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SEXUAL JIHAD & SLAVE JIHAD:Koranic Mandates Inspired By Muhammad! Commentary by Adina Kutnicki
Posted on November 3, 2014 by Adina Kutnicki
ONE has to internalize all the lies surrounding Islam, if one expects to make a dent in beating back its horrific effects on humanity. A scourge.
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia
in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many
countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods
of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the
Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and
refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan
law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as
a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the
faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion
paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde
force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step, and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it (Islam) has vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
IN fact, dispelling its bugaboos are no less intrinsic than fighting the barbarians for Allah (and Muhammad) on the battlefield.
FIRSTLY, in order to tap into the recesses of leftist western guilt (that's another sickness, but let's not digress), thus, causing them to cower, one has to recognize that the ubiquitous "race card" always enters into the public sphere. The silencing. In other words, par for the course, whenever truths re Islam + terror + barbarism are linked, voilà, poof-like, one is tarred a racist! Even uber liberal Bill Maher is getting wise to their hammer and tongs. Welcome to this investigative journalist's non-appeasing worldview.
WELL, some die-hard leftists do come to their senses, albeit kicking and screaming, but usually after witnessing non stop barbarism under the banner of Islam.
In the main, let's get this fact straight: Muslims are not a race. Period. They are a collection of many groups who happen to follow Islam; a political construct/quasi religion propped up under the banner of Shariah law. Yes, some are Arabs, some are Blacks, others are Whites and the rest come from almost every other background. Intrinsically, if Muslims are considered a race, so too are Christians and Jews. We all know this is not the case. Nonsense. Agreed, one can be anti all three religions, but not tarred a "racist" for said pronouncements.
FOR added heft, dispelling the myth, "Islam is a religion of peace", is the west's most pressing/urgent battle. All else flows from said premise. Piercing the veil. Once accomplished, the west can move forward on proving that Islam is a retrograde and anti-humane force; forcing women into sexual jihad AND sexual slavery. Both are equal sides to the same abomination which are sanctioned and hailed under Islam!
Principles of Fiqh » Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings » Transactions » Slavery.
10382: Ruling on having intercourse with a slave woman when one has a wife
Could you please clarify for me something that has been troubling me for a while. This concerns the right of a man to have sexual relations with slave girls. Is this so? If it is then is the man allowed to have relations with her as well his wife/wives. Also, is it true that a man can have sexual relations with any number of slave girls and with their own wife/wives also? I have read that Hazrat Ali had 17 slave girls and Hazrat Umar also had many. Surely if a man were allowed this freedom then this could lead to neglecting the wife's needs. Could you also tell clarify whether the wife has got any say in this matter.
Praise be to Allaah. Islam allows a man to have intercourse with his slave woman, whether he has a wife or wives or he is not married.A slave woman with whom a man has intercourse is known as a sariyyah (concubine) from the word sirr, which means marriage.This is indicated by the Qur'aan and Sunnah, and this was done by the Prophets. Ibraaheem (peace be upon him) took Haajar as a concubine and she bore him Ismaa'eel (may peace be upon them all).Our Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) also did that, as did the Sahaabah, the righteous and the scholars. The scholars are unanimously agreed on that and it is not permissible for anyone to regard it as haraam or to forbid it. Whoever regards that as haraam is a sinner who is going against the consensus of the scholars.Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):"And if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphan girls then marry (other) women of your choice, two or three, or four; but if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one or (slaves) that your right hands possess. That is nearer to prevent you from doing injustice"….{Blogger's note:read the whole thing…be prepared to vomit….}
FOR further Koranic confirmations and attributions….
Question:Does Islam condone slavery? Does Islamic teaching allow Muslim men to keep women as sex slaves?
Summary Answer:Islam neither ignores nor condemns slavery. In fact, a large part of the Sharia is dedicated to the practice.Muslims are encouraged to live in the way of Muhammad, who was a slave owner and trader. He captured slaves in battle. He had sex with his slaves. And he instructed his men to do the same. The Qur'an actually devotes more verses to making sure that Muslim men know they can keep women as sex slaves (4) than it does to telling them to pray five times a day (0).
