Every year Muslims donate 2.5% of their wealth/belongings to the poor and needy. This principle is known as Zakat and constitutes as one of the five pillars of Islam. It is the only tax imposed by Islamic law or the Islamic state.
It is obligatory for Muslims who are sane, free and own a certai...
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Here we go again, another round of direct talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. We have had them before and they never seem to get anywhere. But there always has to be some hope that this time there will be a breakthrough. Just like 'only Nixon could go to China' it is possible that on...
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Is there an exercisable feasible solution to the excessive biased voting using fake A/Cs problem?
The voting on this site; tends to be biased and we need people to actually read , judge and vote on debates rather than vote for their own teams or friends/relatives.
Two days ago I ran a voting ...
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Agreed that this suggestion is unlikely if not impossible to ever occur. However, given that there are only two factions in Kashmir; a larger one that calls for an independent Kashmir and a smaller group that wants to join up with Pakistan. And neither wants to be a part of India.
Evidence of t...
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In 2004 the excuse for not helping Earthquake victims in the Northwestern war-zone region of Pakistan was that most funds were being sent/delivered to Tsunami victims. Now according to Ban-Ki-Moon the floods in Pakistan are worst than the Tsunami. Yet funds are meager.
Could this be because at ...
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There has been a great deal of progress since the Troubles, and many conflicts have been settled, but riots in Belfast last night after the Orange order parades show that there may well still a long way to go. Indeed given how far we have come only to still have violence should it be asked whethe...
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Can Pakistan be trusted to deal with the Taleban/Taliban problem?
Both the coalition forces and the Taliban feel hoodwinked by Pakistan's murky foreign policies. Whose side is the country on? Does it matter? Is it imperative to choose sides? Or is winning trust and backtracking on some promises ...
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The Muslim world was developed and flourishing at a time when the West was still amassed in the dark ages. Muslim scholars and scientists made several great contributions in the fields of agriculture, art, economics, industry, law, literature, astrology, medicine, philosophy, science, and techno...
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Some people argue that science can answer any question we have about the universe. Others argue that science is unable to settle questions such as whether god exists and what consciousness is. Science my not yet have answered these questions but that does not mean it never will.
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In 1992 the American political scientist Samuel P Huntington proposed that after the cold war the fundamental fault line of the future would be along the boundaries of civilisations. These were fundamentally defined by religion and cultural area. He argued that along these boundaries conflict was...
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Women are 'solely' responsible for the propagation and existence of the human race. Now with the creation of artificial sperm, a man's role in the process is void and unnecessary.
Statistically:Women live longer on average. Women deal better with stress.Women perform better in school. Women are...
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It is difficult to argue whether the war in Afghanistan has lost all purpose because the purpose is impossible to define. Quite frankly, how much can we ever really know? Originally, Mr Bush considered it as a means of reaching Osama Bin Laden. Originally, it aimed at unravelling the network acro...
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Every year Muslims donate 2.5% of their wealth/belongings to the poor and needy. This principle is known as Zakat and constitutes as one of the five pillars of Islam. It is the only tax imposed by Islamic law or the Islamic state.
It is obligatory for Muslims who are sane, free and own a certai...
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You cannot have a questioning mind and be religious. Religion requires faith with necessitates the abandonment of questions.
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There isn't a day that goes by where we don't hear about tragedies around the world. Does this mean that a benevolent god is out of the question? The greatest physicists in recent history do NOT reject God.Stephen Hawking and Einstein both vocally and in literature expressed their ideas of a no...
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In 2004 the excuse for not helping Earthquake victims in the Northwestern war-zone region of Pakistan was that most funds were being sent/delivered to Tsunami victims. Now according to Ban-Ki-Moon the floods in Pakistan are worst than the Tsunami. Yet funds are meager.
Could this be because at ...
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If it's the world's oldest profession, why is it illegal? Should sex be treated as a commodity or is it sacred?
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Here we go again, another round of direct talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. We have had them before and they never seem to get anywhere. But there always has to be some hope that this time there will be a breakthrough. Just like 'only Nixon could go to China' it is possible that on...
More...
Is there an exercisable feasible solution to the excessive biased voting using fake A/Cs problem?
The voting on this site; tends to be biased and we need people to actually read , judge and vote on debates rather than vote for their own teams or friends/relatives.
Two days ago I ran a voting ...
