Identity Theft-Some Great Tips Courtesy of NALS of Tucson and So. Arizona

Most of my readers know I'm a member of the legal profession and am in fact an office holder on all three levels of a tri-level organization. That organization is NALS...The Association for Legal Professionals. On the local level, we are NALS of Tucson and So. Arizona ["NTSA"] and NALS of Arizona ["NOA"].

We have a wonderful monthly newsletter at the NTSA level and occasionally, there are articles relevant to the public at large, not just the profession. This is one of those articles, and since we've just passed the holiday season, where we were likely to be less vigilant with our credit cards and checkbooks, I thought this would be something we could all use. The article was contributed by our NTSA President and unfortunately was based on an incident that happened to a friend of hers, as well as the follow-up on what you should do if the unthinkable happens.

WHAT TO DO IF YOUR IDENTITY OR WALLET /PURSE ARE STOLEN


An acquaintance of mine just had her identity stolen. All advice below is current and accurate. Incidents are up this time of year. Read this and make a copy for your files in case you need to refer to it someday. Maybe we should all take his advice! A corporate attorney sent the following out to the employees in his company:

We've all heard horror stories about fraud that's committed on us in stealing a name, address, social security number, credit cards, etc. Unfortunately, I, an attorney, have firsthand knowledge because my wallet was stolen last month. Within a week, the thieves ordered an expensive monthly cell phone package, applied for a VISA credit card, had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer, received a PIN number from DMV to change my driving record information online and more. But here's some critical information to limit the damage in case this happens to you or someone you know:

1). Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put "PHOTO ID REQUIRED".


2). When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the "FOR" line. Instead, just put the last four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing channels won't have access to it.


3). Put your work phone number on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a P.O. Box, use that instead of your home address. NEVER have your social security number printed on your checks. You can add it by hand if it is necessary, but if you have it printed, anyone can get it.


4). Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Copy both sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place. I also carry a photocopy of my passport when I travel either here or abroad.


5). We have been told we should cancel our credit cards immediately. But the key is having the toll free numbers and your card/account numbers so you know whom to call. Keep those where you can find them.


6). File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where your credit cards etc., were stolen. This proves to credit providers you were diligent and this is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one).

BUT--here's perhaps what is most important of all (I never even thought to do this):

7). Call the three national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name. Also call the Social Security fraud line number. I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that called to tell me an application for credit was made over the internet in my name. The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit. By the time I was advised to do this, almost two weeks after the theft, all the damage had been done. There are records of all the credit checks initiated by the thieves' purchases, none of which I knew about before placing the alert. Since then, no additional damage has been done and the thieves threw my wallet away this weekend (someone turned it in). It seems to have stopped them dead in their tracks.

Now here are the numbers you always need to contact when your wallet, etc., has been stolen:

1). Equifax: 800-525-6285.
2). Experian (Formerly TRW): 888-397-3742
3). Trans Union: 800-680-7289
4). Social Security Adminstration: 800-269-0271

We pass along jokes on the internet; we pass along just about everything. If you are willing to pass this information along, it could really help someone you care about.

Cross posted at Real Clear Politics here and Grizzly Groundswell here.

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Fred Thompson Funnies-Part 09

It has been ENTIRELY too long (since September 23, 2007) since we saw some Fred funnies. Frank J. at IMAO is going strong and keeping them coming--he's got some great stuff at his site. Make sure you pay him a visit!

Without further adieu, here are the funnies!

JANUARY:
Fred Thompson doesn't decide who lives and who dies; he just makes it so.


Only one percent of New Hampshirites slept soundly last night.


Some people are homeless because of their financial situation, others are homeless because of substance abuse, while still others are homeless because they looked at Fred Thompson funny and he destroyed their home.

Who would win in a fight between John Wayne and Chuck Norris? Fred Thompson.


Fred Thompson can always easily identify pod-people, Cylons, Skrulls, users of a polyjuice potion, replicants, people who are actually the Thing, and RINOs.

Death lives in fear of Fred Thompson.


Like most Americans, Fred Thompson has no plans to ever set foot in Iowa ever again.


Fred Thompson will not only beat expectations, he will kick and stomp expectations before running over its neck with his truck.


The Klingon word for "awesome" is "Fred Thompson."


If Fred Thompson is an auld acquaintance, there is no chance of forgetting him.

DECEMBER:

If you watch this and decide not to vote for Fred Thompson, you can legally be committed.

