It's about Islam, stupid!

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It's about Islam, stupid!
By Michael D. Evans

In a mere 45 minutes on Monday, Oct. 2, suicide bombers drove carloads of explosives into five buildings around the capital of Iraq. Four police stations and the International Red Cross building were destroyed. More than 200 were wounded, and 45 died in the attacks. These terrorist attacks followed the overnight killing of three American soldiers and came just a day after a rocket attack on the Rashid Hotel where Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying.

Yet while people die, the charade continues. Liberals, lunatics and liars are still attempting to sell an American public, still in shock over 9-11, that Islam is a peaceful religion.

If that is true, then Islamic states need to prove it by their actions. Peacefulness did not come to mind when 68 Islamic heads of state gave a standing ovation to the prime minister of Malaysia at the Islamic World Summit when he said, "The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews rule the world by proxy." One of those applauding loudly was Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. When he visited President Bush in Crawford, Texas, three members of his entourage were confined to the plane. Why? They were known terrorists wanted by the FBI in connection with terrorist activities. The U.S. State Department turned a blind eye, and allowed them to lounge in safety aboard the Saudi royal jet.

The first day of Ramadan was Sunday with the appearance of the new moon. Muslims believe that Ramadan began when the angel Gabriel revealed the Quran to Mohammad in A.D. 610. One billion Muslims celebrate Ramadan according to the lunar calendar, at the appearance of the crescent moon. They believe that Satan is chained during Ramadan, and that the doors of hell are closed and the doors of heaven are opened. They fast from sunup until sundown.

Islamic fundamentalists are attempting to recruit as many Muslims as possible by arguing that it is the obligation of every Muslim to fight a holy war in Iraq. The reason for the acceleration of attacks is because Islamic fundamentalists teach that America is the "Great Satan." To attack the "Great Satan" on Ramadan and succeed, in their minds, is to prove that Satan is chained and that the door to hell (America's ability to retaliate) is closed. This creates linkage between the faith of Islam and Islamic fundamentalism.

This new 21st century terrorism now is a direct confrontation against "The Great Satan – America" who in the eyes of the bin Ladens of the world is desecrating the cradle of Islam. Is it a coincidence that the bombers struck on the first day of Ramadan? Absolutely not!

Organized crime is about greed. Terrorism is about glory … the glory of humiliating "The Great Satan – America" … the glory of believing that all the terrorists' family members are guaranteed a place in heaven because of their acts and that, as young men, they will be greeted in heaven with a roomful of voluptuous virgins.

The terrorist crosshairs are on "The Great Satan – America." They see the U.S. as a pig polluting the world with her prosperity, power and pornography, and infecting the Islamic vision with her moral and religious perversion. Terrorists don't hate the West because of Israel; they hate Israel because of the West.

Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, spiritual leader of the World Trade Center bombers in 1993, said, "The obligation of Allah is upon us to wage jihad for the sake of Allah. We have to thoroughly demoralize the enemies of God by blowing up their towers that constitute the pillars of their civilization … the high buildings of which they are so proud."

On the morning of Feb. 26, 1993, Yigal Carmon, then counterterrorism adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, warned the Pentagon that radical Islam was an imminent threat to America. At the end of his briefing, smirking critics told him they did not consider a religion to be a threat to national security.

Later that morning, Carmon flew on to New York City, where, while having lunch, a huge explosion took place nearby: Islamic terrorists had attempted to blow up the World Trade Center, killing six people and wounding 1,000. When the FBI arrested Abdel-Rahman, they wrote on the boxes confiscated from his apartment "irrelevant religious stuff."

The popular concept of trying to convince the American people that Islam is a religion of peace – as if this will shut down the engine of terror – is the theater of the absurd and a festival of hypocrisy. It will do just the opposite; in time, it could open the floodgates for glassy-eyed, demon-possessed human bombs (H-bombers) to roam the streets of America waiting for the most opportune moment to hit the detonator.

