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If the legal standard for a legitimate relationship is consenting adults, there's no reason polygamy should be illegal. Tax-wise, however, it would be a nightmare . Our tax system is predicated on monogamy for child credits, spousal benefits, income adjustments etc, so I don't see it happening any time soon. In the Muslim community, I know of some polygamous marriages & was just announced one a few days ago, the issue with those marriages in the US is that the 2nd/3rd/xnth wife doesn't have any legal rights which gives her little to zero protection in case of divorce, abuse ect. and this creates other socio-economic issues as well.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Related:
Why Muslims don't lose weight during Ramadan
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rehanadujour/22-reasons-why-muslims-dont-lose-weight-in-ramada-1nb2r?fb_ref=click_share
What? The fasting is a lie? You can eat?
You really expect people to go an entire month without any food or water??
In Ramadan, you abstain from food/water/smoking/vices from sun up to sun down. Although in the summer, the days are extremely long (and hot, and hard). But when it's dark out, you can go to down on whatever you want.
I thought it'd be okay to drink water, and maybe some cracker/bread type of simple foods to keep you from fainting out. Well, I support fasting, that is all.
No, we abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset , so no water or crackers
Thank you PP!
Depends on what you believe in. Every religion defines differently what a believer is. ..
Wishing a blessed Ramadan to all Muslims who will be fasting this year.May you feel the blessings of this month and share it with your family and friends.
" O you who believe! fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may learn self-restraint". Qu'ran 2:183
" O you who believe! fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may learn self-restraint". Qu'ran 2:183
Anonymous wrote:I'm a Hindu but I want to speak in defense of any Muslims who are offended by Mohammed being depicted in art. The reason it's offensive is because he's not being depicted in art respectfully, as the prophet he was.
It's like how furious I get when ignorant European fashion houses and retail labels in the US like Urban Outfitters think it's super cool to put an image of Ganesha - the Hindu deity of luck and remover of obstacles - on the soles of flip flops or on bags. First of all, putting a Hindu deity under someone's feet is INSANELY disrespectful, and second, the holy figure is meant to depicted as a holy figure in art - not as scenery!
And that's part of what I hate about the Mohammed cartoonists and anyone else who portrays Mohammed in art without reference to his role in life.
While we're on this track, I also couldn't keep watching South Park when they kept making fun of Jesus and turning him into some stoner character. It infuriated me, it was so disrespectful.
I agree.
Awesome for her. Glad she won!
I am glad Tahera is speaking up. She is an incredible woman who has dedicated her life to the advancement of peace and social justice. This is her latest statement on Fbook:
I am truly dissapointed at the latest statement by United Airlines. Unfortunately United has dismissed my entire narrative and trivialized it to a can of soda. As a Premier frequent flyer at United, I have been served unopened canned beverages many times and I have followed United procedures in all of my travels. It is ridiculing to my integrity to dismiss the discrimatory behavior towards me. I have dedicated my life to peace, infact I was on this United flight to promote social justice activism, just and peaceful conversations between Israelis and Palestinians at Kids4Peace. It is truly disheartening when the discrimination of Americans as myself who are working hard everyday to promote dialogue and understanding is disregarded and trivialized. I have been patiently waiting to hear an acknowledgement of their discrimination vis-a-vis inconsistency in following procedure and then verbally accusing me of using a can of diet soda as a weapon, resulting and encouraging further hateful words by a passenger . I have not received a written sincere apology for the pain and hurt I experienced as a result of the discrimination and hateful words towards me. This is not about a can of soda. I was really hoping that after speaking with me they would have publicly acknowledged their lack of consistency in following procedure, the flight attendant's rude and discrimatory behavior and accusations which led to hateful words, and the unfortunate lack of bystander intervention nor the flight attendants attempt to intervene and prevent further disrespect which created an unsafe space for me. Instead of publishing an apology for the discrimination and clarifying what corrective measures they will take to ensure that they will prevent this from reoccuring, they have dismissed it as a mere can of soda issue. I want to make it very clear to the public that my intentions are NOT to get the flight attendant who behaved very rudely towards me fired. I simply did not expect United Airlines to dismiss the unwarranted and unfortunate rude behavior, discrimination and hateful words but rather acknowledge their accountability and role in the painful experience and share corrective measures within their training to prevent this from happening again regardless of their race, religion, gender, sex, or socioeconomic background
Anonymous wrote:Muslima wrote:You don't get it , do you? The bikers are planning an ARMED protest. Armed men/women want to show up to terrorize worshippers at a mosque, and that is okay with you? If a group of Muslims stood outside a church with guns at Sunday service, the whole world would go nuts!
