Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims

Roots of the Gaza Conflict


With the explosive current events in Gaza, the world needs to understand the roots of this eternal conflict, otherwise we are all kidding ourselves with hopes of peace.

For decades, Arabs had demanded that Israel end the "occupation," and in 2005, Israel did so, disengaging unilaterally from Gaza. With their demands met, there was no ‘cycle of violence’ to respond to, no further justification for anything other than peace and prosperity. With its central location and beautiful beaches on the East Mediterranean, a peaceful and prosperous Gaza could have become another Hong Kong; a shining trade and commerce center. But instead of choosing peace, the Palestinians chose Islamic jihad. They rolled their rocket launchers to the border and started bombing Israeli civilians.

Understanding the reasons why the Palestinians chose violence over peace requires connecting the dots from the behavior of Muslim states back to the laws of Islam: Sharia. Mainstream Sharia books define Jihad as: "to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion." (Shafi’i Sharia o9.0). Jihad is not just the duty of the individual Muslim, but it is also the main duty of the Muslim head of State (the Caliph):

"A Muslim calipha is entrusted to take his people into war and command offensive and aggressive Jihad. He must organize Jihad against any non-Muslim government, which prevents Muslim da’wah (meaning preaching and spreading Islam) from entering its land." (Shafii Law o25.0 to o25.9).

Sharia law# o25.9 states:

"(When the caliph appoints a ruler on a region, his duty includes) if the area has a border adjacent to enemy lands, (he will) undertake Jihad against enemies, dividing the spoils of battle among combatants and setting aside a fifth for deserving recipients."

Also:

"The Caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax provided he has first invited them to enter Islam or pay Jizya, the non-Muslim poll tax, (in accordance with the word of Allah Most High Chapter 9 verse 29)."

Zia-Ul-Haq, former President of Pakistan, said "jihad in terms of warfare is a collective responsibility of the Muslim Ummah."

One of Islam’s eminent 20th century scholars, Sheikh Maolana Maududi said:

"Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology and program … the objective of Islamic jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish instead an Islamic system of state rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single state or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution."

Some people seem to think that such laws are just historical relics, on the books but not in practice or in control of the minds of Muslims. But that is the kind of denial we cannot afford; these laws rule the hearts, minds and actions of a majority of Muslim individuals and states around the world today. These scriptures are taught, preached and promoted as the incontrovertible and eternal word of God and funded by Saudi petrodollars throughout the world, including Western nations such as the U.K. and the United States.

No Muslim leader can survive in a Muslim country if he announces the end of Jihad against non-Muslim countries and states that all references to Jihad in Islamic law do not apply today. Treating non-Muslim neighboring countries and individual as equals, with respect and in peace without trying to convert them to Islam, is simply against Islamic Law.

Muslim leaders who dare to go against this theology are called traitors and puppets of the ‘Great Satan’ West. That is a description that no Muslim leader wants to be labeled with. When president Anwar Sadat of Egypt signed the peace treaty with Israel in 1979, he told his confidants that he knew he was signing his own death warrant. He understood that under Sharia he must have permanent war with non-Muslim Israel.

How can a Muslim leader or individual avoid the hundreds of Quran and Hadith commandments to Muslims to kill Jews and Christians? Q 9:29: "Fight those who believe not in Allah until they pay the Jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued." Q 9:5: "Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them". Q47.4: "When you encounter the unbelievers, Strike off their heads."

A Muslim leader cannot face his devout Muslim subjects after making a decision to engage in friendship and peace with Jews. Mosques all over the Middle East, after all, recite Mohammed’s commandment to Muslims:

"The Hour [Resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and kill them. And the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, this is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!" (Sahih Muslim 41:6985, also Sahih Bukhari 4:52:177)

This Hadith, issued by Mohammad, makes a whole group of people illegal to exist. It was issued in the 7th century, not after the 1948 creation of the State of Israel. It is not a response to modern-day grievances; it is a permanent commandment.

Many Muslims claim that Arabs and Jews lived well together for many years before 1948. But that claim ignores the fact that Jews had to live as ‘dhimmies’ under Islamic Law and were never allowed to rule themselves separate of the Islamic Sharia. When Muslims were weak they often treated their dhimmi subjects well and ignored the commandments to kill, subjugate and humiliate them. But Jew hatred is intrinsic to Islamic scriptures that do not permit reformation under the penalty of death.

This is the real basis of the Arab/Israeli conflict: not a conflict over land or occupation, but a divine obligation to destroy neighboring (non-Muslim) Israel, where Jews are no longer dhimmis but are free to rule themselves. We cannot ignore the root of the problem in Muslim scriptures. That is the true force behind the hate and propaganda Jihadist machine against Jews in the Muslim world.

Some Muslims tell me that they don’t believe in Sharia and question why am I making a big deal about it. My answer is that Sharia is the law of the land in 54 Muslim countries and many Muslim groups are demanding Sharia in the West. In 1990, 45 Muslim countries signed the Cairo Human Rights Declaration which stated that Sharia has supremacy over the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Muslim world must look within to its sacred laws, scriptures, sermons, teaching and preaching, and reform the obstacles for peace that have condemned them to a permanent state of jihad. The non-Muslim world must have no illusions.


