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* Exported from MasterCook *

Stewed Dog (wedding style)

Recipe By : Joe Sweeney
Serving Size : 30 Preparation Time :3:00
Categories : Ethnic Lamb
Philippines

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
3 kg dog meat -- * see note
1 1/2 cups vinegar
60 peppercorns -- crushed
6 tablespoons salt
12 cloves garlic -- crushed
1/2 cup cooking oil
6 cups onion -- sliced
3 cups tomato sauce
10 cups boiling water
6 cups red pepper -- cut into strips
6 pieces bay leaf
1 teaspoon tabasco sauce
1 1/2 cups liver spread -- ** see note
1 whole fresh pineapple -- cut 1/2 inch thick

1. First, kill a medium sized dog, then burn off the fur over a hot fire.
2. Carefully remove the skin while still warm and set aside for later (may be
used in other recpies)
3. Cut meat into 1″ cubes. Marinade meat in mixture of vinegar, peppercorn,
salt and garlic for 2 hours.
4. Fry meat in oil using a large wok over an open fire, then add onions and
chopped pineapple and suate until tender.
5. Pour in tomato sauce and boiling water, add green peper, bay leaf and
tobasco.
6. Cover and simmer over warm coals until meat is tender. Blend in liver spread
and cook for additional 5-7 minutes.

* you can substiture lamb for dog. The taste is similar, but not as pungent.
** smooth liver pate will do as well.

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Suggested Wine: San Miguel Beer
Serving Ideas : Rice, naturally.

NOTES : During my wedding reception, my brother- in-law suggested we add to the
feast by having dog stew. Wanting to be part of the family, and having been
subjected to all sorts of socials tests already, I agreed. The result was...
well.. a lot better than I expected. In fact, it was great!

It was only later I found out that dog should *not* be served at weddings, as
it may make the bride and groom flight like dogs during the honeymoon. But what
the heck. It didn't seem to have that effect... at least not until a few year
later. :-)

For the faint of heart, you can always substitute lamb in place of next door's
rover, but the meat will not be as sweet or as rich in flavor.

Nutr. Assoc. : 3831 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Re: Was Islam’s founder Muhammad a real man or an invention?

Was Islam's founder Muhammad a real man or an invention?
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myth believers beware!