The Qur'an:Qur'an (33:50) – "O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee" This is one of several personal-sounding verses "from Allah" narrated by Muhammad – in this case allowing himself a virtually unlimited supply of sex partners. Other Muslims are restrained to four wives, but, following the example of their prophet, may also have sex with any number of slaves, as the following verse make clear:Qur'an (23:5-6) – "..who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess…" This verse permits the slave-owner to have sex with his slaves. See also Qur'an (70:29-30). The Quran is a small book, so if Allah used valuable space to repeat the same point four times, then sex slavery must be very important to him.Qur'an (4:24) – "And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess." Even sex with married slaves is permissible.Qur'an (8:69) – "But (now) enjoy what ye took in war, lawful and good" A reference to war booty, of which slaves were a part. The Muslim slave master may enjoy his "catch" because (according to verse 71) "Allah gave you mastery over them."Qur'an (24:32) – "And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves…" Breeding slaves based on fitness.Qur'an (2:178) – "O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female." The message of this verse, which prescribes the rules of retaliation for murder, is that all humans are not created equal. The human value of a slave is less than that of a free person (and a woman's worth is also distinguished from that of a man's).Qur'an (16:75) – "Allah sets forth the Parable (of two men: one) a slave under the dominion of another; He has no power of any sort; and (the other) a man on whom We have bestowed goodly favours from Ourselves, and he spends thereof (freely), privately and publicly: are the two equal? (By no means;) praise be to Allah." Yet another confirmation that the slave is is not equal to the master. In this case it is plain that the slave owes his status to Allah's will. (According to 16:71, the owner should be careful about insulting Allah by bestowing Allah's gifts on slaves – those whom the god of Islam has not favored).
From the Hadith:Bukhari (80:753) – "The Prophet said, 'The freed slave belongs to the people who have freed him.'" Bukhari (52:255) – The slave who accepts Islam and continues serving his Muslim master will receive a double reward in heaven.Bukhari (41.598) – Slaves are property. They cannot be freed if an owner has outstanding debt, but can be used to pay off the debt.Bukhari (62:137) – An account of women taken as slaves in battle by Muhammad's men after their husbands and fathers were killed. The woman were raped with Muhammad's approval.Bukhari (34:432) – Another account of females taken captive and raped with Muhammad's approval. In this case it is evident that the Muslims intend on selling the women after raping them because they are concerned about devaluing their price by impregnating them. Muhammad is asked about coitus interruptus.Bukhari (47.765) – A woman is rebuked by Muhammad for freeing a slave girl. The prophet tells her that she would have gotten a greater heavenly reward by giving her to a relative (as a slave).Bukhari (34:351) – Muhammad sells a slave for money. He was thus a slave trader.Bukhari (72:734) – Some contemporary Muslims in the West, where slavery is believed to be a horrible crime, are reluctant to believe that Muhammad owned slaves. This is just one of many places in the Hadith where a reference is made to a human being owned by Muhammad. In this case, the slave is of African descent.Muslim 3901 – Muhammad trades away two black slaves for one Muslim slave.Muslim 4112 – A man freed six slaves on the event of his death, but Muhammad reversed the emancipation and kept four in slavery to himself. He cast lots to determine which two to free.
Bukhari (47:743) – Muhammad's own pulpit – from which he preached Islam – was built with slave labor on his command.
Bukhari (59:637) – "The Prophet sent Ali to Khalid to bring the Khumus (of the booty) and I hated Ali, and Ali had taken a bath (after a sexual act with a slave-girl from the Khumus). I said to Khalid, 'Don't you see this (i.e. Ali)?' When we reached the Prophet I mentioned that to him. He said, 'O Buraida! Do you hate Ali?' I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Do you hate him, for he deserves more than that from the Khumlus.'" Muhammad approved of his men having sex with slaves, as this episode involving his son-in-law, Ali, clearly proves. This hadith refutes the modern apologists who pretend that slaves were really "wives," since Muhammad had forbidden Ali from marrying another woman as long as Fatima (his favorite daughter) was living.
Abu Dawud (2150) – "The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Qur'anic verse: (Qur'an 4:24) 'And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.'" This is the background for verse 4:24 of the Qur'an. Not only does Allah grant permission for women to be captured and raped, but allows it to even be done in front of their husbands. (See also Muslim 3432 & Ibn Kathir/Abdul Rahman Part 5 Page 14)
Abu Dawud 1814 – "…[Abu Bakr] He then began to beat [his slave] him while the Apostle of Allah (pbuh) was smiling and saying: Look at this man who is in the sacred state (putting on ihram), what is he doing?" The future first caliph of Islam is beating his slave for losing a camel while Muhammad looks on in apparent amusement.
