Quran MP3

this is a great website that allows you to download or stream chapters of the quran in mp3 format .. also they have several reciters available for you to choose from .. i'm downloading the entire quran and putting it on my iPod .. i'm mixing it up a bit - a chapter by this reciter, a chapter by that reciter .. it will be nice to listen while working at the office during ramadan ..

http://www.mp3quran.net/

Parking Lot Dabkeh

from kabobfest

Zionists Have No Shame

The video was filmed by a Turkish reporter of Channel 24, Elif Ural, who accompanied the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team on its flight from Israel to the Turkish town of Kayseri, where it is scheduled to play against local team Erciyesstor Thursday evening.
A group of fans who were on the plane with the team were caught on video singing songs against Muhammad and Muslims.

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Bush Porn

When a British artist was denied US backing to paint a portrait of President George Bush he decided to make an ‘alternative’ version - from images of porn.
Now Jonathan Yeo, 36, has caused a stir in the US, where Republicans have attacked the work for being in poor taste.
A Republican spokesman said: “This picture is very distasteful. Why would anyone want to make a picture of our President from pornographic material?”
Jonathan, son of former Tory backbencher Tim Yeo, told Metro: “To get the right skin tones for a man in his 50s the healthy, tanned and airbrushed bodies of the majority of top-shelf magazines were no good. …
And for the hair I eventually tracked down some German magazines that don’t necessarily follow the Hollywood wax route.”

click here to see the picture

The Vick

remember this ... well they sold for $7,400

The success of the auction created a craze of more than 25 other postings this week offering torn-up cards featuring the disgraced NFL superstar, most also promising to donate the money to local animal shelters. But so far, the original post from Rochelle Steffen, of Cape Girardeau, has been the only auction to attract droves of bidders.

While Vick was once considered by collectors as having some of the most-sought after memorabilia, the value of his autographs, cards and other collectibles have dramatically dipped. Even his 2001 SP Authentic rookie card, once valued at more than $1,000, is now being traded at $285 to $400, he said.

Quote of the Day

I intend to go to my office on the first day of classes and, if my way is barred, to engage in civil disobedience. If arrested, I'll go on a hunger strike. If released, I'll do it all over again. I'll fast in jail for as long as it takes.

Controversial DePaul Professor Norman Finkelstein ..

Finkelstein, 53, was denied tenure in June after six years on the DePaul faculty, but he was permitted to teach for the one year remaining on his contract. On Friday, however, the university e-mailed students saying that Finkelstein's sole political science course had been canceled. By Monday, the books for the course had been pulled from the DePaul bookstore's shelves. A son of survivors of the Warsaw ghetto and concentration camps, Finkelstein accuses Jews of improperly using the legacy of the Holocaust, or as he calls it 'The Holocaust Industry'.

A one-month-old leopard cub sits on a branch at Jordan Zoo, near Amman.

REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN)

You’re calling but I can’t hear you
I’m not listening anymore
You’re subject to falling but I can’t save you
I don’t see you anymore

شو بعمل فكرت شوي

فيها تطلعت بلهفة

قلتلها قدام الحي

مش راح حبك عالمخفي

بدي حبك مهما يصير

و راح خلي عيوني نواطير

تسهر حدك لتنامي

Tag Heuer

the lovely sam tagged me ..

1. What is your middle name?

thabit

2. What color pants are you wearing?

i'm wearing shorts at the moment .. and they are dark blue

3. What are you listening to now?

my iPod .. song currently playing is one love by cormega

4. What was the last thing you had to drink?

a mug of lipton tea

5. Do you wish on Stars?

nope .. what would be the point?

6. If you were a crayon what color would you be?

magenta lol .. no i'm kidding .. well blue is my favorite color so i'll say blue .. as a kid i used to have one of those big crayola boxes that have like 64 crayons and a built-in sharpener .. oh joy

7. How is the weather today?

hot and humid .. AS USUAL

8. Last person you spoke to on the phone?

my oldest brother

9. Do you like the person that sent this to you?

i actually do .. and i'm not just saying that to be nice either

10. Favorite drink?

strawberry juice .. blackberry juice .. lemon juice .. orange juice .. cherry coke is good .. nestea ice tea .. as far as alcohol is concerned i quit drinking a long long time ago

11. Favorite sport?

basketball .. basketball .. basketball .. and basketball

12. Hair Color?

brown with some some gray here and there .. and a receding hairline

13. Siblings?

four brothers .. i'm the middle child

14. Favorite month?

i don't have one .. but let's say november .. since i was born in it :)

15. Favorite Food?

chinese .. and i love sandwiches of all types .. i make great sandwiches :)

16. What was the last movie you saw in theaters?

i can't even remember .. i think pirates of the carribean 2 .. yes it was that long ago
17. Favorite day of the year?

i don't have one .. but as a kid i used to love halloween

18. What do you do to vent anger?

have a smoke .. go for a drive .. go for a walk .. work out .. stab someone .. play videogames .. if and only if i am alone i might cry

19. What was your favourite toy as a child?

i used to like remote control cars .. supersoakers .. lego .. what else .. i used to enjoy putting puzzles together believe it or not .. i was good too!

