31.7.07

Why was the destruction of the Shi'i
mosque at Samarra* so important?

The history of Sunni Islam is actually the history of the oppression of the Shia, their martyrdoms and burial places. Places like Saudi Arabia to this day do not allow anyone to have a marker or headstone on a grave. This is related to the fact that they simply do not want anyone to know what it is that they did to the earliest followers of the Sunnah of the prophet Mohamed (SA) who are known as Shi'i. I actually lived just down the road from a Saudi graveyard and the people there used to stack rocks on top of the graves hoping against hope to be able to one day come back and be able to recognize where their baby or granny was buried. It is truly unfair and all due to an oppression that seeks to hide the past from us all, their past. The Sunni Oppressor past and as well, to disguise the present from modern observers who would really like an explanation.

The hoary details:

"Gathering the people who lived there, Imam Husain (A) asked the name of the place. Some said that it was called Naynava, others said it was also called Mariya. Imam Husain (A) asked if there was any other name. Someone said it was also known as Shattul Furaat. Then one old man came forward and said that he had heard his ancestors say that one name for this area was Karbala.

When Imam Husain (A) heard this, he smiled and thanked Allah and then said, "Surely this is the plain where my Holy Grandfather has prophesied that I, with my faithful companions shall lay slain after suffering three days of hunger and thirst. We will not move from here - we have reached our destination."

Imam Husain (A) then ordered for his caravan to stop and tents were pitched next to the banks of the river Euphrates.


The caravan of Imam Husain (A) had arrived in Karbala and their tents were pitched next to the river Euphrates. As his companions settled down, Imam Husain (A) took his brother Abbas (A) around the barren desert and pointed out the various places where each of his comrades would fall and be slain on the Day of Ashura.

The people living in the area were from the tribe of Bani Asad. Imam Husain (A) purchased the land of Karbala from them and then gifted it back to them. He then addressed the men of Bani Asad saying, "On the tenth of this month you will see our dead bodies lying on this plain with our heads severed and taken away. Please bury us, and when our devotees come to visit our graves, treat them with honour and point out to them the places of our burial." He then turned to the women of the tribe and said, "O virtuous ladies! If your husbands, fearing Yazid, do not bury us, then please encourage them to do so or do it yourselves." Finally, he turned to the children of Bani Asad and said, "O innocent ones! If your parents, out of fear of the ruler, do not bury us then, by way of playing, bring some earth and throw it on our bodies to hide them." This heartrending appeal of Imam Husain (A) made all the listeners weep. "

For part of the entire story of Kerbala:

http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/islam/0000082.php

Other chapters appear on the Shia News site and each one is equally delectable and agreed upon by all muslims be they Sunni or Shi'i.

Notes on the shrine at Samarra:

http://www.al-islam.org/shrines/samarra.htm

Perhaps non muslims will soon begin to understand why the Shi'i perform self flagellation during Ashura (Muharram 10) and will recognize what kind of disaster that the US has facilitated (in Iraq where Kerbala is located) out of both ignorance and greed...and either knowingly or unknowingly..it doesn't really matter now whose fault it "is". Because it is.
Why is Mia so mad at Steven Stealberg?

http://www.slate.com/id/2170857/#Darfur

I'll tell you why I hate the SOB. First, he stole the story of an Iranian who stayed in the Charles de Gaulle airport for nine years and made the main character (played by Tom Hanks) in the movie The Terminal into a some type of "Marxist" citizen of an unknown "Marxist" breakaway Republik.

Now...if that wasn't bad enough....

The dog sent money to Israel last year and made a big deal about how much he loves the New Nazi-ism aka Zionism and how everyone in creation ought to send money to these genocidal racists who live there and stole the land from the Palestinians who had lived there for centuries.

Oh. As if people would: Boycott this monster.
I am so honored to be seen with some of these poets. The prolific Lyn Lifshin and the recluse Kristine Ong Muslim. Man. Makes me want to submit again.

So the next few posts are a celebration of those poets who are upcoming in 4am Poetry Review.

In Pedestal, this wonderful poem that just trips all over itself and scores a great big three pointer at the end there:

Malaika King Albrecht - Sounds After the Howl

http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/Content/cb.asp?cbid=5102

Carolyn Srygley-Moore - Two Poems
Casting Out The Whistler's Tarantula


http://www.threecandles.org/poetry/cmoore.html
4am Poetry Review

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30.7.07

Behavioral Research,
the West and Islam

Whilst out and about garnering information to consolidate some ideas I've been having about the problems associated with the heretofore practice of Western Behavioral research studies being skewed and based on non muslim people and therefore, based on faulty logic (expecially the Freudian nonsenses)...I happened into this great little blog entry about Muslim kids being sent to the King David school in the UK. Imagine my delight at such a find!

