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Although cards and gifts are exchanged between men and women on Valentine's Day, it's really all about the woman. No man is going to cry if he doesn't get flowers from his woman. Men could not care less.

Since this day is all about showing our love for our womenfolk, the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iran get their turbans all in a twist. If men start to treat women with love and respect they will as a consequence be contradicting the teachings of the Quran - and that is blasphemy.

Muslims will tell you that women are treated with respect in Islam; the following article from 2005 tells a different story about how Arabs and Muslims really treat women.

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Muslims object to Valentine's Day for a number of reasons: women shouldn't be treated better than goats; expressing love outside of marriage is the work of Satan; exchanging cards may lead to hand-holding; Cupid is a pagan god; the day commemorates a person of that name who took part in planning and attacking Cordoba, the center of Islam in Moorish Iberia; it is a non-Muslim tradition and therefore filthy and corrupting; the purpose of the day is to spread love among believer and unbeliever and therefore haraam since it is forbidden to love the kaafirs (kaafir means filthy unbeliever); and other reasons.

One of those other reasons is the objection that one should not just show love on one day but rather everyday and so the holiday is superfluous.

However, one can say the very same thing about all holidays. Consider Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex during daylight hours in order to learn about patience, spirituality, humility and submissiveness to God. But shouldn't we refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex during daylight hours every day, every month to insure that we definitely learn the lesson?

What about wedding anniversaries? Why should spouses exchange gifts on only one day to celebrate their wedding day? If marriage is such a wonderful thing, the wedding day should be celebrated every day.

Cover of Goody Two-Shoes (1888 edition)
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A few years ago, I noted that the best way to get more famous was to do something very bad, such as film a sex video of oneself. Even a fake sex tape can lead to momentary fame.

However, another way to get some free publicity is to be the opposite of very bad - now being a goody two-shoes will catapult ordinary semi-celebrities into the glittersphere.

It didn't take long after Tim Tebow's overly ostentatious display of religiosity for someone else to take the same course of action:

The Hollywood Gossip, Kylie Bisutti, Victoria's Secret Model, Quits Career to Honor God, Save Body For Husband

Kylie Bisutti, a Victoria's Secret lingerie model, recently quit that job because it conflicted with her hardcore Christian beliefs, and to save her body for her husband.

She will still model, but only in ways that honor the Lord.

I have often written that reading my blog articles may save your life and limb. Sadly, only less than 5 million unique visitors have come to my website since I started six years ago. Equally sad for Kyle Dyer, an anchor for the morning and noon broadcasts of Denver's NBC affiliate, 9NEWS, is that she was not one of those visitors.

Had she read my warning not to put your face close to any dog, she would have a prettier face today.

Here's the story:

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Saint Valentine's Day, as it is celebrated in the modern world, has nothing to do with Saint Valentine (there were more than 14 men named Valentinus who were martyred).

February 14th was declared a Christian Holiday in 496 A.D., but its religious significance was lost a long time ago.

Take a thousand young lovers anywhere in the world who send each other Valentine's Day cards and ask them about Saint Valentine and I doubt you will find one out of that thousand who actually know the history of this holiday.

The only people who associate a saint with this day are Muslims who need the Christian connection in order to declare the day haram (forbidden) for their youth. Some Muslims even claim that the holiday is named after the person who caused the downfall of Cordoba, once the center of Islam in Spain.

That aside, the truth is, no infidel holiday at all may be celebrated by Muslims. By definition any non-Islamic culture contradicts Muslim values. I know what some of you want to say, Christian and Jewish culture cannot contradict Muslim values because, we are told by Muslims, Islam is the continuation of the same faithful religion as professed by the prophets who came before Mohammed: Abraham, Moses, and Jesus.

To ignorant infidels Muslims offer the lie that Islam is a sister religion to Christianity and Judaism and that they share the same values and that in the Quran itself, the People of the Book (as Christians and Jews are called) are respected and their Holy Scriptures venerated; what Muslims tell themselves is a different story (emphasis mine):

High Fashion in the Mosque

We're constantly clubbed on the head with the claim that the Muslim world condemns 9/11, abhors 9/11, etc. - Yet every day Shirts like this are mass produced, marketed, and sold by street venders thru out the Middle East and it's simply OK. The mass-murder of 9-11 is a celebrated event by millions of people.

Now a few of our military guys, after months of sleeping on the cold ground, eating MREs, not having a good hot shower, and away from their love ones, get caught peeing on a couple of dead Al Qada types, and they are condemned by the world. What they did wasn't right, but the huge outpouring of condemnation doesn't compare (in my mind) to someone who would wear a shirt like this that glorifies the murder of over 3,000 innocent Americans.

