(CNN) – Osama bin Laden wore the mantle of a religious leader. He looked the part and talked a good game, but his theology was a radical departure from traditional orthodox Islam.
The pitch to join al Qaeda did not start with an invitation to put on a suicide vest but, like other religious splinter groups and cults, took advantage of disenfranchisement and poverty.
Bin Laden had no official religious training but developed his own theology of Islam.
“We don’t know that (bin Laden) was ever exposed to orthodox Islamic teachings,” said Ebrahim Moosa, a professor of religion and Islamic studies at Duke University.
The writing of ideologues in the Muslim Brotherhood influenced bin Laden heavily, Moosa said.
“He takes scriptural imperatives at their face value and believes this is the only instruction and command God has given him – unmediated by history, unmediated by understanding, unmediated by human experience. Now that’s a difference between Muslim orthodoxy and what I would call uber- or hyperscripturalists,” Moosa said.
The vast majority of Islamic scholars and imams say the teaching of the Prophet Mohammed happened in historical context that needs to be understood when reading and interpreting the Quran.
“If the likes of bin Laden, if they had spent one day or maybe one month possibly, in a madrassa (Muslim religious school) and understood how the canonical tradition is interpreted, they would not go onto this kind of destructive path they go on,” Moosa said.
In the entire leadership structure of al Qaeda, “no one has had any sort of formal religious training from any seminary,” said Aftab Malik, a global expert on Muslim affairs at the United Nations Alliance of Civilization. He is researching a Ph.D. on al Qaeda.
“What you had was an engineer and a doctor leading a global jihad against the whole world,” Malik said. “That would never happen in normative Islam. It’s just such an aberration.”
John Esposito, a professor of religion and international affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, said bin Laden “appropriates Islam … to legitimate and mobilize people.”
“If you look at bin Laden’s early statements and arguments, his interview with Peter Bergen on CNN … lots of people would see it as something that would go down very well not just with many Muslims but among many analysts when he talks about longstanding political grievances,” Esposito said.
“What bin Laden ends up doing is saying anyone who disagrees with him, any Muslim, is in fact an apostate,” he said. That includes Muslims who would not join his fight, he said. “It’s a distortion of the traditional teaching, and it just extends the parameters and the consequences in order to legitimate how when you’re fighting on the ground you’re fighting against your own people.”
Malik said, “The key issue is of apostasy,” referring to when a person leaves a faith. “One of the things Osama bin Laden deviates from is calling those people who do not implement Sharia, or God’s law, on the planet as apostates. If they did not implement Sharia, they deserved death. This is a major departure from normative Islam.”
“The second major deviation is the targeting of noncombatants. Even when you read in the Quran there are injunctions for fighting. But before and after the injunctions for fighting are calls for restraint. ‘Do not attack monks, do not attack women, do not attack children.’ And these are numerated heavily in the Hadith, which are uncontested,” Malik said, referring to the sayings of the prophet and his close companions.
http://mymuslimnews.blogspot.com/2011/05/bin-ladens-theology-radical-break-with.html
ISLAM: Islam And The Theory Of Evolution
There are around 30,000 genes in the human body, incorrect sequences of nucleotides making up a gene would render that gene completely useless. Frank B. Salisbury writes in “Doubts about the Modern Synthetic Theory of Evolution”, American Biology Teacher, September 1971, p. 336:
“A medium protein might include about 300 amino acids. The DNAgene controlling this would have about 1,000 nucleotides in its chain. Since there are four kinds of nucleotides in a DNA chain, one consisting of 1,000 links could exist in 41,000 forms. Using a little algebra (logarithms) we can see that 4^1000=10^600. Ten multiplied by itself 600 times gives the figure 1 followed by 600 zeros! This number is completely beyond our comprehension.”
Robert Shapiro, a professor of chemistry at New York University and a DNA expert, calculated the probability of the coincidental formation of the 2000 types of proteins found in a single bacterium (There are 200,000 different types of proteins in a human cell). The number that was found was 1 over 10^40000. (This is an incredible number obtained by putting 40,000 zeros after the 1)
Scientists’ comments regarding “chance”
ISLAM: Islam And The Theory Of Evolution
“A medium protein might include about 300 amino acids. The DNAgene controlling this would have about 1,000 nucleotides in its chain. Since there are four kinds of nucleotides in a DNA chain, one consisting of 1,000 links could exist in 41,000 forms. Using a little algebra (logarithms) we can see that 4^1000=10^600. Ten multiplied by itself 600 times gives the figure 1 followed by 600 zeros! This number is completely beyond our comprehension.”