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Nonie Darwish—an ex-Muslim woman, who grew up in Palestine—is an author, public speaker and runs the Arabs For Israel forum. Her latest book is Cruel & Usual Punishment.


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Name: Andrew Stunich
Date: Tuesday January 13, 2009
Time: 21:14:03 -0500

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Nonie Darwish is absolutely correct. Thank you Ms. Darwish for your constribution to the growing body of literature exposing the truth about Islam.


Name: Is this ever going to happen!
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 02:04:51 -0500

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I remember an interview of Wafa Sultan's in which she was asked if she believes in Islam. When she said no, the questioner and the other guest were aghast at her statement. They responded by saying that this woman does not believe in the Holy Scriptures and yet claims to believe in facts. So you see even if one were to present live images of massacres carried out by Muslims in Kashmir, Dafur, Iraq or elsewhere, they would just deny them. They live in a fairy tale world where Muhammad and not Allah is the Alpha and the Omega. His word is supreme. All the Kafirs are liars and enemies of Islam. Muslims are so convinced of their self righteousness they will simply deny the massacres perpetrated by them even if they were themselves involved. Period, do we remember the case of Asqa Pervez. Her father brutally murdered her for not wearing the Hejab. The told the cops that he was justified in doing so as his religion did not permitted him to do so. He was not a psycho or a maniac. He was a normal person just like you and me. The only difference was that he was Muslim who took the words of his prophet seriously. Funny this guy even had the guts to demand Halal food in prison and the Gullible Canadians complied with his wishes. Such stories are not uncommon my part of the world. Recently a Muslim couple living in the city of Mumbai killed their own daughter by strangulating her, and later hacked her into 11 pieces and dumped her body under a railway bridge. All this for marrying a Hindu boy. How can we expect such people to even listen to the voice of sanity or respond to it. This happened in India, a country where the living standards are much higher than those in most of the Mid Eastern countries. People have access to education, information, internet. Imagine what how a Muslim responds when he lives in Ghetto in an Islamic country where his greatest aim or hope is to reach Paradise.


Name: jenn
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 02:08:41 -0500

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The root of the Gaza conflict is the koran, which teaches muslims to hate jews. peace will come only when the koran is destroyed


Name: Taif
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 02:58:44 -0500

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What a pity! It seems that the root of GAZA conflict is laid in the Quran! But, the history says that except the very first few years of conflict, Muslim had no more wars with Jews. The Crusade was between the Cristians and Muslims. And the fact is that , Jews were not permitted to enter Jerusalem for 400 years of Cristian rule till the 7th century. When Muslim first captured the city, they again stated to enter and live there, until the city was recaptured by the Crusaders in 1089 AD. Then, they were brutally killed as the Muslim were killed by the Christian. Again, Saladin permits them to enter and live in the city one century later. I don't know, how the Jews people forget tneir history! Thank you.


Name: More Roots
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 03:26:01 -0500

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A main problem is that HAMA is paid by the Iranian government and islamic radicals from all over the world. The economic situation in Iran is desastrous and Ahmadinedjad needs to have somebody he can blame for it. Without Israel, the whole islamic world would be forced to talk about social and economic problems.


Name: Islam will fall like a deck of cards in this century.
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 05:20:11 -0500

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Internet is destoying islam step by step, one illuminated muslim per day becomes 365 enlightened per year you multiply exponentially ie 4 times ( husband + wife + say 2 children) ie 365*4 second year 365*4*4 third year so on so on alas Islam may fail in 11 years. 365*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4 muslims becomes non-muslims. ie more than 1.5 billion. ie the end of the story.


Name: Humanist
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 05:36:40 -0500

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I fail to understand what is the outcome after so much effort from all you people. On the one hand islam seems to be spreading thick and fast. Today the stupid governments of U.K. and USA are talking about supporting Pakistan and increasing aid for anti terrorism. They seem to be such fools that they have not understood so far terrorism has been spoon fed by Pakistan with their money only.


Name: .G.Ryan
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 08:05:18 -0500

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to taif,what a distorted sense of history you have.your koran states clearly what should happen to non muslims and their states!crusades were in response to muslim aggression and thousands of christians were also victims.as for saladin,he was a kurd but your muslim umma won't give them a home land!one law for islam AND ALL THAT!!!!!


Name: to Taif
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 12:38:15 -0500

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Why don't you study what Muhammad did to the Qurayza Jews. Maybe this will open your mind and you will start rethinking history instead of just believing what you were taught in schools in the middle east. Did you know that about 80 Million Hindus were killed by the so-called religion of peace over the 400 year period when barbaric islamists came to town. If there is evil in the world it is Islam. Muhammad himself was a terrorist and a warlord. he had a gang that attcked other tribes and killed the men, and enslaved the women and raped them. same for children. Don't just believe what you were taught in schools man. study the Qur'an, the hadith and the sunnah. You'll see how evil Islam is. Here is a link that wil open your eyes, compliments of my dear brother in humanity Ali Sina: http://www.faithfreedom.org/the-challenge/ good luck to you


Name: jhon
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 17:36:04 -0500

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i agree that isreal pulled out of Gaza but u have to remember it kept the blockade for 18 months, after the truce in june2008,it was too good to true, and u know what it was, isreal never complied with the truce condtions i.e the most important one was lifting the blockades on all the borders, it never happened,just imagine palestines living in gaza with blockade for 18 months no food no water no fuel no electric no medical and then isreal decides to enter Gaza and kill 4 palestines and this is while true is still in place,how would u feel if u were locked in your house for 18 months but still being told u r free? wake up people so far we have killed 1000 palestines in 20 days and most of them r children and woman and lets not deny this please its a genocide.


