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Iranian Mullahs Have A Sense Of Humor Too 2006-10-05 16:23:00 Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khameini has his own website ( better brush up on your Farsi if you don't like the fuzzy-wuzzy 'religion of peace' English version) and he answers your most pressing questions about Ramadan.
First question:
"If somebody masturbates during the month of Ramadan but without any discharge, is his fasting invalidated?"
First, Ramadan is only sun-up to sun-down ... I guess these Iranian guys are pretty virile if they can't keep their wicks dry for 12 hours of daylight one month out of the year.
The official Ayatollah response is:
"If he do not intend masturbation and discharging semen and nothing is discharged, his fasting is correct even though he has done a h?ar?m (forbidden) act. But, if he intends masturbation or he knows that he usually discharges semen by this process and semen really comes out, it is a h?aram intentional breaking fasting."
Okay, I am an infidel and I probably deserve to be put to the sword for asking this, but how in the na Read more:Humor
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Stone: Bush Has Set Us Back 10 Years 2006-09-29 22:01:00 Oliver Stone
blasted President Bush Thursday, saying he has "set America back 10 years." I assume he means because of things in Iraq. But 10 years ago Clinton was President and Oliver Stone still had some chance of making a decent movie. Is he sure that's such a bad thing?Nothing makes me giggle more than aging Hipsters who stop inhaling long enough to say really funny things. Read more:Years
Don't Want It Known You Have Sex With Animals? Go To Canada 2006-09-20 19:52:00 Canadians can say almost anything about Americans - and I think they get some kind of tax rebate if they say insulting things about President Bush - but they'd better not make jokes about people in the mid-east.The chairman of the publicly funded Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Guy Fournier, found himself in deep doo-doo when he talked about bowel movements and Lebanese law. Forget the bowel movements. I wrote a whole book on mine so there's nothing new he has to say, but his take on Lebanese law is interesting.According to Guy, Lebanese laws allow men to have sexual relations with female animals, but reserves the death penalty for those who did so with male animals. Sounds reasonable, right? Muslims have sex with animals all the time but homosexuality is a no-no.Why are Canadians up in arms about that? Because it was wrong for a public figure to say something so silly? Because it will enrage the many radical Muslims allowed into that country in order to feed its over-burdened Soc Read more:Canada
, Animals
World's Dumbest Terrorists 2006-09-12 17:17:00 Generally speaking, if you want to look like you are 'cooperating' in the war on terror, you have two basic options.
If you are Hezbollah, for example, you agree to a cease-fire with Israel and then immediately create a splinter group with a different name that continues to bomb Jews. This is not any surprise to people but it makes the U.N. feel like they accomplished something.
If you are a government it is a little trickier. Witness Syria, which has been running guns to anyone who will buy them. They are in a panic because Israelis actually insisted, and the UN agreed, that the pesky border with Syria should be patrolled as well - since that is how Hesbollah gets all of its rockets and bullets from Iran. That was unacceptable. To Syrians. Though they were fine with the border to Israel being closed. It's hard to run guns and bombs if you might have to shoot the French people on the UN Security Council who are protecting you from retaliation.
So it is no coincidence that a sm Read more:World
, Terrorists
Be A Good Muslim; Get Rid Of Your Cat 2006-09-09 21:03:00 Or the Muttawa will come after you.
Why do such a thing? Because it will prevent the spread of western ideas, like not strapping bombs to your chest and blowing up people of other religions. Will it work? Probably not. For as much griping in Saudi Arabia as there is about 'western' ideas the audiences for western movies go around the block.
Didn't Mohammed LOVE cats? Sure he did.
"One bad Read more:Muslim
Saddam Didn't Really Like al-Qaida 2006-09-09 03:34:00 Democrat Senators decide Saddam
viewed al-Qaida as a threat. Which means he couldn't possibly have accepted help, planning or strategies from him. I know, I know, a big revelation that someone chose to believe a dictator's statements rather than the evidence.
In other news, Saddam also stated that everyone loved him ( after all, he did get over 99% of the vote ) and that he never killed anyone. Oh, and he gave every child a balloon and a pony for their birthdays.
It gets a little old after a while. I can't count how many people have said to me, "But Saddam is secular so he couldn't possibly have allowed terrorists to be based in Iraq." And yet he did.
It's politics as usual but completely understandable. Democrat politicians smell blood in the water and they would like to avoid being called out as in favor of high gas prices if it comes from taxes but against high gas prices if it means high cost of oil. Likewise they would prefer to insist there was no reason to be in Ir
Iranian Nuclear Chief Mohammad Sa'idi Explains Why Iran Produces Heavy Water: Drinking It Helps Fight Cancer and AIDS 2006-08-31 23:26:00 Why have heavy water production in Iran?
It cures AIDS
and
cancer.
Interviewer: "You just said that in some cases, heavy water can even be used for drinking."
Mohammad Sa'idi: "Yes."
Interviewer: "Could you elaborate on this?"
