Apostasy in Islam. Muslim Honor Killings.
A young Christian runaway in foster care awaits her hearing tomorrow when Florida authorities will decide whether she will be forced to return to her Muslim parents – whom she says will kill her for converting to Christianity.
Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, an honor student and cheerleader, was raised in a Muslim family in Columbus, Ohio. She became a Christian four years ago as a result of her interactions with children at school.
"I'm a Christian, and my parents are Muslim. They are extremely devout," she said. "They threatened to kill me. … You guys wouldn't understand. Islam is very different than you guys think. They have to kill me. My blood is now halal, which means that because I am now a Christian, I'm from a Muslim background, it's an honor. If they love God more than me, they have to do this. I'm fighting for my life. ..."
Asked what her father, Mohamed Bary, told her, she replied, "He said he would kill me. Or he'd have me sent back to Sri Lanka where they'd put me in the asylum."
The Qur'an:
Qur'an (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them"
Qur'an (9:11-12) - "But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion. We detail Our revelations for a people who have knowledge. And if they break their pledges after their treaty (hath been made with you) and assail your religion, then fight the heads of disbelief - Lo! they have no binding oaths - in order that they may desist." This verse is speaking of infidels (ie. "slay the infidels wherever you find them" 9:5) who obviously became Muslim to escape the sword, but the Hadith make no distinction of how a Muslim came to be a Muslim. Apostasy is always punished by death.
Other verses that seem to support the many Hadith demanding death for apostates are Qur'an verses 2:217, 9:73-74, 88:21, 5:54, and 9:66.
Advocates for killing apostates have pointed out that the supporting hadith are reliable and thus qualify as law according to verse 4:80 - "Whoso obeyeth the Messenger obeyeth Allah."
From the Hadith:
The reason why executing apostates has always been well-ensconced in Islamic law is that there is an indisputable record of Muhammad and his companions doing exactly that.
Bukhari (52:260) - "...The Prophet said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.' "
Bukhari (83:37) - "Allah's Apostle never killed anyone except in one of the following three situations: (1) A person who killed somebody unjustly, was killed (in Qisas,) (2) a married person who committed illegal sexual intercourse and (3) a man who fought against Allah and His Apostle and deserted Islam and became an apostate."
Bukhari (84:57) - "[In the words of] Allah's Apostle, 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"
Bukhari (89:271) - A man who embraces Islam, then reverts to Judaism is to be killed according to "the verdict of Allah and his apostle."
Bukhari (84:58) - "There was a fettered man beside Abu Muisa. Mu'adh asked, 'Who is this (man)?' Abu Muisa said, 'He was a Jew and became a Muslim and then reverted back to Judaism.' Then Abu Muisa requested Mu'adh to sit down but Mu'adh said, 'I will not sit down till he has been killed. This is the judgment of Allah and His Apostle (for such cases) and repeated it thrice.' Then Abu Musa ordered that the man be killed, and he was killed. Abu Musa added, 'Then we discussed the night prayers'"
Bukhari (84:64-65) - "Allah's Apostle: 'During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, wherever you find them, kill them, for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection.'"
Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, an honor student and cheerleader, was raised in a Muslim family in Columbus, Ohio. She became a Christian four years ago as a result of her interactions with children at school.
"I'm a Christian, and my parents are Muslim. They are extremely devout," she said. "They threatened to kill me. … You guys wouldn't understand. Islam is very different than you guys think. They have to kill me. My blood is now halal, which means that because I am now a Christian, I'm from a Muslim background, it's an honor. If they love God more than me, they have to do this. I'm fighting for my life. ..."
Asked what her father, Mohamed Bary, told her, she replied, "He said he would kill me. Or he'd have me sent back to Sri Lanka where they'd put me in the asylum."
The Qur'an:
Qur'an (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them"
Qur'an (9:11-12) - "But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion. We detail Our revelations for a people who have knowledge. And if they break their pledges after their treaty (hath been made with you) and assail your religion, then fight the heads of disbelief - Lo! they have no binding oaths - in order that they may desist." This verse is speaking of infidels (ie. "slay the infidels wherever you find them" 9:5) who obviously became Muslim to escape the sword, but the Hadith make no distinction of how a Muslim came to be a Muslim. Apostasy is always punished by death.
Other verses that seem to support the many Hadith demanding death for apostates are Qur'an verses 2:217, 9:73-74, 88:21, 5:54, and 9:66.
Advocates for killing apostates have pointed out that the supporting hadith are reliable and thus qualify as law according to verse 4:80 - "Whoso obeyeth the Messenger obeyeth Allah."
