Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Have Progressive politics made us smarter than we WERE over 100 years ago? Lets go back to 1895 and take an exit exam

Conservative's...not progressive  "how retarded is that"...

OK...lets accept this "premise."...if we are MOVING Forward....as progressives have manhandled...err mandated via identity politics; 

does it NOT follow....that the Students of today...even you daddy/mommy and their daddy/mommy your grandparents, would it NOT stand to reason, logic and deduction...

That we would be SMARTER today than "yesterday?"

Lets go back to yesterday...lets retrieve a 8th grade TEST and see how College graduates OF TODAY would flunk a test from the 8th grade back in the cave man days...when everyone was DUMBER than they are today..


1895 Eighth Grade Final Exam

Salina, Kansas, USA 1895
Can you pass this exam?

This is the eighth-grade Final Exam for 1895 from Salina, Kansas, USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted by the Salina Journal.

Grammar (Time: one hour)

    Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
    Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
    Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
    What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
    Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
    What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
    Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time: 1.25 hours)

    Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
    A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
    If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu., deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
    District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
    Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
    Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
    What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per m?
    Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
    What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
    Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

U.S. History (Time: 45 minutes)

    Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
    Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
    Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
    Show the territorial growth of the United States.
    Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
    Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
    Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
    Name events connected with the following dates: 1607 1620 1800 1849 1865

Orthography (Time: one hour)

    What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
    What are elementary sounds? How classified?
    What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
    Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
    Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
    Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.

    Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
    Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
    Use the following correctly in sentences: Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
    Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

Geography (Time: one hour)

    What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
    How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
    Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
    Describe the mountains of North America.
    Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
    Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
    Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
    Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
    Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
    Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/652730/posts

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Inalienble Rights give you no NEED for permission FROM any King, Dictator or other f Robotic Evil Manifestations

If you DENY the existence of Natural law you must deny the existence of Nature, naturally...

See Natural Laws....
in Celebration of the Human Condition...

Rejecting the Conditioned Human...even the RE-Conditioned HUMAN

Natural Laws come from the Universe...from the Creator, from God.


Natural Law


Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Natural Law

The unwritten body of universal moral principles that underlie the ethical and legal norms by which human conduct is sometimes evaluated and governed. Natural law is often contrasted with positive law, which consists of the written rules and regulations enacted by government. The term natural law is derived from the Roman term jus naturale. Adherents to natural law philosophy are known as naturalists.
Naturalists believe that natural law principles are an inherent part of nature and exist regardless of whether government recognizes or enforces them. Naturalists further believe that governments must incorporate natural law principles into their legal systems before justice can be achieved. There are three schools of natural law theory: divine natural law, secular natural law, and historical natural law.
Milton Freedman on Natural laws


Andrew Napolitano on Natural Law
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http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Natural+Law


Sunday, May 17, 2015

Racism farce hard to defend until you understand Exemptivism. Trick Bag, Shuck meeting Jive.

Don't allow this Trick BAG
Excusing behavior is the goal of the Big LIE

Is Nothing But An Excuse

V. Saxena
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author Thomas Sowell argues in a new piece for National Review that the whole “legacy of slavery” argument used by liberals to deflect from the clear-cut “social breakdown” of “ghetto communities” is nothing more than an excuse:
The “legacy of slavery” argument is not just an excuse for inexcusable behavior in the ghettos. In a larger sense, it is an evasion of responsibility for the disastrous consequences of the prevailing social vision of our times, and the political policies based on that vision, over the past half century.
Sowell points out that while black poverty and white racism were far worse prior to the 1960s, before the “explosive growth of the welfare state” occurred, “violent crime within black ghettos was far less.” In fact, “murder rates among black males” skyrocketed during the 1960s.
Likewise, as time passed and the welfare state tightened its grip on the black community, the number of black children being raised in two-parent families dropped significantly. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s “Kids Count Data Center,” a whopping 67 percent of all black children in 2013 were being raised in single-parent homes.
Add contemporary black criminality to the mix and you start to see the extent of the problem.
These sorts of facts led Sowell to make the following spot-on conclusion:
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.
Exactly. When we subsidize “counterproductive lifestyles,” as we unfortunately do with the black community (among others), we do nothing more than treat black people like “livestock, to be fed and tended by others.”
Yet we expect “them to develop as human beings” …
For any true change to occur, liberals, racial grievance mongers and our political leaders must all STOP blaming the black community’s failures on the “legacy of slavery,” on institutional racism, on white supremacy, etc.
They instead must own up to the fact that it is their own disastrous policies that have devastated the black community, leaving many of its members wholly dependent on a government that can feed and clothe them — but that cannot and will never be able to teach them personal responsibility!


http://downtrend.com/vsaxena/thomas-sowell-legacy-of-slavery

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Can a Liberal "man" really BE A MAN? The Magina Theorem

If you are MAN or if you are A Man...AND a LIBERAL...I ask...are you
REALLY a Man... 
Men Dominate or ARE dominATED


How can you possibly call yourself A man?  if you're part of that "colored myth" of being a "white" man....I ask again.....

