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The pen is mightier than the sword... (and the totalitarian government and its propagandizing media outlets)...
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rabbis would disagree with you.
Quite a divided forum today.
My view is that bad interpretations of religion have plagued and continue to plague the world both from a Christian, Muslim and Judaic point of view.
However, men of faith regardless of their religion are never hindered by their religion in forming friendships and finding peace.
My god izz pizza. All bow to the mighty pie. What, your pie is pepperoni? I swear by the veggie superm-o with pineapples. BLASPHEMY. DIE, SINNER!
mmmmmmmmmmmm.......pie
A ship has ""berth" A ship has a crew. The crew maintains a log.
I don't mean to demean anyone. I dream about being on top of the hill. BITCHEZ
I dream of being on top of a hill with a 16" main gun turret from the Iowa class Battleships. I would have a good position for raining down huge shells on Goldman Sacks and The Morgue. Rotate the turret to the North and their homes in Connecticut are still in range
Talent
The pen is mighter than the sword.
The word shall be your sword.
or in this case a picture may be death by a thousand cuts,
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/economist/1678-7.jpg http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/economist/1678-7.jpg
here is summing up last decade in Iraq:
Half-Million Iraqis Died in the War, New Study Sayshttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131015-iraq-war-deaths-s...
(add the rest of the 'liberated' or in the process of 'peaceful liberation' middle east and african countries yourselves...)
the score so far: France 16 - Iraq 500,000+ (dead)
guess who is the real terrorist
.....but any discussion of radical judaism, i.e., zionism, will get your meal chit cancelled.
circular logic. the pen is mightier than the sword because the pen brings the mightier sword.
words can encourage wisdom but they foment violence. the violence is equal opportunity. it can be good violence(and who's good violence is it?) or it can be bad violence(comme si, comme ca, c'est vrai, nes't pas?) but it is violence.
the usa .gov told you they are the dreamers of dreams, they are the creators of reality. you are their creations.
pick up a pen. pick up a sword. pick up your fn pants!
what if it is one of those new sword-pens?
Not so sure about false flag thing, this is a very easy thing to do and there are a lot of murderous arabs and blacks in europe who own a ak-47.
However I agree that some of the mobile phone recordings look pretty suspicious and that they are being removed even worse. Wasnt the west mocking China for its censurship?
Also its very strange how they suddenly picked up the name of 3 "terrorists", while one was confirmed wrong pretty soon. Sure there is tec to do that, but how could they then manage to escape for 3 days when their names where exposed just shortly after the incident? And where did they get the wrong guys name from?
100% openness would clear all doubts, so why dont they?
The love affair with Islam and the Middle East which gave rise to the political correctness mentioned in the cartoon is in no small way the result of the simple fact that the world’s oil supply lies under the sands of the crescent moon. As those supplies deplete, Islamic importance will wane and with it will go political correctness.
Whether advertent or inadvertent, the mixing of Muslim oil and Christian water in Europe will bring about regional strife. That strife will result in ethnic cleansing. We are in the early stages of a movement that will expel Islam from Europe.
Like I have already pointed out : Frederick II wouldn't agree with you way back in 1230.
He should know what he was talking about as Holy Roman Emperor. He said : the Pope is a bigger asshole than any Moslem king defending his home-land from this sterile neo-con game we play called Crusade.
He won the VI th Crusade without shedding a drop of blood, by asking his Ayyubid counterpart, Al -Kamel, mathematical questions in an intellectual match. He was declared winner and Al Kamel allowed him as husband of Crusader Queen --thus Crusader state king in his own right-- to control Jerusalem for 8 years under his own sway. Jerusalem was open city!
He showed the world that tolerance can work. One third of Sicily during his age was of Moorish origin.
His successors lost it; that tolerant civilizaton disappeared under Frankish zeal, which was all mired in Clash of Civilization meme fed by the Pope; just like the Neo-cons of GWB USA age who used that Huntingtonian Bible to launch their post 9/11 Crusade.
All human evolution points to secular world replacing revelatory world dogma, inspite of current regression.
Both the US and modern France are based on that constitutional declaration.
Our current dystopia is just a passing phase.
All these posters who rant about pages of revelatory legend--non verifiable belief in a Superior being--don't understand that in OUR age, the only truth ---especially political-- has to be verifiable and factual.
That's basically what Enlightenment has left us as rational belief system.
I am totally agnostic in metaphysical terms and have no axe to grind with any religion, provided its stays a spiritual question about the mystery of after-life which is something between a human and his own chosen Superior being avatar.
For those who don't have a Koran for reference, here is the Index to the parts about dealing with non-muslims.
KORAN commands to kill infidels:
Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. - Sura 2:98
On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. - Sura 2:161
Slay them wherever ye find them and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. - 2:191
Fight against them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme. (different translation: ) Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is God's entirely. - Sura 2:193 and 8:39
Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it. - 2:216
(different translation: ) Prescribed for you is fighting, though it is hateful to you.
