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Manga | The 13th volume of Hajime Isayama's hit dystopian fantasy Attack on Titan sold 1.4 million copies in Japan during its first week of release: 1.13 million copies of the regular edition, and 270,000 of a special edition that includes the original video animation. Kodansha ordered a 2.75 million-copy initial print run, a record not only for the series but for the publisher as well. The 66th volume of One Piece holds the record in Japan for highest sales in the first week with nearly 2.3 million copies. [Crunchyroll]
Publishing | Darren Davis of Bluewater Productions, talks about the evolution of his company and the origin story of its Female Force bio-comics line: "[W]e saw a comic book done of Barack Obama and John McCain during the 2008 elections, and my partner joked and said, 'Why don't we do Hillary?' And I thought, oh my God, that's a brilliant idea.So I thought, let's do this, but let's do it differently. Let's not do it like everyone else, with a boring biography. We did it with a female empowerment angle. We released Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin at the same time, and whether you like Sarah Palin or hate Hillary Clinton, you have to respect both of them for where they came from and who they are." [The Beaverton Leader]
Creators | Matt Fraction, writer of the Eisner-nominated Sex Criminals, talks about sex and comics, and argues that despite what people like to say, most comics aren't about sex: "There's a lot of comics that peddle in titillation and sensationalism but are there comics capital-A about sex? Not that I can think of. Which was part of what drew me to the idea of the project. I don't think a drawing that gazes surreptitiously up at the pudendum of a woman as she kicks another woman in the face so hard we see both her tits and her ass in the same pose as being about sex, I guess." [Wired]
Creators | Artist Dave Wachter discusses his work on Golem: Breath of Bones, both what attracted him to the project and how he researched it. [Pittsburgh City Paper]
Creators | Nicole Georges, author of Calling Dr. Laura, is the latest guest on the Tell Me Something I Don't Know podcast. [BoingBoing]
Creators | Forrest Helvie conducts a roundtable interview with four writers published by Monkeybrain: Paul Allor, Ryan Ferrier, Jeremy Holt and Ryan Lindsay. [Newsarama]
Creators | Beth Hetland, whom I spotlighted last year in my list of minicomics whose creators are likely to go far, is well on her way: A recent graduate (2011) of the Center for Cartoon Studies, she is now a professor at the Art Institute of Chicago and has just released a collected edition of her three-part graphic novel Fugue. She's also working on a new book, Half Asleep, with collaborator Kyle O'Connell. [The Schulz Library Blog]
Webcomics | Lauren Davis compiles a list of 51 webcomics that she deems Eisner-worthy. [io9]
Review | Noah Berlatsky critiques Peter Bagge's Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story and also discusses something that Bagge includes but most reviewers left out: Sanger's views on eugenics. [The Hooded Utilitarian]
Awards | U.K. publisher Myriad Editions has announced the longlist for its First Graphic Novel Competition 2014. The name is a bit confusing: This is not the first competition, it's a biennial contest for first graphic novels, designed to provide a platform for previously unpublished creators. [Booktrade.info]


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Exhibited: Trees and Slope, monotype on two plates with chine colle, 14 7/8 x 29 7/8 inches
Westword Denver named a group exhibit I was in last year as one of the 5 best Denver area art shows in 2014. Open Press: Celebrating 25 Years of Printmaking at the McNichols Building. Mark Lunning, master printer and owner of Open Press was the curator.
Thank you Mark for including me in your very successful survey exhibit!
Exhibited: Blue Skies III, monotype on two plates with chine colle, 23 1/2 x 17 7/8 inches
From Westword Magazine
Open Press: Celebrating 25 Years of Printmaking at the McNichols Building
The McNichols Building is not an ideal place for an art show, despite the generous proportions of the spaces; it has too many windows that eat up the wall space and flood the rooms with too much light. Despite this serious limitation, however, Mark Lunning was able to mount a show that worked well anyway. It was carried by the compelling topic and by Lunning's admirable skill as an exhibition designer. By looking back at his career as a master printer at Open Press, Lunning selected examples by fifty artists who he had worked with over the period. And the revelation of his picks was that apparently nearly every important Denver painter lined up at his door to have him make their prints. This made the show not only an accounting of Open Press, but by extension of the art scene at large in the city over the last quarter century. The show, which ran last spring, was the perfect inaugural event for the Month of Printmaking, or Mo' Prints, which is a biennial event that alternates with the Month of Photography.

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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-7)
Even though Holly is kidnapped, her kidnappers feed her and provide her with her crutch. The objective of this lesson is to analyze what is foreshadowed by the kidnappers' behavior.
1) Class discussion: Why does Holly have a crutch? Why is it important for her to have her crutch? What do the gunmen do when they take Holly and Reacher? How do they act about bringing her crutch? While in the barn, how is Holly treated? When is she brought food? How do the kidnappers feel about feeding Holly? How else do the kidnappers seem to care for Holly?
2) Think-Pair-Share: Students will respond to the following prompt: Why do the kidnappers feed Holly and make sure she has her crutch? Students should share their answers with a partner and then combine their answers into one. Pairs will then share their response with the class.
3) Group work...
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By Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister and Per Nyberg
He was the father of two small children and lived an ordinary life in a drab English town. Most of his family, originally from Iraq, had settled peacefully in Sweden. But unknown to any of them, Taimour Abdulwahab had embraced jihad - and was planning to blow himself up among Christmas shoppers in the Swedish capital.
Abdulwahab's last steps and contacts offer further evidence that "the lone wolf" terrorist is very difficult to identify. But they also show that - even with training - the lone suicide-bomber faces serious challenges in carrying out an attack.
Abdulwahab flew to Sweden from Luton, England on November 19 last year - on the last stage of a journey to his own death. He went to stay with his family in Tranas, a quiet town known for its golf and fishing set amid rolling hills some 100 miles from Stockholm. He spent the next few days with his sister and parents at the family apartment.
But somewhere nearby he was building a powerful if rudimentary bomb, using ingredients he was able to purchase in the town: pressure cookers, fireworks, explosive chemicals and nails and ball bearings. According to British investigators, he had already bought pollen presses and herb grinders in Luton that could be used in bombs.
Abdulwahab, it seems, was working alone - but he was no amateur. Like other confessed terrorists in the United States and western Europe, he had received bomb-making training - not in Pakistan, like many others, but in Iraq. According to sources in Sweden, at least two others may have been familiar with his plans if not actively involved in the plot.
Swedish prosecutors tell CNN that after nearly three weeks in Tranas, Abdulwahab walked out of the family apartment on a sunny Saturday morning. It was December 11, 2010.
"When he left his apartment he wasn't carrying anything - no suitcase or bags. His parents thought he would come back later that afternoon," said Agnetha Hilding Qvanstrom, a senior official in Sweden's Public Prosecutor's Office for National Security.
Qvanstrom told CNN investigators had interviewed 800 people, conducted searches of several premises, and recovered CCTV footage while retracing Abdulwahab's movements. But they were unable to account for 40 minutes on that fateful Saturday.
"We don't know where he went during that period," Qvanstrom said. Investigators believe he may have gone to retrieve his partially-built devices but have not yet located where they were hidden.
Shortly after noon, Abdulwahab left Tranas in a white Audi he had bought after arriving in Sweden. For a man of modest means, he did not seem short of funds. The vehicle's GPS system helped Swedish investigators subsequently retrace his route, which included a stop at a gas station. CCTV footage showed that as he left his car and went into the restroom he already had a bomb strapped to him.
"For a thin guy, he suddenly had quite a stomach - it seems a bomb on his stomach. It may have been that he was fixing something in the men's room," Qvanstrom told CNN.
A couple of hours later, Abdulwahab parked on Olof Palme street - in an area of Stockholm full of stores and apartments. Sitting in his car, Abdulwahab sent several e-mails in English: to a Swedish news agency, the Swedish security services, his wife back in Luton and his mother in Tranas, according to Qvanstrom.
"He said it was because of Lars Vilks and the Swedish presence in Afghanistan," Qvanstrom, told CNN. Vilks, a Swedish citizen, was one of the cartoonists who in 2005 drew a controversial depiction of the Prophet Mohammed. The publication of the cartoons caused outrage across the Muslim world, with riots in Pakistan and Libya. And they have been cited by many militants as driving them toward violence.
At 4:50 p.m. Stockholm police began receiving calls about a car on fire in central Stockholm. Qvanstrom told CNN: "Our theory is that he put the car on fire to draw people close."
Then he planned to use a walkie-talkie to set off a device inside the car. As people ran from the scene, "they would run towards the bomber, who would then set off the explosive devices he was carrying on his body," Qvarnström said.
Forensic examination of the car showed it had been set on fire using several cans of gasoline, bottled cans of gas and fireworks. An explosive device had also been placed on the passenger seat, made from a pressure cooker and similar to the two explosive devices the bomber carried on his body. A second walkie-talkie was also found in the car.