HOW can YOU....be relegated to the back of the bus. 

Liberals hate all things white, all things men.....
They put woman AHEAD of you....
VICTIMS ahead of YOU
PERVS ahead of you..

I ask again ...how can you POSSIBLY BE A Man.....?
  
Chicago's I'm A Man



It's a Man's World...James Brown and Pavoratti.



Take the Bullet for your lady, let YOUR lady make the salad.


Conservative woman..."I would NEVER want a Man NOT as smart as Me...if anything...SMARTER .

Liberal woman..           "I am smarter than any Man I KNOW, including my Husband..."

A New TV Series....to be Submissive is NOT to be PASSIVE....a strong woman loves to be Dominated by A man....who commands their respect.
http://clashdaily.com/2015/05/my-job-is-to-serve-sleep-with-my-man-move-over-gnarly-feminists-and-behold-these-ladies/

Friday, May 15, 2015

Shirley Temple & Liberals....The HOME of Make (we the people) Believe

The Shirley Temples Theorem
becoming Popularized

Liberals and Hollywood ACTORS.....SAME..

All play "make believe.".....All act like they are OF importance...
When I think of Hollywood...and Politics....my first image in my mind...based on Life's experience...is Shirley Temple.
Yes...
I can READ any script that is PUT in front of me.....making me a PERFECT LIBERAL-Yes I started out as Conservative others PROGRESSED to "liberalism"....refusing to grow up.

A Conservative way back when.....the beginning of the end of "functional Conservatism" in the republican party..
Slowly I turn....step by step, inch by inch...we'll CARVE OUT the Conservative of all "republicans" 


it DOES take SOME NERVE to say ACTING is something equal to that of an Engineer, Doctor, Teacher, or Nurse....not just nerve...audacity and pure unmitigated Narcissism.








from the link below

A few days ago I stumbled upon a great article written by a child psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Ablow.  It talks about the newest generation of kids having such an inflated ego due to social media sites, realistic gaming, and societies overall attempt to lessen the significance of winners and losers.  Having spent just about every day of my life working with kids after graduating from college, I would say that the doctor is spot on in his assessment and his reasoning.  While I have no kids of my own, I found this article to be a great read… and hope you will too.
This is a passage written by a Dr. Keith Ablow who is  a psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team.   The complete article can be found HERE.


Thursday, May 7, 2015

Tom Brady/Patriots - #hatespeech for the Jealousy Impaired

Liberals have always taken a back seat to those that DO....While doing their best to PROMOTE themselves via IMAGE.






From the boys in the game who were rarely picked at a "pick up game on the street" or who had to AT BEST accept being WATER BOY for the Football team while in High School.. One Example, Stephen Smith.
Stephen Anthony (A.) Smith[1] (born October 14, 1967), more commonly known as Stephen A., is an American television personality, host, radio host, and former sports journalist.



 "Of course I lettered" in Football.


The Tom Brady, Patriot fiasco is MUCH ABOUT something much deeper than FOOTBALL...




Jealousy, Envy breeds contempt from those who loath watching the self esteem acquired BY THOSE who perform.











Cheating, Cheating, Cheating....is the domain of the Left...its ONLY politics, etc...


Hypocrisy the Lowest form of HUMAN BEING....


Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Q. What is the difference between Islam and the Mafia...A...Absolutely NOTHING


Islam & Mafia....Similar?

Finally, we will consider what accounts for these many similarities between Islam and the mafia, including from an historical perspective.



