Er....by the way.....Bhenazir Bhutto is a Shia. Just thought that might be interesting to mention. So what will the US do with a Sunni turned Dictator now?
What an incredible morass. If it were a movie, it would sweep the Oscars.
"The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the truth."
9.11.07
The Cancer From Within
A firsthand account of Evangelical Christianity within the military:
I no longer recognize the Air Force Academy as the institution I attended almost four decades earlier. At that point, I had no idea how invasive this extreme evangelical “cancer” had become throughout the entire military, that what I had witnessed was far from an isolated case of a few religious zealots.
In order to better understand this shift to a religious ideology at this once secular institution, I called the Academy Association of Graduates (AOG). Its response: “We don’t get involved in policy.” What I didn’t know was that the AOG, like the academy, had affiliations with James Dobson’s and Ted Haggard’s powerful mega-churches. When Dobson’s Focus on the Family “campus” was completed, the academy skydiving team, with great ceremony, delivered the “keys from heaven” to Dobson. During some alumni reunions, the AOG arranged bus tours of Focus on the Family facilities in nearby Colorado Springs, Colo. I also learned that the same Monday night Bible studies discussed at orientation were taught by bused-in members of these evangelical mega-churches and that some spouses of senior academy staff members were employed by these same religious institutions. It seemed that my beloved United States Air Force Academy had morphed into the Rocky Mountain Bible College.
Many are aware of the mercenary army, Blackwater USA, led by Eric Prince, former Ambassador Cofer Black and Joseph Schmitz, the same Joseph Schmitz mentioned in this article. It is here where the ties become complex and suggestive of an even grander “crusade.”
A firsthand account of Evangelical Christianity within the military:
I no longer recognize the Air Force Academy as the institution I attended almost four decades earlier. At that point, I had no idea how invasive this extreme evangelical “cancer” had become throughout the entire military, that what I had witnessed was far from an isolated case of a few religious zealots.
In order to better understand this shift to a religious ideology at this once secular institution, I called the Academy Association of Graduates (AOG). Its response: “We don’t get involved in policy.” What I didn’t know was that the AOG, like the academy, had affiliations with James Dobson’s and Ted Haggard’s powerful mega-churches. When Dobson’s Focus on the Family “campus” was completed, the academy skydiving team, with great ceremony, delivered the “keys from heaven” to Dobson. During some alumni reunions, the AOG arranged bus tours of Focus on the Family facilities in nearby Colorado Springs, Colo. I also learned that the same Monday night Bible studies discussed at orientation were taught by bused-in members of these evangelical mega-churches and that some spouses of senior academy staff members were employed by these same religious institutions. It seemed that my beloved United States Air Force Academy had morphed into the Rocky Mountain Bible College.
Many are aware of the mercenary army, Blackwater USA, led by Eric Prince, former Ambassador Cofer Black and Joseph Schmitz, the same Joseph Schmitz mentioned in this article. It is here where the ties become complex and suggestive of an even grander “crusade.”
8.11.07
Lines of Resistance
(Mahmoud Darwish on the relevance, refinements and restrictions of politics in poetry)
"No less intriguing than this position is Darwish's manner of defending it, which echoes the youthful militant poems that first earned him the reputation of being a poet of resistance. The early poems ring with calls for defiance of Israeli efforts to uproot Palestinians from their land; Darwish's opposition to the pressure of political relevance, which is a defense against being dispossessed of private imaginative terrain, strikes the same heroic note. Even when confronting his readers, Darwish cannot help but behave as a poet of resistance, a writer who defines himself, and finds himself somewhat confined, by rhetorical acts of defiance."
