today we begin the first detailed post on proving that the shia make illegal intercourse ; legal. And rather they hold it to be from the greatest acts of worship !

The narrations they have in their main books -in this subject- are just ludicrous and clearly devilish.

As for proving that Mut'ah is haraam , this is clear , and we will be sufficed with what has been written in the other Sunni sites [linked on our homepage] ; so for those who wish for that , they should refer there.

Here , we prove the fact that indeed these heretics have made the loaning of private parts permissible, and we prove that they have created lies and fell into heresy by even refering these nasty & false narrations back to Allaah , and His Prophet (sallahAllaahu alayhi wasallam), the Companions, and the Imaams [who are free from them - even though they ascribe themselves to them].

These quotes are from the book 'Mustadrak al-wasilah' , it says :

[this is the highlited text ]

From Saleem bin 'Aqabah that his father said : 'I asked Imam al-baqir (may peace be on him) is there a reward for the one who does  mut’ah.?'

The imaam said: "Yes, if it is practiced for seeking the pleasure of Allah and to oppose fulaan [someone - I dont know who they mean by this].

And as such he will not talk to her  [the woman] any word ; except that Allaah  records a virtue for him. And when he gets close to her [engages in the sexual act with the woman] ; Allah forgives for him his sins. And when he  takes a bath [after the act]; Allah forgives his sins equal to the amount of water which passed on his hair ."

I [The narrator] said [inquired in surprise]: "Equal to the amount of hair on their bodies?"

The imam replied: "Yes, according to the number of hairs [wet by the water].."

next quote : [the first underline]

he said : " Indeed Allaah The Most Mighty The Most Majestic , Has made impermissible for our shia ; all that which intoxicates from any drink - and substituted in its place -for them-  Mut'ah.''

next quote : [the last underline]

from baqir who said : The Prophet (sallahAllaahu alayhi wasallam), said :

"When I was being taken to Heaven during the Israa (ascension),  Jibreel met me and told me: '0 Muhammad, Allah The Most Mighty The Most Majestic says: 'I have forgiven all [of the sins of] those women who practice mut’ah.”

end of quotes.

O, You Muslim who fears Allaah, O you Muslim of sound intellect : contemplate on these narrations of theirs , and then you be the judge !!?

the proof :

Now is the time to disavow the American empire at whose altar we've knelt all these years. America is distracted by the financial crisis and the presidential election. Bush, Cheney and the neo-con war party would have dearly liked to bomb Iran. The opportunity for them to do so, if it ever existed, has gone. Iranian defiance (as opposed to our defeatism) has been vindicated. If we break loose from America's embrace and renegotiate our terms of friendship with it America will gnash its teeth. Economic pain it can also inflict but how much worse can our economic situation get? How much deeper can we plunge?

By Ayaz Amir
Friday, 10 October 2008.

The News International.

WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI.COM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—There is no end to the ironies which afflict our increasingly caught-in-a-bind republic. George Bush, sure to be commemorated as one of the greatest disasters to reside in the White House, may be about to depart into the pages of history or into well-deserved oblivion. But in one country on the face of the earth his policies will live on: Pakistan which in the 61 years of its existence has yet to learn to think for itself.

There may be second thoughts in the United States itself about the way the Washington-led coalition circus is stuck in Afghanistan and making no headway there despite seven years of toil, effort, sweat and money. The commander of British forces in Afghanistan may have brought himself to say that military means alone could not solve the Afghan problem. But among what passes for the Pakistani leadership there is nothing resembling second thoughts.

President Asif Zardari, democracy's ultimate gift to this confused and now increasingly demoralized land, lets no opportunity go by without insisting that the so-called war on terror – a nomenclature we have adopted with a zeal not even to be found in Washington – is not just America's war but ours too. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani parrots much the same theme. The army too is sold on the same song.

Each act of terrorism – and such are the wages of this conflict that after seven years of being hooked to Washington's war chariot terrorism instead of being licked is on the rise in Pakistan---is used to bolster the contention that this is now our war. No questions are asked as to how we got into this mess in the first place.

If this is our war then General Pervez Musharraf should still be president of Pakistan. There should be no reason to hate him because his outstanding legacy, the thing for which he will always be remembered, was how he jumped into America's lap post-Sep 11, giving birth to the legend – to which Pakistan's confused English-speaking liberati still subscribe – that Pakistan was saved. That if Pakistan had hesitated and not swung so decisively to America's side it would have been made a Tora Bora of, and bombed into the stone age. It was this mental cowardice – and the ambition of benefiting from America's largesse – which set Pakistan on the path leading eventually to the nightmare our army and people now face in the tribal areas.

This is brilliant firefighting. First set things on fire, create conditions which give rise to extremism and militancy, and then announce that extremism represents the greatest threat to national security and must be eliminated.

Most Pakistanis have no taste for the Taliban brand of Islam: the Sharia, or somebody's mutilated understanding of Sharia, imposed at gunpoint. Why is it then that among ordinary Pakistanis (as opposed to the English-spouting liberati) there is not much support for the 'war on terror'? Because most Pakistanis, despite revulsion against the Kalashnikov, consider this to be America's war, and consider the Pakistani leadership and the Pakistan army as playing America's game.

A Dawn editorial (and this was yesterday) has these pearls of wisdom to offer: "What is at stake is our future. Pakistan cannot be allowed to become a theocratic state, for that would nullify (Jinnah's)…values." A fine sentiment – but which misses the point completely. Our role as American ally, or American satellite which is nearer the truth, is what has led to the rise of Talibanism in the tribal areas. Talibanism is not the disease itself. It is a reaction to, or a consequence of, our decision to blindly side with America in Sept 2001.

