Djerba Jews at the El-Ghriba Synagogue on Tunisia’s southern island. (Photo credit: upyernoz via CC/JTA)
These are the types of reports that one cannot just “make-up.” During a televised broadcast of Islamic “Jummah” prayers at the end of November, a prominent Tunisian imam called for the “sterilization” of Jewish women because, according to him, “God wants to destroy this sprinkling of Jews.” What’s more, his anti-Semitic sermon was delivered on a channel eerily dubbed “Hannibal TV.”
Now, the minority rights group, The Tunisian Association to Support Minorities, is suing Sheikh Ahmad Al-Suhayli for incitement.
Qais El-Beltagi, a lawyer representing the prosecution, maintains that the imam violated Tunisia’s 2011 decree which criminalizes “calls to hatred between races and religions, and the population.” He added that article 52 of the decree calls for “a prison term of between one and three years and a fine ranging from 500 to 1,000 euros” for hate-filled rhetoric.
“The sermon… has received a wave of domestic and international condemnation,” El-Beltagi stated. According to the attorney, Hannibal TV is exempt from prosecution because the sermon was broadcast live, thus the content was not able to be edited.
Of course this is no coincidence. Since the Arab Spring and subsequent overthrow of Tunisian president Zine el Abidine ben Ali, this is the fourth reported incitement against the country’s 2,000-member Jewish community.
Jewish community leaders, are, understandably, now insisting that security protection from the Tunisian government be implemented.
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ofass
Dec. 21, 2012 at 1:24pmI see $150 contribution for the IDF here….3 idiotic posts already….keep going…
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Full_Fathom_Five
Dec. 21, 2012 at 11:47am“Tunisian Imam Calls for. . . . ”
More irrefutable proof that end stage Syphilis affects the mouth as well as the brain.
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pookieamos
Dec. 21, 2012 at 10:00amI have an idea , how about sterilizing Muslim women ? After all in many Muslim countries , these kids are indoctrinated in school to commit Jihad . What good are these Muslims ? Many of them are savages and uncivilized . A few nuclear bombs would rid the world of these haters! May God help America if Obama is a closet Muslim as I suspect , I’d hate to see America controlled by Muslims where we are under Shariah .
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KathyinMaine
Dec. 22, 2012 at 6:15pmI posted awhile back about the Obama family in Africa. They are soliciting funds for helping the poor in their country, however, the funds are being used in madrassas all over the mid east and Africa, where they are teaching the kids the radical form of Islam. Here is the link: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/10/16/obamas-family-funding-sharia/print
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thibx
Dec. 21, 2012 at 9:03amdamn muslims are like the democrats every time they open their mouth something stupid comes out.
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Robert Hawk
Dec. 21, 2012 at 4:40amWhy is anyone surprised with this answer? Its the same identical action the National Socialists took in Germany in the late 1930′s. Its acceptable name at that point in time was Eugenics, however in reality its simply genocide via Darwin and George B Shaw’s judgment of the fit and unfit. The Stoic-Philosophia always go down this pathway and since they are now global, this should be no surprise. This is not going to get better. The US health care law, provides the same ability for the federal government with its “end of life” programs.
In Germany, they initially allowed the “unfit” to starve to death. later they gave them lethal injections and finally they simply gassed them in mass numbers. Why do you think there is going to be a difference this time. its the same identical doctrine being applied, except now its global.
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unpata
Dec. 20, 2012 at 11:44pmthere are (islamic) sleeper cells in every town that has a university or college..watch out!!!
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oldduffer
Dec. 20, 2012 at 8:41pmThey take away our guns and this religion will sterilize anything that’s considered an infidel including atheists.
You news media and Hollywood people better hope some of us are left to defend the country and yourselves.
You think the cops are going to wade in on a full scale uprising in different areas by certain religious groups then you are nuts. You think there isn’t a religious war coming better look and listen. We’ve already had a top Iman in this country say that there are at least 10% that could be considered extremists and believe in terrorism. In this country alone. There are now around 6,000,000 here now and growing.
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MGrilla
Dec. 20, 2012 at 11:11pmWe’re already in a religious war. Anybody that doesn’t think so should ask the guy’s that are shooting at us. How many times a day do they pray?……… We are so far behind, truth is we’re still not in the fight. We’re just going thru the motions.
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universalphilos
Dec. 20, 2012 at 8:18pmA wish near this time of year for this earth from angels, December 16, 1983: “It has continue[d] one more place where man may live in true harmony if he wishes − where man may rise above his acts of discretion [discrimination] because of race, or color, or creed, or religion.