20. Summer or winter?

definitely the winter

21. Hugs or kisses?

whatever i can get lol

22. Car or motorcycle?

car .. without thinking twice

23. Chocolate or vanilla?

no comment .. this is just a subliminal question to see if i am racist .. i'm not falling for it :P

24. Do you want your friends to do this survey(tag)?

sure if they want to

25. Who is most likely to do this survey(tag)?

those that want to

26. Who is least likely to respond?

those that don't want to

27. When was the last time you cried?

lol i don't keep record but i think the last time was less than a month ago

28. What is under your bed?

my pet monster :)

29. Who is the friend that you have had the longest?

jaffer .. i've known him since like first grade but he moved to houston a few years ago

30. What did you do last night?

i discovered a cure for cancer .. no wait .. actually i did nothing

31. What are you afraid of?

temptation

32. Plain, buttered, or salted popcorn?

salted

33. Favorite car?

audi & lexus

34. Favorite Flower?

the ones with the pretty colors lol .. how should i know .. frangipanis lol .. no i'm just kidding i just wanted to say frangipani .. seriously i don't have one but let's just say orchids .. those really are beautiful.

35. How many keys on your key ring?

five .. one is the house key .. and the other four are for work .. hopefully i'll be adding a car key before the year is over

36. How many years at your job?

five months

37. What did you do on your last birthday?

as i recall i did nothing .. i had just returned from beirut like a day or two before so i was tired anyway

38. How many states have you lived in?

none .. i've lived in two countries .. KSA and Lebanon

39. Did you have fun doing this?

yeah why not

40. Who are you going to send this to?

nobody .. i have a policy against tagging others .. which probably explains why no one ever tags me lol

The Filthy Occupation

Of all the issues often raised with regards to the occupation's injustices and the attitude of authorities and settlers to the Palestinians, environmental issues are at the margins of the social-political agenda, even in the rare cases where environmental issues in Israel itself are brought up for debate.
However, during more than 40 years of Israeli control, the West Bank has become, either consciously or unconsciously, our garbage dump, and particularly that of the settlements and illegal outposts in the area.
Toxic sewage from plants and sewage systems pouring into Palestinian agricultural and pasture areas are a routine matter. Local authorities abandon and neglect the handling of their pollutants as long as the result surfaces a few kilometers away, outside their municipal area. On the other end, Palestinian residents are left to deal with the pollution and filth.


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An Atlantic puffin with a beak crammed with hake makes its way to a burrow to feed its chick on Eastern Egg Rock, Maine. Puffins raise one chick per year.

(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Host Hilary Duff is seen at the Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, California.

(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Clever :)

Jokes and Jokes and Jokes

got this on my email today ... i don't know if it's actually true or not but it's funny nonetheless ...

After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a "gripe sheet," which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft.
The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.
Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS ' pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers.

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P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.

S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.



P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.

S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.



P: Something loose in cockpit

S: Something tightened in cockpit



P: Dead bugs on windshield.

S: Live bugs on back-order.



P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent

S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.



P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.

S: Evidence removed.



P: DME volume unbelievably loud.

S: DME volume set to more believable level.



P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.

S: That's what friction locks are for.



P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode.

S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.



P: Suspected crack in windshield.

S: Suspect you're right.



P: Number 3 engine missing.

S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.



P: Aircraft handles funny. (I love this one!)

S: Aircraft warned to: straighten up, fly right, and be serious.



P: Target radar hums.

S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.



P: Mouse in cockpit.

S: Cat installed.



And the best one for last..................



P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.

S: Took hammer away from midget

Powder Makes Me Paranoid

Two people who sprinkled flour in a Connecticut parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.
The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.
New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.
The siblings set off the scare while organizing a run for a local chapter of the Hash House Harriers, a worldwide group that bills itself as a “drinking club with a running problem.”
“Hares” are given the task of marking a trail to direct runners, throwing in some dead ends and forks as challenges. On Thursday, the Salchows decided to route runners through the massive IKEA parking lot.

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Zionist Crimes

An ill, one-year-old Palestinian baby died in his father's arms on Sunday after the pair passed several hours under baking sun waiting to cross from the Gaza Strip into Israel, medics said. Ibrahim Abu Nahel and his father arrived at the Erez border crossing between Gaza and Israel at 8 a.m. on Sunday, with the aim of traveling to the Yehelov Hospital near Tel Aviv to get treatment for the baby's heart condition, they said. The pair waited for four hours in the sun for the Israeli authorities to allow them to pass through, despite having had a permit to enter the Jewish state, and Nahel died, they said. The cause of death was not immediately known.

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Zionist Logic

If you don't support our ethnic cleansing and intrinsically fascist religious dogma then YOU'RE a racist.

It's not terrorism when WE do it.

- Your house belongs to me.
- Says who?
- God.
- What are you talking about?
- See, we have these books that we wrote, and in these books we say God said that your house is mine on account of my blood line back to the people in the magic garden with the talking snake.
- Well sorry but that's not my religion, and I think I'd like to keep MY house.
- Anti-Semite!

