Myth vs Fact-Part 272

Myth	Fact
Islam: Religion of peace.	Sahih BukhariVolume 5, Book 59, Number 451: Narrated Salih bin Khawwat: Concerning those who witnessed the Fear Prayer that was performed in the battle of Dhat-ur-Riqa' in the company of Allah's Apostle; One batch lined up behind him while another batch (lined up) facing the enemy. The Prophet led the batch that was with him in one Rak'a, and he stayed in the standing posture while that batch completed their (two Rakat) prayer by themselves and went away, lining in the face of the enemy, while the other batch came and he (i.e. the Prophet) offered his remaining Rak'a with them, and then, kept on sitting till they completed their prayer by themselves, and he then finished his prayer with Taslim along with them. Narrated Ibn Az-Zubair: Jabir said, "We were with the Prophet at Nakhl," and then he mentioned the Fear prayer. Narrated Al-Qasim bin Muhammad: The Prophet offered the Fear prayer in the Ghazwa of Banu Anmar.
Tafsir

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Some Interesting Quotes

While driving home from work, I heard an excellent quote today. When I heard who the quote was from, and when, I determined to find it and post it.

Along the way, I found more great quotes by this person.

Here, from Wikipedia, is a teaser about this person:

This person was born April 5, 1856 and died November 14, 1915; was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community. S/he was freed from slavery as a child, gained an education, and as a young adult was appointed to lead a teachers' college for blacks. From this position of leadership s/he rose into a nationally prominent role as spokesman for African Americans.

I thought it would be nice to hear some positive coming out of a black person, particularly in light of the filth we've been subjected to by the alleged black leaders the past week or so.

So, who is this mystery guest? Why, none other than Booker T. Washington. I think I would have liked to have known him. After a remarkable life, he seems to have embodied the true ideals for getting along with his fellow man. We didn't hear from him the hate and vitriol we hear from the likes of Sharpton, Jackson and Wright.
We do hear echoes of him in today's Juan Williams and Bill Cosby, who espouse education, responsibility and not expecting everyone to do for you. One of my favorite Cosby quotes is, "What good is Brown v. Board of Education if nobody wants it?"

The very last quote is the one I heard today, the one which sent me on my quest. Mr. Washington wrote it as a preface to one of his books, and it is circa 1911.

One last tidbit? Mr. Washington was mulatto as well, born to a white plantation owner and a slave mother. He was just as mulatto as Barack Hussein Obama; what he is lacking, however, is the sense of entitlement, the anger, the arrogance. He was a producer, being one of the original founders of Tuskegee College. He mingled with great men, regardless of color, and was able to obtain funding for his schools based on his vision.

That all sounds wonderful, but let's keep this in perspective. Mr. Washington was a product of a completely different era. HE WAS A SLAVE. He was freed and HE MADE SOMETHING LASTING OF HIMSELF.

He wasn't a hustler, he wasn't a race baiter, he wasn't a hater. He was a real man--certainly a rarity today.

More important, it is men like him who were the inspiration for the civil rights workers 75-80 years later. He was the inspiration of what could be gained with education, with quiet dignity and non-violence.

He is the kind of man blacks need to be looking up to--not the race baiters, not the haters, not the hip-hop filth and the hos and bling.

Below are quotes of Booker T. Washington. Emphasis is mine.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It’s wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It’s more wonderful when the leader believes in their people!


You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.


No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.


Character, not circumstances, makes the man


I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.


"At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy."


"As I look back now over that part of our struggle, I am glad that we had it. I am glad that we endured all those discomforts and inconveniences. I am glad that our students had to dig out the place for their kitchen and dining room. I am glad that out first boarding-place was in that dismal, ill-lighted, and damp basement. Had we started in a fine, attractive, convenient room, I fear we would have "lost our heads" and become "stuck up".It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for one's self."


"With God's help, I believe that I have completely rid myself of any ill feeling toward the Southern white man for any wrong that he may have inflicted upon my race. I am made to feel just as happy now when I am rendering service to Southern white men as when the service is rendered to a member of my own race. I pity from the bottom of my heart any Individual who is unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.


"The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women."


"I have great faith in the power and influence of facts. It is seldom that anything is permanently gained by holding back a fact."


There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.

A truly remarkable man and well worth learning about. His lessons and ideas are as timely today as they were a century ago.

