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		<title>More on my Personal Opinion of a Marxist-Islamic Alliance</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/07/22/more-on-my-personal-opinion-of-a-marxist-islamic-alliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marxist-Leninism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aside from whether it is desirable to ally Muslims with Marxists, separately from that question, there is the question of the capability of such an alliance to actually work and not among just a few internet posters, but among the masses.   Personally, I do not think it is possible to continue such an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aside from whether it is desirable to ally Muslims with Marxists, separately from that question, there is the question of the capability of such an alliance to actually work and not among just a few internet posters, but among the masses.   Personally, I do not think it is possible to continue such an alliance as soon as America is weakened and Islam is stronger.  Until that point the alliance could probably work, but with high tension.  Without the work of a skilled dictator, it is hard to see the uneducated masses keeping such an alliance alive.  If a dictator endorses a position on religion, whether atheistic like Stalin or Islamic like the Taliban, then the alliance automatically crumbles.  Regimes that repress atheists in the name of Islam cannot be supported by any atheists long term, and regimes that repress religion in the name of atheism (like Stalin&#8217;s) cannot be supported long term by the religious or those who pose as religious.</p>
<p>I learned when trying to discuss politics with Kahanists that people who merge politics with religion (often they are faking their religion) tend not to reciprocate support from secular people.  There are many people who are essentially secular in their viewpoints, but they pretend to be religious to achieve some political gain.  These people, being hypocrites, can never be trusted.  For instance, the Croatian Ustaše leaders attempted to incorporate Catholic hierarchy into their ruling order as a political ideology.  To them religion was political, not a natural belief system.  To these people, religion is not just a philosophy or a conviction, but a cover for an ambitious rise to power which uses adherence to the religion in a discriminatory manner.  Someone who openly advocates atheism strongly would have trouble gaining any influence, because the hypocrites monitor their own reputations and do not want to be questioned by the masses.  If the hypocrites were shown to be liars, they fear they would lose their influence.  To the extent such a thing as Islamo-Facism exists (vs. real Islam), it will never ally with openly secular people because to do so would cause status anxieties.  These people fear being unmasked as illegitimate interlopers of a religion.  It would be like Hitler allying with Jews.  He would never do it because people would then question if he really was a Nazi.</p>
<p>Then there are people who believe their religion the same way the average person believes the sky is blue.  These people are mystics as opposed to scholars usually and do not view themselves as being political.  A true Muslim believes he is going to heaven, believes he is following the koran, and believes his views are right.  But an Islamo-fascist uses religion as a means of separating &#8220;us&#8221; from &#8220;them&#8221; to gain power politically.  Legitimate Muslims who believe their religion as a matter of truth and falsehood (as opposed to hypocrites who are pretending to be religious) can at least be taken at face value, but I think if Marxists are truly Marxists and not closet infiltrators, their secular view will ultimately make the alliance crumble among the masses of anything but extremely moderate Muslims.  </p>
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		<title>Personal Disagreements with Anton Lavey</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/07/20/personal-disagreements-with-anton-lavey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lavey preached indulgence instead of abstinence.
But I see Satan as a symbol of great strength and think a good Satanist should be able to practice abstinence.  In some ways one indulges in life but one must be able to maintain control.
Lavey preached radical individualism.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lavey preached indulgence instead of abstinence.</p>
<p>But I see Satan as a symbol of great strength and think a good Satanist should be able to practice abstinence.  In some ways one indulges in life but one must be able to maintain control.</p>
<p>Lavey preached radical individualism.</p>
<p>But I think the individual should also be judged based on how they enhance the collective. </p>
<p>Here is my <a href="http://www.the600club.com/topic39649-1.html"><u>topic about it</u></a>.</p>
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		<title>the jew issue as a litmus test for worthyness as a human being</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/07/17/the-jew-issue-as-a-litmus-test-for-worthyness-as-a-human-being/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethnicity and Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/?p=2470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have generally found a given individual&#8217;s response to the &#8220;Jewish question&#8221; to be a good litmus test about that person&#8217;s character and intelligence.  That means a person of low character is always of low character, on issues that have nothing to do with the subject and vice versa.  In the following paragraphs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have generally found a given individual&#8217;s response to the &#8220;Jewish question&#8221; to be a good litmus test about that person&#8217;s character and intelligence.  That means a person of low character is always of low character, on issues that have nothing to do with the subject and vice versa.  In the following paragraphs I will explain approaches that raise read flag and approaches that I view as desirable.</p>
<p>If a person blames Jews for everything wrong in the world, it usually is a person of lower character, lower intelligence and poor social skills.  It may be true that some people adopt anti-semitism as a political move to exploit the stupid.  If a person fails to attack libertarian capitalism because they are busy attacking Jews instead, then that says something about that person&#8217;s ethics and intelligence.  If a person divides people into races, does not include Jews into the White race and then argues that Jews are solely responsible for non-White immigration into White countries, then do not even go within a mile of that person.</p>
<p>If a person denies that Jews do anything wrong ever, that person is usually someone without the guts to tell it like it is. This is the kind of person who fears, sometimes irrationally, the consequences of speaking his/her mind.  If a person starts talking about &#8220;the chosen people,&#8221; coming from a Christian or a follower of Judaism, that person is usually an idiot.  If a person attempts to throw religion into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a justification for either side, whether a Jew or Muslim, that person is usually a profiteer or an idiot.  It is probably true that Trotsky can be admired as a war leader, but if a person argues that Stalin was an anti-semite and Trotsky the correct replacement, then that raises red flags.</p>
<p>If a person does not think some Jews at least try and sometimes succeed in manipulating the American media, then that person does not understand how cowardly business leaders are.  But if a person thinks that a media without Jewish influence would be radically different, then he/she does not understand that many business leaders are too bourgeois to really push a viewpoint that they view as potentially damaging to the company&#8217;s reputation.  This mentality of &#8220;reputation anxiety&#8221; exists everywhere where people are weak &#8211; even on message forums that are looking for increased membership rather than profit.</p>
<p>Anyone who emphasizes the holocaust too much – whether denying it or politically using it to advance specific Jewish activist causes – has questionable motivations. The position one takes is not that important if one is not obsessed, but those who become obsessed usually have an agenda.</p>
<p>If a person pragmatically works with Jews for the purpose of reaching goals (not out of fear or political correctness), that person usually has higher social skill, a better sense of vision, and more intelligence. They get from point a to point b and are willing to involve Jews in the ride from point a to point b. They work WITH Jews in parallel, but do not get sidetracked by political correctness or fear. Good examples of leaders who worked with Jews, but were not undermined by Jews, would include the revolutionary American and later Confederate leaders. They may not have attacked capitalism but they understood pragmatism, it is fair to say. Napoleon, Lenin, Stalin and Mussolini are other examples of people who worked towards goals including Jews into their day to day projects, but were never undermined by Jews.  Many Slav nationalists, when possible, undermined Hitler and worked with individual Jews during WWII.</p>
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		<title>Video : Catholicism -&gt; Theistic Satanism -&gt; Atheistic Satanism</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/07/11/catholicism-theistic-satanism-atheistic-satanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cross-Bloging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on the 600 club, a great interview is being discussed about how a member reasoned his way away from Catholicism and then switched from theistic Satanism to a more Levay-style belief system.  No it is not me calling in, even though it just as easily could have been.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over on <a href="http://www.the600club.com/topic37933-1.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">the 600 club</span></a>, a great interview is being discussed about how a member reasoned his way away from Catholicism and then switched from theistic Satanism to a more Levay-style belief system.  No it is not me calling in, even though it just as easily could have been.</p>
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		<title>An Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/07/06/an-approach-to-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my opinion the Jews and Muslims have three options.
1) one group expels the other
2) one group leaves voluntarily
3) segregation is dismantled
In my opinion, the only people who would disagree with leaving and with integrating are the extremely religious.  Racists would be willing to leave to live with their own perceived people, and most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In my opinion the Jews and Muslims have three options.<br />
1) one group expels the other<br />
2) one group leaves voluntarily<br />
3) segregation is dismantled</p>
<p>In my opinion, the only people who would disagree with leaving and with integrating are the extremely religious.  Racists would be willing to leave to live with their own perceived people, and most ordinary workers would be willing to integrate.  I&#8217;m secular, and I do not care about the religious Jews, and for that matter, I do not care for the Sharia supporting Muslims either as a group.  Even pragmatically, secular people cannot deal too much with religious extremists without the religion showing itself in the day to day action.</p>
<p>So that leaves us with two options.<br />
1) accept integration<br />
2) leave.</p>
<p>And I think that is what should happen.  The Jews who are willing to integrate should integrate, the rest should leave and perhaps set up a state somewhere else, and the religious Jews should be told to shut their mouths as should anyone who wants to involve Islam in the territorial conflict.</p>
<p>It should be noted that Saddam took a similar approach to geopolitical conflict between Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs and Kurds.  He repressed the religious and then he dealt carefully with issues of identity among the secular people.   In addition, as a third positionist and not an anti-revisionist, I must say that Marx&#8217;s &#8220;opiate of the people&#8221; quote is relevant and accurate.  The reason Israel is located in Palestine is because of religion.  Besoshvilli/Berianidze made this point to me when we debated Zionism, and it was hard to disagree with.  Arab resistance is sometimes secular but religion unfortunately plays a role at times too.</p>
<p>You are free to comment and suggest your own solution.</p>
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		<title>Excellent Articles on atheistic Levay Satanism</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/07/04/excellent-articles-on-atheistic-levay-satanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lavey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fan website
A pros/cons analysis
I find it interesting that the fan website takes the same position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that I do. That position is that they would prefer secularism and do not like the rising influences of both Judaism and Islam.
The second article shows a great analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://antonlavey.org/"><u>A fan website</u></a><br />
<a href="http://www.franciscan-anglican.com/Not_A_Satanist.htm"><u>A pros/cons analysis</u></a></p>
<p>I find it interesting that the fan website takes the same position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that I do. That position is that they would prefer secularism and do not like the rising influences of both Judaism and Islam.</p>
<p>The second article shows a great analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Satanism as Levay taught it.  This article caused me to think critically in a way I have not since reading the Communist Manifesto.</p>
<p>I recommend reading these articles. They are good for your mind.</p>
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		<title>The Average American is a Coward</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/06/13/the-average-american-is-a-coward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is the conclusion I have reached.  Watch the way big media outlets fire people over fear of &#8220;reputation in the community.&#8221;  Watch the way people rally behind their phony religions to justify their support of the status quo.  Watch the way you probably disagree with me, but are too much of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is the conclusion I have reached.  Watch the way big media outlets fire people over fear of &#8220;reputation in the community.&#8221;  Watch the way people rally behind their phony religions to justify their support of the status quo.  Watch the way you probably disagree with me, but are too much of a pussy to tell me that.</p>
<p>The average American really is a coward.  I expected more but am a bit disappointed.  People just do not have backbones anymore.  And the ones who do don&#8217;t have brains!</p>
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		<title>Iranian Cleric calls for &#8220;Greater Iran&#8221; &#8211; Attacks Arab Ba&#8217;athists and Secular Nationalists</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/05/19/iranian-cleric-calls-for-greater-iran-attacks-arab-baathists-and-secular-nationalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 22:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The link
It is important to note that the person who is making these comments is not &#8220;a figurehead&#8221; or &#8220;a representative&#8221; of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Still, this is an interesting article and worth posting.  Long ago, I warned other posters that anti-imperialism cannot be reduced simply to anti-Americanism.  There are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100515/D9FN9INO3.html"><u>The link</u></a><br />
It is important to note that the person who is making these comments is not &#8220;a figurehead&#8221; or &#8220;a representative&#8221; of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Still, this is an interesting article and worth posting.  Long ago, I warned other posters that anti-imperialism cannot be reduced simply to anti-Americanism.  There are different types of nations, even if they all oppose America.</p>
<blockquote><p>TEHRAN, Iran (AP) &#8211; A radical cleric called Saturday for the creation of a &#8220;Greater Iran&#8221; that would rule over the entire Middle East and Central Asia, in an event that he said would herald the coming of Islam&#8217;s expected messiah.</p>
<p>Ayatollah Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi said the creation of what he calls an Islamic United States is a central aim of the political party he leads called Hezbollah, or Party of God, and that he hoped to make it a reality if they win the next presidential election.</p>
<p>Kharrazi&#8217;s comments reveal the thinking of a growing number of hard-liners in Iran, many of whom have become more radical during the postelection political crisis and the international standoff over the country&#8217;s nuclear program. Kharrazi, however, is not highly influential in Iran&#8217;s clerical hierarchy and his views do not represent those of the current government.</p>
<p>Kharrazi&#8217;s comments were published Saturday in his newspaper, Hezbollah.</p>
<p>He said he envisioned a Greater Iran that would stretch from Afghanistan to Israel, bringing about the destruction of the Jewish state.</p>
<p>He also said its formation would be a prelude to the reappearance of the Mahdi, a revered ninth-century saint known as the Hidden Imam, whom Muslims believe will reappear before judgment day to end tyranny and promote justice in the world.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Islamic United States will be an introduction to the formation of the global village of the oppressed and that will be a prelude to the single global rule of the Mahdi,&#8221; the Hezbollah newspaper quoted him as saying.</p>
<p>Besides Israel, he said the union would also destroy Shiite Iran&#8217;s other regional adversaries, whom he called &#8220;cancerous tumors.&#8221; He singled out secular Arab nationalists such as members of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Baath Party in Iraq, as well as followers of the austere version of Sunni Islam practiced primarily in Saudi Arabia that is known as Wahabism.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab nations have watched Iran&#8217;s growing regional clout with deep concern.</p>
<p>The growing voice of hard-liners like Kharrazi has deepened worries even if it appears unlikely such a divisive figure would win the 2013 presidential election.</p>
<p>Still, even President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that he expects the government which follows his to be &#8220;ten times more revolutionary.&#8221; </p></blockquote>
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		<title>Women raped &#8211; Charged with &#8220;illegal sex&#8221; in Abu Dhabi</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/05/19/women-raped-charged-with-illegal-sex-in-abu-dhabi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 22:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The link
I understand that this is only a charge &#8211; and not a conviction.  Still, this shows how reactionary certain elements of society are.
ABU DHABI // An 18-year-old Emirati woman has been charged with having sex outside of wedlock after reporting that she was raped by six men, Abu Dhabi’s Criminal Court was told [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100518/NATIONAL/705179850/1010"><u>The link</u></a><br />
I understand that this is only a charge &#8211; and not a conviction.  Still, this shows how reactionary certain elements of society are.</p>
<blockquote><p>ABU DHABI // An 18-year-old Emirati woman has been charged with having sex outside of wedlock after reporting that she was raped by six men, Abu Dhabi’s Criminal Court was told yesterday.</p>
<p>The men, only two of whom were in court yesterday, are charged with raping LH in the back seat of one of the defendant’s vehicles. Both men pleaded not guilty, while L H, who has been taken into custody, also pleaded not guilty to the charges against her.</p>
<p>The woman and one of her male Emirati friends, HA, went for a drive in his vehicle on May 2, prosecutors said. The charges allege that because she had agreed to be in the car, the two had, therefore, met to have sex. According to court records, HA, 19, called five of his friends – four Emiratis and one Iraqi – and invited them to join him.</p>
<p>Prosecutors said that after HA and the woman had sex in an unknown location in Abu Dhabi, the five men met up with them. At that point, the charges say, the men all raped her in HA’s car.</p>
<p>The woman later contacted police and said she had been raped by six men, including HA. It is not known when she reported the attack.</p>
<p>The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department Forensic Unit declined to discuss whether the woman had been examined after the incident for evidence of rape.</p>
<p>HA has been charged with rape. The only other defendant in court, an Emirati with the same initials, was also charged with rape. The other four men are being tried in their absence.</p>
<p>The woman has been in custody since she reported the incident. She and the two defendants in court yesterday are being held without bail.</p>
<p>Chief Justice Saeed Abdul Basser twice asked her: “Did you have sex with these men?”</p>
<p>“No,” she replied.</p>
<p>It was unclear whether the judge was referring to consensual sex or rape.</p>
<p>The woman was not represented by a lawyer and no members of her family were in court yesterday.</p>
<p>All of the defendants are older than 18 and are being tried as adults.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Lax Immigration Laws Help Domestic Terrotism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 15:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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The extreme naivety of the bourgeois leadership of the American people is shown by their inability to recognize the methodologies that can be used against them by hostile parties.  Anyone who studies criminal profiling would not be shocked by the fact that people can &#8220;camouflage.&#8221;  Though in this case, the camouflage should have been [...]]]></description>
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<p>The extreme naivety of the bourgeois leadership of the American people is shown by their inability to recognize the methodologies that can be used against them by hostile parties.  Anyone who studies criminal profiling would not be shocked by the fact that people can &#8220;camouflage.&#8221;  Though in this case, the camouflage should have been fairly obvious!</p>
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<blockquote><p>America&#8217;s homeland-security amnesia never ceases to amaze. In the aftermath of the botched Times Square terror attack, Pakistani-born bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad&#8217;s US citizenship status caused a bit of shock and awe. The Atlantic magazine writer Jeffrey Goldberg&#8217;s response was typical: &#8220;I am struck by the fact that he is a naturalized American citizen, not a recent or temporary visitor.&#8221; Well, wake up and smell the deadly deception.</p>
<p>Shahzad&#8217;s path to American citizenship &#8212; he reportedly married an American woman, Huma Mian, in 2008 after spending a decade in the country on foreign student and employment visas &#8212; is a tried-and-true terror formula. Jihadists have been gaming the sham-marriage racket for years. And immigration-benefit fraud has provided invaluable cover and aid for US-based Islamic plotters, including many planning attacks on New York City. As I&#8217;ve reported previously:</p>
<p>* El Sayyid A. Nosair wed Karen Ann Mills Sweeney to avoid deportation for overstaying his visa. He acquired US citizenship, allowing him to remain in the country, and was later convicted for conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that claimed six lives.</p>
<p>* Ali Mohamed became a US citizen after marrying a woman he met on a plane trip from Egypt to New York. He became a top aide to Osama bin Laden and was later convicted for his role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa that killed 12 Americans and more than 200 others.</p>
<p>* Embassy-bombing plotter Khalid Abu al Dahab obtained citizenship after marrying three different American women.</p>
<p>* Embassy-bombing plotter Wadih el Hage, Osama bin Laden&#8217;s personal secretary, married April Ray in 1985 and became a naturalized citizen in 1989. Ray knew of her husband&#8217;s employment with bin Laden, but like many of these women in bogus marriages, she pleaded ignorance about her husband&#8217;s work.</p>
<p>* Lebanon-born Chawki Youssef Hammoud, convicted in a Hezbollah cigarette-smuggling operation based out of Charlotte, NC, married American citizen Jessica Fortune for a green card.</p>
<p>* Hammoud&#8217;s brother, Mohammed Hammoud, married three different American women. After arriving here on a counterfeit visa, being ordered deported and filing an appeal, he wed Sabina Edwards to gain a green card. Federal immigration officials refused to award him legal status after this first marriage was deemed bogus in 1994. Undaunted, he married Jessica Wedel in May 1997 and, while still wed to her, paid Angela Tsioumas to marry him in Detroit. The Tsioumas union netted Mohammed Hammoud temporary legal residence to operate the terror-cash scam. He was later convicted on 16 counts that included providing material support to Hezbollah.</p>
<p>* Eight Mideastern men who plotted to bomb New York landmarks in 1993 &#8212; Fadil Abdelgani, Amir Abdelgani, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, Tarig Elhassan, Abdo Mohammed Haggag, Fares Khallafalla, Mohammed Saleh and Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh &#8212; all obtained legal permanent residence by marrying US citizens.</p>
<p>A year after 9/11, homeland-security officials cracked a vast illegal-alien Middle Eastern marriage-fraud ring in &#8220;Operation Broken Vows.&#8221; Authorities were stunned by the scope of the operations, which stretched from Boston to South Carolina to California. But marriage fraud remains a treacherous path of least resistance. The waiting period for US citizenship is cut by more than half for marriage-visa beneficiaries.</p>
<p>As former federal immigration official Michael Cutler warned years ago: &#8220;Immigration benefit fraud is certainly one of the major &#8216;dots&#8217; that was not connected prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and remains a &#8216;dot&#8217; that is not really being addressed the way it needs to be in order to secure our nation against criminals and terrorists.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jihadists have exploited our lax immigration and entrance policies to secure the rights and benefits of US citizenship while they plot mass murder &#8212; and we haven&#8217;t done a thing to stop them.</p>
<p>Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_jihadis_marriage_fraud_scam_iCj3GkDvQHmxATUMP8VTrJ#ixzz0nADESCAE</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Iranian Official &#8211; Promiscuous Women Cause Earthquakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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If promiscuous women did cause earthquakes, Iran is not the place they would be occurring with high frequency.
This is what happens in a theocracy.  The link between cause and effect is severed.  When science is rejected, then superstition replaces it.
This is why serious &#8220;progressive thinkers&#8221; hope that one day theocracy will go [...]]]></description>
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If promiscuous women did cause earthquakes, Iran is not the place they would be occurring with high frequency.</p>
<p>This is what happens in a theocracy.  The link between cause and effect is severed.  When science is rejected, then superstition replaces it.</p>
<p>This is why serious &#8220;progressive thinkers&#8221; hope that one day theocracy will go by the wayside, just not through strategically flawed and costly American invasions.  And not in the name of Republican Democracy which is too liberal even in a more educated region like USA.</p>
<blockquote><p>BEIRUT – A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.</p>
<p>Iran is one of the world&#8217;s most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric&#8217;s unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate.</p>
<p>&#8220;Many women who do not dress modestly &#8230; lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,&#8221; Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Sedighi is Tehran&#8217;s acting Friday prayer leader.</p>
<p>Women in the Islamic Republic are required by law to cover from head to toe, but many, especially the young, ignore some of the more strict codes and wear tight coats and scarves pulled back that show much of the hair.</p>
<p>&#8220;What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble?&#8221; Sedighi asked during a prayer sermon Friday. &#8220;There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam&#8217;s moral codes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Seismologists have warned for at least two decades that it is likely the sprawling capital will be struck by a catastrophic quake in the near future.</p>
<p>Some experts have even suggested Iran should move its capital to a less seismically active location. Tehran straddles scores of fault lines, including one more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) long, though it has not suffered a major quake since 1830.</p>
<p>In 2003, a powerful earthquake hit the southern city of Bam, killing 31,000 people — about a quarter of that city&#8217;s population — and destroying its ancient mud-built citadel.</p>
<p>&#8220;A divine authority told me to tell the people to make a general repentance. Why? Because calamities threaten us,&#8221; Sedighi said.</p>
<p>Referring to the violence that followed last June&#8217;s disputed presidential election, he said, &#8220;The political earthquake that occurred was a reaction to some of the actions (that took place). And now, if a natural earthquake hits Tehran, no one will be able to confront such a calamity but God&#8217;s power, only God&#8217;s power. &#8230; So let&#8217;s not disappoint God.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Iranian government and its security forces have been locked in a bloody battle with a large opposition movement that accuses Ahmadinejad of winning last year&#8217;s vote by fraud.</p>
<p>Ahmadinejad made his quake prediction two weeks ago but said he could not give an exact date. He acknowledged that he could not order all of Tehran&#8217;s 12 million people to evacuate. &#8220;But provisions have to be made. &#8230; At least 5 million should leave Tehran so it is less crowded,&#8221; the president said.</p>
<p>Minister of Welfare and Social Security Sadeq Mahsooli said prayers and pleas for forgiveness were the best &#8220;formulas to repel earthquakes.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We cannot invent a system that prevents earthquakes, but God has created this system and that is to avoid sins, to pray, to seek forgiveness, pay alms and self-sacrifice,&#8221; Mahsooli said.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Muslims, Jews and Christians are Lying about Exodus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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The whole story never happened.  Some guy just made it all up, and then Muhammad and Israelites stole the story.
The whole history of the so-called Abrahamic people is a fabrication.  For those who do not know, Muslims like to claim that the Jewish prophets were in fact Muslims instead.  The Jews [...]]]></description>
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The whole story never happened.  Some guy just made it all up, and then Muhammad and Israelites stole the story.</p>
<p>The whole history of the so-called Abrahamic people is a fabrication.  For those who do not know, Muslims like to claim that the Jewish prophets were in fact Muslims instead.  The Jews fabricated it, and then the Muslims stole the fabrication.</p>
<p>I personally consider paganism to be great and I consider the Pharaoh to be a hero!</p>
<p>What does it tell you when you realize that the bourgeois faction of Jews has been fabricating stories about persecution since the Old Testament, and continues to do so today.  Being race realists, socialists, Marxist-Leninists, and technocrats, we look down upon neo-nazis and their websites, but that does not mean that I accept that &#8220;spokesmen&#8221; within the Jewish community have some special authority, just because of who they are.  To accept that authority would be to accept nepotism, and nepotism is associated with inferiority.</p>
<blockquote><p>Many scholars have quietly concluded that the epic of Moses never happened, and even Jewish clerics are raising questions. Others think it combines myth, cultural memories and kernels of truth.</p>
<p>By Teresa Watanabe<br />
Los Angeles Times April 13, 2001</p>
<p>It&#8217;s one of the greatest stories ever told: A baby is found in a basket adrift in the Egyptian Nile and is adopted into the pharaoh&#8217;s household. He grows up as Moses, rediscovers his roots and leads his enslaved Israelite brethren to freedom after God sends down 10 plagues against Egypt and parts the Red Sea to allow them to escape. They wander for 40 years in the wilderness and, under the leadership of Joshua, conquer the land of Canaan to enter their promised land.</p>
<p>For centuries, the biblical account of the Exodus has been revered as the founding story of the Jewish people, sacred scripture for three world religions and a universal symbol of freedom that has inspired liberation movements around the globe. But did the Exodus ever actually occur?</p>
<p>On Passover last Sunday, Rabbi David Wolpe raised that provocative question before 2,200 faithful at Sinai Temple in Westwood. He minced no words. &#8220;The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the Exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the Exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all,&#8221; Wolpe told his congregants.</p>
<p>Wolpe&#8217;s startling sermon may have seemed blasphemy to some. In fact, however, the rabbi was merely telling his flock what scholars have known for more than a decade. Slowly and often outside wide public purview, archeologists are radically reshaping modern understanding of the Bible. It was time for his people to know about it, Wolpe decided. After a century of excavations trying to prove the ancient accounts true, archeologists say there is no conclusive evidence that the Israelites were ever in Egypt, were ever enslaved, ever wandered in the Sinai wilderness for 40 years or ever conquered the land of Canaan under Joshua&#8217;s leadership. To the contrary, the prevailing view is that most of Joshua&#8217;s fabled military campaigns never occurred&#8211;archeologists have uncovered ash layers and other signs of destruction at the relevant time at only one of the many battlegrounds mentioned in the Bible.</p>
<p>Today, the prevailing theory is that Israel probably emerged peacefully out of Canaan&#8211;modern-day Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan and the West Bank of Israel&#8211;whose people are portrayed in the Bible as wicked idolators. Under this theory, the Canaanites took on a new identity as Israelites were perhaps joined or led by a small group of Semites from Egypt&#8211;explaining a possible source of the Exodus story, scholars say. As they expanded their settlement, they may have begun to clash with neighbors, perhaps providing the historical nuggets for the conflicts recorded in Joshua and Judges.</p>
<p>&#8220;Scholars have known these things for a long time, but we&#8217;ve broken the news very gently,&#8221; said William Dever, a professor of Near Eastern archeology and anthropology at the University of Arizona and one of America&#8217;s preeminent archeologists. Dever&#8217;s view is emblematic of a fundamental shift in archeology. Three decades ago as a Christian seminary student, he wrote a paper defending the Exodus and got an A, but &#8220;no one would do that today,&#8221; he says.</p>
<p>The old emphasis on trying to prove the Bible&#8211;often in excavations by amateur archeologists funded by religious groups&#8211;has given way to more objective professionals aiming to piece together the reality of ancient lifestyles. But the modern archeological consensus over the Exodus is just beginning to reach the public. In 1999, an Israeli archeologist, Ze&#8217;ev Herzog of Tel Aviv University, set off a furor in Israel by writing in a popular magazine that stories of the patriarchs were myths and that neither the Exodus nor Joshua&#8217;s conquests ever occurred. In the hottest controversy today, Herzog also argued that the united monarchy of David and Solomon, described as grand and glorious in the Bible, was at best a small tribal kingdom.</p>
<p>In a new book this year, &#8220;The Bible Unearthed,&#8221; Israeli archeologist Israel Finklestein of Tel Aviv University and archeological journalist Neil Asher Silberman raised similar doubts and offered a new theory about the roots of the Exodus story. The authors argue that the story was written during the time of King Josia of Judah in the 7th century BC&#8211;600 years after the Exodus supposedly occurred in 1250 BC&#8211;as a political manifesto to unite Israelites against the rival Egyptian empire as both states sought to expand their territory. Dever argued that the Exodus story was produced for theological reasons: to give an origin and history to a people and distinguish them from others by claiming a divine destiny.</p>
<p>Some scholars, of course, still maintain that the Exodus story is basically factual. Bryant Wood, director of the Associates for Biblical Research in Maryland, argued that the evidence falls into place if the story is dated back to 1450 BC. He said that indications of destruction around that time at Hazor, Jericho and a site he is excavating that he believes is the biblical city of Ai support accounts of Joshua&#8217;s conquests. He also cited the documented presence of &#8220;Asiatic&#8221; slaves in Egypt who could have been Israelites, and said they would not have left evidence of their wanderings because they were nomads with no material culture. But Wood said he can&#8217;t get his research published in serious archeological journals.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a definite anti-Bible bias,&#8221; Wood said. The revisionist view, however, is not necessarily publicly popular. Herzog, Finklestein and others have been attacked for everything from faulty logic to pro-Palestinian political agendas that undermine Israel&#8217;s land claims. Dever, a former Protestant minister who converted to Judaism 12 years ago, says he gets &#8220;hissed and booed&#8221; when he speaks about the lack of evidence for the Exodus, and regularly receives letters and calls offering prayers or telling him he&#8217;s headed for hell.</p>
<p>At Sinai Temple, Sunday&#8217;s sermon&#8211;and a follow-up discussion at Monday&#8217;s service&#8211;provoked tremendous, and varied, response. Many praised Wolpe for his courage and vision. &#8220;It was the best sermon possible, because it is preparing the young generation to understand all the truth about religion,&#8221; said Eddia Mirharooni, a Beverly Hills fashion designer.</p>
<p>A few said they were hurt&#8211;&#8221;I didn&#8217;t want to hear this,&#8221; one woman said&#8211;or even a bit angry. Others said the sermon did nothing to shake their faith that the Exodus story is true.</p>
<p>&#8220;Science can always be proven wrong,&#8221; said Kalanit Benji, a UCLA undergraduate in psychobiology. Added Aman Massi, a 60-year-old Los Angeles businessman: &#8220;For sure it was true, 100%. If it were not true, how could we follow it for 3,300 years?&#8221; But most congregants, along with secular Jews and several rabbis interviewed, said that whether the Exodus is historically true or not is almost beside the point. The power of the sweeping epic lies in its profound and timeless message about freedom, they say.</p>
<p>The story of liberation from bondage into a promised land has inspired the haunting spirituals of African American slaves, the emancipation and civil rights movements, Latin America&#8217;s liberation theology, peasant revolts in Germany, nationalist struggles in South Africa, the American Revolution, even Leninist politics, according to Michael Walzer in the book &#8220;Exodus and Revolution.&#8221; Many of Wolpe&#8217;s congregants said the story of the Exodus has been personally true for them even if the details are not factual: when they fled the Nazis during World War II, for instance, or, more recently, the Islamic revolution in Iran.</p>