Throwing rocks at an illegal occupation army is a war crime.

Those Arabs have been trying to live on MY land ever since I got off the plane from Russia.

Why does the world act like there's something wrong with us demolishing their homes and shooting their kids? I mean come on man this is the lord's work. We have to defend ourselves and the land we stole. I'm calling Washington!

Quote of the Day

You imagine! An American Jew heard about us while reading the magazine in... Where was it? Ah yes, Hawaii. And he came here to give us the boards. It's madness.

Palestinian surfer Ahmad Abu Hassira, 28, one of the proud recipients of brand new surfing equipment donated by American surfing legend Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, a retired Jewish doctor living in Hawaii.
Surfing champion, Kelly Slater who is of Arab descent, also supported the operation.

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War .. What Is It Good For?

"I liked it. The excitement. The adrenaline. Never knowing what's going to happen. Now it's nothing. You just watch the news or you watch the war movies on TV."

"Nobody really knows what the soldiers are going through. They see on TV, oh yeah, two soldiers got wounded today and they think yeah he'll be all right. But that soldier is scarred for life both physically and mentally.
They ask stupid questions like, 'Was it hot? Did you shoot anybody?' They want me to glorify war and say it was so cool. The reality of it is, seeing all that crap fucks you up in the head, man. I can't sleep at night. It sucks. It really sucks."

"I lost my leg just below the knee. Lost my eyesight. I have shrapnel in pretty much every part of my body. I don't have any regrets. It was the best experience of my life."


An exhibition by photographer Nina Berman at New York's Jen Bekman Gallery, features portraits of US soldiers wounded in Iraq. Berman began taking the photos shortly after the 2003 invasion, choosing to shoot them not in hospital wards but in their homes, often in small town America, far from the media glare.
Berman said she was first spurred into taking the portraits out of frustration, sickened by the early media coverage of the war.
"I started working on it out of exasperation at not seeing any visual representation of the human cost of war. In the press you kept hearing reports or reading reports about wounded but never seeing any images," she told AFP.
Berman said she was most interested not in her subjects' physical wounds but the psychological scars hidden beneath.

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Gaza - School Without Books

"Some 200,000 children will go into our classrooms on 1 September, and won't have the books they need," John Ging, the Gaza director of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, told IRIN.

The shortage has emanated from Israel's refusal, so far, to allow five trucks of paper into the impoverished territory, needed to print the textbooks. Since the Hamas takeover of Gaza in June, Israel has clamped down on the borders, bringing imports and exports almost to a halt with the exception of basic humanitarian goods. The latest development serves as an indicator of the difference of opinion between many aid organisations and Israel on what is considered "humanitarian aid". Indeed, food and medicine continue to make it into the Gaza Strip and even fuel. However, many goods are locked out. "We are trying to get raw materials into Gaza," but without success, said Sebastien Kuster of CARE France, adding that the materials, including pipes, asphalt and cement for water and sanitation projects were humanitarian goods. "These are needed to complete work to guarantee continuous access to water for the people in Gaza."

Even if the paper arrived immediately, the school year would still begin without the textbooks. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, to print the over 350,000 books needed by UNRWA, factories would require between 20 and 25 days, "assuming the electricity is functioning normally".

Officials in Israel, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the state is concerned the paper might be used to print books with Hamas ideology imbedded within them, or for other propagandist endeavours.
However, Gershon Baskin, the Israeli director of the Israel-Palestine Centre for Research and Information, who is campaigning to get the paper in, said so far there is no indication Hamas will change the curriculum.
"It remains a concern," he admitted. "But by not allowing them to print books, will the thoughts and ideas go away? If they want to teach [radicalism], someone can teach without a book," said Baskin.
Not letting in the paper is "denying children their right to education", he concluded.

PHOTO GALLERY OF LIFE FOR PALESTINIAN SCHOOL CHILDREN

Let Them In!

A Palestinian football team has been banned from playing in Britain, because officials apparently believe they will not return to Gaza. The Gaza under-19s team had been invited to play British football clubs Chester City and Blackburn Rovers. The team's visa applications were rejected after every member failed to meet entry criteria, said a spokesman for the British consulate in Jerusalem. The consulate said it regretted being unable to support a worthy cause.

The players were told the visas were blocked because of the risk they would not return home to Gaza, says the BBC's Mike Sergeant in Jerusalem. The team's manager told BBC News the players had expected to be welcomed in Britain, and were depressed about the decision.
Arranging football matches in Gaza is hard enough, says our correspondent. There are few proper football pitches and Israeli forces bombed Gaza's main stadium last year.