Ibn Ishaq (734) – A slave girl is given a "violent beating" by Ali in the presence of Muhammad, who does nothing about it.
Abu Dawud 38:4458 – Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: "A slave-girl belonging to the house of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) committed fornication. He (the Prophet) said: Rush up, Ali, and inflict the prescribed punishment on her. I then hurried up, and saw that blood was flowing from her, and did not stop. So I came to him and he said: Have you finished inflicting (punishment on her)? I said: I went to her while her blood was flowing. He said: Leave her alone till her bleeding stops; then inflict the prescribed punishment on her. And inflict the prescribed punishment on those whom your right hands possess (i.e. slaves)". A slave girl is ordered by Muhammad to be beaten until she bleeds, and then beaten again after the bleeding stops. He indicates that this is prescribed treatment for slaves ("those whom your right hand possesses").
Ibn Ishaq (693) – "Then the apostle sent Sa-d b. Zayd al-Ansari, brother of Abdu'l-Ashal with some of the captive women of Banu Qurayza to Najd and he sold them for horses and weapons." Muhammad trades away women captured from the Banu Qurayza tribe to non-Muslim slave traders for property. (Their men had been executed after surrendering peacefully without a fight).
Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) (o9.13) – According to Sharia, when a child or woman is taken captive by Muslims, they become slaves by the mere fact of their capture. A captured woman's previous marriage is immediately annulled…..{read the whole dastardly Koranic "justifications"….}
AS to the absolute incompatibility of Islam's inclusion into western norms/nations, one must also internalize where it presently stands, as opposed to the rest of the west: Muslim leaders/ethos are stuck in the 7th century, whereas the west is living in the 21st. And this is where the clash of civilizations ensues; its battle grounds.
BASICALLY, America left behind its own dark history of slavery through the realization that its blight cast a long shadow on its presumed ideals. Resultant, its people entered into a bitter Civil War to abolish what had become man's inhumanity to man. And along with said enlightenment came a national understanding of the evils attributed to enslavement.
Islam, on the other hand, teaches no such ability for self or national reflection. As is said, this is where the rubber meets the road. BUT if a visual aid is required to shed the harshest light where Islam stands on a core human rights issue, pay heed to the following presentation. It is eye opening and jaw dropping, but no less true. It aligns the nexus between the mindset of Islam and Nazi socialism via their usage of propaganda machines and their anti-western hatred; the main "meeting of the minds" between the reds and greens!
REGARDLESS of all else, the Jihadi-in-Chief, the heretofore leader of the free world, has done little to thwart the Islamic State and attendant Islamic global aspirations. To wit, he has little issue with their barbaric enslavement, even as he blah, blahs over women's rights issues. For the record, he facilitated their rise. The proofs are beyond reproach.
AND while many are doing their parts on the bloody battlefield to stop Islam in its tracks, others are busy beating them back via the sphere of public opinion and informing the public with the most updated info available.
ASSUREDLY, it is this site's "sacred" mission to lead in this regard, hopefully, making a dent in the process.
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At this stage I just need to access it over a LAN. I have already changed the desktop sharing preferences to allow others to view/control the desktop, but thats about all I could do that seemed obvious.
I'm totally new to this, with most of my previous Linux experience coming from Knoppix CD's and Damn Small Linux on ancient PC's. So far I'm incredibly impressed with Linux Mint's usability and features! Any help greatly appreciated!
The traditional way to do this is via X Window, but for your purposes the easiest way would be to use VNC. Google it.
Excellent, did the job! Thanks for your help, should be very very useful!
Remmina is also a choice.
› [Solved] Is Windows to Unix Worth it?
I hate VNC myself so I would suggest FreeNX. The performance of VNC is just awful.


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Home » Array » 2016 Budget Further Undermines Contractors Working Through PSCs
2016 Budget Further Undermines Contractors Working Through PSCs
So, the Chancellor used yesterday's budget to continue his vendetta against contractors. In particular, he's targeting contractors operating through personal service companies.
The reason for this fresh assault on independent UK professionals? To curb tax avoidance.
