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Ohio suspect last person seen with girl murdered, found in trash bin, sheriff says
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WOOSTER, Ohio – A man accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor and hiding her body under garbage in a trash bin was building a snowman with the girl just a few hours before she was reported missing, investigators said Monday.
Jerrod Metsker, 24, was the last person seen with the girl at the trailer park where both lived, a sheriff's investigator said.
He was arrested Sunday, about 12 hours after deputies found Reann Murphy's body. A judge Monday ordered that he be held in jail on a $1 million bond.
Investigators with the Wayne County Sheriff's office described Metsker as a family friend and neighbor.
Relatives said Reann and her mother had just moved into the trailer park a few months ago around the beginning of the school year. They lived in an apartment above a maintenance garage at the park outside Smithville, about 30 miles southwest of Akron.
The girl's mother was at work Saturday afternoon while Reann was at home with her mother's live-in boyfriend, said sheriff's Capt. Douglas Hunter.
She went outside to play in the snow and was with several other children in the trailer park's courtyard, but the others went home, leaving Metsker alone with the girl, Hunter said.
Reann was reported missing Saturday evening, about two hours after she was last seen with Metsker, Hunter said.
Officers, firefighters and neighbors went door to door looking for her before Reann's body was found in the trash bin five hours after she was reported missing.
Authorities spoke with Metsker soon after at the trailer home he shared with his mother, but he was not arrested until Sunday afternoon, Hunter said.
A county public defender was appointed to represent Metsker, who is unemployed. A woman who answered a phone listed for him hung up on Monday.
Metsker appeared for his arraignment Monday before a Wayne County municipal court judge via video from jail. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 23. County prosecutor Daniel Lutz said the case could go to a grand jury on Friday if the evidence is processed in time.
Authorities have not offered a possible motive for her killing. Lutz said a coroner will determine the cause of death but that the girl was not shot or stabbed.
"The charges that we ultimately bring will clarify what we think the motive was," Lutz told The Associated Press on Monday.
Relatives said Reann lived with her mother but also spent time with her father and his family. They said that she loved to play outside and described her as a tomboy.
"She was a little firecracker, always ready to wrestle and play," said Paula Watts, the girl's cousin. "She wasn't into girlie stuff. Last Christmas, she said she wanted some girlie stuff. I don't know if she ever wore the makeup we got her."
Reann was supposed to stay at her home Saturday night, but her mother never dropped her off before going to work, Watts said.
"She was one great kid," said Paula Murray, the girl's great-grandmother. "I don't know how anyone could do something like that."
Her father, Richard Murphy, tried to speak at a vigil Sunday night but broke down crying, according to WEWS-TV. "She's the best thing that ever happened to me ... this is the hardest thing I've ever been through in my life," Murphy said.
"She saved my life," Murphy said. "I wish I could trade her places."


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I thought it was a joke and then saw that McElroy was listed inactive. We are so f@$ked!!!!!!!
I thought it was a joke and then saw that McElroy was listed inactive. We are so f@$ked!!!!!!!
Awwwwwwwwwwww YEAH BOY!!!!!!!!
Nothing like a little devil to bring out the fire in the Tebow!
Go, Fight, WIn JETS!
Rally's in the front, let me hear you grunt "UGHH", rally's in the middle, shake it just a little
Replace that "Romans" with "Scramblin's" and you've got a deal, mister.
So angry at what Woody Johnson has created
Thanks for nothing jack ass
Straight from the good BookNo, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I try not to resort to name calling, stating that Woody Johnson is a "jack-ass" adds nothing.
Thanks again CB
Thank you sir.

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Scott McKenzie, whose 1967 hit single "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" captured the spirit of the '60s flower-power movement and became a generational touchstone, has died. He was 73.
McKenzie died Saturday at his home in Silver Lake, said Matt Pook, a longtime friend and neighbor. A statement on McKenzie's website said he had been ill with Guillain Barre syndrome, a disease affecting the nervous system.
"If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair," McKenzie gently sang in his biggest hit, written by his longtime friend, John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas.
Phillips was inspired to write the song by the large influx of young people to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and by the "gentleness and the love that he felt in the hippie movement," said Lou Adler, whose Ode Records released "San Francisco."
"That's where the line 'gentle people' comes from," Adler, who co-produced "San Francisco" with Phillips, told The Times on Sunday. "John Phillips was a poet, and he was able to depict in a lyric a visual of the times. He found the voice in Scott McKenzie that was perfect for it, so smooth and beautiful.
"Scott sang like an angel. He had one of the most beautiful voices that ever had a rock 'n' roll hit."
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)," which was released in May 1967, rose to No. 4 on the Billboard chart and became a No. 1 hit in the United Kingdom and most of Europe.
The song was released a month before the landmark Monterey International Pop Festival, which Phillips and Adler produced.
McKenzie sang "San Francisco" during the Mamas & the Papas' set, and the song was used over the opening visuals of the ensuing "Monterey Pop" documentary.
But having "San Francisco" described as a "flower-power anthem" or a "generational touchstone" made McKenzie uncomfortable, Adler said.
"Scott was a singer; he loved to sing, and the hits were ancillary to that," Adler said. "He was comfortable with the success of the record, but not what it made him, sort of iconic to that movement."
Adler recalled going on a world tour with McKenzie and the Mamas & the Papas when "San Francisco" was "No. 1 in the world, and Scott was dressed in robes and the look of the love generation."
Large crowds greeted their plane at each stop. But when everyone else got off the plane when it landed in Amsterdam, McKenzie stayed behind.
"It took him awhile, and when he got off he was dressed as a cowboy," said Adler. "He was never willing to accept the role as the leader of that [flower-power] movement. He was a very gentle soul."
McKenzie had a minor hit with the Phillips-written "Like an Old Time Movie." But, according to the Scott McKenzie website, he "dropped out" in the late 1960s and moved to Joshua Tree in 1970 and later moved to Virginia Beach, Va.
Born Philip Blondheim on Jan. 10, 1939, in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., McKenzie developed an interest in singing and playing guitar as a teenager in the mid-1950s. He was singing in a vocal group when he met Phillips in Alexandria, Va.
They formed a quartet called the Abstracts, which became the Smoothies in 1959. After recording a few pop singles, McKenzie and Phillips formed a folk trio with Dick Weissman called the Journeymen, which recorded for Capitol Records in the early '60s.
McKenzie reportedly turned down an opportunity to join the Mamas & the Papas in the 1960s, preferring to attempt a solo career.
But in the late '80s, when original Mamas and Papas member Denny Doherty left the new version of the group he and Phillips had formed, McKenzie replaced Doherty.
