sure. but that’s because some people are idiots. they actually let primitive sheets of paper do the thinking for them.

Homosexuals, heterosexuals, trans-gendered, bisexuals- they are all still human! people shouldn’t tell humans to stop loving each other or to not have sex or just infringe on their lives and abilities to do things as people.

that’s very obvious.

also, Account, you are wrong. Homosexuality is natural. it’s well-documented in several species in the wilderness and in zoos. even though it was only online, i have read of several instances of homosexuals who have posted saying that they just don’t feel attracted to the opposite sex. the way they look at people of the same sex is the way heterosexuals look at people of the opposite sex.

“survival of the fittest” do you know what you’re talking about? homosexual animals can actually be beneficial to a species. i’ve read this one article a few months ago that described these two homosexual penguins that reared in an abandoned penguin chick. if the penguin chick was left alone, it would have probably died.

however, just for the sake of argument, if homosexuality is unnatural (which, i know, it isn’t) so what? let homosexuals hang around however they like. as long as they’re not hurting anyone, why should we care who they have sex with?

Oral sex linked to cancer risk

US scientists said Sunday there is strong evidence linking oral sex to cancer, and urged more study of how human papillomaviruses may be to blame for a rise in oral cancer among white men.

In the United States, oral cancer due to HPV infection is now more common than oral cancer from tobacco use, which remains the leading cause of such cancers in the rest of the world.

Researchers have found a 225-percent increase in oral cancer cases in the United States from 1974 to 2007, mainly among white men, said Maura Gillison of Ohio State University. “The rise in oral cancer in the US is predominantly among young white males and we do not know the answer as to why.”

It is obvious that the only way men can acquire the HPV virus is through the oral stimulation of one’s partner’s clitoris which allows the virus to enter the mouth. The virus no doubt is harboured in the prepuce of the clitoris just as it has been found that HPV also resides in the foreskins of males, through the transmission of which cervical cancer occurs in females. Thus a hoodectomy could, by removing the area which habours the virus, significantly reduce or eliminate the risk of women transmitting the virus to their male partners.

And also learning dialects is very important. At least several sentences…

There exist many ahadith or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) to show the important place, circumcision, whether of males or females, occupies in Islam.

Among these traditions is the one where the Prophet is reported to have declared circumcision (khitan) to be sunnat for men and ennobling for women (Baihaqi).

He is also known to have declared that the bath (following sexual intercourse without which no prayer is valid) becomes obligatory when both the circumcised parts meet (Tirmidhi). The fact that the Prophet defined sexual intercourse as the meeting of the male and female circumcised parts (khitanul khitan or khitanain) when stressing on the need for the obligatory post-coital bath could be taken as pre-supposing or indicative of the obligatory nature of circumcision in the case of both
males and females.

Stronger still is his statement classing circumcision (khitan) as one of the acts characteristic of the fitra or God-given nature (Or in other words, Divinely-inspired natural inclinations of humans) such as the shaving of pubic hair, removing the hair of the armpits and the paring of nails (Bukhari) which again shows its strongly emphasized if not obligatory character in the case of both males and females. Muslim scholars are of the view that acts constituting fitra which the Prophet expected Muslims to follow are to be included in the category of wajib or obligatory.

That the early Muslims regarded female circumcision as obligatory even for those Muslims who embraced Islam later in life is suggested by a tradition occurring in the Adab al Mufrad of Bukhari where Umm Al Muhajir is reported to have said: “I was captured with some girls from Byzantium. (Caliph) Uthman offered us Islam, but only myself and one other girl accepted Islam. Uthman said: ‘Go and circumcise them and purify them.’”

More recently, we had Sheikh Jadul Haqq, the distinguished head of Al Azhar declaring both male and female circumcision to be obligatory religious duties (Khitan Al Banat in Fatawa Al-Islamiyyah. 1983). The fatwa by his successor Tantawi who opposed the practice cannot be taken seriously as we all know that he has pronounced a number of unislamic fatwas such as declaring bank interest halal and questioning the obligation of women wearing headscarves.

At the same time, however, what is required in Islam, is the removal of only the prepuce of the clitoris, and not the clitoris itself as is widely believed. The Prophet is reported to have told Umm Atiyyah, a lady who circumcised girls in Medina: “When you circumcise, cut plainly and do not cut severely, for it is beauty for the face and desirable for the husband” (idha khafadti fa ashimmi wa la tanhaki fa innahu ashraq li’l wajh wa ahza ind al zawj) (Abu Dawud, Al Awsat of Tabarani and Tarikh
Baghdad of Al Baghdadi).

This hadith clearly explains the procedure to be followed in the circumcision of girls. The words: “Cut plainly and do not cut severely” (ashimmi wa la tanhaki) is to be understood in the sense of removing the skin covering the clitoris, and not the clitoris. The expression “It is beauty (more properly brightness or radiance) for the face” (ashraq li’l wajh) is further proof of this as it simply means the joyous countenance of a woman, arising out of her being sexually satisfied by her husband. The idea here is that it is only with the removal of the clitoral prepuce that real sexual satisfaction could be realized. The procedure enhances sexual feeling in women during the sex act since a circumcised clitoris is much more likely to be stimulated as a result of direct oral, penile or tactile contact than the uncircumcised organ whose prepuce serves as an obstacle to direct stimulation.