1.  Allah and Muhammad/Godfather and Underboss
The padrino of larger mafia organizations and families—literally, the “godfather” or “boss of bosses”—has absolute control over his subordinates and is often greatly feared by them for his ruthlessness.  He has an “underboss,” a right-hand man who issues his orders and enforces his will.  The godfather himself is often inaccessible; mafia members need to go through the underboss or other high ranking associates.
Compare this with the relationship between Allah and his “messenger” Muhammad (in Arabic, Muhammad is most commonly referred to as al-rasul, “the messenger”). Unlike the Judeo-Christian God—a personal God, a Father, that according to Christ is to be communed with directly (Matt 6:9)—Islam’s god, Allah, is unreachable, unknowable, untouchable.  Like the godfather, he is inaccessible.   His orders are revealed by his messenger, Muhammad.
If the Judeo-Christian God calls on the faithful to “come now, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18), Allah says “Do not ask questions about things that, if made known to you, would only pain you” (Koran 5:101).  Just follow orders.

2.  A “Piece of the Action”
The godfather and his underboss always get a “piece of the action”—a “cut”—of all spoils acquired by their subordinates.
So do Allah and his messenger, Muhammad.  Koran 8:41 informs Muslims that “one-fifth of all war-booty you acquire goes to Allah and the messenger” (followed by Muhammad’s family and finally the needy).

3.  Assassinations
The godfather, through his underboss, regularly sends mafia men to make “hits”—to assassinate—those deemed enemies of the family.
So did Allah and his messenger.  One example:  A non-Muslim poet, Ka‘b ibn Ashraf, insulted Muhammad, prompting the latter to exclaim, “Who will kill this man who has hurt Allah and his messenger?” A young Muslim named Ibn Maslama volunteered on condition that to get close enough to assassinate Ka‘b he be allowed to lie to the poet.
Allah’s messenger agreed. Ibn Maslama traveled to Ka‘b and began to denigrate Islam and Muhammad until his disaffection became so convincing that the poet took him into his confidence. Soon thereafter, Ibn Maslama appeared with another Muslim and, while Ka‘b’s guard was down, slaughtered the poet, bringing his head to Muhammad to the usual triumphant cries of “Allahu Akbar!”

4.  Circumstance is Everything
While the mafia adheres to a general code of conduct, the godfather issues more fluid orders according to circumstances.
This is reminiscent of the entire “revelation” of the Koran, where later verses/commands contradict earlier verses/commands, depending on circumstances (known in Islamic jurisprudence as al-nāsikh wal-mansūkh, or the doctrine of abrogation).
Thus, whereas Allah supposedly told the prophet that “there is no compulsion in religion” (Koran 2:256), once the messenger grew strong enough, Allah issued new revelations calling for all-out war/jihad till Islam became supreme (Koran 8:39, 9:5, 9:29, etc.).
While other religions and scriptures may have contradictions, only Islam rationalizes them through abrogation—that is, by giving prominence to later verses which are seen as the “latest” decision of the deity.

5.  Clan Loyalty
Loyalty is fundamental in the mafia.  Following elaborate rituals of blood oaths, mafia members are expected to maintain absolute loyalty to the family, on pain of death.
Similarly, mafia members are expected always to be available for the family—“even if your wife is about to give birth,” as one of the mafia’s “ten commandments” puts it—and to defend the godfather and his honor, even if it costs their lives.
Compare this to the widespread violence and upheavals that occur whenever Allah or his prophet is offended—whenever non-Muslim “infidels” blaspheme them.  Or, as Bill Maher put it: “Its’ the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”
Islam’s “Loyalty and Enmity” doctrine (al-wala’ wa’l bara’)—which calls on Muslims to be loyal to one another even if they dislike each other—is especially illustrative.  Koran 9:71 declares that “The believing [Muslim] men and believing [Muslim] women are allies of one another” (see also 8:72-75).  And according to Muhammad, “A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He neither oppresses him nor humiliates him nor looks down upon him….  All things of a Muslim are inviolable for his brother in faith: his blood, his wealth, and his honor”—precisely those three things that mafia members respect among each other.   This is why Muslims like U.S. Army Major Nidal Hassan, whose “worst nightmare” was to be deployed to fight fellow Muslims, often lash out.)

6.  Death to Traitors
Once a fledging mafia member takes the oath of loyalty to the mafia—including the Omertà code of silence and secrecy—trying to leave the “family” is seen as a betrayal and punishable by death.   Any family member, great or small, is given authority to kill the traitor, the “turncoat.”
Compare this to Islam.  To be born to a Muslim father immediately makes the newborn a Muslim—there are no oaths to be taken, much less any choice in the matter.   And, according to Islamic law, if born Muslims at any point in their lives choose to leave Islam, they are deemed “apostates”—traitors—and punished including by death.   Any zealous Muslim, not just the authorities, is justified in killing the apostate (hence why Muslim families that kill apostate children are rarely if ever prosecuted).
In the words of Muhammad—the messenger (“underboss”) of Allah (“godfather”):  “Whoever leaves his Islamic faith, kill him.”

