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By ?outrageous? I am not implying the brutal killing of the hopeless defenseless dictator by a rabid crowd ? this scene shocked even those who, like me, never had any sympathy for Colonel Gaddafi. Neither am I referring to the prospect of Libya turning into another hub of radical extremists and a notorious Al-Qaeda hotbed, which is also in the offing.
I am referring to something else. As it became known the other day, in May, in the fervor of the stand-off between the rebel forces and Gaddafi?s regime, a priceless collection of 7,700 gold, silver and bronze coins from ancient times ? known as the Treasure of Benghazi ? was stolen from the National Commerce Bank of Benghazi.........

Although the very fact of the robbery is a depressing one, the only surprising thing about it is the amount of the stolen treasures: an expert has described it as "one of the greatest thefts in archaeological history?. Similar events are an indispensable feature of almost every Arab revolution of the near past.
In February, for instance, as soon as the protests against Hosni Mubarak in Egypt began, a gang of looters broke into the Egyptian National museum. They did not have a chance to steal anything, but managed to damage over 70 items.
As the example of Iraq shows, foreign presence does not help preserve the country?s cultural treasures, it only contributes to prowling. In 2003, when US forces invaded Iraq, the minute of the occupation coincided with the looting of the National museum. The head of the museum pointed out that US troops did absolutely nothing to prevent Iraq?s cultural heritage from being robbed as they were only guarding the Presidential Palace of Saddam Hussein. According to some reports, the raid was carried out not only by the locals, but included Americans as well......
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/11/01/59722481.html

http://news.google.co.uk/news/story?hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=17&gs_id=1q&xhr=t&rlz=1W1ADSA_enTR432&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1024&bih=559&wrapid=tljp1320327618401032&q=Museum+of+Benghazi&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dNTkmjeQ4yfA-fM&ei=0pmyTvicKuiA4gSL6PjkAw&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CD8QqgIwAw

Salaam
Gaddafi said that he would rather die as a martyr then to  surrender to infidals,

I was worried that if they capture him he will face humiliation like Saddam as Saddam was suppose to have found hidding in gutter hole and now they say that Gaddafi was hiding in drain pipes but I salute him for his braverly and stand against vultures.
lucky man he lived for his people and he died defending them, he provided social care not only for his people but helped sorrunding African counties too, he kept his country free from foriegn debt while he was in power (FOR THIRTY YEARS) 

NATO clouds have gathered over Libya now lets see where it leads them  .
However, what is martydom according to Qur'an?

Origional Sin
Dogs are considered impure by orthodox Jews.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005030/Jewish-court-sentences-dog-death-stoning.html

If Strauss-Kahn is guilty, I suspect I know how it happened. He must have mistaken the maid for a poor country in financial trouble. Heads of the IMF have, after all, been allowed to rape them with impunity for years.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-its-not-just-dominique-strausskahn-the-imf-itself-should-be-on-trial-2292270.html

IMF and the European Union had made it mandatory for Greece to quickly sell real estate and complete the privatization of government-owned enterprises in exchange for providing an additional 60 billion euros in credit to the crisis-hit country......GITCHA! 
Simpls  

One Amerrican tourist was visiting Pakistan  during the month of Moharum he happend to come accross Shia procession where he saw people crying and beating themselves he asked a passerby "why are they beating themselves and crying so much" the passerby replied ? they are moaning death of propehts grand sons who were killed 15,00 years ago? American replied ? It took rather long for this new to reachto them?
Jubilant crowds flocked to the White House and to Ground Zero in New York to celebrate death of Osama bin Ladin hehehe  it took them that long to get this new especially  in this day and age when we have internet and news reaches in seconds around the world New Yorkers finally got the news that Osama is dead.
Simpls 

Salaam

I see that many contributers on free minds are obssed with the use of dictionary to tranlate Arabic especily Lane?s they appear to take God? words sujected to human?s translation  of Arabic language. How ever if you read Quran there ae certain terms used by God in the Qur?an which does not fit with our litral translation, to me that means God wants us to expand our thinking and use common sense and use  wider meaning for certain words and in other places we find literal meaning fits  very well  there we should stick to that meaning in other words God is directing us to use synonomus with  common sense and expand on certain  word?s meanings.

Take for example take word orphan here on free minds the learned in the Arabic language refuese to use synonyms with  this word  which I beleive is vurnable which fits in with the way Quran refers to the word yatama/yatim

If we only use literal translation of arabic which means ?fatherless child? leaving rest of the vurnable young ones out of this caterory, we are left with a strange and limited category and that is why free minder seems to be confused about the meaning of this  verse An-Nisa [4:3] : ?If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice?.

Let's look as the verses below and start taking literal meaning according to Lanes that means all vurnable childern are excluded only the one God seem to protect the  one who lost father in other words  you are only to feed a child without father and captive  other vurnable ones are ignored by God Al-Insan [76:8] And they feed, for the love of Allah, the indigent, the orphan and the captive―
Ad-Dhuha [93:9],  Therefore treat not the orphan with harshness; Al-Maun [107:2] Then such is the (man) who repulses the orphan (with harshness)

We have some brilliant minds on this forum and they should use their energies in right directions they should show their gratitude to God by treating their intelligence with respect.

Simpls