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<?xml-stylesheet href="/style/rss/rss_feed.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="/style/rss/rss_feed.css" type="text/css" media="screen" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Clipmarks | Muslim Clips</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/search/muslim/sort/latest-comments/</link><feedUrl>http://rss.clipmarks.com/search/muslim/sort/latest-comments/</feedUrl><ttl>15</ttl><description>Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Hussein O Bama's Freudian Slip</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/3FA397C0-62AF-491C-BA57-E18368DD9943/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/pkronfield/"&gt;pkronfield&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  I don't care whare anybody says about this.  I am convinced this empty suit is a muslim, and is in all likelihood an al Qaeda sleeper cell.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This is most certainly a Freudian slip.  It slipped out subconsciously, "My Muslim Faith", which he then corrected.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Has anybody seen an aerial view of his home in New Hyde Park, Chicago?  Directly right across the street from a huge mosqe.   &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/" title="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/"&gt;washingtontimes.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;"Let's not play games," he said. "What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come."
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Mr. Stephanopoulos interrupted with, "Christian faith."
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;"My Christian faith," Mr. Obama said quickly. "Well, what I'm saying is that he hasn't suggested that I'm a Muslim. And I think that his campaign's upper echelons have not, either. What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith -- something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time."
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/muslim/" rel="tag"&gt;muslim&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag"&gt;obama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/sleeper+cell/" rel="tag"&gt;sleeper cell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/foreign+agent/" rel="tag"&gt;foreign agent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:02:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Musim father burns Christian daughter alive</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/DE0EC5DD-3F7B-465E-B9C4-2CE1E1F80DEF/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Antara/"&gt;Antara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  what can you say? &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=72273" title="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=72273"&gt;www.worldnetdaily.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;FONT size="+2" face="Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000000"&gt;Muslim father burns Christian daughter alive&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;FONT size="+1" face="Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000000"&gt;Man slices out girl's tongue, ignites her after 'heated debate on religion'&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;A Saudi Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter's tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Her father read of her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to death "following a heated debate on religion," according to an &lt;A href="http://www.persecution.org/suffering/index.php"&gt;International Christian Concern&lt;/A&gt; report.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;The father is employed by the muwateen, or Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The muwateen are police tasked by the government with enforcing religious purity. The man has been taken into custody, and his identity has not been released.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/religion/" rel="tag"&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/islam/" rel="tag"&gt;islam&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/christianity/" rel="tag"&gt;christianity&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/another+dead+girl/" rel="tag"&gt;another dead girl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=72273</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:54:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate Under the League of Nations </title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C57A0EBF-D1C9-45EA-B2D4-D16FEFDD1ABF/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  ........&lt;b&gt;The Jewish Connection To The Land&lt;/b&gt;......&lt;br/&gt;We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic, and geographical bonds."[10]&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The purpose of post-World War I's League of Nations was to prepare those liberated from the Turks for independence. Once the indigenous populations demonstrated their ability to assume control, the mandates given to the war's victorious superpowers were supposed to be self-terminating. For the international community, justice for the Arabs meant guaranteeing their economic, civil, and religious rights. Awarding the Arabs any form of self-government within Palestine was precluded by British commitments to the Jews under the Balfour Declaration, which had been incorporated in the mandate of the League of Nations.[11] &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://globalpolitician.com/25171-united-nations-un-israel" title="http://globalpolitician.com/25171-united-nations-un-israel"&gt;globalpolitician.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;     At this point in history, post-World War I, political pressure caused the international community to endorse the Jewish desire for national self-determination and acc epted that the Jewish people had a justifiable claim to return to their homeland.  Significantly, in this recognition, the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate under the League of Nations make no mention of Palestinians as a separate and distinct people with their own national rights. The indigenous people were regarded as residents whose political identity was connected to the larger Arab nation.[9] &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt; For the British, the matter was quite clear: Palestine was not a state but the name of a geographical area. This had been reinforced by the indigenous Arabs themselves.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/3C6EC8C5-C883-4D59-8471-420525BEA796.