Hell plans to add a brand new tenth circle specifically for those who don't vote for Fred Thompson.


If you try to fast forward past a Fred Thompson campaign commercial, your Tivo will erase all your favorite programs.


There was a legend of the Old West of a gunfighter who could outdraw and outshoot any man and would ride from town to town dispensing justice. He was known as "The Man with No Name (Other Than Fred Thompson)."


Fred Thompson isn't some hippie that worries about his "carbon footprint." He has twenty-five gas-guzzling cars that can combine in groups of five to form five giant gas-guzzling robots that can all combine to form one even bigger, even more gas-guzzling robot which then transforms into a car which Fred Thompson drives to the corner store to pick up a quart of milk.


While Romney has been stuffing mailboxes in Iowa with negative facts about Huckabee, Fred Thompson stuffed into a mailbox the most negative thing about Huckabee: Huckabee himself.


If a child is naughty, Santa leaves him a lump of coal in his stocking. If Santa is naughty, Fred Thompson beats him with a shovel.


Fred Thompson will be spending Christmas Eve this year the same as he traditionally does: Managing a crisis at Washington Dulles International Airport.

(research help from Jim Geraghty)

Fred Thompson is a fantastic breakdancer.

Fred Thompson remembers not seeing Mitt Romney's father march with Martin Luther King.

If Fred Thompson used but a fraction of his energy on the campaign trail, he would destroy the Eastern seaboard.

Every single blog has endorsed Fred Thompson that isn't secretly run by Communists.

IMAO has long been a revered conservative institution, and we thought it would be neglectfully of us not to weigh in on who the Republicans should nominate for president. Surveys show that most Republicans are not certain of their current choice and a whole 53% of them are waiting for IMAO to tell them more.

So, looking at all the facts, here is who IMAO thinks should be the Republican nominee:

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Fred Thompson used to be quite the ladies man before he married Jeri. In fact, there's a fifty percent chance he's your real father.

Fred Dalton Thompson

Many of you may be surprised by this. You may ask why didn't we endorse Ron Paul, the only hope for America? Do we not like America? And why didn't we endorse Mike Huckabee, the lovable hillbilly who will pardon any murderer who got a hold of a Bible? And what about Mitt Romney whose hair is very shiny?

These are good questions, and the endorsement of Fred Thompson certainly wasn't made on a whim. As you may know, IMAO has been reporting on Fred Thompson facts for some time -- for purely academic reasons. The more we looked at these facts, though, the more we began to think that they might mean that Fred Thompson is a great candidate. America really could use a candidate who could stop illegal immigration for a month by simply glaring at Mexico. And while other candidates are arguing over whether the rarely used waterboarding is too mean to terrorists, it's refreshing to have a candidate who believes that pulling out a terrorist's spine and beating him with it is a perfectly cromulent interrogation technique.

What really put us over the line was seeing the facts put to awesome music:

Also, John Hawkins's reduction of the Fred Thompson slogan "Kill the terrorists. Protect the border. Punch the hippies." down to the less cumbersome "Kill. Protect. Punch." really makes Fred Thompson's strengths as a candidate clear.

But we can't just go by our gut. Let's compare the main attributes of Fred Thompson versus the other candidates:

Fred Thompson: Teh Awesome

Other Candidates: Teh Suck

I believe when you lay things out this way, the reasons to support Fred Thompson over the other candidates becomes obvious, especially since IMAO has long held the position that "Teh Awesome" is better than "Teh Suck." And, in this time when our country is threatened by terrorists, weenies, and goobers, it's that more important we elect someone awesome -- a strong conservative who will kill and hurt those who need killing and hurting.

With a Fred Thompson presidency, I expect terrorists to become extinct within a year. Many bros will be tased, and hippies will be driven underground where they will eventually evolve into hideous creatures like the Morlocks (but not as hard working). America's economy will sky rocket all at the expense of foreign countries who will become so poor they'll all compete on who can grow us green onions the cheapest. Though Fred Thompson will not improve America's image abroad, other countries will suck so much in comparison to us that we'll care even less about their opinions.

So not only should you support Fred Thompson like your life depended on it, you should tell everyone else to do the same. Here's a visual example:

I should note, though, that the most important factor in IMAO endorsing Fred Thompson is that I already have an awesome t-shirt designed for him which will pretty much go to waste if he isn't the nominee. And it's not like I can just move that slogan to whoever the Republican nominee is, because, come on, do you think a tough slogan like that is going to work with Romney or hyuk-hyuk-Huckabee? No. Fred Thompson is the only Republican with the awesomeness to pull that off.

