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      <title>mugger who beat ex-soldier, 78, so badly he almost died</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:12:09 -0400</pubDate>
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 Granddaughter helps trap mugger who beat ex-soldier, 78, so badly he almost died by finding attacker's glove to provide police with DNA 


:Bill Hopkins, 79, suffered broken jaw during attack in Digbeth, Birmingham
:Richard Christie, 48, punched and kicked him in the head before fleeing
:Police traced him after Mr Hopkins managed to tear away his glove
:Jailed for nine years at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday

A granddaughter helped catch a mugger who beat a former soldier so viciously he almost died by finding the attacker's glove which was torn off in the attack.

Bill Hopkins, 79, suffered a broken jaw and was treated in hospital for two days following the unprovoked attack outside his home in Digbeth, Birmingham, last November.

His granddaughter Alana Kurila, 24, found the mugger's glove in his front garden and police were able to extract the attacker's DNA from it. Bill joked: 'She likes to be called Miss Marple now.'

Mugger Richard Christie, 48, was today jailed for nine years following the horrific attack


  


He pounced on the pensioner from behind, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the head before fleeing with his wallet containing just lb40 and a memorial card from Mr Hopkins' late wife's funeral.

Christie, from Sugden Grove, Highgate, admitted robbery at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday.

Ex-serviceman Mr Hopkins, who served in Borneo in the 1950s, woke up bleeding on the pavement following the attack just yards from his home on Gooch Street.


The great-grandfather was left particularly distraught because his injuries forced him to miss a Remembrance Day parade for the first time since serving overseas.

Detective Constable Lee Dawson, from West Midlands Police, described the mugging as a 'vicious, unprovoked attack.'

He added: 'The whole community were understandably outraged at the severity of the attack.

'We hope the sentence offers reassurance that we will do everything within our power to bring criminals to justice.'


   


Speaking after the court hearing, Bill said: 'I'm glad justice has been served and Christie is behind bars.

'Thankfully I've recovered from what he did to me. It hasn't put me off going outside or anything.

'I'm just glad he is in prison and cannot hurt anybody else. Both my family and I are pleased with the sentence.

'We also can't thank the police enough. They did a fantastic job catching Christie.'

Speaking shortly after the attack, Mr Hopkins' daughter Pat Kurila had broken down during a police press conference saying she feared her father might die such was the severity of his beating.

The 52-year-old teaching assistant, from Highgate, Birmingham, said: 'We could have been burying him. Whoever did this is the lowest of the low.'

Initially police believed the mugger had followed Mr Hopkins' home from a Ladbrokes in the Arcadian Centre, where he had won the lb40.

He was pinned down and attacked outside his house at around 8pm and later spent two days in hospital.

Mr Hopkins, who did his National Service in Germany and Malaya with the 11th Hussars, had said after the attack: 'The thing that most annoyed me was that I couldn't go to the remembrance parade on the Sunday as I do every year.'

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      <title> The Pale Blue Dot: A Cosmic Perspective</title>
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NOTE: Due 
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Description: While I generally strive to create films of uplift, there are times when
 a dirge is appropriate. Inspired by the recent bombing at the Boston 
Marathon, I was seeking a way to show the futility of human barbarism in
 the context of the plumbless cosmos in which we live. I chose to employ
 the method used in the film &quot;Contact,&quot; in which, as we pull away from 
Earth and race across millions of light years, we witness, in reverse 
chronological order, those events to which humanity has subjected 
itself. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, and given the 
video's length, I have already removed several incidents--from the 
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Six Day War, to the Israeli 
bifurcation of Gaza and the Columbine school shooting. Included only are
 examples of man's inhumanity to man, and not unintended tragedies or 
natural disasters. (This pullback and its events are meant to be 
symbolic rather than literal; I am aware no broadcasts of, for instance,
 World War I, were originally broadcast into space.) We end with a 
familiar admonition from Carl Sagan--a plea that we recognize the cosmic
 perspective given the insignificance of our &quot;pale blue dot.&quot; 

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      <title>Muslim Brotherhood in America</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 19:46:05 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Science class experiment spectacular fail</title>
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      <description>Probably the football coach teaching science.</description>
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      <title>Rise of the supersized schools: Baby boom and immigration behind increase in primaries with more than 1,000 pupils   </title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 09:03:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>The size of primary schools has rocketed in the last three years as Britain deals with an explosion in the birth rate fuelled by the rise in young immigrant families.