"This predicament isn't Darwish's alone. In 1967, on the first day of the Six-Day War, the poet Samih al-Qasim, an Israeli Arab and a member of the Israeli Communist Party, was arrested by Israeli forces and sent to Haifa's Al Damoun prison. The experience shook al-Qasim to the core. "In prison I discovered--when the Israelis were declaring, 'Sharm el-Sheikh is in our hands, Jerusalem is in our hands'--that I had to make one of two choices," al-Qasim told British journalist Roger Hardy in 1982: "either to find a cave in the mountains, isolated from mankind, or to find a higher stage in the struggle. I lost my belief in nationalistic big words." Al-Qasim had to extricate himself from nationalism's fastened-down ideological positions while also trying to remain samid, or steadfast, a phrase coined by Palestinians to describe someone who remains attached to his or her land and culture despite imposing obstacles. The thirty-two poems collected in Sadder Than Water, the first collection of al-Qasim's poems to be published in an English-language translation, suggest that the task has been arduous. Although al-Qasim has managed to escape from the prison of nationalism--"beware the rights of rhetoric dancing on blood," he warns in the volume's title poem--remaining samid has landed him in an open-air cell of sadness, melancholy and absurdity, one from which there appears to be no way out. As the escape artist of "The Tragedy of Houdini the Miraculous" explains, "And here's the knottiest problem of all:/Entry or exit?" "
(Mahmoud Darwish on the relevance, refinements and restrictions of politics in poetry)
"No less intriguing than this position is Darwish's manner of defending it, which echoes the youthful militant poems that first earned him the reputation of being a poet of resistance. The early poems ring with calls for defiance of Israeli efforts to uproot Palestinians from their land; Darwish's opposition to the pressure of political relevance, which is a defense against being dispossessed of private imaginative terrain, strikes the same heroic note. Even when confronting his readers, Darwish cannot help but behave as a poet of resistance, a writer who defines himself, and finds himself somewhat confined, by rhetorical acts of defiance."
"This predicament isn't Darwish's alone. In 1967, on the first day of the Six-Day War, the poet Samih al-Qasim, an Israeli Arab and a member of the Israeli Communist Party, was arrested by Israeli forces and sent to Haifa's Al Damoun prison. The experience shook al-Qasim to the core. "In prison I discovered--when the Israelis were declaring, 'Sharm el-Sheikh is in our hands, Jerusalem is in our hands'--that I had to make one of two choices," al-Qasim told British journalist Roger Hardy in 1982: "either to find a cave in the mountains, isolated from mankind, or to find a higher stage in the struggle. I lost my belief in nationalistic big words." Al-Qasim had to extricate himself from nationalism's fastened-down ideological positions while also trying to remain samid, or steadfast, a phrase coined by Palestinians to describe someone who remains attached to his or her land and culture despite imposing obstacles. The thirty-two poems collected in Sadder Than Water, the first collection of al-Qasim's poems to be published in an English-language translation, suggest that the task has been arduous. Although al-Qasim has managed to escape from the prison of nationalism--"beware the rights of rhetoric dancing on blood," he warns in the volume's title poem--remaining samid has landed him in an open-air cell of sadness, melancholy and absurdity, one from which there appears to be no way out. As the escape artist of "The Tragedy of Houdini the Miraculous" explains, "And here's the knottiest problem of all:/Entry or exit?" "
7.11.07
6.11.07
Musician and World Renowned Herbalist Michael Moore
Hard to believe...I've met this man and washed his feet. Come home Micheal Moore, come on home. We still have things to discuss. Get well fast.
"Michael has been dealing with worsening chronic ill health, including serious renal and cardiac concerns for the last few years. In the latter part of 2006 he suffered a series of major setbacks requiring hospitalization, surgery, intensive care and rehab as well as machine hemodialysis. On top of major physical and financial hardships, this has disrupted his primary goal of completing the process of distilling all his teachings into a video format for online distribution. Happily, Michael is out of immediate danger and returning to Bisbee, but there is much to be done. You can help, by donating now and spreading the word."
http://www.swsbm.com/Music/MMMusic.html
Coatlicue is my personal favorite.
Hard to believe...I've met this man and washed his feet. Come home Micheal Moore, come on home. We still have things to discuss. Get well fast.
"Michael has been dealing with worsening chronic ill health, including serious renal and cardiac concerns for the last few years. In the latter part of 2006 he suffered a series of major setbacks requiring hospitalization, surgery, intensive care and rehab as well as machine hemodialysis. On top of major physical and financial hardships, this has disrupted his primary goal of completing the process of distilling all his teachings into a video format for online distribution. Happily, Michael is out of immediate danger and returning to Bisbee, but there is much to be done. You can help, by donating now and spreading the word."
http://www.swsbm.com/Music/MMMusic.html
Coatlicue is my personal favorite.
Mystical Iranian Poet Molana Jalaleddin Molavi Balkhi (Rumi) honored by Mahmoud Ahmadinijad, PRESIDENT (not dictator and his country is not a regime...it is a democracy) of Iran.
Mystic Odes #8
Our death is our wedding with eternity.
What is the secret? "God is One."
The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.
For he who is living in the Light of God,
The death of the carnal soul is a blessing.
Regarding him, say neither bad nor good,
For he is gone beyond the good and the bad.