There was no Al Qaeda or militant Islam in Iraq prior to the American invasion. The American occupation gave birth to a resistance which, as was only to be expected in a Muslim country, acquired an Islamic colouring and spoke in an Islamic idiom. To each his own beliefs and iconography. Christian soldiers in western armies still make the sign of the cross, or at least some of them would do. So nothing amazing if in moments of stress or danger a Muslim, whether warrior or not, and even if not devout in the faith, should invoke Allah's name or seek inspiration from Ali. And this has nothing to do with being a Shia or a Sunni.

Should we expect the Taliban to quote Marx or Guevara? If they are up in arms against a foreign power and what they take to be its local collaborators they will use the idiom which comes most naturally to them: the language of Islam even if their interpretation of Islam may leave something to be desired.

So what are government and General Headquarters trying to sell? In 1988 (Feb 29) Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, then ISI head, gave an in-camera briefing to parliament. His purpose was to sell and extol the virtues of the then Afghan jihad whose leading spearman, in defiance of common sense, Pakistan had chosen to become. Ten years later another in-camera briefing of parliament seeks to justify and sell another holy war, the 'war on terror'.

This war is tearing Pakistan apart. It is kindling fires all over the country. Tribesmen who guarded our western marches all these years have turned bitter and hostile. The army was a symbol of respect and authority. More than 100,000 troops are now deployed in that inhospitable terrain and the situation far from improving gets more difficult by the day. At the height of the Kashmir insurgency a couple of thousand guerrilla fighters at the most tied down 4-500,000 Indian troops. But ignoring the lessons of Kashmir the army thinks it will get the better of the Taliban insurgency who have more fighters than the Kashmiris ever had.

The army's Achilles' heel is its American connection and as long as that remains there is no winning this war or pacifying the tribal areas. This doesn't mean going to war with America, as the liberati tend to distort the argument. It means repudiating the written and unwritten agreements concluded with America in 2001, including the five year military-cum-economic aid package concluded at the time. What good has this package done us? What peaks of economic glory have we scaled with its help?

So now is the time to disavow the American empire at whose altar we've knelt all these years. America is distracted by the financial crisis and the presidential election. Bush, Cheney and the neo-con war party would have dearly liked to bomb Iran. The opportunity for them to do so, if it ever existed, has gone. Iranian defiance (as opposed to our cravenness) has been vindicated. If we break loose from America's embrace and renegotiate our terms of friendship with it America will gnash its teeth. Economic pain it can also inflict but how much worse can our economic situation get? How much deeper can we plunge?

Who knows in the very act of breaking the mental shackles which bind us to the US we might discover the freedom and self-respect we have always fantasized about but never achieved. It's quite possible that the moment we announce our dissociation from America's war aims the fever of extremism from Swat to Waziristan will subside. It won't immediately disappear but it will become amenable to treatment.

But to move towards any kind of national salvation we will need leaders whose minds are free. Musharraf looked more his own man than the present leadership and that's saying a lot. Zardari says the world is a safer place because of Bush. Mental kowtowing can't be carried much further than this.

About the in-camera session I am not supposed to say anything although heaven knows no mighty secrets were divulged. The question-answer session the next morning was largely wasted because the kind of pointed and informed questions that should have been asked were not asked. As the principal opposition party it was up to the PML-N to do most of the probing but living up to its reputation as the Permanent Walkout or Naraaz (angry) Party, it announced that the briefing not being comprehensive enough its members would not ask questions, a puzzling standpoint to say the least.

An hour or so into the question-answer session which was being handled by the director-general military operations (now promoted as the DG ISI), the army chief, with a slightly bemused expression on his face, went away. Had he other matters to attend to or had he had enough for the day?

This is an edited version of the original column published by The News International, Pakistan’s largest English-language daily newspaper. Mr. Amir can be reached at chakwal@comsats.net.pk

Is this the "October Surprise?" US Warplane Plays Chicken in Iran's Airspace. A VERY BAD IDEA.

James Stephens here Tuesday, October 7, 2008. Woke up to breaking news on KNX1070 News Radio in Los Angeles this morning at 5:30 that 'a US warplane had illegally crossed over Iran's airspace and was brought down by the Iranians who were interrogating five US officers who were then released. Is it true? Or just political spin? The timing is just too political on our part as this evening is the McCain-Obama Debate. The State Department just reported, "All our planes are accounted for." Who do you believe? Is this a "wag the dog" Iranian style?

Didn't plan on rolling out of bed to write this WARNING article as I had strangely stayed up until 1:30 AM listening to Fresh Air, a NPR podcast interview of Robert Baer, a former CIA Analyst who has specialized in Iran for the last thirty plus years. It is well worth a careful listen.

One thing that was of deep concern to me that Baer mentioned towards the end of the interview pointing to the Achilles heal in our own country's foreign policy regarding the Middle East was that even if the CIA provides A1 intelligence, sometimes the President, as in President Reagan's tragic policy in Beruit, he didn't listen to their prudent counsel and acted for political reasons that actually backfired on the ground. Baer did say that because Senator McCain is sinking in the polls because he's not hit the economic meltdown effectively, that an attack on Iran would be an "October surprise."

And although Israel in some ways does want to knock out the nuclear facilities in Iran, they recognize that it would immediately precipitate retaliatory strikes and the Persian gulf would be on fire, make the US Economic meltdown look like a walk in the park and throw the world into a thirty year war and a Great Depression of immense magnitude.

Very insightful analysis on the Shia vs. Sunni issues from an expert who has worked in the middle east for thirty plus years. Clear minded analysis.

