Posted on 04/28/2006 5:59:42 AM PDT by white trash redneck
July 15,2005
"After London attack, cleric urges: 'Annihilate infidels' Less than a day after the terrorist bombings in London, the Palestinian Authority's official television channel broadcast a sermon calling for extermination of all non-Muslims. "Annihilate the Infidels and the Polytheists! Your [Allah's] enemies are the enemies of the religion!" said Suleiman Al-Satari in a July 8 broadcast translated by Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch, or PMW. "Allah," the cleric continued, "disperse their gathering and break up their unity, and turn on them, the evil adversities. Allah, count them and kill them to the last one, and don't leave even one." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1443850/posts
Islam is not a religion, it is a cult!
Islam should be banned in the US. It is not a religion - it is a death cult. Muslims in this country can never be trusted. Of course, Bush thinks it's a religion of peace. What a bunch of crap!
I agree with you that Islam is a cult. However, there appears to be strong sentiment, even among conservatives, that being a Muslim is just another religious choice, like being a Presbyterian or a Lutheran.
The silence from so called "moderate" Islam in the wake of 9-11 and other atrocities committed in the name of their religion speaks volumes about their core beliefs. We are engaged in a fight to the death struggle between Western values and Islam and if Islam triumphs either through military force or appeasement the whole world will be turned into an Iranian model police state. Islam has become the 21st century version of Nazism.
How about the Faint of Heart?
The former phrase might refer to a transplant surgeon who fakes putting a heart into one recipient, and then quickly turns and puts it into another. The phrase that is a synonym for "fearful" is spelled faint of heart.
The headline writer misspelled "Faint." Not anybody's fault here on FR -- just shows something about the publication....
:-)
"The first step towards wisdom is calling things by their right names." -old Chinese proverb
Well, no, it's not an FR mistake. It's repeated in the next to last paragraph. But it's an extremely weird mistake.
I have never understood our President's stance on the ROP. Anyone with half an IQ can follow Islamic History and see for themselves that their Actions speak far louder than their words.
It's not assumption.
It's wishful thinking and cowardice.
It's a dumb mistake, but not tremendously weird. From the OED:
faint, a. Forms: 4 (and 9 in sense 1 b) feint, 46 fainte, faynt(e, feynt(e, 6 Sc. fant(e, 4 faint.
[a. OF. faint, feint feigned, sluggish, cowardly, pa. pple. of faindre, feindre (mod.F. feindre) to feign, in early use also refl. to avoid one’s duty by false pretences, to shirk, skulk.]
I think he misses the Shah.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Blowing a common cliche is a damn strange error to come out of a professional writer in a major venue like National Review. It runs twice, so it's not a simple typo. Either the editor didn't catch it, or the editor is the one that changed it. Or there is no editor and the writer muffed it.
When somebody substitutes a word in an otherwise common phrase, there's no point defining the word. If I took someone to task for saying "here, here" would you read the definition of "here" to me?
I keep re-reading it to see if there's some ultra clever pun going on, but I'm not seeing it.
I sort of agree. But my earlier point is that it is not etymologically weird.
The cliche began as "feignt heart," as you can see from these Oxford English Dictionay Quotes:
3. Wanting in courage, spiritless, cowardly. Obs. or arch. exc. in faint heart (now associated with sense 4 b).
a1300 Cursor M. 18081 (Cott.) A faint fighter me thinc er Þou.
c1300 K. Alis. 7597 Haveth now non heorte feynte!
c1320 Sir Beues 1575 Ase he was mad & feint To Iesu Crist he made is pleint.
1414 Brampton Penit. Ps. cxvi (Percy Soc.) 44 Myn herte is fals[e], feynt, and drye.
c1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon viii. 184 Thoughe ye shold abyde behynde as weke men and feynte.
a1533 Ld. Berners Huon lii. 177 Thou arte of a faynte corage.
a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 219 The faint spies that went to the land of Canaan.
1627 May Lucan iii. (1635) 103 To send thee civill wars Having so faint a chiefe.
1702 Rowe Tamerl. i. i, His Party..soon grew faint.
1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 689 Faint heart never yet raised a trophy.
absol.
1814 Byron Lara ii. x, The fierce that vanquish, and the faint that yield.
1870 Bryant Iliad I. iv. 120 He made the faint of spirit take their place.
b.
Proverb.
1569 W. Elderton Ballad, Brittains Ida v. i, Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.
1624 Massinger Parl. Love ii. iii, All hell’s plagues light on the proverb That says ‘Faint heart’–! But it is stale.
"If I took someone to task for saying "here, here" would you read the definition of "here" to me?"
I think you don't understand how dictionaries work. I was citing the OED who claims that faint has various forms, including feint. And understandly so, since it is borrowed from the Old French "feint."
But this is clearly a blow to your world. I suggest you write a strong letter.
Hey, I ain't the one spending my morning looking up etymology in the OED to prove that the right word and the wrong word were the same word in the 14th Century.
Sorry I exposed your ignorance of etymology (or even how to use a dictionary).
Please continue to be outraged over a typo. It seems to suit you.
"OED to prove that the right word and the wrong word were the same word in the 14th Century."
Again, since this seems to be unclear to you, the OED says that feint is an acceptable form of faint in the sense of timid.
But perhaps you know better than the OED. You are the spelling police. LOL
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