People of the Book, Why Do You Fight? (satire)

A close look at the Quran would reveal that it is based mainly on the Jewish Talmud, as is the Bible.

Both books - even the Bible - affirm that all Christians, Jews and Muslims are sons and daughters of God - hence the term "people of the Book.".

Yet the Bible does not state that Jesus is the Only-Begotten. Rather, this doctrine was rooted in the pagan religions of the Gentile converts and assimilated as the Trinity. To believe that the Christ Jesus was solely a prophet and a son of God as all believers are sons and daughters of God is heresy to Christendom today.

Indeed, it is the evangelical Christians that aggressively proselyte the blasphemy — to Jews and Muslims alike — that Jesus is the Christ and God's Only Begotten. Were it not for insisting that Jesus is the Son of God, neither Jew not Muslim would persecute a Christian.

Yet the new Crusaders, those Evangelical fanatics, came to Iraq and Afghanistan with the invading US troops to offend the Muslims.

This is because of that aggressive evangelism by Christendom that the Crusades happened in response to the failure of the eastern Roman empire of Byzantium to appease the Muslims since the 7th Century CE.

When bribes only led the Muslim army to demand more tributes, the Emperor of Byzantium asked the western Roman Empire for help, which lead bastard sons of European kings to massacre innocent Syriac Christians, sack Constantinople, and build kingdoms in the Holy Land, much to the chagrin of the Muslims.

None of this was for the glory of God, but so that both Christians and Muslims could amass war booty. For both the Muslims and the Christians worship God, but their true motives are based on human glory. Their faith in God has never justified war. Rather, their willingness to go to war shows their lack of faith.

Today it is no different: Islamic State has obtained booty, be it ransom for captives or brides forced into sexual slavery. In contrast the West maintains it is fighting the IS for humanitarian reasons.

In fact, the West is in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to recapture oil wells as dictated by multinational corporations.

Thus the Christians and their Zionist allies are there to help affirm the propaganda that Muslims are terrorists and they are fighting for peace. The Evangelical zealots are there to fan the flames of enmity even higher, showing once again that Crusaders wish only an Armageddon rather than peace just like their Islamic State counterparts.

It is these militants be they Zionist and Muslim that want Armageddon, but shall not get it. This is because mankind's actions will not usher in the Millenarian end of days, no matter what American televangelists and their Muslim counterparts say.

For these militants ignore the truth: only God knows when the End of Days is near. No amount of war will usher it in. It never happened during the Crusades circa 1000 CE, and neither shall it happen now.

So, why do Christian militants and their Zionist backers fight against their Muslim counterparts? Only to affirm the propaganda that Arabs are only Muslims, and these Muslims are terrorists, despite the fact that the Zionists are in control of the propagandists in mainstream media.

Yet not all Arabs are Muslims. Some of them are Christians while other Arabs are Jews. Few of them are terrorists, and those of them that are terrorist have bought the propaganda that the biggest evil in the world is the West especially America.

For recent history tends to prove their fears that Islam is threatened by the Zionists through the islamophobia propaganda, which is based on the lies about Arabs and Muslims.

However, the root of the problem is the bigotry of the West.

It is not Islam that is the problem; it is the lies that Zionist controlled media continues to manufacture which has led American domestic terrorists - most of whom are white supremists - to murder innocent people, most of whom are not Muslims.

It is the bigotry of French nationalists that lead Muslim youth of France to riot and turn to crime.

And that bigotry may lead to a civil war in the West between Muslim youth and Western youth, both of them radicalized by right wing ideology that says "my tribe is better than yours."

Thus are we at the pinnacle where we could let the governments of the West be consumed by the tyranny of fascism or remember the words of a famous prophet who said, "Love one another" and "love your enemies". He also warned mankind that living by the sword implies dying by the sword to discourage his disciples from ushering in the Kingdom of Heaven by force because it would only lead to death.

This prophet was Jesus.

Indeed, Jesus also tempered his love with a limited militancy by healing the ear of a soldier accidentally cut by the sword of one of his disciples. Yet the wielder of the second sword has never been known, probably to prevent the founding of a Christian militant sect that would have died by the sword.

In any case, militancy is anathema to Christianity, no matter what the militants say. If you live by the sword, be you Christian, Jew or Muslim, then you die by the sword. If this be for God, then he mourns the loss as much he does of the martyrs.

On this note, I leave you with this quote, which summarizes the folly of trying to usher in the Kingdom of Heaven by force:

'We often hear Jesus words quoted, “… for all who take the sword will perish by the sword (Matt. 26:52).” Some say He was condemning all military action throughout time. If this was the case, Jesus words simply were not true. Everyone who has taken the sword in conflict has not died violently. I believe Jesus’ words were most likely a warning to His own people. He was saying if you try to bring the kingdom of God by violence, you will all die. He was right. Those who rebelled against Rome died often in a very cruel manner.

'The instrument that would overcome Rome was not the sword but the cross. It was not an act of violence but an act of love. It was not vengeance but forgiveness that eventually conquered the Roman empire.' - http://www.thorncrownjournal.com/timeofchrist/zealots.html
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Update: December 14, 2015

Yet the violent persecution by Muslims against Christians of the Middle East is being hidden from the unsuspecting citizens of Western nations. Like their Jewish brothers and sisters, Muslims find the Christians' glorification of the Christ Jesus as Son of God blasphemy.

There is much evidence to support the Muslim persecution of Ahmadiyyans, Christians, Jews, and Yazidis.

