Is the Quran from God?

When I first read the Quran in the English translation many years ago I was puzzled. I couldn't understand why God found the need to praise himself -- and so lavishly. If a human did that he would be laughed at and dismissed as childish. I turned to my father for an explanation. "Who wrote this book?" I asked him He looked at me as if I had gone off my rocker. To him, and to millions of other Muslims in the world, it was given that the Quran was the word of God and that was that. But I am convinced that it is not the word of god. God (if he does exist) cannot be a child nor a fool. He has no need to make himself important or great. He KNOWS he is. There are just too many strange things in the quran to convince anyone with even a little intelligence that it is the work of a man or several men. Here are a few: Those who deny Muhammad's revelations are like dogs. 7:176 "Allah is the best of plotters." 8:31 Exhort the believers to fight. They will win easily, because disbelievers are without intelligence. 8:65 Don't try to enjoy this life. The fun starts after you die. (If you are a good Muslim, that is.) 9:38 Allah supported Muhammad with armies that no one else could see. 9:40 Solomon was taught the language of birds. 27:16 The Jinn and birds fought in Solomon's army. 27:17 Those in hell must eat from a tree with the heads of devils, and then drink boiling water. After that they return to hell. 37:62-68 If bad stuff happens to you, it's your own fault. 42:30, 42:48 Allah made the stars as missiles to throw at devils. 67:5 Only religious people help orphans or those in need. 107:1-3 Allah struck Moses with lightening and then revived him just so that Moses would thank him for it! 2:55-56 Muslims are the best people. Most Non-Muslims are "evil-livers." 3:110 When it's time to pray and you have just used the toilet or touched a woman, be sure to wash up. If you can't find any water, just rub some dirt on yourself. 5:6 And if that's not enough for you then check out the following videos:

The difference between a western and a third world education

In the west, no matter what subject you graduate in, you acquire a wider knowledge of the world; you learn not to take anything at face value; you learn to ask questions and indulge in a healthy, perhaps heated, debate about a subject; nobody to you is beyond criticism, not even your teachers or the elders in your society.   In the east you come out of an institution of higher learning perhaps well versed in the subject you went to study but more or less an ignoramus in everything else. You have not learned to think for yourself, most things in life seem to you to be as they should be. You are still tied to your society's old beliefs and customs, especially to its religion. To think rationally is still beyond you.   Where ever I have traveled in the east I have always felt bored until I met a western tourist with whom I could have a nice chat. Talking to the locals was like talking to some statues, no matter what their background. aziz anom

jokes

A woman was shaking out a rug on the balcony of her 17th floor condominium when a sudden gust of wind blew her over the railing. "Damn, that was stupid," she thought as she fell. "What a way to die."
As she passed the 14th floor, a man standing at his railing caught her in his arms.
While she looked at him in disbelieving gratitude, he asked, "Do you suck?"
"No!" she shrieked, aghast.
So, he dropped her.
As she passed the 12th floor, another man reached out and caught her. "Do you screw?" he asked.
"Of course not!" she exclaimed before she could stop herself.
He dropped her, too.
The poor woman prayed to God for one more chance. As luck would have it, she was caught a third time, by a man on the eighth floor. "I suck! I screw!" she screamed in panic.
"Slut!" he said, and dropped her.

There was a guy riding through the desert on his camel. He had been travelling so long that he felt the need to have sex. Obviously there were no women in the desert so the man turned to his camel.
He tried to position himself to have sex with his camel but the camel ran away. The man ran to catch up to the camel and got back on and started to ride again. Soon he was feeling the urge to have sex again so once again he turned to his camel. The camel refused by running away. So he caught up to it again and go on it again.
Finally after riding the camel through the whole desert the man came to a road. There was a broken down car with three big chested beautiful blondes sitting in it.
He went up to them and asked the women if they needed any help.
The hottest girl said ,"If you fix our car we will do anything you want."
The man luckily knew a thing or two about cars and fixed it in a flash.
When he finished are three girls asked, "How could we ever repay you Mr."
After thinking for a short while he replied,"Could you hold my camel?"

A guy walks into a doctor's office and stutters, "Da-da-doc, I've ba-ba-been sta-sta-stuttering for ye-ye-years, and I ca-ca-can't stand it anymo-mo-more! Can you he-he-help me?"
The doctor answers "Well, I'll have to give you a thorough examination first, but in some cases there is a cure." So the doctor puts the guy through a battery of tests, and says, "I think I know what's causing your stuttering."
The guy excitedly asks, "Well, wa-wa-what is it, da- da-doctor?"
"It's your penis. I know that sounds crazy, but you have an unusually large penis - it's almost two feet long. It seems the weight is putting a strain on your vocal cords which most men never have to deal with."
The guy asks, "Wa-wa-what can we da-da-do?"
"Well, we could remove it and transplant a shorter one."
"Do it!" the guy replies. So they go through the operation, and three weeks later the guy comes in for a follow up appointment.
He says, "Doc, you solved my stuttering problem. I don't know how to thank you. But I've only had sex once in three weeks - my wife just doesn't like it anymore with my new, shorter penis. I've thought about it, and I decided I can put up with the stuttering easier than going without the sex - I want you to put my long one back on."
The doctor says, "No-no-nope. A da-da-deal's a da-da- deal!"