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Israel managed to humiliate Vice President Biden by announcing new construction in East Jerusalem when Biden was trying to restart the stalled peace process. This is however not in Israel’s interest. Palestine is moving towards stability at least in the West Bank and being able to declare itself ...
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We the proposition define the motion(LEADERS OF COUNTRIES THAT USE EXTRA-TERRITORIAL RENDITION SHOULD BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES) as:'Leaders are responsible for the practice,execution and admission/permission of extra-territorial detention.They are wary of the covenants that they or their predecess...
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Women are 'solely' responsible for the propagation and existence of the human race. Now with the creation of artificial sperm, a man's role in the process is void and unnecessary.
Statistically:Women live longer on average. Women deal better with stress.Women perform better in school. Women are...
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Hostage taking media coverage, creates sympathy and dialogue for not only the hostages but the hostage-takers, who bring into light their political agenda and strife. They come out as victims/heroes and governments are portrayed as the bad guys who moved them to this 'desperate' criminal act. Gov...
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There isn't a day that goes by where we don't hear about tragedies around the world. Does this mean that a benevolent god is out of the question? The greatest physicists in recent history do NOT reject God.Stephen Hawking and Einstein both vocally and in literature expressed their ideas of a no...
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Islam, 'like' many other Religions, promotes active discrimination between Believers & Non-Believers as a part of its core doctrine.
Unlike the Bible it has never been Reformed.
Quranic Quote Surah 3:28 States "Do not take un-believers as friends...".
Such divisions in Brit...
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The financiers(The WEST) will extensively control the curriculum and the set-up of these schools.And Thus will be capable of correcting, the tainted mindset of Muslim extremist students in the WEST.
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The war on terrorism that started after 9/11 is still ongoing. It goes through name changes but the core of the conflict remains the same; we are involved in a conflict against a nebulous group of terrorists. This is neither a war in the conventional sense, nor is it winnable in the conventional ...
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Facebook,Wikipedia and YouTube are the three most popular websites restricted by the government of Pakistan this week.Youtube was also blocked earlier in 2007 during a notoriously botched election. Now the excuse for shutting these websites down runs from "There existed a facebook group whic...
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In 2004 the excuse for not helping Earthquake victims in the Northwestern war-zone region of Pakistan was that most funds were being sent/delivered to Tsunami victims. Now according to Ban-Ki-Moon the floods in Pakistan are worst than the Tsunami. Yet funds are meager.
Could this be because at ...
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In 1965 the death penalty was abolished as a punishment for murder. Although it was never used since, in 1998 it was completely abolished across all crimes in the UK. Does Britain need the reintroduction of capital punishment and would it be a good thing?
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The latest scandal that implicates the pope as having had a role in covering up child abuse is just the latest in a long line of abuses. Much of the problem lies both in the Church’s hard line positions and its centralisation of control. The Catholic Church was not always the centralised controll...
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As history tells us the most gory and bloody and longest wars are those of religion, If there wasn't religion would there be terrorists ("kill all the infidels"-Holy Koran/Quran "Oye/oi,weirdo headphone guy stop dissing the Koran; and I didn't know members of the KKK, Tamil tigers ...
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In 1649 Cromwell invaded and conqured Ireland, in the process of which he caused two notorious massacres at Wexford and Drogheda. With the Subjegation of Ireland Charles II had little chance of raising an army in Ireland to reclaim the English throne, forcing him to turn his attentions to Scotlan...
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Currently in both the US and Britain churches and other religious organisations qualify for charitable status. Why?
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Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski has urged EU governments to contribute to a special fund to maintain the Auschwitz death camp memorial site.
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If it's the world's oldest profession, why is it illegal? Should sex be treated as a commodity or is it sacred?
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Dubai is considered in a lot of countries in the world a place of pure paradise, where everyone is free and you can achieve anything you want. Recently journalists have started to challenge this view with a recent panorama programme and opinion article in the independent highlighting 'The dark si...
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Dr Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell where the genetic code was built from scratch which is the first artificial life created and could well open the way to do much more. Almost everyone agrees that it is a major scientific breakthrough. As the creation of life is perhaps the biggest area...
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Some people argue that science can answer any question we have about the universe. Others argue that science is unable to settle questions such as whether god exists and what consciousness is. Science my not yet have answered these questions but that does not mean it never will.
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As we come up to Christmas, it is almost impossible to avoid the huge plastic illuminated displays, tacky music and Christmas specials on TV. Is Christmas becoming too commercial? Should we return to more traditional celebrations? What is Christmas supposed to 'mean' anyway?
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