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to select Palestinian Arab representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, they adopted the following resolution: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/5279071F-39AE-4DCF-A3D4-E600EF22CE78.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Arthur Balfour&lt;BR /&gt; British Foreign Secretary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/israel/" rel="tag"&gt;israel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/league+of+nations/" rel="tag"&gt;league of nations&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/balfour+declaration/" rel="tag"&gt;balfour declaration&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/palestinians/" rel="tag"&gt;palestinians&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://globalpolitician.com/25171-united-nations-un-israel</clipSource><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:00:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI Wanted Obama Plotters Charged, But A Rove Appointee Said No</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/02797FFA-CD87-4CFE-B083-065EF41B0AE2/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/ratilfar/"&gt;ratilfar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Cont....&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Note the language used by Eid in dismissing the gravity of the case: the case isn't serious because they were "more aspirational, perhaps, than operational"? Well, when it was the Liberty Seven -- black Muslim men who were described by the FBI as "aspirational rather than operational" -- there was no hesitation by the Justice Department in bringing charges.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Another funny thing: When a black man in prison sent a threatening letter containing baby powder to John McCain, Troy Eid brought down the full force of the law, complete with press conferences and public declarations that "We won't stand for threats of this kind in Colorado."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;But when it’s a claque of white men with rifles, disguises, and all the accoutrement of a conspiracy – as well as open admissions to it – Troy Eid isn’t worried. After all, they just a bunch of harmless, tweakers, right? … Just like little Timmy McVeigh. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/" title="http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/"&gt;dneiwert.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/ratilfar/512/13670CBB-EEF0-4FB4-8DB6-D7CAB491EB2D.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Ariel, Helvetica, Sans-Serif"&gt;&lt;A href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/28/the-obama-plotters-the-republican-double-standard-in-law-enforcement-made-manifest/"&gt;We noticed last week&lt;/A&gt; that it was awfully peculiar that Colorado’s U.S. Attorney, Troy Eid, had so airily &lt;A href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/27/would-be-obama-plotters-everyones-eager-to-minimize-the-threat/"&gt;dismissed conspiracy charges against the three white-supremacist tweakers&lt;/A&gt; who were caught planning to assassinate Barack Obama at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Ariel, Helvetica, Sans-Serif"&gt;Now it turns out that &lt;A href="http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=98992&amp;catid=222"&gt;those suspicions were fully warranted&lt;/A&gt;:&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Ariel, Helvetica, Sans-Serif"&gt;The plot is similar to that in the 1992 movie "The Bodyguard" starring actors Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. In the movie, Costner stops an assassination attempt against Houston by spotting a weapon hidden inside a gutted-out TV camera.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Ariel, Helvetica, Sans-Serif"&gt;Based on the evidence, FBI special agent Robert Sawyer believed there was probable cause to charge the men with conspiracy to kill Senator Obama. However, US Attorney Troy Eid last week said there is insufficient evidence to indicate a true threat, plot or conspiracy against the senator.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag"&gt;obama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/plot/" rel="tag"&gt;plot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/assasination/" rel="tag"&gt;assasination&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/fbi/" rel="tag"&gt;fbi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/crime/" rel="tag"&gt;crime&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/justice/" rel="tag"&gt;justice&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/rove/" rel="tag"&gt;rove&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:30:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Read this clip and try not to say WTF!!</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5DA8B65E-CE7E-4524-AD30-513435924B35/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/egoldstein/"&gt;egoldstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  I mean, are you kidding me!?  Rachel Ray and Dunkin Donuts were offering "symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism" because she was wearing a black and white scarf.  After this one, it's going to take a whole to shock me &lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/images/icons/smilies/happy.gif?r=2" style="margin-bottom: -4px;" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Honestly, i just tagged this clip dunkin donuts, rachel ray and terrorism - WTF indeed!! &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/29/news/companies/dunkin_donuts.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes" title="http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/29/news/companies/dunkin_donuts.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes"&gt;money.cnn.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;BOSTON (AP) -- Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/egoldstein/512/130550C1-1717-405F-894D-F50073EF70CB.jpg" alt="rachael_ray.ap.03.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/dunkin+donuts/" rel="tag"&gt;dunkin donuts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/rachel+ray/" rel="tag"&gt;rachel ray&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/terrorism/" rel="tag"&gt;terrorism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wtf/" rel="tag"&gt;wtf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/29/news/companies/dunkin_donuts.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 01:49:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Somalia: Islamist Fighters Shut Down Restaurants</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/BA758864-B778-42CA-A376-79C405EF8F7E/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Smoke+TNT/"&gt;Smoke TNT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200809040183.html" title="http://allafrica.com/stories/200809040183.html"&gt;allafrica.