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what caught my eye today
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1000. |
29 Aug 2008 Fri 09:29 pm |
Ennio Morricone
Le Vent Le Cri
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1001. |
30 Aug 2008 Sat 01:34 am |
The Star Students of the Islamic Republic
Forget Harvard—one of the world´s best undergraduate colleges is in Iran.
SPECIAL REPORT: THE EDUCATION RACE
Molavi has reported from Iran for The Washington Post and Reuters, and is the author of ‘The Soul of Iran
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1003. |
30 Aug 2008 Sat 04:16 am |
Sorry, Trudy, this is not true! Media lies (ask Doudi)! Media fabricates such sort of stories to earn more money (ask Peacetrain or Alameda). Nothing of such takes place in Middle East. Women rights are respected in all Islamic countries, because the Prophet told so, thats why He waited for Aisha for 3 years until she reached her puberty, bless his heart. You see he took care of all those widows by marrying them off to himself. You don´t see how his heart was kind and beautiful towards those poor widowed women who lost their husbands in the wars for the goal to unite nations under one religion, the religion of peace.
I don´t remember entering this particular debate so , please don´t quote me out of context.
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1004. |
30 Aug 2008 Sat 05:53 am |

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- photographs of the Muslim holy cities Mecca and Medina, taken by a Japanese convert, Ali Kazuyoshi Nomachi, are something new for most Westerners, and perhaps even for many Muslims. Non-Muslims are never allowed into Mecca, and it is almost unheard-of for religious and government leaders to allow such pictures to be taken. Most of these images were shot during the holy month of Ramadan, when many faithful are in Mecca and Medina on pilgrimage.
Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, has contributed an essay explaining the history and significance of the two cities. "Mecca and its twin city Medina flourish as the heart and sacred Center of the Islamic universe and will continue to do so as long as there are men and women who accept the truth of Lailaha illa´Llah and Muhammadun rasul Allah," he writes.
Nomachi has worked for National Geographic and Life, and his pictures have the information-packed clarity one might expect. There are fascinating images: literally hundreds of thousands of white-robed believers circling the Ka´bah, Mecca´s sacred center; men ritually shaving one another´s heads; tired families fasting; small children praying. Nomachi´s pictures are oddly cool, but they convey the all-encompassing nature of the faith. Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant will be especially thrilling to those Muslims still planning their pilgrimage.
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1005. |
30 Aug 2008 Sat 06:24 am |
,6 m found colossal statues. along with the colossuses of Memnon of XVIII Dynasty

A team of European and Egyptian archaeologists announced Saturday that there did a series of discoveries that will change the perception of the famous place of the colossuses of Memnon, in Luxor, in south of Egypt.
Coinciding with the visit to the ancient Tebas of the Egyptian minister of Culture, Faruk Hosni, the archaeologists informed about the find of a 3,62 meters giant statue of the queen Tiya, the wife of the Pharaoh of XVIII Dynasty Amenofis III, that governed from 1417 to 1379 before Christ, more two sphinxes representing the real couple and ten statues in black Sejmet granite, the divinity with head of lion.
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1006. |
30 Aug 2008 Sat 09:33 am |
A very gruesome story, not for the faint hearted!
A US court in Dayton, Ohio, has convicted a mother of murdering her one-month-old daughter by burning her to death in a microwave oven.
China Arnold, 28, showed no emotion when the jury announced its guilty verdict, only lowering her head. The prosecution said that Arnold had killed her daughter, Paris Talley, in 2005 after a fight with her boyfriend. The jury will reassemble next Tuesday to decide if Arnold, convicted of aggravated murder, should face death. Officials investigating the case said Paris Talley had suffered high-heat internal burns but had no external marks. Prosecutors said that the baby’s DNA had been found inside the microwave in Arnold’s apartment. Arnold’s cellmate told the court that she had confessed to putting her daughter in the microwave and switching it on, because she was afraid that her boyfriend would leave her if he discovered that he was not the baby’s father. The defence team said that there was evidence that somebody else was responsible for Paris Talley’s death. An eight-year-old boy told the court he had seen another boy walk into the kitchen of a nearby apartment, heard the microwave being switched on and had later seen the burned baby in the oven. However, the boy’s mother said they lived some distance away and that they were not in Arnold’s apartment complex when Paris Talley died.
Source: http://jaggerkieth.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/microwave-baby-killer-convicted/
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I´m against death penalty but in cases like this ..... 
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1007. |
30 Aug 2008 Sat 12:29 pm |
I don´t remember entering this particular debate. 
Exactly right! They want to make money and they want to manipulate the masses.
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_33381
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That´s what you said, I am just quoting you.
And don´t insult me with this emoticon. 
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30 Aug 2008 Sat 04:41 pm |
Sorry, Trudy, this is not true! Media lies (ask Doudi)! Media fabricates such sort of stories to earn more money (ask Peacetrain or Alameda). Nothing of such takes place in Middle East. Women rights are respected in all Islamic countries, because the Prophet told so, thats why He waited for Aisha for 3 years until she reached her puberty, bless his heart. You see he took care of all those widows by marrying them off to himself. You don´t see how his heart was kind and beautiful towards those poor widowed women who lost their husbands in the wars for the goal to unite nations under one religion, the religion of peace.
Ermm maybe I am a bit dim today but.... please tell me your post is a joke...right? 
Yes? 
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1010. |
30 Aug 2008 Sat 05:03 pm |
Ermm maybe I am a bit dim today but.... please tell me your post is a joke...right? 
Yes? 
It depends on your position of viewpoints.
- If you are a muslim, it is an undisputable truth: Media lies and all women in Islamic countries are purely happy enjoying their full rights.
- If you are a non-muslim (or infidel, dirty kaffir) it is a little sophisticated sarcasm 
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