Posts Tagged ‘Islam’

ag•nos•tic -noun

Definition from Dictionary.com:

1.	a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.

2.	a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of study

Word History: An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist. The term agnostic was fittingly coined by the 19th-century British scientist Thomas H. Huxley, who believed that only material phenomena were objects of exact knowledge. He made up the word from the prefix a-, meaning “without, not,” as in amoral, and the noun Gnostic. Gnostic is related to the Greek word gn?sis, “knowledge,” which was used by early Christian writers to mean “higher, esoteric knowledge of spiritual things”; hence, Gnostic referred to those with such knowledge. In coining the term agnostic, Huxley was considering as “Gnostics” a group of his fellow intellectuals—”ists,” as he called them—who had eagerly embraced various doctrines or theories that explained the world to their satisfaction. Because he was a “man without a rag of a label to cover himself with,” Huxley coined the term agnostic for himself, its first published use being in 1870.

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Excerpts from the comment thread for Jamal Dajani’s article titled “Al Zawahiri: Much Ado About Nothing” on The Huffinton Post website:

…Al Zawahiri is a hate-monger and a cancer to the people of the earth. Despite your claim that most people in the Arab world no longer listen to him, there are still suicide bombings on a regular basis.

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Apparently, the Malaysian Muslim ruling body is taking issue with the age-old practice of yoga. Sighting Hindu spiritual elements as corrupting influences upon Muslim faith, the council has proclaimed that it’s inappropriate for Muslims to practice the exercises.

Nude yoga photo borrowed from ElephantJournal.com - visit this site for yoga info.

Even yoga practices that don’t include religious chanting or mediation has been condemned in the fatwa.

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Fuck you, you bigotted, tiny-brained, hate-mongering, criminal bastard.

“America, the criminal, trespassing crusader, continues to be the same as ever, so we must continue to harm it, in order for it to come to its senses,” Zawahri said, addressing Muslims across the world.

“Its criminal, expansionist crusader project in your lands has only been neutralized by the sacrifices of your sons, the mujahideen,” he said in an audio recording.

Zawahri urged Islamists fighting U.S. forces and those of the Shi’ite-led Iraqi government to stay the course, saying that U.S.-led forces were being routed.

“The American people, by electing Obama, declared their anxiety and fear about the future toward which the policy of the likes of Bush was leading them, and so they decided to support someone calling for withdrawal from Iraq.”

In a similar message to Islamists fighting Ethiopian and government forces in Somalia, Zawahri urged them not to stop.

“America is gathering its wounds in Iraq, and Ethiopia is looking for a way out…don’t put down your weapons before the mujahid state of Islam has been set up in Somalia.”

-excerpted from “Qaeda scorns Obama, urges attacks on United States” on the Reuters website

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