One of the kings of kings, [from] the Magis, came from the kingdom of Ethiopia. And until of recent times, of that of the Communist takeover of Ethiopia, freedom to worship in the Jewish manner was an accepted way, as that of the Christian manner and Moslem.
We say unto you, what you take from the well here, you shall take and transplant it in the fertile soil…if that is thy wish. Bring it into reality and make it so.
You have other…questions, ask.”
“Thank you…. [___ lives in Utah] and asks, ‘What am I doing wrong?’”
“That is a very broad question. But we shall try to narrow it down into one simple answer. ‘Judge not lest ye be judged.’ But if ye do not seek the kingdom of heaven, do not seek the kingdom of earth. The religions of the earth are like a bouquet of the Lord. All roads lead to the same destination.”
“For it shall be the first step of his consciousness. And it shall be felt around the world.
“https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzyT3fgGxb4-bmFfYlFkSVFUOTg
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Tri-ox
Dec. 20, 2012 at 7:41pmThis proposal sounds like something that anti-Semite Chuck Hagel could support – given the chance.
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Ron Staiger
Dec. 20, 2012 at 6:33pmIslam is NOT a religion! Islam is a cult of murder, mayhem, abuse , and pedophilia. Muhammad was a murderous warlord who slaughtered his political opponents. Muhammad was a pedophile who consummated his marriage to Aisha bint Abu Bakr when she was NINE years old. The Ayatollah Khomeni wrote a guide for all good muslims which includes instructions on sex. In it he wrote “It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband’s house rather than her father’s home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.” or how about “A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual acts such as foreplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not committed a crime, but only an infraction, if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl, however, is permanently damaged, the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man’s four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl’s sister.” or, “A man can have sex with sheep, cows and camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should
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SiToNiTsOrOs1
Dec. 20, 2012 at 6:02pmThis islamic iman is yet another example of what the so called “arab spring” is bringing further west toward the true promised land: AMERICA. Let this be another warning to all who value FREEDOM. True AMERICANS know what evil is and radical islamists represent. Please note that from now on, I will never again capitalize the words: iman or islam. Both represent opression and despotism.
SITONIT iman!
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NHwinter
Dec. 20, 2012 at 6:29pmWhat would happen if a Rabbi called for the sterilization of Muslim women?
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jessieH
Dec. 20, 2012 at 5:28pmNeanderthals, every one of them.
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The_Jerk
Dec. 20, 2012 at 5:37pmTrue. So why bother. Get out. Stay out.
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702TruthSeeker
Dec. 20, 2012 at 7:31pm+1 for isolationism
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MDECKER
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:52pmWhere is Sandra Fluke? (Fluke, Flake, Fluck, whatever) I’ll help pay her way there.
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IMCHRISTIAN
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:50pmWe have our own President who approves of the killing of babies in the womb. I heard on the radio that if the Republicans don’t cave ( or something similar in wording) then he will have to warn doctors that they will be deducting money from Medicare. So what does that remind you of?
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DesertRose1960
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:34pmThis Imam is to Islam what Terry Jones is to Christianity. Be careful how you use the word anti-Semitic. The people of Tunisia are Arabs, they are a Semitic people, too. There is nothing “eerie” about naming a TV station after Hannibal, he was the Carthaginian General who took elephants over the Alps to invade Rome and he nearly crippled the great empire. He’s a local hero. Oh, wait, you’ve never heard of him and just thought they named the TV station after that guy in “Silence of the Lambs”?
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Polarized America
Dec. 20, 2012 at 3:04pmwell…Terry Jones has been an idiot at times…imo
but he and a muslim friend just finished their new movie
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“” The Innocent Prophet is the film that will help Muslims know the true face of Muhammad, as the creator of the false religion of Islam to achieve his own goals.”"
The Innocent Prophet – English Version…. >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7gwcuG2jb9k&bpctr=1356035617
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Walkabout
Dec. 20, 2012 at 4:27pmDesertRose1960
This Imam is to Islam what Terry Jones is to Christianity. Be careful how you use the word anti-Semiti
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No, not really.
For every 100,000 people in each country, we can find more iman’s like this than there are pastors like Terry.
Then there is what the are saying, what they are doing & why. Terry is reacting to the daily killings & ethnic cleansing of Christians. The Iman is not reacting. If Terry had never been born he would be the same way. that is he would say kill the unbeliever.
Desert would you rather have your copy of the Bible, Koran or “50 Shades of Grey” burned or would you rather be sterilized?
Which is worse?
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conmil
Dec. 20, 2012 at 5:13pmIslam. What a filthy murderous pedophile cult.
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dumpdabums
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:00pmIt is a pity that his mind is so full of hate that he himself doesn’t realize how horrible he actually sounds.
