So, it turns out most world leaders have committed war crimes since 911. Putin committed it by going after the Chechens.
It is now common knowledge that Chechen militants are being aided by the CIA. However, Putin never says publicly that America is helping the Chechens. He just says that they are terrorists but America calls them freedom fighters.
It is possible that the CIA knew the Boston Bombers had gone militant along with their mother. However, they never acted to stop the bombings. The official word is that they didn't know the Marathon would be targeted.
The reason why I mention the CIA connection is because a male relative of the bombers married a CIA contractor's daughter.
My guess is, the CIA knew and passed on the info to the FBI but because the terrorists were not in the US, they didn't follow up in Chechnya.
So the Boston Marathon bombing was preventable.
This is not a failure of the CIA. Rather, it is a failure of the FBI to anticipate the Boston Marathon would be a target.
As well, it is because there are no Chechens helping the FBI that they didn't go to Chechnya to investigate. This is also why CIA need more Chechens to help them when visiting the small nation.
Now they have kept track of the mother of the bombers, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, because she has radicalized. Her accusations after the bombing hints at it. She denies the brothers played a role in the bombing but were set up by the FBI.
However, Tamerlan's interest in conspiracy theories fed her desire to have deeper spiritual connection with Islam as she and her son bought into the conspiracy that America set 911 up to get the world to hate Muslims.
The truth is, certain Gulf States (Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) fund the spread of Salafi ideology among conservative Muslims in Chechen and Dagestan, throughout the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe.
It is most likely Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a conspiracy theory militant rather than a home-grown Islamic militant. This would put him in league with the survivalists rather than the Islamists.
Therefore the FBI and DOJ are barking up the wrong tree.
Currently, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being held on charges of committing the bombing. He has plead not guilty, having being talked into considering his arrest a conspiracy by the FBI to make Chechen Islamic radicalism as bad as the Salafi-inspired radicalism that motivates al-Qaeda and the global Islamic militancy of the Islamists.
If it is a conspiracy theory that 911 was the cause of Islamophobia, then Zubeidat is correct in that part of her ideology. It is likely that she blames the US government for the events leading to what happened on September 11, 2001, especially the ill-advised bombing of a pharmaceutical factory on Sudan by the US military. After that bombing, it turned out that the factory was never a bomb-making facility. In short, whoever gave them that idea probably assumed that the high security implied munitions rather than medication.
However, al-Qaeda is dead wrong about their rhetoric about that mistake since only a single night watchman died in the bombing, not the many lives lost implied by its leader.
In the case of 911, Zubeidat is wrong about America training the terrorists who brought down the Twin Towers in NYC and almost crashed a plane into the Pentagon. Training on jumbo jet simulators does not imply that the US facilitated their training. It only looks that way when you buy into a conspiracy theory that denies that the US government just routinely ignored intelligence shared by Germany due to the politics of the time.
I would also like to point out that the Bush administration never trusted the CIA before 911 as much as the Democrats obviously trust the intelligence community today.
So it should be interesting how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial plays out, considering that he is hedging his bets on the US Constitution to help him avoid the death penalty or a life sentence for the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Just to play devil's advocate, I have an alternative conspiracy theory about the bombing in Massachusetts: both Tamerlan and Dzhokhar were influenced by their mother's conspiracy theory about 911, which she learned by discussing the conspiracy theory contained in books Tamerlan was given by a fellow conspiracy theory believer.
My theory is that the conspiracy theory believers about 911 being an inside job morphed into the Tsarnaev's version in which previous bigotry towards the Muslims inspired the US government to facilitate 911 and the Islamophobia which followed in the years after that horrible day was carefully manufactured by bigots among the religious right who support the Republicans.
For it is bigoted Christians with money and power who donate it to the Islamophobes because of their mutual hatred for Muslims.
Back when the Islamophobes were blaming Islam for 911, I pointed out to a few of them that Sayyid Qutb and the rise of Salafi Islam and Wahabbi ideology inspires the Muslim terrorists aligned with al-Qaeda.
However, Muslim fundamentalism such as Salafi and Wahabbi are not violent at all. Indeed, Sayyid Qutb wrote an anti-American book in Arabic which criticized American women, but was inspired by cultural tradition in Egypt in the 1950s that was even more conservative than America was back then.
Yet Qutb never participated in the Islamist revolution that lead to President Nasser's death after Israel won the war with Egypt. All he did was write a few books that inspired the militants. Indeed, his books later inspired al-Qaeda.
Today, it is Imam al-Sharif who inspires non-violence among former militants. This is how Indonesian and Malaysian Islam is less likely to produce terrorists since Mohammad specifically implied that a Muslim killing a Muslim requires an imam to question the killer until he regrets his sin of killing a fellow believer.
Thus, al Qaeda is not motivated by Mohammad but by ancient battles the early Muslims had to wage in order for Islam to survive in the Middle East, all of them glorified to the point of fanaticism. At that point, the jihadis have lost the greater jihad for the sake of glory fighting the holy war that the lesser jihad they choose inspires.
