E allora il Michigan

[Christine]

Avrei dovuto immaginarlo...
Ultima curiosità: perchè la passeggiata di cui ci informavi avviene proprio il 4 Settembre?

E' il Labor Day

http://people.howstuffworks.com/question459.htm

"For a lot of people, Labor Day means two things: a day off and the end of summer. But why is it called Labor Day? Labor Day is a day set aside to pay tribute to working men and women. It has been celebrated as a national holiday in the United States and Canada since 1894...

... Membership in labor unions in the United States reached an all-time high in the 1950s when about 40 percent of the work force belonged to unions. Today, union membership is about 14 percent of the working population. Labor Day now carries less significance as a celebration of working people and more as the end of summer. Schools, government offices and businesses are closed on Labor Day so people can get in one last trip to the beach or have one last cookout before the weather starts to turn colder."

[RobertoP]

Carissima Christine, ciò che hai messo in luce ci deve spingere tutti quanti, Americani ed Europei, a non abbassare mai la guardia dinanzi alla minaccia terroristica. Il problema è che l'America è consapevole da anni di questo pericolo e agisce di conseguenza, mentre l'Europa è composta da troppi leaders politici vigliacchi e ipocriti.

[Andrea I Nemesi (POL)]

Grazie per l'informazione, Christine.

Carissima Christine, ciò che hai messo in luce ci deve spingere tutti quanti, Americani ed Europei, a non abbassare mai la guardia dinanzi alla minaccia terroristica. Il problema è che l'America è consapevole da anni di questo pericolo e agisce di conseguenza, mentre l'Europa è composta da troppi leaders politici vigliacchi e ipocriti.

Quoto quanto detto da Roberto.

[praesidiumtempl]

INFILTRATE, OVERWHELM, SUBJUGATE AND THEN DEVOUR
Today It's the Gun and the Qur'an (Koran)...
Tomorrow It Will Be Nukes and the Qur'an

ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION?
What an oxymoron! Since when IS barbarism called civilization?
Islam is an anti-civilization cult par excellence. It destroyed every
civilization it touched
and brought misery, poverty, ignorance and war in every country that
it invaded!

FACT:
90%-95% OF ALL THE CONFLICTS ON THIS PLANET TODAY
INVOLVE MUSLIMS FIGHTING NON-MUSLIMS OR EACH OTHER!
There are many trouble spots around the world, but as a general rule,
it's easy to make an educated guess at one of the participants:
Muslims vs. Jews in "Palestine," Muslims vs. Hindus in Kashmir,
Muslims vs. Christians in Africa, Muslims vs. Buddhists in Thailand,
Muslims vs. Russians in the Caucasus, etc...
ISLAM: "Religion of Peace?"

FACT:
1.4 BILLION Muslims in the World
280 Million Americans
5½ Million Israelis Surrounded by 350 Million Arab Muslims!!!

FACT:
OVER THE LAST FIFTY YEARS...
The world population of Christians increased by 47%
The world population of Buddhists increased by 63%
The world population of Muslims increased by 235%
Intermarriage, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazi
Holocaust, pogroms
and over 100 years of unrelenting Arab/Islamic terrorism have taken
its toll.
The State of Israel is the Jewish Peoples' last reservoir and
stronghold against
the end of a five thousand year history! Sadly, over the last fifty
years,
the world Jewish population has DECREASED by 4%


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THE SPREAD OF ISLAM: Islam is the fastest growing religion in the
world. Islam, Palestine, Moslem, Muslim, israel, israeli, israeli
occupation, Intifada, Palestinian Intifada, Jihad, Holy War, Koran,
Holy Koran, Middle East, Middle East Peace, Peace Process, Middle
East Conflict, Arab, Israeli, Israel, Jews, bin Laden, Osama bin Laden

While the world fixates on its usual obsession... setting up Jews
for a second Holocaust, Islam is also hard at work laying waste to
major portions of the world and preparing to impose Islamic rule over
everybody and extinguishing their respective non-Islamic
civilizations.
"Are you nuts," you might ask? " After all, is not Israel their
primary enemy?" But to think that all Islamic issues spring forth
from the Arab-Israeli conflict and that only Israel is a target shows
a naivety that only invites disaster down the road! After Islam
finishes off Israel, their "Little Satan," all the other larger
Satans will meet up with the Sword of Islam! America has already
seen the spillover of Islamic terrorism... the bombing of the U.S.
Embassy in Beirut with the loss of hundreds of U.S. marines, the
bombing of the U.S.S. Cole naval ship off Yemen and now the 9-11-01
World Trade Center bombing in New York. Yet America has received but
a small taste of what Islam has in store for them!