This make any and all efforts for the most reasonable of people to really hate Islam.. This kind of peers shows what these poeple are all about.. They are pure vessels of hate and will stop at nothing to spread it. and to kill all Jews and infidels.
This person only strengthens my resolve to make sure that this animal and people like him are stopped at any cost !
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WalkThePath
Dec. 21, 2012 at 3:18amThe commandments laid down in Deuteronomy, Leviticus and Numbers, are what we are commanded to follow. New Testaments, Quorans and Talmuds are all just watering down the laws – “Surely God didn’t mean THAT, surely I am allowed to kill/adulter/sodomise/steal if it FEELS ok, arent I? Because I am intrinsically good, or can be made so by mere BELIEF”.
Harden the **** up people of the earth, love is not all you need, your feelings will not defend you against the judgement of God, and neither will your professed belief in some man claiming Ggodhood or the right to speak for God. Christianity will be smashed against Islam, and the Babylonians will buy up the remaining pieces for a song.
The notion that people, subject to the suffering we are, can believe we are in fact God, or believe that if we merely believe the right thing, our actions will no longer matter, may take quite a bit of disabusing.
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LeadNotFollow
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:57pmMuslim women produce over ten kids each. They multiply like rats.
Islam wants World domination, but the lame-stream liberal media won’t report on it, or warn the rest of the World that it’s coming.
I’ve never heard one single Jew say that their religion wants World domination. We don’t need to fear the Jews.
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thegreatcarnac
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:57pmI say we sterilize every muslim living in the west. That would go a long way in clearing up our muslim probems.
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momrules
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:54pmThis news doesn’t even rate a 2 on the surprise meter. Islam is the enemy of everyone but their special hatred is reserved for Christians and Jews, the two groups that worship the one true God.
Allah/Satan hates God so its followers do.
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The_Jerk
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:03pmYou can say the same thing about Jews. Douglas Rushkoff already has… and he’s Jewish. So did Churchill. So, what’s your point?
momrules
Dec. 20, 2012 at 4:10pmHello Jerk……….While you will never change my mind and I will never change yours I do wish you a Merry Christmas.
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NHwinter
Dec. 20, 2012 at 6:32pmThe_Jerk – I’m still impressed by your name and how well it suits you.
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LeadNotFollow
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:50pmOnce again, Islam, the religion of peace and tolerance.
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RaydocX
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:44pmthe most populous and most backwards religion on earth, and he wants other religions to practice contraception?
talk about throwing rocks in a glass house… witness the wisdom and intellect of the leadership of radicalized islam. Only by sheer numbers can such stupidity and close minded arrogance every overwhelm reasonable thinking people…
unless it’s Leftists in charge… who will placate and capitulate and apologize, letting civilization be dragged back into another dark age.
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Cavallo
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:56pmIf every person of Jewish decent dropped dead all at the same time, the Islamists would just pick a different group to be the new “Jews”. This is a religion that needs flesh and blood boogeymen to murder, sans anything at hand, they’ll go after each other. They seriously need a Mohammed Luther to nail some changes to the Mosque door and try to deliver them from the dark ages.
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:01pm“…sans anything at hand, they’ll go after each other.”
That has been going on since a pedophile first preached Islam to his rubes. Muslames have killed more Muslames than anyone combined…
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biohazard23
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:43pm…right after they rape them…
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aragona
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:40pmIt looks like there are at least 2000 people who need to move while they still can.
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TSUNAMI_22
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:37pmBut Islam is only just suggesting a “peaceful” sterilization of Jewish females.
Why is everyone up in arms over this? [sarcasm]
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RIGHTWINGHATEMACHINE
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:37pmHow is that any different from far right christians calling for the sterilization of gay people? Its evident in the right wingers hate speech on here daily.
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aragona
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:41pmLink? (credible news sources only)
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Top_Contributor
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:44pmRIGHTWINGHATEMACHINE, you are absolutely correct. There is so much hate speech on here, but that’s just how these people are. They fail to see the difference between how they talk and how Imams like these talk.
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mcsledge
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:45pmThere is no need to sterilize gays. Their gene pool ends with them!
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blazingaway
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:48pmYou’re and idiot … how do gays reproduce, so why would sterilization even be needed. They require a donor sperm or a donor womb and egg.
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Dec. 20, 2012 at 1:52pmLmao…. Gay people sterilize themselves by choice in a manner of speaking while choosing to adopt or implantation in order to have a conversation piece much like Paris Hilton carries around a small dog in her purse….
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banjarmon
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:02pmSterilization of gays… you have to be kidding!!! Fact of LIFE male + female = kids!!
