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Here Are the Messages NASA Should Not Beam Into Deep Space. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is one of the universe’s only unproblematic faves. For over 3. 9 years, it’s been cruising along in space, flying by Saturn and the Kuiper Belt, doing nothing but beaming back beautiful photos and scientific research.

Now, the intrepid spacecraft—skirting serenely in interstellar space—is being bombarded with requests for nudes, the pee tape, and least predictably, questions about people’s dads. For context: this September marks the big 4- 0 for Voyager 1, which means it remembers the time before the internet, so it couldn’t tweet lewd demands at the pope or look up Lemony Snicket’s real identity. So as Voyager’s anniversary approaches, NASA is celebrating by asking the public to share messages for the wholesome spacecraft, using the hashtag #Message.

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To. Voyager. One lucky winner’s message will be beamed to the space probe, which is nearly 1. This Is Our Time Full Movie. Earth. This, predictably, was a mistake.“Join NASA in celebrating the Voyager mission’s 4.

Inspired by the messages of goodwill carried on Voyager’s Golden Record, you’re invited to send via social media a short, uplifting #Message. To. Voyager and all that lies beyond it,” NASA wrote. With input from the Voyager team and a public vote, one of these messages will be selected for NASA to beam into interstellar space on Sept. Voyager 1’s launch.” (Emphasis ours because, well, you’ll see). While some people tweeted pleasant platitudes at the innocent spacecraft, others were a bit more imaginative. Here are just some of the tweets that, for the sake of humanity, we hope NASA will not send into interstellar space: And lastly: We’ve said it before, but Voyager is probably better off without us.

Beheading in the Name of Islam : : Middle East Quarterly. The February 2. 00. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl helped catalyzed the resurgence of the historical Islamic practice of beheading. Images of masked terrorists standing behind Western hostages in Iraq and Saudi Arabia have become all too common on Arabic satellite stations such as Al- Jazeera and Al- Manar. Islamist websites such as Muntadiyat al- Mahdi[1] go further, streaming video of their murder. Khumba Full Movie.

The February 2. 00. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, true to its intention, horrified the Western audience.

Chechen rebels, egged on by Islamist benefactors, had adopted the practice four years earlier,[2] but the absence of widely broadcast videos limited the psychological impact of hostage decapitation. The Pearl murder and video catalyzed the resurgence of this historical Islamic practice. In Iraq, terrorists filmed the beheadings of Americans Nicholas Berg, Jack Hensley, and Eugene Armstrong. Other victims include Turks, an Egyptian, a Korean, Bulgarians, a British businessman, and a Nepalese.

Scores of Iraqis, both Kurds and Arabs, have also fallen victim to Islamist terrorists' knives. The new fad in terrorist brutality has extended to Saudi Arabia where Islamist terrorists murdered American businessman Paul Johnson, whose head was later discovered in a freezer in an Al- Qaeda hideout. A variation upon this theme would be the practice of Islamists slitting the throats of those opponents they label infidels. This is what happened to Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, first gunned down and then mutilated on an Amsterdam street,[3] and to an Egyptian Coptic family in New Jersey after the father had angered Islamists with Internet chat room criticisms of Islam.[4]The purpose of terrorism is to strike fear into the hearts of opponents in order to win political concession. As the shock value wears off and the Western world becomes immunized to any particular tactic, terrorists develop new ones in order to maximize shock and the press reaction upon which they thrive. In the 1. 97. 0s and 1. In the 1. 98. 0s and 1.

Palestinian terrorists perfected suicide bombings in the 1. But what once garnered days of commentary now generates only hours. Decapitation has become the latest fashion. In many ways, it sends terrorism back to the future. Unlike hijackings and car bombs, ritual beheading has a long precedent in Islamic theology and history. Apologetics and Reality. Some American commentators say that Islamist decapitations are intended as psychological warfare and devoid of any true Islamic content.

Imam Muhammad Adam al- Sheikh, head of the Dar al- Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, for example, claimed incorrectly that "beheadings are not mentioned in the Koran at all."[5] Asma Afsaruddin, an associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, also misrepresented Islamic theology and history when she told a reporter, "There is absolutely no religious imperative for this."[6] The Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR) as well as the American Anti- Arab Discrimination Committee (ADC) have both signed on to a statement that such killings "did not represent the tenets of Islam."[7] Sam Hamod, former director of the Islamic Center in Washington, D. C., claimed that the Qur'anic passage on beheading unbelievers did not actually mean that people should be killed.[8] Such fulminations have had an effect: the Western news media has, perhaps as a result of political correctness or its own bias, twisted the reality of Islamic history and propagated such revisionism.