Tour organiser Rod Cox, from Chester, said the ruling was unfair, as the players had overcome difficult circumstances to qualify for their national team. "Here's a bunch of kids who've worked their entire life to be selected to be the 22 best players and to play for their national team," he said. "What's the point of all that work if you're told: 'Yes, everybody else can go and compete in England but you can't.'"

join this facebook group to support the team

Where Are They Now?

you know that concept of fifteen minutes of fame .. one day you're famous the next day you're a nobody .. the name gary coleman comes to mind.
but seriously .. the other day i was flipping through the channels .. it was late .. past midnight .. that time of day when everything on tv is either crap or a rerun of something you already watched earlier that evening .. so while i was flipping through the channels i landed on LBC .. now you know these late night "programs" (note the quotations because i am using the term very loosely here) .. where there is a guy or a girl - usually a girl - and they are talking to the camera .. and they want you to call the numbers showing on the screen and participate so you can win .. there will be some silly question that you have to answer .. you all know what i'm talking about .. so the guy hosting the "program" looked familiar .. i spent about two or three minutes trying to figure out who he was .. i knew i had seen him somewhere before .. then i remembered .. it was that jordanian guy from star academy .. bashar .. wow .. what a loser.

Quote of the Day

"it takes some of the fun out of it"
A Malaysian event organizer commenting on having to inform Beyonce's management that she needs to dress conservatively for her concert scheduled in November. Malaysia recently witnessed protests against Gwen Stefani, forcing the event organizers to issue a statement that the concert "will not feature any revealing costumes".
Beyonce recently suffered a "wardrobe malfunction" during her concert in Canada. Her breasts were accidentally exposed when the flowing shirt she was wearing flew up while she was dancing at the show in Toronto.

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back up, cuz u crowdin my space..
u need to get outta my face

Random Nothingness

funny names of facebook groups that i found ...

Blowing into Nintendo Games is a Fond Memory of Mine

Daa2erat mokafa7et il 6an6at

I'm A Burnout Whore (in reference to the Burnout videogame series)

I love Palestine, but I'm already in like 82783402058540534 groups for it

CUP NOODLE LOVERS, UNITE!

I cried when Boxer died in Animal Farm

Oscar the Grouch is Really Just a Marajuana Plant Livin in a Garbage Can

All I ever needed to know in life, I leaned by reading Dr. Seuss.

I Can't Dunk.

I'm a Sagittarius, so I Must Be Hung Like a Centaur

Anti-Wigger Society

I want a McFlurry!

Shawn Kemp might be my dad

A group for people who join groups and never do anything after that

Zionist Terrorism

Mariya Aman is looking forward to her sixth birthday party next week. Her face lights up when her father, Hamdi, promises her a clown and lots of balloons at the party, and she whizzes up and down the hospital corridor in her electric wheelchair. As he smiles and waves to her, Hamdi Aman's sad eyes never leave his only daughter. Apart from the birthday party, he says quietly, he has no idea what the future holds for Mariya.
Confined to a wheelchair and paralyzed from the neck down, the Palestinian girl is at the center of a legal fight over whether Israel should continue to take care of her treatment. Back in May 2006, an Israeli missile attack on an Islamic Jihad activist's car in war-torn Gaza left the Aman family, traveling close behind, in ruins. Mariya's mother, brother, grandmother and uncle were killed, and Mariya, thrown out of the car into a ditch, sustained serious injuries. Today Mariya is kept alive by an artificial respirator at the Alyn Children's Rehabilitation Hospital in Jerusalem.

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More On Vick

Collector Rochelle Steffen of Cape Girardeau, Mo., gave every Vick card she owned to her dogs and let them go to town on the images of the Atlanta Falcons quarterback who is scheduled to plead guilty to a federal dogfighting charge Monday.
Once Monte, her 6-year-old Weimaraner, and Roxie, her Great Dane puppy, were done worrying them, nearly two dozen $1-$10 cards were crumpled, crimped, chewed, torn and generally in a sorry state. Some even had corners missing.
As of Thursday evening, the highest bid on the lot of 22 cards had risen to $455 and more than 2,000 people had viewed the posting. Seventy-seven people already have bid on the auction, which ends Sunday.
She plans to donate the winning bid money to the humane society of the bidder's choice.
Since Vick was indicted on federal dogfighting charges last month, former fans have donated Vick jerseys to dog shelters, while others have tried to cash in by selling Vick T-shirts and chew toys for dogs.
"I'm not angry toward him; my anger is toward anyone who would do this to animals," said Steffen, a college student and artist who wrote a note accompanying her auction to explain it was artistic expression. "I mean no harm to anyone involved with this auction," she wrote.

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Marbury Update

remember this .. well he's backpedaling now ..

"What Michael Vick did was wrong, and he has admitted his guilt," Marbury said in a statement released by the Knicks to New York newspapers. "He should be punished. However, he should be given a second chance, as others have received for more serious crimes ... There is no list for which animals should be killed and which shouldn't. I love animals and none of them should be harmed. However, we don't react the same when other animals are being killed for sport or the sake of human pleasure."

it's basically the same thing marbury said but in a more politically correct way .. it sounds like something written by the knicks management .. or maybe marbury's agent.

