Common Folk Using Common Sense

To those of you that still think the war between Islam and the US is a recent event, and one that we caused: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. These [...]

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According to our history books: 1979: US embassy in Iran is stormed and hostages held for 444 days. One of those terrorists is now the President in Iran. Sixty-six hostages were taken. Eight US servicemen from a Joint Special Operations Group were killed in an aborted rescue attempt. This attack was done by Muslim terrorists. [...]

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Says Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil. “The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is [...]

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On September 11, 2001 there were a a series of coordinated suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda upon the United States. On that morning, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on [...]

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From the UK Guardian: The Iranian authorities have ordered the family of Neda Agha Soltan out of their Tehran home after shocking images of her death were circulated around the world. Neighbours said that her family no longer lives in the four-floor apartment building on Meshkini Street, in eastern Tehran, having been forced to move [...]

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First: The Free Gaza movement is sending another solidarity ship to the Strip, due this time to the major Israeli attacks. The four previous voyages have set sail in solidarity to the million and a half residents under siege. On board the ship expected to set sail on Monday are four physicians. Among them is [...]

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The city of Mumbai, India, has been rocked to the core by days of terrorist attack. Many dead, many more injured. Many questions, few answers. This attack may be the most significant terrorist attack since the Sept. 11 attack against the United States. An unknown group calling itself Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the [...]

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Lots of smart people are already covering this (on-the-rocks, Dr. Rusty Shackleford) but I’ll put in my two cents worth. Says Rusty: Associated Press photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder. The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle. A quick Yahoo News photo search of Rahmatullah [...]

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From The Earth Times: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Israel would “be soon swept away” from the Palestinian Territories by the Palestinians. It is the second time within less than three years that the Iranian president predicted the eradication of the Jewish state. The first time was in 2005 when Ahmadinejad hoped that [...]

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From the BBC: Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth. Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers. The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state [...]

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Raila Odinga is married to Ida Odinga (born Ida Anyango Oyoo). They have four children – two sons and two daughters. His oldest son, Fidel, is named after Fidel Castro. Their youngest child, Winnie, is named after Winnie Mandela. Raila lives in Nairobi but has a second home in Bondo District. Odinga claims to be [...]

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From the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which, by the way, should be a daily read for most of you: Following are excerpts from a speech delivered by Dr. Walid Al-Rashudi, head of the Department of Islamic Studies at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on February 29, 2008. Walid [...]

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From Adnkronos International: A 70-year-old man has been sentenced by an Iranian judge to four months in jail and 30 lashes for going out on the street with his dog. The incident took place in Shahr Rey, a suburb of Tehran when the owner of the dog was caught by a police who quickly handcuffed [...]

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From Breitbart.com: Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives—and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers—brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 73 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring. The coordinated blasts—coming 20 minutes apart in different parts of the city—appeared to reinforce U.S. [...]

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From Breitbart: Danish authorities on Tuesday arrested three people suspected of plotting a cartoonist’s assassination for his depiction of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban that enraged Muslims two years ago. Three of Denmark’s largest newspapers said they would reprint the cartoon on Wednesday to show they would not be intimidated by fanatics. It [...]

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