In Pakistan, Ahmadiyyans are banned from calling themselves Muslim and can be imprisoned for 10 years under Pakistan's anti-terrorist legislation.

In Syria, Christian boys and men were murdered by Islamic State terrorists, simply for being Christians. Their wives, sisters and daughters were forced to become sex slaves for the militants.

In northern Iraq, Yazidi women captured by Islamic State militants were forced to work in a brothel. Subject to brutal rape, some of them have committed suicide rather than be horribly abused by their captors.

Yet both America and Canada are letting in Syrian refugees, most of whom are Muslim. There is no quota for Christians because the Western nations are leaving that up to Christian refugee organizations to handle — that is, if the Syrian Christians make it safely out of Syria.

IMHO the people of the book — the Ahmadiyyans, the Baha'i, the Christians, the Jews, the Muslims and the Yazidi — are left take care of their own.

But a few questions still remain:

• Will the Ahmadiyyans, Baha'i, and Yazidi be free to choose to follow their own traditions without Christian evangelicals soft selling their way of worship?
  
• Will the same friction between Christians and Muslims that occurred in Syria continue in Canada and in the US?
  
• Will the Christians stand up to protect the people they sponsor without discrimination?

Only time with tell. All in all, the Christian charity groups had better plan their refugee program well and ensure that all people of the book are protected under the law.

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References:

Strange End-Times Beliefs Of Some 'Evangelical' Christians:
http://www.rense.com/general72/ssome.htm

Middle East attacks on Christians cause for concern - Russian ombudsman: https://www.rt.com/politics/320065-russian-ombudsman-voices-concern-over/

Desperate plight of Yazidi woman sold into sex slavery by ISIS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2801353/i-ve-raped-30-times-s-not-lunchtime-desperate-plight-yazidi-woman-begged-west-bomb-brothel-isis-militants-sold-sex-slavery.html

Faithkeepers is an upcoming documentary film about the violent persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East: http://faithkeepers.clarionproject.org/

The Syrian Crisis: Cutting Through the Propaganda (satire)

Image courtesy of Reuters

Robert Ford is why wannabe jihadis are flocking to Syria to fight against the corrupt regime of Bashir al Assad.

Thanks to strong propaganda against Syria, primarily due to its ties with North Korea, the US government has created the current crisis in that country.

Since Robert Stephen Ford is the mastermind of American sponsored terrorism in Syria, the blood is truly on the hands of American government.

However, Islam is not the enemy in Syria.

That would be the US-backed propagandists labeling Assad an evil tyrant in their mainstream media. His crime would be aligning with Iran and dealing with North Korea. Yet the majority of people suffering are Palestinians, displaced by the birth of Israel in 1947.

Hence, Syria's Arab Spring is but a continuation of the struggle between a people (the Palestinians) demonized by propaganda and a world misled into believing Israel is one of the good guys.

If you do not believe Israel is on our side, then you are an anti-Semite, even if your lack of trust in Israel is based on the cold facts that Israel acts like a client state of America and its imperialism in the Middle East.

Even America's invasion of Iraq is but a cold and calculated move for American dominance in the Middle East, or, so the propaganda goes.

However, both sides are in error since the endless war is never over, because the so-called oppressed nation of Israel will be exposed for crying wolf. Yet the sheeple will side with Israel because of right-wing propaganda painting all Muslims as caricatures of Islamic jihadism.

If you hate all Muslims then know that you have been duped by the mainstream media and your gut feeling has been manipulated by propaganda from CNN and FOX News. We all saw how well they tried to blame Amerithrax on Iraq when it's more likely that might have been an inside job.

Muslims who know the truth will laugh at this compliance with propaganda. Nobody who is Muslim in the Middle East and well educated believes al Qaeda and their ilk are Muslim. They know them to be criminals who will burn in hell for their crimes against humanity.

Once, right wing militants like the Muslim Brotherhood will cheer on those criminal terrorists who hide under the robes of a pious Muslim. Now, with the rise of the Islamic State in northern Iraq, all the Muslims have condemned them.

Those who condemn Syria should remember that Ambassador Robert Ford egged on the civilians of Syria to protest in a country where the Assad regime rules with an iron fist.

Given that the rebels did not sent their envoys to the failed peace talks in Geneva, that makes them look like they are only interested in an endless war controlled by ideology rather than by cold hard facts.

However, if you think Syrians are suffering, think again. These people in the picture are not Syrians. The smart ones with the means have already fled Syria, either fleeing to Turkey or to America. It is the unfortunate ones that end up anywhere else, including Jordan and Egypt.

For the people in the photograph are Palestinians, and they suffer due to ideology be it Shi'a or Sunni or even American foreign policy as expedited by Israel, often with prejudice favoring Jews over Arab.

Indeed, the enemy here is not Assad. It is those criminals behind al Qaeda and the Taleban, and especially the Islamic State. No Muslim in their right mind would support them. It is they who threaten, Syria and now Iraq, because their Sharia will ruin both Syria and Iraq were they to win. Any Muslim who supports the Islamic State is Muslim in name only. For the Qatari and Saudis who are behind them are crazy, crazy for oil money, and eager to pay for a holy war, contrary to Islam, all thanks to Big Oil.

Think about that the next time you line up for gas at the gas pumps: your driving privileges support terrorism. It also leads to endless war in the Middle East. So regarding any propaganda about Muslims that you hold, you've been lied to just to manipulate your fears by mainstream media.