This Is Funny :)

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Zionist Crimes

a gallery of zionist crimes against humanity

http://www.sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2002/12/3291.shtml

Talkin' Sports ... and Religion

as you may or may not have heard .. michael vick - the atlanta falcons star quarterback - has been at the center of a legal scandal lately .. he is being accused of setting up a dogfighting operation on his property .. it is a HUGE story .. in the US media that is .. anyway .. he is really getting hammered in the press .. not to mention losing his deal with nike .. there is serious talk about how his career may be over ..
now dogfighting is illegal in the US .. it is a federal offense and for good reason .. and vick and his co-defendants pleaded guilty to the charges ..
some pro athletes have been coming to vick's defense .. clinton portis, deion sanders, and roy jones jr. have all gone on record saying that vick didn't really do anything wrong and that this whole thing is being blown out of proportion .. the latest being none other than new york knicks point guard stephon marbury ..

"I think it's tough," Marbury said, according to Albany TV station Capital News 9. "I think, you know, we don't say anything about people who shoot deer or shoot other animals. You know, from what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors."

marbury's comments are the latest but certainly not the last chapter in the vick controversy .. and they are receiving a lot of attention in the media .. with some people saying he has a point .. while others are calling him an idiot .. from what i have read it seems that the majority belong to the latter group .. what do you think?

personally .. i'm kind of torn .. i mean he does have a point .. well kind of .. i do see some validity in what he said .. i think he is correct in saying that there are some activities where animals are harmed or killed that society doesn't frown upon .. so on what grounds are these considered legal sport activities .. how do we determine which activities should be classified as sports and which should be classified as crimes .. but at the same time .. i don't agree with marbury calling dogfighting a sport .. because it's not .. it's cruelty and it deserves to be a crime.

in islam cruelty to animals is a sin .. islam encourages kindness to animals .. there are numerous verses from the Quran and stories from the Prophet (PBUH) regarding this issue .. i will share some with you ..

The Prophet said, "While a man was walking he felt thirsty and went down a well, and drank water from it. On coming out of it, he saw a dog panting and eating mud because of excessive thirst. The man said, 'This (dog) is suffering from the same problem as that of mine.' So, he (went down the well), filled his shoe with water, caught hold of it with his teeth and climbed up and watered the dog. Allah thanked him for his (good) deed and forgave him.'' The people asked ``O Allah's Apostle! Is there a reward for us in serving (the) animals?'' He replied: ``Yes, there is a reward for serving any living creature.''

The Prophet said, “A woman entered the Hellfire because of a cat which she had tied, neither giving it food nor setting it free to eat from the vermin of the earth.”

Ibn Mas`ud said: “Once we were traveling with the Prophet and he went to do something, meanwhile (we found a bird with its young ones) so we took them. The bird came and started flapping its wings continuously. Then the Prophet asked: ‘Who has distressed this bird by taking its young? Return them to it at once.’"

The Prophet saw a camel which was carrying a huge load to the extent that one could neither see its back nor its belly, so he said: "Fear Allah when you deal with these beasts of burden. They must be healthy for riding and eating."

Ibn `Abbas said: “The Prophet forbade that animals be made to fight each other, thus denouncing people’s habit of goading animals into fighting each other until one of them was pecked or gored to death, or close to it.”

Ibn `Abbas reported that the Prophet strongly condemned the castration of animals.

Ibn `Umar saw some people practicing archery using a hen as a target, he said, "The Prophet cursed anyone who took a living thing as a target."

The Prophet saw a donkey with a branded face, he denounced such a practice saying: "I would not brand an animal except on the part of its body farthest from the face." In another incident, he passed by a donkey with a branded face and said: "Have you not heard that I have cursed anyone who brands an animal on its face or who hits it on its face?"

3arab

The state-controlled investment vehicle of Dubai is betting on the glitzy fortunes of Las Vegas by pumping $5bn (£2.5bn) into a partnership to develop casinos with MGM Mirage - in spite of the fact that the emirate officially forbids gambling.
Dubai World, which is controlled by the Middle Eastern emirate's government, is putting $2.7bn into a 76-acre resort on the Las Vegas Strip and will buy up to $2.4bn of MGM shares.

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2154206,00.html

Quote of the Day

"It was monstrously painful, I was burning like a torch. I don't know what I did to deserve this."

A Russian man speaking to the press after his ex-wife set fire to his penis

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Weeding Out Roommates on Facebook

Parents, Students Using Social Networks to Learn About Roommates Before Moving In

As the school year approaches and students prepare to head to college, many anxiously await news of their roommates. They wonder about their compatibility and even cleanliness.
But the days of awkward freshmen introductions in a dorm room may be ending, as many people are logging onto the social networking site Facebook.com to learn about their roommates. Students say it's good to know a roommate before actually meeting the person. And now, even curious parents are sneaking peaks at profiles.
"I was excited," said Kristin Mueller, the parent of a college freshman. "I was anxious to find out more about her new roommate."
But it's not always love at first surf for parents.
"What I saw on Facebook was a lot of alcoholic beverages in the background, a lot of liquor bottles, beer bottles, kind of lewd behavior," Mueller said.
Mueller took action by helping her daughter file a formal request to the college's housing office demanding a change. She isn't the first parent to do so.
Across the country college administrators said they are getting more pleas than ever from Facebook frazzled parents.