A man walks into a doctor's office and says, "I have a problem with my dick!"
The lady at the counter says, "Sir, we do not say words like that at the doctors office! Now leave and come back and replace "Dick" with some other body part like "Ear."
The man does as he's told and comes back in and says, "I have a problem with my ear."
The lady the says, "What is that?"
To which the man replied, "I can't piss out of it!"

"Doc," says Steve, "I want to be castrated."
"What on earth for?" asks the doctor in amazement.
"It's something I've been thinking about for a long time and I want to have it done" replies Steve.
"But have you thought it through properly?" asks the doctor, "It's a very serious operation and once it's done, there's no going back. It will change your life forever!"
"I'm aware of that and you're not going to change my mind; either you book me in to be castrated or I'll simply go to another doctor."
"Well, OK.", says the doctor, "But it's against my better judgment!"
So Steve has his operation, and the next day he is up and walking very slowly, legs apart, down the hospital corridor with his drip stand. Heading towards him is another patient, who is walking exactly the same way. "Hi there," says Steve, "It looks as if you've just had the same operation as me."
"Well," said the patient, "I finally decided after 37 years of life that I would like to be circumcised."
Steve stared at him in horror and screamed, "Shit! THAT'S the word!”

A man and a woman were waiting at the hospital donation centre.
Man: "What are you doing here today?"
Woman: "Oh, I`m here to donate some blood. They`re going to give me $5 for it."
Man: "Hmm, that`s interesting. I`m here to donate sperm, myself. But they pay me $25."
The woman looked thoughtful for a moment and they chatted some more before going their separate ways.
Several months later, the same man and woman meet again in the donation centre.
Man: "Oh, hi there! Here to donate blood again?"
Woman: [shaking her head with mouth closed] "Unh unh."

A new bride went to her doctor for a check up. Lacking knowledge of the male anatomy, she asked the doctor "What's that thing hanging between my husbands legs?"
The doctor replies "We call that the penis."
The new bride then asks "What's that reddish/purple thing on the end of the penis?"
The doctor replies "We call that the head of the penis."
The bride then asks "What are those 2 round things about 15 inches from the head of the penis?"
The doctor replies "Lady, on him I don't know, but on me they're the cheeks of my ass!"

This lady is having a bed wetting problem, so she decides to go to the doctor. The doctor tells her to go and get undressed and wait for him in the other room.
When the doctor goes into the room he tells the lady to stand on her head facing the mirror. She figures he is a doctor and gets in front of the mirror. The doctor goes over to the lady and rests his chin between her legs and looks in the mirror.
After a few minutes he stands up and tells the lady to go ahead and put her clothes back on and he will talk to her when she is dressed. The lady puts her clothes on and asks the doctor what is wrong with her.
He tells her that she needs to quit drinking before she goes to bed. The lady asks the doctor why he had her get naked in front of the mirror and stand on her head.
He replies, "I wanted to see how I would look with a beard."

A beautiful, voluptuous woman goes to a gynaecologist. The doctor takes one look at this woman and all his professionalism goes out the window.
Right away he tells her to undress. After she has disrobed he begins to stroke her thigh. As he does this he says to the woman, "Do you know what I'm doing?"
"Yes," she says, "you're checking for any abrasions or dermatological abnormalities."
"That's right," says the doctor. He then begins to fondle her breasts. "Do you know what I'm doing now?" he asks.
"Yes," the woman says, "you're checking for any lumps of breast cancer."
"That's right," replies the doctor. He then begins to have sexual intercourse with the woman.
He says to her, "Do you know what I'm doing now?"
"Yes," she says. "You're getting herpes."

This young couple had only been married for about two weeks when the wife complains of a burning sensation in her chest. She tells her husband who suggests that she goes to the doctor to be examined. She arranges an appointment and goes the following day.
The husband, while at work receives a call from the doctor.
Doctor: "I am sorry to say your wife has acute angina..."
Husband: "Yeah, I know, she's got a nice pair of tits too!"

A businessman returns from the far east. After a few days he notices stange growth on his penis.
He sees several doctors. They all say: "You've been screwing around in the Far East, very common there, no cure. We'll have to cut it off."
The man panics, but figures if it is common in the East they must know how to cure it. So he goes back and sees a doctor in Thailand.
The doctor examines him and says, "You've been fooling around in my country. This is a very common problem here. Did you see any other doctors?"
The man replies, "Yes a few in the USA."
The doctor says, "I bet they told you it had to be cut off."
The man answers, "Yes!"
The doctor smiles, nods, "That is not correct. It will fall off by itself."