James C. Stephens was invited to Fuller School of Intercultural Studies in 1996 and mentored by one of the world's leading Islamicists Dr. Dudley Woodberry. He received a MA in Intercultural Studies with a dual concentration was in Leadership Development and Christian-Buddhist Studies, his study in Woodberry's class on Islam produced a paper on Peacemaking in Ladakh, India in an attempt to address a complex religious conflict between Islam and Tibetan Buddhism which has arisen after the Dalai Lama's followers had evidently firebombed an Islamic mosque in Leh. He is the Executive Director of Sonrise Center for Buddhist Studies located at http://www.sonrisecenter.org.

October surprise?
Friday, October 03, 2008 by Dave Winer.
I just listened to a chilling but fascinating edition of FreshAir. Permalink to this paragraph
So chilling and thought-provoking it will certainly help you forget Sarah Palin, and might just get you to forget the subprime meltdown crisis depression, etc. Permalink to this paragraph
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The big question -- will an October Surprise, one that gives us four more years of Republican rule in the US be an American attack on Iran, or an American-approved attack by Israel? Permalink to this paragraph
The subject of the interview, Robert Baer, is absolutely sure that if that happens, the Iranians will shut down the flow of oil to the world from the entire Persian Gulf. Permalink to this paragraph
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That's the Straits of Hormuz, the place all the arrows are pointing at. It's tiny. All the oil from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, etc flows through there. If Iran wants they can shut that down at any time. Attack Iran, they say, and that's the end of oil. Baer says that would start a depression that makes the subprime meltdown look like a day in the park. He calls it a Hail Mary Pass, one that Bush might throw, one last chance to save his legacy and keep the White House in Republican hands. Permalink to this paragraph
Have a listen, if you have the time. It's riveting radio. Permalink to this paragraph

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A fair trick to start a ‘civil war’ allowing the ‘true’ insurgence to work more tactfully. The horrifying incident was successful in flaming sectarian clashes to the rest of Iraq. The rampage took  1,157 Iraqi lives, increasing the already rising death toll. The blame game continued along with the vain killings concluding nothing but severe loss of life and unity. 

The theory however is amazingly simple:

"The city of Samarra, 120km from Baghdad, is the most important Iraqi city, politically. What happens in Samarra may well determine the fate of the other parts of Iraq - Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Anbar and Arbil"

The al-Askari Mosque, also called the Golden Mosque, was built in 944 and is one of Iraq’s four holiest shrines for Shias.The dome of the sanctuary was completed in 1905 and had been covered by 72,000 golden pieces. The mosque is one of the four largest shia mosques in the country. However it is situated in a ‘sunni’ majority  area the city of ‘Sammara’. After years of hosting shia pilgrims it is sad how the bombings still triggered rivalries between shia-sunni. Nothing but a well framed agenda to initiate a civil war hence weakening the resistance the US army continues to face.

Today the government woes to utilize up to $60 billion for reconstruction. As the construction work continues wounds are healed and differences mend.

In a remarkable gesture, Sunni women are often seen carrying food for the security personnel guarding the shrines, and for the workers who continue to toil day and night."

“We always felt the government blamed the Sunnis for the bombing, but it wasn’t us: it was Al Qaeda,

I was devastated when it happened. I wanted to find whoever did it and cut his head off. Now we want it to be repaired.”said Wasmi Hamed, who leads a Sunni neighborhood patrol that has helped drive Al Qaeda militants out of the city."

While my heart is content upon hearing the news my mind continues to wander:

Why ? Why are we Muslims so gullible ? So easily turned against each other? How many more killings are we willing to afford ? How many years more are we going to overlook the fact that whether Shia or Sunni we all belong to each other. It is my heart-felt desire that we do because only that day will we truly be able to stand in front of our lord as nothing else but ‘Muslims’ without bias and grudges.

Instead of a conventional review, I’ll try to rehash the conversation I had with my girlfriend who didn’t see it afterward. This conversation will contain spoilers. Not that the plot is important in a film like this.

Her: “So, I’m not gonna see it. Who was after Shia? And why?”

Me: “A supercomputer that went rogue.”

Her: “Like Terminator.”

Me: “Right. But the main code for this computer is the Constitution, so it determines that the people need a better leader than the president, so it decides to kill the president and everyone in the chain of command following him.”

Her: “The Constitution?”

Me: “Right.”

Her: “That’s dumb.”

Me: “Yeah, and it opens the door to so many other questions, like does it view a black person as 3/5ths of a person. But so it decides to kill the president.”

Her: “Will Shia kill the president?”

Me: “No. They need Shia because he has an identical twin who worked for the supercomputer, and told it not to kill the president.”

Her: “Where’s the identical twin?”

Me: “He’s dead. The computer killed him.”

Her: “That’s dumb.”

Me: “Yeah. And so it needs the Shia character we follow in the movie to tell it that it’s okay to execute the operation to kill the president.”

Her: “So this computer can control traffic lights, machinery, missiles, and learn everything about you, but it can’t simply disobey Shia’s twin?”

Me: “Right. Which is particularly interesting since it disobeys everyone else, including people considerably higher on the food chain that the Shia twin.”

Her: “So wait, if the Shia twin was dead, how did everyone find out about the evil plot?”

Me: “The computer told the Shia twin its evil plot, and the Shia twin recorded it on his Blackberry.”

Her: “Can’t the computer hack into phones with great ease?”

Me: “I guess it was busy coming up with assassination ideas and forgot to delete the evidence.”

Her: “That’s dumb.”

Me: “Well, wait til you hear how the girl is involved.”

Her: “How?”

Me: “She wears the explosive necklace to the President’s State of the Union speech.”

Her: “What?”

Me: “There’s this new crystal, called Hex, which is like a hundred times more explosive than C-4. It’s cut and put into a necklace.”