Fix your eyes on God and do not talk about what is invisible,
So that he may place another look in your eyes.
It is in the vision of the physical eyes
That no invisible or secret thing exists.
But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God
What thing could remain hidden under such a Light?
Although all lights emanate from the Divine Light
Don't call all these lights "the Light of God";
It is the eternal light which is the Light of God,
The ephemeral light is an attribute of the body and the flesh.
...Oh God who gives the grace of vision!
The bird of vision is flying towards You with the wings of desire.
Mystic Odes #8
Our death is our wedding with eternity.
What is the secret? "God is One."
The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.
For he who is living in the Light of God,
The death of the carnal soul is a blessing.
Regarding him, say neither bad nor good,
For he is gone beyond the good and the bad.
Fix your eyes on God and do not talk about what is invisible,
So that he may place another look in your eyes.
It is in the vision of the physical eyes
That no invisible or secret thing exists.
But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God
What thing could remain hidden under such a Light?
Although all lights emanate from the Divine Light
Don't call all these lights "the Light of God";
It is the eternal light which is the Light of God,
The ephemeral light is an attribute of the body and the flesh.
...Oh God who gives the grace of vision!
The bird of vision is flying towards You with the wings of desire.
Ho hum...the US always trying to tell everyone who the bad guys are. Oddly enough, most people know they are the bad guys. It's kind of funny to watch liars lie. Sort of anyway. Kind of like watching them when they abandon each other. Strange times and for us, the future is oh so bright. If only people knew.
"By making instrumental use of media and distorting the truth, the oppressors, try to humiliate nations and their cultures," he (Ahmadinijad) said regretting that they also mislead the young generation by disseminating wrong historical, scientific, moral and political news and information.
"By making instrumental use of media and distorting the truth, the oppressors, try to humiliate nations and their cultures," he (Ahmadinijad) said regretting that they also mislead the young generation by disseminating wrong historical, scientific, moral and political news and information.
4.11.07
The Elegant Trogon of Rucker Canyon
November 4, 2007
"We come from a family of campers, we are honor bound." -Darla Whitehead, "The Divers, the Drowned and the Delivered" in The Book of Warnings
A small group of white tail deer (and a fawn!) at my window, 4:45 a.m. It is fall in Bisbee, Arizona. So now I know who ate the coleus....and I thought it was a mole. They stay up in the higher ranges in summer and come down about now to escape the colder climates up there. As for the mountain lion that likes to hang out across the street...well....who's asking. But I do watch my back and I'm sure the deer do too.
And last night, my sister gave me a house for my birthday. She enticed me with a fine lunch up at Broken Toe in Cave Creek (an old Apache hangout) in order to bless and surprise me with my own set of camping gear: tent, canopy, Coleman stove, water jugs, percolator, an entire kitchen sink (so I suppose I cannot say she gave me everything but the kitchen sink), utensils, pots and pans and most importantly, my very own Skippy.
A Skippy is a big flashlight one uses to traipse through lion and bear country at night in order to go to the bathroom.
I reminded her however that she had already given me this gift once before. On about my twelfth birthday....she gave me a back pack, a sterno stove and a set of hiking pans. She had forgotten about that and I told her how Lisa and I used to go up in the hills and assemble my little sterno grill and heat up a can of Chili prior to bedding down in her old pup tent which we'd lug up the hills behind our house in order to spend a night under the stars.
I can hardly wait to use this stuff. My very own house.
Thank you Radical Ann. Thank you very, very much. Thank you for baking my very favorite thing: Your Poppy Seed cake. No one can make a poppy seed cake like that and no one should...it's all mine. You shouldn't have but...I'm glad you did. Very. I love you too.
Thunderbird At The Gila River, Summer '05
"Advice: learn poems so that you don't have to write them." -The Book of Warnings, D. Whitehead
This pretty life is death's comma
and we are between, constructing
the darkest layer in the top soils
over which the eagle flies
with the owl, as same as the bug.
Once I stood on a reservation
for our tribes and thought.
The wild wisdoms entered
like drugs with the cackle
of gypsies and caw of old birds
into the earth's big recorder.
When suddenly! Like that!
The newest grand canyon opened
her secret vaults to receive
the sound and reek of vomit from the throat
of a drunkard who turned in
and then sped away.
Ah, the stories the rocks will tell!