<p>Daniel Navid Rastein, an Encino medical professional, said he has always regarded the story as a metaphor for a greater truth: &#8220;We all have our own Egypts&#8211;we are prisoners of something, either alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, overeating. We have to use [the story] as a way to free ourselves from difficulty and make ourselves a better person.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wolpe, Sinai Temple&#8217;s senior rabbi, said he decided to deliver the sermon to lead his congregation into a deeper understanding of their faith. On Sunday, he told his flock that questioning the Jewish people&#8217;s founding story could be justified for one reason alone: to honor the ancient rabbinical declaration that &#8220;You do not serve God if you do not seek truth.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think faith ought not rest on splitting seas,&#8221; Wolpe said in an interview. &#8220;For a Jew, it should rest on the wonder of God&#8217;s world, the marvel of the human soul and the miracle of this small people&#8217;s survival through the millennia.&#8221;</p>
<p>Next year, the rabbi plans to teach a course on the Bible that he says will &#8220;pull no punches&#8221; in presenting the latest scholarship questioning the text&#8217;s historical basis. But he and others say that Judaism has also traditionally been more open to non-literal interpretations of the text than, say, some conservative Christian traditions.</p>
<p>&#8220;Among Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist Jews, there is a much greater willingness to see the Torah as an extended metaphor in which truth comes through story and law,&#8221; said Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. Among scholars, the case against the Exodus began crystallizing about 13 years ago. That&#8217;s when Finklestein, director of Tel Aviv University&#8217;s archeology institute, published the first English-language book detailing the results of intensive archeological surveys of what is believed to be the first Israelite settlements in the hilly regions of the West Bank. The surveys, conducted during the 1970s and 1980s while Israel possessed what are now Palestinian territories, documented a lack of evidence for Joshua&#8217;s conquests in the 13th century BC and the indistinguishable nature of pottery, architecture, literary conventions and other cultural details between the Canaanites and the new settlers. If there was no conquest, no evidence of a massive new settlement of an ethnically distinct people, scholars argue, then the case for a literal reading of Exodus all but collapses. The surveys&#8217; final results were published three years ago.</p>
<p>The settlement research marked the turning point in archeological consensus on the issue, Dever said. It added to previous research that showed that Egypt&#8217;s voluminous ancient records contained not one mention of Israelites in the country, although one 1210 BC inscription did mention them in Canaan. Kadesh Barnea in the east Sinai desert, where the Bible says the fleeing Israelites sojourned, was excavated twice in the 1950s and 1960s and produced no sign of settlement until three centuries after the Exodus was supposed to have occurred. The famous city of Jericho has been excavated several times and was found to have been abandoned during the 13th and 14th centuries BC.</p>
<p>Moreover, specialists in the Hebrew Bible say that the Exodus story is riddled with internal contradictions stemming from the fact that it was spliced together from two or three texts written at different times. One passage in Exodus, for instance, says that the bodies of the pharaoh&#8217;s charioteers were found on the shore, while the next verse says they sank to the bottom of the sea.</p>
<p>And some of the story&#8217;s features are mythic motifs found in other Near Eastern legends, said Ron Hendel, a professor of Hebrew Bible at UC Berkeley. Stories of babies found in baskets in the water by gods or royalty are common, he said, and half of the 10 plagues fall into a &#8220;formulaic genre of catastrophe&#8221; found in other Near Eastern texts.</p>
<p>Carol Meyers, a professor specializing in biblical studies and archeology at Duke University, said the ancients never intended their texts to be read literally. &#8220;People who try to find scientific explanations for the splitting of the Red Sea are missing the boat in understanding how ancient literature often mixed mythic ideas with historical recollections,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That wasn&#8217;t considered lying or deceit; it was a way to get ideas across.&#8221;</p>
<p>Virtually no scholar, for instance, accepts the biblical figure of 600,000 men fleeing Egypt, which would have meant there were a few million people, including women and children. The ancient desert at the time could not support so many nomads, scholars say, and the powerful Egyptian state kept tight security over the area, guarded by fortresses along the way.</p>
<p>Even Orthodox Jewish scholar Lawrence Schiffman said &#8220;you&#8217;d have to be a bit crazy&#8221; to accept that figure. He believes that the account in Joshua of a swift military campaign is less accurate than the Judges account of a gradual takeover of Canaan. But Schiffman, chairman of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University, still maintains that a significant number of Israelite slaves fled Egypt for Canaan. &#8220;I&#8217;m not arguing that archeology proves the Exodus,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m arguing that archeology allows you, in ambiguity, to reach whatever conclusion you want to.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wood argued that the 600,000 figure was mistranslated and the real number amounted to a more plausible 20,000. He also said the early Israelite settlements and their similarity to Canaanite culture could be explained as the result of pastoralists with no material culture moving into a settled farming life and absorbing their neighbors&#8217; pottery styles and other cultural forms.</p>
<p>The scholarly consensus seems to be that the story is a brilliant mix of myth, cultural memories and kernels of historical truth. Perhaps, muses Hendel, a small group of Semites who escaped from Egypt became the &#8220;intellectual vanguard of a new nation that called itself Israel,&#8221; stressing social justice and freedom.</p>
<p>Whatever the facts of the story, those core values have endured and inspired the world for more than three millenniums&#8211;and that, many say, is the point.</p>
<p>&#8220;What are the Egypts I need to free myself from? How does the story inspire me in some way to work for the freedom of all?&#8221; asked Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben of Kehillat Israel in Pacific Palisades. &#8220;These are the things that matter&#8211;not whether we built the pyramids.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Support for Pagans and Witches over State Sponsored Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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While I realize the fundamental errors of American imperialism, I continue to reject the line that suggests that because Islamic fundamentalists are at the mercy of Americans, that Islam is fundamentally a progressive religion deserving wholesale support of the political dissidents in America and also the true Marxist-Leninists.  Islam remains a religion with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20100331-saudi-behead-lebanese-convicted-witchcraft-lawyer"><u>The link</u></a><br />
While I realize the fundamental errors of American imperialism, I continue to reject the line that suggests that because Islamic fundamentalists are at the mercy of Americans, that Islam is fundamentally a progressive religion deserving wholesale support of the political dissidents in America and also the true Marxist-Leninists.  Islam remains a religion with contrary tenants to other political theories, and I will never pretend otherwise.</p>
<blockquote><p> A Lebanese man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia on charges of witchcraft is due to be beheaded this week, his lawyer said on Wednesday, urging officials and rights groups to intervene on his behalf.</p>
<p>&#8220;Last night we got news through unofficial channels that Ali Sabat would be beheaded within 48 hours,&#8221; May el-Khansa, Sabat&#8217;s attorney in Beirut told AFP.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have since been contacting Lebanese officials, including President Michel Sleiman and Lebanon&#8217;s ambassador to Saudi Arabia to appeal his case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sabat was sentenced to death in November of last year by a Saudi court for practicing witchcraft.</p>
<p>He was arrested in May 2008 by the religious police in Medina, where he was on a pilgrimage before returning to his native Lebanon.</p>
<p>The case against him was brought after he gave advice and made predictions on Lebanese television.</p>
<p>Khansa said Lebanon&#8217;s ambassador to Saudi Arabia was in contact with Sabat and someone from the embassy had visited him on Wednesday in his jail cell.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is very important that we save the life of this one person,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He is not a criminal.&#8221;</p>
<p>She added that Sabat&#8217;s family was in shock and that his mother was seriously ill with doctors saying she could die anytime.</p>
<p>Rights groups have expressed concern about Sabat&#8217;s case and similar ones pending in Saudi Arabia and have accused Saudi courts of sanctioning a literal witch hunt by the religious police.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia has no clear legal definition on the charge of witchcraft and judges are given discretionary power in determining what constitutes a crime and what sentence to impose.</p>
<p>In November 2007, Mustafa Ibrahim, an Egyptian working as a pharmacist in Saudi Arabia was beheaded after he was found guilty of sorcery.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>People in plot to kill Swedish Cartoonish arrested</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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Imperialism is a two edged sword, and I see no reason to make a moral distinction between American imperialism and Islamic imperialism.  I salute the authorities for properly dealing with the matter.
Lars Vilks had a $100,000 bounty put on his head after he drew the Muhammad cartoon for local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda. Photo: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/09/seven-arrested-ireland-muhammad-cartoon"><u>The link</u></a><br />
Imperialism is a two edged sword, and I see no reason to make a moral distinction between American imperialism and Islamic imperialism.  I salute the authorities for properly dealing with the matter.</p>
<blockquote><p>Lars Vilks had a $100,000 bounty put on his head after he drew the Muhammad cartoon for local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda. Photo: Harry Soremski/AFP/Getty</p>
<p>Irish police today arrested seven suspects over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish artist who drew the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.</p>
<p>The target of the alleged assassination was Lars Vilks, who had a $100,000 (£67,000) bounty put on his head by al-Qaida in 2007, with a 50% bonus if Vilks was &#8220;slaughtered like a lamb&#8221; by having his throat cut. Another $50,000 was said to have been put on the life of Ulf Johansson, editor-in-chief of Nerikes Allehanda, the local newspaper that printed the cartoon.</p>
<p>The four men and three women, who were detained at about 10am this morning, are in their mid-20s to late-40s and are being held at stations in Waterford, Tramore, Dungarvan and Thomastown. Garda sources have confirmed that some of those arrested hold Irish citizenship and a number are from the Middle East. Some of those questioned have been confirmed as converts to Islam.</p>
<p>The suspects are being held under Ireland&#8217;s Criminal Justice Act 2007. Under Irish law they can be held in custody for up to seven days.</p>
<p>Ireland&#8217;s anti-terrorist special detective unit was involved in the operation. A spokesman for the force said: &#8220;Throughout the investigation Garda Síochána has been working closely with law enforcement agencies in the United States and in a number of European countries.&#8221; The CIA and the FBI were involved in the investigation.</p>
<p>Vilks&#8217; cartoon caused outrage because dogs are considered unclean by conservative Muslims, and Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet for fear it could lead to idolatry.</p>
<p>The controversy over cartoons depicting Muhammad began in 2005, when the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten printed 12 caricatures of the prophet after a children&#8217;s author said he could not find an illustrator for his book on the life of Muhammad.</p>
<p>The drawings sparked violent protests across the Muslim world, culminating with the burning of the Danish embassy in Damascus and its consulate in Beirut in February 2006.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Polish Death Metal Band Destroys Bible!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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Being a Northeastern Slav, I find it embarrassing that Poles and Western Ukrainians (not Eastern ones) are under the influence of a Roman religion like Catholicism.  This death metal band has the right idea.
According to Interia.pl and GazetaPrawna.pl, vocalist/guitarist Adam &#8220;Nergal&#8221; Darski of Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH was formally charged on Monday (March [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&#038;newsitemID=136374"><u>The link</u></a><br />
Being a Northeastern Slav, I find it embarrassing that Poles and Western Ukrainians (not Eastern ones) are under the influence of a Roman religion like Catholicism.  This death metal band has the right idea.</p>
<blockquote><p>According to Interia.pl and GazetaPrawna.pl, vocalist/guitarist Adam &#8220;Nergal&#8221; Darski of Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH was formally charged on Monday (March <img src='http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> for insulting Roman Catholics.</p>
<p>Darski made headlines in his native country in September 2007 when he reportedly called the Catholic Church &#8220;the most murderous cult on the planet&#8221; during a BEHEMOTH performance in Gdynia and tore up a copy of the Bible onstage (see video below).</p>
<p>After the incident, Ryszard Nowak, head of the All-Polish Committee for Defense Against Sects sued BEHEMOTH for promoting Satanism. Although a court expert witness on religious matters said that the act of destroying the Holy Bible could offend somebody&#8217;s religious feelings (a criminal offense under Polish law), the case was discontinued because no one except Nowak accused BEHEMOTH of insulting their religious beliefs. (Under Polish law, there must be at least two formal complaints before a charge is laid. The previous complaint was made in 2008, and recently an unspecified number of other complaints had been filed.)</p>
<p>Nergal is pleading not guilty to the charge.</p>
<p>According to Metal As Fuck, in the first hearing, under cross examination, Darski stated what he does on stage is part of artistic license and it wasn&#8217;t supposed to offend religious feelings. However, an expert on religious history and studies from Jagellonian University in Krakow stated that every copy of a bible could be considered a religious icon.</p>
<p>There was no judgment ruled against Darski in the first hearing, but now that a second complaint has been filed, the matter will be heard by the courts.</p>
<p>If found guilty, Darski faces up to 2 years in prison.</p>
<p>In a 2009 interview with Decibel magazine, BEHEMOTH bassist Tomasz &#8220;Orion&#8221; Wróblewski explained that the Bible-tearing incident was by no means a spontaneous outburst. &#8220;We&#8217;d been doing that for two years on tour before it happened in Poland,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, we had discussed it many times before. A BEHEMOTH show is a BEHEMOTH show, and BEHEMOTH fans are coming to a BEHEMOTH show. BEHEMOTH fans know what BEHEMOTH is about, know what the lyrics are about, and know at least a little of the philosophy behind the band. So, it&#8217;s kind of surprising that there are people coming to the shows and feeling offended with what we do onstage. If such a person comes to a show, he comes with the purpose of being offended, I guess, and it shouldn&#8217;t be like that. We&#8217;re not offending any particular person. We&#8217;re just offending the religion that we&#8217;ve been raised in.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>In support of Marx but not &#8220;Marxism&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marx laid down a number of important hypotheses.  Some of them were correct, others were incorrect, but at least he paved the way for more thought.  Marx should not be viewed as &#8220;perfect&#8221; but in the same way that Plato or Socrates is viewed.  To make an analogy, one does not have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marx laid down a number of important hypotheses.  Some of them were correct, others were incorrect, but at least he paved the way for more thought.  Marx should not be viewed as &#8220;perfect&#8221; but in the same way that Plato or Socrates is viewed.  To make an analogy, one does not have to be a Christian to praise the human being named Jesus of Nazareth that supposedly existed.  One does not have to be a Buddhist to learn from reading philosophy of Buddhists.</p>
<p>Marx&#8217;s role in raising awareness of important issues should be appreciated by any self-respecting, enlightened and pragmatic person.  He may have not scored on every shot, but at least someone got the rebound.  Juche (North Korea&#8217;s ideology) may not be Marxism, but it owes some of its influence to Marx.  Benito Mussolini was a Marxist before he developed into a fascist.  Mao may have modified Marx to be more agrarian and idealistic, and adapted to Chinese characteristics, but still was influenced by Marx.  The <a href="http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Firezone/showpost.php?p=59328&amp;postcount=15"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ba&#8217;athists with which I converse</span></a> see Marx as an influence but not the &#8220;seal of the prophets.&#8221;</p>
<p>Marx also hated oppressive religious fanatics (of any religion) and considered religion to opiate.  I salute him on that stance too!</p>
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		<title>Unlike Islamic Fundamentalist Countries, Israel is honoring the Red Army</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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Just to play Devil&#8217;s advocate, as many of our &#8220;Communists&#8221; think that Islamic Fundamentalism is inherently more compatible with Marxism than Zionism, it should be pointed out that the Taliban and Iranian regime curse the Red Army whereas Israel praises it.  Now you can say the material conditions make ideology unimportant, but it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=168866"><u>The link</u></a><br />
Just to play Devil&#8217;s advocate, as many of our &#8220;Communists&#8221; think that Islamic Fundamentalism is inherently more compatible with Marxism than Zionism, it should be pointed out that the Taliban and Iranian regime curse the Red Army whereas Israel praises it.  Now you can say the material conditions make ideology unimportant, but it is still ironic.</p>
<p>It should be noted that the SECULAR Ba&#8217;athists were pro-USSR in their original conception, whereas the counterpart regime in Afghanistan was not.  And that regime was a fundamentalist regime, but not the Taliban.</p>
<blockquote><p>Israel will erect a memorial commemorating the Red Army’s crucial role in the victory over the Nazis, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Russian Prime Minster Vladimir Putin at a photo opportunity before their meeting Tuesday.</p>
<p>Netanyahu said the gesture, which he intends to move forward, is in honor of the 65th anniversary of the victory over the Nazis later this year. This move comes amid growing concern in Russia that their role and sacrifice in the victory over Nazism is increasingly being underplayed.</p>
<p>Putin, saying that it was forbidden to forget the Nazi victims and that the Jews and the people of the former Soviet Union suffered more than anyone else at the hands of the Nazis, said he was currently in discussion with Moscow’s chief rabbi about the possibility of establishing a Holocaust museum in Moscow.</p>
<p>Netanyahu said he hoped the memorial would be erected before Putin’s next visit to Israel, expected with the year, and that at the same time the Russian prime minister could also take part in the ceremony in which Russia would formally take over control of the Sergei courtyard in central Jerusalem.</p>
<p>After saying that Israel and Russia would increase cooperation in a number of spheres, including technology, security and agriculture, Putin joked that he hoped the agricultural cooperation would add funds to Israel’s Agriculture Ministry so that it could quickly move out of its offices in the Sergei courtyard.</blockquote</p>
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		<title>Evangelicals, Catholics and internationalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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I find this to be interesting that Christianity is a driving force behind international altruism, good or bad.  It is just interesting.  The shift in the activity of evangelicals is interesting.