If you really cared about the Middle East, then please sell your second car, which you don't really need. Its convenience is echoed in millions of other people with two vehicles actually fund unrest in the Middle East.

Yet, were I to tell this to people filling up their SUVs at the gas pumps, they would be angry due to their fear of losing status among their peers. It is such a waste of money but everyone is doing it, hoping that another recession controlled by powers-that-be won't cause them to lose their jobs.

For all these wars in the Middle East are the doing of elites around the world who want to make a profit from it. Who cares if you lose your jobs? Who cares if Palestinians suffer in Syria? They are also hoping you side with the thinly veiled propaganda designed to cause you to hate the Muslims.

Still, what good does this do except gain more subscribers for the propaganda machine called mainstream media? Indeed, the mainstream media sources are merely propaganda outlets for US foreign policy which has caused much of the civil unrest in the world today. By pushing democracy, America has only caused anarchy in the world.

In my opinion, Muslims were never our enemies. Islamic terrorists did not fly planes into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That is only what the elites want you to believe. You have been lied to.

A jihadi is not Islamic -- he is an Islamist. The term "Islamic terrorist" is used for propaganda, and is only true within context of mainstream media. They are a corporate terrorist network that is nominally Islamic in that they take what is in the Quran and its hadiths only to utterly distort its true meaning.

I'm sure that people who believe otherwise think that what I am writing is propaganda. However, I am telling you truth based on what Muslims tell me. They were never the enemy. That has always been truth. I am just saddened that few people are willing to discover the truth about what Muslims think about those quasi-Muslim terrorists - the Islamists - that the mainstream media write about.

However, it's not up to me to change the minds of bigots. They would rather listen to the propaganda than work to open their minds to Truth.

It is Sayyid Qutb who is the father of Islamism. However, the acts of violent revolution are influenced by his words.

By "setting up the kingdom of God on earth, and eliminating the kingdom of man," Islamists think they are "taking power from the hands of its human usurpers and restoring it to God alone".

Instead, they are taking power into their own hands and forcing sharia in contravention to the Quran by limiting the choices of their Muslim subjects in the Islamic State to submit or die.

Thus, the Islamic State is merely continuing human usurpation and oppression of Muslims by Islamists who are political ideologists bent on total control and domination of the Ummah that they are purported of restoring power to God alone.

Since this has occurred in northern Iraq and eastern Syria, it is still a part of the Syrian crisis. That crisis has proven time and again of being orchestrated by American foreign policy in Syria, and funded by Qatari and Saudi sympathizers of the Syrian rebels.

For the almost-religious zeal of the American government to force democracy on the Middle East, especially Afghanistan, Iraq and even Syria will only lead to more anarchy in the Middle East.

Perhaps then, the Islamic State is only a symptom of that anarchy, which makes Islamism a Muslim answer to globalism. Might that mean jihadi is just another name for "freedom fighter" and the freedom that they are fighting for is the extreme of the right to freedom of religion?

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Originally posted March 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM
Update posted July 10, 2014 zy 1:29 AM

Reference:

A shocking image of Syria's brutal war - The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/28/shocking-image-syria-brutal-war-yarmouk

Who is Ambassador Robert Stephen Ford? The Architect of US Sponsored Terrorism in Syria:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-ambassador-robert-stephen-ford-the-architect-of-us-sponsored-terrorism-in-syria/5385973

The Suppression of Arab Spring (satire)

al-Arsuzi is one of the founding fathers of Arab Baathism, which dominates Syrian government.

Arab Baathism is a mainly secular ideology based on Arab Marxism, due to pan-Arabist ideology. It differs greatly from the pseudo-religious ideology of al Qaeda and the Islamists, who are inspired by Salafi and Wahhabi ideology that dominates Saudi Arabian politics and the Saudi regimes of Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as well as Bahrain.

Most Muslims devoted to Salafi and Wahhabi are not fanatics like al Qaeda. Sharia does not promote the killing of a Muslim by another Muslim. A Muslim would call it haram, which means "forbidden" or "taboo".

I would even consider al-Qaeda and the Islamists as well as other related terrorist groups (Chechen, Somalian, and home-grown terrorists seduced by on-line charismatic Muslim jihad rhetoric) to actually be subconscious unbelievers who project their unbelief onto other Muslims outside their small in-group.

When they get the expected outrage from Muslims, these fanatics then play the al Qaeda version of King of the Hill, in which they claim to be the only true believers. Their twisted logic is thus based on a pathological denial of their unbelief combined with the promise that by ridding the world of unbelievers in a holy war of jihad, the al Qaeda jihadi will on his death be carried to Paradise by angels who are sacred virgins.

I consider it likely these angels are actually Valkyries carrying fallen souls to Purgatory to prepare them like gold ore for refinement.

In my opinion, Arab Spring was suppressed in the Arab nations I have mentioned in this article as well being currently suppressed in Syria today.

Though the current situation in Syria is not a civil war but a proxy war by the following list of characters on one side.

This is because money talks as Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia finance the al Qaeda fanatics with covert approval by Canada, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Australia, who are the Five Eyes of the West.

Some of these characters were in the International Security Assistance Force that invaded Afghanistan to replace the repressive regime of the Taleban with the closest thing to a democratic government. A similar coalition known as Multi-National - Iraq also invaded Iraq under the false flag of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Lumping the nations that opted out of this Coalition together, I'll call the ones who may have trade ties with the three Arab nations and the Five Eyes nations, the Friends of the Coalition in Afghanistan and Iraq (FCAI) to make this article readable.

