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MUST READ ARTICLES FROM OTHER SITES:

Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday – To Celebrate or not to Celebrate, Muqtedar Khan

Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol, Haroon Moghul

NYPD Lied About Islamophobic Third Jihad, Hussein Rashid

Islamists’ current dilemma, Tariq Ramadan

Is Iran Really a Threat to the United States?, Omid Safi

Radical U.S. Muslims Little Threat, Study Says, Scott Shane

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“Do not be people without minds of your own, saying that if others treat you well you will treat them well, and that if they do wrong you will do wrong to them. Instead, accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and not to do wrong (even) if they do evil.” — Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers,  the genius of its scientists,  the hopes of its children….This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.  Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. — Dwight D. Eisenhower farewell speech to the American people.

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THE GOLDEN RULE
— Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517
— Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.: Udana Varga 5:18
— Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12
— Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.: Analects 15:23
— Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself. Sunnah
— Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a
— Taoism: Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.: T’ai Shag Kan Ying P’ien
— Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. : Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5

FINANCIAL COST OF WARS IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN