierce scrutiny and criticism and still stand tall.

Q2. Why would God make religions appear only in poor, illiterate and desert areas? 1400 years ago, Greek were more scientific and progressive, why religion didn’t appear there instead? I tell you why. Because Muhammad could have only mislead the gullible, ignorant and poor people. In fact, his first followers were actually poor. Rich and literate people thought of him as crazy. Even today, if I go to a illiterate village and proclaim myself as a big saint, millions will follow me. That’s how easy it is to make stupid people more stupid. That’s why you don’t see new religions forming in Europe.
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The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.

Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence, most of the verses of violence in the Quran are open-ended, meaning that the historical context is not embedded within the surrounding text. They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the Quran.

Unfortunately, there are very few verses of tolerance and peace to abrogate or even balance out the many that call for nonbelievers to be fought and subdued until they either accept humiliation, convert to Islam, or are killed. This proclivity toward violence - and Muhammad's own martial legacy - has left a trail of blood and tears across world history.

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Peter Lavoy, acting assistant secretary of defense for Asia and Pacific security affairs, says the military is investigating and that all troops are being retrained in the handling of religious materials.
Lavoy's remarks were Friday at a mosque in suburban Washington, D.C. They come after protests across Afghanistan over the burning of several Qurans at a U.S. military base. Military officials say 20 people have died in the protests, including two U.S. soldiers.
President Barack Obama has apologized for the burning…

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Indeed, the entire "Two States for Two Peoples" doctrine can be summed up in one simple idea, in fact in one simple sentence. It is this: maybe after the Palestinians get their own state, then they will agree to live in peace with Israel. No matter how complex and "scholarly" is any article or position paper that supports "Two States for Two Peoples" doctrine, once one clears away the verbiage it all boils down to that one simple idea.

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If Israel agrees to limited autonomy for Palestinians, THEN MAYBE THEY WILL stop seeking Israel's destruction and the world will not try to set up an independent Palestinian Arab terror state.

If Israel grants its Arab citizens affirmative action preferences, THEN MAYBE THEY WILL stop cheering terrorists and seeking the annihilation of Israel and its Jewish population.

If Israel conducts a unilateral withdrawal from all of southern Lebanon and allows Hezb'allah terrorists to station rockets on the border, THEN MAYBE THEY WILL not launch any of them.

If Israel agrees to one cease-fire after another with the Arabs, THEN MAYBE THE ARABS WILL eventually comply with one.

If Israel turns the Gaza Strip over to the Palestinians, THEN MAYBE THEY WILL not use it as a base for terror attacks against Israel.

If Israel agrees to place its neck in the Oslo/Road Map/Saudi Plan noose, THEN MAYBE THE ARABS WILL not pull the rope.

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The remarkable images show women with uncovered heads who are unafraid to speak their minds and crowds that are not segregated -- both the opposite of the norm in Iran, Tohidi said.

She said a long-brewing women's movement may finally be manifesting itself on the streets and empowering women like Parisa.

"This regime is against all humanity, more specifically against all women," said Parisa, whom CNN is not fully identifying for security reasons.

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"Annihilate the rioters,” demanded one of Iran’s fundamentalist clerics during Friday prayer. He believes that the opposition “defied the orders” of Iran’s Supreme Leader, who “rules by God’s design.” Therefore, “they should be punished mercilessly.”

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"The first pillar in Islamic faith is the declaration called “Shahda” that there is no god but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet.
The first verse of every chapter in the holy Muslim book, the Quran, goes like this, “In the name of God, most merciful, most compassionate.” Devout Muslims start many of their activities or speech with these glorious words.
Where is the compassion in the Iranian mullah’s speech? Where is the Mercy?"

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A kinder, gentler Sharia remains a theoretical construct of apologists and revisionist historians; it would require a syncretism of Sharia with the values found in a Western liberal democracy -- a system Sharia is intended to subvert and replace. In short, the values that would purportedly "save" it are the values it seeks to destroy: Those include equal rights for men, women, believers and non-believers, and above all, the right of citizens to change their government. Even to change an Islamic government to a non-Islamic one.

In a related vein, the second factor is the Achilles' heel of even the most benign theocracy with the best intentions one could dream up, let alone a regime based on Sharia: Power corrupts. By nature, a theocracy -- a government by clerics charged with implementing purportedly divine will and the "ideal" design of society -- does not lend itself to limitations on power, separation of powers, or any official restraint beyond platitudes on a printed page. Hence, accountability to the populace is lost, and government itself is permeated with the arrogance of presuming it not only knows best, but has a divinely granted right and duty to keep the cheeky commoners in line.
It is these factors that have led to the displays of brutality on the streets of Tehran.

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"The Koran is a totalitarian constitution. It demands submission by anyone within its jurisdiction. The Koran governs all mosques everywhere in the world.
As a political document, the Koran asserts that everyone in the world is within its jurisdiction. So far, Islam has not been able to enforce that totalitarian claim on the entire world, but has managed to do so through threat, infiltration, violence, terrorism, and coercion on roughly 20% of the world. It is engaged in a 1400-year-long Universal Jihad to dominate the rest of the world. All mosques are its outpost headquarters.
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Sharia law does not allow for separation of church and state. Sharia regards church and state as one inseparable entity governing every aspect of individual and social life, both spiritual and secular. That is why all Islamic nations are theocracies.
In short, Sharia law stands in direct opposition to the American Constitution and Bill of Rights."

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Muslims frequently claim, to obscure the realities of the war against non-Muslims, that “Islam means peace.” The word “Islam” does indeed come from the same three-letter Arabic root (s-l-m) as the word “salaam,” peace. “Islam,” however, means “submission,” not peace. “Peace” in Islam equals submission to the will of Allah through his divine and eternal law, sharia. The absence of sharia is the absence of peace. Bassam Tibi explains:

"First, both sides should acknowledge candidly that although they might use identical terms these mean different things to each of them. The word 'peace,' for example, implies to a Muslim the extension of the Dar al-Islam – or 'House of Islam' – to the entire world," explained Tibi.

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1. It is the only nation that believes it is in the right—in every way—while all others are wrong;
2. The only nation that exonerates or lightens the punishment of an indicted criminal if he is Muslim and has learned some Quranic verses;
3. The only nation where a cleric evades indictment for inciting murder if he describes one of his adversaries as “an apostate”;
4. The only nation that does not penalize a murderer if he kills “an apostate”;
5. The only nation that shows leniency and assuages punishments for the “honor killing” of a sister or a wife;
6. The only nation whose holy book [Quran] starts with the word “read” [iqra’] and yet it is among the least nations that reads books, if any at all;
7. The only nation that still uses the word “infidel” [kafir] against those who oppose its clerics or religious groups;
8. The only nation where the ruling of a fatwa [religious edict] upstages the ruling of the law—and yet it brags about being a nation that upholds the “rule of law”;
9. The only nation that does not contribute to the modern era—not even by producing a tooth brush—and yet brags about its extinct civilization;
10. The only nation that insults and condemns the West—yet lives as a parasite relying on the West in every way.
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What would not be a waste is the removal of foreign forces, and the use, where necessary, of local troops who, in fighting their own battles against fellow Muslims, can keep the Taliban permanently off-balance. This does not mean building up the "Afghan" Army, but rather, in re-supporting those, such as Tadjiks and Uzbeks in the north, who have their own reasons for keeping the Pashtuns of the Taliban at bay. As fro the attacks by Sunnis on the Shi'a Hazaras or, in self-defense, vice=versa, of what concern should that be to non-Muslims? Remove those troopos and that aid, use drones to vigilantly monitor, occasionally supply a few arms -- not many, and certainly not anything that would prove useful against Infidel armies -- and step back, and watch the permanent violence with grim satisfaction. Let this be the model for the Muslim states. No more invasions, no more attempts to transplant democracy to those whose deepest beliefs flatly contradict democracy and the contract theory of the legitimacy of government that underlies it. Less messianism, less sentimentalism, less squandering of resources.

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First, Allah != God (Judeo-Christian God). That's rather obvious from the scripture, as well as from his adherents' behaviour.

Then, Al-Rahman and Al-Raheem used to be gods as well, from the time when Mohammad was worshipping different deities. In the Sirat is a wonderful exchange between a new convert to Islam, who wanted to take the name Abd-Al-Rahman (Slave to Al-Rahman), and a staunch supporter of the Meccan gods, Abd-Allah (Slave to Allah), who says that taking the name Abd-Al-Rahman is an insult to their religion. The quarrel is resolved with the convert to Islam taking the name Abd-Ilah (Slave to god).

