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Apr 20 12 8:03 AM
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It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?Molly Ivins -1944 - 2007
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Apr 20 12 6:00 PM
Fairly Regular For His Age
"Ah but your forgetting ..." PM
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Apr 21 12 11:19 AM
Sceptical Observer
I thought "al" was a "definite article" the way "the" is in English.
Apr 21 12 11:35 AM
Apr 21 12 4:49 PM
"Republican" doesn't actually mean to "publican" again; the way "renew" means to "new" again. _ Sear
b) In English we refer to "the Ayatollah". This because as you know, Ayatollah is a title, not a name.- Sear
I've heard irritable Arabs say such things as "death to the Bush", meaning wishing a premature demise to our U.S. president. It seems they do this because they assume "Bush" is a title, and not a name. Or, they simply follow the convention of their culture; not having learned English sufficiently. No insult intended. I'm sure they speak English better than I speak Arabic. - Sear.
Apr 22 12 2:42 AM
Allah, [Arab.,=the God]. Derived from an old Semitic root refering to the Divine and used in the Canaanite El, the Mesopotamian ilu, and the biblical Elohim, the word Allah is used by all Arabic-speaking Muslims, Christians, Jews, and others. Allah, as a deity, was probably known in pre-Islamic Arabia. Arabic chronicles suggest a pre-Islamic recognition of Allah as a supreme God, with the three goddesses al-Lat, al-Uzza, and Manat as his "daughters." The Prophet Muhammad, declaring Allah the God of Abraham, demanded a return to a strict monotheism. Islam supplements Allah as the name of God with the 99 most beautiful names (asma Allah al-husna), understood as nondescriptive mnemonic guides to the Divine attributes. See S. Friedlander, Ninety-Nine Names of Allah (1978). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia Copyright © 2004. Licensed from Columbia University Press http://www.reference.com/browse/Allah
Apr 22 12 7:32 AM
"I was just being factious" JS
"It also makes sense for people to decide what they personally mean by "god"" JS
"leave the rest for the hearer to decide what is meant" JS
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Apr 22 12 8:20 AM
"Ah, but then they aren't worshiping correctly now are they." PM
"... slay the infidels wherever ye find them..." Holy Qur'an: Sura 9 Verse 5
Apr 23 12 9:23 AM
And according to what I've read, some Muslim on Muslim murder is religiously justified on this basis, each sect (Sunni / Shi'ah / Wahab) considering the others infidels for not worshiping the way they do. _ Sear
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We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. "This is war", Townhall, 12 September 2001
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Coulter has described herself as a polemicist who likes to "stir up the pot" and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do."[2]
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"Let em take the likes of Ann and her breed." PM
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