It is interesting that nuns are handing out condoms.  How about just realizing that people who cannot control themselves are not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28kristof.html"><u>The link</u></a><br />
I find this to be interesting that Christianity is a driving force behind international altruism, good or bad.  It is just interesting.  The shift in the activity of evangelicals is interesting.</p>
<p>It is interesting that nuns are handing out condoms.  How about just realizing that people who cannot control themselves are not human beings?</p>
<blockquote><p>For most of the last century, save-the-worlders were primarily Democrats and liberals. In contrast, many Republicans and religious conservatives denounced government aid programs, with Senator Jesse Helms calling them “money down a rat hole.”</p>
<p>Over the last decade, however, that divide has dissolved, in ways that many Americans haven’t noticed or appreciated. Evangelicals have become the new internationalists, pushing successfully for new American programs against AIDS and malaria, and doing superb work on issues from human trafficking in India to mass rape in Congo.</p>
<p>A pop quiz: What’s the largest U.S.-based international relief and development organization?</p>
<p>It’s not Save the Children, and it’s not CARE — both terrific secular organizations. Rather, it’s World Vision, a Seattle-based Christian organization (with strong evangelical roots) whose budget has roughly tripled over the last decade.</p>
<p>World Vision now has 40,000 staff members in nearly 100 countries. That’s more staff members than CARE, Save the Children and the worldwide operations of the United States Agency for International Development — combined.</p>
<p>A growing number of conservative Christians are explicitly and self-critically acknowledging that to be “pro-life” must mean more than opposing abortion. The head of World Vision in the United States, Richard Stearns, begins his fascinating book, “The Hole in Our Gospel,” with an account of a visit a decade ago to Uganda, where he met a 13-year-old AIDS orphan who was raising his younger brothers by himself.</p>
<p>“What sickened me most was this question: where was the Church?” he writes. “Where were the followers of Jesus Christ in the midst of perhaps the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time? Surely the Church should have been caring for these ‘orphans and widows in their distress.’ (James 1:27). Shouldn’t the pulpits across America have flamed with exhortations to rush to the front lines of compassion?</p>
<p>“How have we missed it so tragically, when even rock stars and Hollywood actors seem to understand?”</p>
<p>Mr. Stearns argues that evangelicals were often so focused on sexual morality and a personal relationship with God that they ignored the needy. He writes laceratingly about “a Church that had the wealth to build great sanctuaries but lacked the will to build schools, hospitals, and clinics.”</p>
<p>In one striking passage, Mr. Stearns quotes the prophet Ezekiel as saying that the great sin of the people of Sodom wasn’t so much that they were promiscuous or gay as that they were “arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.” (Ezekiel 16:49.)</p>
<p>Hmm. Imagine if sodomy laws could be used to punish the stingy, unconcerned rich!</p>
<p>The American view of evangelicals is still shaped by preening television blowhards and hypocrites who seem obsessed with gays and fetuses. One study cited in the book found that even among churchgoers ages 16 to 29, the descriptions most associated with Christianity were “antihomosexual,” “judgmental,” “too involved in politics,” and “hypocritical.”</p>
<p>Some conservative Christians reinforced the worst view of themselves by inspiring Ugandan homophobes who backed a bill that would punish gays with life imprisonment or execution. Ditto for the Vatican, whose hostility to condoms contributes to the AIDS epidemic. But there’s more to the picture: I’ve also seen many Catholic nuns and priests heroically caring for AIDS patients — even quietly handing out condoms.</p>
<p>One of the most inspiring figures I’ve met while covering Congo’s brutal civil war is a determined Polish nun in the terrifying hinterland, feeding orphans, standing up to drunken soldiers and comforting survivors — all in a war zone. I came back and decided: I want to grow up and become a Polish nun.</p>
<p>Some Americans assume that religious groups offer aid to entice converts. That’s incorrect. Today, groups like World Vision ban the use of aid to lure anyone into a religious conversation.</p>
<p>Some liberals are pushing to end the longtime practice (it’s a myth that this started with President George W. Bush) of channeling American aid through faith-based organizations. That change would be a catastrophe. In Haiti, more than half of food distributions go through religious groups like World Vision that have indispensable networks on the ground. We mustn’t make Haitians the casualties in our cultural wars.</p>
<p>A root problem is a liberal snobbishness toward faith-based organizations. Those doing the sneering typically give away far less money than evangelicals. They’re also less likely to spend vacations volunteering at, say, a school or a clinic in Rwanda.</p>
<p>If secular liberals can give up some of their snootiness, and if evangelicals can retire some of their sanctimony, then we all might succeed together in making greater progress against common enemies of humanity, like illiteracy, human trafficking and maternal mortality. </p></blockquote>
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		<title>The Free Market is the American Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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The reason America never fixes its problems is that it believes they will auto-correct.  This article is the ideological foundation of authoritarianism.  If you prefer to smear it, I guess you could call it &#8220;emergency dictatorship,&#8221; &#8220;capitalism in decay&#8221; or &#8220;fascism.&#8221;  It is the idea that freedom and liberty &#8220;don&#8217;t work,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucas/20100228/cm_ucas/thefreemarketwontcurehealthcaresills"><u>The link</u></a><br />
The reason America never fixes its problems is that it believes they will auto-correct.  This article is the ideological foundation of authoritarianism.  If you prefer to smear it, I guess you could call it &#8220;emergency dictatorship,&#8221; &#8220;capitalism in decay&#8221; or &#8220;fascism.&#8221;  It is the idea that freedom and liberty &#8220;don&#8217;t work,&#8221; but the logical conclusion is that authority is needed to patch society.  It is not really stressing class conflict or the need for the complete elimination of private property, and thus not really addressing the issue from a Marxist-Leninist standpoint but a corrective authoritarian standpoint.</p>
<p>It requires a religious belief in capitalism in order to keep trying to succeed against all odds, because otherwise it is easier to give up.  After all, to succeed requires many failed attempts and/or a special networking connection, especially in this global economic meltdown.  I can attest to the fact that most hardcore entrepreneurs truly believe these values.</p>
<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The most popular religion in America isn&#8217;t Christianity, as most of us have been taught to believe. The most cherished belief system celebrates the principles of unfettered capitalism.</p>
<p>That misplaced faith in free markets was on display in this past Thursday&#8217;s health care summit, when &#8212; between sound bites and talking points &#8212; Republicans argued that &#8220;choice and competition&#8221; would largely resolve the country&#8217;s health care problems. That belief &#8212; that the arbitrary, confusing and consumer-unfriendly policies and practices that we euphemistically call a health care &#8220;system&#8221; can be transformed by relying on free market principles &#8212; is confounding.</p>
<p>Except for beneficiaries of Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Affairs system &#8212; all government-run insurance programs &#8212; those of us who have insurance are utterly reliant on the private market. That&#8217;s what got us into the mess we&#8217;re in.</p>
<p>The health care market simply doesn&#8217;t operate like the market for cars or computers or flat-screen TVs. Sony and Samsung make their profits by selling as many of their products as they can. Health insurance companies make their profits by selling as many of their products as they can and then trying very hard not to actually deliver them.</p>
<p>Try to imagine that you&#8217;re awaiting delivery of your brand-new 50-inch TV, for which you&#8217;ve already made a hefty down payment. But the company calls to tell you that you violated some obscure clause in your contract, so they&#8217;re not going to bring it! In the health insurance world, it&#8217;s called &#8220;rescission.&#8221; Insurers decide they won&#8217;t honor the contract because of some alleged violation by the policy-holder.</p>
<p>They do that to keep their fat profit margins. Health care giant Wellpoint has proposed substantial rate increases in the individual market (policies for individuals who don&#8217;t have employer-based insurance), not just in California but in several other states. In congressional testimony last week, WellPoint president Angela Braly said the company had to raise premiums because of soaring health care costs. But Wellpoint hardly seems to be hurting; it reported a profit last year of $4.7 billion.</p>
<p>California&#8217;s Wellpoint subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross, is not only proposing stunning rate hikes. The state&#8217;s insurance commissioner has announced that the company has also repeatedly violated state law by failing to pay medical claims on time and by misrepresenting policy provisions to consumers, according to the Los Angeles Times.</p>
<p>So, it seems, the company tells you that a policy offers broad coverage when they&#8217;re trying to get you to buy insurance. But when you need the coverage, you find out that the policy doesn&#8217;t offer broad coverage, after all. That helps explain why so many people, even with health insurance, go bankrupt after a costly illness.</p>
<p>Without stricter government oversight and regulation &#8212; which is the essence of the health care reform proposed by President Obama &#8212; health care costs will continue to soar while consumers get less and less. Obama&#8217;s proposals don&#8217;t represent a &#8220;government takeover,&#8221; as critics contend. The vast majority of Americans would still get their insurance in the private marketplace. But insurers would have to live by a different set of rules.</p>
<p>Vice President Joe Biden said it best at the summit: If Republicans agree that insurance reform is necessary, that health insurance companies should be prohibited from turning away consumers because of pre-existing conditions, that they should be prevented from enforcing lifetime caps on benefits, then the GOP must see the need for strict government regulation. You don&#8217;t get those changes in the &#8220;free market.&#8221;</p>
<p>And, unlike the choice of buying a computer or a car, you&#8217;d don&#8217;t really get to walk away from health insurance. If you do, you take your life into your hands. Having health insurance increases your chances of longevity.</p>
<p>Once upon a time, political leaders realized that all Americans needed access to electricity, and they stepped in to ensure that all households got that small miracle at reasonable rates &#8212; something that the &#8220;free market&#8221; could not provide. Americans need a similar intervention in health care now.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Protestants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve bashed a lot of people but I&#8217;ve never really targeted Protestants.  I view them as pseudo-revolutionaries.  What Protestants do is basically copy Catholic dogma but rebel against the hand that feeds them.
You would expect rebels against the Catholic Church to turn into atheists instead of Protestants.  Protestants are &#8220;half Catholic.&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve bashed a lot of people but I&#8217;ve never really targeted Protestants.  I view them as pseudo-revolutionaries.  What Protestants do is basically copy Catholic dogma but rebel against the hand that feeds them.</p>
<p>You would expect rebels against the Catholic Church to turn into atheists instead of Protestants.  Protestants are &#8220;half Catholic.&#8221;  They are like a women who is beaten by a husband, but won&#8217;t divorce the husband.  They outwardly reject Catholicism but inherit all their ideas from Catholicism.</p>
<p>When I learn more about Orthodox Christianity, I&#8217;ll probably send a few verbal missiles in that direction too.</p>
<p>One would expect that the Slavic peoples would develop a form of rebellion against Catholicism and Orthodoxy.  After all, Orthodoxy is a Greek religion and Catholicism a Roman religion.  Against bureaucratic Christianity, the Germanic peoples rebelled with Protestantism and then Nazism, but only Russians (with the help of Jews) countered with Bolshevism, while other Slavs act like slav<span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">e</span></span>s!</p>
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		<title>Sephardic Jew called for extermination of Ashkenazi Jews and Leftists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Link (2007)
This is not the first Sephardic Jew I have been made aware of who advocates this, believe it or not!
I do not believe the best way to improve relations between Ashkenazi Jews and the rest of the world is to deceive oneself.  At some point the harsh reality has to be faced. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/913888.html"><u>The Link (2007)</u></a><br />
This is not the first Sephardic Jew I have been made aware of who advocates this, believe it or not!</p>
<p>I do not believe the best way to improve relations between Ashkenazi Jews and the rest of the world is to deceive oneself.  At some point the harsh reality has to be faced.  Ever since the Bolshevik revolution was on the verge of taking power in Eastern Europe, these people have been despised.  And when Jews quit Bolshevism for Zionism, it only increased hatred from Arabs.  Even in America, the Ku Klux Klan officially adopted an anti-Semitic line &#8211; which it previously had not taken &#8211; in 1915, as the Bolsheviks rose and finally took power in 1917.  These are the people who competed with Stalin for control over the Bolshevik movement and collaborated throughout Europe, resulting in both Hitler&#8217;s rise and their ejection from the Bolshevik party.  Even Gypsies contributed to 1940&#8217;s Romanian pogroms against Ashkenazi Jews with the assistance of the Iron Guard (which was then banned), while Winston Churchill carefully chose his words to separate between &#8220;good and bad&#8221; Jews.  Even Northeastern Slavs (subhumans to Hitler) such as Poles and Ukrainians disposed of some of these people. </p>
<p>Ashkenazi Jews are going to have to stop crying about persecution and start being more friendly to their neighbors.  This hate does not come out of thin air.  The only place Ashkenazi Jews are not hated is America, but that&#8217;s because Americans are generally well off and rich people and the means of communication are controlled by Jews.</p>
<blockquote><p>A right-wing Jewish extremist has been disseminating calls for the assassination of leftists and Ashkenazim on Internet sites in Israel and abroad.</p>
<p>One film clip posted on YouTube, for instance, declares: &#8220;You are about to view a handful of leftist Ashkenazim that Hitler and Eichmann did not manage to incinerate. Before we begin, please remember: 90 percent of the moderate left are Ashkenazim!! 100 percent of the extreme left are Ashkenazim!!&#8221;</p>
<p>Next comes a picture of President Shimon Peres with the caption: &#8220;The murderer!&#8221; It is followed by pictures of Benjamin Netanyahu, Yossi Beilin and other politicians.</p>
<p>The clip concludes: &#8220;Now, after you have seen these unclean Ashkenazim, how degraded the Ashkenazi race is, and what a pity it is that Hitler and Eichmann did not finish off the Ashkenazim, I ask of you: Search for information on Google about Stiven Malik; there &#8216;the document&#8217; awaits you.&#8221;</p>
<p>The document in question is also full of incitement to violence: &#8220;If only we, too, could finish what Hitler began by destroying all the Ashkenazim, the descendants of the Jews who betrayed Germany.&#8221;</p>
<p>Supportive comments have been posted on the Stiven Malik forum on the Israeli portal 2all; the forum has received thousands of visitors in recent month. Malik&#8217;s anti-Ashkenazi incitement can also be found on the Israeli portals Tapuz and goop.co.il and on sites such as fresh.co.il.</p>
<p>A Haaretz investigation has concluded that &#8220;Malik&#8221; is a fictitious name used by a right-wing extremist who was once affiliated with Baruch Marzel&#8217;s Jewish Front party, but was later expelled from it.</p>
<p>After Haaretz approached the relevant Israeli portals, some of Malik&#8217;s writings were removed. Tapuz said it had given the material to the police, and Peres&#8217;s office said it had given it to the Shin Bet security service. YouTube had not responded by press time. </p></blockquote>
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		<title>Iran Celebrates 31st Anniversary of Islamic Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Purging the Paranoid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These points made by Nick Griffin, and quoted by Lawrence Auster, are really quite relevant.  It is an error to turn against Israel just because a crowd of crazy people who are rejected both by the JDL and Israel display paranoid personality disorder, DSM IV.  &#8220;The nazis are out to get me.&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/004615.html"><u>These points</u></a> made by Nick Griffin, and quoted by Lawrence Auster, are really quite relevant.  It is an error to turn against Israel just because a crowd of crazy people who are rejected both by the JDL and Israel display <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_personality_disorder#Diagnostic_criteria_.28DSM-IV-TR_.3D_301.0.29"><u>paranoid personality disorder, DSM IV</u></a>.  &#8220;The nazis are out to get me.&#8221;  The Marx quotations are valid, as are the points about Monarchs employing Jews so they can hide behind the title wave of dissent from the masses.  I suspect similar tactics may be used by modern capitalist rulers.</p>
<p>It would be pleasurable to purge paranoids like Chaim Ben Pesach from the Zionist movement, but I just realized it&#8217;s not necessary.  It has already occurred.  The JDL has rejected him and Israel has banned him.  Perhaps the JDL and Israel are neo-nazi organizations, and Rick Rubin was the Fuhrer.  Allen-T was the SS Stormtrooper and EagleEye the Polish-Ukrainian collaborator.</p>
<p>I wonder if Kahanists would consider Lawrence Auster to be a neo-nazi.  After all, his conversion to Christianity must be an attempt to genocide the Jewish people spiritually.</p>
<p>The better move is not to turn against Zionism, but to purge the Zionist movement of its undesirable mental defectives.  The Zionist movement should move towards national bolshevism and integral corporatist nationalism, and away from Taliban style religiosity.</p>
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		<title>Khmer Rouge as model dictatorship for the Middle East Nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just a &#8220;theory&#8221; and not a call to action!
A dictatorship modeled off of Pol Pot&#8217;s khmer rouge could really rewrite the religious culture of the middle east, and then allow it to progress technologically after its original period of purification.
And don&#8217;t forget that pol pot was a nationalist!