On Apr 24, 3:23 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> **
> New post on *Fellowship of the Minds*
> <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/> Was Islam's
> founder Muhammad a real man or an
> invention?<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/was-islams-founder-...>by
> Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>
>
> Robert Spencer is an authority on Islam and the author of the* New York
> Times *bestsellers* The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the
> Crusades)<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895260131/ref=ase_robe...>
> and The Truth About
> Muhammad<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/105-1749781-4552435?ie=UT...>
> .* He is also the director of Jihad Watch <http://www.jihadwatch.org/>.
>
> In his new book *Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam's Obscure
> Origins<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161017061X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&t...>
> *, Spencer asks if Muhammad was a real man or a later invention by those
> who had fashioned an Arab empire via wars and conquer.
>
> Writing <http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/inventing_muhammad.html> in
> *American Thinker*, April 23, 2012, Spencer makes a case for Muhammad being
> more fictive than real:
>
> *Why would it matter if Muhammad never existed? Certainly the accepted
> story of Islam's origins is taken for granted as historically accurate;
> while many don't accept Muhammad's claim to have been a prophet, few doubt
> that there was a man named Muhammad who in the early seventh century began
> to claim that he was receiving messages from Allah through the angel
> Gabriel. [...]*
>
> *Yet the numerous indications that the standard account of Muhammad's life
> is more legend than fact actually have considerable implications for the
> contemporary political scene. These are just a few of the weaknesses in the
> traditional account of Muhammad's life and the early days of Islam:*
>
> - *No record of Muhammad's reported death in 632 appears until more than
> a century after that date.*
> - *The early accounts written by the people the Arabs conquered never
> mention Islam, Muhammad, or the Qur'an. They call the conquerors
> "Ishmaelites," "Saracens," "Muhajirun," and "Hagarians," but never
> "Muslims."*
> - *The Arab conquerors, in their coins and inscriptions, don't mention
> Islam or the Qur'an for the first six decades of their conquests.
> Mentions of "Muhammad" are non-specific and on at least two occasions
> are
> accompanied by a cross. The word can be used not only as a proper name,
> but also as an honorific.*
> - *The Qur'an, even by the canonical Muslim account, was not distributed
> in its present form until the 650s. Casting into serious doubt that
> standard account is the fact that neither the Arabians nor the
> Christians and Jews in the region mention its existence until the early
> eighth century.*
> - *We don't begin to hear about Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, and
> about Islam itself until the 690s, during the reign of the caliph Abd
> al-Malik. Coins and inscriptions reflecting Islamic beliefs begin to
> appear at this time also.*
> - *In the middle of the eighth century, the Abbasid dynasty supplanted
> the Umayyad line of Abd al-Malik. In the Abbasid period, biographical
> material about Muhammad began to proliferate. The first complete biography
> of the prophet of Islam finally appeared during this era-at least 125 years
> after the traditional date of his death.*
>
> *The lack of confirming detail in the historical record, the late
> development of biographical material about the Islamic prophet, the
> atmosphere of political and religious factionalism in which that material
> developed, and much more, suggest that the Muhammad of Islamic tradition
> did not exist, or if he did, he was substantially different from how that
> tradition portrays him.*
>
> *How to make sense of all this? If the Arab forces that conquered so much
> territory beginning in the 630s were not energized by the teachings of a
> new prophet and the divine word he delivered, how did the Islamic character
> of their empire arise at all? If Muhammad did not exist, why was it ever
> considered necessary to invent him?*
>
> *Every empire of the day had a civic religion. The Eastern Roman
> (Byzantine) Empire was Christian. Its rival Persia, meanwhile, was
> Zoroastrian. The Arab Empire quickly controlled and needed to unify huge
> expanses of territory where different religions predominated. The empire
> was growing quickly, soon rivaling the Byzantine and Persian Empires in
> size and power. But at first, it did not have a compelling political
> theology to compete with those it supplanted and to solidify its
> conquests. It needed a common religion -- a political theology that would
> provide the foundation for the empire's unity and secure allegiance to the
> state.*
>
> *Toward the end of the seventh century and the beginning of the eighth, the
> leaders of the Muslim world began to speak specifically about Islam, its
> prophet, and eventually its book. Stories about Muhammad began to
> circulate. A warrior-prophet would justify the new empire's aggressive
> expansionism. To give those conquests a theological justification -- as
> Muhammad's teachings and example do -- would place them beyond criticism.*
> *This is why Islam developed as such a profoundly political religion.
> Islam is a political faith: the divine kingdom is very much of this world,
> with God's wrath and judgment to be expected not only in the next life, but
> also in this one, to be delivered by believers. Allah says in the Qur'an:
> "As for those disbelieving infidels, I will punish them with a terrible
> agony in this world and the next. They have no one to help or save them"
> (3:56). Allah also exhorts Muslims to wage war against those infidels,
> apostates, and polytheists (2:191, 4:89, 9:5, 9:29).*
>
> *There is compelling reason to conclude that Muhammad, the messenger of
> Allah came into existence only after the Arab Empire was firmly entrenched
> and casting about for a political theology to anchor and unify it.
> Muhammad and the Qur'an cemented the power of the Umayyad caliphate and
> then that of the Abbasid caliphate.*
>
> *This is not just academic speculation. The non-Muslim world can be aided
> significantly in its understanding of the global jihad threat -- an
> understanding that has been notably lacking even at the highest levels
> since September 11, 2001 -- by a careful, unbiased examination of the
> origins of Islam. There is a great deal of debate today in the United
> States and Western Europe about the nature of Islamic law; anti-sharia
> measures have been proposed in at least twenty states, and one state --
> Oklahoma -- voted to ban sharia in November 2010, although that law was
> quickly overturned as an infringement upon Muslims' religious freedom.
> Others have been successfully resisted on the same grounds.*
>
> *If it is understood that the political aspect of Islam preceded the
> religious aspect, that might change. But that will happen only if a
> sufficient number of people are willing to go wherever the truth my take
> them.*
>
> ~Eowyn
> *Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* |
> April 24, 2012 at 9:56 am | Tags: Arab
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> theology <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?tag=political-theology>,
> Quran <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?tag=quran>, Robert
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Fwd: The Mental Recession:20 Black Adults Beat White Man In Attempt to Get 'Justice for Trayvon'

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From: Bruce Majors
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Subject: The Mental Recession:20 Black Adults Beat White Man In Attempt to Get 'Justice for Trayvon'
To: majors.bruce@gmail.com

Bruce Majors has sent you a link to a blog:

Blog: The Mental Recession
Post: 20 Black Adults Beat White Man In Attempt to Get 'Justice for Trayvon'
Link: http://mentalrecession.blogspot.com/2012/04/20-black-adults-beat-white-man-in.html

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Re: watching brainwashed myth believers is a hoot!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF8EC9CpHWQ&feature=related

On Apr 24, 4:18 pm, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apTouMWnMGo&list=UUuGUeweabuRpAZOustJA...

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watching brainwashed myth believers is a hoot!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apTouMWnMGo&list=UUuGUeweabuRpAZOustJAIkQ&index=10&feature=plcp

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