Sodden wheat lies flat in fields across southern Kansas. Insurance companies are writing off acreage as total losses. Test weights for the few truckloads of grain straggling into area elevators are awful. And it is still sprinkling.
The start of the 2007 Kansas wheat harvest will long be remembered for its shattered prospects. After seven years of drought, the wet winter and even wetter spring had nourished a crop that once promised a bin-busting harvest. But that was before the Easter weekend freeze, before the disease pressure, before the insect infestations and the heavy rains. Before the floods.
But there is a bright side for farmers. While the untimely rains at harvest time have wreaked havoc on the Kansas wheat crop, the moisture has helped spring-planted crops like corn, soybeans and sorghum thrive.
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That's it, I'm moving to the Darfur. Somewhere where my family can have a fighting chance at prosperity.
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The irony of farming is that a good harvest is only good if you are the only farmer who has it. If everybody has one, it can be worse than a bad harvest.
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We had SNOWFALL in APRIL which severely damaged wheat yields. And believe me drought is an everpresent threat here. We're in the Great Plains after all.
For the city folk. I remember one year when the heat was in the 90's, corn was 7-8 foot tall, you could stand in the field on a windless day and actually hear the corn grow. Kind of a quiet snapping sound.
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For the city folk. I remember one year when the heat was in the 90's, corn was 7-8 foot tall, you could stand in the field on a windless day and actually hear the corn grow. Kind of a quiet snapping sound.
Holy Cow! that's TALL CORN TALK Icerigger!!
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I'm not sure how much oil Iran is able to export nowadays, what with the deterioration of its neglected infrastructure, but 600 million barrels of light crude will surely make a difference when it comes on-line in seven years... and the promise will shape attitudes now.
UK firm Tullow Oil jointly owns the West Cape block where the drilling took place with Anadarko Petroleum. It was one of the biggest oil finds in Africa in recent times, Tullow said.
Tullow and Anadarko firms share rights to the adjacent Tano basin, which could yield more oil. "Based on evidence to date, ultimate reserves are likely to be materially in excess of previous estimates, with some high potential zones still to be drilled," said Tullow chief executive Aidan Heavey.
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What is the predominant religion in Ghana? Just askin...well, according to wikipedia it's Christian 63%, Indigenous beliefs 21%, Muslim 16%. Cuz, you know, it could be an issue with some folks.
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EU6305
The ROP is located mostly along the northern border. IIRC the south is Christian.
Al
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Glenmore is correct. We are at our world peak or very close. US hit our domestic peak in the 1970s. 60% of current crude is coming from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and UAE. In 20 years, 80% will be coming from there. That's why we are in Iraq. And you know what? I'm fine with that. However, we must cut our consumption, or we will find ourselves in a bad place 25 years from now. And this is coming from a well respected petroleum geologist.
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60% of current crude is coming from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and UAE. In 20 years, 80% will be coming from there
In the context of what/who. Russia has moved past SA in exports and likely has peaked itself. 600 million bbl is roughly the size of the US Strategic petroleum reserve..... Roughly 50 days of US imports.
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The thing about peak oil is that its misleading, new wells actually keep coming online as older wells dry up or their flow lessens. The biggest discoveries actually still wait up for us because they are deeper to drill for. As drilling tech improves new areas and deeper depths will yield more oil.
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What I meant to say was that approximately 62% of the remaining conventional reserves on the planet are in just a few Middle East countries of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Iraq, and Iran, plus a few more little Arab countries. All of these are clustered around and just to the east of Israel. Because most other countries have either already peaked, meaning that they are producing their second half of reserves, and the Arab counties have such large reserves plus many years left until their reserves peak, the percentage of the world supply of remaining reserves in those Arab countries will go up from 62% to 70, or possibly 80 as time progresses. They have us over a barrel now, and will by a wider margin in the future.
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I expect the Chinese with trillions locked up from their Walmart commercial dealings with the US West, will already be buying up the futures on it. One politician or whole African governments at a time if necessary.
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No need to be quite so gloomy, folks. Here's some happy news ...