Her: “How’d they cut it without setting it off?”

Me: “It’s triggered by a sonic pitch.”

Her: “So why did the computer use this girl?”

Me: “Because her son was in DC scheduled to play the trumpet for the National Anthem at the president’s speech, so they put the trigger into his trumpet, and set it so the bomb would explode on the high F of ‘land of the freeeeee.’”

Her: “That’s dumb.”

Me: “Yeah.”

Her: “Like, really really dumb.”

Me: “Yeah, I didn’t know supercomputers were able to execute dramatic irony.”

Her: “Why this lady? Why not any of the other moms?”

Me: “I don’t know. Because she’s single, sensitive, and really hot in a slinky black dress?”

Her: “Well, I’m sorry the movie was stinky.”

Me: “I mean, it was diverting enough. And Shia certainly is an appealing lead. I didn’t want my money back… at least not until the happy ending.”

Her: “What was the dumbest part?”

Me: “The supercomputer has its hard drives and memory removed, yet it still lives on and attempts to upload itself onto a satellite… until Rosario Dawson stabs it in its eye with a metal rod, and then it dies.”

Her: “Its eye?”

Me: “Yeah. Its Eagle Eye, I suppose.”

Her: “Har har.”

Me: “Yeah. The whole flick was basically the awesome parts of Die Hard 4 and Terminator, but not as awesome.”

Her: “Stinky.”

Me: “Yeah.”

A lot of male moviegoers were excited about the recent release of Iron Man DVD. I had not seen it when it was in the theaters, but thought I should check it out and see what the commotion was all about. Turns out, Iron Man DVD is pretty fun. 

Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark, an incredibly smart guy who makes bombs for the army. He’s a lot like Christian Bale’s non-Batman in that he is a playboy and dates a lot of girls and has tuxedo parties. Maybe even a little too similar to Batman? Just saying...

Iron Man DVD begins with Tony Stark visiting some of his army friends in a desert country. Things take a quick turn for the worse, however, when Tony Stark is kidnapped by men who live in a cave. The cavemen want him to build a missile for them to use against other cave people. And to insure that he does so, the cavemen steal his heart! So, in order to stay alive, Tony builds a new heart made out of what appears to be an old LED flashlight. One that constantly glows from beneath his clothes and helps him see in the dark cave. The next day, Tony kills the cavemen and escapes to safety by building a bulletproof robot suit that shoots fire.  

Back in the United States, we see Tony’s house in...wait for it, MALIBU! That’s right, he lives in Malibu, just like yours truly. That is so amazing. What’s up 3-1-0?!

Tony is reunited with his secretary Piper (played by Gweneth Paltrow) and his dad (played by a bald actor) who are glad he is alive. Tony builds another bulletproof robot suit, a way cooler-looking one that has a computer and shoots lightning from its hands. Wearing the new suit, Tony goes back in time to kill the cavemen from the beginning of the movie. Is the movie over? No way! It’s just getting started. There are more flying scenes and also some funny scenes with Tony and his pet robots.* In the end, it comes down to a big climactic duel between Tony and his dad, who decides to wear the original robot suit (which is huge! It’s at least 30 feet tall, no joke) and beat people up, destroy cars and shoot missiles. Who wins, you ask? Well, you’ll just have to rent the movie and find out for yourself. But, I would like to see his dad come back to life, if they do another movie.  

For the most part, I thought Iron Man DVD was a pretty good movie. I did have a few problems with the script, though. Firstly of all, why didn’t they show any cavewomen? I mean, do cavemen just grow in the cave like mushrooms? I don’t think so. The fact that they only showed cavemen seemed a little sexist IMO. Secondly of all, why does Tony Stark have so much hair if his dad is totally bald? Don’t get me wrong, I totally respect Robert Downey Jr. for hiring a bald actor to play his dad (bald actors don’t get many parts in movies unless it is as a police boss or a principal or one of Vin Diesel’s characters) but it seemed like better casting could have been considered. I’m sure they could have hired someone with hair to play the dad and still given the bald actor another part in the movie: i.e. next door neighbor or a guy in a restaurant. Just my two cents, though. Thirdly of all, they never show Tony Stark and Piper get married. WTF? Hello, they’re in love. Now, in his defense, I’m sure Robert Downey Jr. had a lot on his mind, but it’s too bad he didn’t pay more attention to the plot holes that were, to me, pretty apparent.

I think that it’s possible that Robert Downey Jr. could make an Iron Man DVD 2 and even 3. I can see this story and the Iron Man character continuing and developing into a whole series like the Pirates of the Caribbean or even become a hugely successful trilogy like the Harry Potter films. I would love to see Gweneth Paltrow and Tony Stark have a kid and then they become a whole family of Iron People that fights crime. That would kick butt! Just a hint, Mr. Downey Jr. ;)

There were lots of extras features for Iron Man DVD, but, honestly, I wasn’t that interested in any of them, so didn’t pay much attention. But I’m sure they were really good and had lots of information about stuff.

I give Iron Man DVD 4 out of 5 winks.  

*Sorry if that’s a spoiler. I wasn’t sure, though.

i guess it's not just my age literally. i felt good about my ability to be courteous, friendly, professional, witty, etc. to the right extent, without going too far. Knowing what not to say. Knowing when to end a conversation, etc. I think that it's a combination of knowledge, self-awareness, confidence. "style," maybe. I'm not sure what to call it, but i am happy that at least in a few moments as of late, i have somehow managed, i humbly think i have managed to have a little [style].

And it's a good feeling. I think that knowing that you're making sexy-wise decisions to keep yourself on the road to growth really helps. Anyway.

I have seen several movies in the last week or so. I will comment on them briefly, not because i don't have a TON of commentary to make, but if i wait until i have the time and energy to type it all, it will never get done.