So, when it comes down to it, you have to ask yourself: Are you for awesomeness or not? If you think having a nominee who is awesome is just not for the Republican Party and we instead need some compromise candidate no one is thrilled with (or, in Ron Paul's case, only people infected with brain-eating bacteria are thrilled with), then vote for the one of the other guys. Otherwise, pull the lever for Fred Thompson, immediately turn around and punch the guy behind you in the face, and rock on!

Kill the terrorists.

Protect the border.

Punch the hippies.

Vote Fred Thompson.

He's the only candidate that is IMAO approved.

...Close It

From John Hawkins:

The snowman Fred Thompson made last winter defeated Godzilla.


When Fred Thompson says, "Have a merry Christmas," that's not a meaningless platitude -- it's a command -- so you better have a Christmas so merry blood is shooting out your eyes because Fred Thompson is coming to town.


On Christmas Eve, Fred Thompson leaves milk and cookies out. Santa dares not touch them, because he knows how much Fred Thompson loves his milk and cookies early on Christmas morning.


God created man in His image. Fred Thompson was the first copy, and they all sorta degraded after that.


Fred Thompson can fly if he wants to. Even gravity won't dare touch him without permission.


When Fred Thompson leaves his house, he doesn't lock his door. Criminals lock their doors.


Fred Thompson has been unable to attack Spider-Man because any time he tries, Spider-Man's spider-sense immediately overloads Spider-Man's brain, putting him into a week long coma.


Fidel Castro keeps a loaded gun by his bed at all times in case Fred Thompson becomes president so he can immediately blow his own brains out to avoid Fred Thompson's wrath. He won't be quick enough.


There are already plans for the supercarrier the U.S.S. Fred Thompson. It will carry and launch other aircraft carriers.


Today's Fred Thompson fact is a lovely poem written by Exurbankevin:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Fred Thompson.


When God created the first man and woman, He told them, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die since it's Fred Thompson's and he does not like people messing with his stuff."

In a debate, Fred Thompson follows up any rhetorical point he scores with an awesome guitar solo.


Some people become measurably smarter just by breathing the same air Fred Thompson does. Others become measurably deader.


If it's ten o'clock and you don't know where your children are, don't worry; Fred Thompson knows.


Fred Thompson has never used a brake pedal.


While Fred Thompson has always had a merry Christmas, he's never had a happy holiday.


From an airplane, people look like ants... except for Fred Thompson. He still looks like Fred Thompson.


Fred Thompson has never needed to move. Weak towns flee him while strong towns naturally grow near.

NOVEMBER:

Fred Thompson changes channels using a 12 gage.

Fred Thompson takes a bite out of criminals.

Fred Thompson opens up whupass in lot sizes no smaller than a gross at a time.

Fred Thompson enjoys racing cars. To make it fair he usually gives the cars at least a 100 foot head start.

Fred Thompson's house is easy to find. Just turn off the main road, go two blocks and when you see the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, you're there.

When they are in season, Fred Thompson enjoys hunting, killing, skinning and preparing fresh Balrog.

The shortest distance between two points doesn't go near Fred Thompson if it knows what's best for its lazy, shortcut seeking self.

Fred Thompson never needs to take questions from plants. Though a New York Times reporter tried to interview him and ended up a vegetable.

In the Fred Thompson Presidency every day will seem like Thanksgiving, partly because there'll be so much to be thankful for, but basically, if you value your life, you won't even act like a turkey.

When Fred Thompson's wireless call gets dropped, he drops the phone, the phone company and a vanload of hippies into the Sun.

Fred Thompson often gets a fresh hot Egg McMuffin after 10:30AM.

There's a sucker born every minute... which is a bit below replacement rate considering Fred Thompson's dislike of suckers.

Freddy Krueger has nightmares about Fred Thompson.

Fred Thompson is the only candidate with a plan to fight volcanoes or any other type of mountain that shows hostility to America.

While visiting Africa, an enraged Fred Thompson charged and killed a rhino. He hates rhinos.

Children like to lay pennies in the path of Fred Thompson and then keep the flattened remains as good luck charms.

At a speech at the Citadel, Fred Thompson called for a larger military, more modern weaponry, and smarter, less smelly enemies to fight. Sorry, hippies, he'll kill you last.