Welcome to Islamic America
[2.113] And the Jews say: The Christians do not follow anything (good) and the Christians say: The Jews do not follow anything (good) while they recite the (same) Book. Even thus say those who have no knowledge (not just us or not just the Quran but they say it themselves), like to what they say; so Allah shall judge between them on the day of resurrection in what they differ.
And no...we don't feel sorry for the Jews. We don't have to. It's their problem now to explain all the little hidden details they've kept from everyone for so long....like the fact that they leave their religious legacy to their own children while depriving the rest of you, your own legacy.
In Islam, what you leave to your children isn't only money. Shia Islam dictates that the most important thing of all to leave to your children is your religion and the best indicator of a man's worth is the manner in which he is held in esteem by his sons and daughters after he dies.
How many non muslims ever think about this anymore? Lots probably but what exactly are they able to leave them?
A mixed bag of borrowed and falsified notions about religion. It is time to reconsider what you have left to your children. It is time to reform yourselves and your progeny and my best advice...start now.
How?
Easy.
Tell them there is only one Allah and that one Allah has only one philosophy. How could it be otherwise?
Then....let nature take its course. I am always dumbfounded to meet people who are already abiding by most of what Islam says whether they know it or not. Most people think it is too hard to adapt to the "Islamic" way of life. Well, it isn't and in fact, it gives a person tremendous freedom.
Why else do you think they made people in the world hate it so much? Because "they" i.e. the devils (shaitans) on the planet knew the power of Islam. It frees individuals from so many things and isn't at all what people think. It frees entire countries from oppression and from the choke-hold drugs and alcohol have on so many in America right now. Free yourself from those things and you'll find most of the other problems will rapidly disappear. It is as simple as that for most people and it is one of the primary reasons the intelligent opt not to become muslims...because they worship their booze so reverently...or their crack, or their crank, or their Oxycontin or their Ecstasy....all intoxicants are the same you know..there aren't separate types...that is a big, fat lie. Unfortunately however it is the main reason most people don't hear the truth. How can they? They are drunk. And organizations like AA spread a completely erroneous assumption i.e. that there are those "that can" and those "that can't". I assure you, that devil nourishes himself aplenty on everything from the juice to the weed, from the crystal to the pills. I ought to know...I used to be one of those people "who couldn't" and found out that "I can" give it up and live a completely happy life without such things as hangovers, car accidents and family strife.
Islam is a way of life and a way of achieving happiness in this life while simultaneously, insuring the next. Unlike Christianity (and all other strategies) which denies human beings all sorts of human rights in this life in order to guarantee the next and fails to tell a person HOW to worship Allah. A person has to know how to worship you know. You cannot just clap and sing any old way you want to.
As for those who don't fit into this scenario? Well...that is their problem. Not ours and not anyone elses. Let them eat cake you know. And let Allah be just to them if that is what Allah wants to do.
It isn't our business.
Some other notable shaitans easily shackled and detained:
[2.268] Shaitan threatens you with poverty and enjoins you to be niggardly, and Allah promises you forgiveness from Himself and abundance; and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing.
[5.91] The Shaitan only desires to cause enmity and hatred to spring in your midst by means of intoxicants and games of chance, and to keep you off from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. Will you then desist?
[7.20] But the Shaitan made an evil suggestion to them that he might make manifest to them what had been hidden from them of their evil inclinations, and he said: Your Lord has not forbidden you this tree (sex/knowledge) except that you may not both become two angels or that you may (not) become of the immortals.
[14.22] And the Shaitan shall say after the affair is decided: Surely Allah promised you the promise of truth, and I gave you promises, then failed to keep them to you, and I had no authority over you, except that I called you and you obeyed me, therefore do not blame me but blame yourselves: I cannot be your aider (now) nor can you be my aiders; surely I disbelieved in your associating me with Allah before; surely it is the unjust that shall have the painful punishment.
The entire last sura of the Quran which is addressed soley to human beings and called The People or Inns (as opposed to shaitans which are called Jinns):
Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of men,The King of men, The God of men, From the evil of the whisperings of the slinking (Shaitan), Who whispers into the hearts of men, From among the jinn and the men.
Which is basically....what Adam and Eve were told the very first time. It wasn't about sex and it wasn't about knowledge. It was merely not to listen to bad advice. No more and no less. Believe it or not...there is only one commandment...not ten and not 613 (Judaism). There is only one and that is it. If you follow only that one Golden rule...you'll be just fine.