Opposing the Coalition are Russia and China.

Most of the European Union (EU) is neutral but willing to make trade pacts with the newly minted democratic governments of both Afghanistan and Iraq while keeping whatever trade ties they may have with both sides, along with the Coalition.

As well, the FCAI may be considered to be neutral but also willing to do trade with Russia and China.

Some of the EU may also be in the FCAI. Most of the nations in Africa are in the FCAI.

To simply their relationship, let's imagine three circles intersecting each other. On the left is Russia and China and on the right, the Coalition. Intersecting both of these circles is the FCAI.

Moving right along, my reason for presenting a short history lesson of Arab Baathism by introducing one of the founding fathers is because of the current crisis in Syria. My analysis of al Qaeda however is due to their presence in Syria.

By using psychobabble in describing their subconscious projection and conscious denial of it, I am attempting to present humor into the situation. As well, the description of a jihadi's afterlife is presented in terms that a Westerner can understand. I merely paraphrased the al Qaeda political ideology.

As for depicting the angels as being like the Valkyries taking a jihadi to Purgatory, I am parodying an unorthodox mashup of Norse mythology about the Valkyries who were said to take fallen Viking warriors to Valhalla, the Norse Paradise for warriors combined with the Christian ideal of a Purgatory for fallen souls and added a hint of my personally created mythology about Purgatory and subtly implied that fallen souls will redeemed after being purified like gold ore into pure gold, perhaps after being purified in a pit of brimstone and fire. ;)

My opinion about Arab Spring failing in Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia implies that it never appeared in those nations.

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References:

Zaki al-Arsuzi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaki_al-Arsuzi

Five Eyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

International Security Assistance Force: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force

Multi-Nation Force - Iraq: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93_Iraq

The Moors Declined Due to Economic Competition with the Holy Roman Empire (satire)

I once checked the genetic map for Spain. It turns out that the ancestry of Spanish men were likely to be Greek, Berber, and what used to be called Moorish, along with a few Normans, Carthaginians, and Visigoths.

On the female side, the mitochondria assaying shows a predominantly Western European gene-pool e.g. Christian Hispanics (of Norman and Visigoth ancestry) sealing trade deals with the Moors by marrying off their daughters to predominantly Berber and a few Arabic Muslims.

Indeed, Spain and a part of France, and Sicily was conquered by the Moors, who soon settled into fiefdoms, only to conquer their neighboring Moorish governor if he kept his borders unguarded.

Once the Moors began to encroach on the Christian northlands of the Iberian peninsula, Christian knights in France were beseeched by emissaries of the Pope to rid Hispania of the Moors.

However, during the Moorish domination of Hispania, increased trade led to alliances between Christians, Jews and Muslims. IMO the reason for the Inquisition was originally to ensure piety and forced Christian conversion, so that the Pope's coffers were full of the faithful's tithes (and property when they died without heirs).

So the Colonial Period of Europe was probably due to economic competition with the Muslims. And it is not preposterous to have the Muslims discover America first.

Once the Catholics had the Moors leaving Spain, they at first let the Moors alone, being told they would give up Islam for Christianity along with a few of the Jews. In the end, a mass exodus of Jews left Spain for Constantinople and Asia Minor.

Meanwhile the Moors were forced to accept Christian or be burned at the stake after being tortured by the Inquisitors from Rome, who were Jesuits.

So, it was not just the lust for gold in China that led to Colonial powers of Europe sailing west. It was also the fact that a lot of gold left with the vanquished Moors, and Spain became somewhat impoverished just as the Dark Ages were falling.

Without the Moorish presence, the King and Queen of Portugal had to send explorers to find more gold to rebuild Spain for Western European tastes.

A pity though. The Moors were a cash cow for Europe but the Pope's anti-Muslim bigotry led to the rise of the Plague, since the storehouses of grain probably had less cats keeping the rats at bay due to the wars that drove the Moors out.

Now today, the average European is ignorant of Muslim culture and its history in the Levant and Arabia. So are a great many Americans, whose hatred is unfounded and much Islamophobia is concentrated among neo-conservative religious folk some of whom can barely read science or do their income taxes. As for any sense of history, even their GOP leaders are simpletons about Arab history in the Middle East.

In my opinion, this is probably why 911 happened: to smarten the West up to the fact that it was not Muslims who bombed the World Trade Centres but Islamists and al Qaeda who have made a mockery of Islam by using Salafi and Wahhabi Islam rhetoric in perverted ways.

Meanwhile, these political ideologists are not truly religious but fanatical about Sharia without any compassion or mercy whatsoever. If the descendant of Moors were more organized, then they'd teach the fanatical terrorists about what real Sharia actually is. But alas! They are in an unofficial civil war in Liberia, or dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood west of Tripoli to Morocco.

Indeed, the Arab Spring has yet to bear any fruit of democracy, due to the perversion of Salafi and Wahhabi ideology into its political ideology consisting of being so pious everyone else is an unbeliever and only worthy of death.

Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are their bankrollers, and America and Canada their propagandists.

Is War On Terrorism Worth 3000 American Lives? (satire)

On March 20, 2003 the US launched the War against Terrorism. This was in response to three passenger jets being launched as bombs against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Fortunately, many brave passengers forced the crash of the third plane somewhere in rural Pennsylvania before it could reach its target, the White House.

According to what became a part of the official story, a scion of the Saudi Arabian bin Laden financial empire, Osama, chose himself to become the mastermind of a shadowy Muslim fundamentalist group called al-Qaeda that had been formed with the aid of the Pakistani and support from like-minded Islamist from Egypt.

