Umm Muhammad's Blog – February 2013 Archive (11)

As the saga of Oscar Pistorius’ fall from grace continues to play out in South Africa, there seem to be new and strange developments at every turn.

The judge who granted him bail now has a personal tragedy of his own. His first cousin allegedly poisoned her sons, ages 12 and 17, then killed herself over the weekend in Johannesburg. The lead investigator,…

Michael Snyder

During the last housing crash, the

big banks begged the federal government for help and they received it, but when

average Americans ask the big banks for help most of the time the banks show no

mercy whatsoever. If you fall behind on your mortgage payments, the big banks

have shown that they are willing to be absolutely…

Around 3:30pm yesterday, 9 individuals were arrested by DeWitt Police and Onondaga County Sheriffs for peaceably blocking the main entrance to Hancock Air Base on East Molloy Rd in the town of DeWitt, a Syracuse, NY suburb.  Hancock is the regional hub for the hunter/killer Reaper drone deployed over Afghanistan, Pakistan and, increasingly, elsewhere. This nonviolent civil resistance is the most recent in a series of actions at…

"Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad" is a mystical demystification of the women who were present

at the founding of Islam.  Bold in conception, shivery in detail, it sheds light on the influence of the women who, centuries ago, were caught in intrigue, war, clan concatenations, jealousy and a host of other exigencies of the human…

But behind each name there is the face of a child with a family history in a village in a far away country, with a mom and a dad, with brothers and sisters and friends.

Among the list, are infants of 1, 2, 3 and 4 years old.

In some cases brothers and sisters of an entire family are killed.…

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

“I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange…

it case you felt you

weren't being scanned

enough...



New York mayor Michael

"I love Wall Street" Bloomberg

has teamed up with the

Department of Homeland

Security to put full body

scanners on city streets.



Pedestrians don't even

know they're being scanned.



As usually Herr Fuhrer

Bloomberg couldn't care

less about the privacy

issues or health concerns.



Details.



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