"I actually picked him up four years ago to play guitar in our backup band," Phillips told The Times in 1990. "He was doing yardwork in Virginia Beach, riding his bicycle, as healthy as a hummingbird, and then I came along and ruined his life once again.
"When Denny quit, it was only natural to move [McKenzie] up to the front line. I remember the night we told him, he almost collapsed on the spot. Denny had to go up and say, 'You can do it' — he never had any confidence in himself."
McKenzie co-wrote the Beach Boys'1988 No. 1 hit "Kokomo" with Phillips, Mike Love and Terry Melcher. The song was used in the Tom Cruise movie "Cocktail."
When Phillips left the Mamas & the Papas for health reasons in the early 1990s, Doherty returned to the group and McKenzie took over for Phillips. Phillips died in 2001 and Doherty in 2007.
McKenzie toured with the Mamas & the Papas through much of the '90s and thereafter performed occasionally, according to his website.
He had no immediate surviving family members.


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continues more slowly until about age 9. During that time, a child's eyes and
brain learn how to work together to see. Practice is the most important part of
this learning process. Constant use of both eyes gives a child's eyes and brain
the practice they need to develop normal eyesight.
If there is a problem with vision in one eye, it disrupts this
learning process, and the brain stops developing normal vision for that eye.
This can lead to amblyopia.
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rmeden wrote:I'm willing to work with them, but they have to ask for help.
Have you tried going back to the previously working version and trying the host file change?
Not yet. Didn't read the instructions thoroughly, hoping the .jar plugin was enough. I will go back, read the instructions and try again.


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This game is huge for both us and Houston. It was already big, but with Cincy, Denver, and Indy all losing today, the playoff implications for both teams are massive. I'd prefer it to be in Foxboro, since bad things always happen to us in Houston, but it is where it is.
It's in the high 50s. Weather will not be an issue.
Notable inactives for us are Jules, Dont'a Hightower, Josh Klein, Seaver Silaga and Tavon Wilson.
Notables for the Texans are Rahim Moore and Brandon Weeden.
Jeff Tripplette is the ref. Al and CC have the call.
I'll be trying a new format for my game report this week.
Go Pats!


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Quotations on Islam from Notable Non-Muslims
The following sourced quotations are particularly useful, as many apologists like to commit the logical fallacy of appealing to authority by using (very often out-of-context[1] or false)[2] quotes attributed to various noteworthy non-Muslim individuals, in an attempt to propagate their faith.
- 1 Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Razi
- 2 Adolf Hitler
- 3 Alexis de Tocqueville
- 4 André Servier
- 5 Angela Carter
- 6 Anthony Flew
- 7 Apostolos Euangelou Vacalopoulos
- 8 Arthur Jeffery
- 9 Arthur Schopenhauer
- 10 Bhavishya Purana
- 11 Benedict XVI
- 12 Bernard Lewis
- 13 Bertrand Russell
- 14 Bill Maher
- 15 Blaise Pascal
- 16 Carey Cash
- 17 Carl Jung
- 18 Charles-Louis Montesquieu
- 19 Christopher Hitchens
- 20 Christopher Marlowe
- 21 Dante Alighieri
- 22 David Cook
- 23 David Hume
- 24 David Samuel Margoliouth
- 25 Dayanand Saraswati
- 26 Doctrina Jacobi
- 27 Edward Freeman
- 28 Edward Gibbon
- 29 Edward William Lane
- 30 Emeka Ojukwu
- 31 Frank Miller
- 32 Frank Zappa
- 33 Gene Simmons
- 34 George Bernard Shaw
- 35 George S. Patton
- 36 G. H. Bousquet
- 37 Gerd Puin
- 38 G. K. Chesterton
- 39 Haran Gawaitha
- 40 Jacques Ellul
- 41 Joe A
- 42 John Adams
- 43 John Calvin
- 44 John R. Newman
- 45 John Quincy Adams
- 46 John Wesley
- 47 Jonathan Edwards
- 48 Louis Bertrand
- 49 Maimonides
- 50 Manuel II Palaiologos
- 51 Mark Twain
- 52 Michael Cook
- 53 Michael H. Hart
- 54 Muhammad Sven Kalisch
- 55 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 56 Omar Khayyám
- 57 Oriana Fallaci
- 58 Penn Jillette
- 59 Rabindranath Tagore
- 60 Richard Dawkins
- 61 Robert Redeker
- 62 Rory Bremner
- 63 Salman Rushdie
- 64 Salomon Reinach
- 65 Sam Harris
- 66 Sibel Kekilli
- 67 Simon Ockley
- 68 Speros Vryonis Jr.
- 69 Stephen Harper
- 70 Theodore Roosevelt
- 71 Theodor Nöldeke
- 72 Thomas Aquinas
- 73 Thomas Carlyle
- 74 Thomas Jefferson
- 75 Tony Blair
- 76 Turan Dursun
- 77 Urban II
- 78 Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
- 79 Will Durant
- 80 William Ewart Gladstone
- 81 William Hay
- 82 William Montgomery Watt
- 83 William Muir
- 84 Winston Churchill
- 85 Winston S. Churchill
- 86 Wole Soyinka
- 87 See Also
- 88 External Links
- 89 References
Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Razi
Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī (865 – 925 AD) was a Persian physician, alchemist, chemist, philosopher, and scholar.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution.
André Servier
André Servier was an historian who lived in French Algeria at the beginning of the 20th century.
. . .
In the history of the nations, Islam, a secretion of the Arab brain, has never been an element of civilization, but on the contrary has acted as an extinguisher upon its flickering light. Individuals under Arab rule have only been able to contribute to the advance of civilization in so far as they did not conform to the Musulman dogma, but they relapsed into Arab barbarism as soon as they were obliged to make a complete submission to these dogmas.
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Angela Carter
Angela Carter (1940 – 1992) was an English novelist and journalist. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Anthony Flew
Antony Garrard Newton Flew (1923 – 2010) was a British philosopher. He was also known for the development of the no true Scotsman fallacy.
