RE: Five questions non-Muslims would like answered - Los Angeles Times

I have been wondering about many of these same questions for a while now ....
Five questions non-Muslims would like answered - Los Angeles Times

I would add.

How can killing neighbors and families - children no less - go without such an outcry by the victims families - muslims themselves? I'm not referring to Jordan, I'm referring to the murders (aka suicide bombings) in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Palestine.

If it is commonly known by muslims that there are bad hadiths in the koran, then why not rewrite it like the christians have done more or less regularly with the bible (translations they call them).

Why don't muslims take back their faith from those who seek to corrupt it? I'm not talking about the infidels - the non believers, I am referring to those who call themselves muslim leaders and incite violence and murder. Aren't there warnings in the koran about false prophets?

That's all I could come up with for now.

Another suicide bomber

Here's an idea. Instead of publishing the name of a suicide bomber why not omit that information from all news reports? Why is every suicide bomber 'honored' with macabre fame? Every suicide bomber has their name, age and nationality published, yet the victims are usually listed in a group - a number. If you celebrate life, then why do you accept the dead victims being lumped together as a number? Why do you accept mass murderer's becoming 'celebrities' amongst their own with their names annotated in history?

If you get into the psyche of these beings, it's obvious that part of their motivation has to do with 'going down in history'. Would there be as many suicide bombers if their names were never known? Some die hards would still perform this heinous crime, but I suspect many more would not since their deeds could never be authenticated in published reports. Without this authentication, who would believe these grotesque memorializations? Without believers, who would follow?

Let's reserve the publishing of names to the victims, not the evildoers. Let's stop glorifying these abominations and let them die anonymously and alone.

Halliburton Watch

Halliburton Watch
has a great link about preferential treatment of Halliburton with respect to the billions of our tax dollars being thrown at Cheney's company. In fact the democrats released a report this past summer which has received almost no coverage about the billions Cheney's company has enjoyed. Where are all the republicans who decry government spending as wasteful - not a peep is heard.

After all it's only 1.4 billion so far and counting - that doesn't include the tab for the contracts Halliburton's Kellog,Brown and Root subsidiary has won (no compete again - what else) for Katrina rebuilding (1) and (2). Forget anyone in the DoD/Army or this Republican controlled Congress fixing it, as you will be either demoted or fired.

I guess that's why we're over there for Operation Iraqi Liberation.