Robert Shapiro, a professor of chemistry at New York University and a DNA expert, calculated the probability of the coincidental formation of the 2000 types of proteins found in a single bacterium (There are 200,000 different types of proteins in a human cell). The number that was found was 1 over 10^40000. (This is an incredible number obtained by putting 40,000 zeros after the 1)
Scientists’ comments regarding “chance”
ISLAM: Islam And The Theory Of Evolution
Islam And The Moslim World: 'We'll see depleted uranium missiles thrown by Western aircraft on Libya'
Balkans expert Marko Gasic predicts Libya will become a new Iraq. He says that now that the cease-fire is needed for peace, that should be the aim of the mission. The mission has now become compromised, he says, and should be stopped as soon as possible.
Islam And The Moslim World: 'We'll see depleted uranium missiles thrown by Western aircraft on Libya'
Islam And The Moslim World: 'We'll see depleted uranium missiles thrown by Western aircraft on Libya'
Israel admits it used phosphorus weapons
The Israeli government has admitted that it used controversial phosphorus weapons in its attacks against targets during its month long war in Lebanon this summer.
The chemical can be used in shells, missiles and grenades and causes horrific burning when it comes into contact with human flesh.
White phosphorus (WP) weapons are not forbidden by international law but some human rights groups believe they should be re-classified as chemical weapons and banned.
The Israeli admission was made by the cabinet minister, Jacob Edery, who was questioned on the subject by Zahava Gal-On, a member of the Knesset.
Mr Edery told Ms Gal-On: "The IDF [Israel Defence Force] holds phosphorus munitions in different forms. The IDF made use of phosphorus shells during the war against Hizbullah in attacks against military targets in open ground."
Ms Gal-On said that her original question to the government related to suspicions that Israel has been using experimental weapons in Gaza so she was surprised when she was offered a confirmation that Israel had used phosphorus weapons in Lebanon. "My original question was about the use of Dime [dense inert metal explosives] weapons by Israel in Gaza but instead I was given the answer to a different question," she said. "The use of phosphorus weapons in Lebanon is shocking and unacceptable."
http://brutalconvictions.blogspot.com/2011/04/israel-admits-it-used-phosphorus.html
The chemical can be used in shells, missiles and grenades and causes horrific burning when it comes into contact with human flesh.
White phosphorus (WP) weapons are not forbidden by international law but some human rights groups believe they should be re-classified as chemical weapons and banned.
The Israeli admission was made by the cabinet minister, Jacob Edery, who was questioned on the subject by Zahava Gal-On, a member of the Knesset.
Mr Edery told Ms Gal-On: "The IDF [Israel Defence Force] holds phosphorus munitions in different forms. The IDF made use of phosphorus shells during the war against Hizbullah in attacks against military targets in open ground."
Ms Gal-On said that her original question to the government related to suspicions that Israel has been using experimental weapons in Gaza so she was surprised when she was offered a confirmation that Israel had used phosphorus weapons in Lebanon. "My original question was about the use of Dime [dense inert metal explosives] weapons by Israel in Gaza but instead I was given the answer to a different question," she said. "The use of phosphorus weapons in Lebanon is shocking and unacceptable."
http://brutalconvictions.blogspot.com/2011/04/israel-admits-it-used-phosphorus.html
The Solution to the Middle East Problem: The Full Dissolution of the "State of Israel"
A Proposal by Neturei Karta International
The Root of the Problem
The Palestinians want back the land stolen from them by the "State of Israel" in 1948, but this “State of Israel” will never return it to them, having “received” it from the United Nations! The creation of a "State of Israel" at the expense of the Palestinians living there was a wrong decision, a historic injustice that is unacceptable today to increasing numbers of people.
This "State of Israel" must be dissolved quickly and peacefully. The danger emanating from that region can no longer be tolerated.
Neturei Karta International is proposing the following schedule:
Step 1: Dissolution: The "State of Israel" will be dissolved through UN resolution. The UN decision of November 1947, calling for the partitioning of Palestine and the establishment of the "State of Israel," will be recognized as a mistake and reversed.
