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@maxnewbury Curious why Sebastian Aho of Carolina isn’t highlighted as its -120 for Over SOG and +1.07 the Vegas line!

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Beautifully said. Love this Imam.

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A Statement of Conscience on October 7

I will not start by saying ‘as a Muslim’ or ‘as an imam’, but as a human being.

On October 7, over 1,200 innocent people were killed in a single day. Families were shot in their homes. Young people out dancing were hunted across open fields. Over 250 people, including children and the elderly, were dragged into Gaza as hostages. I think of a mother hiding in a safe room with her baby’s mouth covered. I think of a father listening as the line went quiet. I think of families who waited month after month for someone to come home, only to receive a coffin. I didn’t need my faith to recognize the evil of what happened. My heart told me first.

But I’m a Muslim and an imam, and I owe the world one honest sentence: what was done that day was a crime against God. God teaches that whoever kills one innocent soul, it is as if he had killed all humanity.

This day has an author: Yahya Sinwar. He planned it, ordered it, and knew what would follow. Every death of that day and war he started rests on him and Hamas leaders who sat in tunnels and foreign hotels and called slaughter a victory. It rests on every Palestinian leader who cheered, excused, handed out sweets, or said nothing. They chose this. They own it.

But Sinwar did not invent himself. He was the fruit of a tree planted almost a century ago by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas named itself in its founding charter as the Brotherhood’s branch in Palestine. The Brotherhood’s poison is slow. It arrives through study circles, youth camps, charity boxes, and kind words to lonely young men. Drop by drop, it teaches him that his religion is a political party, his neighbour is his enemy, the Jew is the cause of his sorrow, and God is pleased by rage. By the time the gun arrives, the soul is already taken.

I have seen this poison in mosques where sermons became rallies and young men could recite slogans but not sit still for a verse on mercy. Every people that let the Brotherhood in has paid in blood and ruined generations. It has never built anything it did not first set on fire.

Behind Hamas stands another hand: the IRGC. It was the IRGC’s money, weapons, and training that turned a hateful idea into an army. One calls itself Sunni and the other Shia, and they may curse each other’s creeds, but they are united in what they worship. It is not God. It is power. The same IRGC that armed the killers of October 7 shoots Iranian girls for showing their hair, hangs young men for asking to be free, and has left graves from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut. They speak in God’s name. So did Pharaoh speak in the name of heaven.

So let me say this clearly. Hamas and the IRGC are not merely enemies of Islam. That would be too small a charge, as if their crime were only against us. They are enemies of God. God is the Giver of life, yet they deal in death. God calls Himself the Most Merciful, yet they have made cruelty a sacrament. God honoured the children of Adam, yet they look at a child and see a target or a shield. To murder what God created and sign His name to it is the oldest blasphemy.

And we Muslims have been too quiet. Some of us were afraid. Some told ourselves it was not our business. Some, God forgive them, felt something other than horror that morning and never confessed it. Silence was the soil this poison grew in. I will not add to it.

So on this anniversary, let us say plainly what our scripture already says. The Jews are not our enemies. They are our cousins in Abraham, and their dead were created by the same God who created us. Today belongs to them: the murdered, the hostages, and families who still set a place at the table. To them I say: I am sorry for what was done to you by men who used the words of my prayers. You’re not alone in your grief or remembrance.

The enemies of God are those who murder in His name. We know their names. It is time we said them from our own pulpits, in our own voices, before they speak for us again.

Imam Tawhidi

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@dkeaton024 @lisadancefit Do you have anything to refute his findings (and subsequent convictions in many cases) of fraud or just gonna name call and kick and scream because he’s conservative?

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@RyanShead @lisadancefit She speaks English much better than most immigrants here. Stop lying. Now if you want to dispute her claims to fluency of 4 other languages, that may be up for debate.

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@BradenShamo @jhallito Yes people voting for Trump hoping he’d save the economy were certainly misled. I believe the trend of American presidents is the incumbent/party gets replaced whenever people aren’t happy about the economy likely in an attempt to try anything else - whether that’s wise or not

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@jhallito @BradenShamo There may be a portion of the population that is foolish but I think the same can be said of both sides falling for each party’s propaganda - look at DSA. I also don’t think it’s helpful to call half the country on the other side of the aisle stupid. All politicians lie for power

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Dude got ratioed so hard he had to turn off the comments. 🙄

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@theebaddiebey @___TheGOOdWitch Because of the activist judge and DA who bent the law beyond reason to make it happen. So yeah, the right doesn’t recognize kangaroo courts. You may be shocked at the details if you actually look into it and stop zombie repeating “34 felony counts!” Ad nauseum

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@ARC_Fordo @___TheGOOdWitch Oh hello, part of the problem. 🙄

There is no criminal conviction of that but thanks for your accusations that have nothing to do with policy debate. The right can say you support murder of babies and child castration because of trans but that’s not helpful either

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@darkstartravels @tiffanee_dawn Nah we all saw the behind the scenes of her crying performance at the fence of a border facility for a very obvious photo op that absolutely exposed her as a complete fake. She’s hasn’t been “for the people” for a while now. Stop playing race and gender cards to excuse ineptitude

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@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan Terrible arguments by Andrea. 10 invaders of women’s sports is too many and the issue is we don’t want there to be more. This is a growing trend that needs to be ended. Not a small problem to ignore until it grows bigger.

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@ClayTravis I think the author Kristen is pretty Wong for that take.

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@DailyLoud How about Sophie tests that assertion and do the same hard foul blow to the head to DiJonai next game just to make sure Sophie gets ejected too.

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@ghostofcronair @lisadancefit I think anyone that’s supporting the DSA and their obvious and clearly stated goal of ushering literal communism into American politics is far worthier of ostracism. Both parties have their extremists but feels like DSA is under hated for their destructive ideas

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This is legit frightening. Not a Bill Maher fan but credit to him calling out the crazies in his own party that are taking over at an alarming rate with WILD ideas that will undeniably ruin our great nation.

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@UnitedAlex7 I see a very standard tackle here with studs down and from the front. Missed the ball so it’s a foul but attempted murder and a yellow card? How soft can you be? It’s like people have Messi Derangement Syndrome

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@SportsCenter World Cup winning flop of the century. Absolutely ridiculous reaction.

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@clusterbitch_ @MegaMel1986 No objection. They missed an immense opportunity on home soil. Very disappointing.

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@MegaMel1986 Doesn’t help that the post is meant to tear down the men’s team so naturally responders and fans of USMNT will be on the defensive. The point is the two aren’t meant to be compared. Women’s opponents are far less developed and experienced so of course they will have more success

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@clusterbitch_ I assume you mean pump the opponent with estrogen and this would be more likely. Anyway, I wish USMNT also had vastly inferior opponents who only started playing soccer within the last decade or two in the World Cup. Might be as successful as the women’s team in WCs too