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The Catholic Encyclopaedia has a good article on Hell - and covers the beliefs of some Christians that Hell is not eternal. The explanations are good and do show indeed that some believe all people will be pardoned, some think that some souls will be exterminated/annihilated. Interestingly - on what...

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I like a nice power slide...

(oh, I'll go for the Subaru)

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[sitting on hands]

Cheers,
Shafique

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Well said Kanelli. Your second sentence is the point I wanted to bring out - sometimes it is worth pointing out the obvious truth... but I also take your point, the obvious truth is obvious to all except extremists. I'm going trying to try and reform myself from troll baiting from now on. It is a ha...

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Here's a short piece on the issue of Freedom of Conscience in Islam - explaining what Islam teaches and referring to what God instructs in the Quran on the subject. Based on these verses, we can see that the belief among many Muslims that apostacy is a crime that is punishable by man has no basis in...

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Jimmy Carter acknowledged that there are no Jews only roads in the region and apologized afterward for spreading slander against Israel. President Carter is being criticised by the ADL for speaking the truth about Israel: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/adl-carter-returns-to-anti-israel-bias-de...

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The extract from Sir Khan's article is indeed just simply a list of what God says in the Quran on the subject and clearly shows what Islam teaches on the subject. It will be hard for those advocating killing apostates to justify their beliefs from the Quran, and even harder for Islamophobes to justi...

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kanelli, the Saudi Muslim was indeed a member of Al-Qaeda: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11666272 I too would like to know what the 'less than noble' reason was. I stated in the OP that the guy had a change of heart - but asked whether he was being a Good Muslim or Bad Muslim for doing...

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I spoke too soon. The Israeli government is banning the PA Prime Minister from attending the ceremonies at the schools! http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-bans-palestinian-pm-from-east-jerusalem-event-1.322320 The right-wing who think it is a crime to spend money on schools seem to...

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^ Oh dear, another case of wishful thinking and not enough research. Another case of an epic fail? Let's examine the facts as reported by AFP a few weeks back, shall we. The guy contacted the Saudis in Ramadhan and the Saudis directed him to the Yemeni security officials (note the sequence). The reh...

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Well, the media often states that Islam is the fastest growing religion due to conversions (haven't seen the definitive proof myself) - so perhaps educated British women aren't abnormally representative of the converts to Islam in the UK? It may be just a natural journalistic piece in reaction to La...

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LOL - talk about scraping the barrel. Yusuf Islam / Cat Stevens is a thorn in the side of the Islamophobic fraternity (a Muslim convert that is eloquent, moderate, coherent, compelling and sensible) and the quote above is a classic example of mis-reporting by them to cast slurs on the man - and done...

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Being called an anti-Semite is quite serious - actually being one is even more so. (Just ask Mel Gibson!) However, in the snippet above is the opponent of Israel's crimes really being called an Anti-Semite for saying she wished to have 6 million signatures on a petition against Israel's occupation? ...

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I've got to say, Buddhism does get a much better press - and the Dalai Llama and other Buddhists are great ambassadors. The Tibetan cause does attract a lot of supporters. But sometimes I wonder whether the bad press (and efforts of Islamophobes) to present Islam in a bad light are contributing fact...

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^We have a Buddhist monk who has posted a couple of times in the religion forum - I'm sure he can shed some light on this aspect of Buddhism. The 'fatalistic' criticism you describe is not limited to Buddhism but also found amongst ascetics in other religions too (Islam has it's Sufis who just medit...

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FD is right - 100 lashes and done without mercy is indeed the punishment for adultery in Islam (it is also the punishment for fornication). The punishment is harsh, but so also is the burden of proof - you need 4 witnesses to the deed. Many argue that in practice this is so high that it is practical...

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I don't know about confession - but I guess it makes sense. It begs the question why one would admit and then both man and woman should be punished. I was also thinking that perhaps if there is a pregnancy that could also be taken as proof of adultery (if the husband is away etc). BBC News is report...

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^I agree!

There's something seriously wrong with a society that executes children (at 16 I consider her a child).

Cheers,
Shafique

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Those crazee Romanians, eh! :) the grandmother could not understand the wide level of interest in the case as "this is the age we get married in Romania" :shock: Girl, 10, 'gives birth' in Spain According to official statistics, a total of 178 girls under 15 gave birth to children in 2008 ...

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On a side note I was watching a documentry of an English man trying to find the perfect and humane way to execute prisoners and when he came up with one and talked to a few people in the US who were there at an execution and revealed his findings to a family member/pro death activist ( can't rememb...

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event horizon wrote:Again, he was already under Yemeni (?) custody when he decided to 'surrender' to the Saudis.

LoL.

Better luck next time....

Can we send out a search party for eh's apology? Or has he already moved on to another 'look at how evil the mooslims are' fairy tale?

Cheers,
Shafique

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Well, it looks like we have to add conspiracy theorist to the growing list: Muslim spokespersons and their useful idiot stooges, always careful to highlight perceived media bias against Islam in the West, are often (always) silent on the real bias and libel spread in the Muslim world against Jews an...

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Umm - DDS, you may want to check out her bio. (Hint, she's not Jewish) Anyway at least you stated that this was just an assumption based on her name - but a quick look at what she has actually done shows what her real 'crime' is - being anti the Israeli occupation. Back in 2003 in the NYT she said: ...

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Over in the US, money is being created and thrown into the economy in a gamble that it can stave off the inevitable consequences of living in a make-believe economic world that is based on 'confidence' rather than reality. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11687323 It's a pretty big gamble - and no...

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One does find that conspiracy theorists do tend to believe they are right - otherwise they'll just be comedians out to shock and entertain.

Another way to spot one is that they'll take a factoid and then wildly exaggerate.

Sigh.

Cheers,
Shafique

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Hey, when people speak sense, they speak sense. The UK is bad, Germany is the best of the sick Europeans - but their problems are dwarfed by the US fundamentals. My question (and I've been asking this for at least 7 years) to those who think that the dollar is 'too big to fail' etc - is 'why'? Funda...

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France is reporting that the lady hasn't been executed and that Iran says she hasn't been sentenced: The French Foreign Minister: Manouchehr Mottaki assured me that Iranian legal authorities had not yet reached a verdict in the affair relating to [Ms Ashtiani] and that the information regarding her ...

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This contribution to the Economist website summarises my views and arguments very nicely (its all just common economic sense - and Stiglitz and other economists are pretty much stating the same). The comment is actually better than some articles on The Economist, IMO!: D. Sherman wrote: Nov 3rd 2010...

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RC - great that there's no dispute that fertility rates of immigrants from India, Pakistan etc are lower in the UK than in their home countries, hence exposing the silly argument that immigrants are having kids for benefits. I'm also in awe of your insights into the reasons why white women are conve...

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Re: "Jews Only" Roads

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Re: Bomb Plot - Muslim tip-off

Re: PM opens school

Re: Bomb Plot - Muslim tip-off

Re: Why ARE So Many British Career Women Converting To Islam

Re: Rally To Restore Sanity

Re: Another Dubious Lawsuit

Re: Why ARE so many British career women converting to Islam

Re: Why ARE So Many British Career Women Converting To Islam

Re: Iranian Woman Who Faced Death By Stoning To Hang Today!!

Re: Iranian Woman Who Faced Death By Stoning To Hang Today!!

Re: Iranian Woman Who Faced Death By Stoning To Hang Today!!

10 year old mother

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Re: Bomb Plot - Muslim tip-off

Re: Most Extreme Religous Fanatic Here?

Re: Another Dubious Lawsuit

QE2: Slow death of the dollar?

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