The reason the National Right to Life Committee is endorsing Fred Thompson is that they figured the best way to preserve life is to not piss off Fred Thompson.

Fred Thompson once took out an entire swarm of bees with a pair of chopsticks.

You know how the old saying goes: "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a gorilla if that's what Fred Thompson says it is."

Fred Thompson has released a comprehensive plan to save Social Security: Kill old hippies.

Taxes get so depressed when they hear Fred Thompson is in charge that they cut themselves.

Bullfighting doesn't work with Fred Thompson as a matador because, instead of charging, the bull flees in terror. The audience, too.

Why it a bad idea to anger Bruce Banner? Because he's a friend of Fred Thompson.

The best way to save the planet is to make sure it never gets in the way of Fred Thompson.

Matter cannot be destroyed (unless it pisses off Fred Thompson).

Fred Thompson can shoot a two inch group at 500 yards with a Nerf gun.

Fred Thompson's plan for the U.N. is to wait for a big conference and then melt down the entire headquarters, uniting leaders from all nations into a nice little paperweight for his desk.

Fred Thompson was initially confused by conservatives' opposition to "the Fairness Doctrine" since that's the name of one of his guns.

Climate change is inevitable. Except around Fred Thompson, where the climate stands very, very still.

(research of this fact done by No One of Consequence)

OCTOBER:

If your children go to Fred Thompson's house on Halloween night, make sure they don't say, "Trick or treat!" Fred Thompson does not respond well to threats.

Global warming is afraid of increasing Fred Thompson.

Fred Thompson owns one gun so awesome that it violates California state firearms law to even look at it.

It only takes one lick for Fred Thompson to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop.

Fred Thompson once fought fire with fire. Fire was admitted to the hospital with third degree burns covering eighty percent of its body.

Fred Thompson can get blood from a stone. He calls it "stone blood."

Fred Thompson is a master of all sports. He once batted a football into a basket hoop located on the green of a par 5 hole that was being guarded by the world's best goalie (hockey, not soccer).

Fred Thompson once shoved a camel through the eye of a needle. He didn't find it that difficult, though it was a bit messy.

Fred Thompson plans to beat the charge that he's "lazy" by running around the country at super-speed killing anyone who would slander him so.

Fred Thompson can absorb political adversity and channel it into powerful blasts from his hands which he uses to disintegrate his enemies.

The original last line to King Kong was "Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Fred Thompson that killed the beast. Fred. @#$%. Thompson."

Fred Thompson's method to veto wasteful spending bills will be to shove the bill down the throat of the Democrat who authored it and then throw him into the sun. Such a veto can not be overturned.

Fred Thompson in no way resembles a chimp and has painted a barn with the blood of those who implied otherwise.

Fred Thompson has promised to fight and win at least one world war within his first one hundred days.

If strangling Socialists with their own intestines is wrong, Fred Thompson has no desire to be right.

If your cellphone rings during a Fred Thompson speech, he will kill you and your Fave 5.

For the eighth year in a row, Fred Thompson has won the Nobel Violence Prize.

Fred Thompson is above any law, even those of thermodynamics.

There will be no natural disasters during the Fred Thompson administration; the earth is too scared of him to pull that crap.

Fred Thompson's campaign song is Drowning Pool's "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor."

While Fred Thompson was Senator, the Ultimate Fighting Championship lost viewers to C-SPAN.

Scratching Fred Thompson's car is classified as an extinction-level event.

Debate organizers decided there has to be at least a week between debates involving Fred Thompson to allow sufficient time to clean the blood off the walls.

If you even attempt to question Fred Thompson's patriotism, you will die instantly.

Once Fred Thompson became enraged while visiting Disney's Animal Kingdom and stampeded through the park, accidentally trampling and killing six elephants.

Fred Thompson has never been beaten at Candy Land.

[Am I getting these confused with John Edwards facts again? -Ed.]

If Fred Thompson sees any flag flying higher than the American flag, he will rip it down... even when visiting a foreign country.

When an episode of Law & Order was lost just before airing, Fred Thompson quickly constructed a new one out of nothing more than a paper clip, a piece of string, and an episode of MacGyver.

Fred Thompson has a plan to simultaneous reduce the number of nukes and countries.

Fred Thompson has a list of some of his principles at his blog, the Fred File. It's not a complete list, though, and here are some more principles exclusive to IMAO:

The Environment. For too long, we have yielded to the forces of natures. Instead, the nature should bend to our will. We must tame it like a beast as use it as yet another tool to destroy our enemies. If nature will not yield to us, then it must be destroyed starting with the sun.