Choke:
Very interesting. Can't really recommend to anyone who is offended by sexual topics and content. However, it definitely went down like a unique chilean wine, which is how Palahniuk's writing appears to me to be. Also, it really made me face my own ideas of the whole "pain of changing being less than the pain of staying the same" kin of level and also the sometimes inverse connection between Sex and Love.

Eagle Eye:
This was surprisingly good. Transformers aside, I usually can't stand Shy Le Beef. But i gotta hand it to him, he did a great job in this film. I was kept interested in the plot, i could have been spoon-fed a *little* bit less, but it was still exciting to see it unfold. Once the pace picks up, it doesn't really let you slide back into your seat. I could have done without the typography and music looking and sounding just like a 24 movie, because it made me want Jack Bauer.

Religulous:
I was seriously impressed with this movie. I was a bit wary of watching it, feeling like it might just be sitting through Maher's insults for 2 hours. But I was pleasantly surprised. First of all, it's hilarious. plain and simple. even if you disagree with what he is saying, you laugh at quite a bit. Secondly, although at the most root level I disagree with Maher's assertion that ALL religion is detrimental to the progress and safety of the world, i DO agree with a lot of what he says about the dangers of being fanatical and zealous with our certainty of faith, brandishing God's voice like a pistol with which we use to whip all naysayers and doubters.

He goes through lots of different religions (Christianity, Judaism, Mormonism, Islam, even a quick stop in Amsterdam for Cantheism) and showcases some of their worser blunders and holes in thinking. Much like Saved!, I fear this film will end up never being seen (or being boycotted) by a lot of the people who need to see it most.

Nick and Nora's Infinte Playlist:
This is another good movie. I think if you hate chick flick AND music-y flicks, you probably won't like unless you're a die-hard Michael Cera fan. I don't think I would have enjoyed it QUITE as much had i not seen it with a female, but either way, the music aspects of the film were great, not to mention the music in it (i want the soundtrack), and also Michael Cera is at his wonderful, subtle acting best. Not that it tops Juno. But, then again, not much does.

As Salaamu Alaykum Wa Ramatullah Wa Barakatahu

As much as the media would have loved to let you believe. NATO forces cannot and will not be able to destroy the Taliban or control/ stay in Afghanistan for much longer.

Proof of this is located here, in a recent article on the BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7653116.stm

My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, NATO controls less than half of Afghanistan after being in that nation for 8 years. It is imperitive that we understand that the Muslims there have fought against the oppression and by that right, they have surely encouraged other Muslims to fight as well. Not only have the come back from being devastated by the war, they have found new ways of ensuring that the Islam in their nation is safe and they will not be left to fade away because of a war.

Palestinians have also kept steadfast with their faith and have no conceded to the Israeli's, nor will they ever!

This just proves that, there is hope for the Ummah and that we are gaining in numbers and strength and the kaafirs have begun to realise that our faith is strong and that nothing will ever stand in the way of Islam!

May the Peace and Blessings of God Be Upon All.

One of the many reasons, why Islam and Muslims are constantly under attack today can mostly be pinned down to the current state of faith in the ummah.

As depressing as it is to admit this, sometimes learning the truth, and feeling the effects of it, can truly open one's heart and God Willing lead to a newfound revival of one's faith [iman].

It is without a doubt, one can see the current generation of young Muslims digging themselves into peril. One of the signs of the coming of the day is the difference of opinion amogsnt the scholars. Today, we see many different ways of worship, of wearing the hijab, of loving the Prophet (saw) and even so to the authenticity of the Holy Quran [naoozubillah].

Another sign is of the haraam, becoming, halaal.

Generally, as far as I can tell, there have been in quick sucsession, two failed generations of Muslims. First being our grandparents and secondly being our parents. Note, it is said that in the coming of the day, the youths would blame their elders and curse them for their failings.

So here again we can actually see it seeping, whether we like it or not into our daily lives.

Music, I see the question being raised alot. What is haraam and what isn't. For me I would say all music is haraam. That is, those with girls/women's voices handsdown.

However today, we see quote, Islamic, unquote, music such as rap and hip hop being sung as a means of spreading Islam.

This is wrong. Although it has no beats, no insulting rhymes or such, it greatly imitates the kaafirs, and in this sense, it is wrong. It is a sin to act and try to act like the unbelievers.

We have greatly lost our way. Unless the youth of today reinforce there Islam and Iman in all aspects of the meanings, we are just another lost generation.

It is because of that very reason that Palestinians are being slaughtered and tortured. Forced out of their homes and thrown into the very pits of poverty!

It is because we have failed to accept Allah [swt] and His Messenger's words that Iraq has fallen, that the chair of the CALIPHATE has fallen, that AMERICA has control over Saudi Arabia!

For these very reasons, Muslims are being killed, especially by 'suicide bombings'. Like we would ever kill our own? Remember, they are dividing us, so they can conquer us. Iraq is their, Saudi Arabia is theirs, Afghanistan is still strong [all praise due to God] and Pakistan is now fighting against America.

The truth is rapidly being exposed. Muslim blood is the most blood being spilled.

So I leave you with one question. What do YOU do now?

After his chart-topping portrayal in the box office movie, Transformers, Shia LeBouf is once again rigging in more acclaim as his new film, Eagle Eye, debuts at the top of the weekend box office.

Earning an estimate of $29.2 million in the box office, Eagle Eye rocketed as the number 1 movie in the US. The thriller reunites Shia Lebouf, director D.J. Caruso, and executive producer, Steven Spielberg for the first time since the hit movie, Dirturbia.