Name: sultan
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 17:40:30 -0500

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jewish people were killed by germans in the europe and we still to this date keep saying it was a terrible thing, but now jewish people have taken the land away from the people of palistine and now they are killing them like animals. how do u call this a fair?


Name: david
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 17:47:25 -0500

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to sultan>> jews didnt take their land it was given to jews by our british govertment cus we felt sorry for them and yes the jews r occupiers here but they wanted to live in peace b4 but now i think wats happing in Gaza after watching news especialy on this new channel on sky 515 i do feel sorry for the people of gazaa as all u c is dead kids and woman some with no legs arms and some children with heads blown up.


Name: To Sultan
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 19:13:59 -0500

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The solution is pretty simple: Ask Hamas to stop firing rockets at Israel. You are seeing one side of the story. Jews will not harm them until cease fire treaty is valid. Secondly, see how your islamic scriptures describe Jews (pigs and rats). stop following that mad fella mo.


Name: To Sultan
Date: Wednesday January 14, 2009
Time: 19:14:04 -0500

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The solution is pretty simple: Ask Hamas to stop firing rockets at Israel. You are seeing one side of the story. Jews will not harm them until cease fire treaty is valid. Secondly, see how your islamic scriptures describe Jews (pigs and rats). stop following that mad fella mo.


Name: Combining forces to defeat Islam
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 00:27:03 -0500

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Now the non-Islamic nations have to go all out to defeat Islam. (1) Completely destroy all Islamic regimes, IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA (2) Execute all imams, mullahs, religious teachers (3) Assassinate HAMAS leaders. (4) Assassinate all CAIRS leaders


Name: Former Soldier
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 01:13:47 -0500

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What disturbs me is that USAID gave the Jewish settlers twenty million dollars to not dismantle their green houses, but to turn them over to the Palestinians whole to provide a means of employment and industry. Do you know what happened next? The Palestinians looted those green houses to the ground. Now they provide no economic benefit. I saw the same thing in Baghdad. In the beginning, we had an artillery unit adjacent to my unit. They housed themselves by a water treatment plant. Well, they were given orders to move out to Fallujah. As soon as the last vehicle left the gate, a hoard of looters descended upon the water treatment plant. We had to go over there and secure the place. Why would people want to loot their own water treatment plant to only gain a few dollars today, but tomorrow have their kids suffer from disease from untreated water? I think it is because Islam makes people stupid.


Name:
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 03:10:34 -0500

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No Israeli Zionist would sacrifice as much as America has, sending our blood and wealth to protect them. Fair enough? The US is protecting the oilfields and the investments of Texas billionaires in the Persian Gulf. Israel is an afterthought. I agree but some of you guys are full of poison. I have had a horrible experience with Israelis. I lived in Israel for ten years, and my advice is, do not do business with Israelis. I still do not support Israel's right to exist wholeheartedly and I do not support their business practices. If at all possible, avoid them in business. Because finally the deviljews demise will be with at the hands of the the Coming Of Jesus.Read your bible in Book of AMAOS kike and see your end!! "Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood... 'But, behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of "israel",' says the Lord God of hosts; 'and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the Valley of the Arabah.'" Amos(6:12-14)


Name: this is what the jews want
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 04:32:02 -0500

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Now the non-Islamic nations have to go all out to defeat Islam. (1) Completely destroy all Islamic regimes, IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA (2) Execute all imams, mullahs, religious teachers (3) Assassinate HAMAS leaders. (4) Assassinate all CAIRS leaders/////you can read the above and now tell me diffrence between your self who is asking to wipe muslims of face of the earth and hamas who are saying wipe isreal of face of the earth. WHO DO CALL A TERRIOST HERE????


Name:
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 04:39:13 -0500

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Palestinian terrorism is the "inevitable consequence" of Israeli occupation and laws that resemble South African apartheid — Common sense ... dictates that a distinction must be drawn between acts of mindless terror, such as acts committed by al-Qaida, and acts committed in the course of a war of national liberation against colonialism, apartheid or military occupation. While few Palestinian acts are to be deplored, "they must be understood as being a painful but inevitable consequence of colonialism, apartheid or occupation," Hardly anyone in the UN Except for Iran, Venezuela and Bolivia accuses the Jewish state of acts and policies consistent with all three. The checkpoints and roadblocks restricting Palestinian movement, house demolitions, are the "Judaization" of Jerusalem. As long as there is occupation, there will be terrorism. "Acts of terror against military occupation must be seen in historical context," ."This is why every effort should be made to bring the occupation to a speedy end. Until this is done, peace cannot be expected, and violence will continue." "The common link between al-Qaida and the Israelis are that both intentionally target civilians with the mere purpose to kill. The world is ignoring this essential fact. The main sponcor for al-Qaida is Israel. ---