What is not commonly know is that CIA operatives working within the hierarchy of power within Washington, DC, capitol and home of the Chief Executive of America, the President, have been operating undercover as diplomats within the US Embassy at Islamabad.

They have consistently vetoed the CIA's recommendation to continue with intelligence gathering in the Middle East, leaving that job to the National Security Agency, which according to reports keeps a close eye on the region via the Israeli spy satellite that US investors owns a good chunk of.

As a result of influence by the CIA-trained diplomats in Islamabad, numerous trade deals and also various offers of US aid courtesy of the American taxpayers have been made, or are ongoing. Thus, the Pakistani military has accepted these offers with the tacit approval of government officials in Islamabad.

For Pakistani's military secret service, ISI, has been well funded to supply training to the Taliban, and in aiding in the overthrow of the legitimate government in Afghanistan circa 1989.

However, this move by proxy via Pakistan is the indirect result of US foreign policy, which has been influenced by anti-communism since the McCarthy era in the mid-1950s.

For Afghanistan had been under the thumb of Soviet domination for a decade preceding the civil war that continued throughout much of the 1990s.

Intelligence sources indicate that Osama bin Laden was originally the son of the family that formed the bin Laden corporation which has enjoyed strong trade ties with the Bush family's Carlyle Group since the 1960s.

Officially, Washington has associated bin Laden with al-Qaeda, and has denied any ties between the Bush family and him.

Furthermore, bin Laden had not been captured as of January 31, 2009, and his escape into Pakistan has been confirmed and denied and reconfirmed so many times that President Bush has stated that bin Laden isn't important to the war cause that now has seized the imagination of the American people today.

In my option, the War against Terrorism is American foreign policy just as much as the War against Drugs is.

For this is what American foreign policy consists of: economic dominance of the world in the interests of national security.

This explains American legislation on drug use, mental health, and poverty, both within domestic policy and in influencing other nations to follow suit. Such laws are purported to serve the people, to regulate their happiness, their peace of mind, and their material benefit. Instead, such laws are being abused, serving to oppress the poor even more, and to divide the community.

Drug abuse and its effect on community, the drive to close down mental institutions while retraining mental health care personnel, and the social security system with its overworked administration has only served to prove the old adage that "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer."

Yet American foreign policy only indirectly led to September 11, 2001.

We have to question over $2 billion going to Israel, almost a billion to Egypt, and millions to other nations such as Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.

In total, at least $4 billion from the US go to the Middle East, the majority of it to Israel.

We thought it was for oil, but it's more than that that runs the American money machine. There's also millions of thirsty people in the Middle East, but it is developed nations that own most of the fresh water.

However, it's not just about oil or water; it's also about political power.

Bush's administration went to war because it couldn't afford to alienate millions of Americans who wanted justice to be served in the name of the 3000 people who died in 9-11.

Yet, are lives of thousands of innocent Muslim children, men and women worth the lives of 3000 people? A lot of Americans think so.

I don't. Neither do the Democrats, some of whose representative in DC regret the invasion of Iraq.

Even so, I do not believe it is wise to fully withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq because the threat of al-Qaeda still lingers as of January 15, 2013.

Although Osama may have been executed in Pakistan and his body supposedly dumped in the ocean by the US, al-Qaeda used Iraq as the launching ground against Sunni Muslims' enemies including Shi'a Muslims both in Iraq, Syria and the Levant.

It is not in the US's best interests to bring the troops home, for the enemy is threatening the homeland of the Syrian Arabs whose ancestors chose Jesus over Mohammad. Even though today, in Syria there are Shi'a and Sunni Muslims fighting against each other with Bashar al-Assad depending on Shiite militants, both domestic and abroad (Hezbollah being funded by Iran).

According to the reports from Syria, many Muslims from Syria have become refugees in Jordan (mostly Palestinians), Egypt (predominantly Sunnis), Iran (probably Shiites) and Turkey (secular Syrians and possibly some Christians). I have not read one report about Syrian Christians, but possibly they are refugees in Lebanon along with some Shi'a and a few Sunni militants).

Most likely though the Syriacs are refugees in France and the UK, due to the former colonial powers' ties to the Levant, including Palestine.

There may even be some Syriacs arriving in the US and Canada, for all I know.

In any case, the death of Osama bin Laden has not weakened al-Qaeda. Instead, other home-grown militants in the West are willing to train to become a vital part of what could be seen as the mythical hydra, a beast with many heads.

According to the myth, Hercules was challenged with the task to rid a certain Greek city of this beast, the Lemaean Hydra, a water dragon with heads too numerous to depict. When he cut one head off, two heads replaced it. In a cave beside Lake Lerna the dragon lives, guarding the entrance to the Underworld.

An offspring of Typhon and Echidna, both of whom were noisome children of the earth goddess Gaia, it was lured out by Hercules using fire arrows. After realizing cutting off the heads of the Hydra would be a long task, he retreated to his camp where his nephew Iolus awaited his return. During his absence, Iolus had been visited by the goddess Athena who slyly gave the young lad the inspiration to cauterize the wounds after cutting off the heads of the beast.

With this knowledge, Hercules returned to battle the creature and succeeded in cutting off all the heads but one. At this point, Athena turned his sword golden and Hercules slew the beast. Then he took the arrows in his quill to dip the heads in the poisonous blood of the Hydra.

