Tongue Tied 3 (Free subscription) | yesterday
'Allahu Akbar' can be hate speech We read: "In his Nov. 25 letter ["Warning constitutes 'hate speech'"], Tom Panarese chastised the editors for publishing a Nov. 20 letter titled "Everyone, take cover at these words." This earlier letter's author stated, "I have instructed my family and friends to take cover when they hear the phrase, 'Allahu Akbar.'"...
The Elephant Bar (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Welcome to The Elephant. Please check-in your firearms and your egos at the door. Drinks are on the house if you bring your own. Do not kick the dog. Gents please pick up the seat. Smoking permitted. If you do not inhale, please leave. We encourage freewheeling conversation, keep it civil and interesting. Thanks-2164th & Whit, proprietors.
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... Abu Nidal Hasan--O slave of Allah, before slaying me and Kamran Mirza—you did not shout Allahu-Akbar. Why my son? Have you lost your marbles? I suspect, the only reason you did not shout Allahu Akbar is because you knew FBI would come after you with vengeance? Is that right? Dear Forum Members---I request you to visit my post again on Siraj Sikder and tell me where...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
I ask you, Hazrat Assghar, aka, Hazrat Abu Nidal Hasan--O slave of Allah, before slaying me and Kamran Mirza—you did not shout Allahu-Akbar. Why my son? Have you lost your marbles? I suspect, the only reason you did not shout Allahu Akbar is because you knew FBI would come after you with vengeance? Is that right? Dear Forum Members---I request you to visit my post...
Religion News Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Some 1,000 seminary students are resisting efforts to evict them from the former municipal building of West Jakarta, Indonesia where they have taken refuge after Muslim protestors drove them from their campus last year. In July 2008 hundreds of protestors shouting “Allahu-Akbar [“God is greater]” and brandishing machetes forced the evacuation of staff and students from...
Plastic: Most Recent (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Plastic::Etcetera::Military: A couple of weeks ago, Major Nidal Malik Hasan started a shooting spree at Fort Hood army base in Texas, reportedly shouting "Allahu Akbar" as he fired. The end toll was a dozen people killed, before the Major himself was shot down: he awai
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... must go before being deployed. Witnesses said he jumped on a desk and shouted the words "Allahu Akbar!" — Arabic for "God is great!" Army officials say he was armed with two pistols, one a semiautomatic capable of firing up to 20 rounds without reloading. The additional charges come less than 24 hours after Hasan's civilian attorney was notified that the...
Theodore's World (Free subscription) | yesterday
... post where soldiers must go before being deployed. Witnesses said he jumped on a desk and shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — Arabic for "God is great!" Army officials have said he was armed with two pistols, one a semiautomatic capable of firing up to 20 rounds without reloading. The additional charges come less than 24 hours after Hasan's civilian attorney was notified that the Army plans...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... there is something much worse in his book: But the granddaddy of bad prayers is, “Allahu Akbar!” uttered before shooting innocent people or setting off bombs to slaughter innocents to advance your own salvation. Such abuse by violence of God’s will was not invented at Fort Hood. After all, General Patton ordered the composition of a prayer for good weather so that...
Jewish Internet Defense Force (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Debbie Schlussel does it again, here's some excerpts: To understand why it was important for the Swiss to do what we in America simply don’t have the guts to, you must understand what the minarets symbolize and why they are there. It’s epitomized in the phrase “allahu akbar.” The phrase does not mean–as has been repeatedly reported–that allah is great....
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... On November 5, 2009, when Hasan was posted in the Fort Hood military camp, he reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar!” and started shooting the Soldier Readiness Center of Fort Hood, located just outside Killeen, Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others. He was shot by a Police officer and taken to the hospital. He is stable now and thus the court has started trial against him. ShareThis...
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... a self acknowledged devout Muslim who was overhead by his victims at Fort Hood screaming “Allahu Akbar” as he jumped onto a table and sprayed 100 lethal rounds into the lines of soldiers and civilians waiting to undergo medical and dental examinations. In 2007, at the Uniform Services Unified University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, Major Hasan gave a presentation...
Moonbattery (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... alike? All three recited what Arroyo calls “bad prayers.” But the granddaddy of bad prayers is, “Allahu Akbar!” uttered before shooting innocent people or setting off bombs to slaughter innocents to advance your own salvation. Such abuse by violence of God’s will was not invented at Fort Hood. After all, General Patton ordered the composition of a prayer for good weather so that thousands...
Muslim Perspectives (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
(For higher quality, watch the video on .)"Allahu akbar (God is the great.), allahu akbar, allahu akbarla ilaha illallah (There is no god except God.)allahu akbar, allahu akbarwa lillahi lhamd" (And all praise and gratitude is for God.)These phrases were being chanted before the Eid prayers Friday morning in Westin Hotel in Bellevue....
lovable liberal (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Tonight, I heard again the commonplace expression, "God is great." In Arabic, it would be "Allahu akbar." I didn't think it was a marker of terrorism. I didn't mistake it for anything but a culture-specific assertion of faith, an attempt to bring religion into the public sphere. I heard it - in English - from Tim Tebow after Florida smacked down Florida State. It was...