7.  Distrust and Dislike of “Outsiders”
Aside from loyalty to the family, mafia members are also expected not to befriend or freely associate with “outsiders”—who by nature are not to be trusted, as they are not of the “family”—unless such a “friendship” helps advance the family’s position.
Similarly, the second half of the doctrine of Loyalty and Enmity—the enmity (al-bara’)—calls on Muslims to maintain distance from and bear enmity for all non-Muslims, or “infidels.”
Thus Koran 5:51 warns Muslims against “taking the Jews and Christians as friends and allies … whoever among you takes them for friends and allies, he is surely one of them.” According to the mainstream Islamic exegesis of al-Tabari, Koran 5:51 means that the Muslim who “allies with them [non-Muslims] and enables them against the believers, that same one is a member of their faith and community,” that is, a defector, an apostate, an enemy.
Similar scriptures include Koran 4:89, 5:54, 6:40, 9:23, and 58:22; the latter simply states that true Muslims do not befriend non-Muslims—“even if they be their fathers, sons, brothers, or kin.” Koran 60:1 declares, “O you who believe! Do not take my enemy and your enemy [non-believers] for friends: would you offer them love while they deny what has come to you of the truth [i.e., while they deny Islam]?” And Koran 4:144 declares “O you who believe! Do not take the infidels as allies instead of the believers. Do you wish to give Allah [“godfather”] a clear case against yourselves?”

8.  Deception and Dissimulation


As mentioned, close relations to non-mafia individuals that prove advantageous to the family (for example, collaboration with a “crooked cop”) are permissible—as long as the mafia keeps a safe distance, keeps the outsider at arm’s length.
Compare this to Koran 3:28 which commands “believers not to take infidels for friends and allies instead of believers… unless you but guard yourselves against them, taking precautions.” According to the standard Koran commentary of Tabari, “taking precautions” means:
If you [Muslims] are under their [non-Muslims’] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them with your tongue while harboring inner animosity for them … [but know that] Allah has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels rather than other believers—except when infidels are above them [in authority]. Should that be the case, let them act friendly towards them while preserving their religion.
After interpreting Koran 3:28 as meaning that Muslims may “protect” themselves “through outward show” when under non-Muslim authority, Ibn Kathir, perhaps Islam’s most celebrated exegete, quotes Islam’s prophet (“underboss”) saying: “Truly, we smile to the faces of some people, while our hearts curse them.”
Similarly, a few years ago, Sheikh Muhammad Hassan—a leading Salafi cleric in Egypt—asserted on live television that, while Muslims should never smile to the faces of non-Muslims, they should smile, however insincerely, if so doing helps empower Islam, especially in the context of da‘wa.
The idea of hating “outsiders” is apparently so ingrained in Islam that another leading Salafi cleric, Dr. Yasser al-Burhami, insists that, while Muslim men may marry Christian and Jewish women, they must hate them in their heart—and show them that they hate them in the hopes that they convert to the “family” of Islam.
(For more on the doctrine of “Loyalty and Enmity,” including references to the exegetical sources quoted above, see al-Qaeda leader Dr. Ayman Zawahiri’s comprehensive treatise by that name in The Al Qaeda Reader, pgs. 63-115.)

9.  “An Offer You Can’t Refuse”



