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Al-Azhar okays controversial book about Prophet Mohammed

Book, published in 1837 by Reverend George Bush, portrays Prophet Mohammed as 'imposter'.

The highest authority in Sunni Islam approved a book describing the Prophet as an "imposter" and Muslims as "locusts" that the Egyptian press continued Friday to attribute to the US president's great grandfather despite denials from Washington.

"The Al-Azhar Institute for Islamic Studies approved the book titled 'The Life of Mohammed, founder of the religion of Islam and of the Empire of the Saracens'," Egyptian newspapers announced on their front pages.

The book was published in 1837 by Reverend George Bush, whom Egyptian newspapers - including state-owned publications - have consistently presented as the current US president's great-grandfather.

But the government-run Al-Ahram daily said it had approved the book's publication "because it is a piece of documentation that paints a lively picture of the life of Prophet Mohammed."

Publication of Reverend Bush's work had initially been rejected by Al-Azhar and the turnaround puts an end to a year-long controversy.

An unnamed Al-Azhar official quoted in the official Al-Akhbar daily denied rumours that the publication was the result of US pressure.

"Al-Azhar does not bow to any pressure, whether foreign or local, when it comes to matters related to Islam," the cleric said.

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Omrow — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 16:27

Salam

MuslimSisLilSis:
frown upon legitimate husband and wives dancing at their own weddings?

Beast:
Maybe once they got home and didn't have a hundred eyes watching them - then it would be OK.

Noor:
But it's their wedding, surely they can do what they like

Beast:
OK. And after being pronounced man and wife they can have a snog. It's their wedding

Noor:
lol. Why not? It is THEIR wedding!!! They can do what they like when they like!
If people have a problem with that, then tuff! They shouldnt come to the wedding!

Noor. I can understand Mediya being nasty but you. How could you!!

Instead of egging them on, dont you think we ought to
encourage the new couple to be just a bit more patient.

Their kitchen sink is surely just a drive away.

I would certainly not like to see a lot more, right there.

Omrow

zara — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 16:38

noor, you think couples should kiss on their wedding in front of everyone? 😂 thats about as bad as kissing in the middle of the street.

Noor — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 16:47

I cudnt care less to be honest! What they do is their business not any1 else’s.. afterall it is a free country

Omrow — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 16:51

Noor...*
I cudnt care less to be honest! What they do is their business not any1 else’s.. afterall it is a free country

Wow.

That was actually quite beautiful.

I am impressed by the light.

zara — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 16:53

Noor...*I cudnt care less to be honest! What they do is their business not any1 else’s.. afterall it is a free country

there are things which need to be kept private...

Omrow — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 16:56

zara.

I think what light is trying to say without actually saying it is that
true love is something that cannot be kept hidden.

Noor — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 16:57

Some may not see kissing as a MAJOR thing.. so therefore why would it need to be kept private..?

zara — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 16:57

Omrowzara.

I think what light is trying to say without actually saying it is that
true love is something that cannot be kept hidden.

ahhh...

Omrow — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 16:58

The kid has a natural talent.

She will go far.

She just has a little problem with expressing herself better.

Kadijah — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 17:02

Noor...*Some may not see kissing as a MAJOR thing.. so therefore why would it need to be kept private..?

But sum things are left better when behind closed doors.

Noor — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 17:12

Kadijah

Noor...*Some may not see kissing as a MAJOR thing.. so therefore why would it need to be kept private..?

But sum things are left better when behind closed doors.

Too right they are.. but one may not see kissing as an extreme thing.

zara — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 17:14

one thing leads on to another...i read this somewhere...

Noor — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 17:20

Yeah and im sure everyone is aware of their limits when in public..

Anyhow lets stick to topic before we get a bashing from Mr Admin!

MuslimSister — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 17:55

It’s a contentious issue….some have an issue with husband and wives even TALKING to one another at their own wedding day, even though they most prob spent the last few months/years getting to know each other…..Whilst others take it to the other extreme and think its OK to kiss and dance in front of parents/elders.

There’s a middle line here somewhere…

MuslimSisLilSis — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 - 22:58

OmrowMuslims wife, Sanam Hafeez, and husband, Faisal Khan,
hit the dance floor straight after the their cleric is is out of the door.

New trend to modernise the "boring" muslim marriage:

She has the groom in her arms.