Mohammad Sa'idi: "One of the products of heavy water is depleted deuterium. As you know, in an environment with depleted deuterium, the reception of cancer cells and of the AIDS viruses is disrupted. Since this reception is disrupted, the cells are gradually expelled from the body. Obviously, one glass of depleted deuterium will not expel or cure the cancer or eliminate the AIDS. We are talking about a certain period of time. In many countries that deal with these diseases, patients use this kind of water instead of regular water, and consume it daily in order to heal their diseases.
"In other words, the issue of heavy water has to do with matters of life and death, in many cases. One of the reasons that led us to produce heavy water was to use it for agric Read more:Heavy
, Cancer
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Wait ... Hezbollah WON??? 2006-08-26 06:49:00 Why am I just getting this message? I thought when you were overwhelmed militarily and you're only saved by UN interference and Israeli leadership being a little confused about what they wanted to accomplish it didn't really count as a win ... but I left out my handy MID-EAST TO WEST translator.
The folks at Reason aren't misled so easily but you may not want to read that whole article so I will use my MID-EAST TO WEST translator and help you out.
Hezbollah
, 2006 - a million refugees, 1,000 dead, Lebanon's economy bombed back to the stone age = VICTORY.
PLO, 1964-2004 - claims that Israelis poisoned chewing gum to make Arab women promiscious and used radioactive bullets while having a GDP worse than Cuba = VICTORY.
Iraq, 1991 - bounced from Kuwait in minutes, humiliated on the world stage but still in power = VICTORY
Lebanon, 1982 - terrorists bounced from West Beirut = VICTORY
Yom Kippur War, 1973 - Arabs almost take back some occupied land but call in the UN before they can be
The BBC Handbook On Bomb-Site Prioritization 2006-08-26 06:28:00
If you find a 1000 lb. bomb in the remains of a destroyed home ...
1) Make sure you are out of harm's way.2) Place a child in harm's way.3) Capitalize on the ensuing photo opportunity.
The BCC made the world safe for satire though slightly more dangerous for children with this rather ridiculous story about their efforts to get a good picture of some destruction.
There's a good reason journalists are taught to keep ego - and themselves - out of stories. Otherwise they get debacles like this:
"When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room.
"The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next to it while we get our cameras out and record the scene for posterity."
The italics are mine. The insanity is theirs. Read more:Handbook
France Reads My Blog Too 2006-08-24 21:09:00 I guess they didn't like me making fun of them for insisting that there be a UN-enforced cease-fire, bleating about their strong ties to Lebanon ( though they let Syria make it a vassal and Iran funnel money and bombs in )and then adding only 200 troops to the cause. Now they have increased it to 2000 total. Still well below Italy's contribution but at least France
looks slightly less ridiculous.
Hezbollah Reads My Blog 2006-08-24 18:10:00 No sooner do I make fun of the Germans for only being willing to patrol the coast of Lebanon after insisting the UN be allowed to put troops between Israelis and Hezbollah
, then pictures appear of Hezbollah sinking boats.I can imagine the conversation:German Ambassador: "Durka, durka. Mid-East Watch is making fun of Germany for only being willing to patrol the coast of Lebanon. They say that, as an Iranian-terrorist organization, you have no Navy. You need to blow something up."Hezbollah: "Durka, durka. We actually don't have a Navy and we're still trying to figure out how to make good on our promise to spend billions to re-build the homes that were destroyed by the Israelis. You know, since we don't have any money of our own. Can you send some?"German ambassador: "Of course not. That almost blew up on us in Iraq. And don't pull the 'we have a nuke' strategy either. With Clinton, that would have sent them running for the hills but that crazy Bush guy used it as a reas
Summing Up Where UK Muslims Go Astray 2006-08-22 22:36:00 From Europhobia:
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee, who I don't think I've ever heard of before but who have orchestrated this little witch hunt, apparently aims to
"open an avenue for rational dialogue and re-education of the individual on the street regarding Islam and Muslims
. The aim is make the all-too-common misrepresentation of Islam a thing of the past."
All very well and good - but considering that one of the most common representations of Islam is that it is intolerant of nonbelievers and far too quick to over-react when criticised, you'd think that they'd realise that by going to Wilson's employers (who, lest we forget, have nothing to do with his article or with the Conservative Home blog on which it appeared) rather than to Wilson himself or his online publishers, they've just stirred up a wonderful bit of negative PR that makes them out to be just as intolerant and quick to take offence as the "Islamophobes" they want to "re-educate" always make them out to be.
Europe Wants To Stop The Fighting ... 2006-08-21 17:23:00 ... unless it means someone besides Arabs and Israelis might die.
"All the countries are saying what Germany is saying:
We need the right rules for the deployment" and the approval of the Lebanese government, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
Except the Lebanese government is not bombing Israel. It would be best to remain skeptical about Europe
an offers. They may want the fighting to stop but they aren't willing to stop Hezbollah from terrorist attacks and they would be out of their minds to try and prevent Israel from going after Hezbollah.
So Germany won't send any troops - but they will patrol the coastline. You know, to contain that dreaded Hezbollah Navy we hear so much about.