Even though most Muslims believe in jihad, the term "holy war" actually refers to the Buddhist metaphor about the warrior who kills a thousand enemies having lost the most important battle in a person life was, is and will always be with his ego, not another person.
If you lose that battle in your life, then it is like being a child playing with toys in a burning house. If you cannot find someone wiser than you to change your life around, then the rest of your life will be full of suffering.
For Muslims, Mohammad is wiser than the imams and mullahs. Indeed, he is wiser than the men who ignore the imam's judgement on sharia and put the less wiser choice of oppression against any group they think beneath them, be it women or even Jews. It seems that a Muslim who goes by Sharia and bases his violent ways on a wrong-minded interpretation of hadiths cannot even claim to understand the Koran that he has memorized.
Merely deeming other Muslims less bloodthirsty than them to be unbelievers is done by reason not by God's will. In short, militant ideology is not by God's will but by man's will alone.
Even Mohammad knew this. It is why he waited three years before marrying Aisha. It is also why he never led his people against the Christians.
When Muslims came to them, the Christian Arabs of Yemen left their homeland to become Ghassanids in Syria due to their steadfast belief in Jesus and their unwillingness to become apostate by becoming Muslims - because they feared the Hell that would result from converting to Islam.
Perhaps this is why the Islamophobes are so bigoted against all Muslims, and 911 justifies their hatred of them.
Thus, the Tsarnaevs are seen as this by the Islamophobes: a mother who fled America rather than face possible imprisonment for shoplifting and possibly reconciled with her husband, who left her because she was becoming too Americanized. After 911, she radicalizes not because of Islamist ideology but because of the well-founded belief that America hated Muslims since the US government first backed Israel.
All of the billions of dollars of aid the US government has given Israel only proves that America does not love the Muslims. Small wonder that the development of anti-American sentiments is still a national pastime in many Muslim nations which did not overthrow their Islamist leadership during Arab Spring back in 2011.
In conclusion, the Tsarnaev case must require Dzhokhar's parents to attend, because justice also must be served in Zubeidat's case. She too is a fugitive from American justice for her kleptomania, which suggests the likelihood of a character disturbance. The fact that she bought into a conspiracy theory might be proof of this.
However, she may not return to America because it is likely that she fears the stigma of mental illness even though she might call it an American tool of social control rather than a sincere desire to help the extremely nervous.
We will just have to wait and see how the trial turns out to find out.
As the one year anniversary approaches, this bombing has become the best false flag event ever. Indeed, it beats 9-11. In both cases, foreign powers warned DC about "mad bombers" with 9-11 being forewarned by Germany and the Boston Marathon bombing being forewarned by Russia.
When one looks at the Todashev case, one FBI agent is present with Todashev while the other agent was outside, keeping his friend away. Then after Todashev was shot circa 2326 PM, the agent escorts the friend to a restaurant further away. When the friend returns, Todashev's apartment is covered in police tape.
Judging from the evidence the FBI agents violated standard procedure:
Two agents must be present during any interview with a suspect. Having police with them is not standard. FBI likes to work alone without police because the latter tend to protect their turf, thus contaminating a scene.
This is thus an "assassination" to ensure that Todashev does not expose the Tsarnaev brother as what they are: tentative Muslim "extremists" groomed by agents provocateurs employed by the FBI. Thus, the verifiable evidence in mainstream media is a concocted cover to hide the "truth".
Could it have been a black ops by the CRAFT unit, some of whose members might have murdered a fellow agent that talked to much?
Original post: January 20, 2014 0318H PST
Reference:
Boston Marathon bomber a conspiracy theorist militant:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/08/07/unlikely-friendship/xQao9NHjkUvtvhTcK1uwCL/story.html
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_and_Tamerlan_Tsarnaev
* Zubaidat's entry in this wikipedia article confirms 911 conspiracy theories as etiology of her growing militancy. This more likely is influenced by Chechen struggle for freedom.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/28/zubeidat-tsarnaeva-mother-boston-marathon-bombing-suspects_n_3176009.html
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Defender of the Constitution:
http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-defender-of-the-constitution/281363/
Sayyid Qutb:
http://www.kalamullah.com/sayyid-qutb.html
Evidence of possible false flag in Todashev case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibragim_Todashev
The CRAFT are the real culprits:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-220413.html
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20140325
L'aube et L'humanité / Al-Falak & An-Nas / The Dawn and Mankind (poem)
Je cherche protection auprès du Seigneur de l'aube
Contre le mal des choses créées;
Contre le mal de l'obscurité comme il répand sur;
De la malice de ceux qui pratiquent les arts secrets;
Et contre le mal de l'envieux quand il envie pratique.
Je cherche protection auprès du Seigneur de l'humanité,
La règle de l'humanité,
Le juge de l'humanité,
Contre le mal de le murmurait à l'oreille du Mal, qui se retire après son murmure,
Le même qui murmure dans les cœurs de l'humanité,
Parmi les djinns et les hommes.
Quran: Al-Falak and An-Nas / The Dawn and Mankind / Surah 113 and Surah 114
Yusuf Ali translation
This is a translation from English into French, rather than the one provided on Quran.com.
