Muhammad (c. 26 April 570 – 8 June 632; also transliterated as Mohammad, Mohammed, or Muhammed; Arabic: محمد), full name: Muhammad Ibn `Abd Allāh Ibn `Abd al-Muttalib (Arabic: محمد بن عبدالله بن عبد المطلب ) was a leader from Mecca who unified the tribes of Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. He is believed by Muslims and Bahá'ís to be a messenger and prophet of God. Muslims believe that Islam was not his own invention but was revealed by God, and most consider him to be the last prophet of God Muslims thus consider him the restorer of an uncorrupted original monotheistic faith (islām) of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and other prophets.
Born in 570 CE in the Arabian city of Mecca, he was orphaned at an early age and brought up under the care of his uncle Abu Talib. He later worked mostly as a merchant, as well as a shepherd, and was first married by age 25. Being in the habit of periodically retreating to a cave in the surrounding mountains for several nights of meditation and prayer, he later reported that it was there, at age 40, that he received his first revelation from God. Three years after this event Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly, proclaiming that "God is One", that complete "surrender" to Him (lit. islām) is the only way (dīn) acceptable to God, and that he himself was a prophet and messenger of God, in the same vein as other Islamic prophets.
Geert Wilders (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣɪːrt ˈʋɪldərs] or [ˈʝɪːrt ˈβ̞ɪldərs], born 6 September 1963) is a Dutch right-wing politician and the founder and leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid – PVV), the third-largest political party in the Netherlands. Wilders is the Parliamentary group leader of his party in the Dutch House of Representatives. In the formation in 2010 of the current Rutte cabinet, a minority cabinet of VVD and CDA, he actively participated in the negotiations, resulting in a "support agreement" (gedoogakkoord) between the PVV and these parties, but withdrew his support in April 2012, citing disagreements with the cabinet on proposed budget cuts. Wilders is best known for his criticism of Islam, summing up his views by saying, "I don't hate Muslims, I hate Islam". Wilders' views regarding Islam have made him a deeply divisive figure in the Netherlands and abroad.
Raised a Roman Catholic, Wilders left the church at his coming of age. His travels to Israel as a young adult, as well as to neighbouring Arab countries, helped form his political views. Wilders worked as a speechwriter for the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie – VVD), and later served as parliamentary assistant to party leader Frits Bolkestein from 1990 to 1998. He was elected to the Utrecht city council in 1996, and later to the House of Representatives. Citing irreconcilable differences over the party's position on the accession of Turkey to the European Union, he left the VVD in 2004 to form his own party, the Party for Freedom.
The Dandy Warhols are an American alternative rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994. The band was founded by singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor and guitarist Peter Holmström, with keyboardist Zia McCabe and drummer Eric Hedford. Hedford left in 1998 and was replaced by Taylor-Taylor's cousin Brent DeBoer. The band's name is a play on the name of American pop artist Andy Warhol.
The band gained popularity after they were signed to Capitol Records and released their major label album debut ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down in 1997, featuring the popular single "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth". In 2001, the band rose to international attention after their song "Bohemian Like You" was featured in a Vodafone advertisement. The band have released nine studio albums to date.
The band was formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994 by Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Peter Holmström. Soon after, drummer Eric Hedford joined, and following an unsuccessful experiment with Taylor-Taylor's girlfriend on bass guitar, keyboardist Zia McCabe joined the band after Taylor-Taylor saw her working in a coffee house. Taylor-Taylor described the band's beginning as a group of friends who "needed music to drink to". The Dandy Warhols performed in bars throughout Portland and became well known for their nudity-filled live shows. At their first gig in 1994, they were approached by Tim/Kerr Records, who offered to pay for the recording of an album. The result was 1995's Dandys Rule OK, which combined elements of 1960s garage rock and 1990s shoegaze music.
There's a thin line between good and evil.
Who are we to decide who's Evil or not
Plot
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.
Keywords: adultery, airport, aleppo-syria, alexandria-egypt, american-abroad, american-embassy, apple, apple-computer, arabic, arabic-music
An adventure of the heart.
Juliette Grant: Congratulations upon your retirement.::Tareq Khalifa: Thank you.
Tareq Khalifa: [about Alexandria] You know the library burned down.
Juliette Grant: I always wanted to be a singer.::Tareq Khalifa: What stopped you?::Juliette Grant: My voice.
Juliette Grant: [the men are all staring at her] Why are they looking at me?::Tareq Khalifa: This place is for men only.::Juliette Grant: [Surprised] Why don't they say anything?::Tareq Khalifa: [Smiles] That would be rude.
Tareq Khalifa: They say that if you drink water from the Nile, you will always come back.
Juliette Grant: [Last Lines] [Silently crying] I'm glad I waited.
Tareq Khalifa: [the two of them are on the train] What are you thinking about?::Juliette Grant: I was thinking what I'd do on my first day living in Cairo.::Tareq Khalifa: And?::Juliette Grant: I'd open a coffee shop for women only.::Tareq Khalifa: [laughs] That's brilliant.
Juliette Grant: My son eloped.::Yasmeen: Eloped?::Juliette Grant: He got married without telling his mother.::Yasmeen: Did you disown him?