With such apologetics, Western academics either display basic ignorance of their fields or purposely mislead. The intelligentsia's denial of any religious roots to the recent spate of decapitation has parallels in the logical back flips and kid- glove treatments in which many professors engaged in order to deny a religious basis for violent jihad.[9] Afsaruddin and Hamod aside, Islamists justify murder and decapitation with both theological citations and historical precedent. Decapitation in Islamic Theology. Groups such as Abu Mus'ab al- Zarqawi's Al- Tawhid wa al- Jihad (Unity and Jihad) and Abu 'Abd Allah al- Hasan bin Mahmud's Ansar al- Sunna (Defenders of [Prophetic] Tradition)[1.

Qur'anic scripture. Sura (chapter) 4. When you encounter the unbelievers on the battlefield, strike off their heads until you have crushed them completely; then bind the prisoners tightly."[1. The Qur'anic Arabic terms are generally straightforward: kafaru means "those who blaspheme/are irreligious," although Darb ar- riqab is less clear.

Darb can mean "striking or hitting" while ar- riqab translates to "necks, slaves, persons." With little variation, scholars have translated the verse as, "When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks."[1. For centuries, leading Islamic scholars have interpreted this verse literally. The famous Iranian historian and Qur'an commentator Muhammad b.

Jarir at- Tabari (d. C. E.) wrote that "striking at the necks" is simply God's sanction of ferocious opposition to non- Muslims.[1. Mahmud b. Umar az- Zamakhshari (d. C. E.), in a major commentary studied for centuries by Sunni religious scholars, suggested that any prescription to "strike at the necks" commands to avoid striking elsewhere so as to confirm death and not simply wound.[1. Many recent interpretations remain consistent with those of a millennium ago.

In his Saudi- distributed translation of the Qur'an, 'Abdullah Yusuf 'Ali (d. You cannot wage war with kid gloves," Yusuf 'Ali argued.[1. Muhammad Muhammad Khatib, in a modern Sunni commentary bearing the imprimatur of Al- Azhar university in Cairo, says that while traditionalist Muslims tend to see this passage as only applying to the Prophet's time, Shi'ites "think it is a universal precept."[1. Ironically, then in this view, Zarqawi has adopted the exegesis of his religious nemeses.

Perhaps the most influential modern recapitulation of this passage was provided by the influential Pakistani scholar and leading Islamist thinker S. Abul A' la Mawdudi (d. Qur'anic prescriptions on the laws of war.

Mawdudi argued. Under no circumstances should the Muslim lose sight of this aim and start taking the enemy soldiers as captives. Captives should be taken after the enemy has been completely crushed.[1. Accordingly, for soldiers of Islam, victory should be the only consideration. Status of prisoners of war was open to interpretation. Mawdudi maintained that the verse did not clearly forbid execution of prisoners but that "the Holy Prophet understood this intention of Allah's command, and that if there was a special reason for which the ruler of an Islamic government regarded it as necessary to kill a particular prisoner (or prisoners), he could do so."[1. As do many Islamists, Mawdudi cited historical examples of the Prophet Muhammad ordering the execution of prisoners, such as some Meccans captured at the Battle of Badr in 6.

C. E. and at least one Meccan seized at the Battle of Uhud in the following year. While such examples do not directly address decapitation, they do allow for murder of prisoners- of- war. Mawdudi's interpretation, though, does not sanction the execution of hostages. Only the government, and not individual Muslim soldiers, could determine the fate of captives.[1. Another, albeit less- frequently, cited Qur'anic passage also sanctions beheadings of non- Muslims.

Sura 8: 1. 2 reads: "I will cast dread into the hearts of the unbelievers. Strike off their heads, then, and strike off all of their fingertips." In the original text, the relevant phrase is adrabu fawq al- 'anaq, "strike over their necks." This verse is, then, a corollary to Sura 4. Yusuf 'Ali is one of the few modern commentators who addresses this passage, interpreting it as utilitarian: the neck is among the only areas not protected by armor, and mutilating an opponent's hands prevents him from again wielding his sword or spear.[2.