Apostolos Euangelou Vacalopoulos
'The entire region which sustained us, from the Hellespont eastwards to the mountains of Armenia, has been snatched away. They [the Turks] have razed cities, pillaged churches, opened graves, and filled everything with blood and corpses…Alas, too, they have even abused Christian bodies. And having taken away their entire wealth they have now taken away their freedom, reducing them to the merest shadows of slaves. And with such dregs of energy as remain in these unfortunate people, they are forced to be the servitors of the Turk's personal comforts.'"From the time the Ottoman Turks first set foot in Thrace under Suleiman, son of Orchan, the Empire rapidly disintegrated….From the very beginning of the Turkish onslaught under Suleiman, the Turks tried to consolidate their position by the forcible imposition of Islam. [The Ottoman historian] Sukrullah [maintained] those who refused to accept the Moslem faith were slaughtered and their families enslaved. 'Where there were bells', writes the same author, 'Suleiman broke them up and cast them onto fires. Where there are churches he destroyed them or converted them into mosques. Thus, in place of bells there were now muezzins. Wherever Christian infidels were still found, vassalage was imposed upon their rulers. At least in public they could no longer say 'kyrie eleison' but rather "There is no God but Allah; and where once their prayers had been addressed to Christ, they were now to 'Mohammed, the prophet of Allah.'[15]
Arthur Jeffery
Arthur Jeffery (1892 – 1959) was an Australian professor of Semitic languages first at the School of Oriental Studies in Cairo, and from 1938 until his death jointly at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He is the author of extensive historical studies of Middle Eastern manuscripts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) was an influencial German philosopher, known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity.
Bhavishya Purana
The Bhavishya Purana is one of the eighteen major Hindu Puranas. It is written in Sanskrit and attributed to Rishi Vyasa, the compiler of the Vedas.
That city is known as their site of pilgrimage, a place which was Madina or free from intoxication. Having a form of a ghost (Bhuta), the expert illusionist Mahamada (Muhammad) appeared at night in front of king Bhojaraja and said: O king, your religion is of course known as the best religion among all. Still I am going to establish a terrible and demoniac religion by the order of the Lord . The symptoms of my followers will be that they first of all will cut their genitals, have no shikha, but having beard, be wicked, make noise loudly and eat everything. They should eat animals without performing any rituals. This is my opinion. They will perform purificatory act with the musala or a pestle as you purify your things with kusha. Therefore, they will be known as musalman, the corrupters of religion. Thus the demoniac religion will be founded by me. After having heard all this the king came back to his palace and that ghost (Muhammad) went back to his place.[18]
Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on April 16, 1927) is Pope Emeritus of the Catholic Church, having served as Pope from 2005 to 2013.
Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis, FBA (born May 31, 1916) is a British-American scholar in Oriental studies, and political commentator. He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West, and is especially famous in academic circles for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist, and social critic, who is considered to be one of the founders of analytic philosophy.
Bill Maher
William "Bill" Maher, Jr. (born January 20, 1956) is an American stand-up comedian, television host, political commentator, author and actor. Maher currently ranks number 38 on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-ups of all time, and has a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher.
Carey Cash
Rev. Carey Cash is a US Navy chaplain currently assigned to Camp David, the U.S. presidential retreat. He is often referred to as "President Obama's pastor".
Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961) was the Swiss founder of analytical psychology. He created some of the best known psychological concepts and his work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, literature, and related fields.
Charles-Louis Montesquieu
Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755), was a French social commentator and political thinker.
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949 – 2011) was an English-American author and journalist. His books, essays, and journalistic career have spanned more than four decades, making him a public intellectual, and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets.
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593) was an English poet and translator of the Elizabethan era, who also rivalled Shakespeare as the most powerful dramatist of the Elizabethan period.
And all the heaps of superstitious books Found in the temples of that Mahomet Whom I have thought a god? they shall be burnt.
Usumcasane: Here they are, my lord.
Tamburlaine: Well said! let there be a fire presently.
[They light a fire.]
In vain, I see, men worship Mahomet: My sword hath sent millions of Turks to hell, Slew all his priests, his kinsmen, and his friends, And yet I live untouch'd by Mahomet. There is a God, full of revenging wrath, }From whom the thunder and the lightning breaks, Whose scourge I am, and him will I obey. So, Casane; fling them in the fire.—
[They burn the books.]
Now, Mahomet, if thou have any power, Come down thyself and work a miracle: Thou art not worthy to be worshipped That suffer'st flames of fire to burn the writ Wherein the sum of thy religion rests: Why send'st thou not a furious whirlwind down, To blow thy Alcoran up to thy throne, Where men report thou sitt'st by God himself? Or vengeance on the head of Tamburlaine That shakes his sword against thy majesty, And spurns the abstracts of thy foolish laws?— Well, soldiers, Mahomet remains in hell; He cannot hear the voice of Tamburlaine: Seek out another godhead to adore; The God that sits in heaven, if any god,For he is God alone, and none but he.
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321), also known as "the Supreme Poet", was an Italian poet. His Divine Comedy is often considered the greatest literary work ever composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. Below is Dante's description of Muhammad and Ali in Hell.
David Cook
David B. Cook is a religious scholar and author from Rice University in Houston with a focus on Islamic history and Muslim apocalyptic literature.
David Hume
David Hume (1711 – 1776) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment.
David Samuel Margoliouth
David Samuel Margoliouth (1858 – 1940) was an orientalist who was described as a brilliant editor and translator of Arabic works. He was briefly active as a priest in the Church of England. He was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1889 to 1937.
His career as tyrant of Medina is that of a robber chief, whose political economy consists in securing and dividing plunder ... He is himself an unbridled libertine and encourages the same passion in his followers. For whatever he does he is prepared to plead the express authorization of the deity. It is, however, impossible to find any doctrine which he is not prepared to abandon in order to secure a political end…This is a disagreeable picture for the founder of a religion, and it cannot be pleaded that it is a picture drawn by an enemy…[43][44]
Dayanand Saraswati
Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati (1824-1883) was an Indian Sage who is considered to be the most important Hindu religious leader of his time.
Doctrina Jacobi
The Doctrina Jacobi (or 'Teaching of Jacob'), is a 7th century Greek Christian polemical tract written sometime between 634-640 AD. The text provides one of the earliest external accounts of Islam.
Edward Freeman
Edward Augustus Freeman (1823 – 1892) was an English historian, architectural artist, liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of William Gladstone, and a one-time candidate for Parliament.
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (1737 – 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources.
Edward William Lane
Edward William Lane (1801 — 1876) was a British Orientalist, translator and lexicographer. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon remains the world's most revered and scholarly dictionary of the Arabic language.
Emeka Ojukwu
Emeka Ojukwu (1933 - 2011) was the only president of the short lived Republic of Biafra.
Our Biafran ancestors remained immune from the Islamic contagion. From the middle years of the last century Christianity was established in our land. In this way we came to be a predominantly Christian people. We came to stand out as a non-Muslim island in a raging Islamic sea. Throughout the period of the ill-fated Nigerian experiment, the Muslims hoped to infiltrate Biafra by peaceful means and quiet propaganda, but failed. Then the late Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto tried, by political and economic blackmail and terrorism, to convert Biafrans settled in Northern Nigeria to Islam. His hope was that these Biafrans on dispersion would then carry Islam to Biafra, and by so doing give the religion political control of the area. The crises which agitated the so-called independent Nigeria from 1962 gave these aggressive proselytisers the chance to try converting us by force.
