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MEMBER BLOG TAG: muslim

Friday, February 18, 2011 2:48PM
 
Guns R God
Tags: guns, women, Christians, Leviticus, taxes, Ten Commandments, entitlements, Enron, Lehman Brothers, Muslims, brown people, blacks, gays, claymores
 
I am a hunter, a gun owner, a Marine, an evangelical Christian, a native of Texas where the Land Commissioner believes a bullet is the best answer, and I have been married to the same woman for 57 years. Guys like me have a lot to fear. Without guns we would be as incidental as women, as superfluous as Palestinians. Guys like me pledge allegiance to one nation, divisible, under guns with all the liberty and justice you can hang on to with AK-47s and cop-killer bullets. We fear losing profits. We don’t make guns but we can make money with guns. Sure, you can hold up a pick-and-pack store and scrounge a few bucks if you pack heat but you can sell a gun...
 
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:30PM
 
Freedom to Share: Ramadan's Hearing
Tags: Tariq Ramadan, Pen America, Freedom to Write, fictionthatmatters.org, immigration, 2d circuit, human rights, muslim
 
Freedom to Share: The Tariq Ramadan Hearing

Anyone who has ever invited a friend to come to the U.S. has bumped into the ruthless bureaucracy of the immigration system. The process often works something like this:

Consular officer: I regret that your visa application was denied, Mr. Jonathan.
Jonathan: Why?
Consular officer: Because I think you plan to stay in the U.S.
Jonathan But I have a wife and two kids here in Djibouti, and plenty of money.
Consular officer: The decision has been made. Next in line, please.
Jonathan: Can't I appeal?
Consular officer: You can submit another visa application. Next, please....
 
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:53PM
 
For the Love of Agape or Eros
Tags: sex, religion, Christian, Jew, Muslim
 
For the Love of Agape or Eros Without Error A Religious Sex Shop The monotheistic religions agree that begetting is God’s chosen method of human duplication and that the Creator made an almighty mistake. A better choice would have been clay-molding, rib-taking or zeroxing which are more hygienic, less disruptive and not impregnated with sin. Because of God’s mistake the monotheistic religions require or at least desire their followers to be sexual novices before the consecration of marriage. They want the participants--one male, one female--to come to the union as amateurs, without apprenticeship or probationary period, and to approach the hymeneal altar as neophytes. This would seem to require...
 
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