Keith Ellison: Newly Elected Congressman

Muslims are commanded to perform salat fives times a day. These prayers are obligatory on every Muslim above the age of puberty, with the exception being those who are mentally ill, too physically ill for it to be possible, menstruating, or experiencing post-partum bleeding. Those who are ill or otherwise physically unable to offer their prayers in the traditional form are permitted to offer their prayers while sitting or laying, as they are able.

The obligatory prayers that were missed during any time has to be repeated at later time. Only the Fardh (obligatory prayers) are to be repeated. Nafil or Sunnah salah does not need to be repeated.

Most aren't. Most just want to go about there daily business and be left alone, just like everyone else. Islam, as a religion, has some very good ideals and has a lot to offer its practitioners. It's the zealot extremists that give Islam the black eye it has.

That's about as likely as it is that Christian leaders are going to speak out against Christian radicals.

Setanta wrote:

That's about as likely as it is that Christian leaders are going to speak out against Christian radicals.

I believe that if "christians" had driven planes into the WTC & killed 3,000 people, we would've heard plenty from the REAL Christians.

Setanta wrote:

That's about as likely as it is that Christian leaders are going to speak out against Christian radicals.

I believe that if "christians" had driven planes into the WTC & killed 3,000 people, we would've heard plenty from the REAL Christians.

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Setanta wrote:

That's about as likely as it is that Christian leaders are going to speak out against Christian radicals.

I believe that if "christians" had driven planes into the WTC & killed 3,000 people, we would've heard plenty from the REAL Christians.

Really?

Christians drop bombs on innocent people in Iraq - in the name of what they believe is right.

And you don't hear too much from REAL Christians about that.

The teachings of Jesus, and War, are incompatible; you cannot support both.

Cycloptichorn

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Setanta wrote:

That's about as likely as it is that Christian leaders are going to speak out against Christian radicals.

I believe that if "christians" had driven planes into the WTC & killed 3,000 people, we would've heard plenty from the REAL Christians.

The people of Croatia speak virtually the same language as the Serbs, but they write it with the Roman alphabet, and they are Catholic. The Serbs, however, use the Cyrillic alphabet, and they are Orthodox. The Serbs have long thought that was a good reason that they should dominate the Balkans, and they have killed thousands of Slovenes and Croats because they are Catholic, and thousands more Bosnians and Kosovars because they are Muslims. They killed 8000 Bosnians alone in the single incident in Srebrenica during the last Balkan War. I don't recall a great Christian outcry about these murders by Christians. The Catholics and the Protestants of Ireland have slaughtered one another for centuries, off and on, but you don't hear universal condemnation of those actions by Christians.

I rather suspect that none of this rises above your news horizon, and that you only complain about what happens to Americans, and to hell with the rest of the world.

Setanta wrote:

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Setanta wrote:

That's about as likely as it is that Christian leaders are going to speak out against Christian radicals.

I believe that if "christians" had driven planes into the WTC & killed 3,000 people, we would've heard plenty from the REAL Christians.

The people of Croatia speak virtually the same language as the Serbs, but they write it with the Roman alphabet, and they are Catholic. The Serbs, however, use the Cyrillic alphabet, and they are Orthodox. The Serbs have long thought that was a good reason that they should dominate the Balkans, and they have killed thousands of Slovenes and Croats because they are Catholic, and thousands more Bosnians and Kosovars because they are Muslims. They killed 8000 Bosnians alone in the single incident in Srebrenica during the last Balkan War. I don't recall a great Christian outcry about these murders by Christians. The Catholics and the Protestants of Ireland have slaughtered one another for centuries, off and on, but you don't hear universal condemnation of those actions by Christians.

I rather suspect that none of this rises above your news horizon, and that you only complain about what happens to Americans, and to hell with the rest of the world.

& we bombed them for 30 days, or maybe those weren't Christians that did the bombing, who knows? <shruges>

Cycloptichorn wrote:

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Setanta wrote:

That's about as likely as it is that Christian leaders are going to speak out against Christian radicals.

I believe that if "christians" had driven planes into the WTC & killed 3,000 people, we would've heard plenty from the REAL Christians.

Really?

Christians drop bombs on innocent people in Iraq - in the name of what they believe is right.

And you don't hear too much from REAL Christians about that.

The teachings of Jesus, and War, are incompatible; you cannot support both.

Cycloptichorn

Exodus 20:13, 21:12, 21:15, 22:19
Leviticus 20:11
Romans 3:10-18
I have no idea how you would know that Christians are dropping bombs on innocent people in Iraq but if they are Christians or not, they are within their moral right to do so. "The military breaks things & kills people" That's a sad truth.