A guy was going on vacation and he didn't want his girl friend to have sex with any other guy while he was gone so the guy want to a porn shop and said to the clerk, "I need something to keep my girlfriend from having sex with another guy!"
So the clerk gets a box and said, "This is a Voodoo Dick. Here is a example of how it works," and the clerk said, "Voodoo Dick, the door!" and the dick went and fucked the door.
Then the clerk said to get in the box say 'voodoo dick your box.'"
So the guy brings it to his girlfriend and shows her how to use it but didn't tell her how to make it stop.
The next morning before she went to work she said, "Voodoo Dick, my pussy!" and it was the best sex she ever had, but she didn't know how to get it to stop.
So she went to the Doctors with it fucking her and eventually got in to see a gynaecologist.
She said, "I have a Voodoo Dick in my pussy and there's no way I can get it out!"
The Doctor looks at her suspiciously and says, "Voodoo Dick, my ass!"

A middle aged businessman goes to see his physician. "Doctor, I've got this problem," the man says. "My secretary, she loves to give blow jobs. Every morning when I get to work I get a blow job. She gives me a quick one before I leave for lunch. And before I leave work at the end of the day she really works me over."
"So what seems to be the problem?" the doctor asked.
"Well, you see, my wife is a nymphomaniac," the man continued. "I service her every morning when we get up. I go home for a quick half hour every day at lunch and then we have a marathon session each night before we go to sleep."
"I still don't know what your problem is," said the doctor.
"You see Doc, every time I masturbate I get these dizzy spells."

One day a young man and woman were in their bedroom making love. All of a sudden a bumblebee entered the bedroom window. As the young lady parted her legs the bee entered her vagina.
The woman started screaming "Oh my God, help me, there's a bee in my vagina!"
The husband immediately took her to the local doctor and explained the situation. The doctor thought for a moment and said "Hmm, tricky situation. But I have a solution to the problem if young sir would permit."
The husband being very concerned agreed that the doctor could use whatever method to get the bee out of his wife's vagina. The doctor said "OK, what I'm gonna do is rub some honey over the top of my penis and insert it into your wife's vagina. When I feel the bee getting closer to the tip of my penis I shall withdraw it and the bee should hopefully follow my penis out of your wife's vagina. The husband nodded and gave his approval.
The young lady said "Yes, Yes, whatever, just get on with it."
So the doctor, after covering the tip of his penis with honey, inserted it into the young lady's vagina. After a few gentle strokes, the doctor said, "I don't think the bee has noticed the honey yet. Perhaps I should go a bit deeper."
So the doctor went deeper and deeper. After a while the doctor began shafting the young lady very hard indeed. The young lady began to quiver with excitement. She began to moan and groan aloud. The doctor, concentrating very hard, looked like he was enjoying himself, he then put his hands on the young lady's breasts and started making loud noises.
The husband at this point suddenly became very annoyed and shouted, "Now wait a minute! What the Hell do you think you're doing?"
The doctor, still concentrating, replied, "Change of plan. I'm gonna drown the bastard!"

As the doctor completed an examination of the patient, he said, "I can't find a cause for your complaint. Frankly, I think it's due to drinking."
"In that case," said the patient, "I'll come back when you're sober"

Patient: Doctor, you must help me. I'm under such a lot of stress, I keep losing my temper with people.
Doctor: Tell me about your problem.
Patient: I just did, didn't I, you stupid fool!!

A patient came to his dentist with problems with his teeth.
Patient: Doctor, I have yellow teeth, what do I do?
Dentist: Wear a brown tie!


Doctor: I have some bad news and some very bad news.
Patient: Well, might as well give me the bad news first.
Doctor: The lab called with your test results. They said you have 24 hours to live.
Patient: 24 hours! That's terrible! What could be worse? What's the very bad news?
Doctor: I've been trying to reach you since yesterday.

The patient shook his doctor's hand in gratitude and said, "Since we are the best of friends, I would not want to insult you by offering payment. But I would like for you to know that I had mentioned you in my will."
"That is very kind of you," said the doctor emotionally, and then added, "Can I see that prescription I just gave you? I'd like to make a little change."

Doctor: You're in good health. You'll live to be eighty.
Patient: But, doctor, I am 80 right now.
Doctor: See, what did I tell you.

Patient: Doctor, I think I need glasses.
Teller: You certainly do! This is a bank.

Patient: Doctor, what I need is something to stir me up; something to put me in a fighting mood. Did you put something like that in this prescription?
Doctor: No need for that. You will find that in your bill.

The new American ambassador was being entertained by an African
diplomat. They'd spent the day discussing what the country had
received from the Russians before the new government kicked them
out. "The Russians built us a power plant, a highway, and an
airport. Plus we learned to drink vodka and play Russian roulette."

The American frowned. "Russian roulette's not a very nice game."

The diplomat smiled. "That's why we developed African roulette. If
you want to have good relations with our country, you'll have to
play. I'II show you how."