There are 60 per cent more supersize primaries with more than 700 pupils - including some with more than 1,000 - than in 2010, according to Department for Education statistics.

While three years ago there were no schools with more than 1,000 pupils, it is now becoming more common to have six classes in each year.




There are now 130 schools with more than 700 pupils, compared with just 80 three years ago.


Supersized schools are most prevalent in deprived areas, particularly east London and central Birmingham, where cheap council housing is available for families. 


Barclay Primary School in Leyton, east London, already has 1,200 pupils and will expand to accommodate 1,600 by 2014, according to the  Guardian .

Local authorities are forcing headteachers to open mobile classrooms on playing fields and in playgrounds, music rooms and libraries, in order to comply with laws meaning councils must find all children a school place, the newspaper reported.



But a National Union of Teachers study earlier this year found a fifth of areas where new free schools were being built, under the Government's scheme, already had at least 10 per cent of places going spare.


Colin Ross, a school governor and Sheffield city council shadow cabinet member, said primary schools should not exceed 420 pupils - or two classes of 30 in each year.

He told the Guardian: 'Parents want to know that primary school teachers know their children. If a school becomes bigger than 420, it is very difficult for staff to know each child.'







Bob Garton, head of the 1,200-pupil Gascoigne Primary in Barking, east London, said: 'We have no open space. We had a playing field, but temporary classrooms are on that now. We don't have one spare room. We are full to bursting.'

But Kay Jones, headteacher of Pinkwell primary in Hayes, Middlesex, which currently has 983 pupils and will expand to 1,200 by 2016, said size was not a barrier to good teaching. 


'Class sizes are the same as in other smaller schools and we make sure there are only 300 children in the playground at any one time,' she said. 


Studies have shown that pupils may be less likely to be bullied in larger schools but research on whether large primaries are better or worse for children are inconclusive.




The UK is Heading for disaster 




  And Cameron wants to &quot;make a go of it&quot; in the EU, we stay in the EU that means more influx of migrants into British schools, don't need to be a scientist to see that    


These people meant to be in charge haven't a fucking clue 
LOL











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      <title>Truly Disgusting and Disturbing child abuse video leaked.</title>
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      <description>Cheers Mods. *Viewer Discretion* A woman who is teaching at a boarding school in the village of Pioneer Mazanovsky was fed up with her complaints of child abuse falling on deaf ears and decided m ore decisive and effective action against them had been taken, she recorded this video and had it leaked to the Russian press and authorites. More on the story  here:  (It's in Russian, you'll need to translate it)</description>
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      <title>Take It From the Rabbi's Mouth</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:38:15 -0400</pubDate>
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Take It From the Rabbi's Mouth



