The Honey Moon

Beirut:

Tell me this
is the last adventure
and I'll go home, stop
bothering God for information
about you. I'll stop spying
through your candles and dirty
mists. I married not a man
but the whole country, wedded
rivers while marching
across stones, my innocence
lost on a flight from which
I stepped into a sea
of armies and posters.
My teeth got ground into paste,
a dowry wasted on one hiding
place after another looking
for the auction of the future
where the last bidder is death.
I gave birth to mementos and distress
near bodies of chalk
sucked naked by gravity.
Our children dragged
baggage and dread
through the streets
as the news catered
our bitterest meals.
We never leave and never arrive,
airport to airport with a cold bravado
saying the strangest things.

I've never seen Lebanon so solemn. It is as if everyone is either on their way to a funeral or on their way home from one. It is the same kind of feeling that one has just prior to taking a long journey.

Inflation is unbelievable. Shaving cream costs six dollars and cat food is cost prohibitive but Carmen still gets hers. Tyson disappeared three weeks ago in the slum and we imagined her to be struggling to stay alive near one of the many butcher shops but lo! she returned home yesterday to her loving adoptive owners and they gave my old cat a good meal and a de-lousing.

There is such a terrible sadness here. The air is still full of a toxic smell and resin.

It is truly healing to reconnoiter with our old stuff and people. It feels like the last day of school just prior to getting a report card. Fifth grade, my first F and I wanted to toss it into the mossy water in the ditch but I just couldn't do it.

Where to toss this Lebanon?

R:

We are all fine and good. Things are very tense still...well who expects more than that.

Here are more parts to the story. The group Fatah al Islam is not only supported by Hariri, but last month when they went to Hariri's bank to withdraw their usual "salary", they weren't given anything and so they turned around and robbed the bank, took refuge in the camp and then slaughtered the army which guards the entrance/exit of all the camps in Lebanon (which was part of the US deal to disarm the PLO many years ago i.e. that they would be "supervised" by guarding but forbidden from entering).

So there you go. I don't know exactly what the US has to do with this other than it provides an excellent opportunity to push for the "settlement" of the Pals here in Lebanon. Problem is, there is no where to settle them and no resources to do it with. Oh man what a mess.

Whatever. We are just going to lay low though and wait and watch. Down here in the South it is very stable but that can change rather quickly. They are reporting that an Al Q group posted a threat to the Lebanese Army and the Christians here which means that if it is a valid video, Al Q plans to start suicide missions here in the Levant.

What to do? The food is, as you remember it, fabulous. We had okra stew yesterday and the day before we roasted meat and kafta outside on the grill. Every morning it is the usual cheeses, eggs, olives and tea.

The house is almost completely repaired but needs to be patched and painted on the outside where the shells laid it wide open. I am really awestruck at what Umi did. Mel tells me that the combined donations to the Southern Lebanese people from Iran/Hezbollah exceeded 1.5 billion USD. Wow.

Bint Jubail is in ruins as are many towns. Here in Haris, the old town square is flattened and gone and all the poor who lived there displaced to surrounding villages. The bridges on the highways are rapidly being repaired but a couple of them were massive structures and will require years and mucho dinero to replace.

I wonder, when will the US and Israel be billed for this war crime? What scum.

(Now...I will post that letter on the blog because I am on a very slow server and if I want to write for the blog I might lose it and the server might go down...hope you don't mind.)

All our love and don't worry

The Crush

On the back pages of the moon
men's voices come and go
before wars and after
card games until dawn
combines the silences.
The power is on again,
off again. Here
there is trust and there
is no place to hide
the occasional laughter
of the nervous but under
the quiet shelves
in a hundred pieces,
another hundred wires;
those bricks and windows
where there are homes of wonder
and assault - the places
that give up shade
to cover the brave
and coward alike
in ruins and prayers now
crowned with the ragged
families, the what's-left-over
who whisper: repair and brace.

How To Read Arabic

...trying to keep it simple for those who really don't know a thing about the wars they are involved in.

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2578478.ece (Robert Fisk)

"No wonder that in all the Palestinian camps of Lebanon yesterday, they were protesting the "massacre" at Nahr el-Bared with gunfire and burning tyres."


1. "Militants" rounded up by Lebanese forces and released by Saad Hariri, pro Saudi/US drug addict and best friend of oil tycoon Sudairi Seven tribal members.

2. "Militants" sneak up on Lebanese Army personnel outside of Palestinian camp in northern Lebanon, slitting the throats of the unsuspecting young men.

3. Lebanese Army retaliates without thinking, shells numerous homes indiscriminately killing and wounding a score of civilians.

4. "Terrorist" leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah remains silent for three days while collecting facts.

5. "Terrorist" anti US/anti Israel leader gives public address advising the pro US Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to NOT ATTACK Palestinians as they have nothing to do with the "shady" militant group called Fatah Al-Islam which is linked to pro US/pro Saudi "Son of Sam" minister Saad Hariri (see above for character analysis). Attacking the camps now with the SIX loads of weapons on their way from the US will result in a country wide meltdown throughout the Palestinian camps and hence, to another Lebanese Civil War (US/Israeli GOAL NUMERO UNO RIGHT NOW TO DEFLECT ATTENTION FROM THE FAILURE OF THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER OLMERT AND THE FAILURE OF THE US WAR AGAINST SO CALLED TERRORISM (which the US/Israel have 'masterminded' in order to steal oil, peddle false religious influence throughout the known world).

6. "Terrorist" leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (May Allah be pleased with him for an ever) noted in his speech this evening that it was truly "odd" that the US did not help Lebanon defend itself from the bastards in Israel last year but for some reason today, they are sending enough weaponry to conduct......drum roll please...another Israeli proxy war against the Palestinians.

We all need to pray now that the Lebanese morons SINIORA AND SAAD THE POTHEAD HARIRI....Listen to Nasrallah. And for that matter...this time...those two mofos are on their own. Tripoli is a very long way from down here and Hezbollah will not lift a finger to help any of them as they attack each other.

Truly sad that the only person who makes ANY SENSE whatsoever is labeled a terrorist by the media in the former United States of America.

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=251412

Oh this one is good! Fort Huachuca a training pit for mental and physical abusers!

In 2001, the name of the Fort Benning school was changed to Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. However, the priests still call the facility School of the Americas, something they constantly did at the Tucson meeting, because they do not believe there has been any change in the instructional course at the Georgia installation.

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2007/05/20/news/doc464ff01e0aaec434224020.txt

Both men used the death of Alyssa Peterson, an Army specialist from Flagstaff, as a rally point for their anti-torture crusade. Her suicide was the act of a woman who could not bear the responsibility of being an interrogator in Iraq, they said.“The Army put her in a program that taught her how to torture,” Vitale said.

According to a March 11 article in The Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff, the 27-year-old Peterson killed herself in Tel Afar, Iraq, on Sept. 15, 2003. The article about the soldier’s death was based on an investigative report the newspaper obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

You'd have to be delusional or drunk to miss the trend in the "culture of fear". In related news, an old woman collapses in a hospital emergency room and is ignored. Only a few weeks after the ignorance of an insane student at Virginia Tech led to the massacre of tens of innocent individuals.

Americans are in a state of CHRONIC DENIAL. The facts that they deny will DESTROY not only their economy but the very foundations of so called "freedom". Please note the comments of "thirsty" to verify this tendency to desire to shift blame to victims ALL over the world.

I blame this directly on the ZioCrazy state of Israel whose "existential" nonending crisis has had to be obscured and the relationship of "them" to the "land" has had to be MYSTIFIED and CODIFIED. This has left Americans (the biggest target of the deception) unable to make decisions in a variety of situations including situations when their president was caught inserting a cigar into the vagina of one of his aids, a president who stole an election, various assassinations like Vince Foster and William Cooper, on and on like that.

Wake up from your slumber is right.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-king20may20,0,6057993.story?

Turning to Rodriguez, the nurse said, "You have already been seen, and there is nothing we can do," according to a report by the county office of public safety, which provides security at the hospital.Parked in the emergency room lobby in a wheelchair after police left, she fell to the floor. She lay on the linoleum, writhing in pain, for 45 minutes, as staffers worked at their desks and numerous patients looked on.Aside from one patient who briefly checked on her condition, no one helped her. A janitor cleaned the floor around her as if she were a piece of furniture. A closed-circuit camera captured everyone's apparent indifference.Arriving to find Rodriguez on the floor, her boyfriend unsuccessfully tried to enlist help from the medical staff and county police — even a 911 dispatcher, who balked at sending rescuers to a hospital.

I'd say that is more than a handful of "innocent" mistakes. The first journalistic piece I ever had published as an adult (didn't know that about me now did you?) was about a man drowning at Canyon Lake, waving his arms and begging for help and people on the dinghy just stood there and insisted to themselves and each other that he was just fine. That article was published by a "democratic" journal just after 9/11 and the article itself was circulated by email to thousands of people. Some of them contacted me with praise and some, with death threats.

I knew back then that 9/11 was a false flag but because I am a muslim, I had to keep my mouth shut.

No more.

America attacked itself in order to steal approximately 100 years worth of oil in Iraq.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/04/23_drown.html

Watching Men Drown
April 23, 2002
By Maggie Porter

What's going on here? I wake up and go to sleep each and every night with a sense of dread. Never mind the fact that I've seen bombs, heard the thunder of shells in the early morning hours, landing a short distance from my home in Southern Lebanon. Never mind all that. Never mind that during my summer vacation in 1993 I was made into a refugee by Israeli gunships and bombs. Never mind that I keep a piece of shrapnel in my philodendron, the piece that almost took my daughter's life. All that was just the prelude. It's as if I have always known this was coming to me. Something like fate, something that brought me to live in the Middle East as opposed to Kitt or Lisa or Brenda, my childhood pals. Why me?

I want to believe that I am someone who can make a difference. I cherish this silly thought and post endless streams of rhetoric and argument on message boards hoping that somewhere out there, someone who really can make a difference will see my words and do something. I realize now, have come to the stunning conclusion that this is utter nonsense. I realize that this is nothing more than a coping strategy that I employ in order to get hold of some really powerful circumstances and emotions, to control them.

I have lived in Saudi Arabia for ten years now. My husband is from Lebanon, my children are part Arab. What does this make me? From what I see in the media, if I were to return to the US, we would be under constant scrutiny and my children might one day, face belligerent discrimination. It's like overnight, I've become an African American, only I am the same color.

When the WTC was hit, my first thoughts were, "If the Arabs didn't do this, certainly they will be blamed." I stocked up on rice, beans, sugar.

Let's go back a little though. Two weeks before the attack, I had literally given up on any improvement in the situation in Palestine. I only began educating myself regarding their plight in 1999 or so. It became quite clear to me, two weeks before WTC, that the situation was hopeless, on all sides. I decided to stop reading the news about Palestine.

I won't lie to you and say that I support the State of Israel. Like most Americans however, I never really had a handle on Palestine or the formation of the Israeli state. I believed what I'd been told, that those people had been fighting for 2,000 years, that it was an 'unsolveable' situation. As well, even though my husband is from Lebanon, I never understood that war either. Did anyone? It was known in the mainstream media as the Lebanese Civil War. I know now how dreadfully mislabelled it was.

The truth is, it was a Proxy War between Palestine and Israel. It had nothing whatsoever to do with Lebanese people, only they were drawn into it against their will. I remember many of our Lebanese friends back in college complaining, "Everyone brings their trouble into Lebanon." I had not idea what they meant, perhaps I thought it a case of collective scapegoating. Back in those days, my husband was a real demon. I realize now the sense of guilt he felt when he saw countless Lebanese killed in mortar attacks, car bombs, assassination attempts. Now, it all makes sense.

What really makes me angry is the fact that people still accept these simple lies about a country, one that out of all the Arab countries, has demonstrated a resolve and solidarity never before witnessed in the dictatorial world of the ME, where puppet regimes and weapons of mass destruction are the norm. What does Lebanon get? It gets labelled as a terrorist nation. Why? Because, even without US dollars and US weapons, they were able to beat the oppressor.

The oppressor that employed Lebanese citizens, even coerced them, plying them with jobs in Israel or threats of exile from their villages, so that they would torture other Lebanese citizens in the name of security for the State of Israel. A state that is based on the beliefs of one religious group to the exclusion of the indigenous Palestinian population. Israel destroyed Lebanese infrastructure over and over and over. I can't tell you how many nights I've had to cook by candlelight or how many huge pots of water I've had to boil in order to take a warm bath or bathe my children. These repeated destructions mind you, are war crimes.

I am tired now. What tires me more than anything is the fact that many, many Americans confuse the WTC attack with Palestine. The same way the Lebanese Civil War was portrayed as a civil war as opposed to Israel's Proxy War against Palestine. I talk to alot of Saudis about WTC. I will confess, very few people here believe Osama did it. Unfortunately, Americans translate that to mean that they indeed support Osama if he did it.

What is clear is that Americans, average people like you and me, have lost their ability to reason. Either that or American Nationalistic fervor is morphing into fascism. I prefer to think the former as opposed to the latter. I am comforted that so many people are marching in Washington. That so many people are trying to report the news. I remind myself of an article I read recently about Nero, the one who fiddled while Rome burned. The evidence suggests he didn't burn Rome at all! Lo! Yet we still associate his name with one of the worst acts of state terror in written history. Go figure.

Did Osama do it? Who knows, perhaps we will never know. If he did, then he has hurt Islam more than any other muslim in history. With that in mind, realize he cannot be considered a muslim. I personally, do not feel anything has been proven. Indeed, much evidence to the contrary points at a much wider conspiracy than our work-a-day minds can process. We seemingly live in a state of denial.

I remember a story about a man and a group of his friends that went swimming at Canyon Lake in Phoenix, Arizona some years back. Around 20 of them stood calmly on a boat as the man waved his arms frantically in the water until he drowned, right there in full view of his good friends. No one wanted to believe that someone could drown while they looked on.

Today I am making these dumb things speak to you (i.e. my suggestive ideas and deep musings etc.) which are full of descriptive power. The opinion of the person who abandons me may get astray. I have never doubted in the truth since it has been shown to me. Musa (Moses) did not entertain fear for his own self. Rather he apprehended mastery of the ignorant and away of deviation. Today we stand on the cross-roads of truth and untruth. The one who is sure of getting water feels no thirst. - Ali Abi Taleb, may Allah be delighted with his face.


US Behind Latest Violence in Lebanon...of course. And they also were behind the "collapse" of the World Trade Center. Those who do not know that or do not accept that are psychologically unbalanced (that would be you "thirsty" aka anonymous). Idiot.


http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Hersh_Bush_arranged_support_for_militants_0522.html

Last March, Hersh reported that American policy in the Middle East had shifted to opposing Iran, Syria, and their Shia allies at any cost, even if it meant backing hardline Sunni jihadists.

A key element of this policy shift was an agreement among Vice President Dick Cheney, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi national security adviser, whereby the Saudis would covertly fund the Sunni Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon as a counterweight to the Shia Hezbollah.

Anonymous Callers

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1722

In an effort to rally French Gentiles against French Muslims, France’s new president Sarkozy is taking instructions from Washington.

This weekend there was supposed to be a three-day festival to celebrate American music and culture. It was to be held in the Parc St Cloud on the outskirts of Paris, and was expected to attract 20,000 visitors.

The festival was called off after officials claimed to have received “death threats from an anti-US group claiming links to al-Qaida.”

Who supposedly issued the “death threats”?

Who else?