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<p>A dictatorship modeled off of Pol Pot&#8217;s khmer rouge could really rewrite the religious culture of the middle east, and then allow it to progress technologically after its original period of purification.</p>
<p>And don&#8217;t forget that pol pot was a nationalist!</p>
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		<title>Social Nationalist Comrades in Syria Point out Blair&#8217;s plan to attack Saddam pre-911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Translated Link from Arabic
Agencies &#8211; Media sources said that former Prime Minister Tony Blair lied to the investigation committee on the Iraq war when he claimed that attention to topple former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began after the attacks atheist ten of September.  And removed the newspaper &#8220;The Independent&#8221; British unveiling of the [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>Agencies &#8211; Media sources said that former Prime Minister Tony Blair lied to the investigation committee on the Iraq war when he claimed that attention to topple former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began after the attacks atheist ten of September.  And removed the newspaper &#8220;The Independent&#8221; British unveiling of the document did not receive the Commission of Inquiry into the Iraq war, confirms that the government of Tony Blair made secret plans to drum up support for the establishment of an internal coup against Saddam Hussein two years before the invasion of Iraq. The newspaper &#8220;The Independent&#8221; The British Foreign Office officials drafted a plan called &#8220;contract with the people,&#8221; suggested to the dissidents in Iraq that toppling Saddam would receive support from Britain, also pledged to provide aid and debt cancellation of oil contracts and the provision of commercial transactions as soon as the ouster  The newspaper &#8220;has been the completion of the plan, titled&#8221; Confidential &#8211; for the eyes of the British and U.S. &#8220;in the June 11, 2001, and approved by the cabinet of ministers.&#8221; The document said Britain would &#8220;want to deal with Iraq that respects the rights of its people and live in peace with its neighbors and abide by international law and the right of the Iraqi people to live in a society based on rule of law, free from repression, torture and arbitrary arrest, and that respects human rights, freedom and prosperity the economy.   The document said &#8220;those who wish to be published a call for change in Iraq deserve our support. We look forward to the day when Iraq who is due to join the international community, will receive a new system to reschedule debt and aid from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund aid package and trade of the European Union.&#8221; Mr Blair said during his testimony before the commission last week that serious attention to the overthrow of Saddam breed only after ten atheist attacks of September, which changed from &#8220;a risk&#8221;. For his part, &#8220;said Ed Duffy, spokesman for the Liberal Democrats in foreign affairs, said the document questioned the validity of the certificate made by Blair should have been published before hearing his testimony on Friday. &#8220;The plan to support the Iraqis who seek to topple Saddam may be less harmful, and that was without a doubt the most legitimate what happened. However, it appears that Blair had always intended to change the system since the early and before the atheist of September.&#8221; &#8220;It seems, however, that veil of secrecy was lifted from the documents is crucial, which stop an obstacle to question Blair and other people.&#8221;  In addition, newspaper &#8220;The Guardian&#8221; The Commission of Inquiry Celkot Blair will call again to make further submissions before it.  She said Blair would be questioned in public and in secret after the committee expressed concern that his testimony on the legality of the invasion are contrary to those made by the former British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith.</p></blockquote>
<p>This article focuses on Blair, but it is clear that Bush was trying to downplay the Afghanistan war, and switch to Iraq, even though a stronger case can be made against Afghanistan than against Iraq.  Iraq is secular and never attacked USA.  It was back stabbed.  Afghanistan is theocratic and could be accused of Al-Qaeda collaboration.  Yet Bush wanted to get the focus off of Afghanistan and onto Iraq.</p>
<p>The motives are ulterior!  Profit and gain!</p>
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		<title>Liberating Arabs from Theocracy</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/01/25/liberating-arabs-from-theocracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kahanist approach of opposing all Arabs is incorrect.  Kahanists may have common enemies but they are only useful to an extent.
Kahanism is not the right path to fight Islamic extremism.
The neo-con path is not the right path either.  Liberal democracy is not the right path when confronted with theological threats.
A third way [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Kahanist approach of opposing all Arabs is incorrect.  Kahanists may have common enemies but they are only useful to an extent.</p>
<p>Kahanism is not the right path to fight Islamic extremism.</p>
<p>The neo-con path is not the right path either.  Liberal democracy is not the right path when confronted with theological threats.</p>
<p>A third way is the real option.</p>
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		<title>Large Sequences of Mice genome removed with no observed effect</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/01/20/large-sequences-of-mice-genome-removed-with-no-observed-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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The functional importance of the roughly 98% of mammalian genomes not corresponding to protein coding sequences remains largely undetermined1. Here we show that some large-scale deletions of the non-coding DNA referred to as gene deserts2, 3, 4 can be well tolerated by an organism. We deleted two large non-coding intervals, 1,511 kilobases and 845 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v431/n7011/full/nature03022.html"><u>The link</u></a></p>
<blockquote><p>The functional importance of the roughly 98% of mammalian genomes not corresponding to protein coding sequences remains largely undetermined1. Here we show that some large-scale deletions of the non-coding DNA referred to as gene deserts2, 3, 4 can be well tolerated by an organism. We deleted two large non-coding intervals, 1,511 kilobases and 845 kilobases in length, from the mouse genome. Viable mice homozygous for the deletions were generated and were indistinguishable from wild-type littermates with regard to morphology, reproductive fitness, growth, longevity and a variety of parameters assaying general homeostasis. Further detailed analysis of the expression of multiple genes bracketing the deletions revealed only minor expression differences in homozygous deletion and wild-type mice. Together, the two deleted segments harbour 1,243 non-coding sequences conserved between humans and rodents (more than 100 base pairs, 70% identity). Some of the deleted sequences might encode for functions unidentified in our screen; nonetheless, these studies further support the existence of potentially &#8216;disposable DNA&#8217; in the genomes of mammals.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is proof that a large amount of DNA in modern organisms is either &#8220;junk,&#8221; performing functions that are too insignificant to recognize, or unactivated and stored away for future use.  In my opinion, it&#8217;s probably not being used at all, it&#8217;s probably junk, because I believe in the theory of evolution which would make it logical for neutral mutations to continue to exist and have no pragmatic affect.</p>
<p>For creationists, the existence of this junk dna presents a serious problem to their argument.</p>
<p>It also presents a serious problem for people who try to define race based on tiny markers found in populations as opposed to a combination of physical traits and ancestry.</p>
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		<title>Down with Hugo Chavez &#8211; Hail Sony and Nintendo</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/01/18/down-with-hugo-chavez-hail-sony-and-nintendo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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Venezuela&#8217;s extreme leftist president Hugo Chavez recently took aim at the PlayStation and non-indigenous toys in his weekly radio-TV show, Alo Presidente. According to the AFP, Chavez stated, &#8220;Those games they call &#8216;PlayStation&#8217; are poison. Some games teach you to kill.&#8221; El Presidente had previously knocked Nintendo for promoting &#8220;selfishness, individualism and violence.&#8221; He [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/18/venezuelan-president-says-playstation-is-poison-leads-childre/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Link</span></a></p>
<blockquote><div><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100118/tc_afp/venezuelainternetvideogamessonychavez" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/01/poisonchavez580.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div>
<p>Venezuela&#8217;s extreme leftist president Hugo Chavez recently took aim at the PlayStation and non-indigenous toys in his weekly radio-TV show, <em>Alo Presidente</em>. According to the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100118/tc_afp/venezuelainternetvideogamessonychavez" target="_blank">AFP</a>, Chavez stated, &#8220;Those games they call &#8216;PlayStation&#8217; are poison. Some games teach you to kill.&#8221; El Presidente had previously knocked Nintendo for promoting &#8220;selfishness, individualism and violence.&#8221; He believes video games reinforce capitalism which, of course, is &#8220;the road to hell.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chavez would like to see Venezuela making &#8220;educational games&#8221; instead of <em>Super Murder Simulator VI</em> and &#8220;little indigenous dolls&#8221; in place of Barbie. Venezuela&#8217;s (<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/26/venezuelan-lawmakers-wary-of-mercenaries-2-suspect-us-governmen/" target="_blank">sometimes paranoid</a>) government <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/26/venezuela-could-completely-ban-the-sale-of-violent-video-games/" target="_blank">outlawed</a> violent games <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/04/ap/latinamerica/main5362129.shtml" target="_blank">last October</a> in an effort to curb the country&#8217;s <a href="http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1059.html" target="_blank">extremely high violent crime rate</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hugo Chavez has attacked my two Corporate darlings &#8211; Sony and Nintendo.</p>
<p>May fascist corporate technocracy prevail over phony egalitarian socialism that appeals to bullshit religious values.</p>
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		<title>Creationism is Garbage</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/01/18/creationism-is-garbage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best way to debunk creationism is to have a look at the human genome.
The genome is not organized like a machine or a factory. It&#8217;s not neatly compartmentalized like a computer motherboard or assembly line.  You don&#8217;t have a section for physical type, a section for intelligence, a section for skin color neatly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best way to debunk creationism is to have a look at the human genome.</p>
<p>The genome is not organized like a machine or a factory. It&#8217;s not neatly compartmentalized like a computer motherboard or assembly line.  You don&#8217;t have a section for physical type, a section for intelligence, a section for skin color neatly laid out and organized.</p>
<p>No, the genome is randomized and most of dna is junk.</p>
<p>This is clear proof against creationism.  The &#8220;trial and error&#8221; nature of the human genome is forensic evidence for evolution.  A creator would remove the junk DNA.</p>
<p>Also the fact that different races often share similar trivial haplogroups debunks the idea of creationism.  The fact that human beings existed before modern races did debunks creationism.</p>
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		<title>Patriotardation &#8211; Religious Motivations</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/01/16/patriotardation-religious-motivations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the right we have devoutly religious people and they worship YAWEH.  On the left we have people who are religious but instead of worshiping YAWEH, they worship racial diversity.
Oh how I&#8217;d love to purge both the left and the right and bring an entirely new mentality to America!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the right we have devoutly religious people and they worship YAWEH.  On the left we have people who are religious but instead of worshiping YAWEH, they worship racial diversity.</p>
<p>Oh how I&#8217;d love to purge both the left and the right and bring an entirely new mentality to America!</p>
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		<title>Funny Thread on Antisemitica</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/01/08/funny-thread-on-antisemitica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Link
I&#8217;m not antisemitic but I know Hunter Wallace well enough that I don&#8217;t disown him just for disagreeing with me.  Anyways, he starts out calling Sarah Palin &#8220;the most white bread candidate since Pat Buchanan&#8221; and talks about how &#8220;Jews hate Whites.&#8221;  I comment, and unmask the fact that Palin is Jewish by Jewish [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://antisemitica.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/neocons-are-anti-semites/"><u>The Link</u></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not antisemitic but I know Hunter Wallace well enough that I don&#8217;t disown him just for disagreeing with me.  Anyways, he starts out calling Sarah Palin &#8220;the most white bread candidate since Pat Buchanan&#8221; and talks about how &#8220;Jews hate Whites.&#8221;  I comment, and unmask the fact that Palin is Jewish by Jewish law.  She has a Jewish mother.</p>
<p>Jews are Caucasoids who while they may not have absorbed total European DNA, they did phenotypically adapt to European climates.  The people who swear they can &#8220;spot Jews&#8221; often can&#8217;t identify a non-practicing Jew.  They wouldn&#8217;t be able to tell a Syrian for an Italian either.  They think they could, but they couldn&#8217;t.   Not without DNA testing.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Self-hating&#8221; nominal Catholics</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/01/07/self-hating-nominal-catholics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t stand  people who every Sunday, keep going to Church, yet bitch and moan like a pussy whipped coward about how the Church hates women, they don&#8217;t like the Pope, they question if the religion is really true but just hope it isn&#8217;t.  There is an eject button.  You can quit!
Religious people have a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t stand  people who every Sunday, keep going to Church, yet bitch and moan like a pussy whipped coward about how the Church hates women, they don&#8217;t like the Pope, they question if the religion is really true but just hope it isn&#8217;t.  There is an eject button.  You can quit!</p>
<p>Religious people have a mental disorder.</p>
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		<title>&#8230;And a Happy New Year</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/01/05/and-a-happy-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Arab Ba&#8217;athism : Secular Liberation</title>
		<link>http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2010/01/04/arab-baathism-secular-liberation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece is directly inspired by Constantin Von Hoffmeister&#8217;s : &#8220;Jewish Bolshevism, European Liberation.&#8221;  It involves both modifications and original thoughts.  It is a &#8220;remix.&#8221;
Mr. Hussein is a strong advocate of progress under the banner of secularism and a united Arab destiny. Mr. Hussein believes that a dictatorial government that force-feeds modernization is a shortcut [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: red;"><em>This piece is directly inspired by Constantin Von Hoffmeister&#8217;s : &#8220;<a href="http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/2009/08/23/jewish-bolshevism-european-liberation/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Jewish Bolshevism, European Liberation</span></a>.&#8221;  It involves both modifications and original thoughts.  It is a &#8220;remix.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Mr. Hussein is a strong advocate of progress under the banner of secularism and a united Arab destiny. Mr. Hussein believes that a dictatorial government that force-feeds modernization is a shortcut to progress. He is convinced that such an approach will catapult the backward Arab world, starting with Iraq, into the next century.<br />
-<a href="http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Firezone/showpost.php?p=58633&amp;postcount=1 "><span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Times</span></a></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>The Ba&#8217;athist movment was and is clearly run by mainly Caucasoid Arabs (of course there is some racial variation), of Mediterranean appearance in Syria and of partial Iranid mixture in Iraq, who claim religious beliefs from Christianity, to Islam, to atheism, to even Judaism.  It was a Jewish mother who convinced Saddam Hussein&#8217;s mother not to abort him.  While many Muslims participate, an important point in their worldview is the separation of church and state.  Ba&#8217;thists enthusiastically embrace secularism and technological progress and oppose Sharia law.  In addition, the Iraqi Ba&#8217;athists embraced the Soviet Union, logically becoming allies of third positionists as nationalists who are conscious of the dangers of capitalism. The Ba&#8217;thist Arabs were not religious fanatics but progressive Human Beings.  &#8220;American” imperialists targeted the Ba&#8217;athists not because they were a theological threat, but out of Corporate greed.  There was no link between Al-Qaeda and Ba&#8217;athism, so the war was fought under false pretenses.</p>
<p>Arab Ba&#8217;thists strongly resisted and continue to resist a global capitalist structure that not only keeps them enslaved but also the majority of the world. Hence, Arab Ba&#8217;thists and their American, European and Israeli Third Positionist brothers should work actively together to smash imperialistic ideologies like capitalism, Shia fundamentalism, Sunni fundamentalism and mainstream Torah Zionism (secular Zionism is okay) wherever possible! HAIL the heroic Ba&#8217;athists! Only those who do not understand the material falsehoods of Abrahamic theology do not appreciate the hard work that they did for the betterment of progressive thinking. The accomplishments of the Arab Ba&#8217;athists should be remembered by any self-respecting race realist and anti-capitalist nationalist.</p>
<p>While the Middle East, North Africa and Near East are now enslaved by a reactionary religion, at one point Arabs were major contributors to paganism and technical progress.  Saddam Hussein set out to progress his people scientifically at the expense of religion in the same way that Stalin did!  The regime in Israel which the Ba&#8217;thists opposed was nothing but a puppet for American interests.  America stabbed Saddam Hussein in the back, and logically he had to respond with defiance.  But this does not mean that Saddam Hussein was fixated on killing Jews.  Being a secular man, I firmly believe that Saddam Hussein was open minded enough to embrace the right Israel if it wasn&#8217;t aligned against his interests behind America.</p>
<p>How do Clerics view the Ba&#8217;athists? As traitors to Islam who need to be decapitated!</p>
<p>HAIL the Ba&#8217;athist Arabs! Good fascists most of them… HAIL the ideology and the pragmatic results of its applications!</p>
<p>Some Arabs supported the Ba&#8217;thist Revolution to liberate the Arabs from the possibility of encroaching Sharia Law while others chose to side with the non-Arab South Asians who worship an Arabian religion in Iran.  The Ba&#8217;thist Arabs that sacrificed their lives to aid the destruction of Sharia law and liberal capitalism were spiritually connected to Europeans and secular Israelis that fought for the same goal.  It is absolutely correct to distinguish between good Arabs and bad Arabs. It is retarded to throw all Arabs into the same pot, declaring them enemies of progressive civilization. After all, historical evidence suggests otherwise. Besides, many Arabs were and are similar to Europeans, both culturally and racially.  All were pagan and now all are ruled by Abraham&#8217;s creed (Christianity, Judaism and Islam come from Abraham)! Physically, Bashar al-Assad is the president of Syria, and he is DEFINITELY Mediterranean in appearance, similar to a person in Southern Europe. Is Saddam Hussein non-White? No.  Is Ralph Nader non-White? No. Is Steve Jobbs non-White? No.</p>
<p>Arabs as a group are not the enemy.  Massive immigration of Arabs into Europe, and Islamic imperialism are the enemy, but not Arabs in a physical sense just because they are Arabs. Theocratic nuts are the enemy.  Failing to realize the genetic link between Europe and the Middle East is anthropology for a crippled mind.  A lot of Arabs look Mediterranean in appearance, a few are actually blondish, and a few have a particular &#8220;Arabid&#8221; type which is still Caucasoid.  There are, however, negroids who live in Arab countries and have mixed, and they should not be confused with the indigenous Arabs.  In the case of Iraq, Iranian admixture is present (Persians are not Arabs).  There is variation in phenotype internal to the Arab linguistic group just like there is variation in phenotype internal to the Hispanic linguistic group, Soviet Geographical group and American geographical group.  Nevertheless the majority of Arabs are Caucasoid, with some variation in appearance from the Peninsula to the Gulf to the fertile crescent.</p>
<p>Islam is a reactionary religion. Iraq was a secular state and therefore indefinitely more progressive than the Islamic “republics” surrounding it. Most Arabs in Iraq opposed sharia law while other Muslims are religious fanatics. Why a socialist should support religious fanatics instead of rational secularists is beyond me. Ba&#8217;thism is a beacon of communitarianism. This is why it is necessary that Arabs orient themselves towards either Ba&#8217;thism or Social Nationalism (another secular party in Syria) instead of towards a capitalist liberalist AmeriKa or Sharia law. Social nationalists fringe movements and mainstream Ba&#8217;thist movements are trying to push Arabs in that direction. Only modernism can guarantee communitarian stability in the Middle East, if necessary by force. After all, it has been conclusively proven that hardcore Muslims are incapable of uniting themselves, for whatever cause. Muslims are by nature tribal and factional but Saddam Hussein brought many people together under his rule. Ba&#8217;athists are more industrious than theocrats as well. This is why Iraq remained a techno-progressive labor nation while Muslim nations reverted to their medieval (and natural) state of tribal and nomadic desert communities. While Saddam looked towards the future, Muslims longed to live in the past.</p>
<p>Iraq was a race realist tribal state which is superior to a liberal state. If Iraq was only a liberal state, it would have been defeated by Islam. But since Ba&#8217;athists are of a different mindset than Theocrats, Iraq adamantly resisted Iran. This is a good thing. Actually, to civilize the Middle East, Iraq was correct to invade Iran and Ku&#8217;wait. The effects of reactionary imperialism could be erased with progressive imperialism. Of course, for this to happen, Iraq needed the support of America, which backstabbed it, and could have benefited from a Euro-Siberian Empire.</p>
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		<title>Kurt Westergaard (Danish Cartoonist) attacked by Muslim; I endorse him!</title>
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I want to give my official endorsement to Kurt Westergaard, who was attacked by a raving Muslim associated with Al-Qaeda for the cartoon he drew.  Keep drawing more cartoons!  I officially endorse you!  Death to your attacker!  Keep up your anti-imperialist message against Islamic imperialism!
