Indictment Near for Michael Vick, Success Uncertain
The ballyhoo about Michael Vick's dog fighting activity is nothing but vice paying homage to virtue. This sentimental charade cloaked as "public outcry"; from the backwoods of America to the Capitol Hill, is propagated by the same hypocrites that condone and engage in the inhumane treatment of ducks and other animals, not to mention their insensitivity to their fellow human beings. You will not see them on the street protesting, when another human being, particularly a young African American male, has been brutalized or malicious murdered or railroaded, as so frequently happens.
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The Ideals We Share: America was built on diversity. The same is true of Islam. Really?
In the July 30th 2007 issue of the Newsweek, Abdul Rauf wrote an article titled The Ideals We Share: America was built on diversity. The same is true of Islam.
Rauf is the author of "What's Right With Islam Is What's Right With America" and "chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, a multifaith, multinational organization whose mission is to bridge the West-Muslim world divide."
Rauf wrote “The more you know about America's basic ideals and those of classical Islam, the more similarities you see. For one thing, both the country and the religion were founded on the principle that individual freedom is a God-given, inalienable right. For another, they share a central belief in the strength that comes from embracing diversity.
The resemblance dates back to their beginnings. The Muslim world grew in much the same way America would, a thousand years later. As Islam spread from its birthplace in Western Arabia, its community of followers—the umma—expanded into an increasingly diverse collection of cultures, peoples and nations. Muslim rulers made a practice of welcoming and protecting people of all faiths—a tradition begun earlier but set in stone less than 10 years after the Prophet Muhammad's death, when Caliph Umar captured Jerusalem in 638 and invited 70 Jewish families to come and live there, after centuries of repeated expulsions by non-Muslims.”
The notion that Islam and America were founded on the same values is rather contrary to reason, perhaps a bit of magical thinking.
Also, the single act of charity towards the 70 Jewish families in 638 AD has been cited unaccompanied by any other, every time Muslims seek to paint a less than truthful
picture of Islam, especially with the intolerant nature of Islam towards non Muslims, so much that it only shows how deficient Islam is in such acts.
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Joke or No Joke!
Don Imus has apologized for his pejorative comments last Wednesday, in which he referred to the mostly African America Rutgers University's
women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
Perhaps, it was an inappropriate joke as he claimed in his apology. I think it was an insult or meant as one, more than it could ever be a joke.
He said “I am a good person”, may be so, but Jesus Christ said Matthew 12: 34, “generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” Luke 6: 45, has it as “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth
that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his
mouth speaketh.” As far as Imus’ racially derogatory comments, I will live it that.
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Op-Ed Piece Highlights Black-Asian Tensions...
Many people around the world, including China, would be envious of Mr. Kenneth Eng for the privilege of freedom with which he spoke, but not the ignorance from which he spoke.
Mr. Eng owes that privilege (the civil rights) to African Americans — the so-called “Black People”, whose strong will brought about the change that affords him the freedom he now enjoys and by which he has the audacity to express his views, albeit, ignorance and hatred towards African Americans.
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Iraq: Failure is not an option, but the devil's alternative may be...
There is a fundamental difference between waging war with another country and engaging in nation building of another country. In war,
the objective is clear and precise – defeat the enemy militarily: decapitate and destroy the enemy’s army, extract the enemy’s surrender or truce
and come home. In nation building, the objective is not so clear and certainly not as precise. The precondition necessary for successful nation building,
as was the case with Germany and Japan is full realization and political will of the people to move forward and their desire for a better future.
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Saddam goes to the gallows...
The question should never be whether or not Saddam deserves to die and I don’t believe it has ever been. For anyone to make that the question is completely absurd. Just laws demand that Saddam pay fully for his crimes and he should. But I don’t know that it would ever be enough.
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Will American Voters Elect a Black President?
It is always intriguing, how America the country struggles with America the ideal—the providential idea that “all men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights by their creator”.
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On comedian Michael Richards's racial tirade...
As long as our society remains timid or dishonest in dealing with the source of such racist sentiments, there will be no closure to wounds they inflict. One paradox of human nature that never fails to intrigue me is pretending to act generously towards others while harboring ill thoughts towards them. This is the same age-old hypocrisy, which some people have called “vice paying homage to virtue”. In a parable, Jesus Christ spoke about hypocrisy, illustrating it with “good and corrupt fruit”. HE said in Matthew 12: 34: “O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
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Muslims react in violence to Pope's quotation of 6th century emperor...
Is it an irony that most Muslims tend to react violently to any statement that criticizes Islam or Mohammed, the founder of Islam? Or is their reaction a predictable outcome that derives from the disposition of Islam?
Ultimately, the answer to this question must come from Muslims themselves. The answer lies in their behavior
towards other people, especially those they disagree with, people who do not conform to their view - the "infidels", by their definition.
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