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The phrase also describes that you intend to spend most of your life in that state of marriage - with the life after marriage being 'settled' compared to life before hand being a temporary phase of not being married...

Only uneducated women are likely be to more easily fooled. Keep a woman away from good education and limit her experience in areas of life, and she would make any mistake that a man would make in the same circumstances. As I said, I don't think the verse talks about being fooled but is more about i...

I am not wearing hijab. I've asked muslim ladies who were my mates during our university days, they said it's more on modesty & comfort zones. :? I find it interesting how the hijab etc are becoming the focus of so much discussion. Women wearing full coverings have been a common sight in the UK...

Jabba - yes, Dolphy boy killed Apollo Creed and then Rocky went training old school before winning. The scene where the Russian crowd end up chanting Rocky is precious!

I remember (vaguely) when Fatima won her medals - but Tessa Sanderson is more my era.

Cheers,
Shafique

Val, The first set of arguements are not direct quotations and really don't need a reply from me - all of the verses cited are clear and if you go and read the verses themselves, the context and meaning are clear. Let's just take a couple of examples: Allah turned the Sabbath-breaking Jews into apes...

Ok, but my quote on menstration views it as an illness .. really that was the part that I sought an answer to. If someone is not well, we say they have an illness. People who are ill are normally excused from day to day activities which are strenuous - eg if you are at school and aren't well you ar...

Valkyrie, I forgot to mention that the Quran says that there are metaphors in the Quran: Chapter : 3 (Al-`Imran) Verse : 7 He it is who has sent down to thee the Book; in it there are verses that are firm and decisive in meaning - they are the basis of the Book - and there are others that are suscep...

According to the Quran: Man was created from clay, i.e. inorganic matter (as opposed to 'fire'), into which God breathed in the life force to make it organic. In my view this is consistent with scientific view on the evolution of life from inorganic primordial soup. The Holy Prophet, pbuh, did not f...

A quick Google came up with this article which deals with the creation verses in the Quran and answers a certain 'Mr Katz' who claims there were contradictions in the Quran concerning the creation of man. http://www.understanding-islam.com/related/text.asp?type=article&aid=102 I don't see any co...

What about using the method used to send King Edward II of England to his end (if you excuse the pun)?

Gives a new twist to red hot poker, me thinks?




"Infamy, infamy - they've all got it in for me"
(apologies to the late, great Kenneth Williams)

Cheers,
Shafique

yshimy - I have to disagree with you about the stoning. The times when stoning was prescribed as punishment by the Holy Prophet, pbuh, fall into two categories: 1. punishments before the Quranic verse was revealed, and therefore the Prophet, pbuh, used the Biblical punishments (in Torah) 2. punishme...

yshimy - thanks for the link. I'll also do some research and check out some references. Wikipedia has a page on hadith which mention stoning - all of the incidents refer to people who confessed adultery to the Prophet, pbuh, himself. Many of the instances are of Jews, but there are certainly hadith ...

Chocs - troll alert, troll alert..

Chocoholic wrote:Women can do without men, but certainly not the other way around. Men are slaves to women, and any guy that denies it, is in denial.

Well said Chocs.

There's a very interesting BBC documentary called 'Did Jesus Die' - it's pretty easy to find on the web, and I think it's even on youtube. Details here http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/did-jesus-die.shtml It deals first with the legends made famous by the Da Vinci code, but then s...

zam wrote:Noni blaming and pointing fingers doesnt do anything good. Chaos,nonetheless

However, knowing the source of the problem is helpful when trying to come up with a solution.

Check out a Noam Chomsky speech :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBcCgz5YH3U

Cheers,
Shafique

It may be a surprise to many that Israel and the US have been blocking a political settlement to the Palestine issue for 4 decades. A UN resolution of 1976 and another in 2002 calls for a two state solution - one which Hamas, Hizbollah and the rest of the Arabs all signed up to.. but the US and Isra...

Chocoholic wrote:It's really quite simple. Men's logic and thinking are controlled by their little brain. And since the little brain goes weak for what women have that men don't, women hold all the power.

My wife lets me think I'm in control

Valkyrie, Based on the evidence of my previous post linking to the answer to the question about creation of man, you should realise that whereever you are cutting and pasting from is guilty of quoting the Quran out of context. I suggest you at least do us Muslims the courtesy of looking at one of th...

Begs the question: what do the sons do?

I wouldn't have believed it if someone had told me those signs exist! Reading up on the independence of Lebanon is enlightening: In 1946 Lebanon finally achieved formal independence from France. The constitution, which had been drawn up in 1943, institutionalised the division of the country into gro...

Maad - you had me fooled!

I'd be very interested in the article when you find it.

Cheers,
Shafique

Thanks Maad - excellent article. I've learnt a few more things about Lebanon.

Wow - what a complicated country politically!

Cheers,
Shafique

I agree with Kanelli - it is a shame that worldwide sectarian strife is causing problems. I can't think of a corner of the world that doesn't have these issues - from Tibet to Indonesia, Ireland to Cyprus and even in South America between Indians and European descendants. Sometimes it's just down to...

I'm just glad I don't work with any Aussies - just a South African and a couple of Pakistanis! [hangs head in shame]

Is there a sport we're currently any good at?

See, men will always be interested in checking out a woman, no matter what she is wearing. :lol: :) No argument there, in fact some people use this as a justification for modest dress ---- oooh, I'm have a sense of deja vue :lol: :lol: I think the crux of the matter is your intention - you are not ...

Huh?

All the commentators I've heard/read say the war has weakened the Lebanese government.



[Sigh]

Noam Chomsky pointed out in a lecture in September this year that the Israelis had kidnapped Lebanese citizens earlier that very week - from inside Lebanon (I think he might have said it was the day before, but I can't quite recall). Therefore the whole premise that the war unleashed by Israel was b...