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I want to give my official endorsement to Kurt Westergaard, who was attacked by a raving Muslim associated with Al-Qaeda for the cartoon he drew.  Keep drawing more cartoons!  I officially endorse you!  Death to your attacker!  Keep up your anti-imperialist message against Islamic imperialism!</p>
<blockquote><p>A Somali man believed to have ties to terrorist groups was shot as he allegedly tried to enter the home of Danish political cartoonist Kurt Westergaard &#8212; known for his controversial depictions of the Muslim prophet Mohammed &#8212; on Friday, police said.</p>
<p>The 27-year-old man, who was not identified, wielded an ax and a knife and cracked a window at Westergaard&#8217;s home in Aarhus, said police spokesman Morten Jensen. A home alarm alerted police to the scene at 10 p.m., and they were attacked by the man, he said.</p>
<p>The officers shot the man in the right leg and left hand. He was hospitalized, but was not seriously injured, police said.</p>
<p>Danish intelligence officials said the suspect is connected to al-Shabaab, al Qaeda&#8217;s ally in east Africa.</p>
<p>The incident &#8220;once again confirms the terrorist threat that is directed against Denmark and against cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, in particular,&#8221; said Jakob Scharf, spokesman for the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, in a statement.</p>
<p>Westergaard&#8217;s caricature of Mohammed &#8212; which depicted the prophet wearing a bomb as a turban with a lit fuse &#8212; sparked an uproar among Muslims in early 2006 after newspapers reprinted the images months later as a matter of free speech. The cartoon was first published by the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten in September 2005.</p>
<p>At the time, Westergaard said he wanted his cartoon to say that some people exploited the prophet to legitimize terror. However, many in the Muslim world interpreted the drawing as depicting their prophet as a terrorist.</p>
<p>Over the years, Danish authorities have arrested other suspects who allegedly plotted against Westergaard&#8217;s life.</p>
<p>After three such arrests were made in February 2008, Westergaard issued a statement, saying, &#8220;Of course I fear for my life after the Danish Security and Intelligence Service informed me of the concrete plans of certain people to kill me. However, I have turned fear into anger and indignation. It has made me angry that a perfectly normal everyday activity which I used to do by the thousand was abused to set off such madness.&#8221;</p>
<p>Scharf said authorities have taken measures to ensure Westergaard&#8217;s safety, and that the protection has &#8220;proven effective.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Misogyny</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are charging on the forum, under guest accounts, that being a Misogynist is related to being a homosexual.  I happen to not agree.  First of all there are bisexuals, so not every homosexual is opposed to going after women, and second of all many homosexuals are still friends to women.  We [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People are charging on the forum, under guest accounts, that being a Misogynist is related to being a homosexual.  I happen to not agree.  First of all there are bisexuals, so not every homosexual is opposed to going after women, and second of all many homosexuals are still friends to women.  We can have a discussion about what it means to be homosexual.  Is it thought or action?  I have neither.  We can have a discussion about what it mean to be heterosexual.  Is it thought or action?  I do not act and any thoughts are far inferior to my dedication to non-intervention with women.</p>
<p>Being a misogynist means exactly that : not trusting women.  Being celibate can be motivated by misogyny (like me).  It can be motivated by many things.  One such motive is Catholicism.  I read instant messages over meebo, and if one more person charges that I am being celibate so that I can &#8220;reclaim Catholic roots,&#8221; I will inform them that secularism is my religion and I will not waver.</p>
<p>I want to thank these guests, the one&#8217;s who weren&#8217;t trolling with gross pictures, for broadening the topic of discussion.  We want to discuss as many different types of topics as we can.</p>
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		<title>Reform Jews are Confused</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reform Judaism is basically saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in the Jewish religion, I don&#8217;t speak Hebrew, I was born in America, but count me as a Jew because of my ancestry.&#8221;  It&#8217;s no different than saying &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in the Orthodox Christian religion, I don&#8217;t speak the Russian language and I was born [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reform Judaism is basically saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in the Jewish religion, I don&#8217;t speak Hebrew, I was born in America, but count me as a Jew because of my ancestry.&#8221;  It&#8217;s no different than saying &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in the Orthodox Christian religion, I don&#8217;t speak the Russian language and I was born in America, but count me as Russian because of my ancestry.&#8221;  No Russian would accept you and no serious Jew would accept you.  They would consider you Jewish but not accept you until you become observant.</p>
<p>Yet reform Judaism advocates intermarriage so I don&#8217;t get the point!  If you are not interested in preserving Jewish lineage and you are not interested in Judaism theologically, then why affiliate yourself into a Jewish community?  Why not just switch religions or quit religion altogether!  What a confused group of people!</p>
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		<title>Red Shi&#8217;ism vs. Black Shi&#8217;ism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Dr. Ali Shariati, 1933 &#8211; 1977
Islam is a religion which made its appearance in the history of mankind with the cry of &#8220;No!&#8221; from Mohammad (PBUH), the heir of Abraham, the manifestation of the religion of the Unity of God and the oneness of mankind; a &#8220;No&#8221; which begins with the cry of &#8220;Unity&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #969696;"><strong>By:</strong></span> <a href="http://www.iranchamber.com/personalities/ashariati/ali_shariati.php"><span style="color: #969696;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dr. Ali Shariati</span></strong></span></a><span style="color: #969696;"><strong>,</strong> 1933 &#8211; 1977</span></p>
<p><strong>I</strong>slam is a religion which made its appearance in the history of mankind with the cry of &#8220;No!&#8221; from Mohammad (PBUH), the heir of Abraham, the manifestation of the religion of the Unity of God and the oneness of mankind; a &#8220;No&#8221; which begins with the cry of &#8220;Unity&#8221;, a cry which Islam reiterated when confronted with aristocracy and compromise.</p>
<p>Shi&#8217;ism is the Islam which differentiates itself and selects its direction in the history of Islam with the &#8220;No&#8221; of the great Ali, the heir of Mohammad and the manifestation of the Islam of Justice and Truth, a &#8220;No&#8221; which he gives to the Council for the Election of the Caliph, in answer to Abdul Rahman, who was the manifestation of Islamic aristocracy and compromise. This &#8220;No&#8221;, up until pre-Safavid times, is recognized as part of the Shi&#8217;ite movement in the history of Islam, an indication of the social and political role of a group who are the followers of Ali, known for their association with the kindness of the family of the Prophet. It is a movement based upon the Qoran and the Traditions; not the Qoran and the traditions as proclaimed by the dynasties of the Omayyids, Abbasids, Ghaznavids, Seljuks, Mongols and Timurids, but the ones proclaimed by the family of Mohammad.</p>
<p>The history of Islam follows a strange path; a path in which gangsters and ruffians from the Arab, Persian, Turk, Tartar and Mongol dynasties all enjoyed the right to the leadership of the Moslem community and to the caliphate of the Prophet of Islam, to the exclusion of the family of the Prophet and the rightful Imams of Islam. And Shi&#8217;ism begins with a &#8220;No&#8221;; a &#8220;No&#8221; which opposes the path chosen by history, and rebels against history. It rebels against a history which, in the name of the Qoran, Kings and Caesars, follows the path of ignorance, and in the name of tradition, sacrifices those brought up in the house of the Qoran and the Traditions!</p>
<p>Shi&#8217;ites do not accept the path chosen by history. They deny the leaders who ruled the muslims throughout history and deceived the majority of the people through their succession to the Prophet, and then by their supposed support of Islam and fight against paganism. Shi&#8217;ites turn their backs on the opulent mosques and magnificent palaces of the Caliphs of Islam and turn to the lonely, mud house of Fatima. Shi&#8217;ites, who represent the oppressed, justice-seeking class in the Caliphate system, find in this house whatever and whoever they have been seeking:-</p>
<p><strong>Fatima:</strong><br />
the heir of the Prophet, the manifestation of the &#8220;rights of the oppressed&#8221; and, at the same time, the symbol of the first objection, a strong and clear embodiment of the &#8220;seeking of justice&#8221;. In the ruling system, these are the cries and slogans of subject nations and oppressed classes.</p>
<p><strong>Ali:</strong><br />
the manifestation of a justice which serves the oppressed, a sublime embodiment of the Truth who is sacrificed on the altar of inhuman regimes, and which lies hidden in the layers of the formal religion of the rulers.</p>
<p><strong>Hassan:</strong><br />
the manifestation of the last resistance of the garrison of &#8220;Imamate Islam&#8221;, who confronts the first garrison of &#8220;Islamic Rule&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Hussein:</strong><br />
bears witness to those who have been martyred by the oppressors throughout history, heir of all the leaders fighting for freedom and equality and the seekers of justice, from Adam to himself, forever the messenger of martyrdom, the manifestation of bloody revolution.</p>
<p><strong>Zeinab:</strong><br />
bears witness to all of the defenseless prisoners in the system of executioners, and is the messenger left after martyrdom, and the manifestation of the message of revolution.</p>
<p>Shi&#8217;ites take their slogans from the embodiment of the tribulations and hopes of the masses of the oppressed. Aware of the rulers, and in rebellion against them, they cry out:-</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Seek the leadership of Ali and flee from the leadership of cruelty. Choose Imamate, and stamp &#8216;cancelled,&#8217; &#8216;disbelief&#8217; and &#8216;dispossession&#8217; upon the forehead of the Caliphate.</em></p>
<p><em>Choose justice, and overthrow the system of paradox and discrimination in ownership.</em></p>
<p><em>Choose the principle of being ready to protest against the existing conditions, where the ruling government, religious leaders and aristocracy try to show that everything is in accordance with the Will of God, the Divine Law and the satisfaction of God and his creatures. Such things, to the ruling government, included their conquests, their plundering of mosques, associations, schools, gifts, trusts, and charities and the observance of religious ceremonies and practices.</em></p>
<p><em>Choose religious leadership for the central organization of the movement.</em></p>
<p><em>Choose the concept of imitation of your betters so as to properly organize your energies and bring order, discipline and direction.</em></p>
<p><em>Choose the viceregency of the Imam so as to have a responsible leader.</em></p>
<p><em>Give a share of the funds to provide for the socio-political struggle, for educational foundations and for teaching, in a system where all religious funds are forcibly collected by the government acting as a government of the Law.</em></p>
<p><em>Choose mourning, to continue the constant historical struggle of the Shi&#8217;ites against usurpers, treachery, cruelty, and the sources of fraud, lying and degeneration, and especially to keep alive the memories of the martyrs.</em></p>
<p>Remember Ashura, to humiliate the ruling group who call themselves the inheritors of the traditions of the Prophet, for the remembrance of it will prove that they are the inheritors of the killers and murderers of the Prophet&#8217;s family. It will show you a path of action, and provide an answer to the recurring question &#8220;What should be done?&#8221;. It will help you to decide on the best agenda for the struggle against the rule of tyranny. It will avoid allegiance to cruelty. It will provide a pattern for the unbroken continuity of history. It will declare an unending struggle between the inheritors of Adam and the inheritors of the devil. Ashura reminds us of the teaching of the eternal fact that the present version of Islam (in1972), is a criminal Islam in the dress of tradition, and that the real Islam is the hidden Islam, hidden in the red cloak of martyrdom.</p>
<p>And finally, concealment; creating a clever camouflage for the organization, and its activities, affiliations, leadership, personalities and plans, to protect the leadership, people and groups from being harrassed by the rulers of the day and from the hard-heartedness of the religious organisation associated with them, who might either slander the Shi&#8217;ite movement through excommunication and rouse the ignorant masses against them, or destroy it through persecutions, or weaken it through wholesale murders, imprisonment and deportations, and thus to create the best conditions for the struggle and its continuation; to practice, carefully, the principle of secrecy, and maintain the distinctive conditions of an underground movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>We can see that for over eight centuries (until the Safavid era), Alavite Shi&#8217;ism was more than just a revolutionary movement in history which opposed all the autocratic and class-conscious regimes of the Omayyid and Abbasid caliphates and the kingships of the Ghaznavids, the Seljuks, the Mongols, the Timurids and the two Khanids, who had made the government version of the Sunni School their official religion, and it waged a secret struggle of ideas and action. Like a revolutionary party, Shi&#8217;ism had a well-organized, informed, deep-rooted and well-defined ideology, with clear-cut and definite slogans and a disciplined and well-groomed organization. It led the deprived and oppressed masses in their movements for freedom and for seeking justice. It is considered to have been the rallying-point for the demands, distress, and rebellions of the intellectuals seeking to gain their rights, and for the masses in search of justice.</p>
<p>Because of this, throughout history, as the power of the rulers grew, the difficulties, injustice, dispossessions, and the denial of the rights of the people, and the exploitation of the farmers, increased. Inequality became more pronounced because of the system of aristocracy, class-inequalities, brain-washing, ideological prejudices, the connection between the theologians and the temporal rulers, the poverty and privation of the masses, and the power and wealth of the rulers. When this occurred, the Shi&#8217;ite front became stronger, the basic slogans of the movement more powerful, and the struggle of the Shi&#8217;ites more intense and more important. It changed from a School of thought, a way of study and religious sectarianism reserved for the intellectuals and the chosen few, to a way of correctly understanding Islam and the culture of the people of the house of the Prophet, when confronted by Greek philosophy and oriental Sufism, to a deep-rooted and revolutionary, socio-political movement of the masses, especially the rural masses. It caused greater fear among the autocratic rulers and the hypocritical religious bodies who rule the people in the name of the Sunni sect.</p>
<p>It is for this reason that the pseudo-intellectual and free-thinking rulers, at whose courts the Jews, Christians, Magians and even the materialists enjoy freedom, honor and influence, talk of the Shi&#8217;ites with such anger and vexation that a massacre of all of them would not quench the thirst of these rulers. They flay them alive, pass iron rods through their eyes, pull out their tongues and burn them alive. These are all current practices of the day. It reaches the point that the historians, theologians and even philosophers and men of piety of the court considered it to be part of their prayers to invent any false accusations, forgeries and falsified records that they could against the Shi&#8217;ites! It is in such circumstances that Sultan Mahmoud of Ghazni declares &#8220;I search the world over for a Shi&#8217;ite&#8221;. It is his government which sponsors the Sunni theological decree that marriage of a Moslem man with &#8220;people of the Book&#8221; i.e. Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians, is legal, but it is illegal to marry a Shi&#8217;ite woman.</p>
<p>With the coming to power of the Seljuks, prejudices and bias become stronger against the world of thought and religion. From the social point of view, the feudal and guardianship system accentuates the degree of the exploitation of the masses, expecially the farmers, to an unbearable degree. In order to maintain the policies of the state, floggings and torture are necessary, resulting in the construction of many piles of skulls and eyes.</p>
<p>The religious body of the Sunni sect, which had from the beginning become &#8216;the government&#8217;s Islam&#8217;, becomes a conglomeration of the most debased and prejudiced beliefs and harsh rules. It turns into a tool for the justification of the inhuman ways of the rulers. It compromises with the autocratic regimes of the Ghaznavid and Seljuk Turks and the Mongols. It becomes an opiate for the masses, and an instrument for murder to be used to prevent any thought or action that jeopardizes the interests of the strong and harms the landlords and feudal chiefs.</p>
<p>This is what causes Shi&#8217;ism, during this period, to appear as the fountainhead of the rebellion and the struggle of the downtrodden and oppressed masses, especially the rural people. It flourished wonderfully, in multiple facets, and in different directions, moderate or extreme, in the form of various movements of the masses against the powers of the day; movements like the terrorism of Hasan Sabbah, the communal living of the Qaramateh, the extremist cultural and religious beliefs of the Ghalat, and the rebellion for free-thinking of some of the Sufi sects of the revolutionary and Shi&#8217;ite School of thought, against the harsh prejudices and the souless, petrifying censorship of the theological and legal system attached to the ruling group. Finally, the intellectual, moderate and rich School of the Imamate, as the greatest flow of thought and culture, rebels when confronted by the religion and culture of the government.</p>