What is really important to know about all of this is, you cannot judge Islam by judging what the "known" muslims do, say or think. They are like all human beings and think and say a variety of things. Some good and some not so good. And be sure that it isn't about the Jews. Sure, the Jews would like people to think it is only about them but it isn't. Not at all. They were the very first people invited to Islam...they just didn't want to join. They wanted to be Jewish and that is their business.
I assure you...no one can be a Jew unless they are Jewish. Just look at Israel. Why do you suppose that is? Well....a couple of reasons actually..this religious ethnic bigotry. The most important one is probably contained in the story of Samson's hair which you can read about here on Wikipedia (good enough for the average Biblical scholar nowdays) and oddly enough...his hair was akin to the alcohol and the pork. So there you have that aspect of things....cut the hair and no longer will you have your power. Yeah...right. Secondly, the state of Israel has benefited solely from its ethnic identity so it serves to reason...they do not want to share what it is they think they have and that is control. Not only that, the formation of such an ethnically bigoted state with such unprecendented backing from a world power has set up a situation in which every little minority (from Tibet to the Kurds) wants exactly the same thing..their own private little country. I assure you..they do not have exclusive power nor do they have a special power nor are they particularly suited to spreading religious enlightenment.. Allah is mighty, not mankind and not Jews and not even muslims. Allah. It's about Allah, not about the Zionist Multimedia Corporation which exists solely to "aggrandize" Jews per one famous child of Holocaust survivors who is named Norman Finkelstein. *Nor is power with the MIC, Military Industrial War Complex either. That's just a pure fiction (literally conconcted to make people believe in such fancy dan modernist sociological dilemmas) just like the crucifiction. Why else do you think they callled it that and spelled it "fixion" instead of "fiction"? They all thought they could get away with a little white lie as long as they told the truth somewhere in between the lines...heh. So wake up and quit playing their rotten game. Wake up...time to get up now Rip Van Winkles of the world.
To be fair, the muslims are often not much better at sharing the power. That would be, the Al Qaeda mentality. No one but us knows the truth. Well...no. I don't think so. Anyone who murders other people for unjust reasons will burn in hell. That is a given and it matters not if they are muslim or athiest. Once again however, the power is with Allah, not mankind and not with any given ethnicity (Dead White Guys either).
I ran into a statement from a muslim who was all upset about one of those great little anti muslim hate sites. He wanted to mount an offensive.
I said, "Why?"
Aren't you already on the winning team? Do you not know that victory is with Allah?
Well. There you go. Even muslims have a few misconceptions about Kingdom Come. And they are always willing to "spread the Good News" but it isn't at all Good. Good News is different. It sounds like this:
There will be no war with Iran. Nada. It will go pfft just like all rotten ideas go pfft.
Islam on the other hand...is here to stay. It ain't goin' nowhere. Trust me on that one. Trust your eyes and listen to your hearts. I know they are talking to everyone just about now. And as for the Jews....come on in. Then we can all work on this thing together.
[2.113] And the Jews say: The Christians do not follow anything (good) and the Christians say: The Jews do not follow anything (good) while they recite the (same) Book. Even thus say those who have no knowledge (not just us or not just the Quran but they say it themselves), like to what they say; so Allah shall judge between them on the day of resurrection in what they differ.
[2.143] And thus We have made you a medium (just) nation that you may be the bearers of witness to the people and (that) the Apostle may be a bearer of witness to you; and We did not make that which you would have to be the qiblah (Jerusalem versus Mecca) but that We might distinguish him who follows the Apostle from him who turns back upon his heels, and this was surely hard except for those whom Allah has guided aright; and Allah was not going to make your faith to be fruitless; most surely Allah is Affectionate, Merciful to the people.
[2.213] (All) people are a single nation; so Allah raised prophets as bearers of good news and as warners, and He revealed with them the Book with truth, that it might judge between people in that in which they differed; and none but the very people who were given it differed about it after clear arguments had come to them (Jesus, Isa SA), revolting among themselves; so Allah has guided by His will those who believe to the truth about which they differed and Allah guides whom He pleases to the right path.
And no...we don't feel sorry for the Jews. We don't have to. It's their problem now to explain all the little hidden details they've kept from everyone for so long....like the fact that they leave their religious legacy to their own children while depriving the rest of you, your own legacy.