The couple dance after their Muslim ceremony.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/fashion/weddings/12vows.html?_r=1&ore…

see also:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/fashion/weddings/12radosh.html

i stil dont understand why the hell THAT ^^^ made a news article

and why grandpa omro thought it was important enough to post it :roll:

MuslimSister — Fri, 8 Dec 2006 - 22:32

Gulsoom is 17-years-old and married. Last year she tried to commit suicide - she failed.

She set fire to herself but, against the odds, survived with appalling injuries.

Her plight reflects that of a growing number of young Afghan women, campaigners say.

Driven to desperation by forced marriages and abusive husbands, more and more are seeking release through self-immolation.

Gulsoom was engaged at the age of 12. Three years later her family married her to a man aged 40 who she says was addicted to drugs.

She was then taken to Iran. Her husband beat her regularly, Gulsoom says, particularly when he had no money for heroin.

"Once after I was badly beaten by my husband, I was in bed when I heard a voice murmuring and telling me to go and set fire to myself," she says.

"I went and poured petrol on my whole body. The flames on my body lasted for minutes. After eight days I found myself conscious in bed.

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan says that Kandahar's only hospital for women, which has 40 beds, received 29 cases of suicide in the space of two months. Twenty of those women had set themselves alight.

Independent Human Rights Commission head Sima Samar regrets that, five years after the Taleban were ousted, Afghan women are still suffering violence in its various forms.

She says suicide is the final decision for women who don't have any other way to solve their problems or escape abuse

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You — Sat, 9 Dec 2006 - 22:14

I couldn't find this topic about a week ago, or I would have posted a story where the military of Fiji delayed their coup so that they could go ahead with a rugby match with the police on friday the 1st of December.

The coup took place on Monday 4th of december.

Now that is what you call having your priorities right.

Dr Evil: Let's take over the world. Muhahahahah
Chef: Dinner's ready.
Dr Evil: Lets take over the world in 2 hours. Muahahaha

Mine is an evil laugh.

Mr Honey's Day Out — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 - 06:14

Man calls 911 to report stolen drugs

WICHITA, Kan. - A Wichita man called 911 to report he was the victim of an armed robbery. The theft? A pound of marijuana worth about $1,100 that he had been trying to sell at his home.

The victim told police Thursday that a buyer had pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and stole the drugs.

Police brought in a drug-sniffing dog to the house and located more marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

The victim was booked into Sedgwick County jail on several charges, including possession with the intent to sell drug.

The thief has not been found.

MuslimBro — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 - 19:18

'Santa not real' teacher sacked

A teacher has been sacked after telling pupils Santa does not exist.

Parents of heartbroken youngsters protested over the unnamed supply teacher's revelation at Boldmere Junior School, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.

Some of the children are as young as nine. One said: 'We still believe Santa is real.'

MuslimSister — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 - 22:10

MuslimBro

'Santa not real' teacher sacked

A teacher has been sacked after telling pupils Santa does not exist.

Parents of heartbroken youngsters protested over the unnamed supply teacher's revelation at Boldmere Junior School, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.

Some of the children are as young as nine. One said: 'We still believe Santa is real.'

How pathetic.

Mr Honey's Day Out — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 - 00:40

They were probably right to sack him. He's only a supply teacher and telling Christian kids Santa's not real is a well established no-no.

You — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 - 00:46

Mr Honey's Day OutThey were probably right to sack him. He's only a supply teacher and telling Christian kids Santa's not real is a well established no-no.

I disagree.

At most a warning.

The kids will have to learn some day.

I myself am against peddling such lies.

All it does is pave the way for a somnambulant public.

If you are willing to give mass lies to kids, where do you stop?

and Santa is not real, not even for christians.

MuslimBro — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 - 15:54

Woman accidentally mails cat

A 67-year-old woman in Germany managed to send her cat in the mail to her nephew. By accident.

Edith Schonberg, of Rosdorf, Schleswig Holstein, said that Felix managed to sneak inside the parcel while she was wrapping it – possibly while she was away looking for sellotape.

She didn't notice that the moggy had got into the parcel, and posted it without checking to see if any domestic animals were stowing away in the package.

No, we don't understand how the cat was able to sit undetected inside the parcel either. Unless she was trying to send her nephew an empty cat box, perhaps.

The fact that there was a cat in the parcel was eventually noticed by a postal worker at the sorting office, who heard the parcel mewing, and called the police.

Mrs. Schonberg was eventually reuinited with her cat – that she'd actually noticed he was gone.

'I had not even noticed Felix was missing until they called. I thought he was asleep,' said Mrs. Schonberg.

