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 In
the Name of Allah, Most
Gracious, Most Merciful
"If one of
you had a stream running at his door and bathed in it five
times every day,
do you think any dirt would be left on him?" His companions
answered: "No
dirt at all would be left." To which the Prophet replied: "That
is what the
five (daily) prayers are like, with which God washes away your
sins."
You give not to the creator
What to him alone is due
Why then are you surprised
You get not what you love
Why dont you ponder
If the creator is not special
Who then are you, a mere creation
www.jamiat.org.za/isinfo/sixfasts.html
The second tactic used to get consensus for war in 1991 was
another propaganda classic: dead babies. Then, the daughter
of the Kuwaiti ambassador in Washington, Nijirah al-Sabah,
tearfully described how, as a volunteer in the Al Adnan
hospital in Kuwait City, she had watched Iraqi soldiers
looting
incubators to take back to Baghdad, pitching the Kuwaiti
babies on to "the cold floor to die".
Except it never happened. The Filipina nurses, Frieda
Construe-Nag and Myra Ancog Cooke, who worked in the
maternity ward of the Al Adnan hospital, had never seen Ms
al-Sabah in their lives. Amnesty admitted they had been
duped. Middle East Watch confirmed the fabrication.
In 1994, the US and North Korea reached the
brink of war when it was discovered that North Korea was
developing nuclear weapons. The crisis was averted by the
Agreed Framework negotiated by the Clinton administration,
which had North Korea promise to stop developing nuclear
weapons in exchange for two nuclear reactors, fuel oil aid,
and improved relations.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2002/12/11/186775
In the worst case, a war with Iraq could cost the United
States almost as much as the government spent in the last
budget year -- nearly $2 trillion, according to new
projections in a major report just released from the
Committee on International Security Studies of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Israeli soldiers on Monday killed another
Palestinian mother in downtown Nablus, the second in less
than 24 hours.
Hospital sources said 25-year-old Rehana Hesham Alkilani, was
killed and her husband, Jalal Alarda, and mother-in-law,
Khadija Alarda were seriously injured with shrapnel in the
head and hand when Israeli soldiers manning an armored
personnel carriers opened fire on a taxi cab in the heart of
Nablus.
A prominent national Islamic civil rights
and advocacy group today criticized as "tasteless and
insensitive" a
television commercial promoting professional wrestling that
shows "Jesus"
gambling with the devil in a sports bar.
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