Simply put, the H-bomb is a time-tested weapon that works. It causes panic while reducing the will and power of resistance so as to advance political goals – no matter how unrealistic. The H-bomb forced the U.S. and Israel out of Lebanon; Islamic fundamentalists are attempting to achieve the same goal in Iraq. They must not succeed! If they do, there is a 100 percent chance they will bring their war to the streets of America.

The truth is, this is a battle between two books (the Bible and the Quran) and two kingdoms, democracy and theocracy (Islam). Islamic fundamentalists believe that the Great Satan defeated the U.S.S.R. with their Judeo/Christian invention – democracy – and are attempting to do the same in the Middle East.

I had a conversation with prince Khalid in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He said, "Don't exaggerate! No more than 10 percent of the Muslim population are fundamentalists." Well, call me a taxi! That means there are only 100 million Islamics who want to kill Americans ... instead of 1 billion. I don't find that very comforting.
 
Religion of peace

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071211175557.p3d3kaah&show_article=1

Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab, her friends say.

Friends and classmates of a 16-year-old girl who police say was murdered by her devout Muslim father in a Toronto suburb told local media Tuesday she was killed for not wearing a hijab.

Police said in a statement they received an emergency call at 7:55 am local time Monday from "a man who indicated that he had just killed his daughter."

The victim, Aqsa Parvez, was "rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries, but tragically passed away late last night."

Her father, Muhammad Parvez, 57, was arrested at the scene and will be formally charged with murder when he appears in court Wednesday, said police.

The girl's friends, meanwhile, told local media she was having trouble at home because she did not conform to the family's religious beliefs and refused to wear a traditional Islamic head scarf, or hijab.

"She wanted to go different ways than her family wanted to go, and she wanted to make her own path, but he (her father) wouldn't let her," one of her classmates told public broadcaster CBC.

"She loved clothes," another of her friends, Dominiquia Holmes-Thompson, told the daily Toronto Star. "She just wanted to show her beauty ... She just wanted to dress like us, just like a normal person."

According to her friends, Aqsa had worn the hijab at school last year, but rebelled in recent months.

They said she would leave home wearing a hijab and loose-fitting clothes, but would take off her head scarf and change into tighter garments at school, then change back before going home at the end of the day.

The victim's 26 year-old brother was also charged with obstructing police in the investigation.
 
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/11/algeria.blast/index.html?eref=time_world

ALGIERS, Algeria (CNN) -- Rescuers are sifting through the rubble of the United Nations headquarters in Algiers hoping to find survivors after a powerful bomb ripped off the building's facade and leveled nearby U.N. offices.
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It was one of two suspected car bombs that struck Algiers within 10 minutes of each other.

The death toll is unclear: the official government count is at least 26, but hospital sources in Algiers told CNN affiliate BFM-TV that 76 people were killed in the two blasts. A statement from the United Nations said 45 people were reported killed.

Algerian Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni blamed a militant Islamic group with ties to al Qaeda for the attacks, which also targeted a building housing Algeria's Constitutional Council and Supreme Court.

In a posting on an Islamist Web site, the group al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility.

CNN could not immediately corroborate that claim, but the Web site is known to carry messages, claims and videos from al Qaeda and other militant groups.

In the posting, the bombers were identified as Sheikh Ibrahim Abu Othman and Abdel Rahman Abu Abdel Nasser al-Asimi. It said two trucks were filled with "no less than 800 kg (1,763 pounds) of explosives."

The group called the operation "another successful conquest and a second epic that the knights of faith have dictated with their blood, defending the wounded Islamic nation and in defiance to the Crusaders and their agents, the slaves of America and the sons of France."

At least 10 U.N. staffers were among those killed, according to U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe.

The offices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees -- located across the street from the U.N. headquarters -- were leveled by a blast that struck about 9:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET) Tuesday.

"Our offices are basically destroyed now, nothing works," UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond said from its Geneva headquarters.
 