  
 Introduction by  Gilad Atzmon  
 


Every so often we come across a secular Jewish 'anti' 
Zionist'  who argues that Zionism is not Judaism and vice versa. 
Interestingly enough, I have just come across an invaluable text that 
illuminates this question from a rabbinical perspective. Apparently back
 in 1942, 757 American Rabbis added their names to a public 
pronouncement titled 'Zionism an Affirmation of Judaism'. This 
Rabbinical rally for Zionism was declared at the time &quot;the largest 
public pronouncement in all Jewish history.&quot;
Today, we tend to believe that world Jewry's transition towards 
support for Israel followed the 1967 war though some might  argue that 
already in 1948, American Jews manifested a growing support for Zionism.
 However, this rabbinical pronouncement proves that as early as 1942, 
the American Jewish religious establishment was already deeply Zionist. 
And if this is not enough, the rabbis also regarded Zionism as the 
'implementation' of Judaism. Seemingly, already then, the peak of World 
War two, the overwhelming majority of American Rabbis regarded Zionism, 
not only as fully consistent with Judaism, but as a &quot;logical expression 
and implementation of it.&quot;
In spite of the fact that early Zionist leaders were largely secular 
and the East European Jewish settler waves were driven by Jewish 
socialist ideology, the rabbis contend that &quot;Zionism is not a secularist
 movement. It has its origins and roots in the authoritative religious 
texts of Judaism.
Those rabbis were not a bunch of ignoramuses. They were patriotic and
 nationalistic and they grasped that &quot;universalism is not a 
contradiction of nationalism.&quot; The rabbis tried to differentiate between
 contemporaneous German Nationalism and other national movements and 
they definitely wanted to believe that Zionism was categorically 
different to Nazism. &quot;Nationalism as such, whether it be English, 
French, American or Jewish, is not in itself evil. It is only 
militaristic and chauvinistic nationalism, that nationalism which 
shamelessly flouts all mandates of international morality, which is 
evil.&quot; But as we know, just three years after the liberation of 
Auschwitz the new Jewish State launched a devastating racially driven 
ethnic-cleansing campaign. Zionism has proven to be militaristic and 
chauvinistic.
Shockingly enough, back in 1942 as many as 757 American rabbis were 
able to predict the outcome of the war and they realised that the 
suffering of European Jewry would be translated into a Jewish State . 
&quot;We are not so bold as to predict the nature of the international order 
which will emerge from the present war. It is altogether likely, and 
indeed it may be desirable, that all sovereign states shall under the 
coming peace surrender some of their sovereignty to achieve a just and 
peaceful world society (a Jewish State).&quot;
Some American patriots today are concerned with Israeli-American dual
 nationality and the dual aspirations of American Jews. Apparently our 
rabbis addressed this topic too. According to them, there is no such 
conflict whatsoever. All American Jews are American patriots and all 
American decision makers are Zionists. &quot;Every fair-minded American knows
 that American Jews have only one political allegiance-and that is to 
America. There is nothing in Zionism to impair this loyalty. Zionism has
 been endorsed in our generation by every President from Woodrow Wilson 
to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and has been approved by the Congress of 
the United States. The noblest spirits in American life, statesmen, 
scholars, writers, ministers and leaders of labor and industry, have 
lent their sympathy and encouragement to the movement.&quot;
Back in 1942 our American rabbis were bold enough to state that 
defeating Hitler was far from sufficient. For them, a full solution of 
the Jewish question could only take place in Palestine. &quot;Jews, and all 
non-Jews who are sympathetically interested in the plight of Jewry, 
should bear in mind that the defeat of Hitler will not of itself 
normalize Jewish life in Europe. &quot;
But there was one thing the American rabbis failed to mention - the 
Palestinian people. For some reason, those rabbis who knew much about 
'universalism' and in particular Jewish 'universalism' showed very 
little concern to the people of the land. I guess that after all,  chosennss  is a form of blindness and rabbis probably know more about this than anyone else.

Zionism: An Affirmation of Judaism
http://zionistsout.blogspot.com/2008/03/zionism-affirmation-of-judaism.html


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      <title>Does Islamic finance have a place in Canada?</title>
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Around $900 billion in assets across the globe are managed by Islamic banks that operate according to sharia, an interpretation of Islamic law. In recent years, so-called Islamic finance has been growing at a rate of 15-20 per cent a year, and proved remarkably resilient to the financial crisis. Proponents of the relatively new sector point to its back-to-basics financial structures, which have made it popular with a number of non-Mulsim clients who have little appetite for risk. Critics, though, say the restrictions it comes with-prohibitions, for example, on paying interest and investing in anything that involves porn, pork or booze-are archaic and unworkable.

