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Video: Another "ALLAH" in Arabic Script on Saturn V Apollo 4 Launching




This is another "ALLAH" in Arabic Script displayed on the sea of earth when NASA's Saturn V Apollo 4 has been lauched. Dou you think that this is just another coincident moment or ... ?

Video: NASA's Apollo 11 Take-Off To Orbit Coincidence Moment




"ALLAH" in arabic script written on the sea of earth when Apollo 11 rocket has been released and going to the earth's orbit. This is one of unforgetable and enchanting moment.

1.5 Million US People Convert To Islam After 9/11




Praise to Allah that give us hidayah. I am not sure, but may be Muslims of United States should give a reward to Bush of what he did to Muslim people all over the world although in negative way. But indirectly he brought many people to becoming new Muslim because they realized that Islam is beautiful, especially for US people. We always hope that someday Allah will give Bush hidayah and he may convert to Islam as well. Insya Allah.

Bush Expression Before Sending Army Forces To Invade Iraq




The ridicoulous things happened in front of the camera before George "Funny" Bush sent the Coalition Army Forces to invade Iraq in 2003.

The Israel Lobby (AIPAC) - A Danger To The World




This originally from Dutch TV production featuring the Israel lobby (particularly AIPAC) in the USA. See the interviews with John Mearsheimer, geo-strategist Lawrence Wilkerson, Richard Perle, historian and critic Tony Judt, John Hagee, former Congressman Earl Hilliard, Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, Michael Massing and Daniel Levy.

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The Israel Lobby - How AIPAC Influencing US Foreign Policies




The Israel lobby in the USA, an episode of the Dutch documentary program "Tegenlicht" has made about. This documentary (April 2007) was created as a result of the controversy created by Mearsheimer and Walt's "The Israel Lobby" article.

The interviews featuring Mearsheimer, geostrategist Lawrence Wikerson, Richard Perle, historian and critic Tony Judt, John Hagee, former Congressman Earl Hilliard, Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, Michael Massing and Daniel Levy. 'Tegenlicht' ('Backlight') is a program from the Dutch VPRO public television.

The late world famous chess player - Bobby Fischer, told the truth about the Israel lobby in the USA the he was portrayed as "insane" by the zionist controlled media.

Dick Cheney: Truth about Iraq Invasion.




Ask: "Do you think that US and UN Forces should move into Baghdad (capitol city of Iraq) ?"

Dick Cheney: "No, because if we gone into Baghdad we would have been alone and we wouldn't anybody else with us. We wouldn't have been US occupation in Iraq. None of the Arab Forces willing to fight with us, willing to invade Iraq. Once you've got to Iraq, and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government and you gonna put into place. That's the very large part of the world and if you take down the center government of Iraq, you can easily end up some pieces of Iraq fly off, part of mysery and we'd like to have to the west, part of eastern Iraq. The Iranian would like to plan far of radius and in the North you've got the Kurds. The Kurds been loosen, join with the Kurds in Turkey then you treat the territory integrity of Turkey. It's quite mark.If you go that far and treat the territory of Iraq. You know miscasualties, may be we've impressed with the fact that we will able to do our job with miscasualties that we had but 446 american still in accident living out of the family wasn't a ... . And the question for president, in terms we went out into Baghdad, took additional casualties that never to get Saddam Hussein, was number addition that american to Saddam worthed. And Our judgement was not for any and not good for Iraq.

Obama and ISLAM




US Guantanamo Guard Converts to Islam




His name is Terry Holdbrooks an ex-Army specialist of Guantánamo Bay. Holdbrooks says growing up hard in Phoenix—his parents were junkies and he himself was a heavy drinker before joining the military in 2002—helps explain what he calls his "anti-everything views." He has holes the size of quarters in both earlobes, stretched-out piercings that he plugs with wooden discs. At his Phoenix apartment, bedecked with horror-film memorabilia, he rolls up both sleeves to reveal wrist-to-shoulder tattoos. He describes the ink work as a narrative of his mistakes and addictions. They include religious symbols and Nazi SS bolts, track marks and, in large letters, the words BY DEMONS BE DRIVEN. He says the line, from a heavy-metal song, reminds him to be a better person.

Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantánamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590, a Moroccan also known as "the General." This was early 2004, about halfway through Holdbrooks's stint at Guantánamo with the 463rd Military Police Company. Until then, he'd spent most of his day shifts just doing his duty. He'd escort prisoners to interrogations or walk up and down the cellblock making sure they weren't passing notes. But the midnight shifts were slow. "The only thing you really had to do was mop the center floor," he says. So Holdbrooks began spending part of the night sitting cross-legged on the ground, talking to detainees through the metal mesh of their cell doors.

He developed a strong relationship with the General, whose real name is Ahmed Errachidi. Their late-night conversations led Holdbrooks to be more skeptical about the prison, he says, and made him think harder about his own life. Soon, Holdbrooks was ordering books on Arabic and Islam. During an evening talk with Errachidi in early 2004, the conversation turned to the shahada, the one-line statement of faith that marks the single requirement for converting to Islam ("There is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet"). Holdbrooks pushed a pen and an index card through the mesh, and asked Errachidi to write out the shahada in English and transliterated Arabic. He then uttered the words aloud and, there on the floor of Guantánamo's Camp Delta, became a Muslim.

When historians look back on Guantánamo, the harsh treatment of detainees and the trampling of due process will likely dominate the narrative. Holdbrooks, who left the military in 2005, saw his share. In interviews over recent weeks, he and another former guard told NEWSWEEK about degrading and sometimes sadistic acts against prisoners committed by soldiers, medics and interrogators who wanted revenge for the 9/11 attacks on America. But as the fog of secrecy slowly lifts from Guantánamo, other scenes are starting to emerge as well, including surprising interactions between guards and detainees on subjects like politics, religion and even music. The exchanges reveal curiosity on both sides—sometimes even empathy. "The detainees used to have conversations with the guards who showed some common respect toward them," says Errachidi, who spent five years in Guantánamo and was released in 2007. "We talked about everything, normal things, and things [we had] in common," he wrote to NEWSWEEK in an e-mail from his home in Morocco.

Holdbrooks's level of identification with the other side was exceptional. No other guard has volunteered that he embraced Islam at the prison (though Errachidi says others expressed interest). His experience runs counter to academic studies, which show that guards and inmates at ordinary prisons tend to develop mutual hostility. But then, Holdbrooks is a contrarian by nature. He can also be conspiratorial. When his company visited the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York, Holdbrooks remembers thinking there had to be a broader explanation, and that the Bush administration must have colluded somehow in the plot.

But his misgivings about Guantánamo—including doubts that the detainees were the "worst of the worst"—were shared by other guards as early as 2002. A few such guards are coming forward for the first time. Specialist Brandon Neely, who was at Guantánamo when the first detainees arrived that year, says his enthusiasm for the mission soured quickly. "There were a couple of us guards who asked ourselves why these guys are being treated so badly and if they're actually terrorists at all," he told NEWSWEEK. Neely remembers having long conversations with detainee Ruhal Ahmed, who loved Eminem and James Bond and would often rap or sing to the other prisoners. Another former guard, Christopher Arendt, went on a speaking tour with former detainees in Europe earlier this year to talk critically about the prison.

Muslim in United States of America




Islam in America: The American Crescent - Part 1




Islam in America: The American Crescent - Part 2




Islam in America: The American Crescent - Part 4




In the first episode of a special two-part film Rageh Omaar looks at why Islam has come to be described by some people as a "very American faith".

He traces its history in the US and talks to American Muslims about how their belief is compatible with the principles of American democracy.
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Islam in America: The American Crescent - Part 3



In the first episode of a special two-part film Rageh Omaar looks at why Islam has come to be described by some people as a "very American faith".

He traces its history in the US and talks to American Muslims about how their belief is compatible with the principles of American democracy.

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USA muslims islam america al jazeera rageh omaar conflict religion election news documentary keith ellison