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Latest news It’s a lie - Burkina Faso’s military ruler calls out Akufo-Addo over Wagner claims Interim President Captain Ibrahim Traore says that gold mines are not “given” to to the Wagner group but rather they have to pay taxes and licensing fees...
by GatheringTribes
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on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 12:50 PM PST
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Hamas has declared today to be a global day of jihad against all Jews. This is not a specific threat but it is a credible one. While Hamas itself may not strike here, the threat for us is some lone wolf who decides to make this his day of glory....
by westladem
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on Fri Oct 13, 2023 at 05:30 AM PDT
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It's HOW one uses religion… ideology Happy, Peaceful, Blessed New Year! * To begin off with the first genocide (in recent history), the Armenian Genocide, whether it was a jihad [1] or not, it has been agreed [2] that religious-ethnic tensions which...
by Ganaros
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on Fri Dec 23, 2022 at 11:39 AM PST
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My theme on DK has been Theocracy as threat #1 to half a millennium of Progress. This diary is to stamp an exclamation mark on Our killing of the terrorist Zawahiri, since Khomeini, the archetype’s archetype of a violent theocrat. Celebration isn’t the...
by rdewey
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on Mon Aug 01, 2022 at 11:02 PM PDT
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Every time someone wishes to discuss Islam and its incompatibility with our modern society that individual gets brutally attacked, labeled an Islamophobe and ultimately shut down. Are there Islamiphobes out there who truly hate Islam and Muslims?...
by AJatia
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on Tue Jun 25, 2019 at 06:52 PM PDT
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Smack !!
“Gol’durned little Blood Sucker. I’ll get that Skeeter yet,” Sam said as he scratched at the fresh Mosquito bite on his right forearm.
“Hee-hee, they’re bad this year, alright. We went from drought to floods this year. Lots of...
by Leah Sellers
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on Fri Jul 15, 2016 at 12:21 PM PDT
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Abracadabra ! With a Wave of the Wand A little Slight of the Tongue and the Mind
And What do you find ?
A tantrum-tossing Red Elephant in a Magical Hat ?
A Government Shut Down ?
A DeFaulted Debt Unkind ?
Abracadabra !
Ba-ba-loo and...
by Leah Sellers
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on Fri Jul 15, 2016 at 06:33 AM PDT
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The assailant in the horrific Nice attack has been identified as “Franco-Tunisian”. Based on that ethnicity, and the particularly gruesome aspects of this operation, I’m going to go out an a thick limb and assume we have just witnessed the...
by militant atheist
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on Fri Jul 15, 2016 at 05:48 AM PDT
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At the recent debate, when foreign policy became the subject of the moment, Bernie Sanders said he wanted to see America move “as aggressively as we can to normalize relations with Iran” and “the goal
by DerekJack30
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on Tue Jan 19, 2016 at 04:03 PM PST
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One of the big stories in the war against ISIS is their treatment of an ethnoreligious minority group called the Yazidis. Described as possibly genocide, the evil with which ISIS treats the Yazidis kn
by DerekJack30
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on Tue Jan 19, 2016 at 12:22 PM PST
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In his State of the Union address on January 12th, the last he will deliver before leaving the White House, President Barack Obama spoke of the ongoing coalition campaign against the Islamic State in
by richmcmanus
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on Fri Jan 15, 2016 at 09:42 AM PST
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Its a shame when people have to compare two evils. We’ve seen the fights that break out when people compare genocides with each other (eg “which was ‘worse’: Armenian or Rwandan?”) or things like the
by DerekJack30
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on Sun Dec 20, 2015 at 04:07 PM PST
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Just after Paris, I wrote that while not ever many rapes, most rapists are men. It is the special duty of men to recognize this v
by samsoneyes
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on Fri Dec 04, 2015 at 05:39 AM PST
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People are going wild trying to figure why the San Bernardino mass shooting happened. Mental illness, terrorism, lax gun laws are being blamed. I, for one, think our gun laws are idiotic, and side wit
by DerekJack30
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on Thu Dec 03, 2015 at 11:15 AM PST
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Since the Paris attacks, the issue over what to call terrorism-in-the-name-of-Islam has only intensified not just among regular people, but among our politicians. However, hateful rhetoric coming from
by DerekJack30
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on Sun Nov 29, 2015 at 01:02 PM PST
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Ignorance in the Age of Religious Terrorism: Isis, Islamophobia, and Why We Need Another Edward Said Muslims worldwide took to Twitter to speak out against the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. Using the hashtag #notinmyname, Muslims urge people not to use this incident as a reason to brand Muslims
by JKRollins7
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on Sun Nov 29, 2015 at 11:57 AM PST
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Whatever your views on the refugee issue, I think we can and must all agree: people on the terrorist watch list should be banned from buying guns, and no, it’s not a “state’s rights” issue: its an iss
by DerekJack30
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on Sun Nov 22, 2015 at 07:11 AM PST
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No coalition of liberal western democracies can control all the poor people in distant regions of the Muslim Ummah, or even slums of western Europe, but we could go after the $$. That starts in Saudi
by mbhiii
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on Wed Nov 18, 2015 at 03:36 PM PST
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Among progressives, religion is rather unpopular, and for good reason. It convinces people to do sometimes do things that are bad on the basis of a guy (or maybe girl) in the clouds telling them to do
by DerekJack30
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on Tue Nov 17, 2015 at 10:02 PM PST
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In no way to minimize the threat, yes, no doubt the deluge of Middle Eastern refugees has provided a great opportunity for Isis infiltration of the West. However, we already seem to have an abundance
by Roger Burke
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on Tue Nov 17, 2015 at 10:52 AM PST
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