Also posted at Digg! here; GOP Hub here and Grizzly Groundswell here.

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Paul Abrams Is A Class Act Moron

~Snooper~

Not only is Paulie a moron, he is a disingenuous bloviating fool.

In his ill-conceived and retarded rhetoric posted at the Leftinistra hang-out called the Huff and Puff, his grip on reality is not only questionable, it is out-right lost in space. This clown and other doltish cads that subscribe to the same lame train of feigned intelligence, have no clue what this war against terror is all about...not a damn clue.

To George W Bush, the loss of nearly 4000 lives, 30,000 wounded and $500B on the Iraq War is "worth it". But, there is no evidence his family, Republican members of Congress or any member of his Administration agrees---unless, of course, they mean it is "worth it" for others to be doing the fighting, the dying, and the multiple tours-of-duty. [...]

So, let's get this straight...had the above alluded to went to war, all would be OK. Right? Wrong. It doesn't matter to these retarded left-wing sycophants of the One World Socialist Soros. No matter what happens or what doesn't happen, nothing satisfies these chronic malcontents and selfish whiners of the hate-filled socialists in this country.

This dumbass has no idea that the vast majority - the frauds of Winter Soldier II not withstanding - volunteered in a time of war to fight the enemy over there so Paul Abrams and his whining dweebs can stab them in the back at every turn. Simply pathetic.

[...] Pat Tillman left his lucrative and high-profile career in the NFL to volunteer for Afghanistan. Yet, not a single Republican member of Congress of military age has thought the Iraq war "worth it" enough to resign and volunteer for his country. Adam Putnam (R-FLA), for example, votes to send his generation to war, but will not volunteer himself. [...]

So, I suppose that Paulie Baby is under the delusion that in order to think the war is worth it, one has to serve. Such an idiot. Does he not think things through before he makes such a raging ass of himself? Hey, Paulie? We all have a job to do in this war because it is America's war, you blithering fool.

[...] Many members of the Bush Administration are under 40. None have volunteered. [...]

Idiot. How many have ALREADY served you silly boy? While we are at it, how many Democrats that bought off on the war that haven't "signed up for duty"? Idiot. Do the Democrats get a free pass for whatever test you have initiated? Idiot.

[...] Neither of the Bush daughters, nor Jenna's fiance, nor military age Bush nephews or nieces appear to think the war is "worth it" enough to volunteer. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has two military-age sons. Neither has volunteered despite their dad's sending troops on second and third and fourth extended tours-of-duty. Does Secretary Gates think it is "worth it"? His sons apparently do not. [...]

BDS personified. What a childish and immature dweeb this Paulie is. Most are called to service and they answer the call - something this Paultard will never understand.

[...] Everyone knows the Iraq War would never have been launched if the military age Republican members of Congress would have been expected to resign and volunteer, or that members of their families and the Bush family would have been expected to go. Both of Lyndon Johnson's sons-in-law volunteered for Vietnam. [...]

More ignorance from a leftist hack and complete blithering idiot. Substantiation for this "charge"? Idiot.

[...] To all Americans arguing about the cherry-picked intelligence or lies used to get us into this war, you should stop your bickering. Bush would have invaded anyhow. Even without WMD, even without the link to al-Qaeda, he would have invaded. How do we know? He keeps telling us. Knowing what he knows now, he would have done the same (and would he lie?). [...]

Perhaps, Paulie, you should check your facts before you sound so incredibly retarded. I know it will hurt, Paulie, but, do try to keep up. Oh. Wait. Substantiation for the above? We'll wait.

Well, that is enough of that retard's verbiage. Perhaps this blithering dunce should find out how many members of Congress ARE serving and to what degree, both R and D. I know the answer and it wasn't hard to find out a while back, either. I also know which sons and or daughters of Congress Critters are also serving.

Paulie? You are a foolish leftist hack.

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BREAKING: Another Recruiting Station Vandalized

~Snooper~

Fox News is reporting that a recruiting station in Wisconsin has been vandalized. Add this one to the list, Michelle!

Vandals scrawled an anti-war message on a Milwaukee Army Recruiting Station Wednesday, the day marking five years since the Iraq war began, WTMJ radio reported.