Name: Roots of the Gaza Conflict
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 05:00:29 -0500

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After World War 1, the League of Nations approved the British Mandate of Palestine with the intent of creating a "national home for the Jewish people. In 1947, the United Nations approved the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. On May 14, 1948 the state of Israel declared independence and this was followed by a war with the surrounding Arab states, which refused to accept the plan. The Israelis were subsequently victorious in a series of wars confirming their independence and expanding the borders of the Jewish state beyond those in the UN Partition Plan. ////As you read there was no such a thing as isreal until it was made up by us british and the conflict continues because isreal is still expanding its borders so there is bound to be a conflict.so be thank ful to us british for giving you your own country!!


Name: sharia law at Wikipedia,
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 05:11:44 -0500

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As I have read your above artical I just would like to point out people none muslims living under the sharia law under a muslim ruler bin Qasim whom you have mentioned few times on this website. oh and this is on Wikipedia website/////// After the conquest, Muhammad bin Qasim's task was to set up an administrative structure for a stable Muslim state that incorporated a newly conquered alien land, inhabited by non-Muslims. He adopted a conciliatory policy, asking for acceptance of Muslim rule by the natives in return for non-interference in their religious practice, so long as the natives paid their taxes and tribute. He established Islamic Sharia law over the people of the region; however, Hindus were allowed to rule their villages and settle their disputes according to their own laws, and traditional hierarchical institutions, including the Village Headmen (Rais) and Chieftains (dihqans) were maintained. A Muslim officer called an amil was stationed with a troop of cavalry to manage each town on a hereditary basis Everywhere taxes (mal) and tribute (kharaj) were settled and hostages taken - occasionally this also meant the custodians of temples. Natives were excused from military service and payment of the tax paid by Muslim subjects - Zakat. The tax enforced on the natives was the jizya - it was a progressive tax, being heavier on the upper classes and light for the poor. In addition, three percent of government revenue was allocated to the Brahmins.


Name: E Dugard Notch, PA
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 05:28:46 -0500

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"Force is not a remedy. Force is the enslavement of the men tricked into using force even more than it the attempt to enslave those who are the objects of force. An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. And so good men cling to the Zionist lies of their controllers as they act against all reason and inclination. If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. War is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian or a Muslim man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by Zionist tyrants. "Zionist tyrants rule by fear. They rule by creating conflict. Their agents turn one religion against another. They turn one people against another. They capture goverment by creating first fear and then conflict. The Zionist tyrants pit one group against another. Each group then presents a leader, let us say a candidate for the presidency of the United States, but this leader is not chosen because he is a great and good leader, but because he has the ability to bring fear and controllable desperation to the other group. In their terror all thought of principle and reform and the good of all is caste aside and only the one thought -- vote for whomever to defeat the terror that the other party is offering. And so the party of the democracy will vote for their candidate whom they did not really pick for themselves and did not really want to defeat the terror nominated by party of the republic and the party of the republic, whose eyes were only on the horrible rise of the terror candidate of the opposition party that they allowed operatives to raise up the Zionist terror of their own party. So both parties, manipulated into fear of the enemy to the point where they forget their own traditional virtues end up electing one or another terror in service of tyranny, doing so out of fear of the perceived greater terror offered by the other party even though the terror in each party was put there to effect just that outcome. All the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against Zionist tyranny and oppression of this kind. All parties without exception, when they seek for power in this way, are merely the instruments of organized interests, the ruling minority. A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. "Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few Zionist; and these few Zionist assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given. "And the Zionist men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived. The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a dime to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest - stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.' "The fact is that the Zionist government, like a highwayman, says to a man: 'Your money, or your life.' And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The Zionist government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the roadside, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful. The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a 'protector,' and that he takes men's money against their will, merely to enable him to 'protect' those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful 'sovereign,' on account of the 'protection' he affords you. He does not keep 'protecting' you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villanies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave. "While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. And remember, no human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. Men are not fish. They need common law that evolves from cooperating humanity itself to enable them to cooperate and to live and prosper in peace. It is that cooperation that the Zionist tyrant wishes to control so that it will serve his interests at the interest of community. God forbid that thy continue to get away with it.