He pushed a buzzer, and a moment later six magnificently built,
nude women were ushered in.

"You can choose any one of those women to give you oral sex," he told the
American. "That's great," the ambassador said. "That doesn't seem much like
Russian roulette."

"Oh, it is. One of them is a cannibal."

Muhammad and his 9 year old sex kitten

Recently I sent the above video to a Muslim relative of mine and, as you would expect of an uneducated believer, he rejected it as lies. It taught me never again to try to reason with such people. It is a waste of time. It is like talking to a wall.

If you are a Muslim and you have an open mind and are not afraid that you will be sent to hell after your death for questioning your religion, then have a look at this video and do some research of your own. You will be surprised if not shocked by the behaviour of your "Messenger of Allah".

Iran's pious frauds

It makes me outraged that a bunch of uneducated mullahs, with their long beards and silly turbans, should decide over the fate of millions of Iranians. I just hope that the protests now going on in the streets of Tehran succeed in overthrowing these religious dictators and that these criminals would be punished severely, preferably by dragging them by their beards through the streets and putting them on donkeys before being stoned to death (a method sanctioned by their religion). And I hope that eventually that country would become a secular state with a properly functioning democratic system.

Let us wish the people of Iran a happy future.

north korea's nukes

Why are the nuclear powers making such a fuss over North Korea setting off an atomic bomb? Have these selfish scums forgotten that they themselves possess such weapons? Who has given them the right to have a monopoly on these deadly blasts? If they don't like other countries having them then they should start dismantling their own arsenal first and then, if they want, they can start preaching to others.

The UN, which is controlled by the West along with Russia and China, passes resolutions condemning North Korea and Iran because these countries do not accept any bullshit from anyone. Does the UN ever condemn countries that are friendly to the big powers? Countries like Pakistan, India and Israel?

turkey and the EU

Turkey, a Muslim country, has been trying to get into the European Union for a long time without success. The Europeans have been using one excuse after another but the real reason of course is that Turkey is Islamic. Most people, I think, know this except the stupid Turkish leaders who continue to beg to be allowed in. Why are the Turks demeaning themselves so much? It is time they realised that their future lies only with their fellow Muslims. Let them form an Islamic Union and break their ties with the Zionists. With Turks on board the Muslims would be able to trample on Israel like they would on an ant, whether the Americans and the Europeans like it or not. Those Christians would then regret that they did not take Turkey into the EU.

dick cheney

Did you know that Cheney, the super hawk, evaded military service 6 times on some pretext or other? This bastard is prepared to send other Americans to their deaths but makes sure that he himself doesn't get hurt or killed. Bush too did the same thing.

the culling of swine in Egypt

Egypt has ordered the culling of all swine in that country. Let us hope the authorities there do not forget to include Mubarak.

Obama refuses to answer the question

At the press conference on his hundredth day Obama was asked if he believed that Bush and Cheney and the other top thugs in the previous administration had ordered the torture of prisoners. The President totally ignored the question and talked about how he himself was against torture. Why is this man shielding Bush? Why doesn't he want to prosecute the culprits at the top? Doesn't he realise that nobody is above the law?

The more one gets to know Obama the more one dislikes him. Let us hope that the American people see through this hypocrite and throw him out of the White House.

anti racism conference

Did you see who walked out of the meeting when the Iranian president started to condemn Israel? The Europeans! Why are these pink-coloured people so attached to the Zionist state to the point that they are willing to ignore all the crimes committed by that odious regime? Surely there are hardly any Jews on that continent pulling strings as there are in America. Could it be that it is the age old hatred towards the Muslims? Or perhaps the pinkies are afraid that if the Zionist state was dismantled it would generate a flood of Jews back to Europe and that would be horrible. Don't forget anti-semitism is still rife there despite Hitler having long gone. Wasn't getting rid of the Jews from Europe the original intention behind the creation of Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people? Was it not that (apart from hatred of the Muslims) that made that bastard Balfour come up with the declaration: "...His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine..."

I have had many arguments with Europeans over the years when they have invariably come up with statements like "Israel has a right to exist". I have told them that Israel has no right to exist in Palestine and always added "Give the Jews a part of your own land and then you can talk about Israel's right to exist". The only response to that was an embarrassed smile and a change of subject.

muslim women's headscarves

For me watching a woman wearing a headscarf is a pain. How silly the Muslims are to think that a woman's hair necessarily makes her desirable, requiring it to be hidden from men's eyes. Men are attracted to the opposite sex in so many different ways and hair is probably the least he is attracted to. I suppose they would say that hair as such is not the issue but what hair does to the appearance as a whole.

Be that as it may, the question we must ask now is: If women should be protected from men, why aren't the men from women's lustful gazes? Why aren't the men also required to cover their hair?

Let me say this: If I ever came to power in a Muslim country one of the first thing I would do is to order the burning of all headscarves.