A number of religious works by the classical scholars such as Fath Al Bari by Ibn Hajar Asqalani and Sharhul Muhadhdhab of Imam Nawawi have stressed on the necessity of removing only the prepuce of the clitoris and not any part of the organ itself. It is recorded in the Majmu Al Fatawa that when Ibn Taymiyyah was asked whether the woman is circumcised, he replied: “Yes we circumcise. Her circumcision is to cut the uppermost skin (jilda) like the cock’s comb.” More recently Sheikh Jadul Haqq declared that the circumcision of females consists of the removal of the clitoral prepuce (Khitan Al Banat in Fatawa Al Islamiyya.1983).

Besides being a religious duty, the procedure is believed to facilitate good hygiene since the removal of the prepuce of the clitoris serves to prevent the accumulation of smegma, a foul-smelling, germ-containing cheese- like substance that collects underneath the prepuces of uncircumcised women (See Al Hidaayah. August 1997).

A recent study by Sitt Al Banat Khalid ‘Khitan Al-Banat Ru’ yah Sihhiyyah’ (2003) has shown that female circumcision, like male circumcision, offers considerable health benefits, such as prevention of urinary tract infections and other diseases such as cystitis affecting the female reproductive organs.

The latest is the study Orgasmic Dysfunction Among Women at a Primary Care Setting in Malaysia. Hatta Sidi, and Marhani Midin, and Sharifah Ezat Wan Puteh, and Norni Abdullah, (2008) Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 20 (4) accessible http://myais.fsktm.um.edu.my/4480/ which shows that being Non-Malay is a higher risk factor for Orgasmic Sexual Dysfunction in women, implying that Malay women experience less problems in achieving orgasm than non-Malay women. As you know almost all Malay women in Malaysia are circumcised (undergo hoodectomy) in contrast to non-Malay women who are not. This would suggest that hoodectomy does in fact contribute to an improved sex life in women rather than diminishing it as some argue.

For more benefits of Islamic female circumcision also known as hoodectomy see http://www.hoodectomyinformation.com

http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?36483-The-Saudis-relentless-drive-to-destroy-the-historic-sites-of-Islam

There is an historical precedent to this. 2,000 years ago the ‘muslims’ of the roman empire were the Jews. They led 3 revolts againt the emperor, and the second one (Kitos War ) especially was a bloody one where many roman citizens were brutally killed in Cyrenaica. So they were considered as terrorists and religious fanatics by the Romans. In addition they refused to venerate the Roman Gods beside their own God. Shocking.
Then when the last rebellion started, some Romans had a brilliant idea. The reasoning goes like this: The center of the jewish religion was Jerusalem, especially the temple, the holiest place where their God resides. So why not giving a lesson to those barbaric illiterate shepherds and show them that their God doesn’t protect even their holy temple? They did so and the campaign went marvelously, except one point. The Romans didn’t understand the nature of the human psychology.
If you used to believe something all your life, and someone shows you that you are wrong, giving up would be like to admit that your life was a failure. Also people, and especially the poor people, need to clutch to a belief to support the hardship of life. Educated or rich people much less, but if you live in an unsecure area, that many of your friends are killed/robbed, that you have to suffer humiliations, famines, epidemies, it helps to think that something better is awaiting for you after your death, or in a remote future. Religions shape the human mind but the opposite is also true.
So the Jews didn’t adopt the Gods of their (hated) conquerors, rather they turned to their religious leaders who had always a convenient explanation to provide. The Jerusalem temple was no longer essential. So when the Jews were captive in Egypt or Babylonia, when their God failed to provide them a great future, it wasn’t because their God was an invention, it was just a temporary situation but soon the messiah would come and deliver them. The messiah was less important when the Jews were back in Palestine, but after the third roman military expedition the idea was again changed, here the messiah would bring the Jews back to Palestine one day. Since the Jews were able to bring themselves there again without the help of any messiah the interpretation has changed again.
So we have a striking example where the destruction of the heart of judaism hadn’t the desired effect
What happens now if Mecca and Medina are nuked together? Of course it would mean a holy war, but the West can survive to this too. On the other hand after a few years the muslims would just go to Mecca and turn around the crater with a new belief, that one day the city will be rebuilt by Mohamad. Or either the most important sites would be immediatelly rebuilt.
Some religious leader would conveniently find the black stone unscrached. Wow! Imagine, the black stone of the muslims that survives a nuclear explosion, that’s another miracle that shows how Allah is behind the muslims and their faith will be stronger than ever. Of course the black stone wouldn’t have the same shape and size than the first one, it could even turn to be slighly bigger, but if you behead the blasphemators who doubt, who cares? The bones of the prophet would even be uncovered, and even if nobody is allowed to see them, thousands of pilgrims would certify that they recovered from a disease when they got close to the burial site, and plenty could tell their children how Allah’s hand wrote a sentence in the sky when they were there. Now, since the religion needs to be changed in some way after such an event, you’d have different schools and interpretations regarding the nukes and the aftermath, some factions will start to fight each other with muslims killing other muslims.