Space Exploration. We lay claim to all the universe. We must continue to explore space to see if any life forms are occupying our property and punish them.

Border Security. America deserves a giant wall on both borders made from human bones.

Military Technology. We need weapons that launch fireballs at our enemies. Enemies of America deserve to be hit with fireballs.

Foreign Countries. Foreign countries are an affront to our sovereignty. Their mere existence suggests that someone would prefer to live somewhere else than the U.S. For this blasphemy, we must destroy all foreign countries and punish those who support them.

Education. Children are stupid. Someone needs to do something about that or I will destroy them.

Terrorism. We must make our enemies know that Allah is not nearly powerful enough to protect them from our wrath.

Fred Thompson beats rock, paper, and scissors. He also beats Jimmy Carter every other weekend.


Fred Thompson is the only candidate with a realistic plan to destroy the sun.

SEPTEMBER:

The House recently voted on a resolution expressing their fear of Fred Thompson. It passed 427 to 0 with 8 not voting since Fred Thompson had killed them.

Fred Thompson's favorite toy as a toddler was electrified barbed wire tied to a grizzly bear.

Fred Thompson can swallow a pig and some wheat and crap a ham sandwich.

Primitive cultures revere Fred Thompson as the god of death and destruction. It's believed the cause of this is that many cultures end up primitive after Fred Thompson has destroyed them.

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow nor giant meteor will keep Fred Thompson from giving someone a needed whup'n.

Fred Thompson can talk to fish but chooses not to.

Fred Thompson is so pro-American that when he places an ad in the New York Times, they charge him four times their normal rate.

Fred Thompson is not your "bro" and he is going to tase you.

Cross posted at Real Clear Politics here and Grizzly Groundswell here.

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Myth vs Fact-Part 203

Myth	Fact
Islam: Religion of peace.	Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 197: Narrated Ka'b bin Malik: Whenever Allah's Apostle intended to lead a Ghazwa, he would use an equivocation from which one would understand that he was going to a different destination .
Tafsir

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Muslim Charter of Misrepresentation

Thursday, January 10, 2008 saw the signing by representatives of 400 European Muslim organizations, of a Charter of European Muslim Understanding, whose text you may read at UpPompeii. The charter is the work of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe.

Let us critically examine some critical provisions of the charter. Section 1, Article 5: [Emphasis added for clarity.]

5. Islam has honoured human beings as stewards of the earth. This honour embraces all the children of Adam, both male and female, without discrimination. By virtue of this honour, human beings are to be protected from anything that is an affront to their dignity, is harmful to their mental faculties, is damaging to their health or which abuses their rights by exploiting their vulnerabilities.

All human beings, male and female are equal, without discrimination. All are to be protected from affront to dignity and physical harm; their vulnerabilities are not to be exploited. Is there any truth in those statements? By what standard and what evidence shall we judge this matter?

1. Our understanding of Islam is based on immutable principles that are derived from the authentic sources of Islam: the Qur'an and the Prophetic traditions (Sunnah), within the framework of consensus with consideration for the time factor as well as the specifics of the European reality.

What does Allah, in his Qur'an tell us about the dignity of women?

• 2:223. Your wives are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth (have sexual relations with your wives in any manner as long as it is in the vagina and not in the anus), [...]
• 4:11. Allâh commands you as regards your children's (inheritance); to the male, a portion equal to that of two females; [...]
• 2:282. [...]And get two witnesses out of your own men. And if there are not two men (available), then a man and two women, such as you agree for witnesses, so that if one of them (two women) errs, the other can remind her. [...]

What do the traditions testify to the dignity of women?

• Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 6, Number 301: [...]The women asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?" He said, "Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?" They replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn't it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?" The women replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her religion." [...]

What of the dignity of disbelievers; what did Allah say?

• 8:22. Verily! The worst of (moving) living creatures with Allâh are the deaf and the dumb, those who understand not (i.e. the disbelievers).
• 2:65. And indeed you knew those amongst you who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath (i.e. Saturday). We said to them: "Be you monkeys, despised and rejected."
• 3:112. Indignity is put over them wherever they may be, except when under a covenant (of protection) from Allâh, and from men; they have drawn on themselves the Wrath of Allâh, and destruction is put over them. This is because they disbelieved in the Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allâh and killed the Prophets without right. This is because they disobeyed (Allâh) and used to transgress beyond bounds (in Allâh's disobedience, crimes and sins).
• 9:29. Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

And what did Moe testify to our dignity?

• Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 8, Number 387:
  
  Narrated Anas bin Malik:
  
  Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah."
  

Dignity, equality, protection; three strikes and yer out!!

7. Islam calls for equality between man and woman within the framework of mutual respect and views that a balanced life is one in which the relationship between man and woman is harmonious and complementary. It unequivocally rejects all notions or actions that undermine women or deprive them of their legitimate rights, regardless of some customs or habits of some Muslims. Islam strongly opposes the exploitation of women and their treatment as mere objects of desire.

Is that true? What did Allah say about that?

• 4:24. Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those (captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess. [...]
• Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 459:
  
  Narrated Ibn Muhairiz:
  
  I entered the Mosque and saw Abu Said Al-Khudri and sat beside him and asked him about Al-Azl (i.e. coitus interruptus). Abu Said said, "We went out with Allah's Apostle for the Ghazwa of Banu Al-Mustaliq and we received captives from among the Arab captives and we desired women and celibacy became hard on us and we loved to do coitus interruptus. So when we intended to do coitus interrupt us, we said, 'How can we do coitus interruptus before asking Allah's Apostle who is present among us?" We asked (him) about it and he said, 'It is better for you not to do so, for if any soul (till the Day of Resurrection) is predestined to exist, it will exist."

9. Islam respects human rights and calls for equality among all human beings, it rejects all forms of racial discrimination and emphasises the importance of liberty. Hence it condemns compulsion in religion and allows the individual freedom of conscience. Furthermore, Islam encourages that freedom ought to be exercised in accordance with moral values and respect for law, such that it does not infringe upon the rights of others.

What did Moe say about discrimination?

• Sahih Muslim Book 020, Number 4476:
  
  It has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: The Caliphate will remain among the Quraish even if only two persons are left (on the earth),
  
  

And what of compulsion? [See 9:29 cited above.]

• Sahih Bukhari Volume 6, Book 60, Number 80:
  
  Narrated Abu Huraira:
  
  The Verse:--"You (true Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind." means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam.
  
  

10. Islam calls for mutual acquaintance between people, dialogue and co-operation among people and nations so as to enhance co-existence and achieve peace in the world. The term Jihad that occurs in Islamic texts means to exert all efforts towards good, starting from reforming oneself to spreading truth and justice between people. Jihad in its understanding as warfare is regarded as one of the means available to a Muslim state when it needs to defend itself against aggression. This is in compliance with international law. Based on such an understanding of Jihad, Islam rejects indiscriminate violence and terrorism and supports just causes and affirms the right of all people to defend themselves by legitimate means.

What did Allah say?

• 8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allâh) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allâh Alone [in the whole of the world ]. [...]
• 9:29. Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
• 9:123. O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allâh is with those who are the Al-Muttaqûn (the pious - see V.2:2).
  

What did Moe say?

• Abu Dawud 14.2635
  Narrated Anas ibn Malik:
  
  The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: I am commanded to fight with men till they testify that there is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad is His servant and His Apostle, face our qiblah (direction of prayer), eat what we slaughter, and pray like us. When they do that, their life and property are unlawful for us except what is due to them. They will have the same rights as the Muslims have, and have the same responsibilities as the Muslims have.

Now we know that Islam remains true to form, contstant in its practice of al-Taqeyya. There is no truth in it!

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URGENT News From Stop the ACLU! Action IS Required

This email alert came to me the other day and is extremely important. I'm not putting it into the usual weekly round-up--this needs its own separate post. Read it through, follow the links, sign the petition and pass it around.

This pertains to an ACLU suit that we and others I have shared it with to be a very dangerous one with potentially serious risks to our national security as well as you and me. The story is from CNS News and is also linked from our commentary on this article which you can read here. Our article further links to another similar case the ACLU is involved in and provides extensive evidence through other link sources in the article how the ACLU may be doing grave harm to America by its actions of defending certain Muslims who have suspected ties to terrorist activities and persuading our courts to grant its wishes.

The average reader can see that getting an American court to release to the ACLU confidential documents that belong to highly vetted sources in U.S. government is as risky as one gets. Given the ACLU's growing support and affiliations towards radical Islam and its assistance to terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, information we have more than adequately documented in our article, we firmly believe it is time for the United States Congress to subpoena the ACLU to Washington and hold hearings in conjunction with these matters without delay.