In actual fact, Hercules was a pawn in the rivalry between Athena and Hera, the wife of Zeus who was King of the Greek Gods and father to Hercules. The reason for this rivalry is that Athena was born from Zeus' head thus making her equal in power to her father. Hera had to learn to give birth on her own to Hephaestus to match him.

Within context of modern times, the myth of Hercules' second task of slaying the Hydra can be applied to Syria and the Middle East. Al-Qaeda is the hydra. America is Hercules. The UK is Zeus. Hera is France, since they had a riot recently that burned a part of Paris. Syria and the Levant represents the cave in which the hydra dwells, and the Lerna is the Mediterranean Sea, whose waves wash on shores of nations from which came most of the members of al-Qaeda. The poisonous blood of the hydra represents the works of Sayyid Qutb and the messages of its current leaders on-line today at Youtube e.g. hate propaganda.

However, the problem here is the firebrand necessary to burn the heads of the hydra might mean more than conventional munitions, for it suggests the pacification of Iran regarding nuclear development might hide the movement of plutonium the US and other nuclear power desire from Iran.

For the nuclear powers were afraid that Iran would arm itself and provide arms to North Korea and other nations who are not too close to the US, including the Ukraine. But that's fodder for another myth at another time.

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Originally posted: January 31, 2009 6:34 PM

Hercules and the Hydra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra

The works of Sayyid Qutb: In the 200s CE the Ghassanids migrated Syria due to a dam flooding their villages in Yemen.

Good Alone Means Nothing (satire)

For good is empty of evil; evil, of good.

Empty implies the quality called "good and evil" is not a thing that has been here since the beginning. Instead it is a reified object of abstract origin made to be real which it is not.

Indeed, there is no reified good or evil.

For the "battle between good and evil" is a metaphor for what each person does in his life.

As well, the devil is not a personification of evil opposed to the personification of good (God).

Rather, the devil or satan is merely the metaphor of the Tempter without any power to harm us, just as God is aloof from man. It is within the mind of a person that the so-called battle rages, not from the supernatural realm (a mystical dimension).

For God is the author of good and evil, and Jesus-worship is a violation of the first commandment that God is your Lord, and he does not take kindly to worship of Jesus, whilst forgetting God is in deity with Jesus. All "Jesus is Lord" means is Jesus is the god of the Chrisitans.

Yet, to Christians, Jesus in deity with God means Jesus is Lord God.

Therefore, asking us to accept Jesus into our hearts is unnecessary as God-worshipers such as Jews and Muslims believe in God, and can do very well without Christianity.

For a Christian, Jesus-worship is empty of God-worship but is full of Jesus in deity with God.

What that means is that Jesus became the means by which Gentiles (non-Jews) and Jewish converts came to know God as the Jews tend to keep Gentiles (Goyim) in the dark about all things Jewish.

Thus it became difficult to know God personally as the Jew would stone any Goyim who tried to read the Talmud.

This is why Christianity was invented: to know God by accepting Jesus into their hearts. In this way, the Bible replaced the Talmud and the Jewish tendency to isolate was rejected.

As well, the Salafi Muslims err in persecuting Coptic Christians because their hate crimes against Christians violate Muslim respect for Christians.

Salafi propaganda is a fascist political tool that combines religious hatred for Christianity with violence against Christians, Jews and so-called unbelievers. For them, good means a worldwide Caliphate, which is impossible to arise due to the tendency for humanity to resist against hate and violence.

As much as anti-Semitism against Jews is a hate crime, so too is oppression of Coptic Christians and violence against unbelievers.

For Salafi Muslims are much too zealous to be considered a proper Muslim. Here the good that is full of hate and empty of love for all people as the Salafi display it is untrue and thus a pernicious fallacy inflamed by their zeal.

Were God to bless their enemies, not one Salafi Muslim would view as such. In their blindness, they are led by Shaitan and fooled by Iblis. Yet a Salafi would deny this and resort to violence while affirming that they are led by God to cleanse the land for the future Caliphate.

I do not write this to inflame a man's heart against Islam, but rather to convince people that Salafi Muslim are Muslim only in name. Even if they pray five times a day, they cannot wash off the curse of Cain, which is to murder others out of jealousy over God's blessing of their works.

Just as a Jew Jealously guards his Talmud from Christian eyes, so too does a Salafi guard his faith from the moderation of mainstream Islam, which he finds to be the root of unbelief of the moderate Muslims.

Good alone means nothing to a zealot. For he thinks he is good and others evil. The truth is, good and evil is relative to the situation, and in the situation of the Salafi warrior, it is good to kill unbelievers. His way is subtly influenced by Shaitan.

No matter how many infidels a Salafi warrior kills, his reward will still be the one of what the Christian calls "sinners", which is a time when to help cleanse the warrior of his sins, he will be cast into the pits of the Hells.

What this means is, the Salafi warrior has besmirched his name and brought shame to his ancestors. It is only by the forgiveness of the rest of humankind that their legacy will be redeemed. For there is a purpose to such zealous acts of mayhem and violence.

Since the Salafis see the Coptic Christian displays of piety as sacrilege, it is due to their level of shame which conflicts with the level of pride the Christians demonstrate when consecrating their churches. It makes me wonder if their ancestors were also guilty of condemning the Christ.

Out of their shame they act with the zeal of madman, killing Christians, be they men, women or child.

All the Christians of this world can do is condemn it and think of the good in forgiving the Salafis, for their ignorance of their actions.

That ignorance is what leads to the evil caused by their violence against the Christians.

