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COURAGE AWARDS
Sunday, September 12, 2010
COURAGE AWARD: AMERICAN MUSLIM ORGANIZATION SAYS PRESIDENT OBAMA IS WRONG
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Let’s recognize DR. ZUHDI JASSER, president and founder of the AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY (AIFD) for risking his life to defend America and her ideals in opposition to extremist Muslims. From the AIFD statement on the Ground Zero Mosque:
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Mr. President this is not about religious freedom. It is about the importance of the World Trade Center site to the psyche of the American People. It is about a blatant attack on our sovereignty by people whose ideology ultimately demands the elimination of our way of life. While Imam Faisal Rauf may not share their violent tendencies he does seem to share a belief that Islamic structures are a political statement and even Ground Zero should be looked upon through the lens of political Islam and not a solely American one.
As a Muslim desperate to reform his faith, your remarks take us backwards from the day that my faith will come into modernity. I do not stand to eliminate Imam Rauf’s religious freedom; I stand to make sure that my children’s religious freedom will be determined by the liberty guaranteed in the American Constitution and not by clerics or leaders who are apologists for shar’iah law and will tell me what religious freedom is.
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Dr. Jasser is not the only MUSLIM OPPOSING THE MOSQUE in its proposed location, there are numerous others. But he has taken the type of stand that has COST OTHERS THEIR LIVES, so he gets the September, 2010 Courage Award.
Monday, March 08, 2010
*THIS* IS THE FACE OF COURAGE…...
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This is a young Iraqi girl, too young to vote, who inked her finger anyhow—so committed to living in a free country, where the government is chosen by the citizens, that she is risking death at the hands of the terrorists, in order to make her position known.
Did you even *vote* in the last election?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
TELL YOUR KIDS ABOUT HAROLD LEZZENI - A MAN OF COURAGE AND VISION…AND REAL GRIT
Harold Lezzeni was 81 years old when the house he was born in was wrecked by the landslide - there were four feet of mud that cascaded down the hill behind his place and clean through the living area of the house, sweeping away his library, his photographs, his furniture, and everything.
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What could he do? He was 81…his insurance didn’t cover anything due to “floods”, which included the rainstorm that brought the mud. The county, on whose land the mudslide originated, allowed him to spend hundreds of hours over two years compiling the damage figures, and then informed him that they were immune from his claim, so long as no bodily injury was involved. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) gave him $6,000.00.
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He started digging…..read the REST OF THE STORY HERE, along with more photographs of the house.
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Hat Tip: BOOKWORM
Sunday, December 13, 2009
WHAT DO YOU CALL A MAN WITH NO ARMS….............THAT SHOOTS PAR?
Butch Lumpkin was born with no arms…..but he got a GIANT heart to compensate.
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Yes, of course he tees the ball up for himself…...and he doesn’t have to stoop over to do it, either!
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You are not going to BELIEVE THIS VIDEO
Monday, November 09, 2009
TWENTY YEARS AGO…..NEVER (EVER) FORGET!
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I don’t think it’s possible to overestimate how much I miss that man!
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Hat Tip: POWERLINE BLOG
Miscellany • COURAGE AWARDS • HEROES • Politics • International •
Monday, April 13, 2009
NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER…...
Does anyone remember PAUL POTTS?
Well…...have a listen to SUSAN BOYLE........imagine this dear little (funny-looking) lady screwing up the courage to face Simon Cowell and the entire Britain’s Got Talent audience!!
Look at all the faces - you know what they’re thinking! This tape brings tears to my eyes—I hope she WINS!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
EVERY ONE OF US HAS PROBLEMS…..
If you are feeling immersed in, or overwhelmed by, yours, today….please watch this video:
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If Nick’s testimony doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, I’m not sure what to say…....
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