Eagle Eye plays around with the perils of technology. In the film, Jerry Shaw (Le Bouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monagham) are two strangers strewn together by a mysterious phone call made by a strange woman who is out to track down their every move using the technology of everyday life.

"The conceit of the film is intriguing to all…Between GPS, employee codes, bank PIN numbers, this could conceivably be within the realm of possibility within a few years," says DreamWorks spokesman, Chip Sullivan.

With their lives in danger, Jerry and Rachel are thrown into a race-against time adventure. These two become the two most wanted fugitives in the country as the action escalates. Fighting for their lives, Jerry Shaw and Rachelle Holloman are in the hands of the faceless enemy with limitless power to manipulate their future.

With the success of his other credits including, Transformers (along with its much awaited sequel), Disturbia, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and now, Eagle Eye, Shia LeBouf is secured to bask in his position as one of the most bankable actors in Hollywood.

It's about leaving everyone behind. But also about remembering who people are, and what they mean to you: A guide to recognizing your saints.

Iraqi authorities officially took command of about 54,000 so-called Sons of Iraq in the Baghdad area on Wednesday, and U.S. officials say they will transfer authority over additional members of the groups as conditions permit. >>>>>

so i'm writing about what else i care about:

Shia Labeouf.

My main man is getting injured on the set of Transformers 2. HOW DARE YOU MICHAEL BAY? How dare you have props on set that can injure him so badly he needs stitches. I'd totally boycott your movie, but you have really cute actors. I lose this battle, for now. See if I see your Friday the 13th remake. Oh wait, Jared Paladecki is in it? Well, if you ever have a movie starring an ugly person, totally not seeing it. That's a promise.

In other Shia news, not only is he not at fault for the car accident he was in a couple months ago, but now the people in the other car have told the police false statements! Have fun in jail, or paying your fines.. whatever it is you Californians do. But just remember the whole time, that's what you get for fucking with Shia Labeouf's pimp hand.

You'll get yours Michael Bay.

Love, Samantha.

Given what you've said, Senator, is there an occasion where you could imagine turning to Gov. Palin for advice in a foreign policy crisis?

I've turned to her advice many times in the past. I can't imagine turning to Sen. Obama or Sen. Biden, because they've been wrong. They were wrong about Iraq, they were wrong about Russia. Sen. Biden wanted to divide Iraq into three different countries. He voted against the first Gulf War. Sen. Obama has no experience whatsoever and has been wrong in the issues that he's been involved in.

But would you turn to Gov. Palin?

I certainly wouldn't turn to them, and I already have turned to Gov. Palin, particularly on energy issues, and I've appreciated her background and knowledge on that and many other issues.

Does her energy qualification extend to the international energy market?

Of course, that's what it's all about. It extends to a broad variety of issues, from her worldview of the threats that we face of radical Islamic extremism, to specific areas of the world. I'm very proud of her, and proud of the knowledge and background that she has. She's also been a governor of a state, and she has been involved in running a bureaucracy, she has been in charge of running a state, and it's not an accident that she's the most popular governor in America. I remember, in all due respect, that some people, when Ronald Reagan came out of California, said he was totally unqualified. I remember an obscure governor of the state of Arkansas that people said he was totally unqualified. This kind of thing goes on, usually in Georgetown cocktail parties.

Keep in mind, this is McCain attesting that he'd turn to Sarah Palin in a foreign policy crisis. While a certain level of inclusion is necessary with the vice-president, McCain's saying that he values Palin's opinion on foreign policy issues over Biden's and Obama's.

Here's her stance on energy supplies and Iraq. Maybe you can make sense of it:

The GOP agenda to ramp up domestic supplies of energy is the only way that we're going to become energy independent, the only way that we are going to become a more secure nation - and I say this, of course, looking at the situation we are in right now, at war, not knowing what the plan is to ever end the war that we're engaged in, understanding that Americans are seeking solutions, and they are seeking resolution in this war effort, so energy supplies, being able to produce and supply domestically, is going to be a big part of that.

....I have a 19 year old who's getting ready to be deployed to Iraq. His Stryker brigade will leave on September 11th of this year. He's 19, he'll be gone for a year. [And so] kind of on a personal level, when I talk about, umm, the plan for the war, you know, let's make sure we have a plan here, and respecting McCain's position on that.

For the record, Biden's plan for turning Iraq into three states was in 2006, when that proposal made a little more sense in terms of Shia/Sunni/Kurdish infighting, even if it made little sense in terms of regional security. Iraq currently exists as three autonomous regions.

-Marc-

نص رسالة الشيخ علي الكوراني الى يوسف القرضاوي ؛ الذي كشف فيها عن تشيع عبدالرحمن يوسف القرضاوي ..
الى سماحة الشيخ العالم الذي وهبه الله الكثير ..
نصيحة أخوية..
أرجو أن يتسع صدرك لتشيع ابنك ، وأن لا تهدده بالبراءة منه والحرمان ، والويل والثبور !
أولا ً: لأن العلم يأخذ قيمته في أحد أبعاده من الحلم ، والحلم قيمته في الأمور الصعبة ..
وثانياً : ينبغي أن يكون موقفك أخروياً محضاً ، وعليه فقد ينفعك تشيع ابنك في الآخرة ..
إنه يعتقد بينه وبين ربه أن النبي صلى الله عليه وآله قد أوصى لعلي عليه السلام ، وأن (الجماعة) بالتعاون مع طلقاء قريش.. عملوها كما عملوا غيرها ! وأنت ستذهب قريباً الى الآخرة.. فقد يكون الأمر كذلك وتحتاج الى شفاعة ابنك .
وثالثاً: إذا أردت أن تنظر الى المسألة بنظرة دنيوية ، فأنت تعتبر نفسك (معتدلاً) ، فكن في الوسط ، ولتكن زوجتك وبعض أسرتك وهابيين مع ابن عثيمين وجبرين والتكفيريين ، وهذا ابنك شيعي ..
فقد جمعت الخطوط الأساسية في التوجه العقيدي والسياسي ، وتكون عائلتك نموذجية في الحرية والوحدة ، و ( توزيع البيض في السلال ) !!