“Anonymous callers.”

Live From Beirut

Almost a whole year has passed. There's a new gas station in the lot where Majnouna used to traipse around with her puppies. The beauty salon is still taking care of the glamourous side of the people, there are hopeful hairdos all over and the sea doesn't seem to change color any more...it is the color of old dishwater.

It is hard to imagine that there is a small conflict going on less than 50 kilometers away from us. People are much more cautious in who they talk to and how. It is the only sign that anything is amiss as this is all quite normal for the Lebanese and they all know how to mind their own business when they have to. They cannot trust anyone really.

I wish I could tell you what this small conflict is about but I can't. It is incomprehensible really and has all the earmarks of a US/Mossad black op. As is the usual...those morons never give up and find ample numbers of desperate people willing to shoot a gun or support some unknown cause.

It looks like it is going to be a normal visit afterall.

What About Mars?

No more problems says the package
the cure came in, no more
warning labels and the price tag
no longer legible. It began
with flashy children and fast cars
then people started talking
about the remains
after the move-outs,
wondered what would happen
to the crystal ball and Japanese flag.
Where to put Mars now?
Whose house next?

The Second Coming of Saladin

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IE18Ak01.html

Conditions are more than ripe for the advent of a new Saladin - after the Nakhba, the 1967 lightning Israeli victory against the Arabs, the failures of pan-Arabism, the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Israeli attack on Lebanon, the limited appeal of Salafi-jihadism, the non-stop stifling of nationalist movements by Western-backed brutal dictatorships/client monarchies.


Iran of course can be very persuasive, holding some tasty cards up its sleeve - such as hard-earned intelligence directly implicating the Saudis in training the Sunni Arab muqawama (resistance) in Iraq on explosive form penetrators (EFPs), which the Pentagon foolishly insists come from Iran. Everyone in Iraq knows it is operatives from "axis of fear" allies Saudi Arabia and Egypt - and also Pakistan - who have provided the Sunni Arab guerrillas in Iraq with technology and training on improvised explosive devices and EFPs.

...I'm leavin' on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again. Oh babe I love to go:

A possible Saudi-Iranian entente would be a classic case of local powers taking the destiny of the region in their own hands. In a parallel register, in southern Beirut - prime Hezbollah territory - there are plenty of banners in front of buildings destroyed by Israel last summer. They read: "The Zionist enemy destroys, the Islamic Republic of Iran builds."


The UN Sounds Blue

There are jackels out
there in the fields,
guarding a hundred ghosts,
dead Roman soldiers
near Saladdin's castle-

-a bat
skirts
through
the early morning air-

The UN makes another patrol
down the thistle-lined
roads of South Lebanon.
The sun will climb over the horizon
one more time to make a small history
where Christ will walk -

sweeping for land mines
in the frost-cracked hills.

The jackal is innocent if we
let her be, leave her to her pups.
Their cry sounds like a herd of goats

-or a hundred frogs

-or dying birds

-a plague of locusts

Bats witness to Rome and Geneva
in the weary eyes of the UN
that hide in jeeps and tanks,

big white tanks-

their blue flag courses in the wind

flappity flap flap flap,

it sounds blue, like blue flappity flap
in the cold southern wind full of jackal.

On our way.



So messed up but you know what?
Not as messed up as Israel which has always been a messed up place for ONE ETHNIC TYPE, imagine America only for the KKK.

You will be tested in your wealth and in yourselves, and you will hear many abusive words from those given the Book before you and from those who associate [others with Me]. But if you are steadfast and guard against evil, that is the most resolute course to take. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 186)

Well yes, I'll say.

You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger, though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan. Allah has inscribed faith upon such people's hearts and will reinforce them with a Spirit from Him. (Surat al-Mujadala; 22)

When they hear worthless talk they turn away from it and say, ‘We have our actions and you have your actions. Peace be upon you. We do not desire the company of the ignorant.' (Surat al-Qasas; 55)

The Simpleton's Guide to Islamic Opinion
(for lack of a better word
(opinion, not Simpleton)):

Hmm. It is interesting to me to read "about the muslims" you know. I am particularly fascinated to read about what a non muslim thinks about a muslim philosophy which is, necessarily still "about the religion" as opposed to being what Islam necessarily is to the individual believer and that would be "their own close reading" of the text (or in the case of the illiterate, their own close "hearing" of the text). In other words, a first hand opinion of the requisite "unbiased reader" (if there is such a thing) and we must all insist that we all are "unbiased" except for that one tiny little part which makes or breaks an opinion (be it that of a scholar or our own) and that would be the orientation of the first bias: Does one actually believe in the possibility of a Creator?

A non muslim who hasn't read the Quran and instead picks up the various ideologies that have been presented along the way by the fallible experts i.e. "muslim philosophers" is not only doomed to never understanding a thing but doomed to extinction. And if there is one thing a person ought to believe in regardless of their other mixed up notions, it is extinction. Evolution cannot be demonstrated (causally or objectively) by anyone: EVER. Extinction on the other hand (a major theme in all sacred texts) is known, demonstrable and inevitable (death of the individual to the race and/or the species).

Allah talks about extinction all the time. He always has but the Simpletons are too "smart" for all of that Jonah in the Belly of a Whale type of thing!

Now there is an interesting and parochial idea: the philosophers who compounded sectarian ideology post sectarianism. The person puts the cart before the horse it seems and cannot extrapolate an independent view when one attempts to "understand" Islam not by reading the Quran itself but by reading "about the Quran" instead from any given opinionator (including yours truly).

So how does one extrapolate an independent view?

By reading the Quran for themself. It is the only way you know. There aren't really any shortcuts.

How does a person know that they've "then" reached an objective conclusion?

They don't.

Good enough for the usual circular arguments surrounding a tale that is as convoluted as it is misrepresented. How is it convoluted?

Well. I guess an analogy might be best to explain this conundrum to the avid "guest" who isn't a guest at all but a nuisance.

A little boy cries wolf. Over and over and over (the convolution of the Armageddonists) and then one day, the wolf actually shows up and eats him.

At what point should a "boy" attempt to equate himself with the parable and try to realize that yes, that really is a wolf and it does have teeth? We know that most of the boys who are told the fable of the Boy Who Cried Wolf do not really believe it is about a wolf nor is it about a boy.

Could the parable then be about the ransom a boy might offer to the wolf should the wolf actually offer a plea bargain at the moment of "no more deals"?

Certainly but you know, the wolf in this case is only a parable until the moment of "no more deals" and at that moment, it would necessarily be, no ransom and no more parables. And the first bias was always known to Allah.

It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein. (Qaf, The Glorious Quran).

How close is that then? Pretty damn close. I'd say that the pressure valve which is connected to the Reptilian part of the anatomy is pretty much, CLOSE enough to detect any sort of bias resulting from insanity, global retardation to a simple case of ataxia related to cerebellar degeneration secondary to alcohol abuse. I'd say that just a little pressure on that area of the body is enough to cause syncopy or the "worst case scenario": bradycardia and death. I'm not really sure where the barorecpetor for pride is located but I do believe it is somewhere near the "lying sinning forelock" also known as the Frontal Lobe:

Knoweth he not that Allah doth see?
Let him beware! If he desist not,

We will drag him by the forelock,-
A lying, sinful forelock! (The Clot, The Glorious Quran)

It's all so ipsilateral you know!

http://www.cvphysiology.com/Blood%20Pressure/BP012.htm


***Extry! Extry!***

Read All About It!