<p>The rousing call and the possibilities for learning in this School of thought are based upon the twin principles of imamate and justice. It produces the revolutionary cries of A&#8217;shura and the aggressive mobilization of the masses against existing conditions. It invites people to await the hidden Imam who is in occultation. It raises the critical problems of the &#8217;signs of appearance&#8217; and the &#8216;end of time&#8217;. It keeps alive the hope of &#8216;redemption after martyrdom&#8217;. It promotes the idea of revenge and revolt, faith in the ultimate downfall of tyrants and the decrees of destiny against the ruling powers who dispense justice by the sword. It prepares all the oppressed and justice-seeking masses who are waiting to participate in the rebellion. In some towns like Kashan and Sabzevar, where the Shi&#8217;ites are strong, they saddle a white horse on Fridays, and all the people of the town, the protesting, disatisfied and expectant Shi&#8217;ites, follow the horse out of town, despite the opposition of the government and the ruling religion. They await redemption and freedom from tyranny, and the beginning of a rebellion. They discuss questions which cause fear among the ruling group.</p>
<p>During the first half of the eighth century, following the wholesale massacres of Ghengis Khan and Hulaku, when the rule of the Mongols had reduced the Iranian masses to submission, depression, humiliation and weakness; when the revenge of Ghengis Khan was law; when the sword and the hangman were enforcers of the law; when the Mongol Khans and nomads and the officers and chiefs of Mongol tribes each ruled as a feudal lord over various regions and estates, and had enslaved the peasants in the most cruel manner; when, in the towns as well, the men of religion were mostly in the service of the Mongol rulers, they called upon the masses to submit in the name of &#8216;the true Sunni religion&#8217; to the pseudo-Moslem rulers who continued to be replicas of Ghengis Khan. They circumcised themselves only to please the religious sentiments of the Moslems, at the cost of the spread of the culture, faith, morality, society and of the very existence of the Moslems!</p>
<p>Some of the religious men, whose piety made them abstain from co-operating with the rulers and tyrants, had crept into the oblivion of piety in the monasteries of the Sufis, thereby indirectly becoming the means by which the path is paved for oppression and the ground is prepared for murder. They had left the people defenseless against the floggings of the Mongol executioners and robbers, and the fraudulent men of religion.</p>
<p>It is under these circumstances that a religious preacher sets out in search of the truth in the way that Salman did. Salman approaches all those with claims to religious faith. First he approaches the pious Balu to seek the path of salvation in his School of piety and freedom. There, he sees piety remaining silent against tyranny. What a shame! What heartlessness and selfishness, that a man should be surrounded by the screams of prisoners, the shouts of executioners, the poverty of the hungry, the whips of the cruel over the bodies of the helpless, and, instead of volunteering to defend them, that he should simply seek his own redemption and try to gain paradise for himself! Salman flees from this man in disgust and goes to Semnan to see Rukneddin Emad-od-Dowleh, whose piety and leadership in Sufi practices is well-known. He finds Sufi practices also, like piety, a means of escape from reality and responsibilities, turning away from the fate of the masses, and ignoring cruelty and tyranny. Salman finds the Sufi to have a tender heart, tender feelings and a sublime soul. But, how is it that the rivers of blood shed by the Mongols in this country, and that the decline threatening Islam and the masses of the people, do not in any way disturb the peace of his soul and the tenderness of his heart? Salman flees from him in hatred, and goes to the Sheikh ol-Islam, Imam Ghiasuddin Habibollah Hamavi in Bahrabad, to gain knowledge of the religious laws and the theology of the true Sunni sects from him, and to find his way back to the original spring of truth. Here, he sees a theology that discovers and discusses a thousand problems in bathroom etiquette, but has a total lack of any awareness of the evil destiny facing the nation.</p>
<p>Disgusted with all these robes of piety, and satisfied that these religious teachings are all the weavers of the clothes of piety to be worn on a body of oppression, then with a heart filled with hatred towards the cruel Mongol rulers, and reeling with pain because of the evil destiny of the Moslem masses, as a Moslem responsible for the people and knowledgeable about the times, and as a protestor against the existing system, having lost all faith in the sellers of religion, Sheikh Khalifeh chose the Islam of Ali, the School of protest and martyrdom.</p>
<p>In the dress of a simple darvish, he goes to Sabzevar as a lonely stranger, takes up residence in the great mosque of the town, and begins preaching there. This marks the beginning of the Sarbedaran liberation movement. He is a preacher who is in revolt against everything that teaches people to bow to ignorance and oppression, a revolt backed by a faith, a School of thought and a &#8220;Red&#8221; history: Shi&#8217;ism. Slowly, the deprived masses begin to understand, to find their way, and as a result, to become a threatening force. The official pseudo-clergy start their usual game of spreading rumors and then issuing religious decrees, and at last, calling for authorised murder, saying:-</p>
<p><em>&#8220;This Sheikh discusses worldly affairs in the mosque&#8221;,<br />
&#8220;This Sheikh conjectures in the mosque and defiles the house of God&#8221;, and  &#8220;This Sheikh confuses the religion of the people&#8221;.</em></p>
<p>The pseudo-clergy try to turn the people against him, and prepare the ground for his downfall. They help the Mongol ruler to take his life. They write to the Mongol ruler saying that the Sheikh has strayed from the true Sunni Religion, and is not prepared to repent and retract in spite of their best efforts. They say he is propagating worldly ideas in the mosque, and spreading the work of the protesters (Shi&#8217;ites)! They continue &#8220;His behaviour calls for the death penalty, and it is up to Sultan Saied to rid the religion of this pestilence&#8221;. The spreading of rumors and the rousing of people against him increases but the Sheikh&#8217;s call to understanding, faith and salvation, continues to attract the hearts of the deprived and suffering rural masses more and more to him. Until early one morning, when his admirers go as usual to see him, they see his dead body in the mosque.</p>
<p>After the Sheikh&#8217;s assassination, his disciple Sheikh Hasan Juri continues his work. He gives an immediate call to arms, organizes his disciples and goes underground. He starts roaming the towns and sowing the seeds of understanding and revolt wherever he goes, on the basis of Shi&#8217;ism. The minds of the people are prepared. The hearts of the enslaved masses are throbbing for revolt under the curtain of secrecy. One spark will be sufficient&#8230;</p>
<p>A nephew of the ruler enters the village of Baashteen, a village about thirty-six kilometers south of Sabzevar, as he normally does. With his followers, he enters the house of Abdul Razzaq, one of the pious and honourable villagers who is still reeling under the devastating influence of the religious propaganda of the ruler. The retinue asks the villagers for food, and are duly served. Then they ask for wine! For the villagers, who are Moslems and Shi&#8217;ites, who have been deeply influenced by the words of Sheikh Khalifeh, the bringing of wine for such rascals, and that, too, under compulsion, is too much. However, they serve it! The guests become intoxicated! They ask for women! This was the beginning of the explosion, very simple and rapid! The host goes to the people and calling the Shi&#8217;ite masses, exclaims that the Mongol ruler is asking for their women. What is their reply? They say &#8220;We are prepared to die rather than be so defiled! Our women for the enemy shall be our swords&#8221;. The result is inevitable. The masses have made up their minds. They kill the whole group at one attempt. As they know that there is no turning back, as they know that they have already chosen death, they stop wavering. The choice of death gives them such energy that their single village revolts against that bloodthirsty regime and is successful. The villagers overrun the town, fighting against the Mongol army and the decrees of the pseudo-clergy of the religion of the state. They are victorious. Their cry: &#8220;Salvation and Justice!&#8221; and &#8220;The destruction of the power of the ruling Mongols and the influence of the priests of the religion of the rulers and the big landowners of the ruling class&#8221;. The victims of the ignorance of the pseudo-clergy and the prisoners of the oppression of the Mongols continue joining the ranks of the rebels. Sabzevar becomes a center of power; like a fire that spreads through dry brush, the Shi&#8217;ite revolutionary guards, who enjoy the backing of the rural warriors and champions of the masses, and have the ideology of Sheikh Khalifeh and Sheikh Hasan and similar kinds of well-informed, righteous and missionary men of learning, engulf the whole of Khorasan and northern Iran and even inflame the south of the country. And for the first time, a revolutionary movement based on Alavite Shi&#8217;ism, against foreign domination, internal deceit, the power of the feudal lords and wealthy capitalists, had an armed uprising, led by peasants seven hundred years ago, under the banner of justice and the culture of martyrdom, for the salvation of the enslaved nation and the deprived masses.</p>
<p>And this is the last revolutionary wave of Alavite Shi&#8217;ism, Red Shi&#8217;ism, which continued for seven hundred years to be the flame of the spirit of revolution, the search for freedom, and justice, always inclining towards the common people and fighting relentlessly against oppression, ignorance and poverty.</p>
<p>A century later came the Safavids, and Shi&#8217;ism left the great mosque of the common people to become a next-door neighbor to the Palace of &#8216;Ali Qapu in the Royal Mosque.</p>
<p>Red Shi&#8217;ism changes to Black Shi&#8217;ism!</p>
<p>The Religion of Martyrdom changes to The Religion of Mourning.</p>
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		<title>Dismantling the logic of Judeo-Obsessives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s common knowledge that the internet (with its anonymous nature) is filled with people who are obsessed with Jews and endlessly abuse those who promote opposing viewpoints.  Encountering such people, I have always found them illogical and debated them.  I have withstood the most blatant abuse from peers over my refusal to allow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s common knowledge that the internet (with its anonymous nature) is filled with people who are obsessed with Jews and endlessly abuse those who promote opposing viewpoints.  Encountering such people, I have always found them illogical and debated them.  I have withstood the most blatant abuse from peers over my refusal to allow myself to be manipulated by the illogical and ridiculous behavior of anti-Semites.   Just look at arguewitheveryone forums, discuss anything forums or any website.  Jews are always a frequent topic.  I&#8217;m sick of the topic and I&#8217;m killing all the birds with one stone, making this my knock out blow and linking to it in my forum signature.</p>
<p><u>Racialist Anti-Semitism</u><br />
The basic logic behind the hardcore anti-Semite who operates under a racialist platform is that Jews are responsible for &#8220;white genocide&#8221; (mass immigration, liberalism, Third World and Black criminality) therefore Jews should be exterminated to save the white race.  Black nationalist anti-Semitism is a little more logical than white racialism, as it hates Jews as Whites.  But white nationalists are about the most retarded people I&#8217;ve ever seen on the internet.</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t even talk morally.  I&#8217;ll debunk this argument logically.</p>
<p>Jews do not control people&#8217;s minds.  For every Jew that supports the status quo, they do not force gentiles to follow along.  Jews are irrelevant without the support of Gentiles in a liberal Democratic system.  There is no dictatorship in America.  The responsibility to resist liberalism lies on the white gentile majority, not the Jews!  When Jews say &#8220;jump,&#8221; the rest of the society does not have to say &#8220;how high?&#8221;</p>
<p>Crazy people point out that Jews have promoted lies and falsehoods and think they have won the argument.  The fact that Jews are disproportionately involved in promoting programs that are formed in egalitarian obsession is forgivable if similar-minded crazy Jew haters have always existed as they always have.  Yes I’m advocating a double standard.  Historically, racial awareness has been perverted by anti-Semitic lunatics who are more interested in Jews than human biology.  Jewish anti-racists are more innocent than other anti-racists, because of the historical anti-Jewish nature of racialism.  It&#8217;s an unnecessary obsession that only rednecks advocate and can be corrected with a more refined version of racialism.  Also consider that other groups, such as Irish Catholics, have been very active in anti-racist ideological activism.</p>
<p>Some Jews may know they are lying, some may be naive, some may be scared, some may not even consider their Jewishness to be important, but it doesn&#8217;t matter.  Crazy people have always existed and focused on Jews, so Jewish behavior is forgivable.  The double standard is logical.  The Jews are not &#8220;advocating a genocide.&#8221;  All of America is complicit.  Most of these people do not even understand liberal capitalism!</p>
<p><u>Jews as non-Whites</u><br />
Note : I have to clarify that I&#8217;m referring to the majority of Jews for this argument.  There are of course individual Jews of every racial makeup imaginable.  But I&#8217;m talking about the majority of Jews.</p>
<p>There is the argument that Jews are non-Whites but only an ignorant redneck unschooled in the very definition of race would deny that Europeans, Jews and in fact many Middle Eastern and North African populations belong to the same race with Ashkenazi Jews usually clustering around Armenians, Georgians and Turks and ranging in phenotype.  Eurasia is a single continent!  These crazy people actually believe that because Jewish Caucasoids and European Caucasoids lived in different continents for part of history, they are no longer the same race!</p>
<p>The same Northern Middle Eastern basic &#8220;type&#8221; which formed the original European peoples is closely related to the Jews who later randomly mixed with Europeans in controlled quantities.  Phenotype internal to the Caucasoid race is more about sexual selection (with the climate playing a roll) than common ancestry.  Hence Jews look &#8220;different&#8221; in Northern and Southern Europe, even if they are linked by some ancestry.  Likewise, Gentile Mediterraneans in both Southern Europe and the Near East look similar because of the climate.  Blondism and blue eyes have existed since the birth of the Caucasoid race, but have only become more common in environments which encourage it.  As noted above, Some Jews who are genetically clearly Jewish look Northern European.</p>
<p>Typology is outdated and most reasonable people know that mutations in DNA often are unrelated to phenotype.  The Basques and Finns prove this, as while they frequently show greater genetic distance from Europe than Jews do (at least by Y Chromosome), Basques still look like Spaniards and Finns still look like Northern Europeans.  But Biblical Jews and Ashkenazi Jews are both clearly of the same race of Europeans, as are Berbers and a good amount of Arabs.  Jews can be &#8220;distinguished&#8221; from other nationalities.  But guess what, each nationality can also be distinguished as can individuals on a genetic level.  You can be distinguished from your mother and father.  It applies to other races too.  Chinese and Japanese can be distinguished.</p>
<p>Orthodox Jews may grow beards like Amish people and Arabs while wearing hats, but biologically, they are white.  Period.</p>
<p><u>Anti-Zionist Anti-semitism</u><br />
It&#8217;s funny to watch people jump on a moral high horse on the issue of Zionism while falsely pretending to be communists, atheists and racialists.  People claim to reject abstract morality then oppose Zionism on humanitarian grounds!  What a joke!  I hope the Zionists expose the barbaric nature of Sharia law so that something can be done to rectify it!</p>
<p>&#8220;Material conditions&#8221; cause you to oppose Zionism.  Bullshit, Islam is a feudal religion.</p>
<p><u>Christian and Muslim Anti-Semitism</u><br />
Jews have contributed to the world theologically.  Now I&#8217;m an atheist but I respect the winner.  A group of people who invented an Abrahamic religion (Judeo-Christian-Islam) that has taken the world by storm deserve credit.  The religion may be flawed, but it&#8217;s ideas have shaped the world.  Now Anton Lavey, another ethnic Jew, is coming to destroy the Abrahamic religion that has outlived its usefulness.  Christian and Islamic &#8220;anti-Semites&#8221; are plagiarists who stole their religion from Jews.  Enough said.</p>
<p><u>Marxism</u><br />
Marxist anti-Semitism is retarded.  Even though Trotsky may have been treasonous, Marx (an ethnic Jew) provided the original foundation for Communism and Jews in massive numbers supported the revolution.  The redneck crowd may say that this justifies a right wing Anti-Semitism, but it does not.  However evil Lenin may have been (the only Communist leader with any Jewish ancestry, 1/4), the Tzars were more evil.  However crazy Communism is, liberal Democracy is more crazy.  Only third position authoritarianism can correct.</p>
<p><u>Atheistic Anti-Semitism</u><br />
Jews may have founded the Abrahamic religion, but the most crazy and fanatical adherents are rarely Jews and Judaism by nature does not seek to impose itself on others by killing those who won&#8217;t support it.  Jews are not a threat to atheists, and many people born Jewish become atheists.  The same cannot be said about Islam.  The Jewish contributions to the sciences is obvious.</p>
<p>I have dismantled basically every argument in this post.  I&#8217;ve killed many birds with one stone and will link to this article permanently.</p>
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		<title>Blame Abrahamic Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophies like Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the extent they are against the materialistic conclusions of both racialism and Marxism.  While racialists and Marxists have elements of their thought process grounded in materialism, nationalism recognizes the nature of reality and uses it to strive for ideals.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Philosophies like Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the extent they are against the materialistic conclusions of both racialism and Marxism.  While racialists and Marxists have elements of their thought process grounded in materialism, nationalism recognizes the nature of reality and uses it to strive for ideals.</p>
<p>There is a difference between Torah “Zionism” and supporting Jewish self-determination under the philosophy of secular nationalism.  A Torah Zionist can be an ally to the extent they reconcile their views, but secularists are more likely to ally.  Perhaps Jews and Arabs (many of which are racially Caucasoid, but that&#8217;s not the point) could even work together in the name of a Third Positionist ideology that focused less on religion.</p>
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		<title>Ethnic indo-European Iranians consider Islam Alien</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The link (using a proxy)
Without knowing what you are doing, you can&#8217;t see this post if you are from America because Stirpes hates Americans.  They are European nationalists.  So I&#8217;m linking through a proxy.