"This year's review, which covers the period to the end of 2006, included an assessment of the size of Canadian oil sands for the first time. They stand at 163.5 billion barrels."
That's equivalent to almost 40 years of US imports.
I did talk on the phone for bizness to a guy there, and he had an Afrikaaner name and accent. Seem to be plenty of whites there doing quite well still in private industry.
The president of Gambia can cure AIDS, but just on Thursdays, the only day when his healing powers work. The cure includes applying a green sludge to the skin of the patient, sprinkling a mystery liquid, having the patient swig a brown broth, and topping it all off with a banana snack. Whirling about the patient and uttering verses from the Koran are also part of the treatment. Verses from the Koran. Knock me down with a feather.
President Yahya Jammeh says this treatment, with its seven secret herbs, can cure AIDS "with absolute certainty" if patients meet two requirements: 1) abstaining from alcohol, tea, coffee, sex, and theft during the multiweek course of treatment, and 2) ceasing to take antiviral medications. So far no one has come back to complain that it didn't work for them.
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Jeez, ya see such great works as this from their leading politicians and ya just gotta wonder why Africa's so fucked up.
Must be Global Climate Change Warming...
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Dude, my banana can cure all the evils of the world!
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Where is the world AIDS federation denoucing this fool? Oh wait he's black. Come to think of it I'm willing to bet he will ether get some kind of medical research grant from them.
Jam a banana into the appropriate orifice and AIDS isn't a problem.
However sick it might seem, AIDS is essentially the same behavioral modification measure that venereal disease represented during the nineteenth century. Sleep around all you want, just be sure to have paid up your burial fees in advance.
As a man who is totally disgusted by infidelity, it's really difficult for me to summon much sympathy regarding the vast majority of promiscuous shitheads who acquire and disseminate this lethal disease. Welcome to Hell, assholes.
Representatives of Zimbabwe's government and main opposition party are holding talks to try to ease the political crisis that reached new heights this year with the arrest and torture of opposition leaders, officials confirmed yesterday. The talks, held under South African auspices, started at the weekend in the South African capital, Pretoria. "All we can confirm at this stage is that there are talks," said George Sibotshiwe, a South Africa-based spokesman for Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
The Zimbabwe government was represented by the justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa, and the labour and social welfare minister, Nicholas Goche, Zimbabwe state radio said. Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube were representing the two factions of the divided MDC.
Mr Sibotshiwe said the MDC respected South Africa's request for a media blackout. He would not say how long the negotiations would last, but the idea was to reach an undisclosed "milestone". He said that the South African president, Thabo Mbeki, was expected to make a statement about progress next week, ahead of the end of June deadline to report back to the Southern African Development Community, which appointed Mr Mbeki as mediator earlier this year.
Mr Mbeki has consistently espoused quiet diplomacy, saying that criticism from the west and sanctions have worsened Zimbabwe's problems. He has said that Zimbabweans themselves must find the solution.
Inflation in Zimbabwe is 3,714%, and the UN said last week that a third of the country's 12 million population will be dependent on food aid by the end of the year because of drought.
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gab.. gab.. clears throat.. bla bla .. hot air... Co2... junket food.. asshat fees ...wads of documents with elaborate headings and titles..
*ahem*
Today we announce that The United States of America is to blame for Zimbavbwe's current plight!!
we call on America to make money for nothing and chicks for free!
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Mr Sibotshiwe said the MDC respected South Africa's request for a media blackout. He would not say how long the negotiations would last, but the idea was to reach an undisclosed "milestone" ie, removal of all remaining Boer farmers and shopkeepers.
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All further aid to Zimbabwe should be contingent upon the elongation of Mugabe's neck. Sick as it sounds, maybe we should continue all further aid UNTIL they stretch Mugabe's cervical vertabrae. Kim du Toit is right, Let Africa Sink.
If the Dark Continent has not proven this, then Afghanistan and Iraq surely (and don't call me Shirley) must have. The era of nation building is over, once and for all time. We are killing the emergent third world countries with financial influxes that sustain their tribal overlords. As Kenyan economic expert James Shikwati says; "For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"
Imagine eliminating the entire parasitic NGO structure with a single stroke. Cancel their meal ticket. End their almost intrinsic abuses. Create an atmosphere whereby emergent third world countries must rely upon their own expertise and determination to succeed. Pretty scary, huh?