The world "ISLAM" is Arabic for "surrender" or "submission" to the
will of Allah [God]. In the language of the Holy Qur'an, Islam means
the readiness of a person to take orders from God and to follow them
through. It is not derived from the word, "peace," as Muslims would
have us believe! Look it up in any dictionary and see for yourself!
Seeing a Muslim praying nearly flat on his face five times a day even
projects the appearance of a master-slave relationship... a
submission of sorts. And while the Muslim is submissive to Allah,
all "non-believers" (Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Catholics, etc.)
MUST submit to the Muslim. That's how THEIR God wills it to be!

ISLAM: "Religion of Peace?"

Islam is today being portrayed as a peaceful and tolerant religion.
History proves otherwise! Though there were certainly periods of
relative tranquility and tolerance, minorities and non-Muslims have
always been prosecuted under Islam. In fact, Islamic ideology is
based upon an intense hatred of the non-Muslim. For Muslims, there
exist two kinds of non-Muslim enemies... kafir (non-believers in
Islam) and ahl al-kitab (People of the Book). Kafir, such as
Buddhists and Hindus, must either convert to Islam or face
execution. People of the Book include Jews and Christians. These
people need only submit to Muslim authority to avoid forced
conversion or death. Although they may keep their original faith,
their status becomes dhimmi (a "protected," yet inferior non-Muslim
status). So instead of outright forced conversion or slaughter, the
Christians and Jews would be allowed to remain somewhat unmolested as
long as they acknowledged the superiority of the Muslim. However,
as 100,000 dead Lebanese Christians and Israel's beleaguered Jewish
population have discovered over the years, these guarantees have
proved worthless!

ISLAM: "Religion of Peace?"

The Holy Qur'an (the "Bible" of Islam) was inspired by Mohammed. No
one knows his last name because Mohammed could neither read nor
write. But one thing is for certain. Whoever wrote this sick
collection of madness must have had his brain baking far too long in
the hot desert sun of Arabia! The name "Mohammed means "Highly
Praised" [or was he "Highly Crazed"].

In effect, Islam remains a religion of the Dark Ages. It is the most
violent and intolerant faith that has ever been presented to
mankind! A prima facie example of the insanity found within the
Qur'an is the fascist, warlike notion of "Jihad," or "Holy War."
Apologists for Islam say "Jihad" is one personal struggle to obtain a
higher moral standard. But what it really represents is a violent
military action (even terrorism) against the non-Muslim. If you don't
quite believe this, visit Ground Zero where New York City's World
Trade Center once stood!

For a clear explanation of what Jihad really is, click HERE

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE...
THERE'S MUSLIMS!

Until a nation has embraced Islam, it is legally considered a
battlefield (Dar-ul-Harb). Once it has converted to Islam (or all
its citizens have been slaughtered or driven out), it then becomes a
Land of Peace (Dar-us-Salaam). For those who think that the threat
of Islam is only a phenomenon of the Middle East, think again!
Although the Jewish State of Israel has been fighting a brave and
fierce battle against Islam for over 50 years, there are many
other "hot spots" in the world.

For example, the supreme Taliban's hard line leader in Afghanistan,
Mullah Mohammed Omar, issued an edict that Buddhist statues insulted
Islam. Apparently no one clued in Mullah Mohammed Omar that Islam is
an insult to humanity! In any event, within days of his edict, all
Buddhist statues, including a giant 5th century Buddha at Bamiyan
carved out of sandstone (see photos), were destroyed as
the "civilized" world could only stand by and watch it happen.