I seek refuge with the Lord of the Dawn
From the mischief of created things;
From the mischief of Darkness as it overspreads;
From the mischief of those who practise secret arts;
And from the mischief of the envious one as he practises envy.
I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of Mankind,
The Ruler of Mankind,
The judge of Mankind,
From the mischief of the Whisperer of Evil, who withdraws after his whisper,
The same who whispers into the hearts of Mankind,
Among Jinns and among men.
To protect the believer from evil, these two surahs are to be recited with sincere belief in their protection. Naturally then, for unbelievers, these words have only empty meaning because of their unbelief.
I myself find beauty in their original Arabic, yet because of my unbelief, would wonder why the superstitious would go on to write the Arabic as though they were talisman. Although my unbelief leads me to such wondering, if a true believer believed in the power of prayer, then these words are protection.
Even in French, these words are still beautiful.
Regardless of what dirt the Islamophobes bring up about Mohammad, the Quran remains a beautiful work of Muslim literature. However, when it is used to oppress women, that is not God's will; that is man's will.
Thus I refute the story of Aisha, Mohammad's second wife as child bride. Even if an imam repeats that story, it is based on one man's word and is thus unverifiable. It is more likely Aisha was introduced to Mohammad when she was 16 and wed to him when she was 18, only to become his widow at 27.
Why then is the child bride story important to Islamophobes? So that the charge of pedophilia could be used as a slur.
Then what of the grooming of young girls by a certain group of Muslims? I would attribute that to mainstream media's hypersexualization of young women. This has become a worldwide phenomenon, and it is not restricted solely to a group of Muslim men. It is prevalent in Western culture, but in certain Old World cultures, it has led to the grooming of young girls as well.
Islamophobes would blame Islam, for they cannot distinguish between culture and religion. In doing so, they ignore the fact that they cater to the good girl narrative, and give their girls the benefit of the doubt. Yet they ignore the fact that Western culture hypersexualizes young girls.
In the good girl/bad girl paradigm, if a girl is polite and reserved, then she is good. If she acts like a boy, then one day she might be put in her place. Thus, this paradigm contains a double standard and additionally is sexist and oppressive to young girls if they aren't good. For often, good or bad, when a boy misbehaved, his misbehavior is often condoned.
What hypocrisy!
Yet if a Muslim boy acts as bad as some white boys do, then sometimes his behavior is seen as deviant. However, the majority of pedophiles are white. As well, most of the Muslim men who practice this grooming belong to criminal gangs.
Therefore, I reject the story of Aisha as child bride as the basis for the grooming of young white girls by Muslim men. It is a pernicious fallacy, given that it has not a list of verifiable sources, save of imams who peddle this story needlessly.
Contre le mal des choses créées;
Contre le mal de l'obscurité comme il répand sur;
De la malice de ceux qui pratiquent les arts secrets;
Et contre le mal de l'envieux quand il envie pratique.
Je cherche protection auprès du Seigneur de l'humanité,
La règle de l'humanité,
Le juge de l'humanité,
Contre le mal de le murmurait à l'oreille du Mal, qui se retire après son murmure,
Le même qui murmure dans les cœurs de l'humanité,
Parmi les djinns et les hommes.
Quran: Al-Falak and An-Nas / The Dawn and Mankind / Surah 113 and Surah 114
Yusuf Ali translation
This is a translation from English into French, rather than the one provided on Quran.com.
I seek refuge with the Lord of the Dawn
From the mischief of created things;
From the mischief of Darkness as it overspreads;
From the mischief of those who practise secret arts;
And from the mischief of the envious one as he practises envy.
I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of Mankind,
The Ruler of Mankind,
The judge of Mankind,
From the mischief of the Whisperer of Evil, who withdraws after his whisper,
The same who whispers into the hearts of Mankind,
Among Jinns and among men.
To protect the believer from evil, these two surahs are to be recited with sincere belief in their protection. Naturally then, for unbelievers, these words have only empty meaning because of their unbelief.
I myself find beauty in their original Arabic, yet because of my unbelief, would wonder why the superstitious would go on to write the Arabic as though they were talisman. Although my unbelief leads me to such wondering, if a true believer believed in the power of prayer, then these words are protection.
Even in French, these words are still beautiful.
Regardless of what dirt the Islamophobes bring up about Mohammad, the Quran remains a beautiful work of Muslim literature. However, when it is used to oppress women, that is not God's will; that is man's will.
Thus I refute the story of Aisha, Mohammad's second wife as child bride. Even if an imam repeats that story, it is based on one man's word and is thus unverifiable. It is more likely Aisha was introduced to Mohammad when she was 16 and wed to him when she was 18, only to become his widow at 27.
Why then is the child bride story important to Islamophobes? So that the charge of pedophilia could be used as a slur.
Then what of the grooming of young girls by a certain group of Muslims? I would attribute that to mainstream media's hypersexualization of young women. This has become a worldwide phenomenon, and it is not restricted solely to a group of Muslim men. It is prevalent in Western culture, but in certain Old World cultures, it has led to the grooming of young girls as well.