Saudi Arabias Interior Minister has defended the kingdoms controversial religious police after the deaths of two Saudis in custody and accused media of exaggerating the case, a newspaper said on Monday. The religious police has wide powers in Saudi Arabia to enforce bans on drugs, alcohol and prostitution as well as to stop unrelated men and women from mixing.
But the force, which hardline clerics say is central to Saudi Arabias austere form of Sunni Islam,, has come under increasing criticism from newspapers and rights activists for overzealous behaviour and lack of clear guidelines. Over the last month a 50-year-old man died of a heart attack while in custody in the desert town of Tabuk and a 28-year-old man died in Riyadh amid accusations by his family that he was beaten to death for suspected consumption of alcohol.
Initial investigations show that commission members had nothing to do with their deaths. The court will decide on the matter according to the investigation, Prince Nayef was quoted as saying in the English-language Arab News. The paper said the prince, a close ally of the autonomous body, called on journalists and people in the media not to be hasty and not blow up mistakes by government bodies. The Interior Ministry has rejected calls to disband the force, whose members wear distinctive long beards, loose headscarves and white robes that stop above the ankles in what they consider to be an imitation of early Muslims.
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AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, condemned to death for killing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family on August 15, 1975, was brought back to the country yesterday, after over a decade on the run in the United States. Immigration police arrested him on his arrival at Zia International Airport (ZIA) at 12:18pm and took him straight to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka. From there, the ex-army major who was tried in absentia for his part in the gruesome August killings was sent to Dhaka Central Jail.
The US Homeland Security got him on board a flight to Dhaka after a district court in Los Angeles on June 14 ruled that it could not overturn an immigration judge's order for his deportation. The immigration case dragged on for years as he appealed the deportation order issued against him in 2002. On February 27, a judge in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco allowed the order to stand. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials arrested Mohiuddin at his house in Los Angeles on March 13. Since then, the government has been after bringing him back to the country.
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MOSCOW - Russian warplane maker MiG said on Monday it planned to sell 350 of its new generation fighters for about $10-12 billion by 2020 as it breaks into new markets, according to Russian news agencies. Aircraft make up almost half of Russias arms exports, with MiG and Sukhoi taking the lions share of those sales.
The modernised MiG-29, based on a classic Soviet design, has new navigation systems and new generation weapon systems. By 2020, we plan the delivery of 350 modernised MiG-29s for about $10 billion to $12 billion, Vladimir Vypryazhkin, deputy head of marketing at MiG, was quoted by RIA news agency as saying at the Le Bourges air show outside Paris. We are also having talks on modernising MiG-29s with countries in Venezuela Latin America, Burma southeast Asia and Libya North Africa, Vypryazhkin said.
MiG, one of the jewels of Russias arms industry, is vying for a giant order from India, which wants to buy 126 combat aircraft to replace ageing MiGs and British Jaguar planes. Russia, which has close trade ties with New Delhi, is pushing its cutting-edge MiG-35. Boeings F/A-18 Super Hornet and Lockheed Martins F-16 are also competing for the contract.
Vypryazhkin said MiGs order book was currently just under $4 billion, Itar-Tass reported. Russian defence officials say they seek to boost arms sales to a record $7.5 billion in 2007 from $6.5 billion in 2006.
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In other news, USA reveals a $12 Billion contract for advanced target drones.
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While visiting the museum at Peenemunde. I took a pic of a flogger whose air intake was packed with Mc Donalds trash. Wish I knew were that went to at moments like this.
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The MIG is a good choice for many 3rd world nations. It is rugged, easy to use and cheaper than the western version. Against most other 3rd world foes, it does very well.
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The MiGs are good for what the British Empire used to call wog-bashing, but against a modern air force with Western aircraft and Western trained pilots, the MiGs become expensive target drones. In other words, if you run some Third World hellhole, then the MiG is your choice for internal suppression duties.
HINT: That panda's not trying to climb the building.