Not that most contractors create a limited company to save on tax. But if they had their way, that's what the government and media would have you believe.Rather, these gutsy contractors have identified an opportunity. They have an in-demand skill that can add flexibility to businesses who either:
don't have full time roles for their specific speciality;
have identified an opportunity/weakness that needs third party expertise to address it.
If the maths behind the punitive measures worked, Mr Osborne's argument may carry weight. They don't; IPSE has mapped out the figures using a modest example of £87,000*.
In reality, the Government's persecution of individuals working through a Limited Company is self-defeating. Here's why.
The undocumented labour (and cost) of running a PSC
Anyone who deals with contractors understands the burden they endure as a company director. Running your own business means you have to wear several different hats.
Contractors aren't employees with a task-specific employment contract and a HR department. They are, for all intents and purposes, their brand, the face of it and the manpower behind it.
And it's the government's ignorance of this concept that's causing the massive disconnect.
In short, the government hasn't got a clue about contracting. So how can it govern that which affects the community in such an acute manner?†
The government doesn't acknowledge the additional tasks that contractors take on board:
accounting;
insurance(s);
pensions;
self-tuition;
double NICs;
pitching for jobs.
Then there are the sacrifices contractors make that employees take for granted:
sick pay;
holiday pay;
tools of the trade;
death in service benefits.
matched pension contributions;
These are all measures all contractors must address, inside IR35 or not. Some come with physical costs, like accountants and training, as well as (lost) labour.
This is not tax avoidance; it's professional, self-employed entrepreneurial business.
Employee versus Contractor: a theoretical role reversal
*It's not as if the government will reap a huge reward per capita with the envisaged changes. Even if all contractors switched to PAYE, HMRC has inflated its expectations.
Let's use an annual turnover of £87,000 to keep consistency with IPSE's figures.
All other things being equal, an employee pays around £2,000 a year more tax than a contractor on that sum.
Now, you tell me. Look at those two lists above. If you offered an employee £2,000 a year more, but stated that they'd have to take on all of that work in addition to their day-to-day tasks, would they?
The majority, they'd say no. They'd tell you where to shove the £2,000 first. Then they'd add a polite reminder that there are departments who deal with all that.
Yet still the Chancellor insists on chasing one-man-businesses for every last penneth of tax. It's a fool's errand that may well be his undoing.
The reason? Mr Osborne believes that this pursuit will net HMRC £400M. That's a fair amount to find is not there when he comes to balance the books. But almost half a billion budget deficit could be the least of his problems.
The knock-on effect to the UK economy and public sector
For now, the Chancellor has chosen to implement the new measures in the public sector only. It means that public sector HR departments will have to decide if a contractor should pay tax at source.
Chris Bryce hinted at such scenario in a pre-emptive statement last year.
In it, he intimated that the proposed measures would cause massive confusion in the public sector. Moreover, "untold damage" and "significant harm" to the flexible economy.
It wouldn't surprise us if public sector HR departments issued a carte blanche missive. To save carrying out case-by-case assessments, all contractors may go on the payroll.
Yes, that would make it easier for the administration and payroll departments. But which contractors would work on PAYE and accept the burden of running their company? It's not gonna happen.
What if limited company contracting becomes unsustainable as a business model?
The private sector could suffer if the measurements reach beyond the public sector, too. As an example, 400,000 of the 4.6M self-employed in the UK are in the construction industry.
They have trained in their craft.
They've earned time-honoured service under their belt.
Their experience working on site is 100% relevant.
Does the Chancellor want to alienate that type of skillset?
If those contractors decide (sub)contracting doesn't work for them, what then? The unimaginable outcome could be the same for both private and public sector.
First, the slew of trained contractors will stop knocking at the door. They'd favour the security of permanent employment and set hours.
In their place you'd maybe find an inexperienced group of consultancy workers. To rub salt in the wounds, they'd cost much more per hour due to the consultancies' cut.
The UK owes a debt to its flexible friend
The Chancellor seems to have forgotten a debt that the UK owes. The flexibility of contractors provided the backbone of economic recovery.
But it's not just the recovery the Chancellor ought to concern himself with. According to Deloitte, 46% of US big businesses forecast engaging freelancers in C-Suite roles.
It's no surprise. The recession set a precedent, a new way of working.
Deploying short term contracts in specific expertise enabled firms to be competitive again. Engaging knowledgeable contractors saved thousands in man hours, weeks and months in immeasurable time.