Stunning discovery! In the last "fifty" years, modern scientists have discovered that the frontal lying forelock is actually the frontal lying forelock! Big Bad Wolf To Blame! Read more:

http://etori.tripod.com/forebrain1.html

"However, in the last fifty years it has been learned that the frontal lobes are concerned with some of the highest mental functions of animals and human beings. "

Yer pulling me leg, right? (And to be fair to Jonah's people (Yunus, pbuh), they would have taken the advice right away but he was a bit of a doubting Thomas type of guy and he ran away from his duty, got tossed overboard by a boatload of "superstitious" types who knew that having a doubting prophet aboard was just really bad juju, swallowed by a rather large species of whale, spit out on the shores of Gicheegoomee, recanted then disseminated and they all lived quite happily ever after as practicing Monotheists in the times of Sodom and Gommorrha).

Absolutely not. I don't pull legs when it comes to ijtihad. I'm as serious as a heart attack. Can't let those experts at Islam for Dummies have all the fun can I?

**I truly feel for some people who are realizing just about now that it is incumbent on them to try to understand this potboiler called "organized religion" and have ended up studying sectarianism prior to studying the Quran itself. In the end however, even if there wasn't such a thing as this "Iraq debacle"...those people wouldn't have picked up a Quran and read it for themselves "then" either because they don't believe in an actual "Creator". Those are they who are following Islam now but unwillingly. Their case was never dependent on any given historical or philosophical external circumstance. It was always dependent on their very own natures as it has always been the case of "faith" throughout time.

For the Babysitter

Jerry Falwell dead.
It seems to be important
and every day a curious signal
goes out, it meanders over
the graves to find a way in there -
to bother the good dead Christians
and bother the unwanted children.
It tenders a response from
the recluse and the maimed.
What matters is when a good woman
like Lupe goes down. She knew
all about the graves and told me so
even though the church never
said a thing about it.
May her time there be silent
and Allah willing, short.

http://www.harunyahya.com/presentation/atheism/index.html

[2.79] Woe, then, to those who write the book with their own hands and then say: This is from Allah, so that they may take for it a small price; therefore woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for what they earn.

Call not to-day for one destruction, but call for many destructions! Say, ‘Is that better or the garden of eternity which was promised to those who fear-which is ever for them a recompense and a retreat? They shall have therein what they please, to dwell therein for aye: that is of thy Lord a promise to be demanded. (The Glorious Qur'an, The Criterion)

The Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) said: the Euphrates reveals the treasures within itself; who ever sees it, he should not take anything from it. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 28)

Soon the river Euphrates will disclose the treasure (the mountain) of gold, so whoever will be present at that time should not take anything of it. (Sahih Bukhari)

We believe in God and what has been sent down to us; what was sent down to Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac, and Jacob and the tribes; and what Moses, Jesus, and all the prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. We are Muslims, submitted to Him" (Qur'an, 3:84).

That's Zionism!

Israeli soldiers murder a woman in cold blood, deny access to ambulances and then proceed to ramsack the family's apartment.

Suicide bombers? I'd do more than blow myself up.

http://ahmedismailibrahim.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/video-israel-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

Wolf Blitzer, the young Wolf Blitzer faces off against the soon to be canonized Dr. Norman Finkelstein.

This guy (Blitzer) is still pretending he has no idea what the problem is while simultaneously bullying people day in and day out over their Fundamental Christianity. Wolf Blitzer by the way, is a Jew and as we can see here, a fundamentally based Zionist who not only supports Zionism but admits it is an ideology. A FAILED ideology that has done nothing good for the world AT ALL or the JEWS themselves.



"How many people believe the Soviet Union has the right to occupy Afghanistan?"

Bruce Lee versus Dershowitz The Rabid:



LIARS:



Accepted HISTORICAL FACT: The Zionists planted bombs in Synagogues across the Arab world in the '40's to STAMPEDE Jews to their newly declared state and their "pre state" in order to form the precursor of the Mossad known as the Haganah.

Winston Churchill on the "dogs" of Palestine:

"I don't accept that the dog has the right to the manger however long it has lain there."

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3629026181154655528

Finkelstein on the deafening silence of America. The motion is made that the US media stifles criticism of Israel (the sub motion on that should be, "with the DIRECT intimidation, aid and propaganda of the Zionist Lobby").

The motion is passed with a more than 2/3 majority.

A very important point in this is that the central premise of the motion is that there is a MAJOR disconnect with what average people NOW believe, talk about openly and agree upon (majority wise) and that is STILL not reflected in the mainstream US/Zionist controlled media. That means that this vote substantiates the motion on an even higher level and that would be 1. It is taking place in the UK and not the USA 2. The audience members are a majority opinion of freely attending adult students in a major institution of higher learning (again, not a US one) 3. The UK now supports an ever increasing number of muslim people 4. The Zionist media is still operating on the false assumption that everyone is as blind as they are to their disunity, disproportionate representation in the media and their complete lack of any sense of logic and 5. The illusion is proved true, the simulacra* is then a fallacy and beyond a shadow of a doubt, is an absolute IDEAL with no basis in reality.

Zionism is in its death throes and what should frighten everyone on this planet is the fact that Israel is desperate. The most desperate country on the planet.

This man, Finkelstein deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. The fact is...he will very likely be threatened, fired and otherwise ostracized. To this day, he hasn't appeared on any American News Media program.

*Baudrillard saw four (simulacra): (1) basic reflection of reality, (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretense of reality (where there is no model); and (4) simulacrum, which “bears no relation to any reality whatever.”

And people are worried the muslims are gonna
come over and cover the women?

Dear God.

http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/crime.html

In America, the crime clock continues to click: one murder every 22 minutes, one rape every 5 minutes, one robbery every 49 seconds, and one burglary every 10 seconds. And the cost of crime continues to mount: $78 billion for the criminal justice system, $64 billion for private protection, $202 billion in loss of life and work, $120 billion in crimes against business, $60 billion in stolen goods and fraud, $40 billion from drug abuse, and $110 billion from drunk driving. When you add up all the costs, crime costs Americans a stunning $675 billion each year.


In addition to the financial cost is the psychological cost of devastated lives and a loss of security. In recent months, even apathetic Americans have been shaken from their false sense of security as they have seen criminals invade nearly every sanctuary where they felt they were safe: their cars (James Jordan); their public transit (the Long Island Rail Road murders by Colin Ferguson); and even their bedrooms (the abduction of Polly Klaas).

Boy..I sure hope "anonymous" likes that one! Took me almost an hour to find it!

Dear Sister, I thought you'd appreciate these:

Some UFO Poetry:



Hmm. Wonder who those aliens are? Beats me!




Illegal Aliens or just the regular type? Now note, this video is shot by the Mexican Air Force. What a kick in the pantalones. For those who do not speak Spanish, those guys are counting them...I think they counted eleven. There's a couple visible in the distance besides the fabulous ones in front.






Now...there are a half dozen other "sightings" that are all really similar. Not the usual "Frisbee UFO" types of clips either. Strange eh? In any event, a nice distraction from the misery of us muslims. Apparently, the Phoenix Lights have not only occurred once but several times. And now Mexico is accusing the USA of hiding info about their "UFOlogy". And you know, William Cooper up in Eager was assassinated right after 9/11...part of his spiel was that the US was up to no good with both IRS and er..the UFOlogy stuff. He claimed to have a photo of the JFK assassination and in it, the bullet was coming from inside the car. The Eager Sheriff shot him. Pardon the pun.

"We will show them Our Signs in the furthest horizons, and within themselves, until it becomes manifest to them that this (the Qur'ân) is the truth" 41:53

And go here for some nice Quranic recitations in Dolby:

http://www.muslimhorizons.com/

I like to watch this while enjoying some "chant". Makes for a beautiful process you know. This one below is just like another that was shot by a couple and their two kids. I'll have to scout that one out and post it as well...



Heh...this one is a Japanese Alien craft sighting...um..."sounds" pretty real to me even though the "history" channel has "dramaticized" it...since when does the "history" channel indulge in so much UFOlogy?....



The Bee

[16.84] And on the day when We will raise up a witness out of every nation, then shall no permission be given to those who disbelieve, nor shall they be made to solicit favor.