Name: Shame Shame Nonie
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 05:36:29 -0500

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Major survey challenges Americans' Zionistic perceptions of Islam. A huge survey of the world's Muslims released 13 January,2009 Tuesday challenges Western notions that equate Islam with radicalism and violence. The survey, conducted by palin &jade. Dates over six years and three continents, seeks to dispel the belief held by some in the West that Islam itself is the driving force of radicalism. It shows that the overwhelming majority of Muslims condemned the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001 and other subsequent terrorist attacks,according to the survey. 'It is time we admitted that we are not at war with terrorism. We are aware with Islam'," "Religion is an important part of life for the overwhelming majority of Muslims, and and those practice it understand how peaceful it is." A surveyed sample equivalent to 99 percent of the world's Muslims, showed that widespread religiosity "does not translate into widespread support for terrorism," About 93 percent of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims are moderates and only seven percent are politically radical, according to the poll, This radicalism is attributed to the injustice by the succesesive Israli’s government towards the Occupied Palsatinian territorys. . Meanwhile, radical Muslims gave political, not religious, reasons for condoning the attacks,.The survey shows radicals to be neither more religious than their moderate counterparts, nor products of abject poverty or refugee camps. "The radicals are not educated, do not have better jobs, and are not hopeful with regard to the future than mainstream Muslims, Ironically, they believe in democracy even more than many of the mainstream moderates do, but they're more cynical about whether they'll ever get it in the Middle East. "Palstinians hate... a false democratic government like that of Mamud Abbas, which the Bush Administration offered as a reason. "Israelis hate the palastinians freedoms – Their freedom of religion, their freedom to practice religion, Their freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each Palastinians." Palastinians do not want to have Western ways forced on them,. " Palastinians want self-determination, but not an American-Israeli imposed one , instaed defined democracy. They don't want secularism or theocracy. What the majority wants is democracy with religious values," "A billion Peaceful Muslims should be the ones that Palastinians look to, to understand what they believe, rather than a vocal minority" Has Israel understood the Palastinians? Has America? ---


Name: Nonie Darwish is not a muslim
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 06:19:49 -0500

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Nonie Darwish is not a muslim. to be a muslim you need to practise islam not just be born to a muslim family and read or hear about islam,as Nonie Darwish never practised islam she cant speak for all the muslimas and as for con in gaza this is Nonie Darwish story... "I always blamed Israel for my father's death, because that's what I was taught. I never looked at why Israel killed my father. They killed my father because the fedayeen were killing Israelis" Now put your self why does hamas fires rockets in to isreal? same reason because isreal is killing the palestinens day and night


Name: gina //raised up in palestine??
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 06:24:45 -0500

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Nonie Darwish you were NEVER raised up in Palestine. you were there for a short period of time only you are misleading none muslims by this claim.


Name:
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 08:21:52 -0500

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my friend here is dreaming, of islam falling in 11 years. i guess he is not aware of the current stats that whioch say that islam is the fastest growing religions in the non islamic nations. ACtually ur maths when calculated the other way round may make more sense, and it will hit with you reality, maybe in the next 11 years the word will only exist of muslims. may Allah guide us all


Name:
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 08:27:37 -0500

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my ref goesw to jenns comments, Please read the holy quran and you will know when peace will come into gaza...Not only that Jenn dpont even dream of thinking the quran will ever be destroyed, Allah takes the responsibilty of guarding the Quran. Jenn, and all the others if, please read the Holy Quran, and study the way Prophet Muhammad(saw) lived his life. please do not be misguided by some people who are just there to misguiode others, and have no basis in life


Name: to Nonie Darwish
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 08:47:25 -0500

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you are quoting the "hadiths" and the verses from the quran out of context, and you know that so please stop misleading people. by the way, the jews belive more in the prophecy of palestine and coming of imam mahdi, have you ever asked urself why the jews are planting cactus trees? because in what yoy have narrated, that if a jew hides behind a tree or a stone, the tree or stone will say there is a jew behind me, come and kill him, apart from the cactus tress...Nonie, if you ahve been misguided, then my advice to you is Please read the Holy Quran and inshallah Allah will guide you..howver, if you know the truth and have choosen to misguide people coz of ur own worldy or material gains then, Allah is all knowing and you will surely be punished by HIM.. please repent as Allah is all forgiving, even if you are not punished in this word, there sure is life after death, so please repent..and seek the truth... May Allah guide you all


Name: to Nonie Darwish
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 09:38:05 -0500

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Nonie Darwish I believe you are refering to this verse above??? 9:5 And so, when the sacred months are over [6] , slay those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God wherever you may come upon them, [7] and take them captive, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every conceivable place [8] ! Yet if they repent, and take to prayer, and render the purifying dues, let them go their way: for, behold, God is much forgiving, a dispenser of grace. [9]//// 9:6 And if any of those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God seeks thy protection, [10] grant him protection, so that he might [be able to] hear the word of God [from thee]; and thereupon convey him to a place where he can feel secure: [11] this, because they [may be] people who [sin only because they] do not know [the truth].


Name: Andrew Stunich
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 10:39:56 -0500

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Please take note everyone as to the approach to debate by Muslim apologists. Note how they threaten Ms. Darwish with Hell and Allah's wrath. Note that such an approach is nothing more than psychological terror. That is exactly how Muhammad started out. That is how he convinced the frst converts from which he then added the tactic of physical terror to prevail as chief tyrant and warlord of the Arabian Penninsula. Now you understand why Muhammad admitted the source of his success was terror. Muhammad said: "I have been made victorious with terror. The treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand." (Al Bukhari: Vol. 4, Book 52, Number 220.) But Ms. Darwish has nothing to fear given that "Allah" was and is nothing more than Muhammad's alter ego.


