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Warhol

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California named after Caliph Haroon Rashid.

California was named after Calif(Ha)ronia: Caliph Haroon Rashid. Al
Hambra was also from Moorish Spain….

500 US town have Moorish names.

Caliph Harun Rashid ruled from 786 to 809, and his Abbassid reign was
marked by scientific, cultural, and religious prosperity. Art and
music o flourished significantly during his reign. He established a
library Bayt al-Hikma.(Room of Judgement)

His life and the fabulous court over which he held sway have been the
subject of many tales. The famous The Book of One Thousand and One
Nights contained many stories that might have been inspired by Harun’s
magnificent court.

Future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, when he was a New York
Police Department Commissioner, was called in the local newspapers
“Haroun-al-Roosevelt” for his habit of lonely all-night rambles on the
streets of Manhattan, surreptitiously catching police officers off
their posts. (Harun al-Rashid is said in the 1001 Nights to have
wandered the World at night dressed as merchant in order to observe
the lives of his subjects).

Many towns in Al-Andulusia Spain were named after the great Caliph.
Moors ruled Spain for about 700 years (711-1492). Al-Hambra and
California are but some of the Moorish named which got transferred
from Spain to Mexico to the United States. We present records of
Humbolt County on this matter.

Humboldt County

History
History of Humboldt County California - Historic Record Co., Los
Angeles, 1915

CHAPTER I.
The Origin of the Name California

Almost everybody knows that the discussion concerning the name
California waxed warm for a number of years. Norton, the author of a
recent book on California, tells us it is interesting to note that
most school children are familiar with the discussion which has
heretofore taken place as to the origin of the name. He says many
people are familiar with its alleged formation from two Spanish or
Latin words meaning a hot furnace; but unfortunately for the theory
that this is the true derivation, it must be remembered that to the
early Spaniards who first used the name in connection with the
country, California was not a hot country, but in comparison with
those through which they had to come to reach it, a cold one. The name
first appeared in the written record as applied to Lower (Baja)
California in Preciado’s diary of Ulloa’s trip down the coast of that
peninsula in 1539. But it is used there as if it were already in
common use. And it is probable that it was first given to the country
by Cortes or some of his followers either at Santa Cruz or La Paz
between 1535 and 1537.

In his History of the New California the author of the present
work (Leigh H. Irvine) discusses the origin of the name somewhat at
length. He says that Prof. Josiah Royce, of Harvard, Winfield Davis,
and other historians, now accept Edward Everett Hale’s conclusion that
the name California was derived from an old romance and applied by
Cortes to the peninsula he discovered in 1535.

Mr. Hale made his investigations in the year 1862, while
reading the old romance entitled “Sergas de Esplandian,” by Garcia
Ordouez de Montalvo, the translator of Amidas. In this connection it
is worth while to give some of the statements of the eminent Dr. Hale,
for there have been a number of theories as to the origin of the name.
He says : “Coming to the reference in this forgotten romance to the
Island of California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, I saw at
once that here was the origin of the name of the state of California,
long sought for by the antiquaries of that state, but long forgotten,
for the romance seems to have been published in 1510-the edition of
1521 is now in existence-while our California, even the peninsula of
that name, was not discovered by the Spaniards until 1526, and was not
named California until 1535.”

Not long after this discovery Mr. Hale invited the American
Antiquarian Society to examine the evidence, and in March, 1864, he
translated for the Atlantic Monthly all the parts of the story that
relate to the Queen of California (Califia), and in 1873 he published
a small volume on the subject, in which he said: “The name California
was given by Cortes, who discovered the peninsula in 1535. For the
statement that he named it we have the authority of Herrera. It is
proved, I think, that the expedition of Mendoza, in 1532, did not see
California ; it is certain that they gave it no name. Humboldt saw, in
the archives of Mexico, a statement in manuscript that it was
discovered in 1526, but for this there is no other authority.