Step 2: Transfer of Power: The Palestinian people will take full sovereignty over the whole country, including the territory of today's "State of Israel." The transfer will take place in the following manner: The UN will take power in the country after the dissolution of the "State of Israel," and will enter into negotiations with a provisional Palestinian government, transferring the territory to them. After the takeover, a permanent government will be formed under the declaration of a new Palestinian state.
Step 3: Population policy: If the Palestinian government agrees, the Jews already living there will be allowed to remain with the status of immigrants under Palestinian sovereignty in the country. Upon request, they may obtain full Palestinian citizenship and equality, if that citizenship and equality be granted by the Palestinian authorities. The UN and the nations will prepare laws that would regulate such matters. The procedure and the execution of the whole plan should be as equitable, humane and painless as possible. A sufficiently long time should be provided for the execution of the plan.
Step 4: Living together: The submitters of this proposal hope to overcome, by the adoption and implementation of this plan, the pent-up hatred and desire for revenge, which unfortunately seem to be the only things Jews and Arabs have in common under the current reality. Â We hope to see all people living together again in excellent agreement and mutual respect, as in all the years before the Zionist disaster.
***
This proposal may seem utopian, but it is the only real and serious possibility for a peaceful solution to this otherwise intractable problem.
Let us consider five advantages, which will be effective immediately after the implementation of this plan:
1. The threat to world peace will be substantially defused. Middle East war, Intifada, Qassam rockets, Gaza War, Lebanon War, Suez War, Six-Day War and more will be things of the past. Israel's nuclear threat as well as Iran's "Israel-destruction threat" will be meaningless. Large parts of the global anti-terrorism campaign will be unnecessary, since terrorism is largely caused and motivated by the existence of the "State of Israel."
2. The oppression of the Palestinian people by the "State of Israel" will be over. Their livelihood and human dignity will be restored to them. The prison that is Gaza will be opened. The Palestinians in the Middle East will once again be able to breathe freely.
3. Anti-Semitism will decline sharply. Its current main cause, the impudent and arrogant behavior of the Zionist state against people and nations, as well as its atrocities against its "Arab subjects," will come to an end due to the dissolution of the Zionist state. Threats of rising anti-Semitism around the world will occur less and less.
4. The astronomical sums which the U.S. and other countries shell out annually for the support and arming of the "State of Israel" can be used from now on for the execution of this scheduled peace process.
5. The U.S. and other countries will be freed from the grips of the "Zionist lobby." They will again be free to make their own decisions without the consent and constraints of this powerful lobby.
***
A Short Explanation of the True Jewish, Unadulterated Torah Position:
The land of Israel belongs to the Palestinians who have been living there for centuries. The Jews were sent into exile by God two thousand years ago, and they must remain in exile until they are redeemed by God. The Zionist idea of a premature termination of exile by human power, through politics, robbery and intrigue, has always been opposed and rejected vehemently by Torah-true Judaism.
The Holocaust and the Founding of the State
After the great destruction of the Jews in Europe, when the Jews were uprooted and bleeding, they finally followed the Zionists into the "promised land." Practically, after the terrible Holocaust, they had no other choice. The UN in 1947 "gave" part of Palestine to the Zionists as a new home for the Jewish people, a laudable idea. However, it was accomplished at the expense of the Palestinians living there. The Zionists expelled them from their homes and settled Israelis in their place. Thus the UN's decision was a historic injustice.
The Turning Point
The world has begun to see that the Zionist "redemption" has evaporated. The historic injustice of 1948 must be corrected, and the Zionistic "Jewish state" must be completely dissolved. The whole entity known as the "State of Israel" has not the slightest to do with Judaism. Zionism is not Judaism, and Judaism is not Zionism. The two concepts stand in stark contradiction to each other. The Zionists are in no way entitled to represent the Jewish people! No one has ever given them this role; they have taken it on by themselves.
The People of Israel
The people of Israel has been, since time immemorial, the people of God and nothing else. It is not "a people like all peoples," whose existence is defined by political power and borders. It received from God on Mount Sinai laws and goals in life, which it has always followed faithfully. That is, until about 100 years ago, when the great catastrophe of the Zionist movement arose with the aim of "let us be a nation like all nations!" Let us have nothing in common with God, nothing to do with Sinai, they said. With strength, together, we will solve our problems ourselves. Let us have one country, one government, one army, one language, and everything a nation needs here! And unfortunately, the Zionist movement was successful.
