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Oh come on now! Hash smokers aren't into violence, and are much into music - it's live and let live...but don't touch my hash! Isn't it?
posted by
adnohr
on January 11, 2012 at 6:14 PM
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MAKROOH!
posted by
TAPS.
on January 11, 2012 at 1:37 PM
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Wow
It's horrifying how much human beings want to control others.
posted by
Bel_Marshall
on January 10, 2012 at 7:35 PM
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I will dedicate a song to that.
posted by
UtahJay
on January 10, 2012 at 7:33 PM
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Such ignorance must be worked at, one could not believe it without effort. WAKE UP PEOPLE IT IS ONLY STEPS AWAY FROM OUR DOORWAY!
posted by
Justi
on January 10, 2012 at 6:30 PM
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I thought of Cat Stevens, too! Then I had to Google it to be certain he was still in the fold so to speak! He was not allowed to enter the US of A a few years back because he is on the terrorist list or the like. But I found this intersting from the guitar player as it were:
From 1966 he had a successful career as a pop-star. Then in 1977 he converted to Islam. Ever since, he has been committed to promulgating his sanitised version of Islam to Westerners and expanding his niche in the Islamic world.
Before converting, he was searching for a crutch in his life. He flirted with Buddhism but realized it was not suitable for him. He "tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology." His brother, impressed by a visit to a mosque in Jerusalem, gave him a Qur'an. Eureka! Mr Islam had found his calling. An ideology that promotes polygamy, honour killing of wives, daughters and sisters, hacking heads off non-Muslims, stoning women to death, hanging homosexuals, female genital mutilation (circumcision), suicide bombings, execution of apostates, child marriages of little girls, and more. And anti-Semitism, a virulent hatred of Jews and Israel.
On his conversion to Islam, he wrote: "I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality"
Scientific reason? The scientific way to behead an infidel? The scientific process to stone a person to death? Maybe the scientific method of circumcising young girls - Female Genital Mutilation? Perhaps the scientific wisdom of Iran's late barbaric Ayatollah Khomeini, a 20th century man with a primitive 7th century desert mentality?
"One of the first interesting things I learnt was that the word 'Islam' itself comes from Peace or Salam." Really? Karen Armstrong, a devotee of Islam, defines Islam as 'submission' or 'surrender' to the Will of God. So do other Muslims. Submission and Surrender!
Source: HERE
So, it would seem that he has no idea, perhaps he's still strumming, at least something, lol.. Shelly 
posted by
sam444
on January 10, 2012 at 2:03 PM
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Nautikos
Guess I'll be seeing you down below old chap.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 10, 2012 at 11:03 AM
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I recall that music as a whole was frowned upon.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 10, 2012 at 10:49 AM
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Nautikos
RJ The singer that I knew as Cat Stevens still plays regular folk music Naut. However I don’t know where he stands in Islam. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on January 10, 2012 at 7:49 AM
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