Why would anyone follow Farrakhan?
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People listen to him because they are narrow-minded and his propaganda supports their pre-existing beliefs.  He survives the same way that many others get by - helps you to rationalize that your problems are the fault of someone else, and he can help you (if you pay him enough).
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Well first of all, surely you can find better sources of inspiration than Arianna Huffington.  She's a self-promoting entertainer who gained her notoriety on Comedy Central (kind of like Rush Limbaugh... get it?)\n\nNow to your original rant.  Nobody has said that what the NYT did was illegal, although it may be.  The key point (supported this past weekend by Republicans AND Democrats) was that after the NYT was asked to not reveal how wire transfers of money were being tracked to find terrorists' off-shore sources of financial support, they went ahead and revealed it anyway.\n\nTheir expressed rationale?... the information was in the public interest.  Well, what, pray tell is NOT in the "public interest"?  If someone leaked to the NYT that we were about to capture Osama bin Laden tomorrow, would they reveal that?  Surely the public would be interested!\n\nOur government has a right (in fact an OBLIGATION) to not reveal publicly all of the things it does to protect and defend American citizens.  It cannot break the law (Note: this activity was revealed and approved in advance by congressional oversight committees).  \n\nFor God's sake... every day the editors of the NYT choose NOT to report hundreds of stories.  Editors exercise their personal judgement on these decisions.  So don't act as if there's some "obligation" to publish.  65 years ago this kind of anti-administration driven pseudo-journalism would not have happened.  Not from the left, not from the right and not even from the radical fringe.\n\nTo all of you liberal knee jerk Bush-haters I'd say this: learn to think for yourselves.  Stop parroting the radical left unless you want to be marginalized and ridiculed as a member of the wacko fringe.
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Nothing to do with that question. I would guess they are either following you or following the person who gave the first answer to get that commentary in. Note that part was in caps. That would indicate someone proably said it. After all teh comments section is too small.
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I can't understand why anyone would watch Fox News.
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And exactly *who* says that is true?.... but you have given a major reason why the Jihadist strap bombs to them selves..
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I also wonder why Islamic people cheer in the streets whenever terrorist acts are commited against Israel, the U.S. and their allies.  I consulted the same book you did, as well as a few other holy texts of Islam.  Here's what I found, interestingly, also by Allah and his Prophet.  Interesting how it puts your quote into the extreme minority:\n\nBukhari:V4B52N220 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have been made victorious with terror.’” \nQur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.” \nQur’an 8:57 “If you gain mastery over them in battle, inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them, so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.” \nIshaq:326 “If you come upon them, deal so forcibly as to terrify those who would follow, that they may be warned. Make a severe example of them by terrorizing Allah’s enemies.”\nQur’an 8:67 “It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughtered in the land.”\nIshaq:588 “When the Apostle descends on your land none of your people will be left when he leaves.” \nTabari IX:42 “We have been dealt a situation from which there is no escape. You have seen what Muhammad has done. Arabs have submitted to him and we do not have the strength to fight. You know that no herd is safe from him. And no one even dares go outside for fear of being terrorized.”\nIshaq:326 “Allah said, ‘No Prophet before Muhammad took booty from his enemy nor prisoners for ransom.’ Muhammad said, ‘I was made victorious with terror. The earth was made a place for me to clean. I was given the most powerful words. Booty was made lawful for me. I was given the power to intercede. These five privileges were awarded to no prophet before me.’” \nIshaq:327 “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’” \nQur’an 7:3 “Little do you remember My warning. How many towns have We destroyed as a raid by night? Our punishment took them suddenly while they slept for their afternoon rest. Our terror came to them; Our punishment overtook them.”\nIshaq:510 “When the Apostle looked down on Khaybar he told his Companions, ‘O Allah, Lord of the Devils and what into error they throw, and Lord of the winds and what they winnow, we ask Thee for the booty of this town and its people. Forward in the name of Allah.’ He used to say this of every town he raided.”\nBukhari:V5B59N512 “The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer [Prayer of Fear] near Khaybar when it was still dark. He said, ‘Allahu-Akbar!’ [Allah is Greatest] Khaybar is destroyed, for whenever we approach a hostile nation to fight, then evil will be the morning for those who have been warned.’ Then the inhabitants came out running on their roads. The Prophet had their men killed; their children and woman were taken as captives.”\nBukhari:V9B87N127  “The Prophet said, ‘I have been given the keys of eloquent speech and given victory with terror.’”\nIshaq:517 “Khaybar was stormed by the Apostle’s squadron, fully armed, powerful and strong. It brought certain humiliation with Muslim men in its midst. We attacked and they met their doom. Muhammad conquered the Jews in fighting that day as they opened their eyes to our dust.”\nTabari VIII:116/Ishaq:511 “So Muhammad began seizing their herds and their property bit by bit. He conquered home by home. The Messenger took some people captive, including Safiyah and her two cousins. The Prophet chose Safiyah for himself.”\nBukhari:V5B59N512 “The Prophet had their men killed, their children and woman taken captive.”\nTabari VIII:129 “After the Messenger had finished with the Khaybar Jews, Allah cast terror into the hearts of the Jews
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He does have followers and that does bring a certain power.  But I think the media should never mention him by name specifically or show his picture or certainly never play his voice recordings.  This is exactly what he wants.  He want us to all be "terrorized" by him.  Would these threats have the same effect if he was shouting them to all the rocks and lizards in the desert?