If they don't pull their weapons, it's fine with me. I can see, given what happened in Paris, and what happened in TX recently, why they would want to be sure they are armed. If they are in their legal rights to carry, they are within their legal rights. If they start shooting without physical provocation, then I will take issue.
Protesting is one thing, brandishing weapons scaring worshippers, some of whom are children is taking it to a whole other level. One freedom can't trump another.
Anonymous wrote:Know your source:
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/breaking_the_silence_shovirm_shtika_
Exactly, know your sources
NGO Monitor is a Jerusalem-based organization linked to right-wing and neoconservative sectors in the United States and Israel that aims to curb what it regards as the undue influence of human rights groups critical of Israeli policies. Similar in purpose and ideological outlook to UN Watch (affiliated with the American Jewish Committee) and Global Governance Watch (a joint project of the Federalist Society and the American Enterprise Institute), NGO Monitor endeavors to marginalize the influence of certain human rights groups by claiming that they are biased, hypocritical, and/or anti-Semitic. - Source: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/ngo_monitor#sthash.ZYdDQNPq.dpuf
NGO Monitor Some of those engaged in the nastiest tactics are extreme right-wing groups like Im Tirtzu or NGO Monitor, which are both closely connected to the Israeli government. Recently, in response to an NGO Monitor report attacking it, the U.S. group, Jewish Voice for Peace, wrote: “NGO Monitor has a long history, broadly documented, of attacking any organization that it believes is effectively criticizing Israeli policies. The organizations NGO Monitor has attacked include Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, Al Haq, and the New Israel Fund, to name just a few. We are honored to be among them.” - Source: http://muzzlewatch.com/category/ngo-monitor/#sthash.hxRkTfDg.dpuf
You don't get it , do you? The bikers are planning an ARMED protest. Armed men/women want to show up to terrorize worshippers at a mosque, and that is okay with you? If a group of Muslims stood outside a church with guns at Sunday service, the whole world would go nuts!
Anonymous wrote:Muslima wrote:She is an out of control moron. Good that Metro is doing this!
-because Americans have the right to criticize any religion, except Islam.
Try announcing a public burning of a bible. Or a Torah. Or the Bagvad Gita. The left will bring marshmallows. The civil rights division will defend you.
But try expressing free speech through burning a Koran and all hell will break loose.
Don't get it twisted, this is not about free speech. Using the first amendment and the civil liberties that this country provides to instigate hate and fear for an entire religion and group of people, and inciting riots is idiotic.There is a supposedly planned armed protest by bikers in Arizona outside of a mosque tomorrow where they planned to come en masse with cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad saw. "Prior to gathering outside of the mosque, the motorcyclists say they’ll meet in a nearby Denny’s parking lot, where they’ll have a “Muhammad cartoon contest.” They plan to take the images of Islam’s prophet to the Islamic Community Center at 6:15 that evening , a time when the Muslim community is expected to gather inside." What problems, do you think if any events like this will solve? The FBI is currently investigating threatening letters that were sent to the mosque. You are kidding yourself if you think that events like this are in any way shape or form for the advancement of free speech and lastly free speech does not protect the right to incite actions that would harm others.
She is an out of control moron. Good that Metro is doing this!
