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offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Aug 02, 2025 01:24 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Families Face Losing Their Land in Solar Power Push Fri Aug 01, 2025 19:00 | Sallust
Families all over Britain are facing the real threat of losing their land and livelihoods as new solar power rules give developers the power to take over their property.
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offsite link Asylum Seekers Handed Almost One Million NHS ?Free Passes? Fri Aug 01, 2025 17:10 | Richard Eldred
Nearly a million NHS HC2 certificates have gone to asylum seekers in the last five years, granting them free prescriptions, dental care, eye tests, wigs and even help with travel costs.
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offsite link The Ex-Harvard Professor ?Off the Leash? on the Trans Debate Fri Aug 01, 2025 15:23 | Richard Eldred
Meet Jimmy Doyle, the ex-Harvard philosophy professor who, now free to speak his mind, calls trans rights ?the most obvious social contagion since the Children?s Crusade? and slams universities for abandoning free inquiry.
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offsite link Could Comic Cow Shows Be the Answer to Today?s Misery? Fri Aug 01, 2025 13:00 | Joanna Gray
Comic cow games could be the joyful, chaotic antidote to modern misery ? Joanna Gray thinks Britain should follow France's lead and swap the pricey Premier League for soft play and charging bulls.
The post Could Comic Cow Shows Be the Answer to Today?s Misery? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Taliban’s Terror-Jizya On Sikhs

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Tuesday May 12, 2009 18:09author by Ram Puniyani Report this post to the editors

The article below shows that the Talibans terrorisation of Sikhs is not justified by the Quran.

The Taliban’s capturing of Swat valley and other parts of Pakistan are accompanied by the news of their atrocities in the region, which not only include the brutal killings of innocent citizens, mostly Muslims, on the ground of their belonging to different sub-sect of Islam, but also there has been imposition of Jizya, on non Muslims, Sikhs. While many Muslims have been killed and abducted many on various flimsy grounds, many a Sikhs have fled from the area. The failure to pay the full Jizya has caused Sikhs dear, while some of them have been kidnapped and others’ households-properties have been confiscated. Taliban’s logic is that they are imposing this as per the tenets of Islam.

What is the place of Jizya in Islam and is it relevant today? There is a mention of Jizya in Koran, the tax levied on non Muslims, in the conquered territories. Interestingly there was no such tax in Medina where Prophet lived for long years. The logic of Jizya on non Muslims in the conquered areas was that the non Muslims are to be exempted from military services, they are under the protection of the rule of Muslims, so this tax. It was a negotiable tax to be paid at the end of the year; it was levied only on the earning population in exchange for state protection.

The article is here. http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani110509.htm

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Jizya not just a benign "tax" on beliefs     John 3: 16    Wed May 13, 2009 10:23 
   More on Pakistan & Taliban     Tipu Sultan    Wed May 13, 2009 11:29 


 
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