Reflections From a Murky Pond

One has to always remember that Islam isn’t a religion; it’s a din, a way of life. It includes religious, political, economic, and cultural controls so as to totally bind and shape its adherents’ societies. This, as a matter of course, includes music.

Hence all Muslim music must fit within the cultural component of Islam and adhere to the basic mores and manners (Adab) espoused therein. Above we can see a faithful Muslim street musician doing just that.

And we Americans thought that Rap “music” was bad!

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Globalism and “cultural cross-contamination” sometimes make it hard tell what you’re looking at when you see an image without surrounding context. Take the scene below for example:

The subjects, setting, and weaponry in evidence make it nigh on impossible for one to tell of these are a detail “soldiers” in Sudan or a posse of “souljas” in Oakland, CA. Admittedly though, their general cleanliness and the lack of graffiti and “tags” on the building leads me to believe that this is in Africa instead of California.

Either way though, the one with the jacket and shades is seriously “pimpin!”

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No American with a shred of reason has any doubts that Obama learned politics in Chicago. So much of his political history and methodology are testament to that unsavory school of applied political science.

Part of the problem we’re facing though is that he apparently learned math in Chicago as well…

Back in July, 2009, Obama spoke in Cape Coast, Ghana about the problems facing businesses there:

No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top.

That’s Chicago math. It’s bad when the goons in Africa shakedown businesses for 20% but it’s good when his boys shakedown businesses for 35%. In Ghana it’s corruption and confiscatory taxes; in the US under the Obama Posse it’s just “good bidnez.”

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