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I recently read (ok skimmed) an article that blamed Muslim parents for the religious extremism of their children. I’m sure that Zionist thugs are just an elaborate excuse then. If that was someone’s dad getting beat up by these Nazis I’m sure that the children would want to retaliate so I guess maybe the author was right.

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Check out this article!!! It’s about a Nazi family who had their children taken away because their parents were teaching them this White Supremacist idealogy. While I find such an ideology repugnant I find that the state removing children from their parents because they are teaching them ideas to be quite authoritarian and fascistic. Is it right to combat Nazism with totalitarian-like policies?

(Keep in mind that the article did not mention any child abuse or even any crimes committed by the parents. Only that the husband is “presumed to be involved in “hate crimes” related to children.” Which isn’t substantial enough to warrant removing children from their parents.)

Freedom, while sounding more and more like a cliche nowadays, should include the right to teach your children whatever you want (including that human beings used to ride dinosaurs to work.) What else will the state deem repugnant in the future? Teaching your children about the Constitution? Teaching them to criticize government policy? Or maybe teaching them to criticize Zionism, after all criticizing Israel is anti-Semitic right? How about just plain old teaching them about Islam and praying five times a day?

Really, if Nazis are so bad why does the government goose step into people’s homes and kidnap their children? Isn’t that more than a little Nazi-like?

Standard authoritarian practice is to set precedents by attacking unpopular groups that will rouse little or no sympathy and use their powers against ordinary folk. Beware the Canadians!

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A friend of mine sent me a link about how the gay marriage ban has been overturned in California. He was all upset. Since he was a dude he was able to summarize his feelings with a concise, “This Sucks.”

I, on the other hand replied, “I am saving my outrage for when they allow consensual relationships between older gay men and 11 year old boys.” Can anyone say NAMBLA?

I don’t really know how all this gayness got mainstream. If you’re gay and you want to have a private party with your friends and call yourselves married, be my guest. (That was a figure of speech, you’re not really invited to my place.) This is America and here you can do that. But why are you going to FORCE everyone else to recognize that you are married? This is why I don’t like big government. Groups can hi-jack the state and use it’s coercive powers for their own agendas.  Can you say neo-conservative, nincompoop Bush-hole?

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It’s about time for some controversy. A friend of mine shot me an email and asked me to post it and so here it is. He contrasts the lyrics for two nasheed presumably to highlight the “shirkiness” of one of them. Which one, you decide.

As a note I think it is a bit inaccurate to label the non-Sufi lyrics as Sunni since generally Sufis are considered Sunni and would take great offense at the distinction. But that’s how the email came, and at the very least this should be quite stimulating. I wanted to change it to Sufi and Salafi but I couldn’t justify calling Mesut Kurtis a Salafi, nor do I think he would appreciate the title. I guess when Muslims start playing the label game confusion is inevitable. Anyway, enjoy.

A simple illustration
of Sufism Vs. Sunni Islam

Two different versions of lyrics
are presented below:

  1. The original version
    that is sung in Mawlid and Dhikr gatherings by those who
    ascribe themselves to Tassawuff.
  2. Modified version
    sung by non-Sufis.
    Original Sufi

    O Leader of the Messengers, You are my support

    You are the Gate of Allah and my reliance

    So in my life and in the hereafter

    O Messenger of Allah, guide me

    [Both poems are drastically different from this point on; comparison is not possible]

    Modified non-Sufi

    O Lord of the Universe, You are my support

    It is on You, O my Master, that I rely

    So in my life and in the hereafter

    O Lord of the Throne, guide me

Here are the Sufi Lyrics and here are the “Sunni” Lyrics.

(Oh snap, no he didn’t!)

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