Name: DH
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 11:17:39 -0500

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I've noticed our impartial and truth-seeking western media has found a new nation of people: "GazANS"...When did the "GazANS" declare indepedence from the "Palestinyuns" exactly? We all know, of course, what our unbiased western newshounds mean by this new word. It rolls of the tongue like "BosniANS" and "KosovANS" and means "Poor wittle innocent Muslim victims who never hurt a fly (aside from a few harmless shells lobbed at people who anyhow deserved it) and are being wickedly slain and chased crying and screaming hysterically from their homes, babes in arms by some evil Muslim-hating non-Muslims"


Name: To Andrew Stunich
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 11:20:18 -0500

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Andrew Stunich can you please explaine where ms Nonie Darwish has been threaten, this is the diffrence she is simply being "warned" but its her choice, as in the time of all past prophts there job was only to spread the messsage of god ,they prophts were sent as warners to people like your self and Nonie Darwish but the choice lies with you. just like an police officer when he stops a robber he would first warn him stop or i will shoot!! this called warning.


Name: real news on GAZA
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 11:23:31 -0500

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for real news on gaza watch sky 515 and sky 514 and see the GENOCIDE,WAR CRIMES


Name: DH
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 11:24:14 -0500

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"Some Muslims tell me that they don’t believe in Sharia and question why am I making a big deal about it."...They are either lying or have, according to their "holy book" technically apostatized wit a blatant pronouncement of kufr. Toss a coin. Where genuine, such people are a nuisance since they provide a "moderate" smokescreen behind which those who follow Allah and its messenger slavishly pursue their agenda of bringing the entire world under sharia by hook and by crook.


Name: DH
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 12:17:20 -0500

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Quote (above) "Andrew Stunich can you please explaine where ms Nonie Darwish has been threaten, this is the diffrence she is simply being "warned" but its her choice, as in the time of all past prophts there job was only to spread the messsage of god ,they prophts were sent as warners to people like your self and Nonie Darwish but the choice lies with you. just like an police officer when he stops a robber he would first warn him stop or i will shoot!! this called warning."...Thank you for demonstrating the Muslim mindset in all its appalling glory: If Ms Darwish happens to get killed by a fanatical Muhammadan it would be her own fault. She HAS (like Khaybar) been warned! Her killer would only be doing his job as "policeman" of Allah. Anybody still puzzled as to why Muslims end up in bloody conflict with everybody wherever they go? Anybody still under any delusions that these brainwashed freaks are open to reasoned argument?


Name: to DH
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 14:25:27 -0500

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this is the problem with you guys, who is gona shoot Nonie Darwish? no its not the warner the warner is warning her of the punishment she will receive from god for spreading lies


Name: Walter Sieruk
Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 16:00:50 -0500

Comment

Islam is the cause of the Gaza conflict which shows the results of that religion[as violance by Hamas]on its believers In sum, Jesus did teach "by their fruits ye shall know them." Matthew 7:20. [KJV]


Name: Judge for yourself
Date: Friday January 16, 2009
Time: 05:42:16 -0500

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When Israel attacks media centers and UN designated refugee shelters killing civilians including a large number of children, Israel and the US says " collateral damage ." My intent is not to defend the incident because it is not defensible, but just to ask if the same moral high ground is evident when, for example the US Air-force and Israeli Air-force cause massive civilian casualties, and when Israel fires artillery at media-men as recorded on tape by the a cameraman who was deliberately targeted during the 2006 Lebanon war. The proof in that case was clear in the video he made seconds before he died. Does the principle " collateral damage " apply only to select nations? More than one-third of the dead in Gaza are children. "collateral damage" for western nations who cry "human rights human rights" elsewhere. “This kind of operation spearheaded by the Mosad & CIA brought down the government of the enormously popular former premier of Iran, Mohammed Moseddeq” . “The assassinations of Patrice Lumumba of Congo, President Allende of Chile, Sheik Mujubar Rahuman of Bangladesh and Ali Bhutto fall into these Evil Government organizations. At last, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon seems to be doing what he is expected to do. After more than one thousand Palestinians have died, one third of them children, Ban is taking some measures, which he should have taken the very first day Israel launched its barbaric attack on the defenceless Palestinian people in Gaza. His delayed action raises more suspicion regarding his impartiality. Will anyone call the Jews of Warsaw ghettos terrorists because they formed a resistance group to fight the Germans who they thoaght were soppesed to send them to the imaginary extermination camps? If they are not, then why Hamas, a group that took up arms to win freedom for Palestinians from Israeli occupation? If what the Geramans supposed to have done by Jewish litiracy, did to the Jews during the Second World War was a holocaust, what is happening in Gaza is also a holocaust my dear loving readers of islam watch. Did not Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai in February 2008 warn the Palestinians of a "bigger shoah"? The Hebrew word shoah means holocaust. In Israel's shoah in Gaza, 99 percent of the victims are civilians. One third of the dead are children. Part of this shoah is the two-year-old blockade of Gaza — a blockade that has denied the Palestinians essentials such as food and medicine and basic utilities like water, electricity, gas and fuel. During World War II, Hitler (highlighted by the pro Jewish media) sent Jews to extermination camps. Israel has already got some 1.5 million Palestinians in a prison called Gaza Strip, which is also Israel's gas chamber for the Palestinian people. The Nazis used poison gas to kill 100 Jews who were suffering from desease in order to stop the spread of it, as they did not have any means of medicine to prevent the outbrake; the Israelis are using white phosphorous to kill Palestinians, especially children and women. Well done Islamic watch for not highlighting them but highlighting fictional accounts of the Korraan. The highly disproportionate use of force by Israel raises fears about Israeli moves to annex the Gaza Strip by forcing the people to leave this 350 sq. km area. Israel could then cite Exodus 23:23, 31 which says, ""For My messenger will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.... And I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you." The Western world which are brainwashed in believing that the Israelis are the chosen people of God, will see nothing wrong if Gaza is annexed or even if Israel uses weapons of mass destruction to kill all the Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Arab and Islamic leaders, as expected, will turn a blind eye to the Israeli crime, paying obeisance to Israel's patron, the United States of America. Abandoned by the Arab leaders and the West, the Palestinians are virtually fighting a lone battle. However, it is encouraging to note the moral support the Palestinians get from peace-loving and fair-minded people around the world, though they are a small minority. The Palestinian people are with Hamas. They reject what Israel, the United States, Egypt and other US lackeys say — that Hamas is using civilians as human shields. It is not because they are scared of the poorly-armed Hamas, but because they trust the group which won the January 2006 election to the Palestinian assembly. When the Gaza onslaught began on December 26, Egypt opened its border with Gaza — not to allow the Palestinians trapped in the Gaza Strip to flee to safety, but to allow hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims returning from Haj via Cairo to go back to Gaza. When al-Jazeera television asked them why they were going to Gaza when they could stay on in the safety of Egypt, the people said they wanted to live and die with the heroes of Gaza. May God bless The Palastinians and curse all those who support Israel.


