Qur'an Burning Backlash in Afghanistan

The Qur'an and Islamic books taken to an incinerator were slated for destruction because they contained "extremist literature" and "clandestine communications".

The Qur'an can be used as a cryptograph to relay messages. My research has tracked this issue for years. Extremist Islamic literature must be eradicated for the public good. Period.

If my Commander-in-Chief should truly ponder any real prosecution for burning a Qur'an he needs to seek out our members of Congress and the Pentagon community to change the Uniform Code of Military Justice. We need to add article 295 b of the Pakistan penal code, which addresses desecration of the Qur'an.

But then I remember. We are Americans. We are a different civilization. Our view of books, even holy books, is quite different in an open society.

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LCDR Tammy Swofford, USNR, NC

Images: Afghanistan Protests February 25th

Written commentary will be given in the next blog.

Tammy Swofford

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The Flying Locusts

Readers,

Here is this week's commentary.

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Busy on my end with work and also checking the uncorrected proof for _Arsenal_. It is my first novel. The learning curve has been beneficial. Making the leap from print media and blogging to writing a novel has been enjoyable. Copyright and ISBN all obtained. Need to prepare the press kits. Hope to launch the novel by April at the latest. Life is busy.....

Tammy

Syria Latest Images: February 18th

Most of the images coming from a major jihad portal today do not meet my journalism standard for readership viewing. The scenes are too graphic. Multiple YouTubes are available. One which I did not click on showed an infant with a horrendous abdominal wound. The child was alive, and still crying. These things, should remind us to pray. The situation continues to devolve in Syria. What was perhaps citizen-orchestrated in its infancy has moved into the next stage, which is that of proxy political players using agitprop cells, propaganda, etc. to keep the movement both fluid and confused. One of the large funeral scenes posted on YouTube showed a larger aggregate of women then normally seen at such events. These things do not bode well for the family units.

I harbor additional concerns. It is interesting to note the Arab presence in one of the images above. The reach of Tehran into the midst of this cluster is also of concern.

Tammy Swofford

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The Gift of Contemplation

Readers,

Here is the latest commentary for Daily Times:

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Bashar al-Assad's Xiphos

Readers,

Here is the Friday commentary:

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Continue to pray for the situation in Syria. Pray for the families. Pray for the children.

Tammy Swofford

Bashar al-Assad: Daddy's little boy

One of my first blogs in 2005 advised reading with a filter. I also requested the readership to challenge my thoughts, and examine what I write based on a rehearsal of facts. Vogue magazine released an article which presented a propaganda whitewash for the al-Assad dynasty. Glossy page with good paper stock does not equate truth.

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Bashar al-Assad is busy making history by repeating history. His daddy, slaughtered thousands in the city of Homs. Estimates run as high as 40,000 citizen-souls. Lowest estimates were in the range of twenty-thousand deaths. Like father, like son.

Butchers can no longer get away with wielding their axe blades now. And presidential wives cannot be cast in glowing terms when they remain silent regarding the citizen massacre orchestrated by their marital counterparts. While the al-Assad family frolics in Europe.... Asma al-Assad is the woman in a red dress: stained with the blood of her citizens.

Tammy Swofford

Syria February 8th: The Slaughter of the Innocents

The tanks have rolled into a residential neighborhood in the city of Homs. What I have viewed in the last five minutes from an alternate news source site has sickened me. There is no photo shopping involved in what I have seen. Children are being killed. Some of the deceased children are babies, still in the arms of family men, as they are carried along the street. My policy remains the same. I do not post images of too graphic a nature to my site. Tomorrow night, I will post the Daily Times commentary I have written regarding Syria. I have no words to describe what I have viewed this morning. I only have tears. God will judge.

Tammy Swofford

Sunday Praise: Say the Name

It is the Sabbath. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God...."

Here is a bit of Sunday praise. Ignore the image of Jesus with the twinkly eyes. Do focus on the Cross. smile

Forgiveness! What a beautiful message! And what a beautiful name!

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Tammy Swofford

Band of Brothers

Nope. I didn't choose the title. The editors chose it.

Yep. I love the film, _Band of Brothers_.

But, here is the Daily Times article:

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Tammy

Portage Points

Omar Garcia is a personal friend and a Christian intellectual. Media would cast the Christian in the mold of bias (notice the pun?!) as expressed in this book by Jeff Sharlet:

The Family

I recommend Jeff's book if for no other reason than the vignette about testosterone-impaired Christian men wearing "masturbands" so that they will not.... errr.... touch themselves. Personal vignettes of narrow scope are the warts on scholarship. Jeff-i-poo, puts a lot of warts out there. Now I am not completely discrediting his work. I merely wish to point out that I had never heard of a "masturband" until reading the selection. Last time I checked, most of us were concerned about loving Jesus. That, my friends, is the Gospel.

But back to the topic at hand:

Portage Points

Enjoy!

Tammy Swofford