That's incriminating on its own, but it gets worse. In the name of Allah, Al-Rahman, Al-Raheem was opening every sura of the Quran (except the 9th), and Muhammad also wanted it to open the peace treaty of Hudaybaiah, but the Meccans protested against that, stating that they recognize only Allah, not the other two deities. For the sake of peace, Muhammad then abandoned the latter two, just like that. Theological implications are obvious.

But there was still the problem of all suras opening with In the name of Allah, Al-Rahman, Al-Raheem. Since the Quran was supposed to be created perfect, something had to be done. And the solution was to relegate the status of Al-Rahman and Al-Raheem from 'gods' to 'adjectives'.

Finally, is there any indication that the choice of adjectives, 'merciful' and 'compassionate', is any less deceptive than what else happened to that sentence?

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If we remove all the immoral, illegal, hateful, and violent verses from the Qur’an, we will be left with an odd collection of plagiarized and twisted Bible stories and meaningless gibberish of a mentally deranged person.

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A suicide car bomb has exploded outside the Nato headquarters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing up to seven people, the defence ministry says.

The attack comes ahead of presidential and provincial elections due on Thursday which the Taliban have vowed to disrupt.

"The enemies of Afghanistan try to create fear among people in this election period but people still realise the importance of going to ballot boxes to cast their votes," he said in a statement.

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Third. I have a clear message to all Muslims in our societies: If you subscribe to our laws, our values and our constitutions you are very welcome to stay and we will help you to assimilate.

But, if you cross the red line and commit violent crimes or the implementation of shariah law and start practicing jihad, you are not welcome anymore, then we will expel you if possible the same day.

Fourth. We have to strengthen our laws regarding freedom of speech. In Europe we urgently need some kind of American First Amendment. And we have to resist UN-resolutions that intend to weaken our right of free speech in another attempt to appease the Islamic world.

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The next night, in the patio of Tangier's casbah, a lissome girl in a shimmering blue silk Lanvin gown, milk-white turban and evening slippers gracefully ascended a dais piled high with priceless Oriental carpets, and turned to face her audience. Younger men in the audience eyed appreciatively the girl's dark eyes, her rich red-brown hair and café au lait complexion. But many orthodox Moslem traditionalists just stared wide-eyed, stunned and aghast at the appearance in public of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Aisha, eldest daughter of His Majesty the Sultan—17 years old, unveiled and unashamed.

Root Out & Reject. To Westerners, the words she spoke sounded less than incendiary. "I know how many bad customs are attached to our society," she said, "how many prejudices are fastened on us. We must root out and reject them, and in that ambiance of modern culture to which present-day life leads and calls us irresistibly, it is essential that the women of Morocco participate ardently and usefully in the life of the nation, imitating in this respect their sisters of the East and West, whose great activity contributes to the welfare of their countries."
But Morocco's women recognized these words for what they were—a call to shake off an age-old bondage fastened on them in the name of Mohammed and perpetuated by generations of mullahs (teachers). Taking courage from this display of feminist leadership and example from the royal family itself, thousands of women all over the country forthwith cast aside their veils and began talking briskly of emancipation.

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"Islam in terms of its doctrinal blueprint and structure cannot allow for such a mutation. All other religions seem to be able to, but not Islam. There is no Iron Law of the Universe that mandates that Islam must be similar to other religions in their capacity for change, modification, and decaffeination. From all my reading to date, the grim conclusion seems the most plausible: Islam is unique in its resistance to change -- and, of course, in the degree and quality of danger it presents to all non-Muslims."

Deism [1][2] in the philosophy of religion is the standpoint that reason and observation of the natural world, without the need for organized religion, can determine that a supreme being created the universe. Further the term often implies that this supreme being does not intervene in human affairs or suspend the natural laws of the universe. Deists typically reject supernatural events such as prophecy and miracles...

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Deists believe in the existence of God, in a secular sense, without any reliance on revealed religion, religious authority or holy books.
Deism became more prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment, especially in what is now the United Kingdom, France, United States and Ireland, mostly among those raised as Christians who found they could not believe in supernatural miracles or the inerrancy of scriptures...

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"My torturer described me as "a mild-mannered agitator, a velvet coup plotter, a soft seditionist".
As I sat blindfolded in that torture room listening to this man's twisted interpretation of the world, I understood what frightened him and his master, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei - it was information.
And I was guilty of informing people."

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America is a nation of laws, but beneath all that fine sentiment about procedure there is a stronger hunger for natural justice.

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