But the explosives in the car did not detonate. CCTV video showed that in a nearby street Abdulwahab was trying to blow himself up. For ten minutes he walked through the area, trying to make the device attached to his stomach work.
See video from the blast in 2010
Just before 5 p.m. part of the bomb finally exploded, killing Abdulwahab instantly. But the rest of the device didn't explode, potentially saving many lives.
Swedish investigators say the bomb in his backpack was substantial – "a pressure cooker filled with 4-5 kilos of explosive substances, along with six aluminum bottles which together held some 5-6 kilos of explosive substances.
"On his front, he carried another pressure cooker filled with 4-5 kilos of explosives, and 9 so-called pollen presses, weighing roughly 2 kilos. In all, the pollen presses contained slightly less than 500 grams of explosives."
A Swedish counter-terrorism source told CNN the pressure cookers were each filled with ammonium nitrate, an explosive chosen by al Qaeda in plots in the West and by far-right extremist Anders Breivik who has admitted carrying out a terrorist attack in Norway in July.
"The explosive devices, had they gone off, were powerful enough not only to cause injury to people and property but also to kill people," said Anders Danielsson, head of the Swedish Security Service.
Magnus Ranstorp, research director at the Swedish National Defence College and a leading counter-terrorism expert, told CNN that while the devices were made from simple ingredients and simply constructed, they were anything but amateurish.
"My understanding is that there was a level of sophistication in the detonation mechanisms and the wiring, " Ranstorp told CNN.
Swedish authorities continue to investigate whether Abdulwahab was linked to terrorists overseas, or received help in carrying out the attack.
"We don't know if he got help in Sweden. What we do know, is that we really think he was alone this day in Stockholm, but we don't know if anyone tried to help him before to buy ingredients for bombs," Qvanstrom told CNN.
But Abdulwahab was in contact with someone in Iraq the day of the failed attack. According to British investigators, Abdulwahab made and received a telephone call to a mobile number in Iraq. They say he had traveled to Syria and Iraq in 2009 to receive training. The head of Iraq's counter-terrorism unit, General Dhai Kanani, disclosed last January that a detained al Qaeda suspect had confirmed that Abdulwahab received three months bomb-making training in Mosul, a stronghold of the Islamic State in Iraq, successor to al Qaeda in Islamic Mesopotamia. And the first photograph to emerge of Abdulwahab after his death was on a jihadist website, showing a slim, smiling young man with what may be the hills of northern Iraq behind him.
"The sophistication of the wiring seems to strongly suggest that he was not a self starter or lone wolf, even though he carried out the attack by himself," Ranstorp told CNN.
He pointed out that Abdulwahab tried to radicalize others in Luton in the years leading up to the attack.
Ranstorp says there are still gaps in Abdulwahab's story. Given his lack of employment, it's still unclear how he found the resources for his suicide mission. And investigations continue into possible accomplices, or others that may at least have been aware of his intentions. Another man, Nasserdine Menni, who had been living in Glasgow, faces charges that he supplied money to Abdulwahab and that they conspired together "and with others to further terrorist aims by criminal and other means." Menni's next court appearance is in January.
These people are crazy I can't believe that they were just end their life so easily talk about no hope.
Wow, superb blog layout! How long have you been running a blog for? you make blogging look easy. The entire glance of your site is fantastic, as well as the content material!
Awwww, someone got upset over mohammed again.
if not stupidity and foolishness of the great order how can a humanbeing fight for god they should repent and libralise themselves from relegious slavery
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It's really very simple. If you want to find the cause of middle hardship... FOLLOW THE MONEY.
The one with the money is ALWAYS the leader, and always the cause.
Jathneil and all,
You're write follow the money, but in addition and more evil, what most of you are forgetting is that Islam is the only main stream contemporary religion which promotes the torture and murder of any man, women, or child that disagrees with Islam, converts from Islam, or promotes their religion which is different from Islam. Most moderate Islam believers will side with Extreme Islam believers, before they choose peace a neighbor of another religion. Once the moderate Islam population is big enough in America the extremist will begin to infiltrate every part of our political and judicial system to turn the laws and our constitution to what they have in the middle east. Read Brigitte Gabrials book, Why they Hate.
I'm posting in arabic arabic arabic! I'm posting in arabic all day long
The animosity is between all sides in this matter of religious extremism is justified.
But at the same time, ALL of you are wrong
Religion is not the root of all evil. Greed is the root of all evil.
Who funded Hitler's campaign? International bankers/organizations. (Germans had nothing.)
Who produced false information to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq? International bankers/organizations. (Via globalist agents within the U.S. political system.
Who creates the economic conditions within a country that makes the citizens so desperate that they choose to be suicide bombers, in order to provide for their families? International bankers/organizations. (All these countries are in debt to and under the control of the World Bank and IMF.)
From the debt of all countries, to the desperate conditions and political situations that such debt creates, most truly I say to you... mankind's ultimate enemy is greed itself. The extremist leaders care nothing for Allah. The Christian countries care nothing for Christ. The Jewish leaders care nothing for Jehovah.
Its all about power and control. The only true resources on Earth are water, land, animal life, plant life, and manpower. Money enables them to manipulate manpower, which in turn enables them to manipulate the other resources as they see fit.
Eliminate humanity's dependence and desire for money, with knowledge, and you will shatter the hold that religious extremists have on others... you will also shatter the control that these int'l bankers/IGOs have over politicians. YOU
Islam does not teach violence and Jihad means to survive and struggle during hard times and if someone comes to attack you, fight back not kill innocent people. As a true Muslim, I am against these acts as they are one of the major sins people are committing these days putting a black spot on the real and true teachings of Islam.
Primitive behavior. Back to our monkey origins. That's all it is. If you don't know that much about yourself and what makes you think and act the way you do, its easy for others to get ahold of you and manipulate you for their own primitive beliefs and purposes.
No moderators? Shit and I have to go to work..
What a noob. Jihad over a cartoon, you deserve to fail.
I'm just happy another idiot is dead and rotting in hell.
i will never understand what's in their minds..no matter which is your god, common sense tell us that we should live peacefully. I'm amazed...simple and stupid things such as a cartoon making fun of muslims do not give them or anybody the right to make terrorist attacks. why dont we start living in a civilized war. i respect all religions, i believe each religion is a fascinating world to discover, but these everyday atrocities i read from the muslim world make me doubt about their true reasons. NOBODY CAN KILL IN THE NAME OF GOD. probably they are just hiding their true motives behind their god's ruling. the constant attack muslim world receives is simply a consequence oftheir actions. when they start behaving as civilized human beings that i know they are, people will start respecting your culture.
you apparently haven't read the quran. throughout its pages it talks of killing infidels, and martyrs go straight to heaven. and yes it says they will get 70 virgins (a nightmare if you ask me). this is what motivates these suicide bombers.
in an interview with one of the terrorists from mumbai attacks in india in 2008 , the captured terrorist confessed of how much he was promised for his family after he died . Sure they patronize him and promise him glory , but mostly he did it because he was promised that his family would be well provided for. I don't even believe its in the name of God , its just a bunch of people exploiting other people's vulnerability. If history has taught us anything , its that all terrorists have a political agenda than a spiritual one.
one less left to scum up the air we breath.
Wonderful immigrants. Sweden is lucky to have them. Now you have whole districts in the country, especially Malmo, that are hotbeds of violance and hate
Read the whole article and did not see one reference what religion this man was. Was he Christian, Jewish, Buddhist? Once again CNN in their effort to be politically correct does not give us the hole story.
Being from Iraq and doing such stupidit he could only be ??? ..... You guessed it right.
Other religions do not killed themselves, they know suiciders go straight to Hell.
Speaking of that... where in the koran is said if you kill yourself you go to heaven ?
When these people get to the other side , they find the truth, but it is too late for them...
He was protesting Lars Vilks. How many religions cared about that?
Religion has become the root of all hatred.
Cultural revolution. Non-religious. Millions killed. Monguls. non-religious on the way out. Millions killed. Soviet union. non-religious. Millions killed. So yes. I agree. Religion is the root of all evil. Not human stupidity as I thought before.
I hope it hurt. ALOT.
Looking through the comments I say only one thing...the reason why wars never stop. All we do is hate, maybe for a second we should just forgive. Just a thought.
Ask the families of 9/11 and of the war(s) victims to forgive. Fighting a military is one thing, killing 2000 innocent citizens is another. piss off
I hate some Muslims for getting into jihad preached by idiotic people.love people like you love your family and all this would end in the world and can live peacefully for the years you are told to live in this world by your so called unseen God.
the issue of terrorist should be link to jihad when christian are busy building the living standard of mankind through the gospel they are tolling day and night to destroy it God will surely destroy their generation
Suicide bombers will go straight to HELL and will stay there lamenting their act as long as their lives should be on earth, they all are iluded by fake prophets with a promise to go to Heaven, but Allah won´t receive in Heaven those who disgraced their lives and the other's because of an ideology that won´t take us elsewhere but to destruction. Wake up you iluded, save your lives and live in peace with your family and friends. Tell to those who wants you to blow yourselves to praise for peace.