Canada, with its 1.3 million Muslims, has lagged behind countries like the U.K. and the U.S. in embracing sharia-compliant financial products. None of the country's big banks currently offer sharia-compliant services, though some smaller players do. Toronto-based UM Financial Inc., which issued home mortgages conforming to Islamic law, filed for bankruptcy last year, leaving 170 Muslim borrowers in limbo, and opening a legal can of worms. Is the firm's failure evidence that Canada should steer clear of Islamic finance; or proof that the country needs more of it-i.e. that the banks and policymakers need to bring the practice into the mainstream, with tighter rules and better oversight? We asked the experts to chime in. 

Tarek Fatah is the founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, a liberal-minded grassroots organization. He is also the author of Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic lllusion of an Islamic State, among other works. Walid Hejazi is associate professor of international business at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, where he is currently teaching an MBA course on Islamic finance.


What is Islamic finance?

Fatah: In the words of one New York Muslim banker, Islamic finance is little more than &quot;a $300 billion deception.&quot; According to Muhammad Saleem, former president and CEO of Park Avenue Bank, &quot;Islamic banks do not practise what they preach: they all charge interest, but disguised in Islamic garb.&quot; In fact, Islamic finance is just one more front in the worldwide Islamist movement's attempt to depict all things Western as essentially inimical to Islam.

Its foundational doctrine comes from the writings of two people: Abul Ala Maudoodi of the Jamaat-e-Islami movement in Pakistan and Hassan al-Banna of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. While these two pillars of the Pan-Islamist movement propagated jihad and war against the West, they also recognized the role international financial institutions could play in carrying out their political objectives. The theory was put into practice when the Islamist Pakistani military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq established sharia law in Pakistan, forcing the country's public-sector banks to run their operations based on Islamic principles and without the role of interest. As professor Timur Kuran, who taught Islamic thought at the University of Southern California, notes in his brilliant book Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism, &quot;There is no distinctly Islamic way to build a ship, or defend a territory, or cure an epidemic, or forecast the weather.&quot;

Hejazi: Islamic Finance allows individuals or companies to invest in conformity with the principles of Islam. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, though, Islamic finance has been extending its appeal to a wide range of clients-regardless of religion-because it relies on rather conservative and low-risk banking practices.

It is critical to emphasize that sharia-compliant or Islamic financial products can be made available to anyone-not just Muslims. There are five key elements that must be avoided in Islamic finance: interest (riba); speculation (maisir); uncertainty (gharar); unjust enrichment/unfair exploitation; and unethical purpose. I will focus on the most well-known-and, I would argue, the least understood-dimension of Islamic finance: the ban on interest.

Many interpret this ban to mean that money can be borrowed for free. This is not the case. Rather, it implies that the investor must have a stake in the underlying asset. What does this mean in practice? Here's an example (in which I am abstracting from differences that can arise in risk and administrative costs): Suppose you purchase a home for $300,000. Under a conventional mortgage, you may opt for a five-year, fixed-rate mortgage, say at five per cent, and amortized over 25 years. Your monthly payment would be about $1,745. Assuming that interest rates stay at five per cent, the amount that you would have to pay over the 25 year amortization period would be $1,744.81*300 months over 25 years = $523,443.00. In total, the homeowner will have repaid the $300,000 in principal plus $223,443.00 in interest. In reality, though, interest rates would vary and the mortgage would be renewed at whatever the prevailing rate is upon maturity of the mortgage.

With one form of sharia-compliant mortgage, the bank would buy the home on behalf of the customer for $300,000 and then sell it to the customer for $523,443.00. It means that over the 25-year period, the customer pays the fixed payment of $1,744.81, but unlike in the case of a conventional mortgage, there are no changes in these payments over the duration of the mortgage. A second difference is that late penalties are not allowed-the bank cannot charge punitive fees if a homeowner, for example, is laid off and has difficulty making some of the payments. It all goes back to the key principles above around partnership, fairness and eliminating uncertainty.