Although the novel-turned-movie, The Godfather, is fictitious, it also captures much of the mafia’s modus operandi.  Consider, for example, that most famous of lines—“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse”—spoken by the Godfather to one of his “godsons,” an aspiring actor and singer.  After being turned down by a studio director for a role that he desperately wanted, the godson turned to his Godfather for aid.
As the movie progresses, it becomes clear that the offer that can’t be refused consists of nothing less than violence and death threats: after the Godfather’s messenger to the director asking that the actor be given the role is again rejected, the director awakens the next morning to find the bloodied and decapitated head of his favorite stallion in bed with him.  The godson subsequently gets the movie role.
Throughout the context of the entire Godfather trilogy (which captures well the mafia’s approach to business) making someone “an offer they can’t refuse” means “do as I say or suffer the consequences,” possibly death.
Compare this to Islam’s threefold choice.  On Muhammad’s orders, whenever Muslims conquer a territory in the name of Islam, its non-Muslim inhabitants are given three choices: 1) convert to Islam (“join the family”), 2) keep your religious identity but pay tribute (jizya, see below) and live as an “outsider,” a subjugated dhimmi or 3) execution.
Throughout history, converting to Islam has been an “offer” that countless non-Muslims could not refuse.  In fact, this “offer” is responsible for transforming much of the Middle East and North Africa, which were Christian-majority in the 7th century when the jihad burst forth from Arabia, into the “Muslim world.”
And this offer is still alive and well today.  For example, several older and disabled Christians who were not able to join the exodus out of Islamic State controlled territories opted to convert to Islam rather than die.
Like the mafia, then, Islam’s offer to conquered non-Muslims (“outsiders”) is basically “join our ‘family,’ help us and we will help you; refuse and we hurt you.”

10.  The “Protection” Racket
Once the mafia takes over a territory, one of the primary ways it profits is by collecting “protection money” from its inhabitants.  While the protection racket has several aspects, one in particular is akin to an Islamic practice: coercing people in the mafia’s territory to pay money for “protection,” ostensibly against outside elements; in fact, the protection bought is from the mafia itself—that is, extortion money, or pizzo.   Potential “clients” who refuse to pay for the mafia’s “protection” often have their property vandalized and are routinely threatened and harassed.
Compare the collection of pizzo with the Islamic concept of jizya:  The word jizya appears in Koran 9:29: “Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, nor forbid what Allah and his Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued (emphasis added).”
In the hadith, the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad—in our analogy, the “underboss”—regularly calls on Muslims to demand jizya from non-Muslims:  “If they refuse to accept Islam,” said the prophet, “demand from them the jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay jizya, seek Allah’s help and fight them.”
The root meaning of the Arabic word “jizya” is simply to “repay” or “recompense,” basically to “compensate” for something.  According to the Hans Wehr Dictionary, the standard Arabic-English dictionary, jizya is something that “takes the place” of something else, or “serves instead.”
Simply put, conquered non-Muslims were to purchase their lives, which were otherwise forfeit to their Muslim conquerors, with money.  As one medieval jurist succinctly puts it, “their lives and their possessions are only protected by reason of payment of jizya” (Crucified Again, p. 22).
And to top it off, just as the mafia rationalizes its collection of “protection money” by portraying it as money that buys mafia protection against “outsiders”—when, as mentioned, the money/tribute serves only to protect the client from the mafia itself—so too do Islam’s apologists portray the collection of jizya as money meant to buy Muslim protection from outsiders, when in fact the money/jizya buys protection from Muslims themselves.

Conclusion: Mafia—What’s In a Word?


What accounts for all these similarities between Islam and the mafia?  One clue is found in the fact that the very word “mafia,” which means “hostility to the law, boldness,” is derived from an Arabic word, mahya, which in translation means “bragging, boasting, bravado, and swaggering.”
This etymology is a reminder that Sicily, birthplace of the mafia, was under Arab/Islamic domination for over 200 years.  Aside from a borrowed etymology, could some of the mafia’s modus operandi also have been borrowed from Islam?  Isolated on their island, could native Sicilians have co-opted the techniques of social controls that they had lived under and learned from their former overlords—albeit without their Islamic veneer?
The mafia is not the only historical example of a non-Muslim criminal organization to be influenced by Islam. For example, the Thuggees — whence we get the word “thug” — were a brotherhood of allied bandits and assassins who waylaid and savagely murdered travelers in India, often by first feigning friendship. Although they were later associated with the Hindu cult of Kali, the original Thuggees were all Muslim. As late as the 19th century, a large number of Thuggees captured and convicted by the British were Muslim.
The similarities are clear: Along with assassinating his opponents, including, as seen, through treachery, Muhammad also personally engaged in banditry, ransacking the caravans of enemy tribes.
And if the words “mafia” and “thug” have Arabic/Islamic etymologies,  the words “assassinate” and “assassin” are derived from a Medieval Islamic sect: the Hashashin, who pioneered the use of political assassination—with promises of a hedonistic paradise for the assassin who almost certainly died—in the name of Islam.
At any rate, when HBO personality Bill Maher recently proclaimed that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book,” he was barely touching on the similarities between the mafia and other criminal organizations, and Islam.

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/ten-ways-the-mafia-and-islam-are-similar/