Christians never killed anyone is name of God or Jesus. In above statements were, fellows about mentioned about Hitler or British Impire killing millions of people. But Hilter or Brition had their own agenda. Ignorant muslims think that if someone is born in Christian family is a Christian but it's not like that. Christianity means believing on rightiousness and follow God's path. If Christian states occupied or battled with other nations that was their own agenda. There's no scripture in Bible saying about killing other people if they come in your path. Instead Bible teaches you love and peace.
Wasn't there a time in ancient times when Church carried out Holy wars in the name of God , hunting witches and evil. People were drowned with idea if they were not evil they would be saved. What do u call that ? Honestly , Don't people get it its not the religion but the people who use it to manipulate people and believe me they are not necessarily from the same religion.
Excuse me, Christians have killed in the name of Chritianity.
Oklahoma City bombers.
Abortion Clinic bombings.
Catholic-Protestant fighting in Ireland.
Plenty more examples out there.
happy for muslims around world, we stand up for what is right, and we will not take $hit from anyone, as a result we have left america in fear.....which they should since they have caused nothing but destruction to race of people being targated by biggoted america. hopefully we do more to give u reaosn to hate us!!
These muslims who say poor us, death to America blah blah blah, you guys are nothing but anarchists….I fear no Muslims, no Christian, no Jews, I just laugh at all of you for believing fairy tales that are over thousands of years old…. SCIENCE it is 2011 Humanoids, religion is fake, read some real books
if you really left america in fear, then come out and fight! Blowing yourself up in order to kill innocent civilians isn't going to win your fight, standing toe to toe with your enemy will. the only reason you don't stand up and fight like men is because you know that if you do, we will break you like a twig.
YOU Are delusional
Posting on an American website, using the Internet that America created, using a computer with technology originally designed in America and possibly even made in America.
Only a MUSLIM would come to an AMERICAN site, comment in ENGLISH, using probably an APPLE computer (i thank my previous commentator for this brilliant line) and TRY to bully everyone else, with their IGNORANT and STUPID lines....the rest of the world is BUSY LOVING people around them, and HELPING those in need. YOU PEOPLE HATE EACH OTHER!!!! a Jihadist hates any other muslim that is not an extremist! You are raised and bred with hate and violence, you disrespect women, you brain wash little kids – that is all you have going for you. there are no muslims who have done any good to this world, only self destruct. Go ahead and take your family and neighbors with you to the 72 virgins up there, good luck, sounds like a lotta headache to me! You are poverty, you are disease, you are death.
Believe in God , not religion . 'coz religion was created by man , yes it influences our thinking to some extent but if you really have faith in god , u realize being human is more important . you are usually born into a religion , just as someone else is born into another . We all feel the same emotions or pain through tragedies of life . a mother is a mother in any country or religion .
Very very low iQ you have.........WE are so afraid that we occupy your countries and you hide behind women and children..
you people are sick......
Shame on you for your post. Islam does not teach us to hate. Rather you have to be tolerant and respectful of other religions. I am a muslim too, but try my best to teach others what true Islam is all about. It is not about Hatred and Killing innocent people. You need to Stop your ignorant rant !!!!
Islam is NOT a tolerant religion. I'm an ex-muslim and there's a f***ing reason I'm an apostate. Americans need to READ the damn quran to see it's NOT a religion of peace or whatever the f**k all these cowardish moderates feed America, AND the rest of the western world. All religions can go to hell for all I care, but Islam, the worst of them all, needs to go first.
wow...I have never seen such a long trail of comments dripping with such ignorance and hatred. there is little hope for our species if this group of commenters are any indication of what the people of the world hold in their hearts.
100% agree with you!
As I already said, if we are talking about the dark sides of religions, then every religion has its fare share. Somebody don't have to be a genius to know what we christian have done in the name of religion, or what the jew rabbis are preaching against everybody else about their inferiority. I have even seen picture of jew rabbis sucking blood of just circumcised baby penis.
Secondly, I sincerely don't believe that every muslim is terrorist. Most of them are normal people like us, has family, want to live a good life. Because of some extremists, they are having all those negative propaganda against them.
Thirdly, I don't know why some people are talking about and supporting Israel here. But to be fair, Israel is an embarrassment. Though it calls itself a democracy, by calling itself a jewish state, its a theocracy at best – sounds like islamic republic of Iran! Moreover, you can call the Palestinian freedom fighters as terrorist or whatever you want, but the fact is Israel is the oppressor and aggressor there, and our support for them should stop immediately.
Fourthly, I have a high believe that most of the problems we West are facing are because of Israel. As Israel acts like the bully, the muslims try to retaliate. And when those muslims see us to support Israel's bullying, they divert their anger and frustration towards us. To get rid of all this, getting rid of Israel should be our first and foremost priority. Let the muslims and the Israelis deal themselves.
Lastly, lets not hate others. If we love each other, life will be much more beautiful. I promise!
Well hopefully soon there will erupt a massive religous war that wipes all the Muslims, Christians, Jews etc off the face of the planet. Then us Atheists can take over and lead with our reason and not our blind faith in something that doesn't exist. If only....
You sure sound like an anti-Semitic, you "peace loving" hypocrite ass-hole.
The typical 'hate us' or 'love us' doctrine? Sorry, you people has used is so much that it doesn't work anymore. And moreover, your use of language is a good indication of what kind of person you are!
Firstly: You are a hypocrite and an ignorant fool.
Secondly; I am wandering who is the bully, Egypt with 82 Million people, Syria with 23 Million, Iran with 78 Million Iraq with 30 Million and then give or take a few more hundred Million Muslim around the world. While Israel has 7 Million people. Don't forget Israel fought all those countries I've mentioned and beat them all.
Thirdly: I like to see if you would have the courage to stand up to that many bullies or perhaps you would run to your mother.
Fourthly: It's always the little guy that gets pick on. At least the US has the courage to tell all those bullies where they can go.
let me guess: you are FRENCH! Or a muslim living under EU citizenship. Israel is the first to respond to any world disaster site. Israel bothers NO ONE. They took a desert and in 60 years made it into a beautiful country, where anyone is welcomed. Are we welcomed in any Arab country? NO, women would have to cover up, yet these muslims go to USA and EU and refuse to take the bruqa off for a photo id????? Israel does not oppress, every time they give a piece of land, or another change to palestinian animals, they blow themselves up again, they trade thousands of palestinians for ONE Israeli soldier. Thats right you ignorant pig – ONE JEW is worth thousands of palestinians. So the next time you want to use computer, thank Israel for inventing the micro chip, the next time you are sick and need treatment, thank Israel for inventing half of the vaccines. Next time you are safe on a flight across Atlantic, thank Israel for training ALL major airlines on air marshal security. NOT SATISFIED? adopt a palestinian. because their own arab countries dont want to hv anything to do with them. Thousands of palestinians are sitting in refugee camps in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon – NONE of these coutnries want to give them citizenship because NOBODY wants them! They are scums. How many chances have they been given, borders to them opened so they they can go into Israel and work every day: and they screw up every single time. In all the years they live in what used to be Palestine, what have they accomplished? Israel is the world leader in technology and medicine. Jews believe in LIFE not death. So go comments in your local newspaper to somebody who actually cares.
I hate all religions!!! I would join the crusade to end all religion and all these freaking nuts, I can't believe as a human race we still fail! Science (it is 2011) has proven religion is false….
that's 'cause thinking hurts!!!
Every muslim aspires to fuck a pig in the butt. This is what they do.
Better than Jews, who always fuck their own mother!
Every Jew is traitor, they can not even be faithful to the country they live, and leave it for Israel!
You both just proved how religion is useless for our society: it´s just a tool to propagate hate. Religion destroys and kills in name of the unknown or some childish story. Grow up, boys.
Not true, Alam. I fucked your mother too.
you sound really intelligent, you must have married your first cousin...and then your sister, and then found out your mother is really your brother's third wife...sounds MUSLIM to me
How muslim can believe in a man–"prophet" Mahomma– that married a 6 years-old?? How can that 54 year-old man be the guide of a religion? Look...The thought of an old man becoming aroused by a child is one of the most disturbing thoughts that makes us cringe as it reminds us of pedophilia and the most despicable people. It is difficult to accept that the Holy Prophet married Aisha when she was 6-years-old and consummated his marriage with her when she was 9. He was then, 54 years old. Some Muslims claim that it was Abu Bakr (Aisha's father) who approached Muhammad asking him to marry his daughter. This is of course not true and here is the proof...Sahih Bukhari 7.18
Narrated 'Ursa: The Prophet asked Abu Bakr for 'Aisha's hand in marriage. Abu Bakr said "But I am your brother." The Prophet said, "You are my brother in Allah's religion and His Book, but she (Aisha) is lawful for me to marry." Please spead this to those non-muslim and muslim to know the about about their lider, who was mentally insane.