I encourage each of you to read the CNS link, our story, and all the links in it as they provide compelling evidence of the urgent need for Congress to summon ACLU officers, lawyers and directors to Washington. And when you are finished and have come to the conclusion that the ACLU truly needs to be investigated when Congress returns, we want you to click here (also in the second to last paragraph in our piece) to read and sign the petition to Congressional leaders to act on this petition as soon as possible.

When you sign the online petition, you will be required to provide your zip code. We have set it up this way because we want to be able to track in a senator and Congressman’s district how many of their constituents are in support of this petition. Without the zip code, we cannot provide any numbers as to how many people in a certain district signed it. You do not, however, need to provide your street address.

If you wish to do more, you can copy and paste this petition in a Word or similar document and bring in person, mail or fax (we don't recommend e-mail for this occasion) to your elected officials in Congress and tell them directly how disturbed you are that the ACLU is allowed to get away with all its actions, how it is indeed a subversive organization putting America at risk and how you want them to use their legislative influences to get the subpoenas out to the ACLU without delay.

If you still want to do more, consider copying the same info you sent to your own Congressmen and U.S. Senators to the House and Senate leaders, noted at the top of the petition, as well as the chairmen and minority leaders noted in the petition. The phone numbers and addresses are not on the petition page but can be located at this page as your current Congressmen and senators. While it is not usually useful to petition lawmakers not located in one's given district, this generally does not apply when it concerns leaders and members of a certain committee as such are in fact writing policy for other lawmakers as well as citizens throughout the country.

If you do not know who your Congressmen and senators how, again, this page has all the information you need to know to contact them.

Once you have signed this petition, we need you to do one more thing and that is forward this e-mail to everyone you know for their signatures (must be 18 or over). Post the link to the petition on message boards, forums, chat rooms and similar places. And if you run your own website or blog, please post a link to it there as well. We need this linked everyone. Please help get the word out today.

And if you have not signed our previous petition to Alberto Gonzalez and the U.S. Justice Dept., to investigate the ACLU for suspected criminal ties to the porno industry, we ask you to do so by clicking here. We fully realize that Mr. Gonzalez is no longer with the Justice Dept. but the petition still is valid as we will see to it that his replacement, Michael Mukasey, is fully apprised of our requests for them to take appropriate action against the ACLU and we will personally deliver them to his office if we can get a huge outpouring of responses.

Can everyone help in this matter? We want to get one million signatures for each petition. It's a Herculean task but one million signers is less than ½ of 1% of all the American people. If everyone gets this to 5 or 10 people and the effort is replicated over and over, we can do it.

We fully realize that Congress is not likely to act on such a petition of ours, which is fully in line with our 1^st Amendment rights to petition for a redress of our grievances. We know that in an earlier era, Congress wouldn't even need to hear from us to take on the subversive ACLU; they would do so as a matter of principle.

But in this day and age and particularly with Democrats in control of Congress (and being the party of the ACLU as evidenced by the very high, if not perfect, scores of most Democrat lawmakers on the ACLU's scorecard), we must do everything possible to urge the U.S. Senate (scheduled to return on January 15^th) and the House (scheduled to return on January 22^nd) to do the bidding of the American people and help rein in the ACLU.

We would also like to get on as many radio and TV shows across the country and locally to urge their listeners to act on these petitions. We would likely start with well known national dislikers of the ACLU such as Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham.

If you are interested in urging these and others to speak about these petitions and/or have us on the air, we would greatly appreciate that. I don't have Ingraham's or Savage's e-mail addresses handy but we will post them in an update on our article on the Stop the ACLU website if we get correct ones. O’Reilly can be reached at oreilly@foxnews.com and Beck can be reached at me@glennbeck.com.

And if you believe in this effort and would like to assist financially, we would be so grateful. It will cost a lot of money to get this message out to sizable audiences out there but if you want to help us, then would you be so kind as visit www.paypal.com and make your gift to nedd@stoptheaclu.org? This operation has been struggling for a long time and we cannot continue our efforts and direct activism without some desperately needed cash infusions.

If everyone getting this message can do just a little, say $5 to $10, we can do a lot. Please help today if you can. However, if you are experiencing financial hardships, do not feel pressured to donate. We only want those who are able to do so to give today.

Thank you and God bless you.

All the Best in 2008,

Nedd Kareiva

Director

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