Italy, at least, is willing to sack up and put people on the line. "The Middle East is close to us, and a great nation like Italy cannot shirk its duties," Piero Fassino, who leads the largest party in Premier Romano Prodi's center-left coalition was quoted as saying. "You cannot only invoke Read more:Fighting
Mufti of Egypt: The True Face of the Blood-Sucking Hebrew Entity has Been Exposed 2006-08-19 23:04:00 In an article in the Egypt
ian government daily Al-Ahram, Egyptian Mufti
Sheikh Dr. 'Ali Gum'a expressed his support of the resistance in Lebanon and stated that the lies of the "Hebrew
entity" expose "the true and hideous face of the blood-suckers... who prepare [Passover] matzos from human blood." [1]
The following are excerpts from the article:
"Greetings to the Lebanese people, to the Lebanese government, and to the Lebanese resistance - to the small and beautiful country that has proved to the world that the ideals of determination, bravery and self-dignity still exist in this era that has been taken over by the blood-sucking murderers.
"Anyone who follows the news will discover that the Hebrew entity has turned into a [source] of [empty] talk, while the Arab discourse, which was characterized in the sixties [as empty talk], has developed significantly. [The Arabs] have learned a lesson and have moved from talk to action, and from the fostering of illusions to honesty, trans Read more:Blood
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2006-08-14 17:25:00 Baby Bombers Are Nothing New
Some in Britain are surprised that suicide bombers were going to use children to hide them but this isn't anything new. No terrorist leader has walked in public without being surrounded by children in decades. To some it might look like public relations - especially because there's always a Reuters reporter around to take ( or Photoshop ) a picture that looks positive to terrorists. But it's also practical ... terrorists know that Israelis won't shoot children to get to a terrorist ( and terrorists regard that kind of thinking as weakness ) and if they do shoot children, the helpful Reuters photographer would be there to capture it all.
2006-08-12 23:58:00 UN Passes A Resolution To End Fighting In Lebanon
Whew ... that was a close one. As long as the UN agrees they should stop fighting, everything will be okay.
2006-08-06 16:20:00 Reuters Admits To Publishing Doctored PhotoEnhanced damage of Lebanon courtest of a Reuters photographer ( now suspended ) here.
2006-05-08 06:09:00 Is the U.S. better off with the Middle East as it is now than as it was before 2001?
After September 11, there were only seven sovereign countries in the Middle East that posed a real danger to the policies and, in some cases, the security of the United States—Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Ignoring the hysteria about the Sunni Triangle in Iraq, if we look at these states empirically, have they become more or less a threat in the last five years? The Taliban in Afghanistan was actively harboring bin Laden and al Qaeda. Without their support, the mass murder on September 11 would have been difficult to pull off.
Iran was the chief sponsor of Hezbollah, which had killed more Americans than any other Islamist terror organization and was rumored to be at work on obtaining nuclear weapons.
In Iraq, Saddam Hussein's agents were involved in the first World Trade Center bombing. They were also meeting with al Qaeda operatives throughout the 1990s and of
2006-04-30 17:27:00 Intelligence Files In the War On Terror
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_6_58/ai_n16118670
After years of delay, the intelligence community has begun sharing with the public the millions of files from the intelligence haul amassed in the War on Terror. These include files from Saddam Hussein's regime. With scholars and analysts now poring over just the small portion thus far released, the yield is already corroborating an underemphasized justification for the removal of Saddam: his longtime facilitation of Islamist terror groups, including al-Qaeda and its affiliates. The Iraq files demonstrate a close relationship between Saddam's intelligence service and the Phillipines-based Abu Sayyaf organization, whose terrorist activities were bankrolled by bin Laden's brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, beginning in the mid-1990s. They show that the regime was in personal contact with bin Laden himself, meeting with him, for example, in Sudan in 1995 for talks about c
2006-03-23 23:37:00 Iraq Archive Document Describes Bin Laden Meetinghttp://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=1734490&page=1
2006-03-18 04:11:00 Saddam Documents Discuss Bin Laden and WMDshttp://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=1734490&page=1
2006-02-22 18:27:00 UK Radiation Jump Based On Iraq Shells
Wait, now there were weapons of mass destruction again?
Iranian Sci-Fi TV Series Stars Mega-Evil Jewish Queen 2007-01-02 07:28:00 The following are excerpts from an Iranian
sci-fi film titled "The Land of Wishes," part of a series, which aired on Iranian Channel 1 on October 20, 2006. In it, an evil queen, adorned with a large Star of David and sitting on a throne in the "Black House" (which is also marked with a Star of David) engages in a battle of "virtual warriors" with a young girl who seeks to free the masses the queen Read more:Jewish
, Queen
Shocking News ... Saddam Was The Weapon of Mass De... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Shocking News ... Saddam
Was The Weapon
of Mass Destruction
Another mass grave uncovered. This one even made the newspapers. I guess if the crime in Iraq is large enough maybe even CNN will report it.
The grave, filled with mostly Kurdish women and children, was uncovered by investigators who are still sifting through the carnage. What is known is that the site was carefully chosen, the
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