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October 16th, 2013
11:38 AM ET
In Syria, Muslims struggle to celebrate holy dayBy Saad Abedine. Hala Gorani and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN (CNN) – Muslims throughout the world have been marking Eid al-Adha, but in war-torn Syria there is nothing to celebrate. Most people are struggling to meet the most basic of needs: food, water, and shelter. Their plight has been highlighted by Arabic media reports which cite a fatwa, or religious ruling, by a local imam which allowed people who are desperately hungry to eat dogs and cats. Eating dog, cat or donkey is forbidden under Islamic dietary laws. The imam in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the capital, Damascus, reportedly said at a mosque Friday that dog, cat and donkey meat could be eaten "after reaching a desperate need and the stores of food were inadequate to feed the population under the siege." Yarmouk has been besieged for months by Syrian government forces seeking to flush out rebel fighters. During the Eid al-Adha holiday, considered one of Islam's most revered observances, many Muslims around the world sacrifice a sheep and share the meat with the poor. It corresponds with the height of the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia that annually draws 2 million Muslims. Outside Syrian, Muslims held more plentiful Eid al-Adha celebrations. MORE ON CNN: Photos: Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha FULL STORY
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At this point all religions sound as believable as the Easter bunny or Santa Claus. In my opinion, the only way to save the human race is to send all religions to hell
Of course I can't send anyone anywhere but I sound tough when I suggest otherwise.
President Bush after 9/11: "Our God is the God who named the stars".
How erroneous. Two-thirds of star names have Arabic names. They came from Islam's fertile period (AD 800-1100.) During that time Baghdad was the intellectual center of the world, open to people of all or no faiths. During that time were some of the greatest advances known to mankind: engineering, biology, medicine, mathematics, celestial navigation; this is the time and place that gave us numerals we use, terms like algebra and algorithm.
Enter Imam Hamid al-Ghazali in the 12th century. The fundamentally religious period of Islam begins, and so begins the steady decline of free intellectual expression in that area of the world. Some would argue that it has since never recovered.
As astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains, throughout history most of the great minds give virtually no mention to any god for their discoveries and explanations. (Ptolemy, Isaac Newton, Laplace, Huygens, Galileo.) That is, until they reach the problem they feel they cannot and will never fully tackle. Dr. Tyson demonstrates this with writings from the great minds in his talk "The Perimeter of Ignorance".
Perhaps that is all God has ever been – a placeholder for discomfort or frustration over the unknown; an excuse of last resort when, for one reason or another, one gives up investigation. It is at that point of discomfort over the unknown when one should remember what humanity has already witnessed: that today's scientific explanations were often yesterday's gods.
Zionism is bad for Humanity. Eretz Ysrael is dead. Yipeeeeee!
Prayer changes things
Stop trying to fool people, you ignorant wretch. You know I have super complicated, detailed plans that would totally blow your pea-brain mind even if you only knew an Infinitesimally small part of them, right? So why in the world would I possibly allow input from a pathetic insect like you to change them? You think way too much of yourself and if you don't wail for forgiveness I'll have to smite you.
(Gen. 7:21) “And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and ALL HUMAN BEINGS”
Tough luck, kids.
Tough luck, MILLONS of animals and other living things.
typo: should be "MILLIONS" of animals killed by God.
Without divine justice there would be nothing today.Not tough luck... tough love.
October 19, 2013 at 4:03 am
...is the regular poster Observer's impersonator, with nefarious intentions.
For real nefarious spots check out my drawers.
For all those missing in Syria, update yourself on search4missing and we will find them out for you.
After the Big Bang this beautiful world was created, free of defects and working for millions of years. Is it possible to build a house by Blewing up a pile of wood?!! for me that prove God exsist.
Which one?
fares..this planet has been around for Billions of years..lots of time for evolution to invent god.
And alot will forget God too after all this time.
Joshua,
Your using the fallacy argumentum ad ignorantium. "appeal to ignorance;" whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa. Another creationist favorite. Using the argument.
Stephen F Roberts: “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
Let them struggle. That should be a sign of why they need to believe in Jesus and the trinity. No muslim has contributed anything to society, and certainly not in the U.S. They attacked us – hello 9/11.
Carol.. do you see why the dream of world peace is so distant while religions exist, or do you not see the irony ?
Putting the kibosh on all religion in less than ten seconds: Priceless !!!
• As far as one knows or can tell, there was no Abraham i.e. the foundations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are non-existent.
• As far as one knows or can tell, there was no Moses i.e the pillars of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have no strength of purpose.
• There was no Gabriel i.e. Islam fails as a religion. Christianity partially fails.
• There was no Easter i.e. Christianity completely fails as a religion.
• There was no Moroni i.e. Mormonism is nothing more than a business cult.
• Sacred/revered cows, monkey gods, castes, reincarnations and therefore Hinduism fails as a religion.
• Fat Buddhas here, skinny Buddhas there, reincarnated/reborn Buddhas everywhere makes for a no on Buddhism.
• A constant cycle of reincarnation until enlightenment is reached and belief that various beings (angels?, tinkerbells? etc) exist that we, as mortals, cannot comprehend makes for a no on Sikhism.
Added details available upon written request.
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Oh shush it. Where do you think that we got Algebra and Chess?
