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Salaam everyone! I'm currently enjoying a holiday in Mauritius with the family and had some spare time to surf the net and catch up with what's going in Dubai, and Dubai forums. I may spare some time and start posting again here... we'll see. :) About the quotation given by Scot about all terrorists...

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Why give 'shock jocks' the pleasure of rising to their jibes and giving them publicity?

The comment about cockroaches was intentionally provocative - but I can't bring myself to be bothered about it. What good will that do?

Cheers,
Shafique

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I have to agree with Jaba's first post on this thread - I also disagree with the tone and premise of the article. Science is not bad or a tool of the enemies of Islam! Science is the study of the natural world, i.e. the study of the Creation of Allah (according to Muslims). There are more verses of ...

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Salaam, I followed the link and read chapter 7, and also had a quick scan of the other chapters. I think I have read this before, or something similar. There are many books written by Shia denouncing the Sunni beliefs and vice versa. This one concentrates on examples of Hadith which can be questione...

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Sorry but I disagree, the Bible, Koran etc were all still written by the hand of 'man' and can therefore be flawed, because 'man' is not perfect and everything is open to interpretation. They cannot reflect the ever changing times, society etc. Agree with Chocs that all that is written by man is fl...

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Hiya folks - good to be back occasionally. Currently on business in Turkey - in historic Istanbul. Had a little time on my hands and thought I'd check out the old haunt of Dubai Forums! Scot [sorry, I mean Jabba!] - Sanskrit of the Hindu scriptures is not widely spoken and is largely only known by s...

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ps - at the end of the article on Sanskrit on wiki: Computational linguistics There have been suggestions to use Sanskrit as a metalanguage for knowledge representation in e.g. machine translation, and other areas of natural language processing because of its highly regular structure.[7] This is due...

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The Real IRA, like all of the other branches with the possible exception of the PIRA, have mainly christian members (sectarian conflict, remember) but does not act on account of religious differences - they act on nationalistic ones. And no, I don't think they or the atheist Tamil Tigers have ever ...

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An interesting discussion is taking place on the Guardian newspaper site: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/david_cox/2007/09/feminisms_rape_fallacy.html The article ends with the following points, and if you click through you can read the responses.. When our houses are burgled, we're hardly more...

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Salaam, I am a bit biased - I am an actuary and I work for an insurance company. Insurance is a social good and within the norms of Islam, however interest - both the taking and charging of it is against Islam. My day to day work involves using interest rate calculations, but I tend to develop produ...

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The article was specifically talking about date rape and the fact that of all rape accusations only one in five result in convictions. I could not see where the article said it was ok to rape women. Perhaps it is just too simple a concept that if there weren't any dates, there wouldn't be any date r...

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I practice it - as this is what Islam teaches - so yes. No dates - unless its after an engagement. Many/most religions teach that marital relations should only take place within marriage.. I happen to believe this and practice this. But I don't want to impose my views on others if they wish to live ...

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Most rape victims are raped by people they know, not strangers lurking at night. So really the only way to prevent rape is to make sure women wear a top to bottom gown and lock their bedroom against boyfriends, husbands, fathers and brothers. One sure way to prevent rape outside of marriage is to l...

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Scott, Religous people do not have the monopoly on morality and chastity - but generally, religion teaches people to be chaste and moral. It is a choice that anyone can choose to make - whether to sleep around or wait for marriage - religion is irrelevant here, for whilst all religions teach chastit...

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Apologies to Scott!

Jabba it was you that was wrong

Cheers,
Shafique

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Frederick,

I will start a new thread.. as we seem to have gone off topic
- the thread is about the most recited prayer ever.

Cheers,
Shafique

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Following on from a discussion started in 'Most recited prayer ever', I thought I'd start a thread here on this topic. Frederick rightly points out that the troubles in Ireland were 'sectarian'. However he contends that their aims were nationalist/unionist and not based on religious views/values. Th...

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BTW - I take Frederick's point that the IRA is distinct from the PIRA - and the former did not want sectarian violience. In my use of the terms, I used IRA and 'Real IRA' to denote the general terrorist campaign and the residual terrorist acts that have taken place recently. I see now that instead o...

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Well you have deviated somewhat from your original take on a solution to date rapes - so yes it is a lot less preachy and more logical. I think a majority whether they be religious or not will agree that not sleeping around with other people when in a relationship or union of marriage will produce ...

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I think there is a huge difference in the types of terrorism and the groups associated with that terrorism Shaf. In particular the IRA although self admitted terrorists they did what they did to make a point for their cause. This type differs hugely to the for example 9/11 terrorist who did what th...

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Another point - the rise in 'Al Qaida inspired' attacks is interesting on many levels. Are the young men and women sympathising and joining in just 'fanatical nutters' or are they 'honest terrorists' (borrowing Arnie's phrase)? Those that think they are being brainwashed by mad mullahs into thinking...

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At the end of the day Shaf, there must be an acceptance by Muslims in how non muslims/westerners etc etc view "the islamic terrorist" in that we just dont understand how religion can drive someone to that extreme, however deep their beliefs. My contention is that it is not religion that i...

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First let me say that I do not support or condone Bin Laden or any terrorist acts (I won't tire in repeating this - there is no justification for targetting and killing civilians). But I went back to see what Bin Laden actually said his motives were - just in case I had over-looked or misunderstood ...

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I'll respond to this thread in later, however I would like to ask shafique to show me one example where the Tamil Tigers and the IRA ever used religion to influence their violence (do their members ever quote from holy books, do they claim that their fighting against the British occupation in the n...

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Mmmm - Mars bar.... anyone tried a deep fried mars bar? I haven't but it is something to try one day... next time I'm in scotland I will try it, just to say I've done it! :) Beach belle, on a more serious note - have you looked to see what Mars says about these accusations? Did you check anything ot...

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Shaf you cant be serious in eating or actually liking Mars Bars dipped in Batter and deep fried.I'm heaving at even the thought of it :shock: :shock: I've never had one - I've passed by chippies in Edinburgh and Glasgow which sell them, but never had the urge... perhaps it was just because when I w...

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Concord, Ok - happy for you to do that, and I will play along too. I just thought it might be easier to treat all terrorists the same and remove 'Islamic' from 'Islamic Terrorists'. :lol: We could start with the Burmese crackdown as 'Buddhist State Terrorism' then? A couple of days ago we had civili...

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Carry on boys, enjoying this.

Let me know if you want any 'evasive' coaching.

Let's aim for some agreement on some points.... do you think you could do that?

Cheers,
Shafique

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Ok here's the bit from the Quran that applies to genetic engineering: Genetic Engineering In the field of genetic engineering, it has today become possible to change certain features of life. But in the age when the following verse was revealed, no one could imagine such a thing in his wildest fancy...

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