So, according to that report: " at least 23 Palestinians were subjected to summary, extra-judicial executions. " but this is what everyone is talking about not to belittle the life of these 23 Palestinians, but seriously!?? Hamas is evil because they killed 23 people?? I guess the terrorist attacks committed by Israel killing thousands of civilians should just be ignored!!! The same report states:
Israeli forces committed war crimes and human rights violations during a 50-day military offensive in the Gaza Strip that killed over 1,500 civilians, including 539 children, wounded thousands more civilians, and caused massive civilian displacement and destruction of property and vital services. Israel maintained its air, sea and land blockade of Gaza, imposing collective punishment on its approximately 1.8 million inhabitants and stoking the humanitarian crisis. In the West Bank, Israeli forces carried out unlawful killings of Palestinian protesters, including children, and maintained an array of oppressive restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of movement while continuing to promote illegal settlements and allow Israeli settlers to attack Palestinians and destroy their property with near total impunity. Israeli forces detained thousands of Palestinians, some of whom reported being tortured, and held around 500 administrative detainees without trial. Within Israel, the authorities continued to demolish homes of Palestinian Bedouin in “unrecognized villages” in the Negev/Naqab region and commit forcible evictions. They also detained and summarily expelled thousands of foreign migrants, including asylum-seekers, and imprisoned Israeli conscientious objectors.
Palestinian detainees continued to be tortured and otherwise ill-treated by Israeli security officials, particularly Internal Security Agency officials, who frequently held detainees incommunicado during interrogation for days and sometimes weeks. Methods used included physical assault such as slapping and throttling, prolonged shackling and stress positions, sleep deprivation, and threats against the detainee and their family.
in the night of 30 July, Israeli artillery fire hit the Jabaliya elementary school where more than 3,000 civilians had taken refuge, killing at least 20 and injuring others. It was the sixth time a school being used by the UN to shelter civilians had been attacked since the conflict began three weeks earlier.
sraeli authorities sought publicly to shift the blame for the large loss of life and wholesale destruction caused by the Israeli offensive in Gaza onto Hamas and Palestinian armed groups on the grounds that they fired rockets and other weapons from within or near civilian residential areas and concealed munitions in civilian buildings.
Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
Israeli forces committed war crimes and human rights violations during a 50-day military offensive in the Gaza Strip that killed over 1,500 civilians, including 539 children, wounded thousands more civilians, and caused massive civilian displacement and destruction of property and vital services. Israel maintained its air, sea and land blockade of Gaza, imposing collective punishment on its approximately 1.8 million inhabitants and stoking the humanitarian crisis. In the West Bank, Israeli forces carried out unlawful killings of Palestinian protesters, including children, and maintained an array of oppressive restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of movement while continuing to promote illegal settlements and allow Israeli settlers to attack Palestinians and destroy their property with near total impunity. Israeli forces detained thousands of Palestinians, some of whom reported being tortured, and held around 500 administrative detainees without trial. Within Israel, the authorities continued to demolish homes of Palestinian Bedouin in “unrecognized villages” in the Negev/Naqab region and commit forcible evictions. They also detained and summarily expelled thousands of foreign migrants, including asylum-seekers, and imprisoned Israeli conscientious objectors.
Palestinian detainees continued to be tortured and otherwise ill-treated by Israeli security officials, particularly Internal Security Agency officials, who frequently held detainees incommunicado during interrogation for days and sometimes weeks. Methods used included physical assault such as slapping and throttling, prolonged shackling and stress positions, sleep deprivation, and threats against the detainee and their family.
in the night of 30 July, Israeli artillery fire hit the Jabaliya elementary school where more than 3,000 civilians had taken refuge, killing at least 20 and injuring others. It was the sixth time a school being used by the UN to shelter civilians had been attacked since the conflict began three weeks earlier.
sraeli authorities sought publicly to shift the blame for the large loss of life and wholesale destruction caused by the Israeli offensive in Gaza onto Hamas and Palestinian armed groups on the grounds that they fired rockets and other weapons from within or near civilian residential areas and concealed munitions in civilian buildings.
Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
I think they'd feel welcome by the mere fact that she invited them to her house, at least I would. I don't think she needs to do anything special to entertain them that she wouldn't do for non-muslim guests, besides the dietary restrictions.