و كانت صحيفة "البلد" اللبنانية قد نشرت في الآونة الأخيرة أن علة غضب الشيخ يوسف القرضاوي على الشيعة هو بسبب تشيع أحد المقربين إليه، لكن الصحيفة لم تذكر الصلة التي تربط الشخص الذي تشيع بالشيخ القرضاوي و كان الشيخ "ماهر حمود" إمام جماعة مسجد القدس ومفتي صيدا، و هو من علماء السنة البارزين في لبنان، قد أكد صحة ذلك الخبر.
و عبدالرحمن يوسف و هو من الشعراء البارزين وأحد المعارضين لنظام الحكم في مصر و ينتمي إلى "حركة كفاية" ولديه أشعار قاسية بحق الرئيس "حسني مبارك" أنشد الكثير من الشعر في مدح مقاومة حزب الله في الجنوب اللبناني.
يقول في إحدى قصائده مخاطبا الرئيس المصري حسني مبارك :
ألـْـق ِ العُـصَابـَــة َ عَـنْ عَـيْـنـَيـْـكَ تحْجُبُهَـــا
عَـنْ رُؤيـَـةِ النـَّـار ِ تـَشـْـوي وَجْـهَ لـُبـْنـَانـَـا...
بالأمْـس ِ كـُنـَّـا نـَـرَى في العـِـزِّ " قـَاهِــرَة
و اليـَـوْمَ نـَرْقـُـبُ نحْوَ العِـزِّ " طـَهْـرَانـَـا " ....
و تشير مصادر إلى أن عبد الرحمن يوسف القرضاوي معروف عنه حسن أخلاقه وطاعته لوالده، حيث أنه أخفى مدة طويلة و لم يعلن تشيعه احتراما لوالده ...
و كان عبد الرحمن يوسف القرضاوي قد زار الجنوب اللبناني بعد حرب تموز وزار المدن اللبنانية هناك مثل بنت جبيل، مارون الرأس، و الضاحية الجنوبية في بيروت و التقى بالأهالي هناك و عبر عن تعاطفه معهم بعد الدمار الذي لحق بمنازلهم.
و كان عبدالرحمن قد نشر في الآونة الأخيرة ديواناً شعرياً تحت عنوان "اكتب تاريخ المستقبل" و كان قد أهداه إلى السيد حسن نصر الله الأمين العالم لحزب الله اللبناني، و قام عبد الرحمن القرضاوي بنشر ديوانه أيضاً على موقعه على الشبكة العالمية للإنترنت، و ذكر في مقدمة ديوانه الأخير الذي يمجد المقاومة أنه كتب قصائده و هو في طريقه من القاهرة إلى الإسكندرية وبيروت وقانا و بنت جبيل!!

The War Won’t End in Afghanistan

Senator Barack Obama said something at the presidential debate last week that almost perfectly encapsulates the difference between his foreign policy and his opponent’s: “Secretary of Defense Robert Gates himself acknowledges the war on terrorism started in Afghanistan and it needs to end there.” I don’t know if Obama paraphrased Gates correctly, but if so, they’re both wrong.

If Afghanistan were miraculously transformed into the Switzerland of Central Asia, every last one of the Middle East’s rogues gallery of terrorist groups would still exist. The ideology that spawned them would endure. Their grievances, such as they are, would not be salved. The political culture that produced them, and continues to produce more just like them, would hardly be scathed. Al Qaedism is the most radical wing of an extreme movement which was born in the Middle East and exists now in many parts of the world. Afghanistan is not the root or the source.

Naturally the war against them began in Afghanistan. Plans for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were hatched in Afghanistan. But the temporary location of the plotters of that strike means little in the wide view of a long struggle. Osama bin Laden and his leadership just as easily could have planned the attacks from Saudi Arabia before they were exiled, or from their refuge in Sudan in the mid 1990s. Theoretically they could have even planned the attacks from an off-the-radar “safe house” in a place like France or even Nebraska had they managed to sneak themselves in. The physical location of the planning headquarters wasn’t irrelevant, but in the long run the ideology that motivates them is what must be defeated. Perhaps the point would be more obvious if the attacks were in fact planned in a place like France instead of a failed state like Afghanistan.

Hardly anyone wants to think about the monumental size of this task or how long it will take. The illusion that the United States just needs to win in Afghanistan and everything will be fine is comforting, to be sure, but it is an illusion. Winning the war in Iraq won’t be enough either, nor will permanently preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons or resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. The war may end somewhere with American troops on the ground, or, like the Cold War, it might not. No one can possibly foresee what event will actually put a stop to this war in the end. It is distant and unknowable. The world will change before we can even imagine what the final chapter might look like.

Most of the September 11 hijackers were Saudis. All were Arabs. None hailed from Afghanistan. This is not coincidental. Al Qaeda’s politics are a product of the Arab world, specifically of the radical and totalitarian Wahhabi sect of Islam founded in the 18th Century in Saudi Arabia by the fanatical Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab. He thought the medieval interpretations of Islam even on the backward Arabian peninsula were too liberal and lenient. His most extreme followers cannot even peacefully coexist with mainstream Sunni Muslims, let alone Shia Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, secularists, feminists, gays, or anyone else. Their global jihad is a war against the entire human race in all its diversity and plurality.