This is interesting.  And it&#8217;s not uncommon.  I talk to an Iranian all the time and he hates [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://forum.stirpes.net/185440-post23.html"><u>The link (using a proxy)</u></a></p>
<p>Without knowing what you are doing, you can&#8217;t see this post if you are from America because Stirpes hates Americans.  They are European nationalists.  So I&#8217;m linking through a proxy.</p>
<p>This is interesting.  And it&#8217;s not uncommon.  I talk to an Iranian all the time and he hates Arabs.</p>
<p>By the way, I&#8217;m not some crazy &#8220;white nationalist&#8221; who thinks Middle Easterners (both Arabs and Iranians) are all &#8220;non-Whites.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here is the post.</p>
<blockquote><p>Yeah Spain had something beautiful called the inquisition</p>
<p>They literally cleaned out their nation out of Arabids since your so insisting on claiming J (Y-DNA) is a European gene. You will have no problem taking the refugees from our own inquistion</p>
<p>We have 36% J (Y-DNA) who feel Islam and only Arabid leaders of the lineage of their Bedouin cheif can rule Iran!</p>
<p>J (y-DNA) 99% of the time is Semitic, only one or two subclades of J2 are farmers who went to greece and spread all over Europe, some of you own J are Sephardi &#038; Lucera Muslism converts &#038; Roman Slaves&#8230;etc</p>
<p>Your Arabid population is assimilated ours is not they are occupying us, I have nothing to do with Islam or their Arabid culture or any single Arabic word, yet the whole world insists on imposing that image on us.</p>
<p>The Caspain region is our Kingdom of Asturias &#038; we will reconquer our lands if you are a true European you will side with your R1a &#038; R1b kinsmen &#038; don&#8217;t try to play down Arabid J (Y-DNA) as Europeans, usually jews do that to make it easy for them to mix Europe, they even call Arab people White in the USA!&#8230;. :-O</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Lack of religion correlated to higher IQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is obvious and every intelligent person knows this.  Study after study proves it.  But here is a good study again showing a correlation between intelligence and rejection of religion for science.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is obvious and every intelligent person knows this.  Study after study proves it.  But here is a good study again showing a correlation between intelligence and rejection of religion for science.<br />
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		<title>On Cultural Relativism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cultural relativism essentially says “to each his own.”  One culture cannot be compared to another and be declared superior or inferior.  Certain aspects of culture are relative – like language.  But other aspects are not relative like religion, law and attitude.  Cultural relativists need to be locked in a room with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cultural relativism essentially says “to each his own.”  One culture cannot be compared to another and be declared superior or inferior.  Certain aspects of culture are relative – like language.  But other aspects are not relative like religion, law and attitude.  Cultural relativists need to be locked in a room with a bunch of third worlders in prison and hope they don&#8217;t drop the soap.  You may attack this post as &#8220;low brow&#8221; but the prophets were low brow too so piss on your Bible and Koran first.  On a brow level, relatively, this post is on that level.</p>
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		<title>Pagad &#8211; The Gangster&#8217;s Enemy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Film about the Muslim anti-gangster group Pagad (People Against Gangsterism and Drugs) in Western Cape, South Africa. 
Pagad &#8211; The Gangster&#8217;s Enemy (on YouTube)
From Pagad (online):
In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Mindful of our duty to the Creator as a Community, and in conformity with:
 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Film about the Muslim anti-gangster group Pagad (People Against Gangsterism and Drugs) in Western Cape, South Africa. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8y61tnfj50">Pagad &#8211; The Gangster&#8217;s Enemy (on YouTube)</a></p>
<p>From Pagad (online):</p>
<p align="center"><em>In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful</em></p>
<p align="center"><em>Mindful of our duty to the Creator as a Community, and in conformity with:</em></p>
<p align="center"><em> </em></p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>“You are the best of people evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right,</em></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>forbidding what is wrong and believing in the Creator…”</em></strong></p>
<p align="center"><em>~ <strong>Al Quran</strong>: Surah 3 Verse 110</em></p>
<p align="center"><em> </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>Therefore, all those persons who surrender themselves to the will of God are welded into a Community and the Society comes into being. Thus, this is an ideological Society; a Society radically different from those, which arise from accidents or races, colour or country. This Society is the result of a deliberate choice, commitment, effort and sacrifice.</em></p>
<p align="center"><em> </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>Accordingly, it is the outcome of a contract, which takes place between human beings and their Creator.  Those who enter into this contract undertake to recognise and accept God as their Sovereign; His Guidance as Supreme; and His Injunctions as absolute Law. They further undertake to accept, without question, reservation or doubt, His classification of good and bad, right and wrong, the permissible and the prohibited.</em></p>
<p align="center"><em> </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>In recognition and acceptance hereof, we hereby pledge to honour our Contract with Our Creator&#8230;</em></p>
<p align="center"><em> </em></p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>Gangsterism and Drugs are menaces and should be eradicated! </em></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>We all CAN &amp; MUST do something about it!</em></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><em> </em></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>Let’s organise ourselves and protect our children from the dangers they face every day! </em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Join other neighbours and establish a PAGAD Branch in your area.</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong>Background Information (from www.sahistory.org):<br />
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<p>People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) came into being in 1996 when communities on the Cape Flats, Cape Town decided to form an anti-crime organisation. The aim was to fight the drugs and violence plaguing their area. PAGAD began as a multi-religious organisation, but because its dominant membership was of Muslim people, it became an Islamic front. Later, PAGAD developed anti-government and Western sentiments, as</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="PAGAD" src="http://www.worldstatesmen.org/PAGAD_logo.gif" alt="" width="300" height="154" /></p>
<p>the organisation believes that the South African government poses a threat to Islamic values. It also aims to create better political representation for South African Muslims.</p>
<p>Due to its controversial vigilante tactics, the organisation has several front names like Muslims Against Global Oppression (MAGO) and Muslims Against Illegitimate Leaders (MAIL) under which it launches anti-</p>
<p>Western campaigns. PAGAD&#8217;s military wing is called G-Force, for Gun Force, and functions as small groups or cells. It is believed that G-Force has been responsible for acts of sabotage and violence akin to terrorism.</p>
<p>PAGAD has been implicated in episodes of urban terrorism in Cape Town since 1998, especially 9 different explosions in 2000. The groups attacks synagogues, gay nightclubs, moderate Muslims, tourist attractions and restaurants with Western associations, like the Planet Hollywood bombing in Cape Town on 25 August 1998. PAGAD denied any involvement in the event after subsequent raids on several members&#8217; homes within 20 minutes of the explosion.</p>
<p>The organisation first came into the spotlight in 1996 when members shot and set alight Rashad Staggie, a notorious Cape Flats drug dealer. PAGAD felt that the police were not doing enough to stop drug related crimes in their communities and decided to take matters into their own hands.</p>
<p>Shots were fired at a group of Muslim men who converged on the Staggie residence and some of the vigilantes were wounded. Staggie tried to escape by car, but was prevented from doing so. He was shot and someone threw a firebomb at him and he burst into flames. Police officers doused the fire, but several masked men fired further shots and finally killed Staggie in a widely televised drama. Benny Gool, a photographer at the scene, captured the killing on film and had to go into hiding for fear of attacks from PAGAD. He was also not prepared to turn his footage over to the police. Rashied Staggie, the brother of the executed drug dealer, fled to a safer location, but swore revenge at his brother&#8217;s funeral.</p>
<p>It is estimated that PAGAD has several hundred members with G-Force probably consisting of less than 50 people. There are allegations that it has relationships with Middle Eastern fundamentalist groups, as well as with Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>In 1998 the South African Police launched Operation Saladin, a campaign to curb the rampant vigilantism PAGAD was practicing. Two policemen laid charges of intimidation after they allegedly received death threats as a result of the operation.</p>
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		<title>War in Iraq vs War in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The war in Iraq is a war for oil.  The nature of the conflict is indeed that of a profit motive.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The war in Iraq is a war for oil.  The nature of the conflict is indeed that of a profit motive.</p>
<p>The war in Afghanistan is completely different.  Bush didn&#8217;t plan on invading.  9/11 happened and put him on the spot.  I don&#8217;t take people seriously who argue that 9/11 was an inside job and will just laugh at them if they comment.</p>
<p>The war in Afghanistan is a war against Islam, but it is corrupted by the profit motive.  But the war does not have an original class nature.  Bush didn&#8217;t plan on invading Afghanistan before 9/11.  The original nature of the war was to destroy Sharia law and destroy Al-Qaeda</p>
<p>It is the profit motive that corrupts the American military into democratization, but the original motive was indeed an anti-Jihad motive.</p>
<p>I still oppose the Afghanistan war at least as it is being fought under the current conditions, but it is different.  I do not think the war in Afghanistan is as ethically flawed as the war in Iraq.</p>
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		<title>What the Judeo-Obessives don&#8217;t understand!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny Gulag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think what the Judeo-Obessives don&#8217;t understand is that Jews are Yesterday&#8217;s issue.  Yes, during the days of Leon Trotsky, everyone (including other Communists and Democratic regimes) hated Jews.  Only Hitler murdered them all, but everyone hated them.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think what the Judeo-Obessives don&#8217;t understand is that Jews are Yesterday&#8217;s issue.  Yes, during the days of Leon Trotsky, everyone (including other Communists and Democratic regimes) hated Jews.  Only Hitler murdered them all, but everyone hated them.</p>
<p>During WWII, the hatred aimed at Jews shifted to Germans.  Everyone hated Germans.  Americans put Germans in concentration camps.  Mussolini tried everything he could not to ally with Hitler.  Poles and Soviets mass expelled Germans after WWII, leading to millions of deaths.</p>
<p>Now, everyone hates Muslims.   And the secular Arab Nationalists hate the extreme Muslims.</p>
<p>Jews are Yesterday&#8217;s issue.  Germans are too.  Muslims are today&#8217;s issue!  Any nationalist who can&#8217;t see that is an idiot or a subversive.</p>
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		<title>Video: The Islamic Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Guy White Commemorates Darwin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Link
The type of person who can be programmed by religion is the type of person who can be programmed into race denial.  The type of person who can reject religion is the type of person who can reject race denial.  While it is true that there are Christian racialists like Lawrence Auster, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://guywhite.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/150-anniversary-of-darwins-origin-of-species/"><u>The Link</u></a><br />
The type of person who can be programmed by religion is the type of person who can be programmed into race denial.  The type of person who can reject religion is the type of person who can reject race denial.  While it is true that there are Christian racialists like <a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/#014962"><u>Lawrence Auster</u></a>, I believe they focus more on the identity aspect of race and less on the genetic aspect.  Though their writings are still beneficial.</p>
<p>The spectrum of people who support Darwin is broad.  Liberals do, to a point.  As crazy as he was, Hitler did.  Communists originally did.  Engels compared Marx to Darwin and spoke with praise.  Most scientists do.  I would objectively say that the political viewpoints which question creationism are more widespread than those which accept it.</p>
<p>Hail Darwin!</p>
<blockquote>
<blockquote><p>it’s the 150th anniversary of darwin’s origin of species theory, and this nytimes.com link proposes fresh controversy attached to it, it’d make a nice thread topic; specifically: could the arguments advanced in the below article link be used to say that humans could adapt and counter the effects of everything from the ‘inescapable truths’ of HBD to the effects of global warming, etc.</p>
<p>   <a href-"http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/an-evolve-by-date/?hp"><u>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/an-evolve-by-date/?hp</u></a></p></blockquote>
<p>One hundred and fifty years, and liberals still only pay lip service to evolution, refusing to believe that evolution means that beings evolve differently.</p>
<p>The Left always mocks the Religious Right for not believing in evolution. (Actually, they mock all of us because in their mind, everyone on the right shares every bad quality any right-wing movement may have.) But do they believe in evolution?</p>
<p>At its core, evolution means adjustment to your environment through genetics. Polar bears are white and brown bears are dark for a reason. There was no chance that they would be pink or purple. That’s evolution.</p>
<p>And the more important a trait to survival, the more important it is to evolve it properly. If it were just some irrelevant traits, then evolution itself would be irrelevant.</p>
<p>It is precisely because evolutionary adjustments go to the core of our being that evolution is important.</p>
<p>Racialism and race realism is belief in evolution. All else is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism"><u>denial of basic science</u></a>.
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		<title>Philosemitism is not Cowardice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being friendly with Jews does not mean being owned, controlled or dictated to by organized Jewry.  The anti-Semitic approach is to attack Jews on account of their Jewish identity.  One can remain assertive while still morally supporting Jews.  I am tired of anti-Semites arguing that anyone who doesn&#8217;t accept their viewpoints is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being friendly with Jews does not mean being owned, controlled or dictated to by organized Jewry.  The anti-Semitic approach is to attack Jews on account of their Jewish identity.  One can remain assertive while still morally supporting Jews.  I am tired of anti-Semites arguing that anyone who doesn&#8217;t accept their viewpoints is a coward.  Anti-Semites say this to manipulate Philosemites into attacking Jewishness instead of debating Jews.</p>
<p>It is not an anti-Semitic position to say &#8220;hey Abe Foxman.  Your views are way too far to the left and you need to shift them to the right.  You need to stop trying to make money by convincing Jews to fear Christian Europeans and come to terms with racial reality.  Your views are wrong and you should change them.&#8221;  To make such a statement is not anti-Semitic and right wing Jews would line up behind you in agreement.</p>
<p>The anti-Semitic approach is to attack Jews on account of their Jewish identity.  To say &#8220;hey Abe, at the minimum no Jew should live in my country and preferably no Jew should live at all.  Your tribe created the holocaust in your imagination but deserve a new one.&#8221;</p>
<p>Philosemites are not &#8220;controlled by the Jews.&#8221;  They seek alliances with decent human beings.</p>
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		<title>Iranian people are still uppity &#8211; yet still Theocratic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Metal Gear</dc:creator>
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Death to the dictator
Don&#8217;t be afraid! Don&#8217;t be afraid!
We are all together.
This is the price for freedom
You fight people on the streets, but you are constantly losing your dignity in people&#8217;s minds.
The problem with these protests is this:
Allah akbar
It would be pathetic if Iranians actually did overthrow their own government, and have a chance [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-iran-protests8-2009dec08,0,7136715.story"><u>The link</u></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Death to the dictator</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t be afraid! Don&#8217;t be afraid!</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>We are all together.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>This is the price for freedom</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>You fight people on the streets, but you are constantly losing your dignity in people&#8217;s minds.</p></blockquote>
<p>The problem with these protests is this:</p>
<blockquote><p>Allah akbar</p></blockquote>
<p>It would be pathetic if Iranians actually did overthrow their own government, and have a chance to remove Theocracy but fail to do so under the logic that changing the regime is enough.</p>
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