I prefer BandB to islam too.... and yet at the same time have long had a BandB ban in my house.
If I seem to insult Islam, please understand, I am a student of history and I know for certain that Islam has inslaved more than a billion people for more than a thousand years.
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Modern banking has to do with the use of electronic banking and electronic transfer of money...
Good call, coadie. I passed over that one.
The modern banking industry is based upon interest charges - and in fact the Qu'ran forbids the charging of interest.
The poster known as Walks_in_islam must be the one needing to do a bit of "study," "reading" and "research" on the subject of Islam. Maybe he could post his questions here and we can help him to understand his professed faith a little better?
I prefer BandB to islam too.... and yet at the same time have long had a BandB ban in my house.
If I seem to insult Islam, please understand, I am a student of history and I know for certain that Islam has inslaved more than a billion people for more than a thousand years.
I'm not "bashing" Muslim believers either. They have my sincerest and deepest sympathies - the vast majority of them any way...
It is a demonstratable fact: the Western world and even Israel have treated the Muslim people far better than Islam and their fellow Muslims have treated them.
Add to that, the rather generous and magnaminous treatment Muslims have recieved from the Hindu state of India and the Indian people in general. There have been horrible reprisal killings over the years, but given the extent of the genocide practiced historically by Muslims in South Asia, the Indians have been generous indeed.
Islam needs to look at itself. Why do they kill for cartoons? Why do they savagely murder young women who have already been victimized by rape? Why are all of the world's armed conflicts being fought around the periphery of an ever expansionist dar-Islam?
What does Islam have to offer the world besides more bloodshed? Walks_in_islam - it's your turn to respond...
No, according to Press Spokesperson Gibbs, the President personally flew an SR-71 Blackbird to the secret base in Diego Garcia where he then personally took command of a nuclear armed boomer attack sub before singlehandedly boarding a specially equipped zodiac rigid inflatable and conquering the sea pirates in a daring move.
Here's a photo of the President after he dragged the surviving pirate up on the beach at Socotra. Apparently the babes were waiting.
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I apologize, I didn't see this part of the story. What a cool Pres!!!
Hey. A thought. Start with engineering, medicine, and the modern banking system. Then add some simple day-to-day stuff, like, hmmmm, say...let me quickly think - regular bathing? Then, after that, study a bit. Then, after that, come back and tell me how terribly wrong you probably think I am. All in that order. Be sure to study as it is unproductive to speak of what you are not versed in.
Now I am puzzled. I am wondering how in the world Islam got tied up with the pirate issue? Those guys seem to be equal opportunity across the board as they do not appear to pick their targets on the basis of any single belief. So, their motive must be something else. I will ponder.
Decision made. I have scooped up the below quote. It is odorous. The quickly developed plan is to take it outside - then what? I know. I will use it for something positive and do some good. I will fertilize something with it.
Actually I do know that Islam has helped in the advancement of engineering, medicine, astronomy, and other things.
But thanks for your post.
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Modern banking has to do with the use of electronic banking and electronic transfer of money.
We know you have to be smoking something if you believe that came from Islam. The earliest mechanical real cash registers were from NCR and 1 or 2 others. Islam had nothing to do with the development of computors and software to do banking as we know it. I will give Muslims a credit for the explosion of bank fraud, money laundering and the necessity of the patriot act to ensure a decrease of some laundering and international transfer of money for weapons.
The leading criminals exploiting banks today are Muslim groups.
Actually, my roomate, co worker, neighbor and relative became the director of all research for IBM for many years. Of course he had no Muslim discoveries to chase to learn how to develop technology and create Computer POS devices and transfer info. The only thing Muslims and the middle east shared was sand. sand for the semiconductor industry. Now I suppose you will take credit for inventing and discovering sand? I had an employee that is a ceramics engineer. Funny how the Arabs are so irrelevant in the development of integrated circuitry and storage materials.
Just remember Mohammad was illiterate and you can have had the transfer of info limited to verbal repition have a lot of error over time.
Hmmm...if you believe the anti Semites it was the Jews that invented it
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