(7:34) And for every nation there is a doom, so when their doom is come they shall not remain behind the least while, nor shall they go before. He will say: Enter into fire among the nations that have passed away before you from among jinn and men; whenever a nation shall enter, it shall curse its sister, until when they have all come up with one another into it; the last of them shall say with regard to the foremost of them: Our Lord! these led us astray therefore give them a double chastisement of the fire. He will say: Every one shall have double but you do not know. And We divided them into twelve tribes, as nations; and We revealed to Musa when his people asked him for water: Strike the rock with your staff, so outnowed from it twelve springs; each tribe knew its drinking place; and We made the clouds to give shade over them and We sent to them manna and quails: Eat of the good things We have given you. And they did not do Us any harm, but they did injustice to their own souls.
In Islam, what you leave to your children isn't only money. Shia Islam dictates that the most important thing of all to leave to your children is your religion and the best indicator of a man's worth is the manner in which he is held in esteem by his sons and daughters after he dies.
How many non muslims ever think about this anymore? Lots probably but what exactly are they able to leave them?
A mixed bag of borrowed and falsified notions about religion. It is time to reconsider what you have left to your children. It is time to reform yourselves and your progeny and my best advice...start now.
How?
Easy.
Tell them there is only one Allah and that one Allah has only one philosophy. How could it be otherwise?
Say: He, Allah, is One. Allah is He on Whom all depend. He begets not, nor is He begotten. And none is like Him.
Then....let nature take its course. I am always dumbfounded to meet people who are already abiding by most of what Islam says whether they know it or not. Most people think it is too hard to adapt to the "Islamic" way of life. Well, it isn't and in fact, it gives a person tremendous freedom.
Why else do you think they made people in the world hate it so much? Because "they" i.e. the devils (shaitans) on the planet knew the power of Islam. It frees individuals from so many things and isn't at all what people think. It frees entire countries from oppression and from the choke-hold drugs and alcohol have on so many in America right now. Free yourself from those things and you'll find most of the other problems will rapidly disappear. It is as simple as that for most people and it is one of the primary reasons the intelligent opt not to become muslims...because they worship their booze so reverently...or their crack, or their crank, or their Oxycontin or their Ecstasy....all intoxicants are the same you know..there aren't separate types...that is a big, fat lie. Unfortunately however it is the main reason most people don't hear the truth. How can they? They are drunk. And organizations like AA spread a completely erroneous assumption i.e. that there are those "that can" and those "that can't". I assure you, that devil nourishes himself aplenty on everything from the juice to the weed, from the crystal to the pills. I ought to know...I used to be one of those people "who couldn't" and found out that "I can" give it up and live a completely happy life without such things as hangovers, car accidents and family strife.
Islam is a way of life and a way of achieving happiness in this life while simultaneously, insuring the next. Unlike Christianity (and all other strategies) which denies human beings all sorts of human rights in this life in order to guarantee the next and fails to tell a person HOW to worship Allah. A person has to know how to worship you know. You cannot just clap and sing any old way you want to.
As for those who don't fit into this scenario? Well...that is their problem. Not ours and not anyone elses. Let them eat cake you know. And let Allah be just to them if that is what Allah wants to do.
It isn't our business.
Some other notable shaitans easily shackled and detained:
[2.268] Shaitan threatens you with poverty and enjoins you to be niggardly, and Allah promises you forgiveness from Himself and abundance; and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing.
[5.91] The Shaitan only desires to cause enmity and hatred to spring in your midst by means of intoxicants and games of chance, and to keep you off from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. Will you then desist?
[7.20] But the Shaitan made an evil suggestion to them that he might make manifest to them what had been hidden from them of their evil inclinations, and he said: Your Lord has not forbidden you this tree (sex/knowledge) except that you may not both become two angels or that you may (not) become of the immortals.
[14.22] And the Shaitan shall say after the affair is decided: Surely Allah promised you the promise of truth, and I gave you promises, then failed to keep them to you, and I had no authority over you, except that I called you and you obeyed me, therefore do not blame me but blame yourselves: I cannot be your aider (now) nor can you be my aiders; surely I disbelieved in your associating me with Allah before; surely it is the unjust that shall have the painful punishment.
The entire last sura of the Quran which is addressed soley to human beings and called The People or Inns (as opposed to shaitans which are called Jinns):
Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of men,The King of men, The God of men, From the evil of the whisperings of the slinking (Shaitan), Who whispers into the hearts of men, From among the jinn and the men.
Which is basically....what Adam and Eve were told the very first time. It wasn't about sex and it wasn't about knowledge. It was merely not to listen to bad advice. No more and no less. Believe it or not...there is only one commandment...not ten and not 613 (Judaism). There is only one and that is it. If you follow only that one Golden rule...you'll be just fine.