All the windows of the station were busted out, and graffiti that read "War is Offensive" was scrawled on the side of the building. A witness told WTMJ that he saw anti-war slogans written on the windows before they were broken.

The recruiting station is no stranger to such vandalism. Exactly one year ago, police arrested 21 people who reportedly attacked the facility with smoke bombs while throwing paint, WTMJ reported.

More here...

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Dissecting An Editorial Moonbat

~Snooper~

The Dallas Morning News has been rampantly infected with idiots. This entire editorial piece is going to be shred beyond recognition here...this idiot needs to move to Austin where its fellow moonbats would welcome it with open cisterns of lunacy...

Editorial: Iraq's ongoing shock and awe/Iraqis' lives still dictated by fear, violence

12:00 AM CDT on Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Ever since the bombs started falling five years ago today, the Iraq war has been the focus of worldwide controversy. Nevertheless, it was hard to deny the sense of promise at the war's outset, when it appeared that Iraqis would finally be free of a ruthless dictatorship. [...]

Dear dingo...nice try at the spin ordeal but see if Billy Clinton can get you some of those used cigars from what's-her-face...

Hard to deny? What was so hard about it? Ruthless dictatorship? Was that The Reason for the war? Sometimes I have to be very concerned about some of my fellow Texicans.

[...] That sense of promise quickly got buried under a mountain of flubs and missteps: the unobstructed looting, the Iraqi army's dissolution, "Mission Accomplished," our slow response to the insurgency, Abu Ghraib, de-Baathification. Subsequent investigations, including one from the Pentagon last week, debunked all notions about weapons of mass destruction and a link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime. [...]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG!! What moronic drivel!!

Mountain of flubs and missteps? Be specific you asswipe! Were there mistakes? Yes there were. And those mistakes were made by whom? I know the answers you idiot so please be specific. That way, your stupidity won't be so obvious. The poor thing mentions 6 items and that somehow equates to "mountains" of errors. Damn libtard.

And I just LOVE how the media takes that Pentagon report and cherry picks data from it. Maybe this turkey should like ACTUALLY read the damn report? Is that too much to ask of these politically agenda driven libtard dweebs? Better yet, perhaps Ray Robison's book Both In One Trench would suffice? Ray was on the ISG team and was also translating documents and such. I have read both...the book by Ray, three times and this Pentagon report twice...

This report is a redacted version of the original Iraqi Perspectives Report-Saddam and
Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents, Volume 1, dated January
2007.
This report is a redacted version of the original Iraqi Perspectives Report-Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents, Volume 1, dated January 2007.

This redacted version was prepared by the original authors following a classification review by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) pursuant to a request by the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.

All redactions from the original are in accordance with the 15 September 2007 DIA Memorandum, Subject: Classification Review of Iraqi Perspectives Project (IPP) Report Saddam and Terrorism. As stated in said memorandum, the DIA "made every effort to balance national security concerns, requirements of law, and the needs of an informed democracy and focused the redactions to the necessary minimum." Moreover, all redactions have been made pursuant to Executive Orders 12958 (as amended) and 12333, and US Code provisions 5 USC 552, 5 USC 552a, and 10 USC 424.

And, the "Mission Accomplished" thing? The all so obvious ignorance of this particular editorial rapist of verbiage is nearly too much to stomach. Perhaps the poor slog should spend some more time amongst some Navy types to see what the term "Mission Accomplished" means for deployed vessels. Damn libtards.

[...] But we gain nothing by rehashing yesterday's problems. The facts on the ground today are what matter, and those facts comprise a muddled picture suggesting neither victory nor defeat. Iraqis are rid of one dictator, but their daily lives still are dictated by fear of terrorist bombings, kidnappings, sectarian violence, joblessness and uncertainty. [...]

If we gain nothing by rehashing yesterday's problems, then why bring them up in the first place...hm? A muddled picture of what? Neither victory or defeat? Like a stalemate? This goon is a pathetically enabled emotional twit. I bet it drives a "green car" or rides a bike to work.

It never ceases to amaze me that these types never take into consideration that the reason(s) this war has taken so long is due directly to the political aspirations of the ones that bought off on this war from the beginning and then changed their minds when election season came around. I wonder how many women and men in uniform they got killed, wounded or maimed. I wonder how many Iraqi men, women and children that they had a direct cause of their death. I wonder what they say to the demons when they come calling at night. I wonder how many died when they lied.