Majority of these people have no idea WHAT or WHO they are praying too....to the uneducated Islamist, many centruries ago, the MECCA was Mohammed birth place(he left at 6yoa, cause both his parents died–and was rasied by his uncle who was a PRIEST!), which was a paganist city. When he returned he took over and threathened the people that lived there to convert(with killing of course). They are celebrating what they call a VICTORY, they are proud of this. Innocent people died at the hands of Mohammed and his groupies. And they worship this? Before Mohammed killed people to take over the city, that BOX IN THE MIDDLE THAT THEY WORSHIP, was origianlly build with 365 gods that lived in it. The people that lived in mecca,came there everyday and brought offerings to the gods, until Mohammed returned back to his birthplace after years of being MIA, and destroyed the lives of MILLIONS...and this is the history on the MECCA and their holiday. They are still praying to something that do not help them. The devil owns all of them, and its so sad that they do no have a chance to know the truth about that they follow, they are slaves in their own countries. They have no voices and are controlled by the praying horn that plays 5 times a day; reminding people of WHEN they MUST pray.They only have hope, and whats worse; the god that they are praying to is going to leave them in the situation that they are in–because they devil enjoys pain,sorrow,sickness and grief. The pain and agony that these people have to endure-because they dont know any better. The muslims that live here, think that their god blessed them. When actually, our GOD is trying to have mercy on their sould for them to learn the truth, and they still are clueless! They dont see the big picture, and if you try to get them to see it they still turn their ear. However, there is a website dreated by X-muslims that know the bible and the Quran, and they bash Mohammed and his teachings. Its a really cool website that can help people understand why Muslims think the way they think and help others understand that his teachings are of great sickness, and it helps Muslims GET OUT of the way of thinking the way they do, and to help them in the truth. All theyhave to do it 4 things to get into heaven..pray 5 times a day,fast during ramadan,go to mecca and beleive that mohammed is the messenger of god. IF LIFE WAS THAT EASY, DONT THEY THINK EVERYONE WOULD BE DOING IT, but because we know that there is more to life than that..we are not easliy persuaded. THE TRUTH HURTS and they are not able tohandle that truth, thats why when most of them do..they do atheists, because they feel betrayed., however they understand that Mohammed copied from the bible, but they have been lied to by Mohammed and many generations behind them, and even Islamist who create the Quran are currently making changes to the book slowly and the people dont even know–its a sad–they are professional people of playing mind games–so next time you speak to one, listen very carefully...they have mastered the "ART OF PERSUASION"–beware, cause only the educated would know whats going on behind their scheme.
http://ex-muslim.org.uk/
http://counterjihadreport.com/2013/01/28/former-muslims/
all i have to say is i will pray for you to find the truth... it seems your intentions are pure but these facts are just wrong. If you ever want any clarity contact me I will explain things to you better. God Bless.
A peaceful and permanent solution:
From the studies of Armstrong, Rushdie, Hirsi Ali, Richardson and Bayhaqi----–
The Five Steps To Deprogram 1400 Years of Islamic Myths:
( –The Steps take less than two minutes to finish- simply amazing, two minutes to bring peace and rationality to over one billion lost souls- Priceless!!!)
Are you ready?
Using "The 77 Branches of Islamic "faith" a collection compiled by Imam Bayhaqi as a starting point. In it, he explains the essential virtues that reflect true "faith" (iman) through related Qur’anic verses and Prophetic sayings." i.e. a nice summary of the Koran and Islamic beliefs.
The First Five of the 77 Branches:
"1. Belief in Allah"
aka as God, Yahweh, Zeus, Jehovah, Mother Nature, etc. should be added to your self-cleansing neurons.
"2. To believe that everything other than Allah was non-existent. Thereafter, Allah Most High created these things and subsequently they came into existence."
Evolution and the Big Bang or the "Gi-b G-nab" (when the universe starts to recycle) are more plausible and the "akas" for Allah should be included if you continue to be a "crea-tionist".
"3. To believe in the existence of angels."
A major item for neuron cleansing. Angels/de-vils are the mythical creations of ancient civilizations, e.g. Hitt-ites, to explain/define natural events, contacts with their gods, big birds, sudden winds, protectors during the dark nights, etc. No "pretty/ug-ly wingy thingies" ever visited or talked to Mohammed, Jesus, Mary or Joseph or Joe Smith. Today we would classify angels as f–airies and "tin–ker be-lls". Modern de-vils are classified as the de-mons of the de-mented.
"4. To believe that all the heavenly books that were sent to the different prophets are true. However, apart from the Quran, all other books are not valid anymore."
Another major item to delete. There are no books written in the spirit state of Heaven (if there is one) just as there are no angels to write/publish/distribute them. The Koran, OT, NT etc. are simply books written by humans for humans.
Prophets were invented by ancient scribes typically to keep the un-educated masses in line. Today we call them for-tune tellers.
Prophecies are also invali-dated by the natural/God/Allah gifts of Free Will and Future.
"5. To believe that all the prophets are true. However, we are commanded to follow the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings
be upon him) alone."
Mohammed spent thirty days "fasting" (the Ramadan legend) in a hot cave before his first contact with Allah aka God etc. via a "pretty wingy thingy". Common sense demands a neuron deletion of #5. #5 is also the major source of Islamic vi-olence i.e. turning Mohammed's "fast, hunger-driven" hallu-cinations into horrible reality for unbelievers.
Walk these Five Steps and we guarantee a complete recovery from your Islamic ways!!!!
Unfortunately, there are not many Muslim commentators/readers on this blog so the "two-minute" cure is not getting to those who need it. If you have a Muslim friend, send him a copy and help save the world.
Analogous steps are available at your request for deprogramming the myths of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Paganism..
Abuzak.. the truth apparently went missing in Kenya...
so sad.. do you have any proof of what you pray to actually exists...you seem certain that the other folks have it all wrong yet they have the same evidence as you... none at all...