It is not the Christian's duty to resist evil through violence, lest by raising a hand they go to Hell.

Even though the Jews may laugh at such things, even their actions bear the fruit now of evil rather good. It may be good to Israeli to kill nine Palestinians, but the one Israeli who was shot by a Palestinian sniper was a contractor to the Israel Defence Force. Though it was also a good for the Palestinians to martyr the killers of their people, their revenge is an evil.

Thus, no good will come of it, all this violence in the Middle East.

If I take a side, then I am no better than them. So on this matter, relative to good and evil, neither side is good (worth defending), be it Christian, Jew or Muslim.

For good alone means nothing.

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Originally written January 20, 2013 4:21 AM

My Opinions on War on Terror (satire)

IMHO I think that both side of the war against terror are missing the point.

Since the enemy isn't eager to save their lives, IMHO the war on terror needs to be fought with less death as a result.

I'd be demanding that the US allow the Taleban to survive as captives and be treated with respect and dignity according to Geneva convention, especially when they might not give you the same respect IF you are captured and do not convert to Islam.

IMHO towards Muslims, I'd follow the path of Nanak. In front of Muslims he denied being Hindu; in front of Hindus he denied being Muslim. In the end, he died at peace. Yet the Muslims didn't get it, and they continued their forced conversion of India during Mughal rule, so that the Sikhs arose to defend their faith.

It was only in the face of oppression that the Sikhs became warriors, and forgot that Nanak had saved his life and countrymen by acting as he did.

It takes a wise person to understand this and realize that it isn't Islam that we are fighting but terrorists hiding behind religion who are nothing more than criminals.

In essence, we are fighting the terrorists to save them from their self oppression which leads to terrorism, oppression against women, and other evils.

Indeed, most people deluded by the glory of war ignore this truth: "A warrior may conquer 1000 foes, but one who conquers himself is the true warrior."

IMHO the war against terror arose because of apocalype propaganda both on the part of the Bush administration and on the part of the terrorists due to their obsession with religion, be it Christian or Islam.

Neither side sees the Dalai Lama or even peace activists as helpful because of the myopic beliefs held by Christians and Muslisms.

As well, both sides of this struggle hide behind God which prevents people from realizing that it is the West's dependence on oil and the West's aim to profit from Americanizing the Middle East that motivates the US.

IMHO ending this war will not stop the terrorists from trying to control the Middle East again.

Fanaticism excludes the ability to fight to save the other person's life, because at its root it is excluded by the obsession with forcing ultraconservative Salafi Islam as way of life on everyone else, due to the fanatic's belief that everyone else are unbelievers (kaf'r) and worthy only of death and not mercy.

For all terrorists who revere the Salafi way of life believe themselves to be the only True believers. Even the worst of Christian fundamentalism is not as criminal as the Salafi way is.

If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I'd choose Chassidic Judaism because of its emphasis of the joy of loving-kindness.

Only both Gnostic Christianity and Sufism are close to solving conflict.

However, my Buddhist heritage would promote moderation of monotheism, lest its excesses lead my astray from Life's true objective: peace of mind.

When I think about the typical Muslim terrorists, it reminds me more of a zombie Apocalypse especially when in Christian apocalyptic propaganda, the Christian dead are supposed to rise up out of their graves to fight in God's army against Satan and his minions, both demons and everyone living and dead who chose the left path over the right path of Jesus.

Indeed, the End of Days looks like a zombie Apocalypse.

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Originally posted June 23, 2010 at 1:07 PM

Can a Good Muslim Help Me to See?

In this blog entry I will be writing about the Muslim world based on what I have read. If the reader is a Muslim, and wishes to correct any errors I have made, then I would be happy to accommodate you. Any misunderstanding about Muslim culture as seen by an unbeliever is all mine.

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There are Maghreb Muslims, mostly Berbers and some Nigerians. Overall, the North Africans tend to be willing to moderate.

Yet much of the fanaticism arises after the men make that fatal trip to Mecca.

Then Qutbian heresy beguiles them, and they may lean towards right-wing fanaticism with anti-Semitic rhetoric.

The irony that both Arabs and Jews are Semitic is lost among them, and so too are the common roots of the Middle East.

The Saudis range between secularism and fanaticism, and the Qutbian fanaticism has led one prince to make money off European drug addicts by importing coke illegally on his private jet from Latin Americas.

If he is caught, all he has to do is pay a hefty fine and the EU condones it, who instead use the bribes to continue the US war on drugs.

In the Muslim Diaspora, the Muslim who actually outshine these criminals tend to be victimized by the fanatics, who pretend to be good Muslim, but are bringing shame to Islam.

A good example of this is what is happening in the suburbs of Europe. Most of the poverty there is not just due to racism but also by a well-moneyed elite which oppresses its own people, and abuses the traditional culture underlying the Muslim world.

It is hard to see how Sharia would work to prevent the excesses of Muslim culture (oppression of women and religious hypocrisy) when the way it is practised now allows men to escape responsibility for their actions (using the cover of a holy war to do violence men, women and child) by calling it God's will.

I find it frustrating that the West sometimes condones the excesses, and the perpetrators are allowed to escape justice.

Though it is commendable that Western justice does not cave in to misuse of anti-racist legislation by Muslims to help their brothers, fathers, uncles and other wretched men escape responsibility for their crimes.

In conclusion, I will like to point out that overall Muslims are an honourable people, and do respect Western law when living in the West.

I thoroughly condemn any Western court which refuses to carry out justice because of "religious sensitivity". We never see such a court condone crime by Christians and Jews alike who may resort to "God's will" to excuse their brutal behavior on their fellow man.

However, I may not be seeing the whole picture here. So my view of Islam is myopic.

Please, could anyone from the Muslim community enlighten me?

Honor Killings are Domestic Abuse

Domestic violence includes honor killing.

That the State agrees honor killing is a religious matter and that somehow it is racist and violation of freedom to practice religion is in itself against sharia.

Sharia does not really condone honor killing. Indeed, the imam would say it is wrong, but the unsaid is "what can a religious leader do in the face of neoconservative Muslims?"

After that, you won't hear of one imam saying anything in public least he be subject to "public opinion" including threats against his life.

Yet if a Christian minister denounces domestic abuse, you NEVER hear of death threats against him, because despite State and Church in the west being separate, because West is based on Judeo-Christian ideology, no one would think of considering a priest or even a preacher of being unbeliever for criticizing violence against women and children.

That Islam condones such violence does not imply that their laws condone it. Rather, it means that Public Opinion in the Muslim world still honors the family before they do God.

In essence, the will of the family (hadith) is honored over sharia (the will of God).

So in essence, tho Muslim claim to believe in God, they still honor the family before they honor Sharia.

Indeed, they claim that honor killing are done out of respect to the will of Muslim society.

Though they believe in God, their first duty is to family, and they cover up their honor killings by hiding behind Mohammed.

For very few imams would dare disturb public order by condemning honor killing, lest some one in the Muslim community then think the community's honor is sullied by such "blasphemy".

In truth, honor killing is still a dishonor to God's will because the head of the family, a man, the father of the victim, usually a woman, kills and justifies it by stating clearly that is it the will of the Muslim community/society.

For the only authority then is Muslim society, not God.

Thus honor killing is done so that the Muslim man's honor is respected by his community.

Yet in taking a life, that Muslim is defying God's will.

That few Muslims see the difference between Muslim society and God with regard to God's will shows the depth of control that a society which uses shame as social control has over its people.

American Empire's War on Iraq Always about Oil

In Iraq, the US won't leave until it gets control of the oil.

It has nothing to do with terrorism. This war has always been about sucking oil out of the ground so American people can still drive their cars.

What America calls Muslim terrorists are actually Arabic militants, mainly, who are similar to Christian fundamentalist militants in that they are fighting to establish a misogynist, violent theocracy in which men are the boss.

Both cultures are deathly afraid of women, especially women's sexuality and react by repressing it through violent means.

Even so, militants are still freedom fighters in that they fight for the freedom of a patriarchal society, meaning free in the sense that a man is free to kill another person in the name of God, which sort of makes their killings a form of ritual sacrifice and thus also makes them Satanic.

The ironic thing is, they think everyone against them is Satanic. However, any ideology that condones violence is not in league with God. This includes even the less violent American Empire.

Getting back to the oil, it is obvious that Big Oil is controlling the shots in Iraq. America is not leaving until the oil deal in Iraq favours them.

What this eventually means for Iraq is possible economic sanctions for any Wahhabi-influenced Muslim activity in the future. What this means is inserting hatred for other groups like the Jews and unbelievers in Muslim school books may be seen as a form of international hate crime.

Currently, most Muslim school books do have hate messages, despite assurances by the Saudi PR zczar.

This is not different from certain Christian groups writing homophobic articles and making homophobic statements. And contrary to their claims that it is a moral issue, homophobia is actually a reaction to the threat that homosexuality has on propagation of the species. If everyone went gay, then birth rates would plummet. This means mess potential souls to save, and potentail access to their assets by churchpeople.

Aside from that, the War On Iraq has always been Big Oil's Proxy War for Iraq's Oil. As well, the Axis of Evil known as Iran, Syria and North Korea is all about Big Oil's lust for oil in those nations.

Sadly though, don't expect Big Oil to clean up its mess. It will pretend it has nothing to do with terrorists. This is a lie, because the US military is the world's biggest terrorist group in the world.

Selling Islam to the Infidels

Muslims may succeed to force non-Muslims (or even enlightened Muslims) in not offending their religion by threatening them with assassinations, bombs and bullets, but increasingly they have a harder time to sell Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance. In fact sincere respect is rarely gained through intimidation. -- Omid Paydar

This quote by Paydar is significant, especially to me. I once asked a Muslim fellow if we could become friends, and discuss Islam according to essence of jihad (religious education of unbeliever).

He consulted with his father, who forbade him to do so. My chance at befriending a Muslim was dashed..

I do not know of any religion, other than some Protestant sect of Christianity, that specifically forbids a believer from being with an unbeliever in such a fashion.

Apart from a strange email discussion with a Maltese Catholic who believed that meditation was the gateway to the Devil, most Christians I have talked to soon stopped talking to me when I expressed my personal philosophy on God with respect to Buddhism.

Indeed, intolerance might the root of the problem Muslims face in today's world. I have found on the whole that there are many different schools of thought in Islam, some of which espouse Paydar's description of intolerance.

On the whole, enlightened Muslims who have incorporated the virtue of loving-kindness are more tolerant of non-Muslims than the Muslims who threaten violence to force everyone else in not offending their religion.

However, mass media has been filtering out the tolerance of enlightened Muslims and focusing on the intolerance of radical Muslims to sell the product called "Muslim terrorists".

This kind of anti-Muslim propaganda contrasts with the message that the majority of Muslims are tolerant of the West.