"Muslim parents are pleased that ‘all the kids mix and go to one another's parties and are in and out of each other's houses’. The Jewish parents and teachers too are just as enthusiastic: “You know, in these difficult times in the world, I think we show how things should be done. It's really a bit of a beacon," says one teacher, whose three children all went to King David and ended up at Oxford University. One Jewish parent commented: "My son is eight and has loads of Muslim friends." And perhaps most important of all is that some of the cross-cultural friendships forged at King David last a lifetime."

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2007/03/muslim-children-are-not-born-jew-haters.html

One of the other things I was meaning to look into but as is the case of skewed analysis in the world being based on NON SUBMITTING muslims (everyone included in that regardless of their sect/nonsect)..but that kind of research is hard to find...I was hoping to show the notion of little people not knowing how to get dressed!

Yes. You bet. KIDS.....believe it or not...do not know how to pick their own clothing!

So...we adult animals do it for them. It's our job. Adult muslim animals do it their way and their way seems to really anger non submitting muslims (the entire population of humanity who is the group of NON submission by default, choice or hatred of Islam and the Messenger).

Unfortunately...submitting muslims have not been studied and due to the invasion of Western values, media and failure to submit to any religion let alone Islam..that kind of information is highly unavailabe and usually studies are marked by an inability to properly isolate variables and one of the new variables is the admixture of Western hypocrisy, capitalism and greed which tends to rip the Islam right out of a soul....and it rips the validity right out of a study done in a primarily submitting Islamic country like Saudi Arabia, Iran or Indonesia where studies like that need to be done in order to determine if Islam really does prevent certain types of things.

Therefore...when muslim parents choose to teach their young girls to cover their hair...they are only teaching them how to dress.

No more and no less. It is no different than the non submitting muslims in the world who teach their young ladies to wear miniskirts and tube tops and their boys to wear ties.

Yikes. It is as simple as that.

Peace on those that deserve it. Heh...who needs research when you have simple logic. But here is a sample of how research methodologies have utterly failed to serve humanity:

http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/14/1/7.pdf

29.7.07

Another tainted food recall:

http://www.castleberrys.com/news_productrecall.asp

Geez..I'm really glad I don't eat canned chili. Really glad.

I'm also really thinking that it is best not to eat food from a company that specializes in human "eatables" and dog ones.

Time to eat Kosher/Halal only?


I think so.

28.7.07

The Cold River

I have been writing poems
all my life but this one
just won't get out.
It follows me everywhere
and fills my gut
with sea sickness.

The worst thing about
this poem is that it
is everyone's poem
and like me, they cannot
seem to write it down either.


Some thoughts on Cold River, Nahar al Barad:

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/2671

So....when we discuss this particular fitna called Cold River (in English)...is it not important that we discuss the fact that Sayyed Nasrallah...when he "supports" the Sunni Palestinians...he is not supporting their Sunni doctrine. He is supporting the Islamic umma and brotherhood of all muslims.

27.7.07

BEIRUT ASSASSIN LEAVES MARK

The cocks were storm-crowing that morning
after a real long spell of total
environmental darkness. Two broughams sped by.

(In the land of the prophets
the angels talk out-loud,
people pretend not to notice.
Here it is the status quo.)

All the clocks whirred with quick sighs.
At sunset the clouds were full of the dust.
On the sand hundreds of lovers were kissing
out in the open. Everyone was buying
flowers and the coffee carts were brimming
with hot fluids and stale remedies to the skies.

Then everything just stopped. Windows fell
apart and people ran home, started looking.
Zoom in, zoom out, zoom in, zoom out.
I felt around for my watch to note the time.
School was letting out and I compared JFK,
that unholy day to this one. Must have been similar.

Shapely forms felt their way toward the horizons
and the same herd of goats crossed my path twice.
No more luck, no more money, no more beadsmen.
The predictions are always keen to usurp everyone
and the last unlucky man born will tremble
near a pitcher of water and a set of lost keys.
This benediction quieted all the kinfolk
and the rich slept closer to their quarters
but it does take some time, perhaps forever.
The poor remain indifferent.

One man was found two weeks later in the rubble,
pointing in one direction, holding his cell.
No one called out the dogs because it is said
the canines ate the corpses in Sabra and Shatilla.

I wonder.. to whom was he speaking,
where was he pointing
?



..well of course...he was pointing to the US/Zionist war machine and that was a missile strike not a car bomb in case you didn't notice.

26.7.07



Mother Nature will be like "slowwwww doooowwwn"....