..... martyrs.... Enter heaven - Surah 3:140-43
If you should die or be killed in the cause of Allah, His mercy and forgiveness would surely be better than all they riches they amass. If you should die or be killed, before Him you shall all be gathered. - 3:157-8
You must not think that those who were slain in the cause of Allah are dead. They are alive, and well-provided for by their Lord. - Surah 3:169-71
Let those fight in the cause of God who sell the life of this world for the hereafter. To him who fights in the cause of God, whether he is slain or victorious, soon we shall give him a great reward. - Surah 4:74
Those who believe fight in the cause of God, and those who reject faith fight in the cause of evil. - 4:76
But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever you find them. - 4:89
Therefore, we stirred among them enmity and hatred, which shall endure till the Day of Resurrection, when Allah will declare to them all that they have done. - 5:14
O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Those of you who make them his friends is one of them. God does not guide an unjust people. - 5:54
Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme - 8:39
O Prophet! Exhort the believers to fight. If there are 20 steadfast men among you, they shall vanquish 200; and if there are a hundred, they shall rout a thousand unbelievers, for they are devoid of understanding. - 8:65
It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he has made slaughter in the land. - 8:67
Allah will humble the unbelievers. Allah and His apostle are free from obligations to idol-worshipers. Proclaim a woeful punishment to the unbelievers. - 9:2-3
When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. - 9:5
Believers! Know that idolators are unclean. - 9:28
Fight those who believe neither in God nor the Last Day, nor what has been forbidden by God and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are People of the Book, until they pay the tribute and have been humbled. - 9:29 (another source: ) The unbelievers are impure and their abode is hell. (another source: ) Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender and pay tribute.
Whether unarmed or well-equipped, march on and fight for the cause of Allah, with your wealth and your persons. - 9:41
O Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites. Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey's end. - 9:73
Allah has purchased of their faithful lives and worldly goods, and in return has promised them the Garden. They will fight for His cause, kill and be killed. - 9:111
Fight unbelievers who are near to you. 9:123 (different translation:
Believers! Make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Let them find harshness in you. (another source: ) Ye who believe! Murder those of the disbelievers....
As for those who are slain in the cause of Allah, He will not allow their works to perish. He will vouchsafe them guidance and ennoble their state; He will admit them to the Paradise He has made known to them. - 10:4-15
Allah has cursed the unbelievers and proposed for them a blazing hell. - 33:60
Unbelievers are enemies of Allah and they will roast in hell. - 41:14
When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds, then set them free, either by grace or ransom, until the war lays down its burdens. - 47:4
(different translation: ) When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield, strike off their heads, and when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly.
Those who are slain in the way of Allah - he will never let their deeds be lost. Soon will he guide them and improve their condition, and admit them to the Garden, which he has announced for them. - 47:5
Muslims are harsh against the unbelievers, merciful to one another. - 48:25
Muhammad is Allah's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another. Through them, Allah seeks to enrage the unbelievers. - 48:29
Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal sternly with them. Hell shall be their home, evil their fate. - 66:9
The unbelievers among the People of the Book and the pagans shall burn forever in the fire of hell. They are the vilest of all creatures. - 98:51
Fight them so that Allah may punish them at your hands, and put them to shame. (verse cited in Newsweek 2/11/02)
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KORAN promises of houris in heaven:
Single-minded slaves of Allah... will be honored in the Gardens of delight, on couches facing one another; A cup from a gushing spring is brought round for them, white, delicious to the drinkers, wherein there is no headache nor are they made mad thereby. And with them are those of modest gaze, with lovely eyes, pure as they were hidden eggs. - Surah 37:40-49
Lo, for those who ward off evil is a happy journey's end, Gardens of Eden, whereof the gates are opened for the, wherein, reclining, they call for plenteous fruit and cool drink therein. And with them are those of modest gaze, companions. This it is that ye are promised for the Day of Reckoning. - 38:50-54
Lo! Those who kept their duty will be in a place secure, amid gardens and water-springs, attired in silk and silk embroidery, facing one another.... And we shall wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes. They call therein for every fruit in safety. They taste not death therein, save the first death. And He hath saved them from the doom of hell, a bounty from thy Lord. That is the supreme triumph. - 44:51-57
Lo! Those who kept their duty dwell in gardens and delight... reclining on ranged couches. And we wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes... and we provide them with fruit and meat such as they desire.... - 52:17-22
...Reclining upon couches lined with silk brocade, the fruit of both the gardens near to hand.... Therein are those of modest gaze, whom neither man nor jinni will have touched before them.... - 55:54-56
Those are they who will be brought nigh, in gardens of delight... reclining therein face to face. There wait on them immortal youths... and fair ones with wide, lovely eyes, like unto hidden pearls, reward for what they used to do.... Lo! We have created them a creation, and made them virgins, lovers, friends. - 56:11-37
(Different translation) Companions with beautiful, big and lustrous eyes... virgin-pure and undefiled.
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Koran "sharia" punishments:
As for the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut off their hands as punishment for what they have earned, an exemplary punishment from Allah. - Surah 5:38
Arrest Zbigniew Brzezinski as a world terrorist and war criminal.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words---'mank' and 'ind'. What do these words mean It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
Aaaahhh, the false flag nutjobs are out in full force, I see! So false flag nutters, riddle me this: how do you tell the difference between a false flag and a true flag? Or is everything just a false flag?
What if the pen IS a gun?
http://www.shadowopsweaponry.com/pen-gun-22-caliber-single-shot
Looks like everybody has bought into the propaganda that the murders in Paris were just about the cartoons.
The Paris murders were not just about the cartoons. They were about all the millions of people killed in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Palestine....over the past 100 years or since whenever they first discovered oil there.
The Paris cartoonists just happened to present a convenient soft target for those handful of people, out of the millions of Muslims living in the West, that were willing to take their anger and resentment to the next level.
The reason the murders are portrayed in the media as being just about the cartoons is Propaganda. Only a nut would kill someone over a cartoon, therefore Muslims are insane, therefore its ok to bomb them and occupy their countries. Rinse Repeat.
The goal of all Propaganda is to make a particular group of people seem fundamentally different than you. And media today is full of it. Literally.