And analyze the following as it appears in the Quran (Sura 5:33):
"The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter."
The Islamic punishment could be the reason why violent Muslims in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front finished off the 44 Special Forces of the Philippine National Forces in Mamasapano. The cops had gone to the place, supposedly controlled by MILF, to arrest a certain Marwan who was reportedly involved in the Bali bombing that killed more than 200, mostly Australian tourists.
Read Glenn Beck's "It Is About Islam" that may be available at any outlet of the National Bookstore in the Philippines.
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The things including hate and anger that the blogger now carries have a total weight of almost nothing. Shortly, I will start picking up pieces, the best that I could find, including one or two which may be diamond from the garbage of memory.
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