If the Chancellor makes this route ineffective, he – and the UK – will lose that flexibility.
Contracting and freelancing are not fads. They are the stealth weapon businesses will deploy to enjoy continued growth. That's if they can find the talent to spearhead their campaigns.
How has the Chancellor got this so wrong?
Our community's job is to find out where the mismatch of information comes from. We need to help the Chancellor understand our lifestyle choice.
He needs to see why crippling the UK's flexible workforce is wrong. It's detrimental to both ensuring a full economic recovery and future growth. But where do we start looking?
† The Chancellor's first choice should start a little closer to home. After last year's emergency budget, the Government commissioned Julie Deane OBE to conduct a study on their behalf. She was to review self-employment in the UK.
Last month, she submitted her findings in a 41-page document to the Prime Minister. True, taxation was not one of the criteria of the report (?!?!).
But it was the overwhelming pain point Ms Deane received:
"Although outside the remit of this review, taxation was repeatedly raised by all of those interviewed – as an administrative burden, a barrier to growth, and an issue that could benefit from improved simplicity and better advice.
"Given the scale of concern I recommend that Government looks at this in more detail."
For your part as a member of the contractor community, you can help via IPSE. The Association has changed the modus operandi of its IR35 forum to discuss tax issues at large. IPSE's call to arms is clear:
"IPSE and the contractor community needs to come together to prevent the damage the Government's latest planned actions will cause to freelancers, contractors and the self-employed.
"The larger we are as a group protecting, the greater the power of our voice in Government. We need to protect the UK's flexible labour market."
That quote comes from their latest newsletter; Chris Bryce has a point.
Mr Osborne won't rest until all one-man-businesses are on PAYE. Even with a Downing Street-commissioned report at hand, he continues along this path blinkered.
We cannot let propaganda win; the UK's flexible workforce is amazing and invaluable. Let's keep it that way.
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To celebrate the occasion, easyJet and Airbus unveiled an A320 in a unique all orange colour scheme.
Its maiden flight with passengers from Toulouse for Paris and then onto London, was appropriately given flight number EZY200.
"Our ambition is to become Europe's preferred airline. We're already Britain's biggest – carrying more passengers than the others put together.
"We aim to Turn Europe Orange and the special livery on our 200th aircraft embodies that ambition!," said Carol Carolyn McCall, easyJet chief executive.
easyJet already operates the world's largest fleet of A319s with over 166 in service today.
It celebrated a fleet of 100 aircraft as recently as 2005.


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Q: Query for numeric field against text field that contains a numeric value In my database, I have one field, Service_Day, formatted as numeric, which contains a single digit number 1 through 7 (for days of week). I want to compare it against another field, called Region, formatted as Text/String which also contains a single alphanumeric character 1 through 7 (again representing days of the week). It seems that I should be able to query the records where "Service_Day" <> "Region", by using the proper syntax. I thought AsString or AsNumber or Convert might be appropriate, but can't figure it out. Any ideas, other than creating a new field and formatting it as either text or numeric and then copying whichever data to that field?

A: The answer to your question depends on the database you are working with.  For File Geodatabase feature classes and tables you can use the Cast operator.  For example, this will work in a File Geodatabase:
Service_Day <> CAST(Region AS FLOAT)

You can also convert a numeric value to a string and compare it:
CAST(Service_Day AS VARCHAR(1)) <> Region

Converting to a string is often most useful when used in combination with the SUBSTRING function:
SUBSTRING(CAST(OBJECTID AS VARCHAR(50)) FROM 3 FOR 1) <> Region

(Not a particularly great real life example, but the syntax works).
Nothing I have tried works for Shapefiles.

A: A lot of VBscript functions work in SQL.. for example CDbl but such commands are for the more modern databases like Microsoft Jet (Access format), Esri fGDB and enterprise databases like Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
Shapefiles rely on long outdated DBase IV commands which can be really difficult to get help on. This is because queries are passed on to the database driver, but even shapefiles seem to have a subset of this SQL... Arccording to documentation VAL(TEXT) should make it into a number, STR( [,  [,  [, ]]]) should convert numbers to text but that doesn't work.
As a workaround try adding a numeric field and calculate the values, then when converted to a number you can use the values in SQL.
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