Should Canada embrace Islamic finance?

Hejazi: It is in the interest of Canadians to embrace Islamic finance, both on the retail and the commercial side. On the retail side, Statistics Canada estimates that Muslims will be about seven per cent of the Canadian population by 2031. A recent study prepared for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation reported evidence indicating that the demand for sharia-compliant mortgages currently exceeds supply. This demand will only increase. We need to bring these Canadians into the financial mainstream and give them better access to a type of financing that is consistent with their religious principles. Doing so is entirely consistent with fundamental Canadian values and our proud history. These sharia-compliant mortgages would be profitable and self-financing-they would impose no extra cost to the institutions offering them or the Canadian government. In addition, these mortgages would be available to all Canadians, who feel that the structure of the mortgage better fits their personal risk and financial profile.

Perhaps more important, though, is the commercial side. As my research has documented, Canada needs more foreign investment and our country has been slipping behind in terms of its attractiveness to foreign investors. Now, the Gulf region has a tremendous amount of excess liquidity-upwards of a trillion dollars! However, investors from that region often require their investments be sharia-compliant. The Rotman School, in conjunction with Deloitte, Bennet Jones, Torys, and King and Spalding have developed case studies in which we looked at whether sharia-compliant financial structures would be more costly than conventional ones in the context of three major Canadian projects. Our analysis found that the costs associated with a sharia financing structure were similar to those of the conventional financing structure. Having a capability within Canada to undertake these transactions will make Canada more attractive to foreign investment, and this will help grow the economy and enhance the prosperity of all Canadians.

Fatah: Canadian banks and financial institutions are already flirting with the idea. Can we blame them? Who wouldn't want gullible consumers who demand zero interest on their deposits but are willing to pay more on their monthly mortgage payments, all in the name of Islam and avoiding eternal hellfire. Islamists are lining up with such icons of global capitalism as Citibank NA, HSBC Holdings PLC, and Barclays PLC, which have all endorsed sharia banking and started offering Islamic financing products to a vulnerable Muslim population.

Promoting these products, of course, are a number of prominent Muslim corporate lawyers and bankers. This push from Muslim banking executives working inside the corporate world has had some success. While the Royal Bank of Canada didn't find enough market interest for a sharia finance product it tested a few years ago, other Canadian banks are smelling easy pickings and lining up to wear the Islamic mantle. Scotiabank and Toronto-Dominion Bank have been quietly considering whether to start offering sharia-compliant products as part of the big banks' strategy to reach out to a growing &quot;immigrant population,&quot; a politically correct way of labeling Muslims. Canada should not permit this charade of lies and deception posing as multicultural banking to segregate its Muslim population from the rest of society. If it does, there will be a huge cost to our values and to our future as well as to vulnerable Muslim-Canadians who are being blackmailed into paying more and receiving less for their banking needs.

Suppose mainstream Canadian institutions started offering Islamic financial instruments, making them widely available throughout the country. How would this affect, if at all, the integration of Canada's Muslim minority?

Fatah: The question assumes there is one Muslim community. I suggest there are many and they will react in different manner. My cursory study of the clients of now-bankrupt mortgage lender UM Financial shows that the company appeals mostly to customers from the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent and Caucasian converts to Islam, with Arab-Canadians and Iranian-Canadians virtually absent. Thus the integration of Canada's Muslims into the rest of society has very little to do with the success or failure of Islamic banking; it has everything to do with the failed policies of multiculturalism that encourage segregation and make it difficult to propagate Canadian values that have crystallized over 400 years of Western civilization and are the core of who we are as a country. Charlatans attempting to squeeze money out of an already marginalized minority community should be an affront to all of us-Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

Hejazi: If the mainstream financial institutions offered sharia-compliant financial instruments, such as mortgages, savings accounts, mutual funds, and so on, this would go a long way towards integrating conservative Muslims into mainstream financial markets and keeping our financial system strong and sound. At present sharia-compliant financial securities are not available in the mainstream; hence conservative Muslims who feel they must use sharia-complaint financial instruments are forced to deal with smaller, less well-known, less well-funded, and likely less well-managed financial institutions. Providing these Muslim-Canadians with this option does not come with any negatives.

