Took the summer off, stayed away from social media and feel refreshed. Hi all!

Dear Friend KPR37: I hope the summer treated you and yours well.

Welcome home brother.

Wasn't the same without you.

Peace and Abundant Blessings Always.

Enoch.

I had a great summer. Did more fishing than I have in years. I also have wild grapes, way in the back of my yard, and tended the vines for the first time this year, getting them to produce way more than when I just ignored them. Sadly, I lost the war with the evil, evil little devil rabbits, who have eaten my marijuana plants for the second year in a row now. Weed may be legal for me to grow, but rabbits won't let me reap the benefits of my states relaxed drug law. Next year I'll build a little greenhouse off the side of the garage, I have finally admitted they are way smarter than me. I should have learned from watching all those bugs bunny cartoons, rabbits are  "wascally" little varmints that just cannot be stopped.

OMG.. the image of stoned bunnies jumping everywhere is just too funny. 

Dear Fwriend KPR37: Wassacwe Wabbits.

Ewmer Enoch.

I've never seen the rabbits eat it, or act funny. My only evidence is bunny prints around the eaten plants. I got a little, like rolling pin thing, with spikes on it to aerate the dirt and the prints show up real well after I use it.

Here is one back for you.

And its not just Squirrels! 

LMAO.. Good one!

I know.. Wally can't get off the stuff. 

I grow catnip so my cat and every stray in a 3 block radius thinks I am Dr. Feelgood. You need to grow it in a tall planter or a hanging basket because if it is at ground level they will kill the plant in their extasy. 

Be careful, kpr37. By providing a warning about jihad violence, and the tolerance of it, you could get yourself labelled as an Islamophobe - a fate that HAS earned threats of death, and sometimes successfully achieved. Better to just submit to a "creeping" caliphate, small steps. After all, the word "Islam" is translated to English as "submission" and there are all too many who find it more palatable to submit and show intolerance to those who warn of the results of such submission.

I'm shadow banned on another site, because of my Islamophobia? Or my open mocking of the concept of political correctness. Might be either one or both.  My papers and articles are invisible even to me, and my view count went from a few thousand to virtually none. I lost all of my followers. Just before I ckecked in here, a freind emailed me this. ( academia ) My page is the naked biker dude "Taranis" koboo37  on the upper right. I'm not sure if you can see it, or access it. But if you can, that is my, now, blank page. I've been un-personed academically LOL. Orwell would be so proud of me. 

I signed up for academia but all they sent me were articles about anarchy.

I get the articles I subscribe to all the time. You just pick the authors you want to read, and when they publish, they send (email) the articles to ya. My first article over there was "Philistines, Jews, Herodotus, and the Palestine question. I got a great response from it. I published 5 or 6 more, and then one day, they were just all invisible. It still accepts my articles, they just don't show up, and if there is feedback, I don't see it. So I just read my favorites and don't bother publishing anymore. I get an email from some people I don't know from time to time, recommending articles from people I don't subscribe to. So someone knows I'm still around and interested.  And if I'm bored, I can scan topics on a vast array of subjects that would be difficult to find somewhere else.  Other than being an un-person I really like it. (LOL)

I signed up for academia but all they sent me were articles about anarchy.

By providing a warning about jihad violence, and the tolerance of it,

Unfortunately,  all too often people ignore warnings.

Unfortunately, all too often people ignore warnings.

Were there not unheeded warnings about the attack on Pearl Harbor?

"Unfortunately,  all too often people ignore warnings."

For some reason I couldn't open that link, and it's not because of a blocked website - it kept telling me the server was "reset" every time I tried, but I had no problem with the link to your 9/11 article.

"Unfortunately,  all too often people ignore warnings."

For some reason I couldn't open that link, and it's not because of a blocked website - it kept telling me the server was "reset" every time I tried, but I had no problem with the link to your 9/11 article.

That link was actually to a BBC article dated Feb 6, 2003 on the BBC site entitled  "Lessons of the First WTC Bombing".

(Note: The first attack on the WTC was in 1993-- many people are unaware of it).

Excerpt:

Ten years ago a bomb exploded in the car park of the World Trade Center building in New York, killing six and injuring over 1,000.

Six men are serving life imprisonment as a result.

But in light of the events of 11 September, a number of analysts are now questioning whether the attack was a warning that was never heeded.

"In many ways it was the opening salvo of al-Qaeda's campaign against the West," terrorism writer Simon Reeve told the BBC World Service's Analysis programme.

"This was their first attack "Many of the individuals involved in the 1993 WTC bombing were connected in some way to Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

"This was their first attack."

