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For the first time in 10 years, the Prime Minister said the terror threat had been raised to the highest possible level, from severe to critical, meaning an attack is "expected imminently".
[...] Mrs May also announced that troops would replace police officers at set-piece events including sports venues and concerts.
It will be the first time since 2003 – when the Government reacted to a plot to bring down an airliner – that troops are deployed on the streets.
[...] It is the first time Britain has been on maximum terrorist alert since 2007, when a blazing car loaded with gas canisters was driven into Glasgow Airport.
Source: The Telegraph
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You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the
Titanic had paying customers.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:26PM (11 children)
Surah 4 An-Nisa, Ayat 29
(وَلَا تَقۡتُلُوۡۤا اَنۡـفُسَكُمۡؕ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ كَانَ بِكُمۡ رَحِيۡمًا ﴿4:29
Truly, you are an idiot, Runaway, and easily mislead.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:37PM (5 children)
I'm the idiot? Really?
0 YOU who have attained to faith! Do not devour one another's possessions wrongfully - not even by way of trade based on mutual agreement38 - and do not destroy one another: for, behold, God is indeed a dispenser of grace unto you!
That is a commandment that one Muslim should not try to take another Muslim's possessions. It says nothing, in that verse, about unbelievers. There are a lot of verses that deal with unbelievers, though - http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx [thereligionofpeace.com]
The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:54PM (4 children)
Rather strange translation. I take it you cannot read Arabic? So how do you know this interpretation is correct? Yes, Runaway, you are a child, a Trump, taking a position purely out of fear and emotion about things you really do not understand at all. If I were you, I would try to say less, so as not to reveal your ignorance even more.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @07:30PM (3 children)
We all have access to multiple translations from different scholars who can read classical Arabic. These translations all say pretty much the same thing. Of course, Muhammed and his followers were mostly illiterate and there are so many misused imported words, that serious scholars conclude the Quran does not really make sense in any language. So I put the question to you: Can you read classical Arabic? Even then, how do you know your interpretation is correct?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @07:58PM (2 children)
What interpretation? I have offered none!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @08:16PM (1 child)
What interpretation? I have offered none!
You deny both translation and interpretation are required to assert a translation was strange? You're arguing an-Nisa 4:29 [islamawakened.com] is not specifically referring to muslims?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @08:45PM
Are you one of those idiots that thinks that non-US citizens do not have rights under the US Constitution?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:47PM (1 child)
Sigh... [cbn.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @07:21PM
Goldstein's Book [amazon.com]. Also demolishes Judaism and Christianity,
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday May 24 2017, @07:37PM (1 child)
I don't have a go-to preferred translation for this one such as The Message, my favorite for the works collected in the Bible, but let's see if one of these will do [islamawakened.com]. I'm also familiar enough with those works to be able to evaluate how close a particular translation may be to the mark.
As translated by Wahiduddin Khan:
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday May 24 2017, @09:16PM
I think I meant to type a “not” in that sentence somewhere, as in I'll admit I have no clue. However I also forgot to do my usual thing where I add context.
I made up the paragraph breaks there out of whole cloth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @08:12PM
I'll just leave this video on the abrogation in Islam [youtube.com] among many other things.
The tl;dw is that Islamic scripture is self-contradictionary and doublethink is deeply ingrained in it's rhetoric. Mutually exclusive ideas are held as equally true and later verses are simply "more true" than the earlier ones.