Islamophobes would blame Islam, for they cannot distinguish between culture and religion. In doing so, they ignore the fact that they cater to the good girl narrative, and give their girls the benefit of the doubt. Yet they ignore the fact that Western culture hypersexualizes young girls.
In the good girl/bad girl paradigm, if a girl is polite and reserved, then she is good. If she acts like a boy, then one day she might be put in her place. Thus, this paradigm contains a double standard and additionally is sexist and oppressive to young girls if they aren't good. For often, good or bad, when a boy misbehaved, his misbehavior is often condoned.
What hypocrisy!
Yet if a Muslim boy acts as bad as some white boys do, then sometimes his behavior is seen as deviant. However, the majority of pedophiles are white. As well, most of the Muslim men who practice this grooming belong to criminal gangs.
Therefore, I reject the story of Aisha as child bride as the basis for the grooming of young white girls by Muslim men. It is a pernicious fallacy, given that it has not a list of verifiable sources, save of imams who peddle this story needlessly.
20140310
Le Couplet du Trône (poem)
Dans le Nom de Dieu, le Tout Miséricordieux, le Très Miséricordieux.
Dieu - que Dieu n'existe pas, mais Lui, le Vivant, l'Absolu et Tout-Soutien.
Slumber lui pas, ni sommeil saisit.
A Lui appartient ce qui est dans les cieux et sur la terre que ce soit.
Qui est celui qui va intercéder auprès de Lui sans Sa permission?
Il sait ce qui est devant eux et ce qui derrière eux;
et ils comprennent rien de sa connaissance, sauf ce qu'Il veut.
Sa connaissance s'étend sur les cieux et la terre;
et le soin de les lui accable pas, et Il est le Très-Haut. Le suprême dans la gloire.
Quran 2:255 Ayat al-Kursi
One of the most famous verses of the Quran, Ayat al-Kursi is the most widely memorized of verses. Even in French it maintains much of the emphatic description of God's power over the entire universe.
Muslims believe that anyone who recites the verse enters the protection and security of God. Thus it is the great affirmation of a Muslim before bedtime.
It is said that Satan recommended al-Kursi, reportedly saying "Whenever you go to bed, recite Ayat Al-Kursi from the beginning to the end, 'God — there is no God but He, the Living, the Self-Subsisting and All Sustaining'. If you do so, God will appoint a guard for you who will stay with you, and no demon will come near you until morning."
Yet this verse has no magical religious power. Rather, it affirms the faith of true believers of God.
It is also said that when you recite this verse in the evening, you are under the protection of God at night and when you recite it in the morning, you are protected until evening. Thus it may be recited during prayers.
Reference:
Al-Baqara 255 - English_Translation - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Baqara_255#English_Translation
Dieu - que Dieu n'existe pas, mais Lui, le Vivant, l'Absolu et Tout-Soutien.
Slumber lui pas, ni sommeil saisit.
A Lui appartient ce qui est dans les cieux et sur la terre que ce soit.
Qui est celui qui va intercéder auprès de Lui sans Sa permission?
Il sait ce qui est devant eux et ce qui derrière eux;
et ils comprennent rien de sa connaissance, sauf ce qu'Il veut.
Sa connaissance s'étend sur les cieux et la terre;
et le soin de les lui accable pas, et Il est le Très-Haut. Le suprême dans la gloire.
Quran 2:255 Ayat al-Kursi
One of the most famous verses of the Quran, Ayat al-Kursi is the most widely memorized of verses. Even in French it maintains much of the emphatic description of God's power over the entire universe.
Muslims believe that anyone who recites the verse enters the protection and security of God. Thus it is the great affirmation of a Muslim before bedtime.
It is said that Satan recommended al-Kursi, reportedly saying "Whenever you go to bed, recite Ayat Al-Kursi from the beginning to the end, 'God — there is no God but He, the Living, the Self-Subsisting and All Sustaining'. If you do so, God will appoint a guard for you who will stay with you, and no demon will come near you until morning."
Yet this verse has no magical religious power. Rather, it affirms the faith of true believers of God.
It is also said that when you recite this verse in the evening, you are under the protection of God at night and when you recite it in the morning, you are protected until evening. Thus it may be recited during prayers.
Reference:
Al-Baqara 255 - English_Translation - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Baqara_255#English_Translation
20140307
Le Tonnerre / The Thunder (poem)
Ceux qui croient
en l'unicité de Dieu,
et dont les cœurs se reposer
dans le souvenir de Dieu,
en vérité, dans le souvenir de Dieu
ne tranquillisent les coeurs?.
Ceux qui croient
en l'Unicité de Dieu,
et font de bonnes oeuvres,
toutes sortes de bonheur
est pour eux et un bel endroit
de la déclaration finale.
In the original translation, Quran 13: 28-29 declares:
28. Those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah - Islamic Monotheism), and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah, Verily, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest.
29. Those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah - Islamic Monotheism), and work righteousness, Tuba (it means all kinds of happiness or name of a tree in Paradise) is for them and a beautiful place of (final) return.