Aljazeera and the ICC

A reporter on Aljazeera, mister Anand something, interviewed the president of the International Criminal Court, asking him, very tamely, about the war crimes committed by the Zionists in Gaza. Anand made no effort to pin the incoherent man down by asking any embarrassing questions. He accepted everything that was said to him and this surprised me. Here was Aljazeera playing the western game as it were. The heavily accented President said that the Court had taken action against the Sudanese President because the Security Council of the U.N. had told him to, whereas nothing had been said to him about Gaza. This should have prompted the question: So the Court is not an independent body? But that question never came. Anand could have proceeded to drive the point home by pointing out that the Security Council was controlled by the U.S. and the other lovers of Zionism so it is not a surprise that Gaza was not mentioned.

I say shame on you Aljazeera. I thought you were different from the biased western media. Idiotic reporters like Anand who are unable to confront their interviewees should not be employed by you.

education

What is the definition of Education? Who is an educated person? Is he an engineer, doctor, lawyer or any other person who has completed a long course of study at some school or university?
I say not.
I say that a person cannot be called educated unless he has learnt to think for himself and is able to question the accepted norms of his society.

the ultimate weapon against disease

What do you do when you are racked by a chronic, possibly serious disease? The stupid doctors of course haven't been able to do anything and you are just lying there suffering and waiting for death. Is there no hope at all for you? Well, take heart, there is.
It's called fasting.
When you fast (for 10 days at least) you give your body a chance to rid itself of all the toxins that have accumulated over the years through your bad eating and drinking habits and perhaps your sedentary life-style.
And this is how you do it:
Take a spoonful of blackstrap molasses and put it in a large cup or mug; then squeeze half a lemon into the cup and add hot water. Stir the mixture and drink up. And keep drinking this concoction as many times as you wish during the day, keeping well away from all other foods and drinks except water.
You will be healthy and vigorous all over again.

eczema

Recently I had the condition they call eczema (red, itchy rashes on the skin) so, as usual, I turned to the internet for help. Apparently there was no known cure for it. The Doctors resorted to steroid creams which do not work and are dangerous.
On the various discussion boards there seemed only one thing that people were sure actually worked against eczema and that was sea salt. The recommendation was made that you should go to the beach and soak yourself in the sea. That made me wonder if one could simply use ordinary table salt from the kitchen. So I took a glass of tap water, dissolved a few spoonfuls of salt in it and rubbed this salt water on my affected skin. And voila! my eczema began to disappear almost immediately.
But that didn't answer why the problem arose in the first place? Further research pointed the accusing finger at the following:
1) Food allergy, especially to milk and milk products.
2) Antibiotics
3) Excessive consumption of sugar/starch.
The last one seemed to be my problem. So I made some changes to my diet.
No more eczema.

frequent urination

For a long time now I have been troubled by frequent urination, especially during night time when I was obliged to get up from my sleep several times to go to the loo. What I observed was that the problem was particularly worse when I had consumed heaps of carbohydrates during the day.
On searching the literature on frequent urination one study caught my attention: it said that if you are on diuretics you can develop an intolerance for glucose (carbohydrate) leading to the body being unable to process the sugar and the sugar therefore building up in the blood stream -- a condition akin to diabetes. (Diabetics of course urinate often)
I had never been on diuretic drugs but I discovered that I had been eating a lot of foods, like certain spices, that were natural diuretics. The solution offered by that study was to discontinue the diuretics, cut down on salt and take potassium supplements. But how does one discontinue foods that one has been used to eating and loved doing so with a bit of salt? Not easy. I reasoned that potassium alone was unlikely to solve the problem and did not try it.
But over the course of time I found a simpler cure -- EXERCISE. Yes, whenever I had done a lot of physical activity during the day I slept mostly undisturbed during the night. This was in keeping too with what people have been saying about exercise, that it lowers the blood sugar level in the body (if not in the brain where it has the opposite effect). I went to Google to find out if anybody else had talked about the benefits of exercise in relation to frequent urination but there seemed to be no one.
Later on I discovered that the cause of the problem was very likely lack of fat in the diet, for whenever I had eaten butter or anything that had been fried, there was no rushing to the bathroom.

doctors -- a bunch of frauds.

I have long considered medical practice to be a disaster. Apart from giving antibiotics and patching up accident victims and congenital defects and such-like, is there anything else doctors are really capable of?
When it comes to degenerative diseases, doctors, despite their years of training, are probably engaged in quackery when they try to banish from view the ugly symptoms of their patients mysterious diseases with chemicals, operations and shocks. Do they really think that the diseases would simply go away by such means?
A true scientist and a healer would try to search for the cause of a disorder and remove that cause. And the cause -- in the vast majority of bodily mal-function, both physical and mental -- is food or the wrong kind of it that is being consumed. Indeed Hippocrates, whose oath our white-coated friends are required to take, himself proclaimed: THY FOOD SHALL BE THY REMEDY. But do we, the patients, ever get asked about our dietary habits when we go to see a doctor?
An interesting news item came to my attention the other day: Some years ago doctors in Bogota, Columbia, had gone on strike for 52 days and in that period the death rate there fell by 35 %. Also in Los Angeles, during a slow-down by doctors, the death rate dropped by 18 %. Makes you think, doesn't it? And if it doesn't, then read below what some eminent people are thinking:

Professor Alonzo Clark:
IN THEIR ZEAL TO DO GOOD, PHYSICIANS HAVE DONE MUCH HARM. THEY HAVE HURRIED THOUSANDS TO THE GRAVE WHO WOULD HAVE RECOVERED IF LEFT TO NATURE.