Here's the link in a different form --  it might work for you.

Be careful, kpr37. By providing a warning about jihad violence, and the tolerance of it, you could get yourself labelled as an Islamophobe - a fate that HAS earned threats of death, and sometimes successfully achieved. Better to just submit to a "creeping" caliphate, small steps. After all, the word "Islam" is translated to English as "submission" and there are all too many who find it more palatable to submit and show intolerance to those who warn of the results of such submission.

This is why we have the separation of church and state in the US, to keep all religions out of government/public sphere and to protect the secular rights of all people, regardless to their religious beliefs and lack thereof. The problem in the US isn't with Muslims but with conservative Christians who think that their Biblical nuttiness is above the Constitution, so they have a divine right to enforce their version of Sharia law, but strangely I don't hear many conservatives complaining about Christian beliefs being legislated and enforced as secular law. 

The fact that there is only a fraction of Muslims are supporters of sharia law as secular law is lost on you and your daily threads by John Bolton's mouthpiece site or World Nut Daily.  

so they have a divine right to enforce their version of Sharia law

 

The fact that there is only a fraction of Muslims are supporters of sharia law

a Pew Research Center  survey of Muslims in 39 countries  asked Muslims whether they want sharia law, a legal code based on the Quran and other Islamic scripture, to be the official law of the land in their country. Responses on this question vary widely. Nearly all Muslims in Afghanistan (99%) and most in Iraq (91%) and Pakistan (84%) support sharia law as official law. But in some other countries, especially in Eastern Europe and Central Asia – including Turkey (12%), Kazakhstan (10%) and Azerbaijan (8%) – relatively few favor the implementation of sharia law.

Looking deeper into the results, a chasm develops between those Muslims surveyed and the wider population on attitudes to liberal values on issues such as gender equality, homosexuality and issues relating to freedom of expression,” the network said in a statement . “And it also reveals significant differences on attitudes to violence and terrorism.”

You can better your understanding of sharia here.

In classical form the Sharīʿah differs from Western systems of law in two principal respects. In the first place the scope of the Sharīʿah is much wider, since it regulates an individual’s relationship not only with one’s neighbours and with the state, which is the limit of most other legal systems, but also with God and with one’s own conscience . Ritual practices, such as the daily prayers, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage , are an integral part of Sharīʿah law and usually occupy the first chapters in the legal manuals. The Sharīʿah is also concerned as much with ethical standards as with legal rules, indicating not only what an individual is entitled or bound to do in law but also what one ought, in conscience, to do or refrain from doing. Accordingly, certain acts are classified as praiseworthy ( mandūb ), which means that their performance brings divine favour and their omission divine disfavour, and others as blameworthy ( makrūh ), which means that omission brings divine favour and commission divine disfavour; but in neither case is there any legal sanction of punishment or reward, nullity or validity. The Sharīʿah is not merely a system of law, but a comprehensive code of behaviour that embraces both private and public activities.

The second major distinction between the Sharīʿah and Western legal systems is the result of the Islamic concept of law as the expression of the divine will. With the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, communication of the divine will to human beings ceased so that the terms of the divine revelation were henceforth fixed and immutable. When, therefore, the process of interpretation and expansion of this source material was held to be complete with the crystallization of the doctrine in the medieval legal manuals, Sharīʿah law became a rigid and static system. Unlike secular legal systems that grow out of society and change with the changing circumstances of society, Sharīʿah law was imposed upon society from above. In Islamic jurisprudence it is not society that molds and fashions the law but the law that precedes and controls society.

Such a philosophy of law clearly poses fundamental problems of principle for social advancement in contemporary Islam. How can the traditional Sharīʿah law be adapted to meet the changing circumstances of modern Muslim society? This is now the central issue in Islamic law. britannica

I'm pagan, under sharia, I'm "kafir harbi" the same category the Yazidi of Iraq found themselves. The men were murdered and women taken as sex slaves.

Do you believe that what that fraction may, in fact, be, significant? In a Pew poll survey of Muslim attitudes toward sharia, support for it varied greatly by national origin, but worldwide it safe to say at least about 50% support its implementation. In the most populated Islamic nation, Indonesia, support was 77%. Saudi Arabia and Iran were not part of the survey. Only 39 nations were included, yet there are 57 member states in the origination of Islamic corporation, the 'IOC", the discrepancy is due to it, not being allowed by the governments who were excluded for whatever undisclosed reasons.