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P class="story-body"&gt;Islamist fighters have forced several restaurants to close for Ramadan in middle Shabelle because it would "violate the sanctity" of the month.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P class="story-body"&gt;Authorities said serving daily meals are contrary to the order of Ramadan and it has been blocked the opening of restaurants during daylight hours during the month of fasting.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P class="story-body"&gt;Several daily restaurants in the Ramadan have also been detained by the Islamic fighters.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P class="story-body"&gt;The commander of Islamist fighters in Maxaas area where the incident happened Ali Bile has made it known that no-one will be permitted to violate the sanctity of the month.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P class="story-body"&gt;The start of the ninth and holiest month in the Muslim calendar is determined by the sighting of the new moon, which means Muslims in various countries begin Ramadan at dawn one different days.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/islam/" rel="tag"&gt;islam&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/muslims/" rel="tag"&gt;muslims&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/islamofascism/" rel="tag"&gt;islamofascism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/restaurants/" rel="tag"&gt;restaurants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://allafrica.com/stories/200809040183.html</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:49:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/4761794A-2900-4C9A-9DC7-1F217DD6E2F4/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Smoke+TNT/"&gt;Smoke TNT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7591037.stm" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7591037.stm"&gt;news.bbc.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/Smoke TNT/512/E3D5E728-FB5E-4A08-97D1-E2ED8EDAA0E5.jpg" alt="Baba Mohammed Bello Abubakar" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV class="cap"&gt;Mr Bello Abubakar challenged Muslim scholars two weeks ago&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;B&gt;A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;
A spokesman for the emir of Bida told the BBC that Mohammadu Bello Abubakar, 84, agreed on Saturday to comply with the decree.
&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;
Last week one of Nigeria's top Islamic bodies, the Jamatu Nasril Islam, sentenced him to death.
&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;
The sentence was lifted but he was threatened with eviction from his home.

&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;
Earlier, Mr Abubakar had challenged Islamic scholars, saying there was no punishment stated in the Koran for having more than four wives.
&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;
"I have not contravened any established law that would warrant my being banished from the land... There is no law that says one must not marry more than four wives," the AFP news agency reported him as saying.

	
		&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;
The former teacher and Islamic preacher lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children.
&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/Smoke TNT/512/1721550B-CFB0-41CC-B592-2A83FD522E48.jpg" alt="Inside "Baba's" house" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Many of the wives live three to a room&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/weird/" rel="tag"&gt;weird&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/marriage/" rel="tag"&gt;marriage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/muslims/" rel="tag"&gt;muslims&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/islam/" rel="tag"&gt;islam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7591037.stm</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:54:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MPs too scared to talk about forced marriage 'in case they lose Muslim votes'</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/57B227A4-61A7-45B1-B6F1-605A381E54EE/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Smoke+TNT/"&gt;Smoke TNT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2661385/MPs-too-scared-to-talk-about-forced-marriage-in-case-they-lose-Muslim-votes.html" title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2661385/MPs-too-scared-to-talk-about-forced-marriage-in-case-they-lose-Muslim-votes.html"&gt;www.telegraph.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H2&gt;Politicians are too scared to speak out against forced marriage in case they lose valuable Muslim votes, according to a veteran Labour MP. &lt;/H2&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ann Cryer said politicians in areas with high Muslim populations, many of which are Labour heartlands, should be at the forefront of the campaign to stop young couples being made to wed against their will by their families.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;But she claimed that some politicians are afraid to speak out on the issue in case they alienate Muslim voters. The forced marriage unit at the Foreign Office deals with an estimated 300 cases every year, most of them involving teenage girls from Pakistani or Bangladeshi families.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Mrs Cryer, who is stepping down as MP for Keighley in West Yorkshire at the next general election, added that local Muslim leaders are not doing enough to encourage integration and accused them of trying to keep immigrants who move to Britain "in the backwoods".&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;It comes just days after Gordon Brown praised her "brave" campaign against forced marriage&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/islam/" rel="tag"&gt;islam&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/muslims/" rel="tag"&gt;muslims&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/islamofascism/" rel="tag"&gt;islamofascism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag"&gt;politics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/marriage/" rel="tag"&gt;marriage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/crime/" rel="tag"&gt;crime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2661385/MPs-too-scared-to-talk-about-forced-marriage-in-case-they-lose-Muslim-votes.html</clipSource><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:54:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Meet Barry Soetoro</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/E9932425-19B6-4228-B6F6-5C97D0705FD4/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/willhelm/"&gt;willhelm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  What It Means&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This AP photo is compelling evidence of the following assertions, which have been set forth on this blog:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;1. Barack Obama had Indonesian citizenship&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;2. Barack Obama had the legal name Barry Soetoro&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;3. Barack Obama was a Muslim, despite his “fight the smears” claim that he never has been. (see new story that we just posted on this topic). &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/breaking-photo-documents-barry-soetoro-indonesian/" title="http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/breaking-photo-documents-barry-soetoro-indonesian/"&gt;texasdarlin.