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Bir Zeit University

Good Thinking :)

Dirty Zionists

Residents of the settlement of Elon Moreh in the West Bank have cut a pipe carrying drinking water to a nearby Palestinian village, and are using it to fill a small swimming pool located at a picnic site, which was itself built on land owned by the village.
The pipe, which carries water to the village of Dir al-Khatab, was rerouted in order to fill the pool. The pipe channels fresh drinking water into the pool and drains dirty water back into the village's water system.
"They not only use water that doesn't belong to them, but they also pollute the drinking water of some of the village residents," said Yoel Marshak, head of the Kibbutz Movement's Special Assignments Branch. "The little kids pee in the water, which flows straight to the taps of the Palestinian school."

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Stop The Wall

http://stopthewall.org/downloads/pdf/fswallintllaw3.pdf

Stealing The Land

Israeli forces began last week to bulldoze hundreds of trees on land owned by a Catholic convent near the city of Beit Jala near Bethlehem. This section of forest is being razed, according to Israeli plans, to complete a section of the separation wall, which continues to carve the West Bank into pieces.
Near the convent, the Israeli settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo, behind the wall on Palestinian lands, continue to expand over the rocky hillsides.
When this section of the wall is completed, several villages will be separated from each other and the greater Bethlehem area. But this is not an isolated incident these days in the West Bank.
A few kilometers east of the Cremisan convent and Bethlehem city, the small Palestinian village of Wadi Rahaal is facing extinction as a result of expanded Israeli settlement policy and the widening path of the wall.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8947.shtml

Filthy Occupation

“The Israeli military came inside the valley and cut about 50 apricot and walnut trees since May. And now, they are coming to cut more trees. This is all because of what they are building through this land — my land. Here, they are building a sewage channel to run raw sewage through this valley collected from four Israeli settlements near here.” Abu Swai is one of approximately 4,000 residents of the Palestinian village of Artas, located southeast of Bethlehem city. Artas is known regionally for its succulent vegetables, and fruit and nut trees. But over the last few months Israeli occupation forces have brought dozens of bulldozers to the eastern valley fields of Artas to construct a wall that will cut villagers off from this fertile land, while a concrete tunnel for raw settlement sewage grows longer each day.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/21/3318/

Gaza Needs Help

A Palestinian boy holds a candle during a power cut in Gaza August 20, 2007.

REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)

Hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents were forced to make do without electricity Monday as the coastal strip's power supply became the latest victim of feuding between Gaza's Hamas rulers and their Fatah rivals.
European donors stopped paying key electricity aid over the weekend, concerned that Hamas is siphoning off revenues. As Fatah and Hamas traded charges of corruption, at least half of Gaza's 1.4 million people were plunged into darkness.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20361240/

What I'm Feelin'

All that rain outside my window, it goes on and on, I know
It's gettin' better every day
Soon the sun will shine through my window, when it's gonna come
No I really couldn't say
Oh but I know, it's gettin' better every day

Oh, it's gettin' better now, every day, yeah yeah yeah yeah

I'm a hard workin' man, doin' all that I can, tryin' to make ends meet
Just a-makin' my way through this jungle today, it's gettin' the best of me

But I know it's gettin' better, and a change is gonna come my way
Yes I know it's gettin' better, better every day, oh yeah

(from the song gettin' better by tesla)

A Collection Of Zionist Quotes

here and here and here

enjoy ...

Lyrics of the Day

i'm just trying to be a man

in this poisoned land

forgive me father

they forced my hand

~ Cormega ~

Inferno

there's a fire that rages inside him
nobody can see it
and nobody can smell it
but they know it's there
because they feel its fierce heat
what they don't know
is that one day
he will explode like a volcano
engulfing the world in flames
setting everything and everyone ablaze
then he will sit down
and watch it all burn
he may or may not
piss on the ashes

by jundi

Jibber Jabber

you have to go there .. that's what they told you .. and so that's what you set out to do .. you fought the evil monsters .. sailed the seas .. climbed the mountains .. crossed the deserts .. you did all that so you could get there ..
and then one day you reached your destination .. you felt so proud .. i did it you said to yourself ..
but then you realized .. that you never bothered asking why exactly you had to come here in the first place .. they just told you to come here and you did .. you never asked why .. so now that you're here .. what is it you're supposed to do now ..
was it all for nothing?

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This is over my head
But underneath my feet
Cause by tomorrow morning I'll have this thing beat
And everything will be back to the way that it was
I wish that it was just that easy
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Quote of the Day

"If we stay and rebuild Iraq, we will demonstrate to the world that we remain the best force for good in the world," Charles Patricoff, Sr. Contract Manager for Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp (a major defense contractor for the military and Homeland Security), said. "More importantly, we as Christians can better influence that region for the Kingdom of God."

Ball Aerospace, based in Boulder, Colorado, manufactures spacecraft, lasers, tactical instruments & sensors, and other components is part of the team that supports the missile defense system initiated by President George W. Bush.
The defense contractor reported 2006 sales of $6.6 billion and employs 15,500 people.

source

i think he left out one important reason why the US should remain in iraq .. PROFITS!!!