It is now evident why the fanatic Arab-Muslim states like Algeria, Egypt and the Sudan have come out openly and massively to support and aid Nigeria in her present war of genocide against us. These states see militant Arabism as a powerful instrument for attaining power in the world.Biafra is one of the few African states untainted by Islam. Therefore, to militant Arabism, Biafra is a stumbling block to their plan for controlling the whole continent. This control is fast becoming manifest in the Organisation of African Unity. On the question of the Middle East, the Sudanese crisis, in the war between Nigeria and Biafra, militant Arabism has succeeded in imposing its point of view through blackmail and bluster. It has threatened African leaders and governments with inciting their Muslim minorities to rebellion if the governments adopted an independent line on these questions. In this way an O.A.U that has not felt itself able to discuss the genocide in the Sudan and Biafra, an O.A.U. that has again and again advertised its ineptitude as a peace-maker, has rushed into open condemnation of Israel over the Middle East dispute. Indeed in recent times, by its performance, the O.A.U. might well be an Organisation of Arab Unity.[51]
Frank Miller
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book artist, writer and film director. He is often regarded as one of the greatest comic artists of all time.
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (1940 – 1993) was a critically acclaimed musician, songwriter, composer, recording engineer, record producer, and film director. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons (born August 25, 1949) is an American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and actor. He is the bass guitarist/co-lead vocalist of the legendary rock band Kiss.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938).
George S. Patton
George Smith Patton, Jr. (1885 – 1945 AD) was a United States Army officer most famous for his leadership commanding corps and armies as a general in World War II.
G. H. Bousquet
G. H. Bousquet was a great 20th century scholar of Islamic law.
Gerd Puin
Gerd Rüdiger Puin (born 1940) is a German scholar and one of the world's leading authorities on Qur'anic historical orthography, the study and scholarly interpretation of ancient manuscripts. He is also specialist in Arabic paleography. He was a lecturer based at Saarland University, in Saarbrücken Germany.
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.
Haran Gawaitha
The Haran Gawaitha is a Mandaean text written during the 7th to 9th century and contains some of the earliest non-Muslim references to Muhammad.
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And so a Hardabaean (Sasanian) dynasty ruled for three hun- dred and sixty years , and then the Son of Slaughter, the Arab, set up as king, went forth and took a people to himself and performed circumcision. (Even then), after this had happened and these events had taken place, sixty banners (still) remained and pertained to me in Baghdad. Then he took the sword and put to the sword from the city of Damascus unto Bit Dubar, which is called Bdin . He governed it all and ruled over the lord of the hill-country of the Persians who are called Hardbaeans and took away sovereignty from them.Then, when this had taken place, in time there came (one) Anus', called the son of Danqa, from the uplands of the Arsaiia [from (to?) the city of Baghdad bis'us' kings of the planting of Artabanus, and brought in his own, belonging to Muhammad son of 'Abdallah son-of-Slaughter, the Arab...[60]
Jacques Ellul
Jacques Ellul (1912 – 1994) was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist.
...the jihad is an institution. and not an event, that is to say it is a part of the normal functioning of the Muslim world... The conquered populations change status (they become dhimmis), and the shari'a tends to be put into effect integrally, overthrowing the former law of the country. The conquered territories do not simply change "owners."[61]
Joe A
Joe A is a British pornography producer notable for his focus on the "Indian" or "Asian" niche market.
John Adams
John Adams (1735 – 1826) was an American Founding Father and the second President of the United States (1797–1801). The following is taken from the preface of the Qur'an owned by him:
John Calvin
John Calvin (1509 – 1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation, and a principal figure in the development of Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530.
John R. Newman
John R. Newman is an historian of religions who specializes in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. His research focuses on the Vajrayana Buddhist Kalachakra Tantra ("Wheel of Time system of mysticism") tradition.
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (1767 – 1848) was the sixth President of the United States. He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives.
The Hatti Sheriff commenced with the following admirable commentary upon the friendly profession, which introduced the letter to count Nesselrode. 'It is well known (said the Sultan) to almost every person, that if the Mussulmen naturally hate the infidels, the infidels, on then part, are the enemies of the Mussulmen : that Russia, more especially, bears a particular hatred to Islamism, and that she is the principal enemy of the Sublime Porte.'This appeal to the natural hatred of the Mussulmen towards the infidels, is in just accordance with the precepts of the Koran. The document does not attempt to disguise it, nor even pretend that the enmity of those whom it styles the infidels, is any other than the necessary consequence of the hatred borne by the Mussulmen to them—the paragraph itself, is a forcible example of the contrasted character of the two religions. The fundamental doctrine of the christian religion, is the extirpation of hatred from the human heart. It forbids the exercise of it, even towards enemies. There is no denomination of christians, which denies or misunderstands this doctrine. All understand it alike—all acknowledge its obligations ; and however imperfectly, in the purposes of Divine Providence, its efficacy has been shown in the practice of christians, it has not been wholly inoperative upon them. Its effect has been upon the manners of nations. It has mitigated the horrors of war – it has softened the features of slavery – it has humanized the intercourse of social life. The unqualified acknowledgement of a duty does not, indeed, suffice to insure its performance. Hatred is yet a passion, but too powerful upon the hearts of christians. Yet they cannot indulge it, except by the sacrifice of their principles, and the conscious violation of their duties. No state paper from a Christian hand, could, without trampling the precepts of its Lord and Master, have commenced by an open proclamation of hatred to any portion of the human race. The Ottoman lays it down as the foundation of his discourse.[70]
John Wesley
John Wesley (1703 – 1791), was a theologian and founder of the English Methodist movement.
6. An ingenious writer, who a few years ago published a pompous translation of the Koran, takes great pains to give us a very favourable opinion both of Mahomet and his followers. But he cannot wash the Ethiop white. After all, men who have but a moderate share of reason, cannot but observe in his Koran, even as polished by Mr. Sale, the most gross and impious absurdities. To cite particulars is not now my business. It may suffice to observe in general, that human understanding must be debased to an inconceivable degree, in those who can swallow such absurdities as divinely revealed. And yet we know the Mahometans not only condemn all who cannot swallow them to everlasting fire; not only appropriate to themselves the title of Mussulman or True Believers: but even anathematise with the utmost bitterness, and adjudge to eternal destruction, all their brethren of the sect of Mi, all who contend for a figurative interpretation of them.
