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Egyptian Salafist (& Al-Qaeda Leader’s Brother) Says Elections Violate Sharia, Calls for Jihad Against Jews

Oct. 21, 2012 2:56pm Sharona Schwartz

Muhammed Al-Zawahiri

Militant Salafist Muhammed Al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, insists elections and the democratic process violate Islamic Shariah law. Echoing other Egyptian hardliners, he also says jihad against the Jews is a religious imperative for Muslims.

These are some of the latest choice quotes translated and posted Thursday by MEMRI – the Middle East Media Research Institute.

In the October 4 interview with Egypt’s CBC TV, Zawahiri said:

Just as Allah commands us to pray, to go on the Hajj pilgrimage, and to adhere to monotheism, he commands us to wage Jihad and to implement the shari’a. We want to fully implement the shari’a, within legitimate constraints. We will not implement something if the time is not right, if it is bound to lead to undesirable or harmful results. We want to implement our religion as revealed in the shari’a.

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Fighting Israel, fighting the Jews is a religious duty incumbent upon all. The Egyptian government should have been fighting the Jewish enemy. Perhaps due to circumstances – its weakness, its interests – the Egyptian government ignored a religious duty incumbent upon it. Not just the Egyptian government – the Jordanian one as well. This is a religious duty incumbent upon all Muslims.

In the television interview, Zawahiri took the opportunity to deride the election process. Islamic law should rule, he believes, not western notions of democracy. He says he won’t recognize the election results or the legitimacy of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.

From the MEMRI-provided transcript:

TV host: I still don’t understand how you view the concept of state: You reject democracy, you reject the judiciary because of man-made law…

Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: You don’t have to go into all those details – I reject anything that runs counter to Islam. Do you agree with that? Likewise, I agree to anything acceptable by Islamic law.

TV host: Do you believe that the elections…

Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: Elections are illegitimate.

TV host: Elections run counter to the shari’a?

Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: There is evidence for that in the shari’a.

TV host: So you believe that the elections that were held…

Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: Allah and the Prophet Muhammad said so. I am willing to sit down and discuss this with anyone who can prove otherwise.

TV host: So you believe that the elections violated the shari’a, and that our man-made law violates the shari’a…

Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: Absolutely, and I think that all Muslims should believe this.

TV host: Democracy also violates the shari’a?

Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: Anyone who says otherwise is welcome to provide evidence. If such evidence exists, I will take it back.

TV host: So you do not recognize the results of the elections?

Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: Absolutely not.

TV host: You do not recognize the president…

Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: I did not recognize the previous president, and I do not recognize this one. I recognize the rule of Islamic religious law.

The vow of jihad is a commonly heard call among Egypt’s Islamic hardliners. One recent example: Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie – the group’s highest ranking official – called it a Muslim duty to launch a “holy jihad” against Israel with the goal of capturing Jerusalem.

On Friday, the newly elected leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party said his party aims to institute Sharia as the law of the land in Egypt.

In an interview to CNN on Sept. 11 this year, Zawahiri offered himself as a mediator to negotiate a peace deal between Islamists and the West. Among other clauses, his plan would require the U.S. and West “to stop intervening in Muslim lands,” “end the war on Islam” and “release all Islamist prisoners” while Islamists would “stop attacks on Western and U.S. interests,” “protect legitimate Western and U.S. interests in Muslim lands” and “stop provoking the U.S. and the West.”

Zawahiri’s call to wage jihad against the Jews – delivered just one month after tabling his “peace plan” – renders hard to imagine that he could ever be considered a legitimate mediator.

Watch the translated clip here from MEMRI:

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meister41
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:11pm
SNOWLEOPARD you left out Carrier Strike Groups!

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:19pm
  “Egyptian Salafist (& Al-Qaeda Leader’s Brother) Says Elections Violate Sharia, Calls for Jihad Against Jews”
  
  Nothing to do with America. Who cares? It’s all propaganda put out by MEMRI.
  
  MEMRI was founded by Zionists Meyrav Wurmser and Yigal Carmon. Yigal Carmon, is a former colonel in Israeli military intelligence, and Meyrav Wurmser is an Israeli-born, American political scientist.
  
  Meyrav is also wife of the Zionist, and Jewish, David Wurmser, a protege of Dick Cheney who got us to go to war with Iraq. He was part of the disinformation team that produced the lies, that were forwarded to the Jewish, Judith Miller, of the New York Times. The Jewish run New York Times printed those lies and later apologized, but that was after they had their war for Israel.
  
  Judith Miller did some time in the slammer for not ratting out the Jewish Zionist, Scooter Libby. Libby too, was part of the disinformation team.
  