“It is certain that the name did not appear until 1535. No
etymology of this name has been presented that is satisfactory to the
historian. Venegas, the Jesuit(who burned so many works) historian of
California, writing in 1758, sums up the matter in these words: `The
most ancient name is California, used by Bernal Diaz, limited to a
single bay. I could wish to gratify the reader by the etymology of the
word, but no etymology of the name has been presented that is
satisfactory. In none of the dialects of the various natives could the
missionaries find the least trace of such a name being given by them
to the country, or even to any harbor, bay, or small part of it. Nor
can I subscribe to the etymology of some writers, who supposed the
name to have been given to it by the Spaniards because of their
feeling an unusual heat at their first landing here; but they thence
called the country California, compounding the two Latin words califa
and fornax, a hot furnace. I believe few will think the adventurers
could boast of so much literature. Clavigero, in his history of
California, after giving this etymology, offers as an alternative the
following as the opinion of the learned Jesuit Giuseppe Compoi : He
believes that the name is composed of the Spanish word cala, which
means ‘a little cove of the sea,’ and the Latin fornix, which means
‘the vault of a building.’ He thinks these words are thus applied,
because, within Cape St. Lucas there is a little cove of the sea,
towards the western part of which rises a rock, so torn out that on
the upper part of the hollow is seen a vault, as perfect as if made by
art. Cortes, therefore, observing this cala or cove and this vault,
probably called this port California or Cala fornix-speaking half in
Spanish, and half in Latin. Clavigero suggests as an improvement on
this somewhat wild etymology that Cortes may have said Cala Fornax,
meaning cove furnace, speaking as in the Jesuit’s suggestion, in two
languages.”

Towards the close of this romance of the Sergas de Esplandian
the various Christian knights assemble to defend the Emperor of the
Greeks and the city of Constantinople against the attack of the Turks
and Infidels. In the romance the name appears with precisely our
spelling in the following passage:

“Sergas Chapter 157: ‘Know that, on the right hand of the
Indies there is an island called California very near to the
Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women, without any
men among them, because they were accustomed to live after the fashion
of Amazons. They were of strong and hardened bodies, of ardent
courage, and of great force. The island was the strongest in the
world, from its steep rocks and great cliffs. Their arms were all of
gold; and so were the caparisons of the wild beasts which they rode,
after having tamed them; for in all the Island there is no other
metal. They lived in caves very well worked out; they had many ships,
in which they sailed to other parts to carry on their forays.”

The name appears in several distinct passages in the book. Mr.
Hale adds : “This romance, as I have said, is believed to have been
printed first in 1510. No copies of this edition, however, are extant.
But of the edition of 1519 a copy is preserved ; and there are copies
of successive editions of 1521, 1525 and 1526, in which last year two
editions were published-one at Seville and the other at Burgos. All of
these are Spanish. It follows, almost certainly, that Cortes and his
followers, in 1535, must have been acquainted with the romance; and
after they sailed up the west side of Mexico, they supposed they were
precisely at the place indicated, ‘on the right hand of the Indies.’
It will be remembered, also, that by sailing in the same direction,
Columbus, in his letters to the sovereigns, says : ‘He shall be
sailing towards the Terrestrial Paradise.’

We need not suppose that Cortes believed the romance more than
we do; though we do assert that he borrowed a name from it to indicate
the peninsula which he found ‘on the right side of the Indies, near to
the Terrestrial paradise.’ * * * In ascribing to the Esplandian the
origin of the name California, I know that I furnished no etymology
for that word. I have not found the word in any earlier romances. I
will only suggest that the word Calif, the Spanish spelling for the
sovereign of the Mussulman power of the time, was in the mind of the
author as be invented these Amazon allies of the Infidel power.“

It will be seen that there have been many discussions on the
subject, and whether true or false the little romance is now accepted
as the most likely explanation of the origin of the word.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.

chopping down the holy tree that is the house of David the King...

"When London and Paris were little more than villages, characterised
by sprawling cottages and streets of mud, Cordova, Baghdad was a large
and sophisticated metropolis, well lit at night, and home to a
university's and astronomical observatory's. Here Moorish scholars
studied classical Greek texts, and Moorish engineers made many new
discoveries that would eventually prove essential for the European
industrial revolution."

Will the real Western World, Moorish please step forward? Well, will
the real "us" please step forward? Please Cervantes, please Boccaccio.
Will the real "them" please step forward? Please Averroes, please
"Scheherazade"...

A New Dark Age is falling on us. We need you back...

"Moorish Spain produced a flourishing culture, aboce all after the
Caliph Al-Hakam II (961-976) came to power. He is credited with
founding a library of hundreds of thousands of volumes, which was
practically inconceivable in Europe at that time. The most distinctive
feature of this calture was the early readoption of classical
philosophy by Ibn Masarra, Abentofain, Averroes. But the Moorish
thinkers stood out, above all in medicine, mathematics and astronomy."
http://www.sispain.org/english/history/muslim.html

Al Nakba

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Dec 10, 2008, 12:58:11 PM12/10/08
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OK, but what's your point?

Hagar

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Dec 10, 2008, 2:21:39 PM12/10/08
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"Warhol" <mol...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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California named after Caliph Haroon Rashid.

California was named after Calif(Ha)ronia: Caliph Haroon Rashid. Al
Hambra was also from Moorish Spain….