More peaceful stuff

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1066931,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-bottom

The summons came down from Damascus last August, informing Rafiq Hariri, then the Prime Minister of Lebanon, that he was wanted for a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad. For years Hariri had strived to maintain cordial relations with Lebanon's more powerful neighbor, acquiescing to Syria's domination of Lebanese politics as the price of Syria's role in ending Lebanon's 15-year civil war. But by last summer Assad suspected that Hariri was behind an international campaign to end Syria's occupation of Lebanon, and so he decided to warn Hariri not to oppose Syrian plans to reassert its influence. In an exchange Hariri later recounted to associates and friends interviewed by TIME, he protested, telling Assad, "I have been a friend of Syria for 20 years," to which Assad replied coldly, "I have only known you for four years." Then Assad issued what Hariri interpreted as a personal threat if he did not bow to Syrian wishes. "I will break Lebanon over your head," Assad said.

Those words would haunt Hariri for the rest of his life. Seven weeks after his meeting in Damascus, he resigned. Almost four months after that, he was dead, assassinated on Valentine's Day in rebuilt downtown Beirut, the jewel of his political achievements, as he prepared to launch a bid to reclaim power and rid Lebanon of Syrian influence. In death, Hariri managed to obtain the prize he so desperately sought in the final months of his life. After his assassination a million Lebanese poured into the streets, galvanizing international opinion against Damascus and forcing the withdrawal of Syrian troops and some of the intelligence operatives who had stifled Lebanese life for three decades. The Bush Administration has used the scenes of Lebanese citizens demanding independence and free elections as vindication of its push for democracy in the Arab world. This week 3 million Lebanese voters begin going to the polls to elect a government that the U.S. hopes will be the first in 29 years free of Syrian control. And in the saga's final, Shakespearean twist, it is Hariri's son Saad, 35, a political novice who briefly fled the country after Rafiq's death, who is favored to become the next Prime Minister.

And yet while Hariri is a martyr who transcends Lebanon's sectarian divides—his grave in downtown Beirut has become the city's most popular tourist attraction—the circumstances surrounding his assassination are still cloaked in mystery. The bombing site remains cordoned off by police tape, the street littered with the gnarled remains of cars burned by the blast. A U.N. fact-finding mission concluded in March that the Syrian regime bore "primary responsibility" for the political circumstances leading up to Hariri's assassination, though Damascus has denied any involvement. A U.N. team arrived in Lebanon at the end of May to begin a formal investigation, but it's unclear whether the probe will finger the perpetrators.
 
A goodly amount of horseshit in there.

show me what is BS in there!

YOU are included in this

Yet while people die, the charade continues. :mad:Liberals, lunatics and liars :mad:are still attempting to sell an American public, still in shock over 9-11, that Islam is a peaceful religion.
 
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1543877,00.html

For years, I have vehemently opposed the politics of Jack Straw, a leading member of Tony Blair's Cabinet and former British Foreign Secretary. He has backed the disastrous war in Iraq and domestic laws that curtail civil liberties. In his north of England constituency, which[an error occurred while processing this directive] has a sizable Muslim population, he panders to local Muslim bosses. But last week, in his local newspaper, Straw came out against the niqab, the full body and face veil worn by some Muslim women. The niqab, Straw wrote, makes him uneasy and hampers communication. He now asks women — respectfully — to consider taking it off when they come to seek his help. I now find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with Straw's every word.

Feminists have denounced Straw's approach as unacceptably proscriptive, and reactionary Muslims say it is Islamaphobic. But it is time to speak out against this objectionable garment and face down the obscurantists who endlessly bait and intimidate the state by making demands that violate its fundamental principles. That they have brainwashed young women, born free, to seek self-subjugation breaks my heart. Trained creatures often choose to stay in their cages even when released. I don't call that a choice.