  Not our problem.
- Elena2010
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:06am
  Jerk — in case you had not noticed, the rise of the caliphate is happening on our watch. It is a BFD if they pull it off. The salafists think because they once had armies as far north as Tours in France and Vienna in Austria that all that territory belongs to them. And should Obama be a muslim, then we belong to them, too. In case you had not noticed, Iran is feverishly working on an atomic weapon. Unless you want crude to be $250/barrel, you should care what those savages do over there. They will be over here in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.
  
  If you survive their onslaught and do not convert, they will cut off your balls and put you to work in the harem where you wife is their sex slave w/any daughters you have. Your sons will also be in the same fix as you, only turned into Mameluke soldiers to fight their wars for them.
  
  At the moment, Israel is the ONLY buffer betw them and us.
  
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blackyb
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:11pm
All the Islamists and Sharia “people” can line up and kiss American azz. Keep those bums out of here or there will be a revolution within these United States. Get out and stay out we are through will all of you.

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- db321
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:08pm
  Muslims are about to one day meet the biggest Army in the World, 40 million Americans with guns. I guess Americans arm to the hilt violates Sharia Law – too bad! We have heard about enough of this Sharia Law diarrhea we can. When they come trowing rocks, we will be ready.
  
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- USA-USA-USA
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:52pm
  @ Blackyb and DB321 – AMEN! That’s what I keep telling these muslims over on youtube. We’re not Europe, with no guns. A satanic islamic law like sharia has no chance of being implemented against Americans. Millions and millions of Americans with multimillions in arms and trillions in ammo. Thank God for the 2nd Amendment.
  
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- PaulreveresDarknight
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 4:29am
  He is passing U N treaty to take guns. Gear up fella’s ladies. We gotta be sherlocks like Washington & Lincoln. Be ready count coup like them too. Im keeping towels meself
  
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- Anadara
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 2:52pm
  These creeps scare me. Islam is one really messed up religion. Check this out… It exposes Islam’s propensity to mayhem and violence all around the globe.
  http://thereligionofpeace.com/
  
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Magyar
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:55pm
The day I’m forced to adhere to sharia is the day I go out in a blaze of bullets!

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- BBEV
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:21pm
  Amen to that.
  
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- blessedinfidel
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:28pm
  Remember the words of General Patton. I don’t want you to give your life for your country. I want you to help the muslims give their lives to their fake prophet. Send the muslims to their paradise of virgins and sensual pleasure, they are looking for every excuse to die in the name of Allah. (the moon god of the pagan arabians). They would truly appreciate it if you dispatched them by any means.
  
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- Experiment626
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 5:24pm
  That Patton quote is word for word, the way I remember it.
  
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nesmond
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:49pm
I hope this guy gives Israel an excuse to ventilate him.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:41pm
If you have a CCW. Just remember Self Defense. Like if someone is Yelling Allah Akbar. Can we be blamed for shooting someone yelling this? Not Today! Those words are a threat to myself and my Family. Those words will get your Virgins. Everyone Must realize these words are the same as someone who has a Gun to your head.

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- blackyb
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 5:01pm
  More like crack whores is what they would get if they got anything. These people are evil, ignorant and vastly uneducated in anything other than being brainwashed in that Islam slime.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:08am
  Allahu akbar = dirt nap forever.
  
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Diane TX
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:40pm
Hey sparky, I also believe in monotheism (One God), but your horror of a religion from the Dark Ages, doesn’t like the way I honor that One God because it doesn’t use your rule book.

Please notify me, and others like me, when your religion emerges from the Dark Ages and is content to pray to God your way, and peoples of other religions can pray to God by their rule books.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:48pm
  Personally with extremists such as that there is only a handful of useful solutions:
  
  Hellfire missile
  Marines raid
  Air Force bombers
  SEAL team strike.
  
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- Diane TX
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:57pm
  Gee Snowleopard, you seemed like a gentle person before.
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:52pm
  Yup, it’s not like Christians don’t try to pass legislation to try and force non Christians to live by their book.
  
  Give me a break.
  
  Both Christians and Muslims follow the dogma that at some point, every person will have no choice but to accept their idiotic God as the ONE true God.
  
  Muslims try to do it by force
  Christians try to do it by legislation.
  
  I can’t even remember how many times I’ve heard nutjob Christians say something along the lines of, “one day, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.”
  
  So you too are for forced conversion, so stop trying to act like you aren’t.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:11am
  The large Christian community was obliterated across North Africa and the Levant by sword wielding savages out of the Arabian desert. Muslims have the blood some 200+ lives on their collective souls. By far, Christians have suffered in the greatest numbers, only because not all the Hindus and Buddhists were not counted in the totals. So much for respect for “People of the Book.”
  
