October 14, 2003 | 17 Shaban 1424 Hijriah
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The Clipboard
The ClipboardUS Troops Bulldoze Crops
US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not...
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veiled4allah
veiled4allahif you were experiencing problems trying to leave a comment
It turns out that the comment spam blacklist plugin that I installed yesterday makes some changes to the way that comments are processed, which conflicted with several other modifications I had made to my MT system. After corresponding with the...
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A Quranic Journal
A Quranic JournalSurah al-Haqqah ayah 5
Fa amma thamudu fa uhliku bi at-taghiyati So then Thamud were destroyed by thunder The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn Kathir: It is the cry which will silence them, and the quake...
From: A Quranic Journal
A Quranic JournalSurah al-Haqqah ayah 4
Kadhdhabat thamudu wa 'aadun bi al-qari'ati Thamud and Aad lied about the calamity The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn Kathir: Then Allah mentions the destruction of the nations that denied the Resurrection...
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The ClipboardThe Soviet Republic of Texas
You might think America's rigged system of congressional elections couldn't get much worse. Self-serving redistricting schemes nationwide already have left an overwhelming number of seats in the House of Representatives so uncompetitive that election results are practically as preordained as...