Sir John Forbes:
SOME PATIENTS GET WELL WITH THE AID OF MEDICINES, SOME WITHOUT, AND STILL MORE IN SPITE OF IT.

Professor Francois Magendie:
GENTLEMEN, MEDICINE IS A GREAT HUMBUG. I KNOW IT IS CALLED A SCIENCE. SCIENCE INDEED! IT IS NOTHING LIKE SCIENCE. DOCTORS ARE MERELY EMPIRICS WHEN THEY ARE NOT CHARLATANS. WE ARE AS IGNORANT AS MEN CAN BE. WHO KNOWS ANYTHING IN THE WORLD ABOUT MEDICINE?

Philosopher Alexis Carrel:
UNLESS THE DOCTORS OF TODAY BECOME THE DIETICIANS OF TOMORROW THEN THE DIETICIANS OF TODAY WILL BECOME THE DOCTORS OF TOMORROW.

jinnah

There has been published a new biography of Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. The author is an Indian. I was impressed by it because I think it is factual. Jinnah was arrogant and self-seeking, with absolutely no religious inclinations. If the Indian Congress party had offered him the first premiership of a united India, this pork-eating, whiskey drinking skeleton of a man would have grabbed it and Pakistan would have been forgotten; millions of innocent people would then have been spared the killings and mayhem that followed along the borders of the two states. Indeed after he was holed up in the then backwater town of Karachi, he regretted Pakistan and longed for his life in Bombay and his large house there. The people of Pakistan are not told this and as a result the man is regarded there as some kind of god.

god and religion

Put yourself in the position of God. If you had a message for humans on earth, would you be stupid enough to choose one man in one particular part of earth to be the carrier of that message? If you did that, your message certainly wouldn't reach all humanity, would it?

No, the most efficient way to get your message across would be to transmit it directly to all, by whatever means at your disposal. You are after all God and you can do anything, right?

incredible india

Do you remember the book V.S.Naipaul wrote some years back about India which he called "An area of darkness"? Well, in my opinion, his views are still valid today despite all the hullabaloo about India soon becoming, along with China, a modern developed country.

What impresses me about any country is not how industrialized it has become or how much financial clout it wields but how intelligently it is being run. I look at such things as corruption, bureaucracy, cleanliness, discrimination and so on. In all such things India fails miserably. The country is truly incredible and not in the sense that the Indian Tourist Board means it with the slogan "Incredible India".

The country wants tourists but the visas cannot be issued on arrival. If you are outside your own country and if you apply for an Indian visa in a third country, a fax will be sent to your country to check on you and to add insult to injury you have to pay for the fax (there are millions of criminals in India and the authorities are worried about one or two foreign criminals creeping into the country!). People of Indian origin are entitled to a five year visa but try applying for one and see if you can get it without a lot of fuss.

Once you are in the country after having paid through your nose for a visa you are likely to be bombarded with meaningless forms to fill out wherever you go. I once took a bus from Madras to Kodaikanal and the driver gave me one because I was a foreigner (I doodled on it and gave it back. The fellow looked at it and took it away. Not even a professor of English would have understood it but he did.) I once heard of a western couple who had wanted to enter India from Pakistan and were given a form to fill out in triplicate but without any carbon paper. When eventually they did, the Indian immigration simply handed them back and waved them on.

Incredible indeed!

terrorism of the mighty and the weak

That of the mighty :

Terrorism is when you assassinate or overthrow a leader of another country because he does not serve the interests of your own country.

Terrorism is when you commit unprovoked aggression against another country and in the process inflict death and suffering on the citizens of that country.

Terrorism is when you barge into another country, kill their citizens or uproot them from their homes and set up your own state on their soil.

Terrorism is when you force another country to sell its products cheaply to you, thereby keeping that country in poverty.


That of the weak :

Terrorism is when you sneak into another country and blow up its trains and buses or hijack its planes and ram them into tall buildings, killing and maiming many of its citizens.

Terrorism is when you use bombs and bullets indiscriminately to try to overthrow your leaders or to expel their foreign backers.

The question we must ask is:

Who first began to use terrorism?

And who is doing a tit for tat?

The mighty or the weak?

what is wrong with the israelis?