In fact, the early Moorish capital was named "Ash Shalioa", which, when
translated into English becomes "Assholia". It's Moor residents are also
known as "Assholes" and have made many attempts to conquer the world
disguised as "Dipshits". The attempts have floundered, since these "Dippos"
have the propensity to violently explode when their strapped on dynamite
enters into a phase of "premature explosiation", thus sending their spirits
to
the happy hereafter, where they are presented with 72 fat pigs of mating
age.


Warhol

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On Dec 10, 6:58 pm, Al Nakba <williamhubb...@bluebottle.com> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 8:13 am, Warhol <mol...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > California named after Caliph Haroon Rashid.
>
> > California was named after Calif(Ha)ronia: Caliph Haroon Rashid. Al
> > Hambra was also from Moorish Spain….
>
>
> > chopping down the holy tree that is the house of David the King...
>
> > "When London and Paris were little more than villages, characterised
> > by sprawling cottages and streets of mud, Cordova, Baghdad was a large
> > and sophisticated metropolis, well lit at night, and home to a
> > university's and astronomical observatory's. Here Moorish scholars
> > studied classical Greek texts, and Moorish engineers made many new
> > discoveries that would eventually prove essential for the European
> > industrial revolution."
>
> > Will the real Western World, Moorish please step forward? Well, will
> > the real "us" please step forward? Please Cervantes, please Boccaccio.
> > Will the real "them" please step forward? Please Averroes, please
> > "Scheherazade"...
>
> > A New Dark Age is falling on us. We need you back...
>
> > "Moorish Spain produced a flourishing culture, aboce all after the
> > Caliph Al-Hakam II (961-976) came to power. He is credited with
> > founding a library of hundreds of thousands of volumes, which was
> > practically inconceivable in Europe at that time. The most distinctive
> > feature of this calture was the early readoption of classical
> > philosophy by Ibn Masarra, Abentofain, Averroes. But the Moorish
> > thinkers stood out, above all in medicine, mathematics and astronomy."http://www.sispain.org/english/history/muslim.html
>
> OK, but what's your point?


My Point is that we dont find jewish glory, like we find Clouds of
Moorish glory all over the world... So my question is what are yidish
achievements true history... NONE

It is obvious who had a one-world kingdom...Kingdom of God on Earth
belonged to the Moorish of ahl al Bayt.

and Surly not the yids...

Al Nakba

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> and Surly not the yids...- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Certainly not the howling asslifting hordes. Any glory they had has
been inbred out of them..

Warhol

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You mean Mongolian hordes??? Subhanallah it's just amazing how much
Moorish history is in the U.S. and none yidwish achievements in the
world.

FANTASY, FAITH, AND FRATERNITY:
AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE OF MOORISH INSPIRATION

Several American landmarks are based on Moorish architecture and the
US city Alamo has Moorish root too. Yet yids are wiping out the
Moorish legacy in the Americas.... at least they trey hard...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZR8ZGvkpJM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELBlwP1fRQU

You have Moors bringers of freedom and civilization in the Asia,
Europe, Africa....America was no stranger to the Lighthouse moors...
this is why the American gov't leaders wear the Moorish fez and have
Moorish titles....

1178 CE -- Moors Explore America...

Moors have exerted a great and largely unrecognized impact on American
society, beginning with their exploration of America more than 300
years prior to the "discovery" of the "New World" by Christopher
Columbus.

The Moors explorers accessed the interior of the continent by using
the Mississippi River. The traces of their early presence may be found
in the architecture and calligraphy of towns such as St. Augustine,
Florida (America's oldest town), in the names of islands such as
Islamadora, and in the customs of the American Indians.

Some little known but very intriguing statistics follow:

In 1178, a Chinese document known as the Sung Document records the
voyage of Moorish sailors to a land known as Mu-Lan-Pi (America). This
document is mentioned in The Khotan Amirs, published in 1933.

Abu Bakari, a Moorish king from the Light Empire, leads a series of
nautical voyages to the New World in 1310.

In 1312, African Muslims from Mandinga arrive in the Gulf of Mexico
and explore the American interior via the Mississippi River.

1513, Piri Reis completes his first world map, including the Americas,
after researching maps from all over the world. The map is unsurpassed
in its practicality and artistry.

1530, African slaves arrive in America. More than 10 million were
uprooted from their homes and brought to America, and more than 30
percent of these were Moorish. These slaves formed the backbone of
American economy.