Now this one is pretty damn strange...January 2006:



This is great...a little pre show footage of the O'Hare thingamajig. Too much.



And well...we were told to just go along with our ordinary business if this type of thing should happen. Not to get alarmed or anything. The actual O'Hare footage cannot be embedded (Jan 2007) but you can see it here I think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogIfcDzTmhE

Oh and these guys are really cute:



Belgium:



And here is a comment from that YouTube in Belgium:

"It's like they want to be spotted. Maybe one alien race is trying to show us that they exist, while another race controls us and tries to hide the existence of other lifeforms. At least it would explain religion."

Well...yes. It would. And it would also speak to the Ra'ja (Return)

Oh and sister...in case I forget...you make sure K keeps her weapon with her as she babysits my pitbull. I saw a van night before last (as I was praying on the front porch which I do for three important reasons: 1. because it is quiet out there at sunset 2. because I can't find a clean place after a whole day with dogs on the carpets and I only vacuum in the daylight hours you know and 3. to remind people that there is really such a thing as "praying")...anyway...I noticed it was passing by our place really, really slow and then it stopped just past the driveway and turned around as if it were packing a group of tourists around and one of the stops was my award winning rose garden. You know...last time I went into Naco for a carton of smokes, they already had me on the radar and instead of the usual "yea Bisbee" thing...the guy asked if it was the first time I'd passed through that port of entry and he pushed a few buttons on his computer. As if...as if I didn't know that they scan the plates while you sit at that light. Duh. Man. Maybe it is just about that dumb dog that the border agent dumped on my doorstep after Allah arranged for the poor thing to be hit right in front of both him and me to prove what assholes they all are in that so called "border patrol". Maybe it is just about that and the creep is having me spooked by some of his spooky Minuteman friends. Who knows really. Who knows but tell K that I was just kidding about that weapon. She is free to sleep with it right under her pillow. I'd never own one but I'd sure regret it if she thought I meant what I said about it and something or someone got a little feisty.

Heh...and if it is those mofos at the "JDamn Fine" that are leaving these stupid messages...let them watch this since they might still be a little confused about what Zionism is and "isn't". Heh. What a bunch of losers.



From: Admonition to an Occupier

A city that builds a wall never really lasts. -Darla Whitehead, A Book Called I Remember

We are the steadfast.

Now. I know that there are "anonymous" posters who think they have courage and all of that fabled type of thing but how many people out there know that the word "steadfast" has now come into popular usage amongst the "religious" non muslim cultures?

Guess they liked the way it worked for us. Heh.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/pope_brazil

Man. Eat your hearts out.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as a young man.

Wow.



Forget the fact that he doesn't lie and he leads an army who has defeated the most powerful countries on earth (the US and Israel). Forget that.

What a darling.

"It is a pity that we have to wait for an Israeli commission to confirm our victory. - Nasrallah, May 2007

The Victory

[48.29] Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah, and those with him are firm of heart against the unbelievers, compassionate among themselves; you will see them bowing down, prostrating themselves, seeking grace from Allah and pleasure; their marks are in their faces because of the effect of prostration; that is their description in the Taurat and their description in the Injeel; like as seed-produce that puts forth its sprout, then strengthens it, so it becomes stout and stands firmly on its stem, delighting the sowers that He may enrage the unbelievers on account of them; Allah has promised those among them who believe and do good, forgiveness and a great reward.

Translation: They are horrendously good looking and cause other people to feel really bad about themselves. Hahaha.

(Sometimes I have to wonder at a movie-going population that idolizes things like "Braveheart" and ignores heroes who are alive and well today.)

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m32742&hd=&size=1&l=e

March 8, 2007

Aita al-Shaab, Southern Lebanon—Beautiful rolling hills, verdant and fertile, are dotted with olive groves and family tobacco farms in this small village on the border between Lebanon and Israel.

It was here that Hizballah captured the two Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers that kicked off last year’s July-August war. And it was here that some of the fiercest street battles raged as remaining locals joined Hizballah to fight Israeli troops. Most of the buildings still standing are scarred with pockmarks; Aita al-Shaab’s old city is remains mostly flattened, bulldozed by Israeli troops.

As dawn breaks over a ridge separating the 2km distance between Lebanon and Israel, UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) outposts glint in the early morning sun. This morning the busy sounds of reconstruction, funded primarily by Qatar, but also by Hizballah (Iran is funding road construction in the region), begins early as migrant Syrian construction workers emerge from the partially destroyed buildings where they’ve encamped.

But in the valleys below the city, rich, red dirt lies fallow even though Aita al-Shaab is an agricultural village. Fields above the town go ungrazed. Since last summer, after Israel dropped about one million cluster bombs in southern Lebanon alone—up to 40 percent of which the United Nations Mine Action Clearing Center (MACC) estimates lie unexploded--most farmers and shepherds have been too afraid to go onto their lands.

Israel has been heavily criticized for dropping 90 percent of the 2-3 million cluster bombs used throughout Lebanon during the last 72 hours of the war, after a cease-fire was agreed upon.

MACC is heading up clearing, but has a long way to go.

Thus far, 60 teams from UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon) and private companies have cleared about 10 percent (110,000) of the unexploded munitions. Focus has been on population centers, but fields, forests, and grasslands are much harder to clear. The Israeli government has refused to turn over maps where cluster bombs were dropped, making clearing more time-consuming…and dangerous. Teams are also clearing 400,000 land mines; some are leftovers from previous wars, MACC reports, and some were planted last summer by Israeli troops.

Cluster bomb attacks part of larger plan?

Many I spoke with, like eco-system management and food sovereignty expert Rami Zurayk, believe that the Israeli government’s bombardment is a deliberate attempt to separate people from their lands.

"What’s kept people in southern Lebanon for the past 60 years of neo-liberal policy," he explains, referring to the time period since creation of the State of Israel, "is their profound attachment to the land. I believe it is Israel’s long-term strategy to create the conditions for displacement, just as they have done in Palestine."

Nearby Beint Jbeil, also intensely bombed last summer, is a case in point says Amer Sadadin of Samidoun, a volunteer network that delivered aid to southern villages after the war. Prior to 1948, Beint Jbeil was the region’s largest city with 54,000 residents, he says, but from years of occupation the majority fled elsewhere.

"Beint Jbeil now has only 4,000 people. In the '70s many of these villages were destroyed and people moved to cities like Sour (Tyre). Israel is killing life in the villages," asserts Sadadin.

"The fact that the [Israeli government’s] cleansing operation of South Lebanon is being carried out under the cover of the 'war on terrorism’ allows the international community to turn a blind eye to it," Zurayk maintains.

Comparatively, little reconstruction is taking place in Beint Jbeil; much of the city still lies in a ruin of twisted metal and piles of rubble. The Lebanese government is pushing residents in Beint Jbeil and elsewhere to rebuild with modernized buildings and wider roads, something many local residents refuse.

"The problem is people are being encouraged to bulldoze and build bigger," says Sadadin. "It’s a problem when money comes in with these pre-conditions. Old cities are a maze of history, each stone represents a memory, a relationship to historical continuity. This is exactly what we’re trying to preserve."

Samidoun is now in Aita al-Shaab with volunteer architects who are helping residents rebuild their original homes, while restoring the old city.

Farmers separated from their lands

Aita al-Shaab, as other agricultural villages in southern Lebanon, is suffering huge economic losses from their inability to farm.

Hadjia Habiba has 8,000 square meters of land that have been passed down through generations. Her lands are in parcels scattered on the outskirts of the village. Now in her seventies, Hadjia Habiba has farmed all her life and, like many here, she is economically dependent on her fields.

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), agriculture makes up at least 70 percent of the economy in southern Lebanon.

Residents in Aita al-Shaab say their economy is 80-90 percent dependent on agriculture, primarily tobacco and olives.