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H2&gt;*Breaking* Photo Documents Barry Soetoro: Indonesian Citizen, Muslim Religion [Updated x 2]&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;We just received this photo of a school registration form, courtesy of reader “curious,” taken by Tatan Syuflana, an Indonesian AP reporter and photographer. &lt;DEL datetime="00"&gt;To my knowledge, the AP has not written a story about this&lt;/DEL&gt;. [revision: There was an &lt;A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012400371_pf.html"&gt;AP story story in Jan. 2007&lt;/A&gt;, but it did not include this photo]. The photo has become relevant now in the context of other revelations reported on this blog. Here is the AP folder where Syuflana’s photo was found: &lt;A href="http://www.daylife.com/photo/01u33pL9Ns06D"&gt;www.daylife.com&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/willhelm/512/AFD59AA6-ECB5-49CC-ACE7-F666AE6FECB4.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;“This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama &lt;STRONG&gt;under the name Barry Soetoro&lt;/STRONG&gt; into the Catholic school made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. The document lists Barry Soetoro as a &lt;STRONG&gt;Indonesian citizen&lt;/STRONG&gt;, born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, and shows his Muslim step-father listed the boy’s &lt;STRONG&gt;religion as Islam&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/breaking-photo-documents-barry-soetoro-indonesian/</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:52:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ramadan Greetings</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/BA5718B5-8DBE-4587-8AF0-C797928327D4/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/masbury/"&gt;masbury&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  I am a better person because of what I have learned from Muslims. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://masbury.wordpress.com/" title="http://masbury.wordpress.com/"&gt;masbury.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/masbury/512/C2F5C5FE-8A52-4323-83CE-46A47374A321.jpg" alt="Ramadan wallpaper" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;To my friends who are Muslims:&lt;BR /&gt;
May mercy, forgiveness, and salvation be yours in abundance this Ramadan!&lt;BR /&gt;
I am a better person because of what you have given me.  Your friendship is a treasure.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG alt="" src="http://masbury.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/sigs.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ramadan/" rel="tag"&gt;ramadan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/muslim/" rel="tag"&gt;muslim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://masbury.wordpress.com/</clipSource><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:45:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan: Christians living in constant fear and peril</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6D72340F-494A-460D-9DB2-271BFC51039F/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Smoke+TNT/"&gt;Smoke TNT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://members4.boardhost.com/acnaus/msg/1220312333.html" title="http://members4.boardhost.com/acnaus/msg/1220312333.html"&gt;members4.boardhost.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Father Emmanuel Asi, secretary of the Catholic Bible Commission of Pakistan and parish priest of a large parish in Lahore, has told the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that Christians in Pakistan are living "in constant fear and peril".  &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;He cited the example of a 13 year old Christian girl who only recently had been kidnapped and raped by a Muslim man. Such incidents were a regular occurrence, he said. In order to avoid punishment for this crime, the man involved would simply assert that the woman was now a Muslim. He would "marry� her, but then send her away again after a short time. No one could do anything to stop this, since the victims were put under such great pressure by their "husbands" and threatened with death, so that they themselves would confirm in court, in the presence of their parents, that they had converted to Islam. In this way a Muslim man could abduct and rape any woman with impunity, he said. &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/Smoke TNT/512/30388931-3DB0-42DD-A92F-3EB0E617F349.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Father Emmanuel Asi &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/pakistan/" rel="tag"&gt;pakistan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/muslims/" rel="tag"&gt;muslims&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/islam/" rel="tag"&gt;islam&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/islamofascism/" rel="tag"&gt;islamofascism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/rape/" rel="tag"&gt;rape&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/women/" rel="tag"&gt;women&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/christianity/" rel="tag"&gt;christianity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://members4.boardhost.com/acnaus/msg/1220312333.html</clipSource><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:03:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Barack Obama quote</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/3439F184-5FE5-42D7-8362-2D315FC07D6F/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/bernitek/"&gt;bernitek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Quote of Barack Obama &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://nonbelievers.org/" title="http://nonbelievers.org/"&gt;nonbelievers.