What is really important to know about all of this is, you cannot judge Islam by judging what the "known" muslims do, say or think. They are like all human beings and think and say a variety of things. Some good and some not so good. And be sure that it isn't about the Jews. Sure, the Jews would like people to think it is only about them but it isn't. Not at all. They were the very first people invited to Islam...they just didn't want to join. They wanted to be Jewish and that is their business.
I assure you...no one can be a Jew unless they are Jewish. Just look at Israel. Why do you suppose that is? Well....a couple of reasons actually..this religious ethnic bigotry. The most important one is probably contained in the story of Samson's hair which you can read about here on Wikipedia (good enough for the average Biblical scholar nowdays) and oddly enough...his hair was akin to the alcohol and the pork. So there you have that aspect of things....cut the hair and no longer will you have your power. Yeah...right. Secondly, the state of Israel has benefited solely from its ethnic identity so it serves to reason...they do not want to share what it is they think they have and that is control. Not only that, the formation of such an ethnically bigoted state with such unprecendented backing from a world power has set up a situation in which every little minority (from Tibet to the Kurds) wants exactly the same thing..their own private little country. I assure you..they do not have exclusive power nor do they have a special power nor are they particularly suited to spreading religious enlightenment.. Allah is mighty, not mankind and not Jews and not even muslims. Allah. It's about Allah, not about the Zionist Multimedia Corporation which exists solely to "aggrandize" Jews per one famous child of Holocaust survivors who is named Norman Finkelstein. *Nor is power with the MIC, Military Industrial War Complex either. That's just a pure fiction (literally conconcted to make people believe in such fancy dan modernist sociological dilemmas) just like the crucifiction. Why else do you think they callled it that and spelled it "fixion" instead of "fiction"? They all thought they could get away with a little white lie as long as they told the truth somewhere in between the lines...heh. So wake up and quit playing their rotten game. Wake up...time to get up now Rip Van Winkles of the world.
To be fair, the muslims are often not much better at sharing the power. That would be, the Al Qaeda mentality. No one but us knows the truth. Well...no. I don't think so. Anyone who murders other people for unjust reasons will burn in hell. That is a given and it matters not if they are muslim or athiest. Once again however, the power is with Allah, not mankind and not with any given ethnicity (Dead White Guys either).
I ran into a statement from a muslim who was all upset about one of those great little anti muslim hate sites. He wanted to mount an offensive.
I said, "Why?"
Aren't you already on the winning team? Do you not know that victory is with Allah?
Well. There you go. Even muslims have a few misconceptions about Kingdom Come. And they are always willing to "spread the Good News" but it isn't at all Good. Good News is different. It sounds like this:
There will be no war with Iran. Nada. It will go pfft just like all rotten ideas go pfft.
Islam on the other hand...is here to stay. It ain't goin' nowhere. Trust me on that one. Trust your eyes and listen to your hearts. I know they are talking to everyone just about now. And as for the Jews....come on in. Then we can all work on this thing together.
[10.49] Say: I do not control for myself any harm, or any benefit except what Allah pleases; every nation has a term; when their term comes, they shall not then remain behind for an hour, nor can they go before (their time).
America cannot remain behind as it is for even an hour (it is going to change and fast...in fact it already is) and the Shia nation in Iran will not be dissolved before its time is due and that time is...well...I ain't gonna tell you when. It is how it is regardless of what the Zionist(utopians) neocons and Zionist Jews in Israel and the media try to tell you about it.
And that is actually what good news is all about. Even though some who hate Allah like to follow this ornery and obstinate Shaitan called the Press.
Stop the press. Tell all your friends and I assure you, you can guarantee this information with your life. You will so impress them with your powers of prediction. Heh, how do you think Sayyed Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah can make all the promises he makes and keep them eh? Even Israeli Zionists trust him hahaha. And remember, everybody loves a winner.
Schumer, Bolton, Mukasey: It is interesting to watch devils as they desert one another in hard times. All of them work for Israel. All of them are evil and I swear, I can see little black hats on their heads even though I know none are there. They remind me of the Pharisees and the Sadduccees. Because...they are.