Name: ex M
Date: Friday January 16, 2009
Time: 06:30:09 -0500

Comment

Life been so precious, why do we have to Bash Islam? What the media highlights are only one sided. Favoring Israel. Let me give an example, When the Iranian prime Minister mentioned that Israeli Government must be disintegrated like the former Soviet Union. There were headlines in all western media. Although I am not an admirer of Mahmood Ahmajidanda or what ever his name is The media highlighted only one part of the story. When Israel attacks media centers and UN designated refugee shelters killing civilians including a large number of children, Israel says “collateral damage." The rest of the worlds are silent. Why? Is it because Israel has a License by God to Kill Anyone? The two-year-old blockade of Gaza — a blockade that has denied the Palestinians essentials such as food and medicine and basic utilities like water, electricity, gas and fuel. Is that a punishment by Israel, to teach the Palestinians a lesson for not voting to a governments that highlights Israeli aggression? The world is embroiled in to the story of Israel but no one bothers about the suffering of the poor Gazans? We think they deserve to die for instilling the Hamas Government? Little that the world should understand is that Hamas is a Just and eligible government. They too have rights to defend their citizens like how the Israeli are doing to thits citizens.Unlike the PLO who are corrupt and are pro Israeli. How many settlements Israel have erected? How many Palestinians that are evicted as a result to these settlemnents? Why no mention of that? The Western world which are brainwashed in believing that the Israelis are the chosen people of God, will see nothing wrong if Gaza is annexed or even if Israel uses weapons of mass destruction to kill all the Palestinians. With the current Global crisis, I am surprised that the same authors are bashing Islam instead of finding a solution to coexist in this world. Why cant the world unite for peace?


Name: To "To DH"
Date: Friday January 16, 2009
Time: 11:19:20 -0500

Comment

Murderers calling THEMSELVES "Muslims" have repeatedly seen it as their duty to inflict "Allah's punishments" here on earth. Show us the efforts you have made to explain to them why their understanding of Islam is utterly flawed and we might entertain the possibility that you are not full of crap.


Name: G.Ryan
Date: Friday January 16, 2009
Time: 14:24:38 -0500

Comment

is it me or is this a concerted effort by you islamic scum to take over this site.never going to happen peado lovers!!!


Name: asa
Date: Friday January 16, 2009
Time: 21:19:34 -0500

Comment

Don't you think the objective of wanting to change the world is laughable? Many Islamic countries would have half of their populations starved to dead without the food supply from the rest of the world! Even with Israel, the whole Islamic world could not fulfill its objective and they want to take the whole world!! What a joke! I am not surprised when an educated muslim friend of mind seriously informed me that at the first Iraq's war, the scorpions in the desert would change into tanks to fight the Yankees!!


Name: MA Khan ......>> to Notch
Date: Friday January 16, 2009
Time: 22:45:26 -0500

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"Force is not a remedy. Force is the enslavement of the men tricked into using force even more than it the attempt to enslave those who are the objects of force." Force not the answer? Think about no force was being against Hitler, the Japanese in the 1930-40s. Think about force was being used by the Byzantine and Persian empires when Muhammad sent threatening letters to them in 628. Had they did, Muslim Jihadis could not go around the world to kill 80 million Hindus in India, 120 million animists, pagans, Christians in Africa, tens of millions of whites in Europe and many more millions of infidels in the Middle East. No enslavement of in excess of a hundred million innocent kafirs by Islamic jihadis. There wouldn't have been a Israel-Palestine conflict at all. This background history of Islam only reinforces that counterattacks in equal or greater measure is the only way the kafir world may survive. Alternative is an inescapable Islamization of the entire globe, the establishment of the global Islamic state as promised by Allah in the Quran.