MuslimBro — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 - 15:58

The great tiger escape

A ROYAL BENGAL tiger escaped from a Bangladesh zoo after its keeper left its cage open, but snuck back an hour later after apparently being frightened by the crowds.

The big cat, named Bhim (powerful), sneaked out on Thursday before being spotted roaming nearby by his keeper, who promptly fainted in shock. 'The keeper passed out because he had never faced off a tiger outside its cage. A tiger in freedom could be extremely ferocious,' said a city official said who asked not to be named.

'Bhim apparently found the maddening crowd outside the zoo intolerable and too much for it to feel safe and it came back to the utter surprise and astonishment of zoo managers,' the official said.

Zoo officials denied the incident, but newspapers on Friday printed detailed stories of Bhim's escape and return as well as pictures of his keeper.

Royal Bengal Tigers are an endangered species in their natural habitat in Bangladesh's Sunderban mangrove forest.

MuslimSister — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 - 16:34

Murder police find two more dead

Two more bodies have been found by police investigating the murders of three prostitutes.

A woodland area around the village of Levington, near Ipswich, in Suffolk, was sealed off by officers on Tuesday.

Police said it was likely the two bodies were those of two missing women - Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls.

The area is close to where the body of Anneli Alderton was found on Sunday. The bodies of Gemma Adams, and Tania Nicol were also found near Ipswich.

Ms Clennell, 24, and 29-year-old Ms Nicholls, have not been heard from since Sunday

We have got three prostitutes murdered, now possibly another two. I do not know what stronger warning there can be to get off the streets as soon as possible," he said.

BBC NEWS

Has anyone been following this story?

It’s sad…but what I don’t understand is why aren’t the police stating the obvious?

The women were carrying out illegal activities and getting into strange men’s cars…how dangerous is that? …I read in the papers that the women are STILL on the street. IMO they should be arrested for their own protection…prostitution is illegal.

Mr Honey's Day Out — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 - 17:20

Airlines workers sacrifice camel at airport

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Workers at Turkish Airlines celebrated a job well done by sacrificing a camel at Istanbul airport and their boss has now been suspended.

The national flag-carrier said on Wednesday maintenance staff killed the camel at Turkey's busiest airport after sending a batch of aircraft back to the supplier ahead of schedule.

World's tallest man saves China dolphins

http://img437.imageshack.us/img437/5307/talldm7.jpg

BEIJING - The long arms of the world's tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs, state media and an aquarium official said Thursday.

MuslimSister — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 - 11:51

I found this fascinating...its so weird how much preferences vary all over the world.

Mauritania's 'wife-fattening' farm

Obesity is so revered among Mauritania's white Moor Arab population that the young girls are sometimes force-fed to obtain a weight the government has described as "life-threatening".

A generation ago, over a third of women in the country were force-fed as children -

Now only around one in 10 girls are treated this way. The treatment has its roots in fat being seen as a sign of wealth - if a girl was thin she was considered poor, and would not be respected.

Obesity is seen as a sign a husband cares for his wife
Fatematou said that it was rare for a girl to refuse to eat, and that if they did, she was helped by the child's parents.

"They punish the girls and in the end the girls eat," she said.

Fatematou admitted that sometimes the girls cried at the treatment.

"Of course they cry - they scream," she said.

"We grab them and we force them to eat. If they cry a lot we leave them sometimes for a day or two and then we come back to start again.

"They get used to it in the end."

"They are proud and show off their good size to make men dribble. Don't you think that's good?"

I asked her if she ever felt cruel, beating and force feeding children?

"No! It's not cruel to make girls fat!" she said.

"Me, I've seen 10-year old girls give birth. I tell you, 10 years old!

"Once they are fat and beautiful they can serve their men well, once they are fat they can be married."

BBC NEWS

MuslimBro — Wed, 3 Jan 2007 - 20:09

Pastor becomes suicide burner

Retired Pastor Roland Weisselberg, 73, had such an intense hatred for Islam that he poured gasoline over himself and set himself on fire last Tuesday in Germany. He subsequently died later on Wednesday, church provost Elfried Begrich said at a news conference.

It was Weisselberg’s concern of the rapid spreading of Islam, the second-largest religion in the world after Christianity and the fastest growing religion according to statistics, that led him to what some would call sheer insanity. In a letter he wrote before his suicide, Weisselberg expressed that Germany’s Protestant church should take the problem of the spreading of Islam more seriously. The failure of the Protestant Church’s inability to contain Islam’s spreading led Weisselberg to his blazing death.

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