Wahhabism has spread outward from Saudi Arabia by proselytizers funded by petrodollars who have set up mosques, madrassas, and indoctrination centers nearly everywhere from Indonesia to the United States. In the Balkans, for instance, Wahhabis are actually replacing traditional moderate Ottoman mosques destroyed by the Yugoslav Army and Serbian paramilitary units with their own extremist knockoffs. They’re staking out new ground in the West where they deliberately gin up virulent hatred among immigrants from Muslim countries. They tried to car-bomb their way into power in parts of Iraq, and in the cities of Baqubah, Fallujah, and Ramadi they even succeeded for a while.

In some places the ideology flourishes more than in others. It was effectively transplanted to Afghanistan with the assistance of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. In thoroughly secular Muslim countries like Azerbaijan and Albania, bin Ladenism remains thinner on the ground than in Western Europe. Its adherents are unevenly distributed, but it began in the Middle East and has since metastasized.

Al Qaeda leaders did not spring up from the ground in Afghanistan, nor are they chained there. They move around. Any country where they are located becomes crucial whether American soldiers are present or not. Like the Cold War, this conflict is not exclusively military, but the theaters of armed conflict have already been widened well beyond Afghanistan. And the war isn’t America-centric. It is not all about us. Fighting between violent Islamists and their enemies broke out in Arab countries like Algeria and Lebanon, and even in countries without a Muslim majority like Russia and the Philippines. Many of these conflicts started before the attacks on September 11, before anyone could even imagine that American troops would fight a hot war in Afghanistan.

And let’s not forget the radical Shias. While Sunni Wahhabis export their fundamentalist creed from the Arabian Peninsula, the Khomeinists in the Islamic Republic of Iran are busy exporting their own revolutionary and totalitarian brand of Shia Islam to countries like Lebanon and Iraq. So far the Iranians and their proxies have been less violent and extreme than Al Qaeda, but Iran remains the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. While the leaders are Shias, that has not – contrary to mistaken conventional wisdom – stopped them from forming tactical alliances with radical Sunnis from Hamas in Gaza to Ansar Al Islam.

Before the U.S. demolished the regime of Saddam Hussein, Ansar Al Islam was based in and around the town of Biara in Northern Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq founder Abu Musab al Zarqawi was one of its members. American Special Forces and Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters pushed Ansar into the Northern Iranian city of Mariwan where they remain today and receive support from the government of Iran. They have since changed their name to Al Qaeda in Kurdistan.

On some level even Senator Obama himself understands that Afghanistan is unlikely be the beginning and the end of this war. He correctly argues that more needs to be done to shut down the safe havens bin Laden and company have established in Pakistan. He likely doesn’t believe some of his own rhetoric about Afghanistan even though it’s a standard staple of his campaign. His dovish liberal base seems sometimes desperate to believe that Afghanistan was the beginning and will be the end of a war they have little stomach to wage.

Wishing will not make it so. Afghanistan, indeed all of Central Asia, is on the periphery. The violent ideologies that animate the most dangerous terrorist movements in the world are Arabic and, to a lesser extent, Persian. The Middle East is central. It is not a distraction. It is where the war truly began because it is where most of the combatants, ideological leaders, and supporters were born and raised. While there’s a chance it won’t end there, most of it will be fought there.

Michael J. Totten - 09.29.2008 - 4:32 PM

Michael Totten speaks the truth.  Will anyone listen?

Thursday September 25 2008

I watched this movie tonight. It certainly pulls at your hearts strings at times. A little weird seeing disney's Even Stevens star in such an action packed film. [I have yet to watch "Indian Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"] Overall, I enjoyed the movie, but it felt a little too long. Hmm, i wonder if this type of events are occurring RIGHT NOW??

Watch the trailer here - Eagle Eye Trailor

ORGINALLY POSTED AT PRO-PAKISTAN

There is an obvious end to everything in the world. It is not in our hands to bring about immortality in anything, but there is a way to make something last forever. Time may change causing things to fall apart but the essence can be maintained. Unfortunately today for us things are not only decaying but their essence is also being wiped off. It is a game of self destruction, one with no turning point. A war where we stand face to face,where defeat is destined for us and only misery is victorious. We have lost the basics of life and killed the gist of unity. However this is not the only damage, we continue to be on a rampage. A rampage against our own people against ourselves.  Sunni against Shia, Muhajir against Punjabi, Sindhi against Pakhtun and the list goes and grows on. The thirst for conflict remains deeply embedded in all of us and thus is inherited further. For generations now the baseless conflicts have continued and grown stronger, with a lot more to back it up. Aimless conflicting has brought us enough damage mostly collateral.

Today when an ordinary man cannot gather the courage to take a stand, it should be considered absolutely justified. The reason for his failure is apparent , it is the dubious orientation of our society. When basic concept of faith, ethnicity and morals become seeds of conflict nothing remains behind to culture an ordinary man. Our fault lies in turning our own strength into weapons for our demise. With time matters continue to worsen and the spectrum for hopelessness continues to broaden. Questions continue to pile up while the answers remain simple but mystified. 

We will continue to fail and fall until a time where we opt to start being honest with ourselves. The time when we truly accept the facts without bias. A place where we embrace what is common among us all. Everyone of us will plod along the path of destruction until we learn to be honest with ourselves. A time where the true picture is accepted and acknowledged with all our hearts. We cannot expect the world to understand us if we don’t understand ourselves. It is mere hypocrisy to deserve a fair trial from the world while we continue to point fingers at each other. NO war NO proof NO historical evidence can change our fate except our own conscious. The only way to combat is to reckon the power of unity and to let go of aimless conflicts. It is only when we stop being indifferent towards each other that we will fathom the art of survival.