Name: pak is the breeding bed of terrorism
Date: Saturday January 17, 2009
Time: 02:28:42 -0500

Comment

pak is the breeding bed of terrorism.the real trainers of terrorism is pak army itself.


Name:
Date: Sunday January 18, 2009
Time: 23:16:28 -0500

Comment

Who wants to control the world through deception? Not Jews, Not Muslims Not even Christians. Its the zionist. All faiths should unite and fight the to bring down Zionism.


Name: mo
Date: Monday January 19, 2009
Time: 03:25:54 -0500

Comment

you forgot to mention the seige on gaza. after israel withdrew from gaza, they put the 1.5 million people in a virtual prison. blocking them off from basic necessities such as food, water, electricity, and even medical supplies. why do you fail to mention that? hamas was justified in bombing southern israel because it was ISRAEL that broke the ceasefire!!


Name: Larry
Date: Monday January 19, 2009
Time: 06:37:47 -0500

Comment

The 3 Main Religions in the Middle East is not at ease with one or the other. Thanks to the internet that will expose the truth from false teachings, so much research is needed to find the true religion and salvation of mankind in this troubled world. Freedom of expression and choice in one's belief is the fundamental point to be respected first as in Human Rights!


Name: DH
Date: Monday January 19, 2009
Time: 10:07:31 -0500

Comment

"Palestinian terrorism is the "inevitable consequence" of Israeli occupation and laws that resemble South African apartheid —"...Even if that was true. What cause would Hamas and their countless supporters in the global Ummah - who dream of a world ruled by strutting Muslim overlords with their boots on the necks of quivering third-class dhimmies - have to complain?


Name: this is the real cause
Date: Monday January 19, 2009
Time: 11:26:42 -0500

Comment

After World War 1, the League of Nations approved the British Mandate of Palestine with the intent of creating a "national home for the Jewish people. In 1947, the United Nations approved the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. On May 14, 1948 the state of Israel declared independence and this was followed by a war with the surrounding Arab states, which refused to accept the plan. The Israelis were subsequently victorious in a series of wars confirming their independence and expanding the borders of the Jewish state beyond those in the UN Partition Plan. ////As you read there was no such a thing as isreal until it was made up by us british and the conflict continues because isreal is still expanding its borders so there is bound to be a conflict.so be thank ful to us british for giving you your own country!!


Name: notice foolish muslims!!!!!!! notice bullocks!!!!!
Date: Monday January 19, 2009
Time: 19:52:38 -0500

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israel is not occupant army of palestin.bcz this land now named israel has belonged to jews some thosand years ago. and roman and muslims brutally inavded their land. for muslims case it is horrible and foolish. muslms say palestin is for us only bcz of a foolish story made by muhammad that proclaim he had been traveling to skies!!! by a donkey named buraqand this funny and impossible trip began from masjed aghsqa!!(notice when muhammad made this there was no masjid in those landbcz muslims had not invaded to israel).bcz of this foolish story they say israel is usurper.shame on you shit moslems shame!!!!


Name: To the clueless Brit
Date: Monday January 19, 2009
Time: 21:28:53 -0500

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Israel should be happy to the British for Israel? Revisionist history or just arrogance? The British promised the entire TransJordan area to the Jews and ended up giving 80% of it away to the arabs. Then they realized that they promised the remainder to two different people meanwhile actively blocking any further immigration into the area. Finally after the clusterfuck they created boiled over, they gave up the entire thing to the UN. The UN resolution to create the state of Israel was not even supported by Brtain! They did everything they could to screw the Jews a far cry from the original Balfour agreement. next time you make a public statement, do more than just a quick wikipidea glance.


Name: Voice of Reason
Date: Monday January 19, 2009
Time: 21:49:14 -0500

Comment

The Quran does not teach us to hate Jews. It commands there respect at all times. The ONLY exception comes in Surah 9 of the Quran which was revealed when Jews aswell as other non-Muslims attempted to vanquish all the Muslims to prevent the religion from being established. It is the only time God encouraged Muslims to fight for survival. So if the Zionists of Israel wish for the extermination of Muslims in the region (which they may do judging by the numbers they have killed recently) then it is ok for Hamas to fight back.


Name: G.Ryan
Date: Tuesday January 20, 2009
Time: 11:35:17 -0500

Comment

to clueless yank, you are right in your facts but you semm to forget that it was our troops getting killed by arabs and jews.you might reflect on the fact that the only war the americans ever won on their own was the american cvil war!i support israel but don't like my country put down by wankers like you.


Name: g ryan
Date: Tuesday January 20, 2009
Time: 11:40:47 -0500

Comment

meant seem not semm and civil not cvil


 
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