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
yachting in Sardinia, Italy (2008)
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I am disgusted. No, I am not talking about their lesbian relationship, lesbianism in nature is quite natural, see my article on homosexuality among mice.

What I am talking about is the couple's recent decision to open a vegan eatery in Los Angeles. ¹

If one lived in nature, in a diet free of fish, meat, poultry, eggs, or milk products, in a world without pharmaceutical companies, one would not be able to obtain nutrients such as Vitamin B-12 which is essential for normal functioning of the brain and nervous system, and required for proper red blood cell formation.

A strict vegan diet is un-natural. I understand that lesbians may enjoy cucumbers and zucchinis other than for dietary purposes and that is only natural; however what Portia and Ellen are investing in is un-natural. That by opening such an establishment, they are encouraging and supporting vegetarianism. And that is disgusting.

For foods that contain Vitamin B-12 see the NIH Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet.

Al-Amirah style
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In response to my article 13 Things to Consider before Hiring Muslims, a Muslim reader left the following comment: (I edited for brevity and readability)

Hello all I am a Proud Muslim and a former U.S. soldier who proudly served this country at the young age of 17 from July of 2001 until one year ago.

I became a Muslim at 14 before I ever joined the army. I was born an American and Muslims are not a race pf people. I do not have a problem with working with any other faith as long as they do not get in my face and call me derogatory names. I know many Muslim Brothers and Sisters who understand that we do not live in an Islamic Country and this country is built upon different Principals. With that Being said I wear my Hijab to work. I work in Marketing and I wear a Hijab (head Scarf) Al Amirah - you can look the style up if you like. It does not conflict with my work in any way.

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You must understand that I stood up for this country proudly not promoting terrorism and fighting against those who tried to use my faith as a cover up for one of the most horrendous crimes in History. These people are not Muslims and all Muslims are not Terrorists just like most Christians are not in Oklahoma blowing up buildings in the Name of God.

I replied:

My dear Muslimah, why do you wear a hijab, are you so clueless that you do not realize that it is the symbol of the oppression of women in Islam? It is not only sad but insulting to women everywhere that you choose to wear such oppressive headgear. Imagine if Jews were stupid enough to go around wearing yellow patches on their sleeves, wouldn't that be insulting to all other Jews? Such clueless Jews should be slapped in the face and spit upon. That intelligent Muslim women do not slap you in your face and spit on you just shows how brainwashed all of you really are.

The New York Times, Turbines in the Backyard: The Sound and the Strobes

We can all agree that energy independence is a worthy objective, right? Alternative energy sources like solar power can help free the United States from fossil fuels and the grip of unstable Persian Gulf states. And wind power — wait, not so fast, says “Windfall,” Laura Israel’s urgent, informative and artfully assembled documentary. An account of rural Meredith, in upstate New York, when wind turbines came to town, the film depicts the perils of a booming industry and the bitter rancor it sowed among a citizenry.

In 2004 residents of this once-flourishing dairy center were approached by companies offering to pay a nominal fee to erect turbines on their property while insisting on confidentiality agreements (to keep competitors ignorant of costs). Economically beset, some people, like Ron and Sue Bailey, jumped at first. But others, like Keitha Capouya, now the town supervisor, dug into the research and sounded an alarm.

Turbines are huge: some are 40 stories tall, with 130-foot blades weighing seven tons and spinning at 150 miles an hour. They can fall over or send parts flying; struck by lightning, say, they can catch fire. Their 24/7 rotation emits nerve-racking low frequencies (like a pulsing disco) amplified by rain and moisture, and can generate a disorienting strobe effect in sunlight. Giant flickering shadows can tarnish a sunset’s glow on a landscape.

National Review Online, Wind Energy, Noise Pollution

In his State of the Union address last week, President Barack Obama touted renewable energy and declared that he would “not walk away from workers” such as Bryan Ritterby, who is employed by a wind-turbine manufacturer in Michigan.

But in their rush to embrace the wind-energy business, Obama and numerous other politicians are walking away from rural residents such as David Enz and his wife, Rose. A year ago, the couple abandoned their home near Denmark, Wis., because of the unbearable low-frequency noise produced by a half-dozen 495-foot-high wind turbines that were built near the home they’ve owned since 1978. The closest was installed about 3,200 feet from their house.

