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

Awards

	The Islamic Barnstar Award
	"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
	Barnstar, awarded by Khalid! to Striver for trying to represent Shia views in Misplaced Pages (which is tough because of some editors).
File:Resilient-silver.png	I, Zereshk, award this Resilient Barnstar to Striver, for whom without, the Shi'a pages of Misplaced Pages 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)
	For Striver!!! For your tireless contributions in cleaning and updating Islam related articles and introducing relavant templates for articles. :) --TruthSpreader 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 Misplaced Pages 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.)

Me

Who am i?

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

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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