[emphasis added] China manufactured every one of the 24 kinds of toys recalled for safety reasons in the United States so far this year, including the enormously popular Thomas & Friends wooden train sets, a record that is causing alarm among consumer advocates, parents and regulators. The latest recall, announced last week, involves 1.5 million Thomas & Friends trains and rail components about 4 percent of all those sold in the United States over the last two years by RC2 Corporation of Oak Brook, Ill. The toys were coated at a factory in China with lead paint, which can damage brain cells, especially in children.
Just in the last month, a ghoulish fake eyeball toy made in China was recalled after it was found to be filled with kerosene. Sets of toy drums and a toy bear were also recalled because of lead paint, and an infant wrist rattle was recalled because of a choking hazard. Over all, the number of products made in China that are being recalled in the United States by the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission has doubled in the last five years, driving the total number of recalls in the country to 467 last year, an annual record.
It also means that China today is responsible for about 60 percent of all product recalls, compared with 36 percent in 2000.
Much of the rise in Chinas ranking on the recall list has to do with its corresponding surge as the worlds toy chest: toys made in China make up 70 to 80 percent of the toys sold in the country, according to the Toy Industry Association. Combined with the recent scares in the United States of Chinese-made pet food, and globally of Chinese-made pharmaceuticals and toothpaste, the string of toy recalls is inspiring new demands for stepped-up enforcement of safety by United States regulators and importers, as well as by the government and industry in China.
These are items that children are supposed to be playing with, said Prescott Carlson, co-founder of a Web site called the Imperfect Parent, which includes a section that tracks recalls of toys and other baby products. It should be at a point where companies in the United States that are importing these items are held liable.
The toy trains and railroad pieces are made directly for RC2 at plants it oversees in China, presumably giving it some control over the quality and safety of the toys made there. Staci Rubinstein, a spokeswoman for RC2, declined on Monday to comment on safety control measures at company plants in China. The Toy Industry Association, which represents most American toy companies and importers, also declined to comment. Julie Vallese, a spokeswoman for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, said the agency recognizes that more must be done to prevent the importation of hazardous toys and other products from China. It is a big concern. And the agency is taking steps to try to address that as quickly as possible, Ms. Vallese said. Their businesses will suffer if they dont meet safety standards.
Scott J. Wolfson, a second Consumer Product Safety Commission spokesman, would not say how long ago RC2 discovered the problem or when it first reported it to federal authorities. In the last two years, the staff of the consumer product commission has been cut by more than 10 percent, leaving fewer regulators to monitor the safety of the growing flood of imports.
Some consumer advocates say that such staff cuts under the Bush administration have made the commission a lax regulator. The commission, for example, acknowledged in a recent budget document that because of resource limitations, it was planning next year to curtail its efforts aimed at preventing children from drowning in swimming pools and bathtubs.
The toy industry in the United States is largely self-policed. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has safety standards, but it has only about 100 field investigators and compliance personnel nationwide to conduct inspections at ports, warehouses and stores of $22 billion worth of toys and tens of billions of dollars worth of other consumer products sold in the country each year. They dont have the staff that they need to try to get ahead of this problem, said Janell Mayo Duncan, senior counsel at the Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports. They need more money and resources to do more checks.
Most recalls are done voluntarily, as was the case with Thomas & Friends, after companies discover problems or receive complaints. Among the toy recalls, the problem is most acute with low-price, no-brand-name toys that are often sold at dollar stores and other deep discounters, which are manufactured and sent to the United States often without the involvement of major American toy importers. Last year, China also was the source of 81 percent of the counterfeit goods seized by Customs officials at ports of entry in the United States products that typically are not made according to the standards on the labels they are copying.
At one of the RC2 factories in Dongguan, China, on Sunday, a pair of workers who were paid about $150 a month to spray paint on mostly metal toy trains six days a week said they did not know whether the paint they used contained lead. The factory produces metal toys as well as the wooden toys listed in the Thomas recall. Were just doing the painting, says Li Hong, a 22-year-old factory worker who was sitting out in front of the factory dormitories. Exactly who operates the factories making the Thomas & Friends trains in Dongguan is unclear. While the zone is run by a group of Chinese or Hong Kong suppliers, it also houses an office building that bears the RC2 corporate logo.
