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That would explain this:
Posted on 08/08/2010 8:28:22 PM PDT by Libloather
“U.S. Secret Service has purged the computer and filing cabinet files of the membership data on Obama and Emanuel.”
If this is the truth when are we going to indict and send SS agents to jail. For anyone else this would be a crime.
I cannot believe we have a queer for a president...good grief! Hope his Muslim kin don’t find out...could be a bad siuation for Zero.
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That would explain this:
ROTFLOL
Me neither. But how does someone PROVE they're gay?
Eyewitnesses are being sent for six so I guess it is not possible to prove, unless there are Mossad documents to call upon ... ?
Obama got no mistress. He has a mastress, though.
Guess the secret service doesn’t like cakes shaped like a penis.
she was just a distraction for the gay issue.
I bet Reggie Love didn’t go to Spain.
So, we don’t have a Muslim in the WH.
We have a GAY MUSLIM in the WH?
Explain’s Kagan as being more than a pay back to the gay lobby.
Do gays have a lock on DC or what? On the D side, the choice was a lesbian or a gay muslim, and we got the gay muslim.
Only in America.
“When do the festivities officially end?”
When michelle returns, apparently.
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Name of Questioner
Shamil - United Kingdom
Title
Islam’s Stance on Celebrating Birthdays
Question
What does Islam say about celebrating birthdays? Is it permissible to celebrate birthdays? My children sometimes insist on having a birthday party where we make a cake and light candles. We do not sing or do such things; we just blow out the candles and congratulate them.
Date
04/Mar/2004
Name of Counsellor
Group of Muftis
Topic
Social Manners
Answer
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear questioner, thank you for your question and the confidence you place in our service and we pray to Allah to enable us to render this service purely for His Sake.
Islam teaches Muslim to have a unique character and to be distinguished. A Muslim is weaned on morality and avoiding blind imitation. Islam supports the celebration of a birthday if it is an expression of gratitude to Allah for His bounties, sustenance and blessings in man’s life, as long as that celebration does not include anything that may displease Allah, the Almighty.
Focusing on the issue of celebrating birthdays, we would like to start by citing the following:
“In Islam, birthdays are not considered `eid (a festival) like `Eidul-Fitr or `Eidul-Adha, because `eids have conditions and guidelines such as not being allowed to fast during the days of Eid. Therefore, birthdays are simply occasions of a person’s date of birth and are a matter of culture. If a person wants to commemorate his/her date of birth, then he/she may do so, especially if he/she takes the opportunity to reflect on the past and pledge to be better during the following year. However, to make the birthday an important occasion is not recommended or encouraged.” (Excerpted, with slight modifications, from: www.islamicity.com)
Shedding more light on the issue, the prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Tajuddin Hamid Al-Hilali, Mufti of Australia and New Zealand, states:
“A Muslim has a distinguished personality. He should not imitate others in evil things and leave the good ones. Talking to our children about their birthdays, we should remind them that on such days they should remember the blessings of Allah and praise Him for giving them life and guidance. It would be better if we ask them to offer something in charity as a form of showing gratitude.
Still there is nothing wrong if we try to make them feel happy on that day as long as we are using lawful things. It is better if we make it a day ahead or a day after. You said that your children insist on having such a celebration, and this is really dangerous. If the child insists on having his desires fulfilled at this early age, what is going to happen when he grows older? We need to be alarmed and never allow Western traditions that are based on individualism, to ruin our families. Thus, calling birthdays `eids is not accepted, for this has no basis in Islam. At the same time, there is nothing wrong if we use these occasions to inculcate Islamic principles in our children, like showing gratitude to Allah, praising Him and seizing the chance of this life in performing good deeds since the older we grow the nearer to the grave we come.”
Speaking about the same issue Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi, Deputy Chairman of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, adds:
“Permissibility is the original ruling in this case, as there is no evidence of prohibition. The principle of not following the Jews and Christians is really required in matters of their false claims and beliefs in relation to religion. Such beliefs are no more than disbelief from an Islamic perspective.
Islam supports the celebration of birthdays if it is an expression of gratitude to Allah for His bounties, sustenance and blessings in man’s life, as long as that celebration does not include anything that may displease Allah, the Almighty. In this context the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about fasting on Mondays, and he answered: “It is the day on which I was born.” Muslim scholars take this hadith and the hadith of fasting on the Day of `Ashura’ (10th of Mharram) as evidence on the permissibility of celebrating good occasions, which have special significance in our religion such as occasions like the birthday of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
In this context, people must be aware that celebrating such occasions, e.g. the Prophet’s birthday, is no more than a matter of habit, and by no means a religious requirement. However, if it entails any forbidden practices, such a celebration becomes forbidden for that reason alone. Moreover, a celebration of this sort becomes recommended if it includes recommended acts of worship.
It is also right to say that such celebrations contain some aspects of innovation, however it is an innovation in matters of popular habits not in matters of religion. Actually innovation in habits is not prohibited. What is prohibited in this context is innovation in religion, as indicated in a well-known Prophetic hadith.
By analogy, there is nothing wrong in celebrating birthdays, as long as the celebration does not include any forbidden practices.”
Also read:
Muslims Celebrating the Holidays of Other Religions
Celebrating the Prophet’s Birthday
Allah Almighty knows best.
ooooh, I need bleach for my eyes...
LOL! I’ve seen that picture before but never noticed the LEO giving the limp wristed one a *secret* one finger salute!
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