As a buddist, you christians and muslims are just retarted. Case closed. :3
really.....and where did you get this from , a racist website perhaps?
Tareq, that account is from the authentic hadith Sahih Bukhari, which is the second most sacred book to Muslims after Quran.
im a muslem and ive never heard about it, can you post a link so i can see it, if its true, becouse i realy dont think it would contadict the quran, and i dont remember it saying anything about it ( arabic version that is )
Believing in Muhammad (pubh) is much better than being a Jew. Oh, I would rather be a pig than be a jew. Even pigs will suicide if they become Jew.
Google 'Mohel sucking blood from baby's penis' and you will see the real face of a Jew. Assholes!
That's ironic "Even pigs will suicide if they become Jew"
As Muslims are, of course, the ones who so frequently commit suicide in the name of Islam (with explosive vests and other means) and while doing so kill so many other Muslims.
And then, suicide will say to the pig :
oh pig you are jew , sorry pig, i can't , even hell can't take you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dud, dont get to the level of those guys that sit around shouting racist comments, all yull get is more freakin racism agienst you.
Alam, I thought that was a baby picture of you and your dad.
not to worry, you ARE a pig
At that time, it was normal for Bedouin men to marry young girls
Because of my role, I studied Islam from both sides... and yes, there's an opinion (based on a WORD (yes, just one word) when Aisha said "When I was married the prophet, I played as nine yrs old", which translated word by word as she is 9 years old. On the other hand, top well known historian scholars many hundreds of years back (before any one ever complained) said that she was between 18-21 based on facts and they wrote .
I have came to know that issue is that if you want to attack Islam you will of-course ignore the 2nd well trusted opinion and pick the one that matches the desire of the person (of course the 1st opinion).
Religion is like quicksand , anyone who believes they can stand on it, will sink in it.
Gandalf said "There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power. "
Fuck allah. Fuck jesus. Fuck buddha. fuck religion.
This nonsense is out of control. Stop it. Stop it all and let logic and sanity reign.
Instead of "Last days of a suicide bomber..." the report would be more interesting if it focused on "First days of a suicide bomber in Heaven with his 72 virgins"
fuckin eh!!!!!!!!
Logic is if there is a creation there is a creator. So your logic makes no sense. Many people commit crimes without any connection to religious ideologies. You have your opinion that is your right. But offending others to get your point across is just as much as being a terrorist who thinks he/she is right and blows up in front of others as if to make a point. Yes you are still alive. Or do you really know how to live. Another thing is you show your ignorance of comparing religions. The majority of real Christians fight for life in many situations. Muslims are the majority of people who blow themselves up. So before you pass judgement as if you were a god I suggest you look at the eclipse tonight and see you are need some help just like we all need help.
I don't understand how people can be religious. You guys are all believing in a story. Its like me believing in Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.
> Logic is if there is a creation there is a creator
Then what creator created God? Two can play that game...
Religion has nothing to do with extremism. Wrong religion does. How come you never see a Christian suicide bomber??? EH? Speechless?
That means you didn't heard of the Norwegian guy who killed about 67 people few months ago. Because they are muslims??? Where were you then? Underground or was you buried. Religion fanatics are everywhere. Be it muslim or Xtains. Its just people who are simply twisted and are ill-informed. Get your facts right.
If you can write, you should be able to read too. Go check some history book that how Christian murdered millions of people in history.
WW1 and WW2 were caused and fought by the christians, right, you christian pig?
Krale, you're an effing retard. All religions, collectively, are the root of all evil. Islam maybe the most violent but they're equally idiotic and should be banned from displaying in public.
Actually, buddism isn't actually a religion. no deities in it. it's actually more of a self help philisophy. ;P
Why don't they just attack our stupid corrupted Indian politicians , They'll get the required publicity as well get this foolish politicians Rid of us
No wonder muslims come with warning labels.
CNN; More muslims are dying of terror than anyone else. Can you keep these fear/hate mongering stories in the archives for a few days. Why don't you cover the 99% of the muslims. This hatred is dangerous for our generations.
Why conceal a factual story of a radicalized Muslim?
Then why conceal stories of radical pig Jews, who kill thousand of muslims?
@CNN: To the least, please monitor the inappropriate comments in this provoking and sensitive article !
Don't READ if it offends you!!!! Let people speak their minds you Nazi.
if you said more christians living in muslim countries die of terrorism than others, i would have believed you.
All muslims are same. While 1% carry actual terror activities, the other 99% are supporting it with fund raising, recruiting (conversion). Did you ever see any muslim condemning muslim terrorists. Westren Europe and US is waking up to muslim killings which are known in other parts of the world for the last 1400+ years.
My thoughts exactly. My entire family is muslim (I'm not as you can see) and none of them ever discuss, let alone condemn, atrocities committed by the terrorists. These moderates are equally guilty and someone needs to slap the shit out of them to force-wake them up.
Who do people turn to for help when they are in need? Thier family or thier friends. His family and friends need to be put under intense longterm survialence ubtil his co-consptiritors are found out and dealt with.
Scandinavia will be forced to ask itself some tough questions in the next few years. Their welfare state system works only if those taking from it are also putting in. The Scandinavian people accept their rather large tax burden when they know they will be the beneficiaries of free education, health care and a welfare system that will support them when needed.
However, unchecked immigration has destroyed this delicate system. North African and Middle Eastern immigrants have flooded to the Scandinavian countries like locusts and, if left unchecked, will simply drain the system until they find a new host. This is simply a consequence of mixing the 3rd world with the 1st world. When you take a group of people who have to work themselves to the bone just to survive and place them in an environment where social welfare programs make it easy to live comfortably without working…what do we expect will happen?
You are a racist, a radicalist, and an anti-muslim.
@ Alam. You epitomize islam, the religion of hate and intolerance and pure ignorance. The WW's were not due to religion, just politics. Don't see Jews blowing themselves up, attacking other religions. They just work, make money, live. Islam, the death cult of a madman, is jealous of Jews. Your tenets inspire laziness and you people do quite good at that. Look at the state of the places you have attacked, yes, you people attacked. Mostly all basket cases. It's your political ideology of islam that inhibits you from getting anywhere. Go back to Mecca, and once we've sucked all the oil out of the sand, we'll turn it in radioactive glass for you and you can fulfill your goal of being dead.
They should get all of these failed bombers that are in jail now,put them on a plane strap them with explosives and drop them on Iraq over the top of known terrorists hide-outs to explode on impact.That way you could kill two birds with one stone.
Someone HAS to do a short film on this. lol
And so what if I'm gay? At least I'm proud of it! Alot of Muslims are gay. More than you think! Muhammad was gay and dressed like a nasty girl! He is our example!
From the The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah:
The lists of attacks, about 45 or so, and a couple of defensive operations, are identified:
The first raid: on Waddan.(p. 281)
Hamza's raid to the coast (p. 283)
Raid on Buwat (p. 285)
Raid on al-Ushayra (p. 285)
Raid on al-Kharrar (p. 286)
Raid on Safawan (p. 286)
Battle of Badr (p. 289)
Raid on B. Sulaym (p.360)
Raid called al-Sawig (p. 361)
Raid on Dhu Amarr (p. 362)
Raid on al- Furu (p. 362)
Attack on B. Qaynuqa (p. 363)
Raid on al-Qarada (p. 364)
Battle of Uhud (p. 370)
Raid of Dhatu'l Riqa (p. 445)
Last Expedition to Badr (p. 447)
Raid on Dumatu'l-Jandal (p. 449)
Battle of the Ditch (p. 456) (a defensive operation)
Attack on B. Qurayza (p. 461)
Attack on B. Lihyan (p. 485)
Attack on Dhu Qarad (p. 486)
Attack on B.al-Mustaliq (p. 490)
Expedition to Kharbar (p. 510)
Raid on Muta (p. 531)
Khalid destroys al-Uzza (p. 565)
Battle of Hunayn (p. 566)
Capture of al-Ta'if (p. 587
Raid on Tabuk (p. 602)
Destruction of al-Lat (p. 615)
Usama's expedition to Palestine (p. 652)
Ghalib's raid on B. al-Mulawwah (p. 660)
Zayd's raid on Judham (p. 662)
Zayd' raid on B.Fazara and the death of Umm Qirfa (p. 664)
Abdullah b. Rawaha's raid to kill al-Yusayr (p. 665)
Abdullah b. Unays's raid to kill Khalid b. Sufyan (p. 666)
Uyayna's raid on B, al-Anbar (p. 667)
Ghalib's raid on B.Murra (p. 667)
Amr b. al-'As's raid on Dhatu'l Salasil (p. 668)
Ibn Abu Hadrad's raid on Idam (p. 669)
His (Ibn Abu Hadrad) raid on Ghaba (p. 671)
Abdu'l Rahman's raid on Dumatu'l-Jandal (p. 672)
Abu Ubayda's raid to the coast (p. 673)
Salim b. Umayr's raid to kill Abu `Afak (p. 673)
Umayr b. Adiy's raid to kill Asma (p. 675)
Alqama's raid (p. 677)
Kurz's raid on the Bajilis (p. 677)
Ali's raid on the Yaman (p. 678)
Ishaq gives "A Summary of Muhammad's raids and expeditions" (p. 659) recounting that Muhammad personally led 27 raids and actually fought in nine (9) engagements: Badr; Uhud, al-Kandaq; Qurayza; al-Mustaliq; Khubar; the occupation; Hunayn and al-Ta-if.. (p. 660).