I would not propose that Muslim women should be stopped from wearing what they choose as they walk down the street, although, to be sure, there are practical problems with the niqab. I have seen Muslim women who had been appallingly beaten and forced to wear it to keep their wounds hidden. Veiled women cannot eat in restaurants, swim in the sea or smile at their babies in parks. But the most important reason for opposing the veil is one of principle. So long as it ensures genuinely equal standards for all, a liberal nation has no obligation to extend its liberalism to condone the most illiberal practices. State institutions as well as private companies should have the right to stipulate that a person whose face cannot be seen need not be served. That would not discriminate against Muslims; it would, for example, also affect men whose faces were obscured by motorcycle helmets. The principle expressed, in other words, would not be anti-Muslim, but one in favor of communication.

The example of France is salutary here. In 2004, the government banned the hijab, the headscarf, in public schools. The policy may have been introduced with an air of insufferable Gallic superiority, but it was absolutely right; overtly religious symbols are divisive. Schools and colleges should be places of social integration. Protests against the injunction soon died down and many Muslim French girls were happily released from a heritage that has no place in the modern world. Belgium, Denmark and Singapore have taken similar steps. Britain has been both more relaxed about cultural differences and over-anxious about challenging unacceptable practices. Few Britons have realized that the hijab — now more widespread than ever — is, for Islamicist puritans, the first step on a path leading to the burqa, where even the eyes are gauzed over. I have interviewed young women who say they feel so wanton wearing only a headscarf that they will adopt the niqab. Now even 6-year-olds are put into hijabs.

Western culture — it is true — is wildly sexualized and lacking in restraint. But there are ways to avoid falling into that pit without withdrawing into the darkness of a niqab. The robe is a physical manifestation of the pernicious idea of women as carriers of original sin; it assumes that the sight of a cheek or a lock of hair turns Muslim men into predators. The niqab rejects human commonalities. The women who wear it want to observe fellow citizens, but remain unseen, as if they were cctv cameras.

As a modern Muslim woman, I fast and pray; but I refuse to submit to the hijab or to an opaque, black shroud. On Sept. 10, 2001, I wrote a column in the Independent newspaper condemning the Taliban for using violence to force Afghan women into the burqa. It is happening again. In Iran, educated women who fail some sort of veil test are being imprisoned by their oppressors. Saudi women under their body sheets long to show themselves and share the world equally with men.

Exiles who fled such practices to seek refuge in Europe now find the evil is following them. As a female lawyer from Saudi Arabia once said to me: "The Koran does not ask us to bury ourselves. We must be modest. These fools who are taking niqab will one day suffocate like I did, but they will not be allowed to leave the coffin." Millions of progressive Muslims want to halt this Islamicist project to take us back to the Dark Ages. Straw is right to start a debate about what we wear.
 
Al-Qaida in North Africa Claims Responsibility for Deadly Blasts in Algiers

Al-Qaida's North African wing has claimed responsibility for two deadly car bomb blasts Tuesday outside U.N. offices and a government building in Algeria's capital.

Algerian government officials say at least 26 people were killed and 177 others wounded in the blasts in Algiers. Hospital officials have put the death toll at more than 60.

Among the dead and wounded are students who were on a school bus near the constitutional court building, the site of one of the explosions.

The blasts destroyed the offices of the U.N. Development Program and damaged the offices of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

Algerian Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni speaking at a news conference in Algiers, 11 Dec 2007
Algerian Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni speaking at a news conference in Algiers, 11 Dec 2007
Algerian Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni says a suicide bomber was responsible for one of the attacks.

A U.N. spokeswoman in New York, Marie Okabe says 11 U.N. staff members are believed to be dead, and others are still missing.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attacks in the "strongest possible terms."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other European leaders condemned the bombings.

The White House called the blasts a case of "senseless violence" and said they were carried out by "enemies of humanity who attacked the innocent." The U.S. State Department says the United States stands with the government of Algeria, and is ready to provide assistance.

Al-Qaida's North African wing says it carried out Tuesday's bombings in a statement posted on a militant Web site.

Algerian militants linked to al-Qaida have carried out a series of attacks in the country this year, including suicide bombings that killed 33 people in Algiers in April.

Algerian Islamists rose up against the government in 1992 when it scrapped elections that an Islamic party was poised to win.
 
show me what is BS in there!