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The man is insane.\n\nI'd rather die than live under the rule of an dangerous extremist who thinks the Holocaust never happened, that Israel must be "exterminated," and that the world will end in the next generation.\n\nPaul B, you really think that the President of Iran would "beat cheney or bush?" What the hell is wrong with you? Do you know ANYTHING about this psychopath? Go do some research on what a homicidal nutcase Ahmadinejad is, THEN talk about it.\n\nI know you're just messing around. I am just creeped out by the guy.
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Right on the money, why would someone watch Access Hollowood, or the insider, or read people, when you could watch something that would make you smarter\n\nwhat happens I think is that people go to work and other people are talking about celebrities so they want to know so they read just to keep in the conversation\n\nI think that it is the same reason people watch American Idol
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to show how ill-natured he is. \nAs if we Muslims never ask ourselves these questions. \nJust do as i do ignore him. Let him burn in the middle of his hate and ignorance alone.\n\n\n\nISLAM IS THE FASTEST GROWING RELIGION IN WORD <<this will kill him lol\n\n\n\n\nyes and to the one who keeps saying that western Muslims ignore the Quran. True Muslims never ignore the Quran. And what verses are you talking about that have hate in them? why don't you give us some instead of spreading lies all around. Or maybe you are just like those extremists taking some verses out of contest.
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The reason somebody like Osama Bin Laden hasn't been caught is because he has plenty of supporters and followers in the Mid-East is because they think he is terrific along with their fanatical cause. It has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative.
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Because they think a person can talk to the terrorists and change their minds....\nNow isn't that an oxymoronic thing to think!
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read the book then his collected speeches he did the 5 pillars of the faith prayer fasting charityteaching the Hadj a visit to the Holy sites in Arabia mecca and Medina the mosque of the Rock,,. when he saw the people of all nations clans and colors there praying beside him he started to preach peace and the teaching of the infidel{ whites} and for this louis Farrakhan Helped to murder him with a shotgun he just recently apologized to the widow but the Koran says you must respect the people of the book all the people that are the inheritors of Abraham  Christians and Jews they Call upon the same ONE GOD
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Why listen to him? He's a total dork.\n\nHe takes invalid statistics (e.g. comparing our overall high school population to college-bound programs in Europe), individual stories of bad experiences, and the voice of anyone who ever wanted a scapegoat, and targets teachers.\n\nIgnore him. He's full of it.
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People follow Scientology because they're looking for something to believe in when other religions may have failed them or not interested them. In terms of celebrities, it certainly helps that Scientology is "hip" -- it keeps the attention of the press. For everyone else, however, I think the reason is that people need something to believe in, and space aliens are no more or less believable than Jesus rising from the dead or Jonah getting swallowed by a whale.
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According to What I know of Islam It is to cut temptations of the flesh, but yet they also look down on wemon, Doesn't make much sense to me either. \n  On the man made If you can find the real facts about its founder it is amazing what Mohaumd (I don't know the right spelling of his name) did, and I mean wrongfully in his life.
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He is definitely a hypocrit.  That is why Jesus said, "Follow Me" and not "follow those who claim to follow Me".\n\nSadly, the unbelieving world sees hypocrisy like Haggard's and judges all Christians to be fake.  Some of us have really been transformed by the grace of Jesus.\n\n"Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!" - Matthew 18:7