The Bible says that God destroyed virtually every man, woman (pregnant or not), fetus, and child on the face of the earth.
What was your point?
That religion, in all its forms, totally fucking sucks.
Two questions:
1. Can you explain why Mohammed for 13 years after announcing Islam in Macca didn't fight all type of torture against him and his people when he had enough to take over the town? He didn't wanted that way. In Madinnaa, he had to defend the city (now it has kids, ladies) Muslims and Non-Muslims.
2. How many killed in the raids and what was the outcome of these raids? Let me answer that for you, no killing in some of these raids, and the result is a DEAL! The deal is to have these tribes stop attacking the Muslims in Madinna. If it wasn't these raids, Muslims men, ladies, kids wouldn't survive in Madinna.
No wonder the noble prophet went through so much for peace but it has a price and not to forget that 15 years of receiving beating non stop. Do you ever notice the situation o Arabia beore him and after him???? You will be araid to comment facts.
Yes, he fought those wars against the pig Jews, but even being the best ever human in this world, he was wrong I must say. If he were right, he would wipe every single Jew from this world, and the would be a much better place.
Nah, the world would be a much better AND different place if it wasn't for mohammed and all the imbecile followers who're prone to destroy the world 'cause that's ALL they know.
they need to take out the stuff in this article that says "the lone wolf terrorist is hard to identify"... and all that sort of stuff, it doesn't benefit the article greatly, and inversely all it does is put ideas in "lone wolf" style terrorists!
For example, the attack on B.Fazara resulted in the capture of Umm Qirfa Fatima d. Rabi'a b. Badr. "She was a very old woman, wife of Malik." And she was murdered "by putting a rope to her two legs and to two camels and driving until they rent her in two (p. 665). Muhammad's piecemeal, leisurely, butchery of between 600 – 900 survivors of the raid on B. Qurayza is described on page 464 and the parceling of the Qurayza property, women and (36) horses among the Muslims is described on page 466.
Gerome, how do you live with this much hatred inside you?!
First of all, if you are talking about the dark sides of religion, then every religion has its fare share. You don't have to be a genius to know what we christian have done in the name of religion, or what the jew rabbis are preaching against everybody else about their inferiority. I have even seen picture of jew rabbis sucking blood of just circumcised baby penis.
Secondly, I sincerely don't believe that every muslim is terrorist. Most of them are normal people like us, has family, want to live a good life. Because of some extremists, they are having all those negative propaganda against them.
Thirdly, I don't know why you are talking about Israel here. But to be fair, Israel is an embarrassment. Though it calls itself a democracy, by calling itself a jewish state, its a theocracy at best – sounds like islamic republic of Iran. Moreover, you can call the Palestinian freedom fighters as terrorist or whatever you want, but the fact is Israel is the oppressor and aggressor there, and our support for them should stop immediately.
Fourthly, I have a high believe that most of the problems we West are facing are because of Israel. As Israel acts like the bully, the muslims try to retaliate. And when those muslims see us to support Israel's bullying, they divert their anger and frustration towards us. To get rid of all this, getting rid of Israel should be our first and foremost priority. Let the muslims and the Israelis deal themselves.
Lastly, lets not hate others. The amount of post you made clearly shows that you have spent a good amount of time after this. Do spend half of the time for love, and life will be much more beautiful. I promise you!
very well said European, you just hit the bulls eye. Atleast I am happy that we have some guys with good sense out here..
"Though it calls itself a democracy, by calling itself a jewish state, its a theocracy at best – sounds like islamic republic of Iran."
No, no. Iran is far MORE of a theocracy, with clerics actually controlling the government. The Supreme Leader of Iran is the real leader.
Having said that, Israel does have its share of fundamentalist Jews.
"Moreover, you can call the Palestinian freedom fighters as terrorist or whatever you want, but the fact is Israel is the oppressor and aggressor there, and our support for them should stop immediately."
Both sides committed atrocities against one another. Both sides are the oppressors
Surely, he could not have been this twisted. Tabari VIII:40 "The Messenger of God commanded that furrows should be dug in the ground for the Qurayza. Then he sat down. Ali and Zubayr began cutting off their heads in his presence." Muhammad was a prophet of a different color. Tabari VIII:38 "The Messenger of Allah commanded that all of the Jewish men and boys who had reached puberty should be beheaded. Then the Prophet divided the wealth, wives, and children of the Banu Qurayza Jews among the Muslims." Ishaq:465 "When their wrists were bound with cords, the Apostle was a sea of generosity to us." Muhammad told the Muslims that he was the perfect model for conduct. He claimed that Allah told him that he was the perfect model for conduct (it is in the Quran that way).
Then in words hauntingly similar to what Jews must have asked as Nazi trains hauled their families off to concentration camps: "As they were being taken in small groups to the Prophet, they said to one another, 'What do you think will be done to us.' Someone said, 'Do you not understand. On each occasion do you not see that the summoner never stops? He does not discharge anyone. And that those who are taken away do not come back. By God, it is death!' The affair continued until the Messenger of Allah had finished with them all." If 900 men and boys were dragged out of their imprisonment in "batches" and led into the central market square of Medina to be beheaded in front of Muhammad, the "affair" would have lasted eight to ten hours. Imagine a "prophet" perverted enough to watch until he had "finished with them all." It's enough to make you vomit.
Tabari VIII:35/Ishaq:464 "The Jews were made to come down, and Allah's Messenger imprisoned them. Then the Prophet went out into the marketplace of Medina (it is still its marketplace today), and he had trenches dug in it. He sent for the Jewish men and had them beheaded in those trenches. They were brought to him in batches. They numbered 800 to 900 boys and men." The lone prophet of the Islamic religion had the imprisoned Jews brought to him so that he might enjoy the ghoulish spectacle. Even Hitler was too ashamed to visit Auschwitz.
Keep blowing yourselves up you stupid Pieces of Schyt
The consitituitions of Iraq and Afghanistan are also illegal because they state that Islam is the supreme religion. My tax money and American troops should not be wasted on supporting the Islamic Republics of Afghanistan and Iraq. Those countries should be treated as conquered and not be allowed to operate as Islamic Republics. The Afghanistan Government executes and tortures Christians with only a few cases becoming famous like the Muslims who become Christians in the famous cases in 2006 and again recently in 2011. In 2006, The U. S. Government had to beg to stop the execution and then the 2006 convert had to be smuggled out of Afghanistan like a thief in the night so the common people of the Islamic Republic would not kill him. The liberals controlling the U.S. Government are waging a secret UnConstitutional war against Christianity in favor of Islam. You never hear the liberals saying that Christianity is a religion of peace. Even George Bush was wrong.
The most basic reason for Islamic anti-semiticism is that Muhammad grew to hate the Jews because they would not accept him as a prophet. He first tried to charm them, e.g., by having his followers pray towards Jerusalem instead of Mecca for a while until Muhammad accepted that they would not follow him. Also the pagan Arabs told Muhammad that they knew little about prophets but if the Jews accepted Muhammad as a prophet then the pagan Arabs would follow him as a prophet also. The Jews said that Muhammad was not a prophet because he had no attesting miracles and that he did not remember the Torah or other scriptures correctly and added a lot of obviously incorrect and strange material. They were a major obstacle to Muhammad until he changed his revelations to the overriding violent vicious ones which attracted followers and then conquered the Jews by force and justified it by saying Allah hated the Jews, etc. Muhammad also had to depict them as evil to justify stealing the Jewish workers hard-earned possessions and their women and girls as sex slaves to keep his blood-thirsty followers happy during periods when other groups were able to fend off Muhammad's attacks. For reference see http://www.prophetofdoom.net or Sira of Guillame or Hadiths or Quran.
Sounds like D* sizing. This is the cause for 99% of the worlds problems.
I live in Pakistan. It is hard for me to come out of closet in my kuntry. I want men all the time.
I have to have my camel insted to hide my felings.
You have to be Mentally ill to kill yourself and think you will be rewarded with virgins in Heaven.
muslims are extremely dangerous.
People are extremely dangerous.
Coming from the person with a racist username? HAHAHA thanks for the laugh.
No, extremists are dangerous
People like you are infinitely more dangerous and are the very reason that 0.1% of Muslims today might be dangerous.
So only a 1000000 fucking crazy muslims ready to blow themselves up for allah. Lets not forget the tacit support of say another 10000000 fucking nut crazy muslims.
oh, you're saying extremists exist because there are racists? so you're justifying extremists actions? plz get a life.
Pissed of Americans are dangerous, They should know this by now,
Two countries invaded and thousands dead.....
Many scholars have published many books and websites about the viciousness of Mohammad's final binding "revelations" that overrode and replaced his previous peaceful revelations, e.g., Prophet of Doom by Craig Winn (free at Prophetofdoom.net), the Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam by Robert Spencer, answering-islam.org. Yes, after 9/11, I started studying why they attacked us and what to do about it. I found that it was just like Osama and other Muslim terrorists kept telling us: that Allah (through Mohammad) told them to do this to non-Muslims. And this is why they attack the Jews, Israel, US, Europe, Christians, almost go to nuclear war against India, even attack the Buddhahists, e.g., assasinations of Buddahist leaders in Thailand. They even can't get along with Buddahists! The Alleged Prophet Mohammad told his warriors before a battle that he had a "revelation" that if his warriors died in battle for Islam then they would go to Paradise & get many virgins (not sure where 72 came from). He told them his other "revelation" that if they did not die it was approved by Allah to rape the captive women (Koran, Sura 24 Verse 33). He even told them essentially that it was a win win situation for them. Sadly many men joined him after this "revelation". This is also documented in his biography The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah by Alfred Guillame. The violent final revelations override and replace the earlier peaceful revelations that were revealed when Muhammad was influenced by his Christian first wife and other Christians. Muhammad did the same at Khaybar and other villages until he died in 632 A.D. See for reference Muhammad: Prophet of Doom page 471 by Craig Winn at Prophetofdoom.com. See also translations of the Sira. Jesus, Buddha, Zoroastarians, Bahais, and the Jains never advocated or committed atrocities like this. Islam is NOT a religion of peace. It is a violation of the separation of church and state for the U. S. Government to keep telling us it is. It is unconstitutional, illegal and treason for U. S. Government Officials to repeatedly tell us that Islam is a religion of peace. The consitituitions of Iraq and Afghanistan are also illegal because they state that Islam is the supreme religion.
there is nothing peaceful with the quaran.you are just funny.can you show me someone who stayed with the quaran and became very wise,innovative,helpful and very knowleable? there is always if not anger and violence,then brutality against women.something very vicious–anyone who stays with the quaran becomes something else.bitter and deadly!! wicked and treacherous.divisive and uncaring.how many suicide bombing has been carried out in the islamic nations? uncountable is the answer.why? bitter against someone does not guarantee you killing your own people including yourself.lying and brainwahing young ones with a stupid notion that they would marry seventy virgins when they kill themselves and others.if marrying virgins are a good thing then why do you consider even your own women as inferior race?senseless. no one will ever be wise by just reading the quaran but the opposite.they simply become unreasonable,bitter,voilent and foolish.quaran has no light but darkness.
Sura 24 verse 33 :But let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty. And those who seek a contract [for eventual emancipation] from among whom your right hands possess – then make a contract with them if you know there is within them goodness and give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you. And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, if they desire chastity, to seek [thereby] the temporary interests of worldly life. And if someone should compel them, then indeed, Allah is [to them], after their compulsion, Forgiving and Merciful.
Although acts of terror or voilence committed by any religious group christians, hindus ,muslims or any other group is highly reprehensible, I was just curious to check out the information you referred here about kuran sura 24 verse 33. I googled it out and found out that you have given a totally false account of this verse in Kuran. It refers to something else, i quote two sources here: "24:33 Let those who find not the wherewithal for marriage keep themselves chaste, until Allah gives them means out of His grace. And if any of your slaves ask for a deed in writing (to enable them to earn their freedom for a certain sum), give them such a deed if ye know any good in them: yea, give them something yourselves out of the means which Allah has given to you. But force not your maids to prostitution when they desire chastity, in order that ye may make a gain in the goods of this life. But if anyone compels them, yet, after such compulsion, is Allah, Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful (to them),
WalyastaAAfifi allatheena layajidoona nikahan hatta yughniyahumu Allahumin fadlihi waallatheena yabtaghoona alkitabamimma malakat aymanukum fakatiboohum inAAalimtum feehim khayran waatoohum min mali Allahiallathee atakum wala tukrihoo fatayatikumAAala albigha-i in aradna tahassunanlitabtaghoo AAarada alhayati alddunyawaman yukrihhunna fa-inna Allaha min baAAdi ikrahihinnaghafoorun raheemun"
"24:33 Those who cannot find a match should restrain their passion until they could be engaged in marriage. The message reiterates the ruling given in v. 2 and clearly prohibits premarital sex. By implication, those who have attained marriageable age, yet, due to pressure of, say, study, unemployment or other constrains, cannot engage in marriage, they must restrain their sexual urges ( cf. 23:5). In order to facilitate slaves to redeem their freedom, the master is required to give them assurance in writing, implied by the word kitâb (lit. book, writing), that they would be freed after paying redemption money to the master. The verse further requires the master to pay the redemption money to his slave in the form of charity or zakat to enable him or her 'earn' redemption money. The only condition being the master must ascertain the salve would be able to earn and maintain livelihood in an honest way upon setting free, implied by the clause if you know any good in them. Continuing with the rulings on slaves, the verse prohibits forcing women, particularly slave girls, and, by implication, other women caught in financial or societal constrains, into prostitution."
Although I am no expert on law, these verse seem to be great considering we are talking about times which were kind of barbaric. This also shows people like you on this forum are only full of malice and hatred against your fellow people and no better that people like Hitler.I seriously doubt that you are an American, because American Values are based on freedom , equality and liberty for all.
Of course they know a suicide bomber has no impact on politics or otherwise. suicide bombers end up footnotes at best. So why do it again and again if it never works? Because these people live in a suffocating social system with ass-faced spouses, and there is no allowance in their world for laughs, love, creativity or freedom of thought. The absence of that is going to drive you to kill yourself, naturally. Thats the life force, and they are suffocated in the tyranny of their distortion of Islam. Then they just tag on the "I did it for Jihad" label as a smokescreen so they dont shame themselves or their families.
Why do we let them in out countries?
Oh, also, remember that Muslims are not "commanded" to have sex with goats. It's left up the the individual.
isn't all your fucking clergy 100 percent gay pedophiles? who started wars? dint your hitler a christian slaughtered 6 million jews? dint you guys bombed japan and killed millions? dint you guys killed and misplaced millions iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas? who is pedophile minded? arent you ashamed small boys raped in churches? coaches raping boys? christianities moral compass is so bent the devil has stamped his name on it
judeo christian's an angry girl! Come out of the closet and join the parade!
if you are going to rant and make generalizations, at least get your facts correct. yes, we bombed japan, after they bombed us and were ready to kills us all. also the bombs we dropped killed 100k not millions. it actually saved about 3/4 million lives due to invading japan would have been that many. again, japan, wanted us gone, like the hard core muslims.
nobody cares what you think judeo christian so shut the fuck up.
judeo christian ,dont forget that the muslims r #1 pedophiles in the world but they dont dare to talk about it like here ,and they r also #1 killers if they have the power they would kill every person in the world who dosnt believ in mohammad.and after they do they will kill each other because shiit think that sunnys r not true muslims and vice versa.
You are correct in boys got raped in churches and boys got raped by a coach but this is not acceptable behavior in our country and but a few isolated cases. We haven't built a religion off violence and teach the followers to kill themselves and as many other non believers as possible, like some extremists. The U.S. wasn't a supported of Hitler and his beliefs and many Americans died fighting against his forces. You lumping in all of your so called "christians" into one category including Hilter and the U.S. is ridiculous. It is like trying to lump all muslims into the extremist violent category....it simply isn't true. and as for saving a nickel on gas... I am paying $3.60 at the pump...
Like so many you can't talk without using a foul mouth. Profane and vulgar language is the vain attempt of a FEEBLE mind to express itsself.
Islam only produces: hate, death, destruction and stupidity, you are a prime example. There is not one muslim, educated in a muslim country, that got a Nobel prize for science/medicine. You don't add anything to the development of mankind, produce nothing, are nothing and never will be anything due to your backward cult. What does that makes you?: The parasites of the developed world! Have a nice day.
I blame the governments. They force these people on us and we have to keep our mouths shut. Only because they are dealing with them and money is more important than the citizens.
isn't all your fucking clergy 100 percent gay pedophiles? who started wars? dint your hitler a christian slaughtered 6 million jews? dint you guys bombed japan and killed millions? dint you guys killed and misplaced millions iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas? who is pedophile minded? arent you.....ashamed? raping innocent boys in churches?altar boys your teen girls behaving like whores becoming pregnant when they are 10 or 9 in middle and high school, christianities moral compass is bent just like zionism
The difference is WE DO NOT WORSHIP THE CHILD R A P I S T S. Muslims do.