Some of Hadjia Habiba’s lands are in Kallit Warda, where the Israeli soldiers were taken; the area still guarded by Israeli troops and she hasn’t been allowed there since last summer.

"I didn’t harvest this year at all," she laments. With hundreds of thousands of bomblets littering the fields, no one dared enter and the crops all rotted. Normally, farmers would be planting at this time, instead the fields are quiet.

"We’re still waiting for people to check for cluster bombs, which means I also can’t plant, so there won’t be any harvest this year again either. I live from the tobacco harvest 100 percent. My husband died, so this is how I’ve raised my children."

Shaking her head, Hadjia Habiba says she doesn't know what she is going to do for income.

Millions of dollars in loans have been given to Aita al-Shaab’s tobacco farmers, the only crop the government helps subsidize. About 80 percent of the farmlands here are used for tobacco since it is also the only crop that guarantees an income.

People here expressed anger and frustration with the government for its lack of support. "There’s no compensation from the government for our loss this year!" exclaims Hadjia Sara, another tobacco farmer who worries what will happen when she and others are unable to pay their loans. "Next year, we will have double the payments, plus interest. If we can’t pay, they could take our lands. What is the government doing?"

Farmers estimated only 25-30 percent of Aita al-Shaab’s farmlands are being planted this year, and out of those, only about 25 percent of what is normally planted.

About $280 million from agriculture and fisheries were lost as a result of last summer’s aggressions. Southern Lebanon and southern Beirut, the areas hardest hit by air strikes, are home to the some of the country’s poorest. Its majority are Shi’a.

The FAO plans to set up a farming assistance office in the south, but needs an additional $17 million in order to provide direct aid like replacement of livestock killed.

But, it’s not just economics that have hurt farming communities like this one, the social fabric has also been damaged. "Everyone helps to harvest each other’s lands, take the tobacco to the drying rooms, and then harvest the next field, " says Hadjia Zahra. "It was a collective effort, part of our village life. Now, we sit in our homes and don’t go out. Only half the people have returned. We are still in a state of mourning."

Of the 800-900 homes destroyed, about half have been rebuilt. The 7,000 or so people who’ve returned are crowded together, living with their families until their homes are completed.

The killing continues

Meanwhile, since the bombing stopped last August, some 200 people have been injured and another 30 killed from cluster bombs. Many referred to them as "anti-children" mines because their bright colors attract youngsters, who don’t understand their danger.

In September, three children from Aita al-Shaab were severely injured when a cluster bomb went off. Um Hassan's son was one of them.

"Two of the little village girls had gone back to their home and they found a dead fighter inside, still covered in blood," says Um Hassan. "Cluster bombs had been planted around his body as a booby trap. Thinking they were toys, the girls picked one up and went into the street to play. My son saw them and recognized the bomb from the [educational] posters. When he told them to throw it away, they panicked and threw it at his feet where it exploded."

All the children were badly injured, but Um Hassan’s son was the worst. Just 10 years old, his abdomen was completely ripped open, his intestines spilling out. He spent the next several months undergoing four operations. Hassan is finally back to attending school, says Um Hassan, but his condition is still fragile; remaining shrapnel in his stomach makes her son vulnerable to infection.

Another woman spoke of a nearby villager who was killed when harvesting his olives. "He pulled on the branches and a cluster bomb fell on his head," she says sadly.

Fortunately, these have been the only accidents here, but they are reminders of the dangers that await farmers and their children on uncleared lands.

While the MACC forces are working hard to remove remaining cluster bombs, they say farmlands and forested areas are the most difficult to clear. Bomblets hide in tall grasses and in branches of trees and wash down hills after rains to re-contaminate areas already cleared.

"This has a big psychological effect," says Sadadin. "Some friends and I went for walk when the spring flowers came, but there was a constant fear inside."

"Children here are thinking about the war more than the classroom," said another villager. "Israel wants peace, but they want us to pay for it."

Resistance takes many forms

Yet, despite the constant fears of unexploded ordnance and another Israeli attack, residents are resolute about staying in Aita al-Shaab.

Aita –al-Shaab is infamous for holding off Israeli forces last summer during three separate attacks, and people are proud of this fact. They say their resolve is even firmer than before. But for the people here, resistance is far more than just fighting.

Having watched other villages evacuated over the decades, residents say they will not abandon Aita al-Shaab.

"They tried to destroy us," exclaims Hadjia Zahra, of the Israeli forces, "but we’re not leaving! Some of us came back when the Israelis were still here. This war, people ran away, next time we’ll stay!"

When I asked one olive farmer if she is scared to harvest, she shakes her head determinedly and says no. "I’ve learned how to identify them, so I’m not afraid. And if I’m killed, then I will just join the martyrs already in heaven," she says, referring to those who died defending the village. Defying her fears of the cluster bombs is this woman’s form of resistance.

"The memory of occupation is strong here," says Sadadin. "Weapons are one tool, but resistance is also something social. Just staying on your land is a form of resistance and people here understand that."

On Being Something Certain
versus being "something else":

In the post below, I hope to encourage non muslims to understand the Quran as a very deep reckoning with historical religious facts that have been obscured by the two parties who have known of this information all along but have hidden it. They fear the day that the truth about them will be revealed and that is why they make war on Muslims worldwide.

People who have not read the Quran or who simply do not believe in "God" have a very hard time (for athiests it is impossible) understanding that the Quran is not just an ordinary book. It was revealed in a context. Most of Islam is not even in the Quran but in what is called "Al-Sunna" of the prophet which contains the "methodology" of praying, fasting, pilgrammage, etc.

The problem with non muslim religious practice is that they have ALL forgotten the Al- SUNNA (of their OWN beloved prophets/teachers). I assure you, Jesus Christ (Isa, A.S.) did not partake of his own body i.e. "The Eucharist" and did not proclaim himself as a "God". This would make him an apostate and heretic. not to mention, an "auto-cannibalistic practicioner". In essence, the entire practice of "modern" Christianity is based on a profound lie which basically relegated their own beloved prophet a unique kind of "paganistic" symbol and worse yet, he is worshiped as a statue of a man in his skivvies, nailed to a cross and bleeding. Therefore, they are also "idolators" according to the definitive descriptions of what constitutes that sort of "believer".

I also assure you that muslims DO pray the way the last prophet did. They pray in the original language of the prophet (mandatory even for non Arabic speakers). They fast according to the lunar schedule (which was the clock of those times). They make pilgrammage to Mecca, where the last prophet actually worshipped (at the Ka'aba), lived and fought for Allah. When a muslim makes what is called "Haj", they are considered to have "visited the prophet" in his lifetime. A muslim who fails to make Haj (if he is financially able) will be considered to have died in a state of being a non-muslim (polytheist/Christian/Jew/pagan..depending on their actual other practices and beliefs). A poor person however is EXEMPT from this stipulation regarding Pilgrammage. Makes complete sense you know.

I assure you that Mohamed did exist (historically), the facts of his life are not "mythological" and people do follow him and do accept that he is the last prophet sent by the One Creator. I assure you that the failure to accept that is what differentiates the "garden variety" monotheist from an actual Muslim. (For those who are "interested" in Islam and consider themselves somehow "muslim like". You are mistaken. To be a muslim you must accept the last prophet and if you think that "Monotheism" is a good enough philosophical method (tolerance I suppose) that replaces the rather arduous practice of being or becoming a muslim..you are dreadfully wrong. A muslim is a certain thing with a given description and methodology that Allah has specified clearly. The whole "myth" of a "moderate" Islam is basically the pressure the two main groups (Jews/Christians) have placed on muslims in order to force them to abandon the actual practice of PURE ISLAM (misery loves company and they hope to make muslims fail the way they have failed). Moderate Islam is actually well known and it is codified as Shi'i Islam as Ali abi Taleb (pbuh) is the Imam to suggest the "middle road" which includes things like negotiation and tolerance of the ignorant) .