Most of the Muslims that I know, even casually are not the hardcore theocrats that we see in the government of Iran, Saudi or Indonesia. I've seen Muslims eat pork outside of their religious community and drink alcohol as long as they feel safe from religious retribution.  There are always a few Koranic thumpers in the crowd but most Muslims are not more hardcore religious than your typical midwestern Lutheran or Methodist.   As with many Christians, their religion is more of a social or cultural observance than it is a strict religious lifestyle.

What I refer to as Chritian Sharia is Old Testament Mosaic law and the enforcement of Leviticus, with the sprinkling of the letters of Paul. No LGBT rights, little personal freedom, no women's rights, forced religious observance, and public prayer.  

Most of the Muslims that I know, even casually are not the hardcore theocrats

Ah, personal anecdotal evidence. How amusing, and it is supposed to mean exactly what to me?

What is the relationship between the total number of Muslims you personally know, and the world's population of Muslims who number over 1.5 billion individuals? Just give me the percentage in relation to 1.5 billion individuals in the world if you will.

Muslims are not more hardcore religious

The linked pew poll stands in stark opposition to that statement. It just does, try reading it again, as you may be confused as to what it actually says. Because using the numbers provided it's reasonable to suggest that about 750 million Muslims  (fully half of the world's Muslims) support sharia. Details on just what that encompasses can be found in "the reliance of the traveler" linked in my earlier comment. I suggest reading it, as no understanding of the implications of sharia actually being enforced, can be taken seriously without reading the rulings, laws, and theocratically compelled behaviors prescribed within the book.

What I refer to as Chritian Sharia is Old Testament Mosaic law and the enforcement of Leviticus

I study history, and could not tell you, the last time that was enforced. Can you tell me when, and where, it was last enforced? and what nation or nations enforced it. Providing a source of the information would be nice.

Also, please source anyone, anywhere, calling for its return. Next, a poll of Christian who support such an agenda should be included. Before such an idea can reasonably be considered valid in the modern world. And not just what you, as an individual, personally believe.

Because a large number of Islamic nations are governed by Islamic law and not a single Christian nation is ruled by Christian law. Reality can be sourced, personal beliefs not so much.

According to this list,10 Islamic nations are governed fully by Sharia, while others use a mixed sharia/semi-secular system.

en.wikipedia

These 9 out of 10 nations where the death penalty is called for in cases of homosexual behavior match the above list. (except for Nigeria where sharia is applied in the north of the nation only) Not sure if killing homosexuals are limited to the north only, however.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13/here-are-the-10-countries-where-homosexuality-may-be-punished-by-death-2/?utm_term=.648b4086296d

Since 2000, twelve states in northern Nigeria have added criminal law to the jurisdiction of Shari'a (Islamic law) courts. Shari'a has been in force for many years in northern Nigeria, where the majority of the population is Muslim, but until 2000, its scope was limited to personal status and civil law. The manner in which Shari'a has been applied to criminal law in Nigeria so far has raised a number of serious human rights concerns.It has also created much controversy in a country where religious divisions run deep, and where the federal constitution specifies that there is no state religion.

hrw

Not a single Christian nation kills homosexuals for their behavior, that I'm aware of. I could be incorrect.

"I've seen Muslims eat pork outside of their religious community and drink alcohol as long as they feel safe from religious retribution."

"Fear" is a great controller.

Were women permitted by their husbands to offer their opinions to Pew?

I don't know

Fear" is a great controller.

It works with Baptists too, 

Baptist Joke #1:

Q: Why do you have to take two Baptists with you when you go fishing?

A: Because if you take just one, he'll drink all your beer.

"Ah, personal anecdotal evidence. How amusing, and it is supposed to mean exactly what to me?"

As a lawyer, I got to meet some criminals myself, some that had served jail time, and I have to say that they were all really good people.  However, I never did get to meet any murderers, kidnappers or rapists.  So do those bad guys actually exist, because I've never met any?

Hi kpr, good to see you back on the net....

The battle with those dreaded rabbit's is on going and you never win. Even my dog has given up and now they are all friends destroying my gardens...

 "my dog has given up and now they are all friends"... My little 165-pound puppy passed two springs ago ( he was 13) and now, it seems, I got rabbits, deer, and I think Coyotes feeding on rabbits in my fenced backyard. Either that or someone is blowing a dying rabbit call out there while I watch Tv at night.LOL. I've seen Turkeys in my front yard, and the coyotes roaming in the street when I get up real early. What is funny, I live in a very urban environment, just ten years ago not a single one of these critters could be found within twenty miles of me.  The only thing I hunt now is Turkeys, I see them all the time in my neighborhood, just never where they can be hunted in season, not once in ten years of hunting them.

Hi kpr, good to see you back on the net....

Ditto!