All followers of the three (3) great Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, believe in the Ten (10) Commandments. In our humble opinion, if anyone killed another innocent human being, he is neither a Jew, nor a Christian, nor a Muslim, because he disobeyed one of the most important Commandments of Almighty God: Thou Shall Not Kill ……..

Given below are some of the verses from the Holy Qur’an in support thereof, referring to the number of Surah (Chapter) first followed by the number of Ayah (Verse), later (from an English translation of the Holy Qur’an by Mr. Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall).

Yet ye (Children of Israel) it is who slay each other and drive out a party of your people from their homes, supporting one another against them by sin and transgression, and if they came to you as captives ye would ransom them, whereas their expulsion was itself unlawful for you. Believe ye in part of the Scripture and disbelieve ye in part thereof? (2:85)

Lo! those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah (God Almighty), and slay the Prophets wrongfully, and slay those of mankind who enjoin equity: announce them a painful doom. (3:21)

O ye who believe! eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities: but let there be amongst you traffic and trade by mutual good-will: nor kill (or destroy) yourselves (commit suicide): for verily Allah hath been to you Most Merciful. (4:29)

Never should a believer kill a believer; but (if it so happens) by mistake (compensation is due): if one (so) kills a believer, it is ordained that he should free a believing slave and pay compensation to the deceased’s family, unless they remit it freely. If the deceased belonged to a people at war with you and he was a believer, the freeing of a believing slave (is enough). If he belonged to a people with whom ye have a treaty of mutual alliance, compensation should be paid to his family and a believing slave be freed. For those who find this beyond their means (is prescribed) a fast for two months running: by way of repentance to Allah: for Allah hath all knowledge and all wisdom. (4:92)

If a man kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell to abide therein (for ever): and the wrath and the curse of Allah are upon him and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him. (4:93)

For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if be had
killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. Our messengers came unto them of old with clear proofs (of Allah’s sovereignty), but afterwards lo! many of them became prodigals in the earth. (5:32)

They are losers who besottedly have slain their children without knowledge, and have forbidden that which Allah bestowed upon them, inventing a lie against Allah. They indeed have gone astray and are not guided. (6:140)

Say: “Come I will rehearse what Allah hath (really) prohibited you from”: join not anything as equal with Him; be good to your parents: kill not your children on a plea of want; We provide sustenance for you and for them; come not nigh to shameful deeds whether open or secret; take not life which Allah hath made sacred except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you that ye may learn wisdom. (6:151)

O Prophet! when believing women come to thee to take the oath of fealty to thee that they will not associate in worship any other thing whatever with Allah, that they will not steal, that they will not commit adultery (or fornication), that they will not kill their children, that they will not utter slander intentionally forging falsehood, and that they will not disobey thee in any just matter then do thou receive their fealty and pray to Allah for the forgiveness (of their sins): for Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful. (60:12)

Kill not your children for fear of want: We shall provide sustenance for them as well as for you: verily the killing of them is a great sin. (17:31)

And slay not the life which Allah hath forbidden save with right. Whoso is slain wrongfully, We have given power unto his heir, but let him not commit excess in slaying. Lo! he will be helped. (17:33)

And those who cry not unto any other god along with Allah, nor take the life which Allah hath forbidden save in (course of) justice, nor commit adultery and whoso doeth this shall pay the penalty; (25:68)

We’re only in January……that doesn’t leave you much wiggle room. You mean to tell me during the endless dog-days of Summer….you won’t have a single bad day?

Anyway, I think you should write what you know.

If you know the Bible, and I think you do. Then that’s what you should be writing. Who cares if someone doesn’t like it.

Also, Alcohol. You might have something to say about that. So why not write more about it?

There have been a lot of people who use Alcohol as an excuse, and “Rehab” seems to be a catch-all for any type of bad-behavior or misconduct, these days.

You might have an opinion on that, and I think you should say it.

I don’t think you should ask other people if you are a good writer.

It’s like asking…does-this-make-me-look-fat?

People are only to willing to share their opinions anyway.

Like you said, all that matters is God’s opinion.

Maybe a better question is: If you felt like, in doing this Blog, God wasn’t by your side, and God wasn’t there for you (in terms of the Blog)….would you continue to do it?

OK. I understand the pity party. But, please. I don’t read your blog because your black (or white) or because you’re a woman (or a man), and I certainly don’t read it because you’re mediocre. While you should strive to be better than you are, I read your blog because of who you are right now. Keep it up, if it weren’t for blogs like yours I would completely give up on the blogosphere.

Thanks for being you,

Kyle Cooper

I find links to you all over the blogs
I read. Ya got my vote.

I see what you are doing as not taking the
easy path. In this great country you and
I are free to do that. It may not be popular
and it won’t be PC, but what you are doing is
very inspirational. Keep up the good work.

In another vein, I recently read an article about the self-doubts that haunt even the most successful people. The key is to learn how to use those doubts constructively (and when to put them in a locked box).

Cheers!

It’s not because your Black or a Woman or mediocre. It’s because you are a Christian and you talk about God. That makes people uncomfortable. Do not change a thing and do not lose heart.

At the same time, no matter how motivated one is, it won’t compensate for an IQ of 90. The fact that a savant might ‘know’ every word in the Webster dictionary does not make him smart if he can’t construct an abstract concept using a few of those words.

I also think IQ is shaped in large part by environment. Give a babe an interactive & challenging environment and their neurons will spark. Ignore the child and have the boob-tube babysit him and his IQ will be stunted. I think once they get around 5 or 6, their die is set and no amount of intervention or knowledge is going to recover the full cognitive potential they were born with.

I think too many blacks are spooked by the whole issue of IQ and therefore dismiss it as some figment of white supremacy imagination — sort of like plugging fingers in the ears, going, “nah, nah. I can’t hear you”.

I would think that even the Bible implies that IQ/g is real, as it makes distinctions between the clever, the foolish, the dullard and the unmotivated among other descriptions of intelligence levels.

In my opinion, any Black person that is comfortable with the idea that Murray is proposing, is being foolish. An under performing Black student would likely to be assumed to be of “low IQ” and then tracked in a “low IQ” trade instead of trying to find a way to motivate the student.

Any person, regardless of race, who is the parent of a boy, who supports Murray’s idea is also foolish. Boys don’t seem to do as well with the “sit still and learn” approach for which girls are more suited.

My son, almost 2 years old, is learning quickly but is ACTIVE and ALWAYS IN MOTIION. I compare him to my daughter when she was his age and there is a BIG difference in energy level and the ability to stay on one task for a certain amount of time.

Put it this way, would you rather have someone with an IQ of 104 treat you as your doctor, or be your plumber?

Right now, if 45% of HS students are going on to college, odds are real good that at least half of them have no business enrolling in a 4-yr degree. Their innately lower capacity dilutes the college infrastructure to the point of dumbing down the course material and disproportionately saps the available resources. Those students would be better off in a vocational school learning a certifiable trade.

But no, society has inflated the value of higher ed to the point that we act as if college is the right of all comers. To wit, the Dems intention to lower the interest rate for student loans.

Obviously these jokers lack the cognitive ability to see that this does nothing to lower the real cost of education. Instead, administrators will be scrambling to inflate tuition in order to snare a larger share of the subsidy. But it sure makes for a good soundbite to proclaim victory in the war on affordable education.

That’s all I’ll say for now until Le Shawn blogs about it.

I’m sure we are worlds apart on a lot of things – but you call ‘em like you see ‘em and for that – my hats off to you!

But KIPP still keeps producing results…