In 1539, Estevanico of Azamor, a Moor from Morocco, lands in Florida
and becomes the first Muslim to cross the American continent At least
two states owe their beginnings to this Muslim, Arizona and New
Mexico.
More Evidence

New Zealand archaeologist and linguist Barry Fell in his work Saga
America points to evidence of a Muslim's presence in various parts of
the Americas. In addition to drawing several cultural parallels
between West African peoples and certain "Indian" peoples of the
southwest, Fell points out that the southwest's Pima people possessed
a vocabulary which contained words of Moorish/Hassani origin. The
presence of such words among the Pima is compounded by the existence
of Islamic petrogyphs in places like California. Fell informs us that
in Inyo county, California, there exists an early American petrogyph
(rock carving) which states in Arabic: "Yasus ben Maria" ("Jesus, Son
of Mary"), a phrase commonly found within the surahs of the Holy
Qur'an. Fell is convinced that this glyph is many centuries older than
the U.S. Fell also identifies the Algonquian language as having words
with Hassani roots, especially words which pertained to navigation,
astronomy, meteorology, medicine, and anatomy. The presence of such
words again illustrates significant cultural contact between the
American "Indians" and the Moorish-speaking peoples of the Light land.
Such L'And a Lusian peoples evidently came primarily from the Berbers
as additional evidence suggests.

Ivan Van Sertima in They Came Before Columbus outlines evidence of
ancient and early contacts in the American continent. Among the items
of evidence which Van Sertima unveils is the presence of Moorish
surnames among American "Indian" peoples. Van Sertima points out that
Ges, Zamoras, Marabitine, and Marabios are a few of the names with
clear transcontinental links. Of particular interest however, are the
names "Marabitine" and "Marabios" which relate to
"Marabout" (Murabit); the "Holy Men and Women" of the Moorish Empire.
The Marabouts(Holy Warriors/Sheriff's) were the protectors of Moorish
frontiers. They are often remembered for having acted as buffers
against Mongolian encroachment.

In Panama and Colombia there were rulers ("princes") whom the invading
Catholic Spaniards recognized as having "completely Moorish or
Biblical" names: such as "Do-Bayda" and "Aben-Amechy." Even in the
Caribbean, the evidence of a significant Moorish presence can be
found. P.V. Ramos points out in African Presence in Early America,
that Christopher Columbus' own impression of the "Carib" peoples was
that they were "Mohammedans". Ramos says that the dietary restrictions
of the Carib were similar to those of Islamic peoples and this
provided one reason for such an impression.

Columbus admitted in his papers that on Monday, October 21, 1492 CE,
while his ship was sailing near Gibara on the north-east coast of
Cuba, he saw a mosque on the top of a beautiful mountain. The ruins of
mosques and minarets with inscriptions of Qur'anic verses have been
discovered in Cuba, Mexico, Texas, and Nevada. During his second
voyage, Columbus was told by the Indians of Espanola (Haiti) that
Black people had been to the island before his arrival. For proof,
they presented Columbus with the spears of these Muslims. These
weapons were tipped with a yellow metal that the Indians called
Guanine, a word of West African derivation meaning gold alloy. Oddly
enough, it is related to the Arabic world 'Ghinaa' which means
'Wealth'.

In 1498 CE, on his third voyage to the New World, Columbus landed in
Trinidad. Later, he sighted the South American continent, where some
of his crew went ashore and found natives using colorful handkerchiefs
of symmetrically woven cotton which resembled the head dresses and
loincloths of Guinea in their colors, style, and function. He referred
to them as Almayzars. Almayzar is an Arabic word for 'wrapper',
'cover,' 'apron', and or 'skirting', which was the cloth the Moors
(Spanish or North African Muslims) imported from West Africa (Guinea)
into Morocco, Spain, and Portugal. During this voyage, Columbus was
surprised that the married women wore cotton panties (bragas) and he
wondered where these natives learned their modesty. Hernando Cortez,
Spanish conqueror, described the dress of the Indian women as long
veils and the dress of Indian men as 'breechcloth painted in the style
of Moorish draperies'. Ferdinand Columbus called the native cotton
garments 'breechcloths of the same design and cloth as the shawls worn
by the Moorish women of Granada'. Even the similarity of the
children's hammocks to those found in North Africa was uncanny.

Dr. Barry Fell (Harvard University) introduced in his book Saga
America solid scientific evidence supporting the arrival, centuries
before Columbus, of Moors from North and West Africa. Dr. Fell
discovered the existence of Moorish schools at Valley of Fire, Allan
Springs, Logomarsino, Keyhole Canyon, Washoe and Hickison Summit Pass
(Nevada), Mesa Verde (Colorado), Mimbres Valley (New Mexico), and
Tipper Canoe (Indiana) dating back to 700-800 CE. Engraved on rocks in
the old western US, he found texts, diagrams and charts representing
the last surviving fragments of what was once a system of schools -
both elementary and higher levels. The language of instruction was
North African Hassani written with old Kufic script. The subjects of
instruction included writing, reading, arithmetic, religion, history,
geography, mathematics, astronomy, and sea navigation.