From the Hadith:
The reason why executing apostates has always been well-ensconced in Islamic law is that there is an indisputable record of Muhammad and his companions doing exactly that.
Bukhari (52:260) - "...The Prophet said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.' "
Bukhari (83:37) - "Allah's Apostle never killed anyone except in one of the following three situations: (1) A person who killed somebody unjustly, was killed (in Qisas,) (2) a married person who committed illegal sexual intercourse and (3) a man who fought against Allah and His Apostle and deserted Islam and became an apostate."
Bukhari (84:57) - "[In the words of] Allah's Apostle, 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"
Bukhari (89:271) - A man who embraces Islam, then reverts to Judaism is to be killed according to "the verdict of Allah and his apostle."
Bukhari (84:58) - "There was a fettered man beside Abu Muisa. Mu'adh asked, 'Who is this (man)?' Abu Muisa said, 'He was a Jew and became a Muslim and then reverted back to Judaism.' Then Abu Muisa requested Mu'adh to sit down but Mu'adh said, 'I will not sit down till he has been killed. This is the judgment of Allah and His Apostle (for such cases) and repeated it thrice.' Then Abu Musa ordered that the man be killed, and he was killed. Abu Musa added, 'Then we discussed the night prayers'"
Bukhari (84:64-65) - "Allah's Apostle: 'During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, wherever you find them, kill them, for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection.'"
The Past Life of Captain Robert Snow, Homicide Detective
I interviewed this guy myself. Very down to earth fellow.
REINCARNATION, past life evidence,
Six decades ago, a 21-year-old Navy fighter pilot on a mission over the Pacific was shot down by Japanese artillery. His name might have been forgotten, were it not for 6-year-old James Leininger. His parents are Baptists, but now they believe in Reincarnation.
The parents of James Leininger were first puzzled and then disturbed when their two-year-old son began screaming out chilling phrases during recurrent nightmares, such as, "Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!" The centerpiece of a loving family of three, James was a happy, playful toddler who had only just begun stringing together sentences. Determined to understand what was happening to their son, Bruce and Andrea set off on a journey of discovery that was to rock them to their core. For the more they researched the arcane comments and fragmented details little James revealed, the more they were drawn inescapably to a shocking conclusion: that James was reliving the life of James Huston, a World War II fighter pilot who was killed in the battle for Iwo Jima-- over sixty years ago!
Through painstaking research and conversations with war veterans and surviving members of James Huston's family, Bruce and Andrea were forced to confront their skepticism and reexamine their entire belief system. In the process, they not only managed to solve the mystery of their son's statements. They also uncovered revelations about James Huston's life and wartime experiences that could finally bring peace and healing to his loved ones, decades after his death. This book features stunning drawings from James Leininger illustrating his unshakable memories, photos that portray the eerie resemblance between young James and the adult James Huston, and a foreword from world-renowned past lives expert Carol Bowman. In SOUL SURVIVOR, readers will come to know and believe in the special child who harbors the soul of a man who died in 1945.
The parents of James Leininger were first puzzled and then disturbed when their two-year-old son began screaming out chilling phrases during recurrent nightmares, such as, "Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!" The centerpiece of a loving family of three, James was a happy, playful toddler who had only just begun stringing together sentences. Determined to understand what was happening to their son, Bruce and Andrea set off on a journey of discovery that was to rock them to their core. For the more they researched the arcane comments and fragmented details little James revealed, the more they were drawn inescapably to a shocking conclusion: that James was reliving the life of James Huston, a World War II fighter pilot who was killed in the battle for Iwo Jima-- over sixty years ago!
Through painstaking research and conversations with war veterans and surviving members of James Huston's family, Bruce and Andrea were forced to confront their skepticism and reexamine their entire belief system. In the process, they not only managed to solve the mystery of their son's statements. They also uncovered revelations about James Huston's life and wartime experiences that could finally bring peace and healing to his loved ones, decades after his death. This book features stunning drawings from James Leininger illustrating his unshakable memories, photos that portray the eerie resemblance between young James and the adult James Huston, and a foreword from world-renowned past lives expert Carol Bowman. In SOUL SURVIVOR, readers will come to know and believe in the special child who harbors the soul of a man who died in 1945.
These Girls Think They're So Clever
Virgins are born because people fuck.
That's where virginity comes from.
We dropped 2 big bombs on Japan and we have had a very productive PEACE with them for over 60 years, as well as Germany and Italy.
We bombed Kosovo and stopped the genocidal war there.
Over 10 million Afghan women can learn to read and write because we bombed the Taliban.
Slavery in the U.S. was stopped because the North brutally kicked the South's ass.