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DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:37pm
He’s a mediator like oblamer is bi-partisan. Per BO- I welcome all republicans to come to the table (as long they are willing to cross the aisle & agree with everything I say) otherwise they need to sit at the back of the bus. Hmmm…the similarity is remarkable.

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ginjit.dw
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:37pm
Our mullah in chief aided in the over throw of our ally Mubarak. I believe knowing full well what was to come. These are despicable people with no tolerance for others. The chief organizer will be humiliated in this election. Not because Mr Mitt is so great, but rather the esteemed one can run his game any longer. The emperor has no clothes.

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anothercomment
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:32pm
Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: You don’t have to go into all those details – I reject anything that runs counter to Islam. Do you agree with that? Likewise, I agree to anything acceptable by Islamic law.
….holy pig, Batman, I believe these RADICALS are making up the rules to their “religion” as they go along….right is wrong, up is down, and depending on the weather, a girl reading a book is stalked and mortally wounded for religious crimes, but a woman buying garish amounts of jewelry is following the teaching of their god? No wonder these people, however uneducated, are impossible to reason with…

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- anothercomment
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:38pm
  BTW, Al-Zawahiri, just a note: Israel is aware of your agenda. You are not a ‘world power’ nor do you have a ‘pot to piss in.’
  Just move along, feed the goats and take care of your camels, you are on the radar….and don’t look up…..
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:13am
  I am afraid you are incorrect.
  
  This has been islamic theology/policy fm the time Mohammad took up residence in Medina (formerly Yathrib, a Jewish town in the Hejaz).
  
  Pls do some more digging and reading abt islam.
  
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KingCanon
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:31pm
The JEWS will chew you up and spit your demonic butts out!

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- Magyar
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:50pm
  You have no idea how right you are!
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:30pm
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Christians and Jews are under major attack. Wake up folks, before it’s too late.
Approximately 23% of the world’s population is Muslim. Islam wants to turn that number into 100%.

Christians and Jews are the only ones standing in the way of sharia law and the Muslim faith being implemented throughout the World.

Radical Islam wants Christians and Jews annihilated. They believe that anyone who is not Muslim, are infidels and deserve to die.

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blessedinfidel
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:30pm
Why do they want sharia?? The mullahs and imams get the best of young girls for sex, (no minimum age), they are also entitled to the “pearls of young boys” (muhummads word for sex with prepubescent boys), guidelines and rules for sex with your livestock (if you ********* you have to sell the beast to another unsuspecting tribe). Keep in mind, that parents of these kids offer them to the mullahs and imams in exchange for favors (opportunities, monetary aid, etc). In afaghanastan and pakistan the boys are called “dancing boys”. Why do you think so many of our military personell go crazy and call the muslims savages.We need to have compassioon for our servicemen when they lose it.
In the future, I will post the chapters and verses of the quran and hadith so you can look it up yourselves. I’m feeling a bit lazy today, just like the president of the USA who has that problem.

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- SREGN
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:48pm
  Careful, according to the UN that’s hate speech.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:18am
  Min age for females is 9 yrs old, but she has to be big enough to support the man atop her.
  
  That is exactly what their imams are saying in Western countries who object to their children being married off at ridiculously early ages. Mohammad is their guide. He was married to a 6 yr old, Aisha, his favorite wife. He took her home and waited until she was 9 before having s*x w/the child. Mohammad declared that it was better for a girl to “come of age” in the house of her husband than in the house of her father.
  
  Fathers — what do you think abt how YOUR daughters will be treated? In doubt, go to Dearborn, Michigan, and see what this looks like in the US!
  
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barber2
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:27pm
Militant Islam : The Face of Hate . The face of Satan. The anti-Christ.

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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:24pm
Hey everybody, let’s have some fun with this headline. I’ll start:

“Egyptian Salafist says “…..” Violates Sharia, Calls for Jihad Against Jews”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Egyptian Salafist says “Switching to Geico” Violates Sharia, Calls for Jihad Against Jews

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meister41
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:24pm
Tell us something new! The MB wanted the Jews dead long ago! Isreal should start bombing them as soon as Mitt is sworn in! Enough is Enough!Take the fight to them BB!

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kalli
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:22pm
In case anyone has failed to recognize or acknowledge exactly what the muslim-in-chief has in store for America, re-read this article. This is exactly the reason why he has supported the fall of Egypt and Libya into the muslim brotherhood’s hands.This is exactly what he has in mind for transforming America. I was on a political call last week where one person has audio of the muslim-in-chief speaking with a group of his fellow muslims, and he spelled out exactly what he was going to do for the muslim brotherhood in America. Chilling is an understatement!!! It is imperative that this fraud be removed and prosecuted for crimes against America!