The descendants of the Moorish visitors of North America are members
of the present Iroquois, Algonquin, Anasazi, Hohokam, and Olmec native
people.

In 1654, the English explorers reported a colony of bearded people
wearing European clothing, living in cabins, smelting silver, and
dropping to their knees to pray many times daily, wherever they might
be. The early 17th Century Powhatan Indian's description of Heaven is
nearly, word for word, the description found in the Holy Qur'an.
Tennessee Governor John Sevier records a 1784 encounter in what is now
Western North Carolina with a dark-skinned, reddish-brown complexioned
people supposed to be of Moorish descent who claim to be Portuguese.
In east Tennessee in late 1700's, Jonathan Swift, an Englishman,
employed dark-skinned men who were known as "MeccaNaz Indians".

There is much more which can be said about the legacy of Moors in the
early Americas. In spite of what the proverbial mainstream community
may think, the presence of Moors in the Americas is much older and
much more profound than many of them know or care to admit. When the
Prophet (pbuh) told his followers to "go as far as China" to spread
the word, it is becoming apparent that they did just that and more!

So you stupid yids should also stop using the six pointed star...
because It is considered to be the seal of Allah.
http://flagspot.net/flags/es-cl%5Ehi.html#mor

since the sacred symbol also belongs to my ancestors...

To known your Heritage read the link below
http://www.missionislam.com/nwo/tribe.htm

Warhol

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"You will know a tree by it's fruit".

But that leaves the unanswered questions...

Yid historian, John Kaminski, said it in more datialed form - "When
you read the history of Israel from objective sources, you discover
that it is an outlaw state, created by the powers that be by stealing
the land from its original inhabitants, and systematically
exterminating them ever since."

Saul Levy

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Dec 11, 2008, 7:25:19 AM12/11/08
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Sounds like something the WartPiggy would post, Hagar! lmfjao!

I had to read it carefully to see your most intelligent addition!

Those fat pigs were UGLY too! Big snouts! Disgusting!

Saul Levy

Saul Levy

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Dec 11, 2008, 9:18:09 PM12/11/08
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Too bad the Spanish were back-stabbing, money-grubbing, liars,
WartPiggy! lmfjao! They must have had some Muslim blood!

The great legacy of Spanish exploration of the New World was TOTALLY
CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS! We still have them too!

Some legacy, huh?

Saul Levy


On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:13:31 -0800 (PST), Warhol <mol...@hotmail.com>
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>California named after Caliph Haroon Rashid.
>
>California was named after Calif(Ha)ronia: Caliph Haroon Rashid. Al
>Hambra was also from Moorish Spain….

[rest of screed deleted, unread as usual]

Saul Levy

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Spoken like the usual RACIST PIG around here, WartPiggy! lmfjao!

My previous comment about Spanish legacies? It fits the Muslims too!

BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You're an IDIOT!

Saul Levy


On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:25:24 -0800 (PST), Warhol <mol...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Dec 10, 6:58 pm, Al Nakba <williamhubb...@bluebottle.com> wrote:


>> On Dec 10, 8:13 am, Warhol <mol...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > California named after Caliph Haroon Rashid.
>>
>> > California was named after Calif(Ha)ronia: Caliph Haroon Rashid. Al
>> > Hambra was also from Moorish Spain….

>My Point is that we dont find jewish glory, like we find Clouds of

Saul Levy

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Dec 11, 2008, 10:14:32 PM12/11/08
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The Alamo isn't a city, WartFOOL! lmfjao!

Yep, all you have is FANTASY, FAIRY TALES and TOTAL BULLSHIT!

What an IDIOT you are!

Saul Levy


On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:50:34 -0800 (PST), Warhol <mol...@hotmail.com>
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>You mean Mongolian hordes??? Subhanallah it's just amazing how much

Saul Levy

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Dec 11, 2008, 10:18:10 PM12/11/08
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When will you get those 72 UGLY PIGS, WartPiggy? lmfjao!

Soon I hope!

Outlaw state, my ASS! You RAGHEADS haven't had much luck STEALING it
back, have you? That's all you can do. Back stab and steal
everything in sight! Very Muslim of you!

BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Saul Levy


On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:11:34 -0800 (PST), Warhol <mol...@hotmail.com>
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>On Dec 10, 8:21 pm, "Hagar" <ha...@sahm.name> wrote:

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