ISLAM: "Religion of Peace?"

Unfortunately, most people aren't aware of Islam's murderous
philosophy or they find it too monstrous to believe. However, a brief
review of recent history and current events should make you doubters
out there re-think your position. Two articles in the L.A. Times
wrote about Muslims in Indonesia forcing Christians of all
denominations to convert to Islam or get their throats slit.
Thousands upon thousands of Christians were first converted and,
according to rigid Islamic religious dictate, forced to undergo
sexual mutilation of their foreskin or clitoris (with kitchen knives
and razor blades) to make them conform to Muslim standards. Then
they were are enslaved to their local Muslim chieftain. This was not
some aberration of Islam but rather business as usual for all but the
so-called "moderate" factions. This is Islam's sad legacy of murder,
terror, lies and brainwashing to advance their cause of global
conversion and subjugation... their so-called "personal struggle"...
THEIR "Jihad!"

ISLAM: "Religion of Peace?"

Other examples: Algeria is wracked by bitter fighting between Islamic
Fundamentalists and the military. Death toll, 100,000 over a ten year
period! Nigeria is in the midst of a war in which Muslims are
murdering Christians and burning down their churches. Moslems against
Christians. It doesn't take much to trigger an angry mob of Muslims.
The Miss Universe Pageant was help there at the end of 2002. Muslim
opposition to the pageant boiled over after a local journalist wrote
that the prophet Mohammed would have approved of the contest and
might even have wanted to marry one of the contestants. The ensuing
riots in Kaduna left 220 dead and 400 wounded. In Kenya the Islamic
Party has declared Holy War on the government. In Turkey the secular
Muslim government is being challenged by the militant Refah Islamic
Party. A civil war rages in the Sudan between Muslims in the north
against the Christians in the south. Sudan's militant Muslim regime
is slaughtering Christians who refuse to convert to Islam. In recent
years, more than two million Sudanese have been killed out of a
population of 35 million as its government used bombings and famine
in its war on its own people. Read this shocking June 2, 2004 World
Net Daily article.

A war also raged between Muslim Eritrea and Christian Ethiopia. The
result of fighting between Muslim Azerbaijans and Christian Armenians
was 35,000 casualties. Armenia was shrunk because of
territory "gained" by the "breeding-with-a- vengeance" Muslims
population. Serbian Moslems looted Christian treasures in the
process of destroying 107 churches and monasteries, both ancient and
modern. In the former Soviet Union, breakaway Muslim republics (and
their 55 million Muslims)... Chechnya (click HERE), Daghestan,
Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan... have sparked insurrection
against Orthodox Russian regimes and by the year 2050, Russia will be
forced out of Central Asia by Islamic invaders from without AND
within (Muslims have a birth rate 5 times that of non-Muslim
Russians). The Great Russian Bear will be driven into permanent
hibernation!

Will non-Islamic nations be forced to build a "Giant Wall" as China
did to keep out the Islamicized Monguls? Will the electronically-
enhanced, concrete wall the Israeli I.D.F. recently erected keep out
the Arab-Palestinian terrorists?

ISLAM: "Religion of Peace?"

Ten thousand Lebanese Christians were massacred in 1860s, while over
100,000 were killed in the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. Thousands
of women were raped. That war was provoked by Yasser Arafat's PLO.
Damour was once a thriving Christian Lebanese village until 500
(primarily young boys) were massacred and its population was
expelled. This sort of violence and intolerance symbolizes treatment
of Christians by Muslims in the Middle East. And, instead of an
international arrest warrant Arafat received a Nobel Peace Prize!

Even non-Muslim Christians under Palestinian-controlled areas ["West
Bank" and Gaza] are not faring so well. Bethlehem was 70 percent
Christian in the 1970s. Today it is close to 70 percent Muslim. The
growing Islamization of Palestinian society makes Christians very
uncomfortable. The size of the Christian Arab community in the West
Bank may have fallen as low as 10,000, a drop of 50 percent since the
mid-1990s.