That these men then have no knowledge or love of God is undeniably manifest, not only from their gross, horrible notions of him, but from their not loving their brethren. But they have not always so weighty a cause to hate and murder one another, as difference of opinion. Mahometans will butcher each other by thousands, without so plausible a plea as this. Why is it that such numbers of Turks and Persians have stabbed one another in cool blood ? Truly, because they differ in the manner of dressing their head. The Ottoman vehemently maintains, (for he has unquestionable tradition on his side) that a Mussulman should wear a round turban. Whereas the Persian insists upon his liberty of conscience, and will wear it picked before. So, for this wonderful reason, when a more plausible one is wanting, they beat out each other's brains from generation to generation.It is not therefore strange, that ever since the religion of Mahomet appeared in the world, the espousers of it, particularly those under the Turkish emperor, have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations ; rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth: that numberless cities are rased from the foundation, and only their name remaining : that many countries which were once as the garden of God, are. now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished away from the earth ! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of humankind![73]
Jonathan Edwards
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Louis Bertrand
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It is only a superficial knowledge that has been able to accept without critical examination the belief current among Christians during the Middle Ages, which attributed to Islam the Greek science and philosophy of which Christianity had no longer any knowledge. In the centuries that have followed, the Sectarian spirit has found it to be to its interest to confirm and propagate this error. In its hatred of Christianity it has had to give Islam the honour of what was the invention, and, if we may so express it, the personal property of our intellectual ancestors.[10]
On the influence of Islam on Christian Europe:
They were to introduce there, too, the barbarous, summary practices of the Arabs: putting everything to fire and sword, cutting down fruit-trees, razing crops, devastating whole districts to starve out the enemy and bring them to terms; making slaves everywhere, condemning the population of the conquered countries to forced labour. All these detestable ways the conquistadores learnt from the Arabs.
For several centuries slavery maintained itself in Christian Spain, as in the Islamic lands. Very certainly, also, it was to the Arabs that the Spaniards owed the intransigence of their fanaticism, the pretension to be, if not the chosen of God, at least the most Catholic nation of Christendom. Philip II, like Abd er Rahman or El Mansour, was Defender of the Faith.Finally, it was not without contagion that the Spaniards lived for centuries in contact with a race of men who crucified their enemies and gloried in piling up thousands of severed heads by way of trophies. The cruelty of the Arabs and the Berbers also founded a school in the Peninsula. The ferocity of the emirs and the caliphs who killed their brothers or their sons with their own hands was to be handed on to Pedro the Cruel and Henry of Trastamare, those stranglers under canvas, no better than common assassins.[75]
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There never came against Israel a more antagonistic nation. They oppress us with the most oppressive measures to lessen our number, reduce us, and make us as despicable as they themselves are. King David, may he rest in peace, saw through Divine Inspiration all the calamities that were destined to come upon Israel. Nevertheless [even though he saw all the other troubles], he still began to shout out and lament in the name of the whole nation against the oppression that would be occasioned by the Ishmaelites. David said, "Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!" [Psalms 120:5].
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Mark Twain
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Michael Cook
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Michael H. Hart
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Muhammad Sven Kalisch
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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If Allah be, He keeps His secret well;
What He hath hidden, who shall hope to find?
Shall God His secret to a maggot tell?
The Koran! well, come put me to the test—
Lovely old book in hideous error drest—
Believe me, I can quote the Koran too,
The unbeliever knows his Koran best.
And do you think that unto such as you,
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew,
God gave the secret, and denied it me?—
Well, well, what matters it! believe that too.[87]
Oriana Fallaci
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941), is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford.
[Why is it more problematic than Christianity, for instance?]
There's a belief that every word of the Quran is literally true, and there's a kind of close-mindedness there, which is, I think, less present in the former Christendom. Perhaps because we've had long- I don't know quite why, but there's more of a historical tradition of questioning.There are people in the Islamic world who simply say: "Islam is right!","We are going to impose our will" and there's an asymmetry. I think in a way we are being too nice. I think that it's possible to be naively over optimistic - and if you reach out to people who have absolutely no intention of reaching back to you, then you may be disillusioned.[93]
Robert Redeker
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Sam Harris
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While the other major world religions have been fertile sources of intolerance, it is clear that the doctrine of Islam poses unique problems for the emergence of a global civilization. The world, from the point of view of Islam, is divided into the "House of Islam" and the "House of War," and this latter designation should indicate how Muslims believe their differences with those who do not share their faith will be ultimately resolved. While there are undoubtedly some moderate Muslims who have decided to overlook the irrescindable militancy of their religion, Islam is undeniably a religion of conquest. The only future devout Muslims can envisage—as Muslims—is one in which all infidels have been converted to Islam, politically subjugated, or killed. The tenets of Islam simply do not admit of anything but a temporary sharing of power with the "enemies of God." Devout Muslims can have no doubt about the reality of Paradise or about the efficacy of martyrdom as a means of getting there. Nor can they question the wisdom and reasonableness of killing people for what amount to theological grievances. In Islam, it is the moderate who is left to split hairs, because the basic thrust of the doctrine is undeniable: convert, subjugate, or kill unbelievers; kill apostates; and conquer the world.[102]
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Simon Ockley
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'The emirs spread out, like locusts, over the face of the land…The countries of Asis-Phorni, Clardjeth, up to the shores of the sea, Chawcheth, Adchara, Samtzkhe, Karthli, Argoueth, Samokalako, and Dchqondid were filled with Turks who pillaged and enslaved all the inhabitants. In a single day they burned Kouthathis, Artanoudj, and hermitages of Clardjeth, and they remained in these lands until the first snows, devouring the land, massacring all those who had fled to the forests to the rocks, to the caves…The calamities of Christianity did not come to an end soon thereafter, for at the approach of spring, the Turks returned to carry out the same ravages and left [again] in the winter. The [inhabitants] however were unable to plant or to harvest. The land, [thus] delivered to slavery, had only animals of the forests and wild beasts for inhabitants. Karthli was in the grip of intolerable calamities such as one cannot compare to a single devastation or combination of evils of past times. The holy churches served as stables for their horses, the sanctuaries of the Lord served as repairs for the abominations [Islam]. Some of the priests were immolated during the Holy communion itself, and others were carried off into harsh slavery without regard to their old age. The virgins were defiled, the youths circumcised, and the infants taken away. The conflagration, extending its ravages, consumed all the inhabited sites, the rivers, instead of water, flowed blood. I shall apply the sad words of Jeremiah, which he applied so well to such situations: "the honorable children of Zion, never put to the rest by misfortunes, now voyaged as slaves on foreign roads. The streets of Zion now wept because there was no one [left] to celebrate the feasts. The tender mothers, in place of preparing with their hands the nourishment of the sons, were themselves nourished from the corpses of these dearly loved. Such and worse was the situation at the time.'…By the time [of the late 11th and early 12th centuries, i.e. (1083-1125)]…the nomads had effected permanent settlement in these regions, moving into the abandoned and devastated areas with their tents, families, and flocks of livestock.[110]
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Theodor Nöldeke
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Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Jefferson
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In reference to the Islamic slave trade of Americans and Europeans by the Barbary states, Jefferson asked Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman, by what right he extorted money and took slaves in this way. He answered:
Jefferson later went to war with the Barbary states.