But it is God who will never accept the "Zionist redemption." He will force His people to return to the interrupted exile and wait for the real, divine redemption.
This is perhaps our one last chance to do this on our own, because if we do not do it ourselves, God Himself will do it. There is no way around God's plan. Therefore, we must have the insight to implement this solution by dissolving Zionism and the "State of Israel."
The world, especially the UN, the U.S. and the EU, has a duty, for it is they who have the power to carry out the above proposed solution. The advantages of this plan, identified above, certainly justify their taking it into consideration.
Neturei-Karta International August 2010/Elul 5770
http://www.nkusa.org/activities/statements/20090209.cfm
The Root of the Problem
The Palestinians want back the land stolen from them by the "State of Israel" in 1948, but this “State of Israel” will never return it to them, having “received” it from the United Nations! The creation of a "State of Israel" at the expense of the Palestinians living there was a wrong decision, a historic injustice that is unacceptable today to increasing numbers of people.
This "State of Israel" must be dissolved quickly and peacefully. The danger emanating from that region can no longer be tolerated.
Neturei Karta International is proposing the following schedule:
Step 1: Dissolution: The "State of Israel" will be dissolved through UN resolution. The UN decision of November 1947, calling for the partitioning of Palestine and the establishment of the "State of Israel," will be recognized as a mistake and reversed.
Step 2: Transfer of Power: The Palestinian people will take full sovereignty over the whole country, including the territory of today's "State of Israel." The transfer will take place in the following manner: The UN will take power in the country after the dissolution of the "State of Israel," and will enter into negotiations with a provisional Palestinian government, transferring the territory to them. After the takeover, a permanent government will be formed under the declaration of a new Palestinian state.
Step 3: Population policy: If the Palestinian government agrees, the Jews already living there will be allowed to remain with the status of immigrants under Palestinian sovereignty in the country. Upon request, they may obtain full Palestinian citizenship and equality, if that citizenship and equality be granted by the Palestinian authorities. The UN and the nations will prepare laws that would regulate such matters. The procedure and the execution of the whole plan should be as equitable, humane and painless as possible. A sufficiently long time should be provided for the execution of the plan.
Step 4: Living together: The submitters of this proposal hope to overcome, by the adoption and implementation of this plan, the pent-up hatred and desire for revenge, which unfortunately seem to be the only things Jews and Arabs have in common under the current reality. Â We hope to see all people living together again in excellent agreement and mutual respect, as in all the years before the Zionist disaster.
***
This proposal may seem utopian, but it is the only real and serious possibility for a peaceful solution to this otherwise intractable problem.
Let us consider five advantages, which will be effective immediately after the implementation of this plan:
1. The threat to world peace will be substantially defused. Middle East war, Intifada, Qassam rockets, Gaza War, Lebanon War, Suez War, Six-Day War and more will be things of the past. Israel's nuclear threat as well as Iran's "Israel-destruction threat" will be meaningless. Large parts of the global anti-terrorism campaign will be unnecessary, since terrorism is largely caused and motivated by the existence of the "State of Israel."
2. The oppression of the Palestinian people by the "State of Israel" will be over. Their livelihood and human dignity will be restored to them. The prison that is Gaza will be opened. The Palestinians in the Middle East will once again be able to breathe freely.
3. Anti-Semitism will decline sharply. Its current main cause, the impudent and arrogant behavior of the Zionist state against people and nations, as well as its atrocities against its "Arab subjects," will come to an end due to the dissolution of the Zionist state. Threats of rising anti-Semitism around the world will occur less and less.
4. The astronomical sums which the U.S. and other countries shell out annually for the support and arming of the "State of Israel" can be used from now on for the execution of this scheduled peace process.
5. The U.S. and other countries will be freed from the grips of the "Zionist lobby." They will again be free to make their own decisions without the consent and constraints of this powerful lobby.
***
A Short Explanation of the True Jewish, Unadulterated Torah Position:
The land of Israel belongs to the Palestinians who have been living there for centuries. The Jews were sent into exile by God two thousand years ago, and they must remain in exile until they are redeemed by God. The Zionist idea of a premature termination of exile by human power, through politics, robbery and intrigue, has always been opposed and rejected vehemently by Torah-true Judaism.