Human BEATBOX:





Australian Idol Beatbox:




The Antichrist beatbox:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVCb52iQrfo

25.7.07

The Buttoning of the Coats

Listen to this

nothing
outside
not even a dog barking

planes not flying
off the tarmac

some kind of hum
from the freeway

not much really
but so incessant

honk

listless unimportant
as we all are
on the couches
the crematoriums.

The Aleutians,
where are they again?

Listen
to the buttoning
of the coats.
Are Israeli Jews driving themselves into the ocean? What a surprise....


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070724/wl_nm/germany_israel_dc_1

German law makes it easy for former citizens who fled the country during Nazi rule to regain their citizenship and offers the same chance to their descendants.

But few Israelis took advantage of this until recently -- a shift experts attribute to rising political instability in the Middle East, opportunities within an enlarged European Union and new attitudes towards Germany of a younger Israeli generation.

...well. Isn't this where they belong in the first place? Wasn't it the Nazis who were so damn mean to them? We all know it had nothing (the Holycaust) to do with the Arabs.

Bon Voyage!
Dear Redacted

We are home as of 1 am July 24. EXACTLY one year after we arrived..to the day...from our terrible war adventure.

It was a long hard trip (redacted). Good and bad...mostly closure of some things. Letting go of the ideal of "expatriatism" for now. It has been my central motivation and I realize now that I must move forward and I must move in this direction and at this pace.

What to do. The Middle East is a downright catastrophe and as well, it is the will of the Lord. I know that but it doesn't necessarily make it any easier to watch from these plush and verdant sidelines in Bisbee AZ.

More to be revealed...I hope you are well and up to your usual practices of working hard. I've got so much to do in the next few weeks in order to get my middle one Sarah booked into a decent university. She was accepted at both the U of A and NAU so that is all fine and good. The U of A did pull a nasty trick on us though and asked for a domicile affidavit since they must have had dark suspicions about her citizenship. When I got the lady on the phone of course...she heard my voice and my double yas were typically Arizonianisms and she got Sarah accepted within minutes. Imagine that! Only moments before she was told that her file was under review and she wouldn't have an answer for at least two weeks. Huh? I told Sarah to get back on the phone and we'll speak to someone who understands what it means to request priveledged information prior to having the authority to do so (domicile statements). It's amazing what a True Blue Double Ya will get you nowdays at our lovely public universities like the University of Arizona which is actually a private institution but the bigots there just don't tell the taxpayers so..they keep insisting that it is public but we old rednecks down here know the GD Truth about it all. It was the craziest thing and we put down the phone and I told Sarah: You've just been discriminated against for being an Arab. Get used to it and be calm and ingratiating...people are so stupid (redacted). Americans are at the bottom of the food chain only they still believe they got something going up top. Man.

The meek shall inherit the earth....


but when?


All my bestests

Me


Some Back Stories of Years Gone By:

Notes of City Sheperds

This land is written
by the indigenous
flowers and broad-striped

fish, terrain split by rivers
in hand-tilled land.
Great patchwork fields
become deeds forever
tucked into blankets.
On and on so balances
feign universe like this,
bi and tri lingual.
The mass of ocean
measures time against
sand, so entranced.
Washed stones strike
in salty kilns the others,
the smooth and rocky
exile, this forgery

and treason.

Chorus:

This border of our land
runs ragged to tarmac
near city maze.
North wind sculpts
with horse hair bow
in silence everlasting.
Dry down the daisy
in limestone rock
perched accidently there.


Sing: our misery in shepherd
gapes open to the sea.


This map a cold front
is a coda, to an end
it points.
Spring falls from
trees to apple blossom.
Peat steams joy for screams
in breaths forgotten,
these of foreigners
built into boots
of perfect straw.
Where we have been
in order to go
silent and single filed?
Whirl down
our set of stairs
into calcitic waters
to rise like light
from wells inside wells.

So wait our magical bones,
things unspeakable,
in! swallowed the skin.
Miracles of tedium,
quick fingers in violin.

Second Chorus:

This border of our land
runs ragged to tarmac
near city maze.
North wind sculpts
with horse hair bow
the silence everlasting.
Dry down the daisy
in limestone rock
perched accidently there.

Sing: our misery in shepherd
gapes open to the sea.

Third Chorus:

North wind sculpts
horse hair bow
down the daisy
over tarmac heart
daisy it down to
horse everlasting
in boots of straw
near kilny sea.
North wind sculpts
rock, deed and violin
with horse hair bow
down the daisy
over tarmac heart

perched accidently there:

down near the sea
down near the sea,

down and near
the sea.

Final:

Da cow and da sheep
da cow and da sheep
dae weep and dae weep,
'caus dar is no sleep
for da cow and da sheep
.