Any way you put it, religion is main cause of a lot of atrocities commited against fellow human beings, even tho I was raised a catholic I turned away from religion a long time ago and consider myself agnostic, but lets be honest about something, christianity has evolved over the decades, it is still pretty patethic some of the archaic ideas they have but they are not the same as islam, this religion has never evolved and never will, any way you put it, they will always be the same ignorant savages they are now and that will not change. jews.. you can say you are above it, but you are in the same shithole my friend like it or not.
The problem is not economic hardship... its not wars.. its not oppresion.. its and will always be.. religion. The only thing a base and ignorant human being can turn to just to explain and put an excuse to his/her actions.
Maybe his goat cheated on him and he couldn't take it anymore and commited suicide.
worship? are you fucking crazy we worship only one god , you worship son of god asshole since when god had sex and begotten a son? such a pathetic religion , our prophet is messenger
your christianity is so messed up you all blame jesus himself had a whore lady magdalene on his side ,you all dont even respect your own friggin religion how can we expect to you all to respect others looser bunch , unlike how you all disrespect jesus , we respect jesus as a prophet not son of god.
I agree with you Bing 100%.Take a look at Sweden with their Government social welfare they are being invaded by refugees from 3rd World Countries.You know like they have been doing it here in the U.S. for the last 50 or so years illegal aliens sucking the American system dry while we the taxpayers pay higher and higher prices for everything.The politicians are to blame for allowing this to continue.
These terrorists are doing it all wrong !! These terrorists are strapping the explosives to their stomachs" NO " ! They should be shoving the explosives up their ass so when it goes off they blow the shit out of themselfs.


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Yeah so I'm just kinda thinking out loud….vibe with me.
So I'm on my commute home and I see this dude and his lady doing entirely too much PDA on the train. Kids these days. Anyway, she gets off at her stop, he gets one more smooch for the road and these other two newbreeds get on and they happen to know him. Train departs…
"Yo she fat as sh t fam, that's how you do"
"Ain't even like that, she just sucks my d ck"
Two white women really wish they didn't hear that, an old lady clutches her pearls, another woman rolls her eyes and turns up her music. He shares a glance with me because he knew I peeped game, I go back to reading my book.
The girl was a little hefty but she was pretty in the least R Kelly way possible and dude was just dragging her to impress some other guys, what part of the game is that? Its one of those things that I thought was common knowledge but isn't. I think I don't give my parents enough credit that I'm actually a pretty good guy and apparently there's large room for error.
Now I don't know that newbreed from a hole in a wall but I will say the guy that would grope his girlfriend in public on the subway would turn around and mock her to his friends. The man with 3 kids, 3 mothers probably isn't the one you should mess with. I'm never floored by the viral "exposing" that goes on on Twitter, you mean the guy with an @ I _______ hoes name isn't above posting revenge porn, that's a shocker. They say don't judge a book by it's cover but sometimes only a few pages is needed to see the book ain't sh t.
People grow, people change but less than we give credit for. I'm more mature than I was but 16 year old me wouldn't have disowned my lady, 16 year old me wouldn't have a child and not take of them. Or maybe I'm cynical when I think that for the most part people are who they are but with hindsight we become better people. We know right and wrong, we know what we're supposed to do at school, at work, in a relationship, in society we just choose not to because we don't care. I'd like to think I can look at myself 10 years ago and even in the hood, even with the 4X tee, ignorant as all hell and say he's going to be alright. Even my friends at the time, their paths didn't turn out as different as you would've guessed 10 years ago (2 college grads, a hardworking father, a good dude, and the rest still in the hood, prison or lost to the streets). Anyway, the point of all this is to say that as we get older we still become the realized version of the seed planted many years ago. Rarely can we look back 10 years and say we're exactly what we planned to be, but morals, empathy, respect….you don't just learn those, they aren't necessarily acquired with age either.


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FAQ about the AAV-PHP capsids
AAV-PHP use and biodistribution
Does AAV-PHP.B spread better than other AAVs when injected directly into the brain parenchyma?
AAV-PHP.B and AAV9 appear to spread to a similar degree based on injections into the mouse striatum. In our unpublished data, there was no obvious difference in tropism or spread when injected directly into the brain.
Does the route of IV administration (retro-orbital sinus or tail vein) affect the biodistribution of the virus?
Not to our knowledge. We use retro-orbital sinus injections on the advice of our veternarian staff and because it's easier and more reliable in our hands. Based on data from other groups, tail vein injection appears to provide similar vector distribution.
We would like to express our gene of interest in astrocytes specifically, would you recommend AAV-PHP.A or AAV-PHP.B?
We strongly recommend using AAV-PHP.B. Together with the GfABC1D promoter developed by Michael Brenner (U. of Alabama), AAV-PHP.B will provide efficient and selective gene expression in astrocytes (see efficiency data in Deverman et al 2016). AAV-PHP.A, while more selective for astrocytes, requires higher virus doses and is extremely difficult to work with because the virus produces poorly (AAV-PHP.A yields are typically ~30X lower than AAV9) and because it also aggregates quickly in PBS. We have not figured out how to store this virus without significant (visible) aggregation.
Does AAV-PHP.B work in species other than mice?
Experiments to test this are underway. AAV-PHP.B appears to provide increased CNS transduction, relative to AAV9, in young rats, and in collaboration with Nina Huber and Sergiu Pasca we showed that AAV-PHP.B transduces human neurons and glia in cortical spheroids (see Supplementary Fig. 5). We have heard from several groups that AAV-PHP.B does not transduce the CNS of songbirds following IV injection.
Is AAV-PHP.B specific for the brain, or does it transduce other organs?
AAV-PHP.B transduces the CNS as well as many other organs. Please see Deverman et al 2016 for biodistribution data and images of several organs following PARS-based tissue clearing.
How much AAV-PHP vector do we need to inject?
This depends on your experimental needs and the specific cell population(s) you wish to target. You will likely have to test this experimentally. We are happy to provide guidance to help you get started.
How do you perform IV injections in adult mice?
We access the vasculature in mice via the retro-orbital sinus. Please see this helpful paper for a protocol and a discussion of the benefits of this route versus tail vein injections.
Do we need to re-titer virus upon receiving after shipping?
With shipping especially international shipping, it is highly advised to re-titer before injection to animals. Also it would be the best to not refreeze, as each freeze/refreeze degrades the titer. Virus is stable for many weeks/months at 4 ̊C. More information can be found in the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-018-0097-3.
When should we expect to see expressions in animals after injection?
The expression time can be up to 3 weeks.
Does the mouse or rat background affect the virus systemic transduction efficiency?
We and others have found that it works in many mouse strains and rats. If you are using CD1, FVB, C57/Bl6, it should work (DBA not sure yet). However, it does not work in Balb.
Virus production
What are the packaging capacities of the AAV-PHP vectors?
We have not tested this systematically, but we do not expect they differ from other natural AAV capsids. We have achieved high titer preparations of genomes around 4.7kb or slightly larger. As expected, genomes larger than 5kb have not packaged well.
Will our current AAV9 preparation method work with the PHP.B serotype?
The PHP.B serotype is slightly more prone to loss (possibly due to aggregation) during the prep as compared to AAV9. This should not be a problem if the purification is done following the protocol which we provide. It may work with other protocols, but we cannot guarantee this. Once purified, AAV-PHP.B can be concentrated to very high titers (>1e14 vg/ml) and the yields are similar to AAV9. Note, we lyse the cells in a high salt buffer. While this step may not be essential, it may reduce the risk of aggregation during purification.
Should we use a standard pHelper plasmid (expressing E4, E2A and VA-RNA) together with AAV-PHP.B rep-cap?
Yes, use a standard AdV helper.
Yes, use AAV2 ITRs. We do not find it necessary to use scAAV genomes to achieve rapid, efficient tranduction of the CNS via the vasculature. If your vectors are scAAVs, there is no reason to think they should package less well in the engineered PHP capsids than in natural AAV capsids.
The iCAP-PHP plasmids have a tTA-TRE based inducible amplifiction loop built in to increase virus production. In our hands, these iCAP plasmids increase virus production by nearly 2-fold as compared to standard rep-cap plasmids when used at the transfection ratios provided in our protocol. This system does become complicated if your genome has a tet responsive element, such as with the use of our TRE containing VAST constructs. In this case the tTA on the iCAP plasmid will drive high level expression from the TRE containing AAV genome, which will reduce virus production. For most of our AAV-PHP variants, we can provide a the capsid in a standard rep-cap plasmid format.
This depends on the titer of the virus, but it is best to keep the injection volume between 30-150 ul for injections in mice.
What is the concentration of your virus after purification?
This varies from prep to prep, and from genome to genome. An optimal yield post purification is 2-4E12 vg/150 mm dish of producer cells.
Is there anything particular about your using PEI for cell transfection? Will lippofectamine 2000 do the job too? That cause less cell toxicity, right?
We've never tested lipofectamine. Its use would add signifiant cost to this procedure given the scale of transfection. Also, there may be something particularly advantagous about PEI transfections because the transfection efficiency of 293 cells is lower than with Ca2+ phosphate, but the virus yields are nearly 10x higher, at least in our hands.