The Holocaust and the Founding of the State
After the great destruction of the Jews in Europe, when the Jews were uprooted and bleeding, they finally followed the Zionists into the "promised land." Practically, after the terrible Holocaust, they had no other choice. The UN in 1947 "gave" part of Palestine to the Zionists as a new home for the Jewish people, a laudable idea. However, it was accomplished at the expense of the Palestinians living there. The Zionists expelled them from their homes and settled Israelis in their place. Thus the UN's decision was a historic injustice.
The Turning Point
The world has begun to see that the Zionist "redemption" has evaporated. The historic injustice of 1948 must be corrected, and the Zionistic "Jewish state" must be completely dissolved. The whole entity known as the "State of Israel" has not the slightest to do with Judaism. Zionism is not Judaism, and Judaism is not Zionism. The two concepts stand in stark contradiction to each other. The Zionists are in no way entitled to represent the Jewish people! No one has ever given them this role; they have taken it on by themselves.
The People of Israel
The people of Israel has been, since time immemorial, the people of God and nothing else. It is not "a people like all peoples," whose existence is defined by political power and borders. It received from God on Mount Sinai laws and goals in life, which it has always followed faithfully. That is, until about 100 years ago, when the great catastrophe of the Zionist movement arose with the aim of "let us be a nation like all nations!" Let us have nothing in common with God, nothing to do with Sinai, they said. With strength, together, we will solve our problems ourselves. Let us have one country, one government, one army, one language, and everything a nation needs here! And unfortunately, the Zionist movement was successful.
But it is God who will never accept the "Zionist redemption." He will force His people to return to the interrupted exile and wait for the real, divine redemption.
This is perhaps our one last chance to do this on our own, because if we do not do it ourselves, God Himself will do it. There is no way around God's plan. Therefore, we must have the insight to implement this solution by dissolving Zionism and the "State of Israel."
The world, especially the UN, the U.S. and the EU, has a duty, for it is they who have the power to carry out the above proposed solution. The advantages of this plan, identified above, certainly justify their taking it into consideration.
Neturei-Karta International August 2010/Elul 5770
http://www.nkusa.org/activities/statements/20090209.cfm
Quakers are boycotting Israeli settlement goods. Now for the lies and abuse
British Quakers announced today (5 April) that they are calling for a boycott of goods from Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This is a brave decision, given the volume of abuse, hate mail and downright lies that face those who take a public stand against the Israeli authorities.
Personal experience has made me very aware that there are few more subjects likely to generate hate mail than comments on Israel and Palestine. When I worked for the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), I was quoted in the Jerusalem Post opposing arms sales to Israel. I emphasised that "I'm not anti-Israel, I'm anti-arms trade". But I received an email beginning, "Dear Symon Hill, the British Nazi".
A few years ago, I attended an event in a London church supportive of Palestinians' human rights. A Christian Zionist standing outside literally yelled in my face, telling me that the event was promoting hatred. The church received hundreds of abusive messages, including one saying that the curate would "burn forever in a real hell" (presumably this is distinguished from a fake hell, which has pretend flames cut out of orange cardboard).
To be fair, I dare say that people who back the Israeli government also receive hate mail. This is just as abhorrent.
I'm often very critical of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), the formal organisation of British Quakers. But on this occasion, I applaud both the decision they have made and the courage they have shown in making it.
When the Methodist Church decided to call for a boycott of settlement goods, their position was not only attacked but consistently misrepresented in the media. Misrepresentation of the Quaker position will surely come - very soon.
I'm assuming that Quakers will face the same accusations that were made about Methodists. With this in mind, here are some important points about the Quaker decision.
Firstly, the boycott applies only to goods produced by the colonial Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It does not apply to goods produced in Israel itself.
Secondly, British Quakers are not "pro-Palestinian" and "anti-Israeli". They are "pro-human rights". Like many people who boycott settlement goods, they oppose violence committed by both Palestinians and Israelis and recognise that the occupation is a key part of structural violence. If the situation were reversed, and Palestinians were building illegal settlements on Israeli land, I am confident that Quakers would be just as opposed to occupation.
Thirdly, Quakers did not make this decision after listening only to Palestinians and not to Israelis, or only to Muslims and not to Jews. Quakers have been engaging in discussion with several groups. The decision on Saturday was almost certainly swung by the support for a boycott offered by Jewish and Israeli peace groups. British Quakers count a significant number of Jewish people, and people with Jewish connections, among their members.
