“Torah tsiwa lanoo Mosheh, morasha qehillath Ya’aqob” : the Torah commanded us by moses, an inheritance for the community of jacob – deuteronomy 33:4.

“Torathekha darkhei no’am we-kol nethibothekha shalom. Ets hayyim hi la-mahaziqim bah, wethomekhekha me-ushar”: [the Torah's] ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life for those that embrace her and all that hold on to her are happy. – proverbs 3:17-18

in other words, we remain as we have always remained and insha’Allah will always remain, the jewish people, striving to be a “light to the nations”.

b’shalom

bananabrain

Given that you have completely missed Yossarian’s point, perhaps it is you who should look past your own self-worship, and at the wisdom of the Quran, “winter”.

Absolutely. We all need to learn from the wisdom of the Quran and accept it. And thats what all the Muslims on Spittoon wish for Yossarian (and banana brain and others), that he/she comes to Islam , no matter how our own understanding of this perfect deen may be lacking.

Go on ‘winter’, try and explain this bit:

Hasan’s eyes “lit up” when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki’s teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday’s horrific shooting spree.

Winter replies, in Arabic, with the following entirely irrelevant ayat:

O ye who believe! if a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly, and afterwards become full of repentance for what ye have done.

Qur’an 49: 6

Best to learn Arabic before you start slinging it about, Winter.

When you say the The Spittoon “associates” with – which ones are you referring to? And of them, which are responsible for radicalising individuals or for justifying the murder of innocent individuals? Which of these have we sponsored and arranged to be flown over from Southasia or the Middle East, to preach hate and religious supremacism to our co-religionists?

If you’re going to use feeble whataboutery and cretinous moral relativism (but then what other kind is there?) to justify the actions of a clerical fascist and his British Muslim backers in the UK, beware where it takes you.

Yawn.

When he was in the UK, Al-Awlaki was backed by the MAB.

Other organisations who have shown a partiality to Anwar al-Awlaki include JIMAS, YMO and IFE.

In other words Spittoon is responsible for all the words and actions of the unsavoury anti-Muslim characters it associates with.

Go on ‘winter’, try and explain this bit:

يَـٰٓأَيُّہَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ إِن جَآءَكُمۡ فَاسِقُۢ بِنَبَإٍ۬ فَتَبَيَّنُوٓاْ

Major Nidal Malik Hasan… called the war on terrorism “a war against Islam,” said a doctor who was in a graduate program with him.

While studying for a masters degree in public health in 2007, Hasan used a presentation for an environmental health class to argue that Muslims were being targeted by the U.S. anti-terror campaign, said Val Finnell, a classmate.

“He was very vocal about the war, very upfront about being a Muslim first and an American second,” said Finnell, 41, a preventive medicine doctor in Los Angeles, in an interview yesterday. “He was always concerned that Muslims in the military were being persecuted.”

[...]

Finnell said he remembered Hasan “vividly” and said of the shooting: “I’m not surprised, based on the things he said in the past. I’m shocked that it happened, but not surprised.”

In conversations, students challenged Hasan on his statements and he would become “visibly upset, sweaty, nervous,” Finnell said.

Toward the end of the program, in 2008, Hasan gave a presentation that was billed as a survey of the climate for Muslims who serve in the U.S. military, Finnell said.

“It wasn’t really very objective,” Finnell said. “It was like he was trying to prove a point.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJ02vIcX4hTM&pos=8

My aim was not to single out Awlaki for blame, indeed I do not believe I did that, it was to highlight an interesting detail.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110602783.html?sid%3DST2009110603664&sub=AR

Hasan’s eyes “lit up” when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki’s teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday’s horrific shooting spree.

This is just because Hasan attended his most local mosque, right?

When he was in the UK, Al-Awlaki was backed by the MAB.

Other organisations who have shown a partiality to Anwar al-Awlaki include JIMAS, YMO and IFE.