YOU are included in this

Yet while people die, the charade continues. :mad:Liberals, lunatics and liars :mad:are still attempting to sell an American public, still in shock over 9-11, that Islam is a peaceful religion.

Democracy is not judeo/christian.

The Soviet Union defeated itself. We just helped by spending more money and creating the new super-deficits that you Reagan revolution retards like so much.
 
Democracy is not judeo/christian.

The Soviet Union defeated itself. We just helped by spending more money and creating the new super-deficits that you Reagan revolution retards like so much.

so what YOU do is take the INTENT of all those posts and dismiss the INTENT

which is

that Islam is MONSTROUS

and you focus on ONE point that is arguable?

FOOL!
 
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/12/iraq.main/?iref=mpstoryview

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 27 people are dead after three car bombs ripped through the southern Iraqi city of Amara on Wednesday, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.

Many of the dead and wounded are women and children, reported al-Forat, an Iraqi television station affiliated with the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq.

Maj. Gen. Abdul Karim Khalaf, head of the Interior Ministry's National Command Center, confirmed the death toll and said 151 people were wounded.

Khalaf and a committee were heading to Amara to investigate the bombings. The Interior Ministry has fired the city's police chief in the aftermath of the attacks, Khalaf said.

According to the ministry, a car bomb went off on Dijla Street, a commercial thoroughfare in the predominantly Shiite city.

As onlookers gathered at the scene of the first blast, a second car bomb erupted in a nearby garage a few minutes later. A third car bomb went off in the garage a few minutes afterward.

A state television station, al-Iraqiya, reported earlier that there was a roadside bomb in addition to the three car bombs.

Police have sealed off the area and set up extra checkpoints for security. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the bombs, but al-Forat reported that police detained two suspects with fake identification cards.

The blasts erupted in the central section of the city, which is capital of Maysan province on the Iranian border. Maysan, which has hosted factional fighting between Shiite rivals vying for power, has been under Iraqi security control for most of the year. Video Watch how Shiite groups have been vying for power »

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, citing widely reported security successes in Baghdad and other parts of the war-ravaged nation, said the "enemies of Iraq" were discouraged by the reported lull in violence and "any criminal act they would commit will be nothing but a desperate attempt to draw attention from the obvious successes."

He further called the bombings "another ring in the chain of conspiracy against the Iraqi people."

British troops handed control of Amara to Iraqi forces in August 2006, two months before fighting broke out between police and the Mehdi Army, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia. Iraqi police and troops formally took over security responsibilities in April.

The Mehdi Army also has clashed with the Badr Brigade, the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq's militia. The bitter rivals, who signed a truce several weeks ago, have been mired in power struggles in Iraq's southern provinces and in other Shiite enclaves.

The rivalry between Shiite factions reached a pinnacle last year when fighting broke out during a pilgrimage in Karbala. The violence quickly spread to the capital and Babil province, prompting al-Sadr in August to suspend Mehdi Army activities for six months.

The U.S. military has said al-Sadr's order is one of the primary factors that has led to a decrease in violence across Iraq.

In October, al-Sadr and Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim signed an agreement ending months of hostility between their powerful movements.

Britain, meanwhile, has been working to withdraw its troops from southern Iraq. Despite the recent violence, the region has been more stable than Baghdad and other regions. Britain, which has roughly 5,000 troops there, hopes to cut its force to 4,500 by year's end and to 2,500 by spring.

Britain's Defense Ministry said Wednesday that the British military will transfer control of Basra province to Iraqi forces Sunday. Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh also confirmed the date, saying the Maysan attacks will not affect the handover.

Other developments

• A car bomb detonated Wednesday in eastern Baghdad, killing five Iraqi civilians and wounding 15 others, an Interior Ministry official said. The official said the bombing occurred in Ghadeer, a Christian neighborhood in the predominantly Shiite New Baghdad district.
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• Fourteen insurgents were killed and 12 others detained in U.S.-led coalition raids Tuesday and Wednesday. The raids targeted al Qaeda in Iraq networks in the central part of the country, the U.S. military said. The killings occurred in Diyala province, and the detentions were in Baghdad, Tikrit and south of Yusufiya.

