Friday, February 27, 2015

Are All Muslims Terrorists?

From the Terrorist strikes of 9/11/01 to ISIS, the Muslim Religion has been painted into one of many  nations most feared religions, but what we do not seem to grasp, even today, is the fact that it's only a hand full of whom are a part of a fanatical sect calling themselves a part of Islam that give this religion a negative persona.

Barak Barfi has presented a challenge to the leader of ISIS. A challenge that throws back to the practice of a peaceful debate, a method used by Muslim Calif leaders that follow the truth of the Qur'an instead of their own twisted version, one that is done without weaponry or anger, instead it is done with mercy (Mercy being the backbone of the teachings of the Qur'an) and peaceful conversation. Barak's challenge was not just for the leader of ISIS, but also to other Muslims and Arabic's around the world, so they may realize how deep of a threat ISIS can be, with their charismatic propaganda, manipulating the disenfranchised and youth who are seeking an identity, instead of teaching the true nature of the Qur'an, they teach only what they have chosen to mangle into their own manifesto.

Barak Barfi goes on to directly ask Al-Baghdadi, "Where is your Mercy?"  Muslim scholars said the key part of this passage, which forms the backbone of Islam's "just war" theory, is that, "while self-defense is allowed, violent aggression, especially against innocents, is a grave sin.". All of those whom were killed because they were not Muslim, or they join the ISIS group and convert but are later killed because their conversion came too later, are innocents. How long will we let this group steal our young, threaten our borders with invasion and death if we do not conform to their ways, and then later face execution we were not their part of their radical sect to begin with? How long will we let this ISIS group grip our throats with fear before we take action? While I applaud the challenge as set forth by Barak Barfi for the debate with the ISIS leader, I do not expect it to be met.  This is a group with which our Government, no Government can persuade with treaties or with a slap on the wrist by simply telling them "No more".  They hide their faces behind masks, they terrorize the weak, and prey on those they perceive have wronged them with no wrong having taken place, nor any slight directed to them or their families.  These are not holy warriors with a just cause, these are thugs making the world a part of their turf war.  More so, this is a pack of animals infected with rabies, and you cannot treaty with rabid animals. 

A Direct Challenge Placed by Barak Barfi, to the Leader of ISIS
Article name: ISIS vs. mainstream media: The media war
By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog editor

Friday, February 13, 2015

Behind the Curtain

How America Screws Up the World, Without us Knowing.
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How America Screws up the world without ever letting it's own people know what is happening.    By John Chuckman February 13, 2015 - 10:48am

  Brian Williams, an anchor for NBC Nightly News, gave his audience a false version of his travels during the Iraq war. This isn't the first instance in which a fairy tale was told to boost political standings with the public. As mentioned in the article, paragraph 2, “Hillary Clinton, in her 2008 nomination campaign, claimed she came under fire in Tuzla Bosnia, in 1996 when her plane landed.”, When in reality, she was welcomed with open arms by a young boy none the less. The article then goes into there not being any truthfulness in journalism anymore, not like we grow up thinking journalism is, giving non-bias information. No, instead there is corruption, bribery, fraud, and much more. For those in America who are are starting to get deeper into their news broadcasts, probably seem like there is an abundance of different providers, when in all reality its 6 massive corporations. A. J. Leibing gave us perfect precision in saying “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”.

  Those in the masses of America who pay attention to the media will occasionally see bits of information in regards to over seas affairs, but we don't actually know what is going on. It would be simple to look something up on the Internet that bypasses the media entirely and find out more than what is being said. We are constantly reminded of the actions of other countries, but never are told about Americas actions in those other countries, and it's sometimes residual affects. What of the woman and children of a foreign country? How about the wars/incidents caused by Americans meddling, or America equipping power hungry mercenaries and thugs. Our government wants to keep the younger generation shielded from the worlds affairs, which leaves us vulnerable later in life when they take our place. And believing that this is the norm, making policies and decisions that reflect what they believe the previous generation actually did, when in fact it was made up and exploited by the media.