Fourthly, the decision was not made lightly or quickly. Whatever you or I think of Quaker decision-making methods, the one thing they cannot be accused of is undue speediness (their much reported decision to endorse same-sex marriage came twenty-two years after they first formally discussed it). The decision followed deep discernment, which built on years of active Quaker involvement in the Middle East through the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). Quakers administer the British wing of this project, which is run by the World Council of Churches.
Let us not forget the wording of the formal minute of the Quakers' decision: "We pray fervently for both Israelis and Palestinians, keeping them together in our hearts. We hope they will find an end to their fears and the beginning of their mutual co-existence based on a just peace. And so we look forward to the end of the occupation and the end of the international boycott.”
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/14495
Personal experience has made me very aware that there are few more subjects likely to generate hate mail than comments on Israel and Palestine. When I worked for the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), I was quoted in the Jerusalem Post opposing arms sales to Israel. I emphasised that "I'm not anti-Israel, I'm anti-arms trade". But I received an email beginning, "Dear Symon Hill, the British Nazi".
A few years ago, I attended an event in a London church supportive of Palestinians' human rights. A Christian Zionist standing outside literally yelled in my face, telling me that the event was promoting hatred. The church received hundreds of abusive messages, including one saying that the curate would "burn forever in a real hell" (presumably this is distinguished from a fake hell, which has pretend flames cut out of orange cardboard).
To be fair, I dare say that people who back the Israeli government also receive hate mail. This is just as abhorrent.
I'm often very critical of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), the formal organisation of British Quakers. But on this occasion, I applaud both the decision they have made and the courage they have shown in making it.
When the Methodist Church decided to call for a boycott of settlement goods, their position was not only attacked but consistently misrepresented in the media. Misrepresentation of the Quaker position will surely come - very soon.
I'm assuming that Quakers will face the same accusations that were made about Methodists. With this in mind, here are some important points about the Quaker decision.
Firstly, the boycott applies only to goods produced by the colonial Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It does not apply to goods produced in Israel itself.
Secondly, British Quakers are not "pro-Palestinian" and "anti-Israeli". They are "pro-human rights". Like many people who boycott settlement goods, they oppose violence committed by both Palestinians and Israelis and recognise that the occupation is a key part of structural violence. If the situation were reversed, and Palestinians were building illegal settlements on Israeli land, I am confident that Quakers would be just as opposed to occupation.
Thirdly, Quakers did not make this decision after listening only to Palestinians and not to Israelis, or only to Muslims and not to Jews. Quakers have been engaging in discussion with several groups. The decision on Saturday was almost certainly swung by the support for a boycott offered by Jewish and Israeli peace groups. British Quakers count a significant number of Jewish people, and people with Jewish connections, among their members.
Fourthly, the decision was not made lightly or quickly. Whatever you or I think of Quaker decision-making methods, the one thing they cannot be accused of is undue speediness (their much reported decision to endorse same-sex marriage came twenty-two years after they first formally discussed it). The decision followed deep discernment, which built on years of active Quaker involvement in the Middle East through the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). Quakers administer the British wing of this project, which is run by the World Council of Churches.
Let us not forget the wording of the formal minute of the Quakers' decision: "We pray fervently for both Israelis and Palestinians, keeping them together in our hearts. We hope they will find an end to their fears and the beginning of their mutual co-existence based on a just peace. And so we look forward to the end of the occupation and the end of the international boycott.”
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/14495
Dr.Zakir Naik Reply Florida Church Burn Quran Day on 9/11
The great scholar Dr.Zakir Naik President of Islamic Research Foundation is giving reply to Florida Church Burn a Quran Day on 9/11. This video is brought to you boy Islamic Research Foundation log on to our website and logs
www.irf.net
Israel may ask U.S. for $20 billion more in security aid, Barak says
Israel may request an addition $20 billion in military aid from the United States in light of the unrest sweeping the Arab world, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday.
Barak deemed the changes in the region a "movement in the right direction", and said that in the long run, Israel should not fear the "movement of Arab societies toward modernity.
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Barak deemed the changes in the region a "movement in the right direction", and said that in the long run, Israel should not fear the "movement of Arab societies toward modernity.
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