Who opts for sharia-based financial instruments? To whom does this model appeal?

Hejazi: The Financial Times reports that the assets within the Islamic finance sector have now reached US$900 billion, double what they amounted to in 2006. This growth is remarkable given that it occurred during the global financial crisis.

A recent report by the International Monetary Fund attributes the growth in Islamic finance to three factors: increasing demand from the growing number of Muslims living in Western countries; growing oil wealth among the Islamic members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; and the attractiveness of sharia-compliant financial products and services to non-Muslims seeking ethical investments or fair financial products, as well as lower-risk, back-to-basics banking.

Fatah: The primary movers and shakers of sharia-based financial instruments are the rulers of the petro-dollar states of the Persian Gulf. In the working class neighborhoods of Karachi, Jakarta, Cairo or Tehran, no one buys into this &quot;paying more and receiving less&quot; model. They may vote for Islamist parties, but when it comes to their hard-earned money, they trust their banks and credit unions, not the mullahs bearing tickets to paradise.

Even in Pakistan, which has played a pioneering role in Islamic finance, few have embraced the Islamic banking institutions. Even in Saudi Arabia, home of the Islamic Development Bank, no-interest sharia banks did not find favour with the country's monetary agency, SAMA. In fact, as pious a leader as the late King Faisal allowed SAMA to place its surplus funds in interest-bearing accounts during the country's cash-strapped years in the 1950s and 60s. One thing is for sure: Muslims have voted with their feet and their chequebooks.

UM Financial, a Canada-based Islamic financial institution, recently went belly up. What lessons does the bankruptcy hold for Islamic finance in Canada?

Hejazi:  At present, Canadians seeking sharia-compliant mortgages and other financial products are forced to turn to institutions which operate at the periphery of the financial system, such as UM Financial, because these services are not offered through mainstream financial institutions. As is now well known, Canada's financial markets are among the most stable and well-managed globally. A collapse such as that at UM Financial is not consistent with Canada's image, nor should such institutions be able to put so many Canadian homeowners at risk. Canada needs the financial mainstream to offer these products. It is mainstream institutions that should be reaping a profit from these instruments.

The demise of UM Financial makes the case for bringing Islamic finance into the mainstream even stronger. Besides, as more Canadian institutions enter the Islamic finance market, competition will force the cost of sharia-banking products down to the level of their conventional equivalents. As noted in a recent CMHC study, in Canada, sharia-compliant mortgages currently cost between one and three per cent more than comparable conventional mortgages due to their modest supply and firms' relative inexperience with these products, as well as a lack of access to funding. In contrast, sharia-compliant mortgages in the U.S. cost only 0.4 to one per cent more than their conventional counterparts.

Fatah: The bankruptcy of UM Financial tells a simple truth: most Muslims would not want anything to do with financial institutions that promise a path to Paradise while enriching the pockets of those who sell Islamic indulgences. Court documents reveal that, just a few days before UM Financial went into receivership, its Sharia Advisory Board invoiced it for $2.1 million. This amount was ostensibly the fee charged for providing advice to UM Financial on the compliance of its products and services to sharia law.

In a scene that could have come straight out of a Bollywood crime thriller, UM Financial CEO Omar Kalair made this payment in gold and silver bullion at a Rexdale Parking lot, late into the night. The recipient, Joseph Adam, the finance manager of Multicultural Consultancy Canada, is said to have later flown to Egypt and is now reported missing-along with the gold. Canada has no room for charlatans who bring the medieval values of the pre-industrial era into the twenty-first century. Enough of this please.

(original article by Erica Alini for Macleans magazine)

Here's an interesting website listing some of the institutions which fund terrorism:https://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/sharia-banks-that-fund-terrorism/
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