In the protocol that you sent us on packaging and purification of AAV, I did not find information about the quantity and ratio of AAV capsid, AAV vector, and AD helper for the transfection of packaging cells. Could you please provide some information on this?
We use a vector: capsid: helper ratio of 1:4:2 based on ug of DNA. We use 40 ug of DNA total for each 150 mm dish.
Do we need to re-titer virus upon receiving after shipping?
With shipping especially international shipping, it is highly advised to re-titer before injection to animals. Also it would be the best to not refreeze, as each freeze/refreeze degrades the titer. Virus is stable for many weeks/months at 4 ̊C. More information can be found in the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-018-0097-3.
Obtaining reagents
How do we request plasmids?
Please see our addgene page (https://www.addgene.org/Viviana_Gradinaru/). We are not a core facility but rather produce viruses in collaborative mode depending on bandwidth and funds available. If this works for your projects please contact the PI, Viviana Gradinaru, at email@example.com to discuss.
Can we have a trial sample of one of your capsids?
Given the large volumes and titers of AAV-PHP vectors required for IV administration, we are unable to keep sample stocks of the PHP viruses on hand at all times. If we have stock available, we are happy to send some to you. Please email Ben Deverman (bd at caltech dot edu) and Viviana Gradinaru (viviana at caltech dot edu) with your request.
Are there commercial sources of the AAV-PHP capsids?
There are companies selling AAV-PHP.B. We have not worked with any of these companies to validate their vectors.
Will you make a custom virus prep for us?
We are happy to discuss your project with you and come up with the best solution for your vector needs. We don't yet offer custom virus preparations as a service, but we do produce vectors for other groups on a collaborative basis.
FAQ about CREATE
We would like to use CREATE in our own lab, can you provide the plasmids and a protocol?
Yes, we are happy to share the plasmids, a protocol, and advice to help you use CREATE. Please email us.
FAQ about VAST
What is VAST?
See the discription and application of VAST here: http://rdcu.be/tIcC and on our AAV page. FAQs and more information coming soon.


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Last month, the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee to the Director's Biomedical Workforce Working Group (known as the Tilghman Group) published its draft report on the state of the biomedical work force. The group was charged with developing a model for a sustainable and diverse U.S. biomedical research work force that could inform decisions about training the optimal number of people for the appropriate types of positions that will advance science and promote health — a heavy lift, to be sure! To its credit, the Tilghman Group provided hard evidence to support what many in the community have been saying for years: that the manner in which we train our work force has put the community on an unsustainable path.While today's trainees are sold promises that their hard work in the lab will pay off with tenure-track positions in academia, the report shows only 23 percent of biomedical Ph.D.s actually reach that promised land. Nearly one in three biomedical Ph.D.s will end up with a career in the private sector, and yet our community rarely if ever provides training to Ph.D.s that will both prepare them for alternative careers and educate them on realistic employment options that will be available. This is surprising considering that the study shows that academia is quickly becoming the alternative career path.If we are using NIH dollars to train Ph.D.s for the research and academic careers we want for them but only 23 percent of them are reaching that goal, it is time to find answers to critical questions. Are we promising young scientists a future we simply cannot deliver? Are we training too many Ph.D.s? Do we prepare our trainees for the future they will have or the future we think they should have? After asking ourselves these critical questions, we owe it to the trainees — we owe it to ourselves as the stewards of biomedical research — to restructure training experiences for the realities of today.It is here that the Tilghman Group's report seems to fall flat. The community waited eagerly for a game-changing report with recommendations and a plan for how to build a sustainable work force, but what we got was less. The report's conclusions admit as much, saying, "The working group is aware that similar recommendations have been made in the past by other groups that studied the biomedical research workforce." Where the group had an opportunity to make strong, possibly unpopular recommendations on how to implement change for the good of the community, it seems to have punted that responsibility to others. That is unfortunate.I am reminded of a quote by President Kennedy early in his administration. While talking about what he liked and disliked about the presidency, he noted that the problems that cross his desk are not easy to solve. If they were, they'd have been solved long before they reached the White House. There are difficult problems in our training system, many with unpopular solutions. It's time the leaders of our community accept the responsibility to help find the answers.Think you have a solution? I want to hear it! E-mail me your recommendations to create a sustainable work force, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology public affairs team will deliver them to the leadership at the NIH.
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: This article raises a number of important and complex issues that deserve further discussion. One of these is highlighted by the comment by Judith Bond. The key issue is the relationship between what trainees are "sold" compared with what they perceive. Many individuals enter graduate school with the anticipation that they will pursue academic careers because that is the only career path that they have been exposed to in any depth. Furthermore, some components of academia have (intentionally or otherwise) placed academic careers on a higher plane than other careers, as noted by Martin Rosenberg in his essay in this issue. Dr. Bond is correct that many institutions and organizations have taken steps to provide trainees with clearly perspectives on the wide range of career options that are potentially available to individuals with Ph.D. training in biomedical fields. It is important that such efforts continue and reach down earlier into training period. Jeremy Berg To Julie Montgomery: See the accompanying essay by Jon Lorsch on this issue. I agree completely that acknowledging that there is a range of successful career outcomes, academic and non-academic, for biomedical Ph.D.s is an important step. We tried to raise this issue in the Training Strategic Plan I was involved in at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and we need to reinforce this point, both with faculty and with trainees. Jeremy Berg
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Cannot print on tape wider than 0.5 inches.
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The DYMO LabelManager PnP can print rugged plastic and fabric labels using a variety of colors and materials, and without needing to install software on your PC.
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Most of the printers that handle this kind of label are self-contained units that don't connect to a PC and typically include their own mini keyboards. The LabelManager PnP is one of the relative fewalong with the Brother PT-2430PC ($80 street, 3.5 stars) and DYMO's own LabelManager 420P ($110 street, 4 stars) that gives you the convenience of letting you create the label using a PC instead. It's also one of the easiest to use.
The basics
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The Truth About Agave
Agave nectar is generating a lot of buzz in the health food sector, and it holds special appeal for those of us trying to steer clear of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). So it's no wonder sales are booming. In fact, according to SPINS, a market research firm in San Francisco, sales of carbonated beverages with agave nectar are up 73.1 percent from just last year. And new agave products more than tripled between 2003 and 2007.
Great, right? Not so fast: Although it's quickly becoming the preferred sweetener for health-conscious consumers and cooks, agave is processed just like sugar -- and it's no better for you than other sugars. Actually, it may be slightly worse.
What Is Agave?
Agaves are large, spiky plants perhaps best known for their role in making tequila. Nectar from the plant is also processed and made into syrup for use in energy drinks, teas and nutrition bars.
Agave nectar resembles maple syrup or honey in flavor, but the taste is more delicate -- and sweeter, too (agave is about 1.5 times sweeter than sugar). The health-food crowd loves it because it is gluten-free and suitable for vegan diets. Plus, extracts from the agave plant have been shown to have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
What's not to like?
As it turns out, quite a lot, says Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth. Unfortunately, there's zero evidence that any beneficial compounds from natural agave actually end up in commercially made syrup. What's more, regulations for agave nectar are extremely weak, so what you find in the store may or may not have much agave in it. Less expensive products may be mostly HFCS in disguise. And even if it's not HFCS, agave nectar naturally contains more fructose than either sugar or HFCS.
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All forms of sugar (including table sugar, HFCS and honey) contains some mixture of fructose and glucose. Table sugar is equal parts glucose and fructose; HFCS is 55 percent fructose and 45 glucose; and agave nectar is anywhere from 75 to 90 percent fructose. In other words, agave nectar has the highest fructose content of any commercial sweetener (with the exception of pure liquid fructose).
"Fructose (the sugar found naturally in fruit) is perfectly fine when you get it from whole foods like apples where it comes with a host of vitamins, antioxidants and fiber," says Bowden. "But when it's commercially extracted from fruit, concentrated and made into a sweetener, it exacts a considerable metabolic price."
Instead of being used for energy (like glucose), fructose goes straight to the liver, where it's promptly converted to fat. And that triggers a cascade of detrimental effects. In fact, after a fructose-laden meal or snack, your body may not even register that it was fed.
But packing on pounds isn't the only concern. Turns out, accumulating fat in the liver may also put you at greater risk of metabolic syndrome, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. There's even some evidence that excess fructose consumption increases uric acid levels, which can lead to gout.
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Agave syrup is no better for you than high-fructose corn syrup. It does contain small amounts of calcium, potassium and magnesium, but not enough to matter nutritionally. And experts agree: One of the simplest ways to enhance the health of your diet is to reduce the amount of all sugars, including honey, maple syrup, raw sugar, HFCS, agave and even regular sugar.
"If you simply must have some sweets once in a while, a small amount of agave nectar every once in a while isn't going to kill you," says Bowden. "Just don't buy into the idea that it's any better for you than plain old sugar or HFCS."
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