Those of you who have travelled around a lot and stayed in guest houses and hotels would undoubtedly have come across the phenomenon of the unpopularity of Israeli tourists amongst the owners of such establishments. Israelis are simply unwelcome because of their aggressive, rude and quarrelsome behaviour and because of their stinginess.

What causes this behaviour? Well, one could put forward a hypothesis here and see how it goes.

Once upon a time, early in the last century, a group of European Jews calling themselves Zionists hit upon the idea of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine on the grounds that there was a state of Israel there some two thousand years ago (it was conveniently overlooked that the Jews were originally immigrants to Palestine, their race having begun with a chap called Abraham who resided in what is now Iraq).

We can divide the European Jews of the time into good guys and bad guys. The good guys (along with all the civilized world) were horrified at the thought of establishing a state in a region where the Arabs already lived, forming more than 90% of the population. It would be highly immoral, they said. The bad guys didn't give a damn for this opinion and began to move to Palestine with the blessing of the wily British who even issued a document called the Balfour Declaration which went something like this: "His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine..." The other European nations also were in favour of Israel in Palestine; primarily because there was no love lost between them (Christians) and the Muslims; and also because they wanted to see the back of the Jews (a case of killing two birds with one stone).

And so it was that the good guys stayed where they were or went to other places -- mostly to America, especially to the big apple (New York) -- while the bad guys poured into Palestine, driving away the Arabs from their homes and lands and turning them into refugees in miserable camps. Today the bad guys continue to terrorize the Palestinians, killing them off whenever it suits them, torturing them, demolishing their homes, laying waste their agricultural lands and building walls between them. It's called crimes against humanity but the world, under the leadership of religious people like Bush and Blair, looks the other way, preferring instead to wage wars against those who would put an end to Zionism.

The bad guys therefore have free reign to continue to commit their atrocities and have lots of time left over to travel the world as tourists where they just can't help revealing themselves for what they are -- bad guys.

united nations

It is amazing that those members of the United Nations who do not belong to the privileged class of the veto wielding five have continued for so long without stopping to think a little.

Who are these five and who has given them the power to decide over the fate of the rest of humanity? Are they in any way superior to the others? Are they perhaps super human? Are they not flouting the very principle of democracy by frequently over-riding the views of the majority of the members?

I say it's time to call a halt to this dictatorship of the five.

Obviously these self-appointed judges are not going to give up their power willingly, which is why it is necessary for the rest of the UN to stage a mass walk-out of this illegitimate body and start a new organization which would in effect be a world parliament where decisions are made on the basis of a simple majority vote.

Justice would then have been introduced in the world for the first time and there would be fewer conflicts and more peace, don't you think?

I do not give a damn

Have you sometimes looked at a conflict among two countries or groups and said to yourself: "I do not give a damn who wins".

Well, that is what I feel about America and the Taliban.

I am no friend of the thugs who run America, and hate the protection racket they are running around the world (if you do not give us what we want we will make trouble for you) and their unflinching support for the Zionist criminals who occupy Palestine. Nor am I a supporter of the Taliban, that benighted bunch of religious loonies who want to take their people back to the stone age.

So I say let the Christian fundamentalists in America and the Muslim fundamentalists in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Islamic world fight until they are both dead. The sooner they have disappeared from the face of the earth the better.

memons

Who are the Memons? I am sure most of you haven't a clue. But I am a Memon and I want to think a little here about my community.

Until recently I had no idea about my origins, not until I made a trip to the Cutch province of Gujarat state in India. In its capital, Bhuj (later to be destroyed by an earthquake), I found that the people there all spoke my mother tongue, Memni (also called Cutchi) even though not all of them were Memons. I was received with open arms, being invited into their homes for meals and shown around town. They were amused that I spoke the language in a slightly different sort of way. Either my forebears, when they migrated, adopted a different talking style or the people who didn't migrate had done so. I am not sure which.

I am the sort of person who loves libraries and so I visited the only one in Bhuj. There the librarian found for me a book which had a passage about the Memons. It seemed that about 4-500 years ago some 6000 Hindus from the Lohana community (whatever that meant), who resided in the Sindh province of what is now Pakistan, were visited upon by a Muslim preacher and converted to Islam, and were given the name Memon by this preacher, Memon meaning faithful. These Memons later moved down south to Cutch, apparently because the other Hindus living in the surrounding villages, who had chosen to remain Hindus, had started persecuting the Memons for abandoning their traditional faith.

Now what interests me is why these Memons (or more likely in the beginning their headman) embraced Islam? History doesn't say anything, as far as I am aware. Whatever people might say about the truthfulness of their religion, it is never, never easy to get converts to any religion, for religion is based not on reason or logic or rational thought but on conditioning, on rewards and punishments. A child can get conditioned to it by its parents and so can an adult by a preacher offering inducements or threatening dire consequences of some kind or other.

What was offered to the Memons?