Whitesnake - Still Of The Night

In the Still of the Night
I hear the wolf howl, honey
Sniffing around your door
In the Still of the Night
I feel my heart beating heavy
Telling me I gotta have more

In the shadow of night
I see the full moon rise
Telling me what's in store
My heart start aching
My body start a shaking
And I can't take no more no no

Now I just wanna get close to you
And taste your love so sweet
And I just wanna make love to you
Feel your body heat

In the Still of the Night
In the Still of the Night
Over here baby

In the heat of the day
I hang my head down low
And hide my face from the sun
Through the light of the day
Until the evening time
I'm waiting for the night to come

In the Still of the Night
In the cool moonlight
I feel my heart is aching
In the Still of the Night

Tell me here baby

MUmBLiNGs

another one ... number two ... at three ...

if all goes well ... say goodbye to hell ... say hello to exel ... only time will tell ...

DHA 2 RUH?

~ you can lock my body but my mind is free ~

War Games

Raid Israel to capture soldiers, battle tanks in the valleys of southern Lebanon and launch Katyusha rockets at Israeli towns -- a new Hezbollah computer game puts players on the frontline of war. "Special Force 2" is based on last year's 34-day conflict between the Lebanese guerrilla group and Israel.

"This game presents the culture of the resistance to children: that occupation must be resisted and that land and the nation must be guarded," Hezbollah media official Sheikh Ali Daher said.
But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev responded by saying: ''It should come as a surprise to no one that Hezbollah teaches children that hatred and violence are positive attributes.''

Designed by Hezbollah computer experts, players of "Special Force 2" take the role of a Hezbollah fighter, or Mujahid. Weapons and points are accumulated by killing Israeli soldiers.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/16/hezbollah.game.reut/index.html

Chimpanzees at a zoo.

(AFP/File/Rob Elliott)

Makes You Go Hmmm

there's a song by three days grace called pain .. one of the lyrics goes ..

I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

what do you think .. agree or disagree?

Mad Chedda

Forbes recently published a list of 2006 highest grossing rappers ..

The top five are ...
1- Jay-Z ($34 million)
2- 50 Cent ($32 million)

3- Diddy ($28 million)

4- Timbaland ($21 million)

5- Dr. Dre ($20 million)

They're followed by Eminem ($18 million); Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams and Scott Storch (all $17 million); Ludacris and T.I. (both $16 million); Outkast and Lil Jon (both $14 million); Ice Cube ($13 million); Jermaine Dupri and Swizz Beatz (both $12 million); Chamillionaire and The Game (both $11 million); and Young Joc ($10 million).

SCRILLA SCRILLA Y'ALL!

source

Ask A Ninja ... Hilarious

my favorite was "how to kill a ninja" :)

Wake Me Up

it's friday, it's 8 in the morning, and i'm blogging .. huh .. actually the reason i am up so early is that i woke up on purpose because i was having a bad dream .. everyone else is still asleep .. no wait i can hear the maid downstairs doing some work in the kitchen .. but everyone else is asleep .. so yeah bad dream .. terrible dream actually .. but thankfully i have this ability - when a dream gets too bad, i tell myself it's just a dream, wake up and it will all go away .. kind of like lucid dreaming i guess .. if only real life were like that .. whenever you have a problem that you feel you can't handle - you can just blink and it will go away.

Nancy News

Nancy Ajram held a press conference at the Radisson SAS hotel in Amman after her concert at Jerash Festival.

At one point during the conference, an Israeli journalist asked Nancy about how she felt regarding singing in front of an Israeli audience.

This question provoked the attendance and led to the organizers asking the journalist to leave the conference hall. Nancy chose not to answer the question and said that she will pretend that the question was never asked.

facebook mumblings

a lot of guys like to post pictures of themselves with girls on facebook .. couples in general like to do it but i've noticed guys are more prone to doing it .. let's face it .. it's a bragging thing .. you know the whole bow-down-to-the-mighty-stud complex .. i'm sure there's some sort of freudian thing going on there .. now personally i don't think it's very cool to post pictures of your girl so the whole world can oggle her .. but maybe that's just the arab in me .. anyway what cracks me up is when the girl is ugly .. then it's just sad

See Who's Editing

Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith just launched an unofficial Wikipedia search tool that threatens to lay bare the ego-editing and anonymous flacking on the site. Enter the name of a corporation, organization or government entity and you get a list of IP addresses assigned to it. Then with one or two clicks, you can see all the anonymous edits made from those addresses anywhere in Wikipedia's pages.

Griffith's work is a neat example of what can be uncovered just by reorganizing public information.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/wikiwatch/

i strongly recommend that you click through the link .. they have a list of submissions by readers of wiki-editing they have discovered .. it's rather amusing .. some of the editors include the church of scientology, electronic arts, sony, the mormon church, and fox news .. as you might have guessed, most of the editing is done to remove "negative" information

** According to the BBC, Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that CIA computers made edits to the page of Iran's president. It also purportedly shows that the Vatican has edited entries about Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. (source)

Backwards Bush

there is this website that provides you with a counter you can post on your blog or myspace page or even your facebook page .. they even have a screensaver .. basically the counter shows how many days, hours, and even seconds are left before bush leaves office .. it's called backwardsbush.com ... their homepage displays the following message ..

