{"id":480,"date":"2006-03-25T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=480"},"modified":"2006-03-25T02:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T02:39:00","slug":"480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2006\/03\/25\/480\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Kinda a news day&#8230; not about me.. just in general.. and random thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Islam.&nbsp; What comes to mind?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Muslims.&nbsp; What comes to mind?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I think well&nbsp;about them, despite the media&#8217;s coverage of the war and of burning the American flag and this and that.. I think about peaceful people.&nbsp; Abdur-Rahim&nbsp;who use to play for the Trail Blazers once had a documentary on him about how his day went.&nbsp; Truly peaceful people, just wanting freedom of religion.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I was&nbsp;a little&nbsp;surprised today when I was surfing around on CNN.com and read some things.&nbsp; Not over the fact that they don&#8217;t want Christians around.. I&#8217;ve known that for a long time..<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>From the Article: &#8220;Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die,&#8221; cleric Abdul Raoulf told The Associated Press. Raoulf has long been considered a moderate and was often at odds with the Taliban, which jailed him three times before the hard-line group&#8217;s ouster in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>How crazy eh?&nbsp; I think so.. I thought those people who said that were the crazy ones, the ones who were extreme in what they said, but the article says he is a moderate.&nbsp; It is apart of the Islamic law.&nbsp; It isn&#8217;t that I necessarily didn&#8217;t know about this, but it is good to refresh your memory and keep it in mind.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>To read the whole story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/03\/24\/afghan.convert\/index.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">click this link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This really isn&#8217;t an update post, more something just to think about &#8211; pray about.. and to know of.&nbsp; My heart goes out to those people, my prayers are sent&nbsp;for them.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger&nbsp;or discipline me in your wrath. &nbsp;Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am faint;&nbsp;O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony. &nbsp;My soul is in anguish. &nbsp;How long, O Lord, how long? &nbsp;Turn, O Lord, and deliver me;&nbsp;save me because of your unfailing love.&nbsp; No one remembers you when he is dead. &nbsp;Who praises you from the grave?&nbsp; I am worn out from groaning;&nbsp;all night long I flood my bed with weeping&nbsp;and drench my couch with tears. &nbsp;My eyes grow weak with sorrow;&nbsp;they fail because of all my foes. &nbsp;Away from me, all you who do evil,&nbsp;for the Lord has heard my weeping.&nbsp; The Lord has heard my cry for mercy;&nbsp;the Lord accepts my prayer.&#8221;&nbsp; Psalm 6:1-9 <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Take care, God Bless,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Ciao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone, Kinda a news day&#8230; not about me.. just in general.. and random thoughts. Islam.&nbsp; What comes to mind? Muslims.&nbsp; What comes to mind? I think well&nbsp;about them, despite the media&#8217;s coverage of the war and of burning the American flag and this and that.. I think about peaceful people.&nbsp; Abdur-Rahim&nbsp;who use to play&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2003\/11\/25\/66\/","url_meta":{"origin":480,"position":0},"title":"My convo with JJ last\u2026","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"November 25, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"My convo with JJ last night went a little something like this....DCxr7: do you have an interest in being friends with me?DOUble09g: yeah why would you askDCxr7: whats your cell?DOUble09g: (480) 593-0234DCxr7: mine isDCxr7: 623-341-0774DOUble09g: alrightDOUble09g: what's going on?DCxr7: chillinDCxr7: takin it easyDOUble09g: coolDCxr7: yupDCxr7: you?DOUble09g: just sittin here and\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9779,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2024\/03\/13\/2024-march-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":480,"position":1},"title":"2024 &#8211; March part 1","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"March 13, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey there We begin this month much like we ended last month: my parents are visiting (for Ara's birthday). 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