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- meister41
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:33pm
  More Ammo for Mitt in tomorrows Debate!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:44pm
  MEISTER: Hope the Republicans research for EVERY word of praise from the Obama crowd for the Muslim Brotherhood. Our clueless Democrats playing their diplomatic violins while the Muslim world and the economy burns. ( I read that a French female journalist was violently assaulted again yesterday in Tahir Square. So much for freedom, democracy, females and the Muslim Brotherhood ! Talk about a war on women )
  
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momrules
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:19pm
This is the real Islam. Morsi and those like him dress up there belief’s with talk of democracy but he and the Muslim Brotherhood are really on the same page with this man. The ultimate desire of the Islamic faithful from every different sect is to destroy the Jews, Israel and the West. They will never stop until God Himself stops them.

The Hajj for 2012 is from October 24 through the 29th. If you are unfamiliar with the stone they worship you might find this link interesting.
http://redicecreations.com/article.php?id=17158

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- HotFixIt
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:48pm
  Netflix has a National Geographic Program about Mecca that is interesting…. it is available streaming. I learned a bit more about the haji.
  
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- anothercomment
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 10:04pm
  @HotFixit
  Is this the same one on the NatGeo channel? It was a beautifully filmed, well-crafted piece of propaganda. They followed several people who were making their hajj (required at least once in a lifetime) to Mecca, including a divorced female American doctor from Texas. Her visa was issued only after her teenage son granted his permission – in writing- that she was allowed to travel to Mecca. She needed his permission because he was the only male in the household.
  As much as I want to believe that Muslims are ‘peaceful’ the truth jumps out and smacks me in the face every time. If I remember around 630 or so Muhammad said the ‘lesser jihad’ was over (mass conversions and massacres) and it was time for Muslims to concentrate on the ‘larger jihad’ which was introspective worship and commitment to peace. Apparently this chapter has been lost……………..
  
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Gary_K
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:18pm
” Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: Elections are illegitimate. ”

So much for democracy……

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SREGN
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:16pm
It’s going to come down to a war between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. Learn to separate the light from the darkness. Prepare yourselves. Prepare your kids.

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tonypro
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:15pm
“” I recognize the rule of Islamic religious law.”"

Which tells me I can lie and make up the rules as I see fit to meet my current pleasures.

Sharia -VS- satan…..I don’t really see the difference.

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rickc34
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:12pm
This old fart is about as senile as Joe Biden and makes about as much sense. Maybe they can be room mates at the Nursing Home .

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The-Monk
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:11pm
I’m glad Memri TV is around and gets actual footage to post.

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- Shasta
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 5:39pm
  They need our donations
  
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marcus_arealius
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:08pm
Islam – ‘Against Human’. Hey mooooslims, come and find me.. I’ve got something for you.

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- tonypro
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:20pm
  To funny.
  Reminds me of the Bonanza episode where Hoss was trying to catch elves, and Little Joe pranked him.
  
  “I’m over heeeere”
  
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Larry E
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:06pm
Al Zawahiri you’d look REALLY great with a nice .30 cal bullet hole right between your eyes. Take your Islamist sharia crap and jam it where the sun don’t shine. It’s getting to be time for an open season on Islamists, no license, no limit.

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- meister41
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:26pm
  I would rather see a 50 cal. ! No head left!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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godlovinmom
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:02pm
They can take their sharia and shove it up there keesters…as grandma used to say
Enough about these idiots….
Blazers…how did you get your name
GodLovinmom…back in 2010 I was listening to Glen, especially lovin God that day…I’m a mom…no brainer…how about you……

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- justangry
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:12pm
  I’ll agree with that. I’ll even go as far as saying that if the comments were translated accurately, then this ******* is advocating genocide and is a complete monster. I am cautious about Ms. Schwartz’s propaganda, but this dude sounds like a loon.
  
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- ZAP
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:24pm
  I got my name when lightning hit me…I’m now disfigured and lQQk kinda like a pig…………….
  
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- momrules
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:29pm
  Godlovinmom……….First of all I agree with your comment.
  
  My children used to use Momrules as a code word. They knew that their Mom ruled too so they rarely broke the rules I made. They are both grown now but they still think I rule. Needless to say, I am very proud of my children.
  
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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:34pm
  .
  My entire life, my motto has been, be a LEADER, NOT a FOLLOWER.
  That’s how I chose my user name “LEADNOTFOLLOW”.
  
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- godlovinmom
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 4:19pm
  Love it…Zap..lol!
  
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