Chinas own government auditing agency reported last month that 20 percent of the toys made and sold in China had safety hazards such as small parts that could be swallowed or sharp edges that could cut a child, according to a report in China Daily. Officials in China, of course, are fighting back, insisting that its food and other exports are safe and valuable, that new regulations are being put into place and that problem goods account for a tiny portion of all exports. The Toy Industry Association urges its members to routinely test products it is importing to make sure they comply with federal safety standards, which prohibit, for example, surface paint that contains lead in toys or items that could cause a choking hazard.
Other major retailers or toy industry companies hit by recalls for products made in China this year include Easy-Bake Ovens, made by Hasbro, which could trap childrens fingers in the oven and burn them, and Target stores, which the consumer product commission said was importing and selling Anima Bamboo collection games, some of which were coated with lead paint. The 22 models of the Thomas & Friends toys that are being recalled include some of the most popular items in the lines collection, such as the red James engine and the fire brigade truck. The toy line, based on the childrens book and television series, has an almost fanatical following among some families, who own dozens of models, which can cost $6.50 to $70 each.
The string of lead paint cases has drawn the most attention from consumer watchdogs and parenting advice columnists. Do I have to look at every toy that has paint on it that comes from China as perhaps suspect? said Mr. Carlson, of Imperfect Parent. Ms. Duncan, of Consumers Union, urged parents to sign up for the Consumer Product Safety Commissions automated notification system at the commissions Web site (www.cpsc.gov), so they can stay on top of which toys are being recalled. Ms. Vallese, the spokeswoman for the product safety commission, said the agencys acting chairwoman, Nancy A. Nord, went to China in May for a meeting with her counterparts there, focusing in particular on toys, lighters, electronics and fireworks. No comment was available from the Fireworks Candy and Puppy Dog Store when this article went to press.
Is there a concern that there are more products coming in from China and making sure they live up to the standards we expect?
Federal administration officials were unavailable for comment.
Ms. Vallese said. Yes, there is, and we understand our authority and obligation and we will make sure we enforce it. But parents shopping at for toys in New York over the weekend said the whole episode left them uneasy. I think its terrible, said Chris Gunster, 41, while perusing the Thomas & Friends display area in Toys R Us at Times Square with his wife and 4-year-old son, James, a big fan of the toy trains. Lead paint in this day and age? Hey, we're talking China where baby-killing chalk dust infant formula still hits the market. Why do you think us quai loh would deserve better?
A company in eastern China was ordered to stop production after both of China's food safety officials found it was repackaging the filling from two-year-old rice dumplings, an official said Tuesday.
Officials in China's Anhui province ordered a recall of all "zongzi" - a traditional snack made of glutinous rice and other fillings usually wrapped in bamboo leaves - made by the manufacturer, Wan Maomao Frozen Food Co.
"We are still investigating. The company will be punished according to law after the investigation," said an official with the Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau in Anhui's capital, Hefei, who like many Chinese would give only his surname, Wu.
There were no reports of anyone falling ill from eating the dumplings. But the recall comes amid an uproar over problems with tainted foods and medicines that have spread to other countries following the discovery of toxic chemicals from China in medicines, pet foods and toothpaste made or sold overseas. The dumplings were not sold outside Anhui, Wu said.
The factory had removed the original wrappings from the dumplings and repackaged them as made in 2007, according to a report Tuesday in the official newspaper Shanghai Daily. Some of the dumplings already had begun to rot, it said. The Shanghai Daily said authorities found two tons of the expired dumplings in a weekend raid of the factory. They retrieved another 1.4 tons that already had been sold, it said.
Zongzi are traditionally eaten during the Dragon Boat festival each June. According to custom, the dumplings originally were thrown into a river as an offering to the ancient poet Qu Yuan, who according to legend drowned himself in 278 BC. Now that's an old tradition!
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Ahh, the old "repacked dumpling" gag. That's the oldest trick in the book.
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We need to hire a bunch of Chinese nationalspreferably close relatives of senior communist party membersand force them to sample all products entering our country from China.