2 males can’t have kids….2 females can’t have kids!!!
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The-Monk
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:02pm@RIGHTWINGHATEMACHINE,
We feel your pain troll. Stuck in your room in your parents house with your Justin Bieber haircut, beanie cap and guitar. Posting your songs on Youtube that no one listens to. No girlfriend. No job. The only outlet you have is a website where you hate the people there. Seems like the only people you have to communicate with or will listen to you are Glenn Beck fans. Bless those Beck fans that allow you to vent your petty little frustrations on their wonderful website. We feel your pain. You love Obama yet he won’t do anything for you because you’re the wrong color. Don’t worry troll…. We all love you and know you will join us when you wake from your dark dream. Sweet dreams TM.
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Cavallo
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:03pmFred Phelps is a Democrat. His weirdos are the only ones I have ever heard of who might make such official comments. As pointless and ineffective such a suggestion might be..
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RJJinGadsden
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:23pmHI TIME, and MONK. That was a good one, and yeah TIME I scared the crap out of one of the cats laughing at that. RIGHTWINGHATEMACHINE must be thinking of that left wing loon whom they all worship so hardily at the alter with stirrups, Margaret Sanger. You would think that after all these years, even this idiot would realize that she has been such darling to the left. You know, that person who Hillary constantly holds in high praise. Amazing that they forget so easily.
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Polarized America
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:36pm.
Adam & Steve ..siting in a tree …k i s s – i n g
nope …ya can’t make a baby that way
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Polarized America
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:40pmdamn… why didn’t i finish that … i always post too soon…../;-(
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:46pmLOL…. RJJ. Didn’t Margaret Sanger give some fiery speeches to the ladies of the KKK…??
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Polarized America
Dec. 20, 2012 at 2:48pmCRAP…I Did it AGAIN
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Adam & Steve ..siting in a tree …
….k i s s – i n g
First comes love
Then comes Marriage
Then comes……………………………aww never mind
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Walkabout
Dec. 20, 2012 at 4:29pmTop_Contributor
The name Top_Contributor is such a dead give away to your time spent on Huffpo or other liberal sites.
For posting so much on the Huffpo & parroting the party line did they give trophies too?
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MONICNE
Dec. 20, 2012 at 6:04pm((this is a private message to The-Monk only please))
((I was at intermission at the HS Orchestra Christmas concert the other night – I could not write at the time, but I did surf across your absolutely gripping three-part story of the lonely Cuban gentleman you befriended and nurtured as a friend up to his death bed – and the ironic ending where you were shunned as a Honky Taker — ending poorly for the obviously narrow minded, avarice-driven clan of opportunist Hispanic heirs.
I actually cried while finishing your touching testimony and you provided a such warm feeling in my heart that lasted a long time. Your story, never before revealed, is actually a parable to the beauty and grace of unconditional love; juxtaposed against the folly of hate and greed.
The-Monk may have missed his calling, I thought at the time. You have changed my outlook on life at a particularly poignant tipping point after a tough election loss and a sad occasion for contemporary small arms advocates. There is hope, there is justice, and God is undeniably in possession of a sense of humor as well as magnanimity.
Bless you and yours at this special time of year, The-Monk.))
FREE US Marine HAMMAR.
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fightsocialismnow
Dec. 21, 2012 at 6:28amStop watching MS”LSD”. It’s manufactured bs w/ no actual facts. Just phony cooked up wars on this and that to keep you distracted from the actual problems in the world. It’s really a pity you think that people on the right are full of hate…but yet, when someone like Farakan calls for “the death of all white babies”, you don’t bat an eye. I feel bad for people like you who swallow Marxist, Communist, and utopian garbage. Have you ever actually cracked open a koran? I was much like you before I did. Then I found out what it was really saying. Kill or convert all who do not acknowledge Allah. And that includes you.
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Dr Vel
Dec. 21, 2012 at 7:21amYou truly do prove some humans have IQ’s lower than fruit groups. I have never heard a Christian call for sterilizing gay people, and it violates logic. Why sterilize people who by life choices will not reproduce anyway. Were you just dictating your post to someone else, who is smart enough to type and operate a computer?
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The-Monk
Dec. 21, 2012 at 11:55am@MONICNE
Nice try troll. You made 2 mistakes that exposes your future intent.
I’m not fooled so scratch me off your list. : )
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MONICNE
Dec. 21, 2012 at 12:29pmWell, peace be with you, try and heal your heart. You have proven that you actually are compassionate deep inside. People can respect you for that, regardless of some of the other things you post.
Ex-Marine Hammar is being released by Mexico and soon will be free!
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