Juliette Grant: [Repeated line] [In Arabic] Thank you.
Tareq Khalifa: [Pushing Juliette out of a motor scooter's path] I liked how Cairo was before.
When loved ones depart, there is someone waiting for the Good Omen
Plot
Pittsburgh, coming of age in the 1980s. At the beginning of June, Art Beckstein calls this the last summer of his life - after which he'll work as a stock broker. Art's father is the city's mob boss, steering Art's life, judging his choices. At a party, Art sees Jane, smart, blond, lovely. They meet; she has a boyfriend. The next day, Cleveland, the boyfriend, pulls Art from work and the summer of adventures begins. Cleveland lives close to the edge; he's explosive, with hints of problems with local thugs. The triangle of friendship gets complicated when Cleveland disappears for a couple weeks. Can Art sort out his feelings as well as help Cleveland? Where does his father fit in this?
Keywords: bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bisexual, bisexual-male, bisexual-man, bisexuality, blue-dress, city-name-in-title, coitus, copulation
Sometimes life leads you to the most mysterious places.
Jane Bellwether: And what does he do? What does your father do?::Art Bechstein: He manipulates Swiss bank accounts with money that comes from numbers, whores, protection, and cigarette smuggling.::Jane Bellwether: Really?::Art Bechstein: No, he's in finance.
Fear Society
Plot
4 interlocking stories all connected by a single gun all converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple are on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's 2 children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico, only to come into trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.
Keywords: 4-stories, accident, accidental-shooting, actual-animal-killed, alone, ambulance, american, arrest, aunt-nephew-relationship, balcony
If You Want to be Understood...Listen
Tragedy is universal
A single gunshot heard around the world.
A global disaster.
Pain is universal... But so is hope.
One shot, many kills.
Richard: What about you? How many wives do you have?::Anwar: I can only afford one.
Yussef: I killed the American, I was the only one who shot at you. They did nothing... nothing. Kill me, but save my brother, he did nothing... nothing. Save my brother... he did nothing.
Amelia: Help! Ayudame! HELP!
Richard: [to other tourists] You leave, I'll kill you. I'll kill you!
Richard: This is your fucked-up country, it's your responsibility!
[first lines]::Hassan: It's almost new. Three hundred cartridges. The guy who gave it to me said you can hit as far as three kilometers.
[last lines]::Japanese newscaster: Susan Jones, who was wounded in a terrorist attack in Morocco, was discharged from a Casablanca hospital this morning, local time. The American people finally have a happy ending, after five days of frantic phone calls and hand wringing. In other news...
[last title card]::Title card: To my children, Maria Eladia and Elisio... the brightest lights in the darkest night.
Mike Jones: My mom said Mexico is dangerous.::Santiago: [in Spanish] Yes, it's full of Mexicans.
Chieko: [signing] They look at us like we're monsters.
Plot
Occupied Palestine: A serene landscape now pockmarked by military checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road, the political landscape unravels, and the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation. Both a visual poem and a narrative about the fragmentation of a people, "like twenty impossibles", also questions the politics of filmmaking and the opportunism of artists.
Plot
Al-Hajiz (The Barrier), the movie deals with social and emotional barriers imposed upon individuals by society and also with those that the individual imposes upon himself. The characters in the movie lack the ability to communicate with each other and therefore, fail to understand their own emotions. Hence, they fail to maintain healthy relationships with each other because of the lack of love amongst them. This failure is attributed to the surrounding environment that dose not allow for healthy relationships to grow and prosper.
His enemies only had to FIGHT the legend . . . he had to LIVE up to it!
Again and again I get up and say
I only want to get it right.
I only want to do the right thing,
but are these demons, I ask myself.
I wonder today, I'm alone, but then
No one can make their own life.
No one can say that they're an island
When all this freedom that you get is a lie.
Live without you
I don't know what I would do
If you ever left me
If I ever lost you
This heart of mine would be dying
Shadows would shine out the sun
It would be a whole dark world
Without your love beside me
And how do I survive
If I don't have you here
Here in my life
Make me walk across, across the burning sands
Make me hold the whole weight of the world in my hands
Baby don't , don't , don't make me live without you
And I'd never make it
Don't , don't , don't make me live without you
Live without you
Maybe I need you too much
Never needed anything the way I need your touch
If you ever go I'll go crazy
Take away all that I own
Take the very air that I breathe
My very heart and soul
But baby
Don't take your love from me
Cause if I don't have you here
I don't have a thing
Make me walk across , across the burning sands
Make me hold the whole weight of the world in my hands
Baby don't , don't , don't make me live without you
And I'd never make it
Don't , don't , don't make me live without you
Live without you
Live without you
I need you here in my arms
As long as I live
As long as I breathe
I need you here
Beside me
Make me walk across , across the burning sands
Make me hold the whole weight of the world in my hands
Baby don't , don't , don't make live without you
And I'd never make it
Again and again I get up and say
I only want to get it right.
I only want to do the right thing,
but are these demons, I ask myself.
I wonder today, I'm alone, but then
No one can make their own life.
No one can say that they're an island