I'll ask that people please try to consider how China's media stranglehold means that we are hearing only about 0.1% of the actual number of cases involving this sort of crapulence. Remember, this is the country that cheerfully withheld timely notification about the SARS epidemic that cost the globe untold BILLIONS of dollars in medical expenses and lost tourism. Does anyone really think that China will be forthright about just how untrustworthy their consumable exports are? China's "most favored nation" trading status and WTO membership need to be revoked yesterday.
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mile high club comes to mind... set record for triples..
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Better not put them in any double seaters.
"You missed the turn". "Better stop and ask for directions." "You picked the radio frequency last time." "Would you turn the A/C down, I'm cold." etc. . . . .
The uproar is not because its false information, but because its true and embarrassing apparently in "this day and age" -unlike pedaeophilia.
An uproar in the Egyptian media followed the recent publication of a book by Egyptian Mufti Dr. Ali Gum'a in which he claimed that the companions of the Prophet Muhammad would drink his urine to be blessed.
The fatwa provoked strong objections on the part of the Egyptian religious establishment. Leading Al-Azhar and Religious Endowments Ministry officials stated that Gum'a's conclusions were mistaken even though they were based on Islamic sources. They added that his claims were inappropriate for the modern era and that they only caused embarrassment in the Egyptian street and did damage to the Prophet and to Islam.
There was an outcry against the fatwa from the Egyptian public, and a complaint was filed against Gum'a demanding that he stand trial for harming Islam, the Prophet, and the Companions of the Prophet. Columnists in the Egyptian papers ridiculed the fatwa and protested against it: While some argued that there was no point in raising such issues from the past that had nothing to do with public life today, others stated that the fatwa was for Islamic scholars, not for the masses, and still others said that it was a tool for those who sought to harm Islam. Some also called on Gum'a to resign from his post as the Mufti of Egypt.
While according to some reports Gum'a had apologized for the fatwa, in actuality he clarified that he had not apologized, but had only decided to remove the book from the market and to refrain from appearing in the media until the uproar subsided.
The following are a summary of the fatwa and excerpts from responses to it in the Egyptian press:
Egyptian Mufti: The Companions of the Prophet Blessed Themselves with His Urine, Sweat and Saliva
In his book Religion and Life - Modern Everyday Fatwas, Egyptian Mufti Dr. Ali Gum'a wrote that the companions of the Prophet Muhammad would bless themselves by drinking his urine, and described an incident of urine-drinking from a hadith: "Umm Ayman drank the urine of the Prophet, and the prophet told her: 'This stomach will not be dragged through the fire of Hell, because it contains something of our Lord the Messenger of Allah...' [1]
"This blessing," Al-Gum'a added, "[can also] be done with the honorable saliva, sweat, hair, urine or blood of the Prophet. This is because anyone who knows the love of the Messenger of Allah is not repulsed [by these]; just as a mother is not repulsed by the feces of her son, this is even more so [in the case of] our Lord the Messenger of Allah, whom we love more than our fathers, sons, and wives. Anyone who was or is repulsed by the Messenger of Allah must recant his faith." [2]
Following the ensuing uproar, Gum'a came to the defense of his fatwa, saying: "The entire body of the Prophet, whether exposed or hidden, is pure, and there is nothing in it- including his secretions - that [can] repulse anyone. His sweat smelled better than perfume. Umm Haram would collect this sweat and distribute it to the people of Al-Madina." [3]
Dr. Gum'a added: "The hadith of Suhail bin Omar at Al-Hudaybiya says: 'Oh Lord, I was with Kisra [the ruler of Persia] and with Kaisar [the ruler of Byzantium] and I saw no instance in which the leader was glorified like the Companions of the Prophet glorified Muhammad. The second Muhammad spat, one of them would immediately hasten [to grab his saliva] and smear it upon his face.' Hence, the ulema, including Ibn Hajar Al-Askalani, Al-Baihaqi, Al-Daraqutni and Al-Haythami, determined that the Prophet's entire body was pure." [4]
Several weeks later, the Egyptian press reported that Gum'a had apologized following objections to the fatwa voiced by the Academy of Islamic Research at Al-Azhar, and that he had promised, at the request of Al-Azhar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, to have all copies of the book containing the fatwa taken off the market. [5] Later on, he explained that he had not apologized, but had only decided to refrain from appearing on the satellite television channels until the uproar died down. ... see article for more on the developing scandal of the century. This cult justs gets sicker and sicker the more ya learn.