In every time zone

a soldier patrols the perimeter of the site
in a certain kind of loneliness.
He persists but I do not.

A prayerful moth, rather large,
finds sanctuary on top of the blinds
but we do not.

Momentary gladness fills the room,
grace ends with a smile.
Your presence fills nothing but the void
as a car loading explosives at dawn
shuts prophecy down for the day.
It is grown here and exported, how?

Radishes grow into melons.
Dogs scattered in various poses
at the road side, mangled and all
quite dead. How can this be?
Who is painting the roads red?

A minaret climbs through the arcadia door,
it is almost beautiful, a knick knack.
The men in clusters near the bottom
count several angles, another balances
high on the scaffold with bare chest.
A slaughter in the dust one year ago
and next year my decorations will
sing everything is loved once before
building a reputation, wherever that is.


24.7.07

What is the bird surprise?
The Bird Surprise

19.7.07

Embedded

I thought I was just pretending
all along, saying well, that's
bound to happen and it does and I say
well, that's bound to happen.
We all know that when we leave
the room, the room disappears,
we've perceived since we were born
and sometimes talk it over
with strangers knowing
that once the guy leaves
he takes your secrets with him
into the ether or
the dark same thing.
It is a strange statistic
and one I am fond of until
it comes to the war zones.
One Blogs to remember where one has put one's work.

http://www.voicesonthewind.net/toc.html

Three wonderful poems by the famous Dick Bakken and a few others including the lovely Ms. Sanger and the always entertaining Cappy Love Hanson. And myself.

17.7.07

Home is Where it is Raining

Bisbee Forecast

Scattered T-storms
PM T-storms

Scattered T-storms

Scattered T-storms

Scattered T-storms
The United States of America is formally under Israeli Occupation

Thomas Jefferson, George Washington on the dangers of American alignment with foreign powers to the detriment of their own people:


http://gunsofthepatriots.blogspot.com/

"...nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils 7 Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter."


...from George Washington's Farewell Address: The Avalon Project


http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/washing.htm
US supporting Kurdish Terrorism against Iranians on Iranian soil. Turkey isn't happy about the weapons I imagine...being given to their "insurgency class". Oh..what a tangled web they have woven:

http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/07/are-we-already-at-war-have-us-enabled.html

Death to Israel. Crippling misery to the US.

14.7.07

Iranian Jews Refuse Israeli Citizenship and Money to "Repatriate"

Guess they understand the question here.


http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103010.html

And Our Command is but a single (Act),- like the twinkling of an eye.
And (oft) in the past, have We destroyed gangs like unto you: then is there any that will receive admonition? (54;50-51)

3.7.07

Big Mystery:

Contacted by CNN, a Hezbollah spokesman in Lebanon said he would not dignify the U.S. allegations with a response. And it remains unclear why Hezbollah's leadership would risk sending advisers to Iraq: American intelligence officers suspect Hezbollah -- which is indebted to Iran for decades of military and financial support -- had no choice.


Ahem. Well there you go. The truth is always in the last sentence in any article issuing out of the newsrooms of a MASSIVELY corrupt Western media.

The answer to it is pretty easy i.e. "Why would Hezbollah risk" such a thing. Indeed. When in fact Lebanon is up to its arse in its own alligators...why indeed.

Well. Exactly. They wouldn't.

I can tell you what may be the case. Every day of every week, young men seek to join the only Arab army to have ever beaten the US/Zionist threat. Beaten those scum not once but three times. And every day of every week of every year since Hezbollah liberated the south of its OWN country from the slimy hands of the Israelis, young men have been refused admission to this elite band of resistance fighters. It is no secret that part of the success of Hezbollah is in the fact that they only admit men to fight who demonstrate extreme dedication to Allah and to the Shia party (the elite of Islam). Therefore, there are many young men so hell bent on being "in" Hezbollah, there are many who literally impersonate Hezbollah fighters because they have been refused by same.

I ought to know...I've met a few and a couple of years ago, one man who was refused admission to this particularly blessed Islamic army...went to the home of a high ranking Hezbollah advisor and shot him in cold blood.

My guess is that this guy is either a Sunni or US plant...or most likely what you'd call:

A wannabe.

But there is no reason Nasrallah would send anyone to Iraq. That is ludicrous. It is as ludicrous as Israel insisting that Hezbollah kicked the butt of Israel using soldiers from Somalia and Iran last year and kept INFECTING the media with stories full of outright LIES. No problem, Israelis are liars but would they just do what they are supposed to and give the Palestinians their humanity back instead of insisting on stealing the humanity of others? Just for kicks.

What idiots.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/01/iraq.hezbollah/index.html