September 14, 2003 | 17 Rajab 1424 Hijriah
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The Clipboard
America's hidden battlefield toll
The true scale of American casualties in Iraq is revealed today by new figures obtained by The Observer, which show that more than 6,000 American servicemen have been evacuated for medical reasons since the beginning of the war, including more...
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veiled4allah
Imagine the America you want to live in #9
How do you imagine that the world would be different if a Department of Peace was included in the U.S. Cabinet?
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A Quranic Journal
Surah Nuh ayah 18
Thumma yu'idukum fi ha wa yukhrijukum ikhraja Then He will return you to it and bring you out once again The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn Kathir: The return is at death...
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A Quranic Journal
Surah Nuh ayah 17
Wa Allahu anbata kum min al-ardi nabata And Allah produced you from the earth itself The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn Kathir: This (Nabat) is a verbal noun (for emphasis) and its...
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A Quranic Journal
Surah Nuh ayah 16
Wa ja'ala al-qamara fi hinna nuran wa ja'ala ash-shamsa siraja And made the moon a light in their midst and the sun a lamp The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn Kathir: He...
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veiled4allah
another plug
My latest is up at Open Source Politics. This time it's a look at how welfare reform left immigrants out in the cold. Welfare reform is one of many reasons that progressives are not big fans of Bill Clinton (other...
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The Clipboard
The Matrix of Ignorance
In late August, the number of US troops killed since May 1 reached 138, the same number that had died between the attack begun March 20 and Bush's triumphant declaration that the war was over. This was a depressing statistic...