If you're reading this, you probably think Bush is one of the worst Presidents ever. We certainly do. And that's why we came up with the idea for the Backwards Bush countdown clock. By counting down to Bush's last day in office - January 20, 2009 - you can indeed make the time pass more quickly. How else can we view this national nightmare that some people still call "The greatest Presidency ever."?

i think it's just brilliant :)

Hollywood Minute

For Americans sitting in cinemas watching the summer's fun movies, such as The Simpsons and Hairspray, the trailer for Lions for Lambs is jarring and unexpected. It opens with a moody shot of the Washington Memorial, and shifts to a series of quick-fire scenes about President George Bush's "war on terror".
Lions for Lambs, scheduled for release in the US on November 9, is not a documentary nor an art house film nor even a Michael Moore-style piece of agitprop. It is mainstream Hollywood, starring Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, who also directed it. It is one of about a dozen Hollywood films due for release or being made that deal with America divided, the national debate over Iraq and Afghanistan, and other consequences of 9/11.

Lions for Lambs interweaves the stories of two American students who end up in Afghanistan, their idealistic professor, a senator and a journalist. The trailer shows Cruise, who plays the senator, in his office on Capitol Hill shouting at the journalist, Streep: "Do you want to win the war on terror? Yes or no? This is the quintessential yes or no question of our time."

Other films on the way include Rendition, with Reese Witherspoon as the wife of an Egyptian chemical engineer spirited away for interrogation by the CIA. In the Valley of Elah, due for release on September 14, is directed by Paul Haggis, and stars Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon. It is about post-combat stress and is based on a real incident in which a soldier was murdered while on a drinking spree with his comrades on return from Iraq.

That, too, has already run into trouble. Dennis Griffee, national commander of the Iraq War Veterans Organisation, refused to help after learning that Sarandon, an anti-war critic, was involved.

Grace is Gone, due out in October and directed by James Strouse, looks at the impact on a family of the loss of a wife and mother killed in Iraq, while Kimberly Peirce's Stop Loss, scheduled for release next March, deals with a veteran who refuses to return to Iraq. Redacted, to be released in December, is directed by Brian de Palma and is about US soldiers persecuting an Iraqi family.

The Hurt Locker, on which filming is due to begin this week in Jordan and Kuwait, is written by Mark Boal, who also worked on In the Valley of Elah. The Hurt Locker concentrates on a US army explosives disposal unit in Iraq.

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The Zionist Lobby

No American President Can Stand Up to Israel

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

Cheney?

Comments made back in 1994 by the then US Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney about Iraq are causing an uproar in America. In a videotaped interview, the current Vice-President explains why he thinks an invasion would be a bad idea.

Shooting the Moon

if you're familiar with how to play hearts .. you know there are two things you should avoid winning - hearts and the queen of spades .. unless of course you can win them all - also known as shooting the moon - which is not easy to do and can be risky .. but if and when you do manage to pull it off, everyone else gets 26 added to their score while your score remains the same .. i should also mention that once someone's score reaches 100, the person with the lowest score automatically wins .. so today at work i shot the moon three times in one game .. i'm so proud of myself

The Victory Speech

Nasrallah has never lied. He is cocky, he is arrogant, but at least from our experience with him, to my regret, what he has said, he has done. And when he says 'I have 20,000 missiles' I believe him
Israeli Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, in an interview with Israel's Army Radio today

A massive rally was organized by Hezbollah in Beirut to commemorate the first anniversary of the end of the 34-day war with Israel, also known as the "divine victory"... Nasrallah addressed the crowds through giant TV screens set up at the venue.

"If you, the Zionists, are considering attacking Lebanon, I am reserving a surprise for you that will change the fate of the war and the region ... By saying this, I and the resistance realize the responsibility we are taking on ... God willing, in the same way we were victorious in August 2006, I warn them that here in Lebanon there is a resistance, an army and a people that reject humiliation and fear only God."

"We are here because Hezbollah is the only one that managed to defeat Israel, despite the high price we paid," said Hassan Korkomaz, who gathered with his family on Tuesday to listen to Nasrallah's speech.
Siham Karout, a 22-year-old student, said she was attending the rally as Hezbollah represented "the country's future"."It defeated Israel and showed the poor and dissafected of this country that it could beat the most powerful army".

Israel's war with Hezbollah resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200 Lebanese civilians, a third of them children, as well as 160 Israelis, most of them soldiers. It destroyed more than 25,000 homes and 50,000 other buildings, most of them in southern Lebanon, before ending with a UN-brokered ceasefire on August 14.
Israel failed in both its stated aims for launching the war: to stop rocket fire on northern Israel and to recover two soldiers captured by Hezbollah in a deadly cross-border raid.