I also assure you 100% that, Jesus Christ (Isa, A.S.) DID NOT EVER WORSHIP, FAST or WALK, in:

Rome.

A "pilgrammage" to Rome is nothing more than a pilgrammage to see a King or Queen. No more and no less.

Islam isn't just a "competitor" to other "religions". It is religion itself, comes on a clear and logical authority and is backed not only by reason but by scientific, numerical and philosophical proofs called "Ayat". It is of course, untenable to ANY athiest and identifying one of those isn't always easy. Some of them are hidden to their own selves and practice what we muslims call, "disambiguation" which is a kind of formal denial that has actual social indicators. One of those indicators is a complete aversion to any discussion relating to religion so if that is you, then this discussion is probably not going to make you feel satisfied or warm and fuzzy inside. In fact, this entire blog will make you want to scream. It means you are an athiest whether you know it or not.

"Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures." [Bhagavad Gita 7:20]

The Post Below

Jesus Christ according to Islam:

http://www.jafariyanews.com/articles/2k7/15jan_mubahila.htm

Event of Mubahila is famous and is known to all Muslims. Islamic scholars are united on the fact that the verse of Mubahila was revealed in regard to the Christian delegation who came from Najran to dispute the issue of Isa Ibn Maryam/Jesus son of Mary (AS) with the Prophet (SAW).

The Prophet (SAW) waited a moment while Gabriel revealed the following to him: "(Say) he was the Spirit of Allah and His Word."

The archbishop then asked: "Can he be a spirit without having a body?"

Again a revelation was sent to the Prophet (SAW) the revelation is as follows: "The similitude of Isa before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him: 'Be.' And he was."

When the archbishop heard this, he jumped in objection to the Prophet saying that Isa (A.S.) was created from dust, and said: "Muhammad, We don't find this to be in the Torah, the Bible, or in the Zabour. You are the first one to say this."

This was the moment that the verse of Mubahala was revealed.

If anyone disputes in this matter with thee, now after (full) knowledge hath come to thee, say: 'come! Let us gather together; our sons and your sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves. Then let us invoke the curse of God on those who lie!' (Holy Quran 3:61)

Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

The Archbishop said: "O Christians, I surely see faces of men, who if they were to ask Allah to move a mountain, He would surely do it. Do not hold this meeting, or you shall be destroyed and no Christian will remain on Earth until the Day of Resurrection."

The delegation proceeded toward the Messenger and said: "Abu Al-Qasim, relieve us (from this) solemn meeting."

Sayyed Nasrallah on the Winograd Report

http://www.jafariyanews.com/2k7_news/may/3nasrallah.htm


BEIRUT, Lebanon: Lebanese Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday he respects Israel for issuing a damning report on last year's war against his movement in Lebanon.

Speaking at a book fair in Beirut's southern suburbs, Nasrallah said: "It is worth every respect when an inquiry commission ... is appointed by (Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert ... and it condemns Olmert."

"They study their defeat in order to learn from it," unlike Arab states that "do not probe, do not ask, do not form inquiry commissions ... as if nothing has happened," Nasrallah said.

"It is a pity that we have to wait for an Israeli commission to confirm our victory.

"The first important result of the commission is that it has settled -- officially and for good -- the issue of victory and defeat," Nasrallah said. "The commission has admitted the defeat. The word 'defeat' has appeared more than 100 times" in its interim report.

On Being Loved

Isn't that what poetry is all about?

I used to travel the internet cities in order to peddle my wares and secure a little love for myself. Yes. I did. For over ten years I spent my time in various places, some great and some not so. Some were beautiful for a while and others became beautiful after I took the time to "foster" a few poets along the way. This is where it gets sticky in the world of message board (the "dreary") poetry. There are those who "poo poo" that sort of thing but what exactly are they doing? Ah, therein lays the stickiness of it all.

An experienced poet (regardless of how much poetry they have actually read or can recognize should it be the influence on another poet)....has a debt to pay to those who fostered their own growth. But, the poet cannot repay the master because the master necessarily is already, a master. So who to repay the debt to?

To the amateur.

How is this done? Is it done by blindly accepting everything the acolyte produces?

Or is that just a handy way to secure that which the poet seeks for themself be they master or prodigy or amateurish underling? The LOVE.

Absolutely and it is a rotten thing to do to another poet while simultaneously conditioning the acolyte that no one else will ever love them the way the master does. Just a really rotten practice if you ask me.

You've got to be the type of master poet that has the ability to "form" another poet the way you see fit, the way you ought to. And the poet can choose you or something else. It takes work however and most master poets are just too far above that and go instead for the cheap thrill of being the Loved Master to whom allegiance must be paid. It makes for alot of careless, witless and inane poetry.

It does no one any good. Including the master themself.

I don't usually share much about these things (or my randiness towards my husband). I only do so because I decided to visit a poetry message board again after having been kicked out of so many over the years for my brutal honesty, my cautious wit or my ability to master the art of:

Nit and Crit. There is nothing, absolutely NOTHING wrong with it. What is wrong with it is that the people who do it are more interested in the love they can get as opposed to the love they can give back. And those that can do it and do not need the love anymore (because they are masters), are selfish little misers.

*And wouldn't you like to know where it is I go. Heh.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Saudis_US_sponsoring_covert_action_0507.html

"As if" that is news.

Admonition to an Occupier
(from The Book Called I Remember)

The roses to the porch which they entwine:
Yea, all that now enchants thee, from the day
On which it should be touched would melt away! - W.Wordsworth

If it wasn't the car, it was something else like the washer or the motor in the swamp cooler. We weren't so much mechanical as we were broken. All the time. I'm still a bit paranoid about being robbed because she used to write on every single possession, right down to our towels and Bibles, Stolen From The Porters. I had no idea that it was our family monogram and every bit as Jewish. Lending something to a neighbor was a real act of bravery. There was so much on the line, the whole future practically and if a pair of pliers disappeared, a complex system of piety mixed with resentment would begin to build but never seem to go anywhere else. It just soaked into the walls with the gas fumes or settled onto shelves beside the dust and history of things.

John Gary started stealing pretty early on and I think it was the fifth grade teacher who found five cartons of cigarettes in his desk. He'd remove the moving parts from bicycles, hang the frames in the garage and spray paint them Cherry Red, leaving several outlines criss crossing the cement walls. Later he just got lazy and didn't hang them up anymore and the grass withered in red stripes all summer long. We'd ignore the fact that the property was stolen.

I see him now and again. He says he wants to get out of town but he needs six hundred bucks to do it, to get his license back and return to driving. He has to leave but he never seems to go. There is some code in all of that, a magic purpose or the cure. I hand him ten this time. The cop sees through all of this and walks on by. Not this time he thinks to himself, not this time. There's just too much going on and even the homeless have hometowns.

John Gary's eyes are like glass and he sleeps beneath the stars up on the Jeep Trail. I tend someone else's roses. The deed has my name on it but the place is just a place. A city that builds a wall never really lasts. We are all traveling save a few who have really moved in. Their porches are tight havens and their dogs say go away. I see the way things are now. I know more than all the popes.




Libretto for a Female Lead
(from The Book of Warnings)

In the opening scene
the actors address
the Syrian Armed Forces
in a Beyreuth hush.
During Act III
one of them is tortured
on the third floor of the abandoned building
the Syrians use for recreation.

Before the climax
several audience members
are asked to leave.
During the intermission
the main character ambles
through the occupied building,
talking to herself.

In the farthest room
are wine bottles and a flak jacket,
twisted pieces of old rope
and pictures of half dressed women
from magazines, their nipples
drawn as circles with red ink.

Other rooms have similar items,
pieces of stale bread,
discarded clothing
and cigarette butts.

In the closing scene of Act II
the main character finds faith
in the creator and sustainer
of the entire universe.
The curtains are drawn closed.
The audience cannot see her
but they do hear the muezzin.