Good News: There won't be a war with Iran. We Shia have known that for some time. Thing is, the Western Media (Zionist) hopes to leave a bad taste in everyone's mouth. Don't buy it. Iran never wanted a nuclear bomb, isn't building a nuclear bomb and actually stake their reputation on that promise. Not with mankind but with Allah. You see...that is the difference. As for Lebanon...well that is another story. Just like the US did the last time they held a proxy war with Iran (Gulf War One which is also known as the Iran/Iraq War*) and could not win, they sought victory in a smaller country and so-called client state of Iran and started the Lebanese Civil War, they are trying exactly the same strategy this time around. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The good thing is however....those different results are never what the insane expect and this time around, expect an Islamic State in Lebanon. Although this is a far fetched idea, it is still "on the table" so to speak with the Shia.
*Gulf War II: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
*Gulf War III: This one
*Gulf War II: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
*Gulf War III: This one
2.11.07
What exactly is a ceasefire?
A ceasefire is alot of things. One thing it is not is an agreement to disarm either side in a conflict.
For whatever reason however, news agencies do not inform readers of this salient detail and insist on promoting an ideology that is not only false but leads people to believe that certain parties in armed conflicts have less rights than others to defend themselves. Usually....the Arab parties whereas Israel can do whatever Israel wants as long as it is meant to kill Arabs. Go figure:
"Ban said there has been no progress the disarmament of Hezbollah and other militias, although he sees this as essential to fully restoring government authority throughout the country. The current political crisis in Lebanon has hindered efforts to implement the resolution."
I'll tell you what is essential in my estimation. Remove the cause for the need for civilians to arm themself against an oppressor and there will be no more need for disarmament. That cause is US backing for the fascist state known as Israel and let the natural course for this disruption in world peace to ensue.
A ceasefire is alot of things. One thing it is not is an agreement to disarm either side in a conflict.
For whatever reason however, news agencies do not inform readers of this salient detail and insist on promoting an ideology that is not only false but leads people to believe that certain parties in armed conflicts have less rights than others to defend themselves. Usually....the Arab parties whereas Israel can do whatever Israel wants as long as it is meant to kill Arabs. Go figure:
"Ban said there has been no progress the disarmament of Hezbollah and other militias, although he sees this as essential to fully restoring government authority throughout the country. The current political crisis in Lebanon has hindered efforts to implement the resolution."
I'll tell you what is essential in my estimation. Remove the cause for the need for civilians to arm themself against an oppressor and there will be no more need for disarmament. That cause is US backing for the fascist state known as Israel and let the natural course for this disruption in world peace to ensue.
1.11.07
In some of the days of Siffin (an early battle between Aisha (the so called baby bride of the last and blessed prophet Mohamed, May Allah have mercy upon her and forgive her her grave error) and the forces of Ali (May Allah be pleased with him and his progeny) Amir al-mu'minin said to his followers about ways of fighting:
O' crowd of Muslims! Make fear of Allah the routine of your life. Cover yourselves with peace of mind and clinch your teeth because this makes the sword slip off from the skull. Complete your armour and shake your swords in their sheathes before showing them out. Have your eyes on the enemy. Use your spears on both sides and strike (the enemy) with swords. Keep in mind that you are before Allah and in the company of the Prophet's cousin. Repeat your attacks and feel ashamed of running away, because it is a shame for posterity and (cause of awarding you) fire on the Day of Judgement. Give your lives (to Allah) willingly and walk towards death with ease. Beware of this great majority, and the pitched tent and aim at its centre because Satan is hiding in its cornet. He has extended his hand for assault and has kept back his foot for running away. Keep on enduring till the light of Truth dawns upon you.
While ye have the upper hand, and Allah is with you, and never will He depreciate your deeds. (Qur'an, 47:35)
O' crowd of Muslims! Make fear of Allah the routine of your life. Cover yourselves with peace of mind and clinch your teeth because this makes the sword slip off from the skull. Complete your armour and shake your swords in their sheathes before showing them out. Have your eyes on the enemy. Use your spears on both sides and strike (the enemy) with swords. Keep in mind that you are before Allah and in the company of the Prophet's cousin. Repeat your attacks and feel ashamed of running away, because it is a shame for posterity and (cause of awarding you) fire on the Day of Judgement. Give your lives (to Allah) willingly and walk towards death with ease. Beware of this great majority, and the pitched tent and aim at its centre because Satan is hiding in its cornet. He has extended his hand for assault and has kept back his foot for running away. Keep on enduring till the light of Truth dawns upon you.
While ye have the upper hand, and Allah is with you, and never will He depreciate your deeds. (Qur'an, 47:35)
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