Money, land, tax benefits? Or was it simply inter-marriages between the muslim rulers of that area and the local women? No one seems to know or care.

blair

These days I cannot bear to watch the face of Tony Bloody Blair as he trots around posing as a peace envoy for the Middle East. This war mongering shit a peace envoy?! This Christian fanatic who spits on all that Jesus preached a peace envoy?!

Why don't we hear many voices against this hypocritical bastard?!

You tell me.

international criminal court

The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan. Why has there not been an arrest warrant for Bush and Blair and the Zionist leaders for their crimes against humanity? I am sure the reader knows exactly what dastardly deeds these criminals have committed.

The conclusion we must reach is that the ICC is not an impartial body and the Sudanese President has every right to ignore it.

is wife beating permitted in Islam?

A common thread running through most Muslims is their ignorance of their own religion. This is perhaps not surprising given the widespread lack of education amongst them and the fact that Arabic is a foreign language to most of them. Barring the scholars, even the educated Arabs are unaware of the contents of the Quran. Their beliefs about Islam reflect not the true precepts of Islam but the norms of the society in which they live. They would for example vehemently assert that there is equality of sexes in Islam. But is there such equality?
Some time back there was the case of an imam or cleric in France who was expelled from that country for saying that muslim men were allowed to beat their wives. The BBC took this up in its programme NEWSHOUR by interviewing two ‘educated’ Muslims who both strongly denied that the Quran sanctioned this, calling the imam ignorant. The BBC man, having obviously done his own research and not wanting to be impolite, quietly commented: "This man you call ignorant might in fact be very enlightened". The 'educated' Muslims failed to get the drift of this.
So what does the Quran say about wife beating? Here is the passage 4:34 for you to make up your own mind:
"Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them. Surely God is high, supreme."
(For a better understanding of Islam, Muslims should read "Muhammad, a biography of the prophet of Islam" by Maxime Rodinson.)

fox news channel

I don't normally tune into shitty TV channels but, having been given Fox by my cable provider, I discovered that it is actually fun watching people make fools of themselves. Almost all the guys and dolls on this channel(who by the way seem to have been chosen for their good looks) are right-wing extremists who just won't tolerate other viewpoints, so much so that guests who appear on their shows find themselves being constantly interrupted by their hosts. One wonders why they were invited in the first place if not to listen to what they had to say.

Anyway, as I said, listening to these fools is fun, particularly the bastards Bill O fucking Reilly and Glenn shitty Beck whose worlds revolve around a paranoid delusion that America is great and pretty much nothing else.

the western world and the palestinians

The christian west has had no positive feelings towards the Muslims since the time of the crusades, which is why they planted Israel in Palestine in the first place and why Turkey is unable to join the European Union. Today we see America and the Europeans supporting Israel unconditionally even though the Zionists continue to commit unspeakable atrocities towards the people whose land they have robbed. Even Obama has chosen to ignore the plight of the oppressed people of Palestine. His choice of Hillary Clinton, an avowed lover of the Zionists, made that very clear to us.

What the stupid leaders in the west don't realise is that they are taking their countries to a disastrous future. What they don't realise is that the Muslim masses will one day seize power from the corrupt western backed politicians like Mubarak and Abbas and the Abdullas and will do every thing in their power to annihilate the Zionists and take back their land. Today Iran alone has the power to do that. Yes, it has already got the BOMB, not only to send the Zionists to kingdom come but anybody who comes to their aid.

Make no mistake: the blood of the Muslims is boiling.

the Quran

I can tell you that the first time I read the Quran, the Islamic holy book, I was shocked. I couldn't believe that this could be the work of a God. In the first few pages of the book I found God praising himself lavishly. To me it was unthinkable that God would do such a thing. Hell, any human being in his right mind wouldn't do that either. Then there are other passages in the "holy book" that are just not right, like the one telling Muslim men that they could beat their wives. I concluded that the Quran was obviously the work of a man, probably Muhammad himself.

But -- say the Muslims -- Muhammad couldn't possibly have written it because he was illiterate. That is a huge lie, for if one reads history one discovers that the man was able to read and write very well indeed.

I don't know when I stopped believing in Islam but I am happy that I did and I have no fear that I would be sent to burn in the fires of hell for it. When you come to think of it all religions are based on fear, fear of the punishment that would be meted out in the hereafter for disbelieving. Remove this fear and you free yourself from the nonsense.

sending the zionists packing

You would have noticed that while Venezuela and Bolivia cut off diplomatic relations with Israel, Egypt and Jordan did nothing of the sort. What does that tell you about the leaders of these two Arab states, who you would expect to be the first in line to support their fellow Arabs, the Palestinians?

Betrayed by their "brothers", the poor Palestinians have the odds stacked heavily against them in their just struggle to regain their land.

obama's inauguration speech.

Obama turned me off with his praise of the criminal Bush for serving the US. What other lies is Obama going to come with during his tenure as president? Can you imagine, the worst president of that country getting such a comment from a man who has promised to bring about radical changes?!