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Why have two million Christians fled the Middle East in the last
twenty years? One of the most important aspects of the Israeli-
"Palestinian" conflict that has been overlooked is the plight of
Christians in the Holy Land. Christians in the "Palestinian"
territories have dropped from 15% of the Arab population to just 2%
today! This Christian exodus is a result of many factors, including
the fighting between Israelis and "Palestinians," the related decline
in the economy, but perhaps most significantly, the religious
persecution these Christians encounter from their Arab Muslim
neighbors. This film is a documentary containing interviews with
Christians as well as exclusive footage showing how dangerous their
situation is under Islamic rule.

Continuing on... Uighur Muslim separatist terrorists are active in
Western China's Xinjiang Province. The Philippines is nearly 95%
Catholic/Christian yet the Muslim rebel group called Abu Sayyaf
("Bearer of the Sword") have aligned with bin Laden's al Qaeda and
want their own independent Islamic Nation. Kidnapping for ransom is
so common here that the Philippines has often been described as the
kidnapping capital of the world! War rages between Indonesian
Muslims and the Christians in East Timor. Malaysia is a time-bomb
ready to explode between Muslims and the minority Chinese and Indian
populations.

Indonesia is composed of seventeen thousand islands that stretch over
five thousand miles along the equator. Most are Muslims but there are
substantial Christian, Hindu and Buddhist minorities. Christian
churches were almost wiped out in a single weekend in Indonesia. One
of Indonesia's islands is Bali. Most of Bali's 3 million inhabitants
are Hindu and hundreds of Hindu temples are part of its scenic
beauty. Unlike other parts of Indonesia, Bali has maintained a
relaxed, tolerant lifestyle, immune from the strife wracking the
country in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of annual vacationers
flock to Bali's luxury resorts and black beaches. They may no
longer! On October 12, 2002 deadly explosions ripped through two
popular nightclubs in the Kuta Beach area on Bali island, Indonesia,
a destination popular with international tourists. The death toll
from the bombings -- most recently confirmed at 187 -- is expected to
rise as authorities believe there are still more than 200 people
unaccounted for. Many of them are Australian holidaymakers. The scent
of C4 explosives (similar to that used to blow up Israelis!) was
everywhere which leads one to conclude that Muslim/Islamic terrorists
had a hand in this... specifically, the Jemaah Islamiah group.

Islamic terror comes to India's streets and the new terrorists are
not preoccupied with the "liberation" of Kashmir from India, their
objective is a wider jihad aimed at changing India into an Islamic
State. Yes, the Hindus in India have met the Sword of Islam and even
burnt alive for refusing to accept Islam. Estimates go as high as a
Muslim kill rate of 80,000,000 in Greater India! With 200 million
Muslims being 20% of India's population, civil war can break out any
time. It's even worse in Israel where Israeli Arabs number 23% of the
Jewish State's population! See The Cancer Within.

Islamists in the 83 % Muslim country of Bangladesh aspire to
establish a true "Islamic Republic" much like Afghanistan under the
Taliban. Meanwhile, [according to The Nation magazine] members of
minority religions have suffered from ghastly violence, including
collective terror. Some Buddhists and Christians were blinded, had
fingers cut off or had hands amputated, while others had iron rods
nailed through their legs or abdomen. Women and children have been
gang-raped, often in front of their fathers or husbands. Pakistani
Muslim soldiers raped a quarter of a million Bangali women in 1971
after they massacred 3 million unarmed civilians. This atrocity is
not considered a sin in Islam, because the religious leader of the
soldiers decreed that Bangladeshis were infidels. In addition,
hundreds of temples were desecrated and statues destroyed; thousands
of homes and businesses looted or burned. As for Hindus, the human
rights organization Freedom House reports they have been subject
to "rape, torture and killing and the destruction of their cultural
and religious identity at the hands of Muslims." In one indicative
step, Islamists sometimes force Hindu women to dress in the Islamist
fashion.

Colonel Khaddafy and his Libyan army have carried out numerous
military excursions into neighboring Chad. Even Egypt's Christian
Coptic community (less than 10% of the population) walks a fine line
between tolerance and oppression.

ISLAM: "Religion of Peace?"