In my sect of Buddhism, Buddha Remembrance consists of recitation of the Nembutsu. In Islam, Zikr (dhikr) refers to remembrance, specifically by recitation of the names of God silently. Given that the name of the Buddha is contained in the Nembutsu, zikr is remotely similar to Buddha Remembrance.
When one casts away the quasi-polytheism that Buddhism appears to be, it appears to be more similar to Islam than to Christianity but only within the context of that proverb from the Quran. To objectors of the monotheism faiths (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) who as strangers to Buddhism misunderstand the statues of Buddhas and the many Bodhisattvas, gods and other cosmic creatures who protect the Dharma as idolism, Rai Manuhar Kuchwáhhah has said:
“O Moslem! if the Kâbah be the object of thy worship,
Why dost thou reproach the adorers of idols?”
Just as the Muslims do their perambulations around the Kaaba, the Buddhists do their walking meditations. To the stranger of Buddhism, it might look like the Buddhist is pacing about, to and fro, but instead he is deep in meditation.
Thus it seemed to be a shame when the Taleban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas because of their misunderstanding. These graven images carved from rock were not created for idolatry but out of devotion for the Buddha. They do not work righteousness through acts of violence and by threats, repress human nature into a parody of religious devotion. Instead, the Taleban and their compatriots, al Qaeda, as well as imitators in Africa, only serve what they call "Shaitan".
Because they cannot hide their mischief due to their exaggerated devoutness, such thugs project their fear of evil within their hearts as an external "Shaitan". So when I hear them calling America, Israel and the West, the "great Shaitan", I interpret it as the great evil hidden in their hearts.
Recently I read of how, in February 2009, the founder of the Pakistani Taleban sect TNSM, Sufi Mohammad was asked to help the Pakistan Army pacify the Taleban in the Swat Valley. While the Pakistan government allowed for Sharia courts, Sufi Mohammad said that because the government would not allow for the courts to work within their own system, rather than aligning with Pakistan's justice system, he declared that Sharia would not work within democracy by saying:
"Democracy is un-Islamic."
At that point, negotiations for disarming the Pakistani Taleban ended. Sufi Mohammad blames democracy for causing factionalism within Pakistan. I have to laugh at this statement because the factionalism actually proves that democracy is not working in the rural areas of Pakistan. It appears to work in certain parts of Islamabad and other urban areas of Pakistan in a limited fashion, depending on your connections with the ruling elite.
By July of 2009, the Pakistan government arrested Sufi Mohammad and charged him with sedition. As of January 2011, he has denied any ties with his organization TNSM and the Pakistani Taleban, declaring that he had only been seeking to establish Sharia in Malakand in Swat district.
I'm not fond of Sufi Mohammad's group TNSM because in October 2007 members of his group used dynamite to erase the face of the twenty-three foot high image of a seated Buddha carved sometime in Seventh century CE. It is a reddish rock face on a hillside southwest of Jehanabad (Shakhorai) near Manglawar in Swat district. In the West this would be considered defacement of a national heritage treasure.
What vandals! This is like going up to a bronze image of the Buddha and whipping out a ball peen hammer to beat the face of the Buddha into lumps of metal. Is this not unlike the statement by Paul the Apostle who said "If your hand offends you, cut it off"? I suppose then if my face offended me, then I am to get plastic surgery! Sorry, I'm stuck with my face for life. Plastic surgery is not an option. :p
When religious leaders make these statements in Christianity, they are forms of rhetoric and are not meant to be carried out by the devout. Yet almost everything in TNSM tends to be taken literally. It is like they are stuck in a childlike state of mind, and have no ability to understand symbolism and metaphor. It makes me wonder how educated Sufi Mohammad and his son "Radio Mullah" truly are.
Unlike the Pakistan in Taleban militants of TTP, the father of the Taleban Maulana Sami ul Haq is not against vaccination. In December 2013, he issued a fatwa favoring polio vaccination, stating that "vaccination against deadly diseases is helpful in their prevention according to research conducted by renowned medical specialists." He added that the vaccines used against these diseases are in no way harmful.
My take on this is that Maulana Sami ul Haq was probably moved by the fact that vaccinations after partition kept much of Pakistan from polio's ravages. Sadly though, his proposal to train Pakistan men for jihad if elected president means he is a man to watch carefully in Pakistan.
Given that ul Haq is the father of the Taleban, it means that the Taliban of Afghanistan are applying the philosophy of a foreigner to ensure that Sharia is the rule of law in Afghanistan. However, it also implies that America leaving Afghanistan should not result in a smaller force there since the experience in Iraq shows that an occupation force of NATO troops will have no hope in pacifying the Taliban there.
So whatever strategy they have after 2014, be prepared for the Taliban to come into the news more often through the year.
Reference:
Quran 13 - Noble Quran:
http://www.noblequran.com/translation/surah13.html
Zikr / Dhikr - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhikr
Kaaba - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba
Taleban in Pakistan -Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleban_in_Pakistan
TNSM - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
Sufi Mohammad - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi_Muhammad
Pakistan's Heritage at Risk - Archaeology:
http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/pakistan/
Maulana Sami ul Haq - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Sami_ul_Haq
en l'unicité de Dieu,
et dont les cœurs se reposer
dans le souvenir de Dieu,
en vérité, dans le souvenir de Dieu
ne tranquillisent les coeurs?.
Ceux qui croient
en l'Unicité de Dieu,
et font de bonnes oeuvres,
toutes sortes de bonheur
est pour eux et un bel endroit
de la déclaration finale.
In the original translation, Quran 13: 28-29 declares:
28. Those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah - Islamic Monotheism), and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah, Verily, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest.
29. Those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah - Islamic Monotheism), and work righteousness, Tuba (it means all kinds of happiness or name of a tree in Paradise) is for them and a beautiful place of (final) return.
In my sect of Buddhism, Buddha Remembrance consists of recitation of the Nembutsu. In Islam, Zikr (dhikr) refers to remembrance, specifically by recitation of the names of God silently. Given that the name of the Buddha is contained in the Nembutsu, zikr is remotely similar to Buddha Remembrance.
When one casts away the quasi-polytheism that Buddhism appears to be, it appears to be more similar to Islam than to Christianity but only within the context of that proverb from the Quran. To objectors of the monotheism faiths (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) who as strangers to Buddhism misunderstand the statues of Buddhas and the many Bodhisattvas, gods and other cosmic creatures who protect the Dharma as idolism, Rai Manuhar Kuchwáhhah has said:
“O Moslem! if the Kâbah be the object of thy worship,
Why dost thou reproach the adorers of idols?”
Just as the Muslims do their perambulations around the Kaaba, the Buddhists do their walking meditations. To the stranger of Buddhism, it might look like the Buddhist is pacing about, to and fro, but instead he is deep in meditation.
Thus it seemed to be a shame when the Taleban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas because of their misunderstanding. These graven images carved from rock were not created for idolatry but out of devotion for the Buddha. They do not work righteousness through acts of violence and by threats, repress human nature into a parody of religious devotion. Instead, the Taleban and their compatriots, al Qaeda, as well as imitators in Africa, only serve what they call "Shaitan".
Because they cannot hide their mischief due to their exaggerated devoutness, such thugs project their fear of evil within their hearts as an external "Shaitan". So when I hear them calling America, Israel and the West, the "great Shaitan", I interpret it as the great evil hidden in their hearts.
Recently I read of how, in February 2009, the founder of the Pakistani Taleban sect TNSM, Sufi Mohammad was asked to help the Pakistan Army pacify the Taleban in the Swat Valley. While the Pakistan government allowed for Sharia courts, Sufi Mohammad said that because the government would not allow for the courts to work within their own system, rather than aligning with Pakistan's justice system, he declared that Sharia would not work within democracy by saying:
"Democracy is un-Islamic."
At that point, negotiations for disarming the Pakistani Taleban ended. Sufi Mohammad blames democracy for causing factionalism within Pakistan. I have to laugh at this statement because the factionalism actually proves that democracy is not working in the rural areas of Pakistan. It appears to work in certain parts of Islamabad and other urban areas of Pakistan in a limited fashion, depending on your connections with the ruling elite.
By July of 2009, the Pakistan government arrested Sufi Mohammad and charged him with sedition. As of January 2011, he has denied any ties with his organization TNSM and the Pakistani Taleban, declaring that he had only been seeking to establish Sharia in Malakand in Swat district.
I'm not fond of Sufi Mohammad's group TNSM because in October 2007 members of his group used dynamite to erase the face of the twenty-three foot high image of a seated Buddha carved sometime in Seventh century CE. It is a reddish rock face on a hillside southwest of Jehanabad (Shakhorai) near Manglawar in Swat district. In the West this would be considered defacement of a national heritage treasure.
What vandals! This is like going up to a bronze image of the Buddha and whipping out a ball peen hammer to beat the face of the Buddha into lumps of metal. Is this not unlike the statement by Paul the Apostle who said "If your hand offends you, cut it off"? I suppose then if my face offended me, then I am to get plastic surgery! Sorry, I'm stuck with my face for life. Plastic surgery is not an option. :p
When religious leaders make these statements in Christianity, they are forms of rhetoric and are not meant to be carried out by the devout. Yet almost everything in TNSM tends to be taken literally. It is like they are stuck in a childlike state of mind, and have no ability to understand symbolism and metaphor. It makes me wonder how educated Sufi Mohammad and his son "Radio Mullah" truly are.
Unlike the Pakistan in Taleban militants of TTP, the father of the Taleban Maulana Sami ul Haq is not against vaccination. In December 2013, he issued a fatwa favoring polio vaccination, stating that "vaccination against deadly diseases is helpful in their prevention according to research conducted by renowned medical specialists." He added that the vaccines used against these diseases are in no way harmful.
My take on this is that Maulana Sami ul Haq was probably moved by the fact that vaccinations after partition kept much of Pakistan from polio's ravages. Sadly though, his proposal to train Pakistan men for jihad if elected president means he is a man to watch carefully in Pakistan.