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;“Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America's population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;B&gt;— Barack Obama&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/barack/" rel="tag"&gt;barack&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag"&gt;obama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/quote/" rel="tag"&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://nonbelievers.org/</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:42:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Funeral no time for "altar call"</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/DA64F4F3-15B8-4B91-8C5D-0E2BFCFF488D/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/wiccantexan/"&gt;wiccantexan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  " A:  The “altar call” is one of the most distinctive and controversial elements of evangelical Christianity. It was “invented” about 150 years ago by American evangelist Charles Finney and popularized by Dwight Moody and especially Billy Graham. The people who come to the altar say a sinner’s prayer and accept Jesus as their Lord and savior." &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.buffalonews.com/lifearts/religion/story/410542.html" title="http://www.buffalonews.com/lifearts/religion/story/410542.html"&gt;www.buffalonews.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt; &lt;B&gt; &lt;I&gt;Q:&lt;/I&gt; &lt;/B&gt; I’ve attended two memorial services in two weeks, both at nondenominational Christian churches (I’m Catholic). Toward the end of each service, both of which were respectful and quite lovely, the minister announced an “altar call,” stating that Jesus was the only way to salvation, and that those who had not come to Jesus should do so at that very instant! This exercise lasted a good 10 minutes. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;I’m a pluralist, so I don’t believe accepting Jesus is the only path to salvation, and I was very uncomfortable for my Jewish and Muslim friends in attendance. Is this a new trend? Is it appropriate? It seems as though the minister was taking advantage of a captive audience. However, no matter how offended anyone might have been personally, no one was going to be disrespectful by walking out. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/religion/" rel="tag"&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/belief/" rel="tag"&gt;belief&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/christian/" rel="tag"&gt;christian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/christianity/" rel="tag"&gt;christianity&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/church/" rel="tag"&gt;church&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/respect/" rel="tag"&gt;respect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.buffalonews.com/lifearts/religion/story/410542.html</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:38:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Proof Obama isn't Muslim</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/EAD1D9A9-51A6-44D5-878B-733C9BDCE516/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/"&gt;n2sooners&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0705030035may03,0,3860794.story" title="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0705030035may03,0,3860794.story"&gt;www.chicagotribune.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Barack Obama has expressed pride in his ability to bring home old-fashioned
pork.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;
"My philosophy was that, if money was being distributed, then it would be
inappropriate for me to not get my share for my district,"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;In 2001, for example, Obama steered
$75,000 to a South Side charity called FORUM Inc., which promised to help
churches and community groups get wired to the Internet. Records show five
FORUM employees, including one who had declared bankruptcy, had donated $1,000
apiece to Obama's state Senate campaign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;
One of those long-time supporters was &lt;A id="PERLL000313" title="Michael Pfleger" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/religion-belief/christianity/roman-catholic/michael-pfleger-PERLL000313.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink" linkindex="40" set="yes"&gt;Rev. Michael Pfleger&lt;/A&gt;, the politically
active leader of St. Sabina Church. He gave Obama's campaign $1,500 between
1995 and 2001, including $200 in April 2001, about three months after Obama
announced $225,000 in grants to St. Sabina programs.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;
Another supporter, Henry English, made two donations to Obama totaling $900
in 2001 after Obama helped send a $50,000 grant to a non-profit group that
English ran&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag"&gt;obama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag"&gt;politics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/pork/" rel="tag"&gt;pork&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/corruption/" rel="tag"&gt;corruption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0705030035may03,0,3860794.story</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:54:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>o lawdy.</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/2AF03125-5E5A-4531-B373-C930122A92D2/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/nomereveneerofvanity/"&gt;nomereveneerofvanity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  video at the source.. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://jezebel.com/5041661/clintons-4-mccain-crazy-takes-on-chris-matthews-has-minor-meltdown" title="http://jezebel.com/5041661/clintons-4-mccain-crazy-takes-on-chris-matthews-has-minor-meltdown"&gt;jezebel.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H1&gt;&lt;A href="http://jezebel.com/5041661/clintons-4-mccain-crazy-takes-on-chris-matthews-has-minor-meltdown"&gt;"Clintons 4 McCain" Crazy Takes On Chris Matthews, Has Minor Meltdown&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/H1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt; take in this clip of Clinton-loving, McCain-voting, hair-tossing Clintons 4 McCain founder Cristi Atkins, who spat all over &lt;EM&gt;Hardball&lt;/EM&gt;'s Chris Matthews in contempt earlier this evening when he took her to task for repeating rumors about Barack Obama's supposed Muslim upbringing.&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://jezebel.com/5041661/clintons-4-mccain-crazy-takes-on-chris-matthews-has-minor-meltdown</clipSource><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:41:58 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>