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This is because anyone who knows the love of the Messenger of Allah is not repulsed [by these]; just as a mother is not repulsed by the feces of her son,
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So all that fury over "allegedly" a little toilet water getting on a copy of the Koran was just another example of projection by all the guilty parties [press, muzzies, the usual anti-American crowd, etc]? Wouldn't that really have been like blessing the water in this case?
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Guma should have his very own fatwa on him soon. The funny thing is all the arguments about how this scholastic piece of information is being released now and how it plays into the hands of western ridicule..
The ME feels its only to give us fuel to mock Mohammad (Piss be inside you) well beyond the Mohammad cartoons out of Denmark. That begs the realization that mockery is bang on. And this new humiliation (but here, the Profit himself humiliates the cult) is going to stoke big fires if anyone in the west takes the bait.
The more shame and humiliation and doubt and remorse that can be imbued, the better. Let them hear the laughter of the educated and free. The derision of those they oppress and the hopes of those they enslave. Mock this mockery of a religion and recognize the death, horror, warped insanity of it all.
I say take it, this news flash of more piccadellos of Mohammed and reveal the cult for what it is. Also, National Lampoons 72 Virgins should be go, go, go. Laugh them out of any power they thing they hold. Laugh and point is a go.
Haha! According to the hadith Muhammad suffered from a long-lasting disease, which he treated by means of bleeding. He walked as somebody who comes down from a hill. His skin-colour was peculiar, not white, not too tanned, somewhat rosy. His eyebrows were conspicuous. He was sweating heavily, especially when he was receiving revelations. He heard the noise of bells and voices. He had a great appetite and suffered from hunger. Notwithstanding his sexual relations with ten young women, he remained quasi-sterile: one only child after the age of forty years. During his last illness he suffered from intense headaches, losses of consciousness, back- and intestinal pains. He died at the age of 62 years. Psychologically he was known as trustworthy, somewhat retiring and prude. Initially, about at the age of forty years, he was depressed, retiring, and showed a tendency to suicide. He spoke slowly. Most typical were his great hands, dough feeling palms, great feet, a long fleshy nose, well developed ears and a peculiar voice.
These indications suggest that he suffered from acromegaly. This hypothesis allows to explain almost all details found in the hadith.
Acromegaly is caused by an adenoma of the pituitary, which causes an increase in growth hormone (somatotropine) and usually a deficiency or increase of other hormones such as gonadotropine. The disease begins in adult persons about the fourth decade of age. Most patients die about the age of 60 years. It is a long-lasting disease with slow progress, sometimes burning out. Most patients tolerate it reasonably well. The melanophore hormones secreted by the pituitary cause a peculiar straw-yellow skin-colour. Excessive sweating is sometimes caused by hyperthyroidism. Sweating can be oily and have an unpleasant odour. Patients suffer from high blood pressure. Some hirsutism is observed (eyebrows). The growth of all extremities after adult age causes also the vertebrae to extend and the spine to curve. This extension can cause pain as the nerves suffer pressure. Especially typical is the enlargement of the fingers and the dough like feeling of the palms when shaking hands. Rarely a bleeding of the pituitary occurs and causes dead: this apoplexy of the pituitary causes headaches, nausea, vomiting, losses of consciousness. Psychologically patients suffer initially from depression, brooding and irritability, also an increase of appetite and a loss of libido. Some patients are anxious and are lacking in self-confidence. When the adenoma exerts pressure on the third ventricle and the optic chiasma in the brain the patients may suffer from hallucinoses. Uniformly these patients are trustworthy. Their personality is characterised by conscientiousness, reliability and industriousness.
Muslims don't stop at drinking Mohammed's urine. The suckers have been eating his shit for the past 1400 years.
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