• The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said the process of resettling Iraqi refugees in other countries is not moving as speedily as it would like. The agency said it has "exceeded its target of 20,000 Iraqi refugee resettlement referrals for 2007," but at the same time it noted that only about 22 percent of the referrals have departed for resettlement countries.
 
so what YOU do is take the INTENT of all those posts and dismiss the INTENT

which is

that Islam is MONSTROUS

and you focus on ONE point that is arguable?

FOOL!

Uh huh...because the rest is just the same old crap. A certain percentage of muslims are fundamentalist nutcases just as a certain percentage of evangelical christians believe the Earth is 6000 years old.

You'll never win this argument. Fanatical RELIGIOSITY makes people stupid, venal, and murderous.
 
Uh huh...because the rest is just the same old crap. A certain percentage of muslims are fundamentalist nutcases just as a certain percentage of evangelical christians believe the Earth is 6000 years old.

You'll never win this argument. Fanatical RELIGIOSITY makes people stupid, venal, and murderous.

ummm, when is the last time evangelicals did any of the following:
1. Flew airplanes into buildings?
2. Beheaded those that disagreed with them?
3. Murdered their own children and neighbors when blowing themselves up in the name of their religion?
4. Blew up cars after ramming them into schoolbuses full of children?
5. Dragged the bodies of their victims thru the streets after murdering them in one atrocious way or another?
6. Cried out for the destruction of an entire race/religion/country?

Your disagreement with Christians or their beliefs does not make them into murderous extremists. There is no comparison.
Yes, there are the occasional nut-cases in the evangelicals. but not hundreds upon hundreds, day after day, year after year, like it is with Islam.
Argue it all you want, you are flat out wrong to try and compare the two.
 
ummm, when is the last time evangelicals did any of the following:
1. Flew airplanes into buildings?
2. Beheaded those that disagreed with them?
3. Murdered their own children and neighbors when blowing themselves up in the name of their religion?
4. Blew up cars after ramming them into schoolbuses full of children?
5. Dragged the bodies of their victims thru the streets after murdering them in one atrocious way or another?
6. Cried out for the destruction of an entire race/religion/country?

Your disagreement with Christians or their beliefs does not make them into murderous extremists. There is no comparison.
Yes, there are the occasional nut-cases in the evangelicals. but not hundreds upon hundreds, day after day, year after year, like it is with Islam.
Argue it all you want, you are flat out wrong to try and compare the two.

Right, right...christian extremists FUCK their children, they don't kill them. They don't have the balls to blow themselves up, they shoot abortion doctors and then run off into the woods. There are thousands upon thousands of of these people.

Meh...never mind, you're too stupid to ever see through your racism. As long as people believe in some all-powerful bogeyman, there will always be some that think their bogeyman is worth killing for.
 
Right, right...christian extremists FUCK their children, they don't kill them. They don't have the balls to blow themselves up, they shoot abortion doctors and then run off into the woods. There are thousands upon thousands of of these people.

Meh...never mind, you're too stupid to ever see through your racism. As long as people believe in some all-powerful bogeyman, there will always be some that think their bogeyman is worth killing for.

There are thousands upon thousands of white people. Some who are messed up. Same with black people. And with Asians, Canadians, and any other group you choose to pick out. But in modern history (lets take the last 300 years as a sample) who is it doing the vile disgusting things we are talking about here EN MASSE?
When is the last time you saw a group of evangelicals (or ANY group other than Muslim extremists) dancing in the streets with guns, carrying signs saying FUCK YOUR CHILDREN OR WE WILL BEHEAD YOU?
How many abortion doctors have been shot in the last 100 years? More will die in the hands of Muslim extremists in the next HOUR than have EVER been harmed in any way by extremist pro-lifers. Go ahead, tell me I am wrong. Well?
 
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