During Acts I and IV
the audience is reminded to applaud
at preordained times,
the moments of liberation:
an old theater trick
for audiences who forget their lines..

In the final scene
while the main character
rises into the air
suspended by thin bungee cords,
American soldiers advance
dressed as dancers in full regalia
to lift her spirit
out of the refuse of occupation.
Ticker tape falls from the heavens.

April 1981, May 2007, Jihad
(from The Book Called I Remember)

I remember laying down
with you above me
the first time we made love.
I remember the shirt you wore
and told you they look like epaulettes
i.e. those strips of fabric
sewn onto the shoulders
of your shirt
as you held yourself
over me and for the tenth
or eleventh time, died
your martyr's death into me.
How I wish I could have
been the innocent you were.
As I looked up at you
propped on your two arms
I knew I loved something
so I said it was you.
I hardly knew you
we hardly knew each other
but you agreed.
How far away from home
we were and unlettered
and no matter where
our country is now,
we are always there..






The Dark Pages of Time

It was half dark then.
We walked when we were awake,
hoping to find the everlasting
day, warm and bright.
The moon our lamp and we
did not know why or how
it got there nor why
it was so stingy with us.
Was a long time before
the first fires, still longer
until we took the leaves and branches
and lit them up, threw our heavy coats off and still longer
until we stored the dried up brew
from the massive cups of water
we had to drink against our wills,
our platforms sloshing, animals rutting
and most of the draught too bitter to swallow.
Still it was even longer
before we said our graces
so intent we were, on survival,
our eyes glazed over at the flickers,
no need for memory or prediction,
which came next. Our pictures
made of blood and boiled roots
splayed lonely in the sooted caves
once we left them but we hoped,
we did hope for a companion
who would search us out on our trek
which we called with our tongue
the bitter enemy or simply,
the deliverance. Idiosyncratic stories
cropped up and helped us to settle
the places of reap and sow. Fighting
began slowly over putrefying fats,
black pools of no return that lit the way.
Cess pools of death and destruction
where each fire was a tiny star
between fantastic distances,
each star a little soul or a village.
The fuel of the fire, man
it said. Some of us listened
and some of us were instructed
by the melting stones appearing
from the sky in strange, indefinite interims.
We hoped to catch the brittle cracks
between the smokes above our heads
to no avail. We named the hopeless condition
war and the fullness of our caves peace.
Language a weak reminder
for the darkness we thought to leave behind.

Is Israel responsible?










You bet. And no one dares say that. They say EVERYTHING ...... But That.

From the Glorious Quran,
the Proof called The Poets

Verily this is a Revelation from the Lord of the Worlds:
With it came down the spirit of Faith and Truth-
To thy heart and mind, that thou mayest admonish.
In the perspicuous Arabic tongue.
Without doubt it is (announced) in the mystic Books of former peoples.
Is it not a Sign to them that the Learned of the Children of Israel knew it (as true)?
Had We revealed it to any of the non-Arabs,
And had he recited it to them, they would not have believed in it. (Because they wouldn't have understood the language)

..and it goes on to say:


Shall I inform you, (O people!), on whom it is that the evil ones descend?
They descend on every lying, wicked person,
(Into whose ears) they pour hearsay vanities, and most of them are liars.
And the Poets,- It is those straying in Evil, who follow them:
Seest thou not that they wander distracted in every valley?-
And that they say what they practise not?-

Except those who believe, work righteousness, engage much in the remembrance of Allah, and defend themselves only after they are unjustly attacked. And soon will the unjust assailants know what vicissitudes their affairs will take!

The Muddle We Are In

Which sky does the wind
whip through now,
which city is torn apart
and blended; which one
isn't? Fighters defend
one after another
with flags and buckshot,
where to hit
the wind? Where can
so much water go
if the wind makes peace
and leaves the load
without a treaty, sans
policy in a stalemate
of disillusionment?
These blossoms cannot lie:
when the bee quits,
she quits. When the river
stops, she stops.
When death comes, we agree.

"Soon We will show them our signs in the (farthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?" (The Glorious Quran, 41:53)

"Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures." [Bhagavad Gita 7:20]

If a new object or a machine, which no one in the world has ever seen or heard of before, is shown to an atheist or any person and then a question is asked, " Who is the first person who will be able to provide details of the mechanism of this unknown object? After little bit of thinking, he will reply, ‘the creator of that object.’ Some may say ‘the producer’ while others may say ‘the manufacturer.’ What ever answer the person gives, keep it in your mind, the answer will always be either the creator, the producer, the manufacturer or some what of the same meaning, i.e. the person who has made it or created it. Don’t grapple with words, whatever answer he gives, the meaning will be same, therefore accept it.

http://www.islam101.com/religions/provingGodExists.htm

Let us apply this theory of probability to the Qur’an, and assume that a person has guessed all the information that is mentioned in the Qur’an which was unknown at that time. Let us discuss the probability of all the guesses being simultaneously correct.

At the time when the Qur’an was revealed, people thought the world was flat, there are several other options for the shape of the earth. It could be triangular, it could be quadrangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, heptagonal, octagonal, spherical, etc. Lets assume there are about 30 different options for the shape of the earth. The Qur’an rightly says it is spherical, if it was a guess the chances of the guess being correct is 1/30.

The light of the moon can be its own light or a reflected light. The Qur’an rightly says it is a reflected light. If it is a guess, the chances that it will be correct is 1/2 and the probability that both the guesses i.e the earth is spherical and the light of the moon is reflected light is 1/30 x 1/2 = 1/60.

Further, the Qur’an also mentions every living thing is made of water. Every living thing can be made up of either wood, stone, copper, aluminum, steel, silver, gold, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, oil, water, cement, concrete, etc. The options are say about 10,000. The Qur’an rightly says that everything is made up of water. If it is a guess, the chances that it will be correct is 1/10,000 and the probability of all the three guesses i.e. the earth is spherical, light of moon is reflected light and everything is created from water being correct is 1/30 x 1/2 x 1/10,000 = 1/60,000 which is equal to about .0017%.

The Qur’an speaks about hundreds of things that were not known to men at the time of its revelation. Only in three options the result is .0017%. I leave it upto you, to work out the probability if all the hundreds of the unknown facts were guesses, the chances of all of them being correct guesses simultaneously and there being not a single wrong guess. It is beyond human capacity to make all correct guesses without a single mistake, which itself is sufficient to prove to a logical person that the origin of the Qur’an is Divine.

..and for those of the Hindu-Buddhist persuasion (the opposite of Judeo Christian blends):

http://www.islam101.com/religions/hinduism/Mhs.htm
http://www.islam101.com/religions/hinduism/conceptOfGod.htm

Hinduism is commonly perceived as a polytheistic religion. Indeed, most Hindus would attest to this, by professing belief in multiple Gods. While some Hindus believe in the existence of three gods, some believe in thousands of gods, and some others in thirty three crore i.e. 330 million Gods. However, learned Hindus, who are well versed in their scriptures, insist that a Hindu should believe in and worship only one God.

The difference between "Islam" and the "sects" of Islam i.e. Hinduism, Judaism, Christianism, Animism, Shintoism, etc....is exactly that. They are SECTS of Islam and their sacred texts have been obscured, vanished or mistranslated and are no longer read by the oppressed majority within those sects. Those who can and do understand the meaning of such texts no longer possess power over the beliefs of the people due to a myriad of causes. The Quran on the other hand, for those that are not opposed to the Creator of the Creation, has a known lineage, is in the ARABIC tongue of the prophet who related it and the authorship can be verified using the ayat which are notably scientific, rhetorical and impossible to copy (numerically balanced). The most important aspect of that however is that the Quran is the last commentary. There are no more chances after it to comprehend the story of the world and the progenitor of its secrets, its laws, and its inevitable demise.