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William Hay: That's a misrepresentation. There's no question about that. ... Most of them [alleged scientific miracles in the Qur'an] are things that I would think that if God wanted to make a great revelation, these are not things that I would have expected, because they are all readily absurd.[129]
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The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.[136][137]
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But today a new challenge — another ism — confronts us, and that is the challenge of Islamic fundamentalism. Extremist Islam has declared war on the rest of the world, as evidenced by their ruthless attacks across the globe — overwhelmingly targeted at innocent civilians. Beside the outrage of 9/11, the bombings in Madrid, in Bali, in London and, most recently, in Jordan come to mind.
Those who have declared jihad against the West, and Western values, such as freedom of speech, are doing all in their power to mobilize against us the large Muslim communities living in our midst... Unbelievably, Washington is urging Europe to admit Turkey to the EU. Were that to happen, the Muslim population of Europe would skyrocket to 100 million — an act, in my view, of consummate folly. Already Judeo-Christian Europe is under siege from a tidal wave of Islamic immigration. The admission of Turkey would hasten its demise... Intriguingly, the dangers of extremist Islam were foreseen by Winston Churchill all of 85 years ago, as I discovered to my amazement, while compiling my most recent book NEVER GIVE IN! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches.Churchill is, of course, well-known for his gift of prescience and, specifically, for being the first to warn of the menace of Hitler and Nazism as early as 1932, and of the Soviet threat in his famous Iron Curtain speech in 1946 in Fulton, Mo. But how many know that he also warned the world of the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism? I certainly did not![141]
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We should assemble all those who are pure and cannot abide other faiths, put them all in rockets, and fire them into space.
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A virus has attacked the world of sense and sensibility, and it has spread to Nigeria.
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- ↑ For example, this site asks "Whom do you wish to believe concerning the character of the Prophet Mohammed?", before listing several quotes and blatantly lying; claiming Michael H. Hart's book is a rating of "men who contributed towards the benefit and upliftment of mankind". This is untrue. Hart's list is purely based on his opinion of who has had the most influence and does not comment on whether it was positive or negative. For more details click here.
- ↑ For example, a quote attributed to George Bernard Shaw, praising Prophet Muhammad as the "Savior of Humanity" who would have succeeded in solving all the world's problems if he "were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world," but turned out to be a fabrication. Ref: Rachel Baxendale, "Ads for Islam 'misquote Shaw from bogus book'", The Australian, July 9, 2013 (archived), http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/ads-for-islam-misquote-shaw-from-bogus-book/story-fn59niix-1226676192844.
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- ↑ Haran Gawaita and the Baptism of Hibil-Ziwa: The Mandaic Text Reproduced Together with Translation, Notes, and Commentary by E. S. Drower (Citta del Vaticano, 1953).
- ↑ Jacques Ellul, forward to Les Chrestientes d'Orient entre Jihad et Dhimmitude. VIIe-XXe siecle (1991); English translation in the preface to Bat Ye'or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam (Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996), pp. 18-19.
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- ↑ "Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War, and on Greece, written while JQA was in retirement, before his election to Congress in 1830" [Chapters X-XIV (pp. 267-402) in The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29. New York, 1830.] p. 269
- ↑ "Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War, and on Greece, written while JQA was in retirement, before his election to Congress in 1830" [Chapters X-XIV (pp. 267-402) in The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29. New York, 1830.] p. 274-275
- ↑ "Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War, and on Greece, written while JQA was in retirement, before his election to Congress in 1830" [Chapters X-XIV (pp. 267-402) in The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29. New York, 1830.] p. 276
- ↑ "Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War, and on Greece, written while JQA was in retirement, before his election to Congress in 1830" [Chapters X-XIV (pp. 267-402) in The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29. New York, 1830.] p. 299-300
- ↑ "Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War, and on Greece, written while JQA was in retirement, before his election to Congress in 1830" [Chapters X-XIV (pp. 267-402) in The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29. New York, 1830.] p. 278
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- ↑ letter to Corinne Lütfü, from the Gallipoli peninsula (20 July 1917) as translated in Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey (2002) by Andrew Mango
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- ↑ Gladstone's thinking towards Islam - BBC News (audio from Radio 2), January 23, 2009
- ↑ From an uncut video interview with Prof. William Hay, conducted by TheRationalizer in Munich, Germany. William Hay - This is the truth UNCUT (What scientists really think of the Quran) - November 21, 2011
- ↑ Carole Hillenbrand - Professor W. Montgomery - The Independent
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- ↑ Quotation of the Decade? - The Churchill Centre
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- ↑ Duncan Gardham - Mutallab: Again Soyinka Blames UK For Breeding Terrorists - TheWill, February 2, 2010
- ↑ James Meikle - England is 'cesspit' breeding Islamists, says Soyinka - The Guardian, February 2, 2010


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Two shows are expected to be broadcast on BBC Four in January 2009: An Islamic History of Europe by Rageh Omaar and Science and Islam by Jim Al-Khalili. As a gift for the Hijri 1430 and Gregorian 2009 New Years, and to celebrate this event, we take this opportunity to alert our readers to the wealth of research published on www.MuslimHeritage.com on the Islamic science, technology, history and culture.
Figure 1: Professor Jim Al-Khalili, British Theoretical Nuclear Physicist, Academic, Author and Broadcaster, browsing through the book 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in our World (FSTC, 2006) (Source).
Starting from 5 January 2009, BBC Four will show two series on Islamic history and Islam and science, presented respectively by Rageh Omaar and Jim Al-Khalili (read story here).
The programme on Science and Islam is presented by Jim Al-Khalili, a well known scientist himself. It is a one hour program following Rageh Omaar's documentary; it will be repeated same night on 5 January 2009 and after midnight. The show deals more specifically with the Islamic contribution to the progress of science and technology and shows how the Islamic world increased scientific knowledge between the 8th and 14th centuries.
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.