Given that ul Haq is the father of the Taleban, it means that the Taliban of Afghanistan are applying the philosophy of a foreigner to ensure that Sharia is the rule of law in Afghanistan. However, it also implies that America leaving Afghanistan should not result in a smaller force there since the experience in Iraq shows that an occupation force of NATO troops will have no hope in pacifying the Taliban there.
So whatever strategy they have after 2014, be prepared for the Taliban to come into the news more often through the year.
Reference:
Quran 13 - Noble Quran:
http://www.noblequran.com/translation/surah13.html
Zikr / Dhikr - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhikr
Kaaba - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba
Taleban in Pakistan -Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleban_in_Pakistan
TNSM - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
Sufi Mohammad - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi_Muhammad
Pakistan's Heritage at Risk - Archaeology:
http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/pakistan/
Maulana Sami ul Haq - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Sami_ul_Haq
L'ouverture / The Opening (poem)
Dans la louange de Dieu,
le Tout Miséricordieux,
le Très Miséricordieux.
Toutes les louanges sont à Dieu,
Seigneur des mondes -
le Tout Miséricordieux,
le Très Miséricordieux,
Maître du Jour de la Rétribution.
C'est vous que nous adorons et vous,
nous demander de l'aide.
Guide-nous dans le droit chemin -
le chemin de ceux que Tu as comblés faveur,
pas de ceux qui ont évoqué la colère
ou ceux qui sont égarés.
Quran en Francais, Sura 1
This is the Saheeh Translation of the Koran.
I chose French because, despite the Islamophobes there, the Muslims are protected by French law. As long as the Muslims moderate Islam with French assimilation, they are treated like any other Francophone, up to a point. However, the State is not so kindly.
As well, there appears to be some ghettoization which is the usual European response to foreigners. While in the Middle East assassinations of Americans and other foreigners was common in Lebanon during the Civil War, it was Syria's dominance of Lebanon that saw criminals of Syrian extraction oppress the Lebanese from the 1970s until 2005.
Syria is in civil war because the elite are corrupt Alawite Shi'a who aligned themselves to Iran. All Hezbollah is are a bunch of thugs who pervert the Koran.
I wrote the poem in French because the French were the last ones to attempt destablization of Arabian land after the Ottoman Empire collapsed after 1918.
However, it is the combination of English and French colonialism that led to England coming up with the Balfour declaration that led to Jewish terrorism in the Levant and the eventual founding of Israel with US backing.
America is complicit in this failed promise by the British. In helping the Saudis arise in power by paying them US dollars for oil, she is complicit in the corruption of the Saudi elites in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and elsewhere in the world.
Iraq fell to Baathists due to the unwillingness of the English to protect the Hashemite king of Iraq, though it was the influx of Lebanese and Syrian government officials that led to that revolt.
Of all the kingdoms, it is Jordan that has the last remnants of Mohammad's descendants ruling a nation that is pro-American and actually serves as a shining example of keeping religion and politics separate, unlike Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States.
Second to this, Lebanon used to be an example of Arabs, Christian, Druze, and Muslims alike working together in a cosmopolitan nation until Syria's elite morphed their fear of their peaceful existence as intrigue while Syria was plagued by military coups due to pan-Arab nationalism. Now pan-Muslim nationalism threatens them.
Indeed, pan-Muslim nationalism and the Khalifa movement in Arab circles is the new threat to Western interests.
A look at Pakistan shows us how Sharia works: Swat valley is under Sharia law due to the dominance of Taleban. Their apologists accuse the schoolgirl Malala and her family of co-opting with the CIA. The truth is, the BBC offered her a blogging position. This conspiracy theory that the CIA promote intrigue in this way is merely a cover for Arabic paranoia of the West and a hatred for America due to the failure of the British to honour their promise to the Hashemites.
Al Qaeda and their comrades the Taleban, and all their Islamist admirers and wannabes are due to pan-Muslim nationalism and their wish for the rise of a Caliphate under Sharia law. Yet America also supports this too.
Why? Because the best way to keep the Middle East in thrall is to distract people from peace, and an endless war scenario promised by the pan-Muslim nationalists who are terrorists, criminals and anti-Islam fits into American dominance of the Middle East.
All the Ukraine situation is sabre shaking. War there would only distract from America's mission: to indirectly support the terrorists where need be (Syria) and to launch drone attacks in Pakistan to ensure in the instability of that nation, all in the name of war.
In some ways, Assad is like Suharto of Indonesia before he fell. Corruption like that, Americans can rightly blame Iran. However, the nuclear problem there is also the fault of America, the result of karma for supporting the corrupt regime of the Shah of Iran. I bet no one saw the revolution there coming.
However it is precisely because of conspiracy theory that the hardliners in Iran are anti-American and anti-West. For the EU has yet to apologize for the former colonial powers of France, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Portugal and their complicity in the problems their former colonies have faced. This includes the Rwanda and Congo problem, which also is orchestrated by American interests due to rare-earth mines that the West needs to make smartphones and other technology like LED TVs.
Thus the first chapter of the Koran is a fitting reminder to teach us about humility. Only the atheists would scorn this. Their ignorance empowers the socialists whose view of history ignores religion's role in it. That is how propaganda arises: by filtering out from history all the key players you don't agree with.
If this sounds like I am sympathetic to Muslims, then I admit to that. However, al Qaeda and Taleban aren't true Muslims. They are almost like Republicans who pray but promote Islamophobia. No, actually they are worse than Republicans. And that is only because they are still free to strike terror in the hearts of everyone who truly believes in freedom.
This includes the freedom of religion, which Sharia is not.
le Tout Miséricordieux,
le Très Miséricordieux.
Toutes les louanges sont à Dieu,
Seigneur des mondes -
le Tout Miséricordieux,
le Très Miséricordieux,
Maître du Jour de la Rétribution.
C'est vous que nous adorons et vous,
nous demander de l'aide.
Guide-nous dans le droit chemin -
le chemin de ceux que Tu as comblés faveur,
pas de ceux qui ont évoqué la colère
ou ceux qui sont égarés.
Quran en Francais, Sura 1
This is the Saheeh Translation of the Koran.
I chose French because, despite the Islamophobes there, the Muslims are protected by French law. As long as the Muslims moderate Islam with French assimilation, they are treated like any other Francophone, up to a point. However, the State is not so kindly.
As well, there appears to be some ghettoization which is the usual European response to foreigners. While in the Middle East assassinations of Americans and other foreigners was common in Lebanon during the Civil War, it was Syria's dominance of Lebanon that saw criminals of Syrian extraction oppress the Lebanese from the 1970s until 2005.
Syria is in civil war because the elite are corrupt Alawite Shi'a who aligned themselves to Iran. All Hezbollah is are a bunch of thugs who pervert the Koran.
I wrote the poem in French because the French were the last ones to attempt destablization of Arabian land after the Ottoman Empire collapsed after 1918.
However, it is the combination of English and French colonialism that led to England coming up with the Balfour declaration that led to Jewish terrorism in the Levant and the eventual founding of Israel with US backing.
America is complicit in this failed promise by the British. In helping the Saudis arise in power by paying them US dollars for oil, she is complicit in the corruption of the Saudi elites in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and elsewhere in the world.
Iraq fell to Baathists due to the unwillingness of the English to protect the Hashemite king of Iraq, though it was the influx of Lebanese and Syrian government officials that led to that revolt.
Of all the kingdoms, it is Jordan that has the last remnants of Mohammad's descendants ruling a nation that is pro-American and actually serves as a shining example of keeping religion and politics separate, unlike Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States.
Second to this, Lebanon used to be an example of Arabs, Christian, Druze, and Muslims alike working together in a cosmopolitan nation until Syria's elite morphed their fear of their peaceful existence as intrigue while Syria was plagued by military coups due to pan-Arab nationalism. Now pan-Muslim nationalism threatens them.
Indeed, pan-Muslim nationalism and the Khalifa movement in Arab circles is the new threat to Western interests.
A look at Pakistan shows us how Sharia works: Swat valley is under Sharia law due to the dominance of Taleban. Their apologists accuse the schoolgirl Malala and her family of co-opting with the CIA. The truth is, the BBC offered her a blogging position. This conspiracy theory that the CIA promote intrigue in this way is merely a cover for Arabic paranoia of the West and a hatred for America due to the failure of the British to honour their promise to the Hashemites.
Al Qaeda and their comrades the Taleban, and all their Islamist admirers and wannabes are due to pan-Muslim nationalism and their wish for the rise of a Caliphate under Sharia law. Yet America also supports this too.
Why? Because the best way to keep the Middle East in thrall is to distract people from peace, and an endless war scenario promised by the pan-Muslim nationalists who are terrorists, criminals and anti-Islam fits into American dominance of the Middle East.
All the Ukraine situation is sabre shaking. War there would only distract from America's mission: to indirectly support the terrorists where need be (Syria) and to launch drone attacks in Pakistan to ensure in the instability of that nation, all in the name of war.
In some ways, Assad is like Suharto of Indonesia before he fell. Corruption like that, Americans can rightly blame Iran. However, the nuclear problem there is also the fault of America, the result of karma for supporting the corrupt regime of the Shah of Iran. I bet no one saw the revolution there coming.
However it is precisely because of conspiracy theory that the hardliners in Iran are anti-American and anti-West. For the EU has yet to apologize for the former colonial powers of France, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Portugal and their complicity in the problems their former colonies have faced. This includes the Rwanda and Congo problem, which also is orchestrated by American interests due to rare-earth mines that the West needs to make smartphones and other technology like LED TVs.
Thus the first chapter of the Koran is a fitting reminder to teach us about humility. Only the atheists would scorn this. Their ignorance empowers the socialists whose view of history ignores religion's role in it. That is how propaganda arises: by filtering out from history all the key players you don't agree with.
If this sounds like I am sympathetic to Muslims, then I admit to that. However, al Qaeda and Taleban aren't true Muslims. They are almost like Republicans who pray but promote Islamophobia. No, actually they are worse than Republicans. And that is only because they are still free to strike terror in the hearts of everyone who truly believes in freedom.
This includes the freedom of religion, which Sharia is not.
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