The war has been prolonged by American politicians sticking their noses into areas in which they have no business being. The successes have come because General Petraeus released the ROE and that is the bottom line. The Commanders before General Petraeus were Clinton Era Throwbacks, plain and simple. As proof of that, how many went to the Leftinistra when they were released from duty? I know the answer...do you?

[...] Just Monday, a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that Iraq faces a humanitarian crisis, with millions lacking adequate clean water, sanitation and health care. "Five years after the outbreak of the war in Iraq, the humanitarian situation in most of the country remains among the most critical in the world," the 15-page report says. [...]

An emotional dufus rambles. Hello? There is a war on and your kind only prolong it. The Red Cross? Please. We all know who ands what runs that group, don't we? Wow! 15 pages of crap!

[...] It's hard to argue that the lives of Iraqis are better. [...]

Not if you are an Iraqi that used to live in fear of the rape rooms, the prisons of no return and the infamous shredders. Damn libtard moron.

[...] While the U.S. troop surge has brought levels of violence and casualties down, life in Baghdad and other major cities is fraught with danger. Iraq remains among the most violent countries in the world, as underscored by the explosions that punctuated a Monday visit by Vice President Dick Cheney. [...]

Yes. There is a war on. Now, STFU and STFD. Thank you.

[...] Millions of Iraqis have been displaced by the war. A massive population migration has split the country along sectarian lines. Families who fled may never be able to return to their homes. [...]

And the point is what, exactly? Have the homes they can never return to gone? The country has ALWAYS been split among sectarian lines! Where has this idiot been hiding?

[...] So how do we assess the war's progress after five years? In Iraq on Monday, Mr. Cheney termed it "a difficult, challenging but nonetheless successful endeavor" and "well worth the effort."

Others, such as Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, have devised lists of benchmarks by which to objectively judge progress. Mr. O'Hanlon's list indicates we've advanced in only five of 11 key areas. On the benchmark list devised by the Iraqi government and endorsed by the White House last year, only three out of 18 goals have been met. [...]

Oh good grief. Again with the politically driven bench mark crap again. Good Lord! Get over yourself little one. The Iraqi government has made advances LEAP YEARS ahead when compared to the self-vaunted American government over the last few years. Idiot. How many of our own CONgress Critters have been threatened with death via kidnappings, assassinations, car-bombs and other means of death and destruction? And yet, the Iraqi government recently passed SEVERAL of the much adored "bench marks"? Moron libtards. I swear!

[...] Transparency International rates Iraq the third-most corrupt country on the planet. As security improves, thousands of displaced Iraqis will try to return home, only to find that they will have no place to live and no jobs because a third of Iraqis are unemployed. Even though oil production is slightly up from 2004 levels, households still are receiving only 64 percent of the energy they need. [...]

Yes. There is a war going on and at the moment, that 64% is well over TWICE what it was BEFORE the war. Please enter ALL the facts you libtard asswipe. Thank you.

[...] Mr. Cheney has made wrong calls before on Iraq, and while we acknowledge progress on several fronts, it would be deceptive to label this war "successful." [...]

Another vague comment made by an uneducated parrot of stupidity. Name one instance, please...dumbass libtard.

[...] We're glad Saddam Hussein and his murderous regime are gone. But the international trust and cooperation that the White House squandered to accomplish that goal will take years to rebuild. [...]

Just what in the hell are you yammering about? The international trust? The international what? Who gives a rat's ass about the international anything? Our country was attacked by terrorists and those nations that harbored terrorists. International trust my ass. Which international countries "fought us" and which ones of those that "fought us" were disclosed as being involved with Oil For Food? Talk about that one for a while you stupid leftwing idiot.

[...] Five years on, regrettably, we have our shock and awe. Shock that the Iraq invasion fell so woefully short of improving Iraqis' lives. Awe in the failure of the Bush administration to address mistakes sooner.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! (hic hic) WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!

Let me see if I have this correct. The editorial says in the second paragraph, "But we gain nothing by rehashing yesterday's problems.", so we suffer through a zillion wasted words gushing from an idiot that does nothing but rehash "yesterday's problems". The whole article is nothing but moonbat rhetoric. I hope the pathetic cretin gets this shredding piece.

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