Bush's surge created relative peace and stability in Iraq, finally ending 30 years of institutionalized rape, maiming, and mass murder by Saddam's government.
When we stopped bombing Vietnam, over 2 million innocent Vietnamese were murdered by the communists. Had we just pulled out the ground troops but maintained air operations in support of the south, many lives could have be saved.
Which just goes to show you that-
1. The proper amount, and use of force can create peace.
2. These blind pacifists are fools that are unsympathetic, if not oblivious, to the plight of those who live under the heel of tyranny. Most people that live at the mercy of some dictator understand that bombs are their only hope.
For 6 million Jews, the bombs did not come soon enough.
Wife Beating is Islamic Therapy
After 9/11 Sheryl Crow said, "The way to win wars is to not have any enemies." I wonder if she would still think that if she was married to a jerk with a 6th century mentality who "therapeutically" beat her. Actually, I think all blind pacifists could use a good beating by the Taliban morality police. Then somebody should walk up to them and say "Next time, just don't have any enemies."
Bernie Golberg on Liberal Bias and Distortion in the Media
Ten-time Emmy Award Winning American writer, and New York Times #1 bestseller, Bernie Golberg exposes left wing bias. The democratic party calls people that vocally oppose Obama's Heath Care plan, "Mobsters" and organized by the Right Wing. Even though, many of these "mobsters" are registered democrats. The people that opposed Bush's policies... were they mobsters too? Also, the Obama administration asks supporters to report back when they receive “an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy” to an official e-mail address: flag@whitehouse.gov. CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DID THAT? The media would have gone CooCoo Bananas. However, if Obama does it, that's okay.
Statement by Anne Bayefsky at Durban II
A sane voice in the lunatic asylum. I don't know why she even bothers, but good for her.
Quotes- Miscellaneous
"Remember the Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules."
-Unknown
Never Argue with an Idiot....They'll drag you down to their level
-Uknown
"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least"
-Goethe
It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us Freedom of the Press.
It is the soldier, not the poet who has given us Freedom of Speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer who gives us the Freedom to Demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves under the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives the protestor the right to burn the flag.
-Father Dennis Edward
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."*
-Adrian Rogers, 1931
Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.
-Unknown
"The IQ test was invented to predict academic performance, nothing else. If we wanted something that would predict life success, we'd have to invent another test completely."
- Robert Zajonc
"Failing to plan is planning to fail."
-Unknown
If you paint a sign
saying, “the circus is
coming to town
this Sunday”, that’s
advertising.
If you put the sign on
the back of an elephant
and walk him
through town, that’s a
promotion.
If the elephant walks
through the mayor’s
flowerbed, that’s
publicity.
If you get the mayor to
laugh about it, that’s
public relations.
And if you planned
the whole thing, that’s
marketing!
-Uknown
"Present to inform, not to impress; if you inform, you will impress. "
- Fred Brooks
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
- Chinese proverb
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
-Aesop (620–560 BC)
Of World War II: "First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they
came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me".
-Pastor Neimoller
You will never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
-P.T. Barnum
Anyone who votes for Obama has a "wishbone" where their "backbone" should be.
-Unknown
Personality can open doors,
but only character can keep them open.
-Elmer G. Letterman
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
-Soren Kierkegaard
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, quickly tried and hanged!!!"
-ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Girls are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree.The boys dont want to reach for the good ones because they r afraid of falling and getting hurt.Instead, they get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples up top think something wrong with them when in reality they're amazing.They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree...
-Unknown
"Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the beginning you're Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you are usually sick (Sneezy), tired (Sleepy), and irritable (Grumpy). But at the end, they call you Doc, and then you're Happy."
- Unknown
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
~Confucius
GOD IS A CIRCLE WHOS OUTSIDE IS NOWHERE BUT HIS CENTER IS EVERY WHERE
-Unknown
Twelve Rules of Spiritual Wisdom
1. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
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2. There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
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3. Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
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4. Dear God, I have a problem, it's me.
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5. Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging.
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6. Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent
out of shape.
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7. THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN YOUR HOME ARE THE PEOPLE.
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8. As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling
home everyday.
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9. He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
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10. It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and
again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.
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11. Surviving and living your life successfully requires
courage. The goals and dreams you're seeking require
courage and risk taking. Learn from the turtle, it only
makes progress when it sticks out it's neck.
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12. Be more concerned with your character than your
reputation, because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
-Unknown
Those who are Awake
live in a state of constant amazement ...
~ Jack Kornfield
History has taught us that weakness is provocative
-Donald Rumsfeld
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