User:Striver

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Read me. Please. You don't need to believe it, just to know that some people state it.

1 Awards
2 Me
3 Short quotes
4 Long quotes
5 News
6 Don't forget...

[edit] Awards

The Islamic Barnstar Award

A lovely flower, the "Sacred Lotus"

This Muslim user strongly condemns any terrorist attacks, regardless of the perpetrators religion or military strength

"Defender of Shi'at Ali" ThulFiqar Award is the highest Shi'a Honor Award offered by User:129. to Striver for his tireless struggle to enrich Wiki with numerous quality articles about Shia Islam

Barnstar awarded by BrandonYusufToropov to Striver for so much work on Islam-related articles, and for founding The Muslim Guild

*Al-Ma'ida, 32:whoever slays a soul, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it is as though he slew all men; and whoever keeps it alive, it is as though he kept alive all men *Al-Baqara, 256:There is no compulsion in religion. Verily, the Right Path has become distinct from the wrong path. *Ayat an-Nur:God is the Light of the heavens and the earth...Light upon Light; God guides to His Light whom He will.
*[49.13] O you men! surely We have created you of a male and a female, and made you tribes and families that you may know each other; surely the most honorable of you with God is the one among you most careful (of his duty); surely God is Knowing, Aware.

Matthew 7:1-5 (New International Version):
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Luke 6:27-28: But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you ^[1].

Barnstar, awarded by Khalid! to Striver for trying to represent Shia views in Wikipedia (which is tough because of some editors).

I, Zereshk, award this Resilient Barnstar to Striver, for whom without, the Shi'a pages of Wikipedia would be pitifully biased and empty.

for your struggle in changing the name of the article "Isa" to "Islamic views of Jesus" in order to avoid possible misidentifications; appreciated by the Resigned user: Aminz 07:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Beartooth Lake in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, United States of America

Fārs Province landscape in Iran

For Striver!!! For your tireless contributions in cleaning and updating Islam related articles and introducing relavant templates for articles. :) --TruthSpreader^Talk 12:46, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Is awarded to Striver for championing the article Family tree of Umar against the many irrational (systematic) biases that were opposed to it, including resurrecting it from deletion, and then from the jaws of deletion itself. The systematic bias of Wikipedia seems to be getting stronger, since legitimate articles like this are being deleted on a regular basis. May Striver and others like him turn the tide. The Transhumanist 23:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.

The Islamic Crescent of Karbala'

(awarded by Embargo, for Striver's endless contributions to Shi'a-related articles.)

[edit] Me

Main article: User:Striver/Me

Who am i?

I figure that the best way of sharing who i am is to refer to films and works i appreciated.

[edit] Short quotes

All war is based on deception. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. – The Ministry of Truth
Terrorism – 2004 Republican National Convention (see video)
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. – George Orwell
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin, "Historical Review Of Pennsylvania"
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary,1911"
I have only some initials to say: NAFTA; GATT; WTO; IMF. Strike, the CEO's and polititcians say, and instead of bringing foreign workers to the factory, we'll simply move the factory to the foreign workers. And if the foreign workers strike, so will the death squads. – Derrick Jensen, "The Culture of Make Believe"
Don't you know the difference between the two economic systems? Under capitalism man exploits man. But, under communism, it's just the other way around. Emil Vrabie
Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. Frank Dane
Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex. Frank Zappa
I stand by all the misstatements I may have made. George W Bush
Politics is made up of two words. "poli" which is Greek for "many", and "tics", which are bloodsucking insects. Gore Vidal
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence, clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblin, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken
Ideas are for more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas? Joseph Stalin
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use. Kierkegaard
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. Kurt Vonnegut
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river. Nikita Khrushchev
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Naturally, the common people dont want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. – Hermann Göring, Nazi politician and military leader

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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

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...in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes. – Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

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