Shortly after the Shirley Windproject’s turbines began operating, the couple began experiencing numerous symptoms, including “headaches, ear pain, nausea, blurred vision, anxiety, memory loss, and an overall unsettledness,” says Mr. Enz, 68. Today, the Enzes are living in their RV or staying with friends. “We didn’t expect any of this stuff,” says Enz, who spent more than 30 years working as a millwright at a paper mill in Green Bay.

Policymakers and health experts are casting a hard eye on wind energy at the same time that the wind industry is desperately trying to convince Congress to pass a multi-year extension of a tax credit that supports it. Without the subsidy, the domestic wind business, which is already being hammered by falling natural-gas prices, will be forced to downsize even further. In December, the American Wind Energy Association issued a report predicting that some 37,000 wind-related jobs in the U.S. could be lost by 2013 if the tax credit is not extended.

If Adel had only read my article Muslims have no Sense of Humor six years ago he might have chosen a different profession.

The Eternal Jew
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I cannot tell you how often I get emails comparing my view of Islam with Hitler's view of Jews.

There is a difference. When Hitler said there was a Jewish conspiracy to control the world, that was a lie. When I write that Muslims want to control the world, that is not a lie.

When Hitler pointed to a book, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as proof of such a Jewish conspiracy, that was a lie, the book was a fabrication, and no instruction is given to Jews to strive toward world domination. When I point to a book, the Quran, as proof of such a Muslim conspiracy, that is not a lie, the book is not a fabrication and instructions are given to Muslims to strive toward world domination.

When Hitler said Jews were a threat to Germany, that was a lie - there were no Jewish suicide bombers trying to blow up Germany. When I write that Muslims are a threat to the western world, that is not a lie - native born Muslims raised and bred in America, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and other western countries are found to be conspiring to blow up or kill the citizens of their own country.

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In my previous article we noted that more than 45 million Americans are now on food stamps.

The irony of the above statistic is that even though more Americans than ever seem to need food stamps to keep from starving, at the same time we are also the fattest slobs in the world.

Back in 1946 President Harry Truman signed the National School Lunch Act to make sure children had enough to eat every day - military recruits were being turned down because they were too thin. Today more than a quarter of prospective recruits are not able to enlist because they are too fat. ¹

This deserves a big WTF!

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The following email has been going around ever since Obama was elected, but has gained even wider currency a few days after Newt Gingrich referred to Barack Obama as “the food stamp president.”

Here's the email:

How do you starve an Obama supporter?

It's really very simple.

Just hide his food stamps
under his work shoes.

Now I find this very offensive. What idiot thinks Obama supporters have work shoes?

OK, seriously though, it's no joke that as of November 2011, more than 45 million Americans were on food stamps. ¹

In response to that article, a delusional Muslim left this comment: "this website make u cry and convert to islam: Miracles of the Qur'an."

So I visited that website and sure enough, I did make me cry - with laughter.

Here is one example in the section called Mathematical Miracles of the Qur'an

HALLEY’S COMET AND 76 YEARS

One of the greatest developments in modern astronomy is the discovery of Halley’s Comet. The 18th-century scientist Edmund Halley discovered that the comet comes around every 76 years. With that discovery, Halley established that comets have astronomical orbits.

The name "Halley" by which the comet is known, appears in a most striking way in verse 76 of Surat al-An’am in the Qur’an:

When night covered him he saw a star and said, ‘This is my Lord!’ Then when it set he said, “I do not love what sets.” (Sura An’am, 76)

The letters that make up the word "Halley" appear for the first time in the Qur’an in this verse. Furthermore, the reference to a “setting” star is highly significant. What is more, the Arabic word “kawkaban,” meaning “star,” appears right next to the letters comprising “Halley.”

76, the number of the related verse, on the other hand, may indicate 76 years, which is Halley’s orbital period. (Allah knows the truth.) The verse number 76 represents the Halley comet; because Halley becomes visible from the Earth every 76 years. That is to say, its orbital period is 76. For this reason, that Halley is mentioned for the first time in the Qur’an in the 76th verse is a miracle of Allah.

It was close to closing hour and I was out of town so I called my friend Charlie (a business owner who is on the Bowery as well) and asked if he could kindly lend me $3,000.00 until the next day. He said, "Sure, anytime."

I quickly called back my worker and told him he could make the deal. While he was testing the scrap for purity he remembered that he had more money in the safe.

We also sell silver and gold coins and bullion at our store and keep those sales moneys in a different drawer. Realizing that he had enough money, he called my friend to let him know that we didn't need his help after all.

So yesterday I went to Charlie to thank him for his gesture and drop off the following gift: