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Oil from vegetable, fruit, or grains can be used to heat homes, run automobiles, and eventually replace fossil fuel. It sounds pretty nice doesn't it? But there is only one problem.

There is only a limited amount of land set aside for growing food, and if that land is used to grow plants for oil, where will we grow our food. I don't want the price of my cornmeal, which is used to make bread, to increase because the price for biofuel has risen, and the gas stations want to make more money. That's what happens when the price for gasoline rises, and why should the price for gasoline affect my ability to feed myself. Yes. I could use meat in replace of grain some days, but not all people can afford meat everyday or even every other day. Meat is a delicacy for many people. Most people in 3^rd world countries depend on grain as their major source of food. For instance, in Yemen most of the school age children eat bread and drink water or milk before going to school, and a different type of grain will probably be used for dinner. If you take away the grain used for food and you use it for biofuel, you are taking away an affordable meal to the majority of people. There is no way you can save the planet by starving the people.

Polygamy is a wholesome practice that is prevalent in the Middle East and various Muslim countries, and it is a means to create large families, and a fruitful blood line, but in America it is illegal because American people discriminate against practices deriving from other religions and cultures.. But America has had a history of implementing laws that discriminate against people who are perceived as being different. For along time, laws prohibited black people and woman from voting, people of color from being witnesses or jurors on a court stand, and prevented blacks from getting business licenses. There were even laws that prevented homosexual and lesbian behavior, and if any of these laws were broken then the people who were perceived as criminals would be punished. But, one law still remains, and that is the law prohibiting polygamy. Being married to one woman is not for everybody, nor is polygamy for everyone. If laws prohibiting homosexual and lesbian behavior, which are forbidden by most of the religions of the world, can be abolished, then why can't laws prohibiting polygamy be abolished. As expected, if you don't like a certain practice, just don't participate in it. Let me tell you a few things I don't like. I don't like the concept of homosexuality and lesbianism, so what do I do, I just don't participate in them, and yes the last one I can't participate in because I don't have the required genitalia for it. Now let's talk about the concept of polygamy, which is an odd concept to many westerners..

Islam says that a man can have up to four wives. No its not required, but it is permitted. Also, a man must be able to take care of his wives and children, and to be frank with you, it's not the governments' responsibility to take care of a mans many wives and numerous offspring. Also, there are rules to having many wives. Surreal 4 entitled An-Nissa, and verse 23 of that Surra says, "Prohibited to you (for marriage) are: your mothers, daughters, sisters; father's sisters, mother's sisters; brother's daughters, sister's daughters; foster-mothers (who gave you suck), foster-sisters; your wives' mothers; your step-daughters under your guardianship, born of your wives to whom ye have gone, no prohibition if ye have not gone in; (those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your loins; and two sisters in wedlock at one and the same time." Also, one does not have sex with their spouse prior to marriage. In most cases of American marriages, the couple have sex prior to marriage, but that is not the case in Islam. Furthermore, if a man has a big sexual desire, which many men do, they can get married to more than one woman. Personally, I have no problem with a man having more than one wife. If you like it, and you can afford it, do it, but if the prior stipulations don't apply then maybe its not for you. But the legal system should not make polygamy illegal because it infringes upon the religious rights of other people.

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The US and the Western world are finally forced to face the reality that Arab/Muslim issues matter if a state of peace is to be established between Israel and surrounding Arab countries. In the past, Arab issues were marginalized and agreements to peace were written in favor of Israel, and as a result Israel had to give up very little land and cede little or no power of Arab/Muslim land that it occupied. As expected, this approach to peace did hot help, and a progressively violent cross border relationship transpired between Israel, Palestine, Syria, etc. Hopefully, this new pursuit, which is obviously attempting to publicize the views of the Arab/Muslim countries, will bring about a fare agreement between the respective parties. Now will they actually be able to form a state of peace is only in the hands of Allah. To be frank with you, Hamas needs to retract its belief that Israel should be destroyed. Yes. The Muslim community knows that the Jews really have no business being in Jerusalem, but that is a hard fact that the Palestine people need to deal with. Yep. They invaded your land, and now they are there living, and if you want peace for your children, spouses, and other family members, you will have to stop the destruction of Israel plan. As expected, Israel needs to give the Palestine people rights and treat them with respect. Boarders between Israel and Palestine need to be opened up for free trade, and these two governments need to work together to live together, even if living together means being next door neighbors. Yes. The Muslims and Jews need to live together as neighbors. It is not mandatory that you like a person, but it is mandatory that you respect a person because if you don’t show respect to a person that tells them that you may do anything to them. As expected, no one likes living in fear of being disrespected by suicide bombers, government hit squads, etc. Yes. Obviously, an agreement of peace is good. The Palestinians and the Israelites should share the land that they live on, but some things the Muslim community should not be forced to share.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is one of those things the Muslim community should not be forced to share. Al-Aqsa Mosque is one of our holiest sights because it is where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven then he spoke to Allah and Allah gave him the command to pray five times a day. The commandment of the prayer was a major turning point in the religion of Islam.

The city of Jerusalem should be shared, but the Al-Aqsa Mosque is not something that should be used for other than worshiping Allah. Our Mosques are places of truth not for promotion of Jewish falsehood. We can share Jerusalem, but not or mosque.

Former UN Sanctions and the present dwindling state of security in Iraq are the reasons child mortality rates have increased since 1990. It is a shame that the United Nations, which claims to fight for peoples’ rights, is the main contributors to the child mortality rate that has increased 150% since 1990.” Because of UN Sanctions the Iraqi people couldn’t even safe guard the lives of their baby boys and girls. Medical supplies and modern drugs, which many westerns take for granted, have not been available to Iraq simply because they have had a president the American government opposed. Yes. I’ll admit that all of the blame shouldn’t be placed on the UN, but the bulk of the problem derived from the sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council on Iraq after the Iraq invasion of Kuwait.

Now, the war that America has started on the false pretence of weapons of mass destruction has only worsened the catastrophic situation for children seeking medical help. America started a war on false pretenses, and the Iraqi children are the ones who are getting the shaft. Can anybody imagine their children dieing of pneumonia or diarrhea, which has already accounted “for over 30 percent of child deaths.” When you attack the healthcare of peoples’ children, you kill the peoples’ dreams of a better future. Iraqi children embody the hopes and dreams of Iraqi people, just like American children do for Americans.

.Non-Military trained security guards work on behalf of the American government in Iraq, and these security guards are lawless, careless, and they have no respect for the lives of non-western people. To be frank with you, most of these people are incompetent and should not be allowed to work on Iraqi soil.

These westernized security outfits are never brought to justice for their poor choices that lead to the death of Iraqi or other people. In one incident, 17 people were killed when Black water staff fired on a crowd in a Baghdad neighborhood. Also, on October 10, the Australian-managed security firm Unity Resource Group shot up a car killing “two women in central Baghdad.” On November 10, guards of US company DynCorp shot dead a taxi driver in the north Baghdad neighborhood of Utafiyah as they were escorting US diplomats.” It is obvious that incompetence, carelessness and lawlessness perpetrated by trigger happy security guards has lead to the deaths of innocent civilians, and will continue to lead to the death of innocent civilians.