Its legacy is tangible, with terms like algebra, algorithm and alkali all being Arabic in origin and at the very heart of modern science –there would be no modern mathematics or physics without algebra, no computers without algorithms and no chemistry without alkalis.
For Baghdad-born Al-Khalili this is also a personal journey and on his travels he uncovers a diverse and outward-looking culture, fascinated by learning and obsessed with science. From the great mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, who did much to establish the mathematical tradition we now know as algebra, to Ibn Sina, a pioneer of early medicine whose Canon of Medicine was still in use as recently as the 19th century. He tells also the story of Al-Razi, who improved medical diagnosis and even attempted medical trials, and he finds out how cataract operations were done and visits one of the world's first hospitals in Damascus.
When the Islamic Empire established itself, from the 7th century CE onwards, its rulers made gathering the world's knowledge a top priority. Islamic scholars travelled the known world in search of mathematical, medical, astronomical and philosophical texts.
By the 8th and 9th centuries, the ruling elite of Baghdad organised regular debates between scholars. At these vibrant events, all kinds of ideas, often from other civilisations and cultural traditions, were debated, discussed and even radically improved.
The scientific legacy of this extraordinary time lives on. Terms like algebra, algorithm and alkali, are all Arabic in origin and are at the heart of modern science.
The story thus told pieced together a remarkable story of the often-overlooked achievements of the early medieval Islamic scientists.
- 05 Jan 2009 at 21:00: BBC Four
- 05 Jan 2009 at 23:00: BBC Four
- 06 Jan 2009 at 03:00 : BBC Four
- 06 Jan 2009 at 19:30 : BBC Four
- 06 Jan 2009 at 20:00 : BBC HD
- 07 Jan 2009 at 00:45 : BBC Four
Figure 3: Rageh Omaar, British television news presenter and writer, in Granada, Spain (© BBC) (Source).
The documentary, An Islamic History of Europe presents Rageh Omaar's search for the history of Islam in Europe. Rageh Omaar visits Spain, Sicily and France in a fascinating journey in search of the story of Islam in Europe. He uncovers a tale of scientific advance and rich cultural influences that have had a profound impact on the way we are today, reveals how a flourishing Islamic culture was finally destroyed in Europe by ambition, betrayal and oppression and shows how the fall-out still resonates today.
In this documentary, Rageh Omaar seeks to reconstruct the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past and looks back to a golden age when European civilisation was enriched by Islamic learning.
Beginning in Spain, where the brilliant Andalusian civilisation flourished, Rageh travels across medieval Muslim Europe to reveal the vibrant civilisation that Muslims brought to the West.
This evocative film brings to life a time when emirs and caliphs dominated Spain and Sicily and Islamic scholarship swept into the major cities of Europe. His journey reveals the debt owed to Islam for its vital contribution to the European Renaissance.
- 05 Jan 2009 at 20:30: BBC Four
- 06 Jan 2009 at 02:30: BBC Four
Figure 4: 3D Construction of the Third Water Raising Device.
BBC Links
External Links
- Al-Andalus: A history of Muslim conquered southern Spain
- Muslim Heritage: Excellent history of the Muslim world
- Bringing to Life the Islamic History of Europe: A Video Documentary
Further reading
Easily read articles published on www.MuslimHeritage.com on Islam and science and the Islamic scientific tradition.
- FSTC: Bringing to Life the Islamic History of Europe: A Video Documentary
- 1001 Inventions Interview with Professor Jim Al-Khalili
- Jim Al-Khalili: It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton
- Jim Al-Khalili: Science and Rationalism in 9th Century Baghdad
- Roshdi Rashed: Promoting Science-based Cultural Dialogue among Civilizations
- Ahmad Dallal: Tolerance or Compatibility? The Search for a Qur'anic Paradigm of Science
- Charles Burnett: The Appreciation of Arabic Science and Technology in the Middle Ages
- Charles Burnett: Tracing the Impact of Latin Translations of Arabic Texts on European Society
- Charles Burnett: Arabic Medicine in the Mediterranean
- FSTC – Paul Kunitzsch: Scientific Contacts and Influences Between the Islamic World and Europe: The Case of Astronomy
- Geoffrey Roper: Muslim Printing Before Gutenberg
- FSTC - Alparslan Acikgenc: The Emergence of Scientific Tradition in Islam
- FSTC: How Islam Inspired Scientific Advance
- FSTC: Innovations in Islamic Sciences
- FSTC: A New Book by George Saliba: Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
- FSTC: A Wealth of Scholarship: Recent Publications in Islamic Art, Culture and History
- FSTC: Recognizing a Decisive Tribute: Islam's Contribution to Western Civilization
- FSTC: 800 Years Later: In Memory of Al-Jazari, A Genius Mechanical Engineer
- FSTC: Taqi al-Din Ibn Ma'ruf: A Special Section
- FSTC: Science under Islam: A Reflection on Past Brilliancy and Future Revival
- FSTC: A Treasure of World Heritage: Islamic Manuscripts in the Kandilli Observatory
- Contrast between Islamic and Western Science
- FSTC: A Compendium of Knowledge about Islamic Civilization: Its History, Contributions, and Influence
- Salim Ayduz: Science under Islam: A Reflection on Past Brilliancy and Future Revival
- FSTC: How Islam Created the Modern World
- FSTC: Latinized Names of Muslim Scholars
- FSTC: Introduction to Muslim Science
- FSTC: The Emergence of Scientific Tradition in Islam
- FSTC: Innovations in Islamic Sciences
- FSTC: Muslim Scholars
- FSTC: Islam and Science


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Danila Medvedev, a longtime Moscow opposition activist, is no fan of President Vladimir Putin. A fluent English speaker who works for the Russian Transhumanist Movement, a philosophical-scientific group that deals with intelligence enhancement and cryogenics, Mr Medvedev had been part of the opposition even before the 2011-12 anti-Kremlin protests.
A loud critic of Kremlin corruption, Mr Medvedev was excited when he saw the protests unfolding in Kiev against Ukraine's then president Viktor Yanukovich last year. Seeing parallels to the anti-Putin protests in Moscow, Mr Medvedev decided to travel down to Kiev's Maidan square – the epicentre of the protests – in January and see the movement for himself. "I was supportive of what was going on there," Mr Medvedev says.
Over the ensuing months this changed – drastically. Mr Medvedev became disappointed by Ukraine's new leaders, whom he alleges are no better than Mr Yanukovich. He also came to believe the west was manipulating events for its own interests. Mr Medvedev's breaking point, he says, came on May 2 when dozens of pro-Russian separatists died in a deadly fire in Odessa during clashes with pro-Ukrainian football fans. After that, he began working as an activist for "Novorossiya" or "New Russia", the historical term Mr Putin invoked when referring to southern and southeastern Ukraine this spring. He is helping the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics create their own banking system.
"People in Russia have seen [the events in Ukraine] as a sign," says Mr Medvedev, who argues the US's actions there are threatening the Russian nation. "Even though I don't like [Mr] Putin one bit, I like the idea the US will create another Serbia, Libya or Syria even less."
While the news cycle has focused on western sanctions against Moscow over the events in Ukraine and Russia's ban on western food products, life in Moscow has continued as normal. Restaurants are packed and grocery store shelves still stocked. The real change has been in attitude.
At the beginning of August, Mr Putin's approval rating hit 87 per cent, according to the respected pollster Levada Centre, an all-time high for the president's 14-year political career.
Three years ago thousands of well-heeled Muscovites were rallying against the Kremlin in the so-called "revolution of the satisfied". Today many of them are happy to forgo their Camembert and New York strip steak as necessary sacrifices in a broader geopolitical struggle.
Ask the shoppers of Moscow's high-end grocery stores if they think the Russian government did the right thing by banning most meat, dairy and food produce from the EU and the US, and many will say yes, even those who have stacked their trolleys with the soon-to-be extinct items.
Even some restaurant owners and food distributors who stand to be affected by the new measures have brushed off the potential consequences. Boris Zarkov, owner of the elite restaurant White Rabbit, which specialises in oysters and other imported delicacies, proclaimed that Russia's response to sanctions "wouldn't affect the restaurant business in a big way at all". "It's become clear that some things will need to change but it's not scary," he told the newswire Interfax.
A Spanish and Portuguese meat distributor told me she also supported the ban. Though bad for business, the ban was a necessary response to the west, which she said had been hitting Russia "like a piñata". She said she would find other countries to import meat from.
This attitude is reflected among once prominent leaders of the opposition as well. Eduard Limonov, a longtime leader of the anti-Kremlin movement, has argued for Russia's direct military intervention in east Ukraine. Another member of Mr Limonov's political party announced that The Other Russia should do away with its years-long slogan "Russia Without Putin!".
Mr Medvedev says he is ready for current and future sanctions. "We've managed to endure much worse," he says. Yet some of those 84 per cent of Russians who approve of Mr Putin may start to feel differently when the summer comes to an end.
The effect of sanctions on the economy might not be visible for months to come, but eventually the creeping effects of the economic slowdown, the import ban and rouble devaluation are likely to come to the fore. Camembert and strip steaks may be expendable but inflation and rising food prices are harder to ignore.
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- For an instant decorating makeover, this area rug is one of the easiest and most fashionable ways to refresh a room with character and style
- Please Note: The digital images and product dimensions on our website are as accurate as possible. Due to differences in computer monitors, some rug colors may vary slightly. Lengths and widths may vary from the published dimensions. We do our best to provide you with an exact measurement, but please be advised that some variation exists. Patterns may vary slightly according to shape and size selected.
- 60 day manufacturer warranty, for warranty information on this product, please call our Internet Customer Service Center at 1-800-435-4654


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David Eastes necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 54 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
VroomVroomVroom – We compare car rental... with over 10 suppliers around the world.
Our Brand is
* smart
* fun
* savvy
* efficient
* dependable
* real
* professional
* perhaps the littlest bit cheeky..
Website: http://www.vroomvroomvroom.com.au/
Anyone who rents a car – online or otherwise
Travellers, holidaymakers and the travel industry are core demographics for us, so our design must be simple, fun and professional.
25 – elderly
Even mix of gender, demographics
Please download our new design PSD below and make even better.
NOTE: do not use our current homepage design. Thank you.
Major Improvement:
* Background illustration.
- We would like concepts for a fun scene to be used as a background on our webiste
- It can be illustration, reallife, watermark.
- Must be fun, professional, appeal to wide audience.
- Must relate to driving, road trip, road, cars, trvel
- Must not take over from foreground elements. (logo, searchform, tagline, content)
- To match header
Take inspiration from
- http://vimeo.com/ - notice footer
- http://www.adventuredrop.com/
- http://www.firefox.com/
You can play with:
* Should logo be left / centred / right
* Should tagline be under logo or somewhere else.
* Search form must be prominent. Do not change much.
* Menu at the top.
* Custom Search Button.
* Containers around content.
* High Res supplier logos here http://www.vroom.com.au/downloads/p…plier-eps/


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- New York Vintage Lighting
- New York NY 10023, and Callicoon NY 12723, United States
- Location: Manhattan & Sullivan County Occupation: Antique/Vintage Lighting Sales, Restoration and Custom Design Along with my partner Paul D Pisanelli We bring over 35 years of Buying & Selling Antiques for our own store in Sullivan County. I am following my Passion and I am Successfully helping people Coordinate their Environments with our Overhead Lighting, Chandeliers, Torchiers, Floor Lamps, Table Lamps and many Custom Designs. We Buy, Sell, Repair, Refurbish and even assist you in Redesigning your Lighting Pieces. We also can be commissioned to shop for your desired Furnishings in the many Markets we travel. Ask us about our Custom Tables, Kitchen Islands, even Carriage House Doors. We specialize in using Recyclable & Exotic Woods. Interests: Scouting the Markets for American made High Standard Lighting, the Beauty, Design & Quality of which has not be replicated. Assisting you in Obtaining your Vision of your Lighting and or Custom Furnishing needs while staying Green. We search the Markets for you and consult for your Designs Projects.
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"Dress for the Occasion" - Dress - This wallart is an exciting illusion with a dress hanging on a wall. Place it next to a makeup table and add a real hook to hang your jewellery from.
This Digital Wall Art comes in 2 easy to apply panels (each panel is 45cm wide x 265cm high).
This Wall Art can also be re-scaled or coloured to your exact specification. Contact Sales Team for further information.
Please Note: Please allow up to 14 working days for delivery.


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Hot Shot: Maryse Ouellet
You may know her as simply "Maryse," but today's Celeb Crush's full name is Maryse Ouellett.
Wrestling fans will remember this smokin' tall blonde babe from her run on WWE from 2006 to 2011. The former WWE Diva, who always caught our attention with her swimsuit only battles and her signature move, the "camel clutch," recently got engaged to another famous WWE face, The Miz.
The Miz is one lucky man; not only is Maryse one of the most physically striking and flexible ladies to ever hit the ring, she's also a former Playboy cover model. She's a rare one, and that's why she's the only lady in the land who can go buy the nicknames "The Sexiest of the Sexy" and "The Sultry Diva."