The San Bernadino Shooting Incident A False Flag? (satire)

Recently the horrible San Bernadino shooting incident is purported to be a domestic terrorist incident by mainstream media.

However, this is most likely propaganda designed to keep the neoconservatives occupied. Meanwhile the Department of Home Security, the FBI and the local San Bernadino police department are keeping their fellow Americans safe for "truth, justice and the American way."

According to the propaganda manufactured by the news media, the instigators of the San Bernadino shooting are homegrown terrorists, inspired by Islamic State. This is based on discovered evidence at the couple's rented home.

Like the recent Paris attack, it might be another false flag operation involving a Pakistani double agent working with her partner, both of whom were deemed expendable by the CIA. In both incidents, the men who shot up people were described as tall and white.

Yet the news media will not report this, because it does not fit with the propaganda that it is a domestic terrorist incident.

Most likely, this was a domestic terrorist incident by a couple of extremists influenced by the Muslim Salafi sect, who operated on their own.

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The San Bernardino Shooting: What Really Happened Behind the Scenes: http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/12/13/the-san-bernardino-shooting-what-really-happened-behind-the-scenes/

The Rise and Fall of Syria (satire)

Once upon a time a long time ago, a young doctor studying to be an ophthalmologist at the Western Eye Hospital in London was called back to his home country to his father's heir apparent due to the death of his elder brother in a tragic car crash. He later married a beautiful lady born in the UK, and after the death of his father, he became president and she became his First Lady. All in all, it seemed a wonderful life.

Years passed, and then in 2011, everything changed. Bashar al Assad, the current President of Syria is the name of that doctor.

During the Arab Spring of 2011, some of the people of his country rebelled against him. After bloody clashes, it became clear that Syria was in a civil war, a proxy war between Russia and Western nations aligned with America and sympathetic members of the Gulf States known as Friends of the Syrian Group.

According to a recent news report, Al-Qaeda of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) — also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Islamic State — is covertly funded by the Friends of Syria Group (FSG), of whose members Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia fund Sunni covert mercenaries from around the world, including Canada such as a man who was convicted as one of the Toronto 18.

In essence, Western nations aligned with the US government are facilitating the covert training of home-grown militants by capturing them where a few of them radicalize. Once they are released from jail, these militants find their way to Syria as a part of a secret plan to send 100,000 covert mercenaries to Syria. Perhaps, about five percent of detained homegrown militants who are released from prison have radicalized.

Thus the fall of Syria is being plotted by these Western nations with advice from the US government. Rather than drop bombs, the West will instead detain their home-grown terrorists and let each one fly to Syria to join the ISIL which includes most of the al-Nusra Front, each of which are Islamic terrorist organizations.

While al Nusrah Front is aligned with Al Qaeda, ISIL has broken with al Qaeda due to the ISIL's leader's intent to absorb al Nusrah Front into ISIL. For a thorough background on Islamic State's leader, see the Update for December 7, 2015 below.)

Currently, the ISIL-dominated area in which consists of eastern Syria and northern Iraq has been turned into a quasi-Caliphate where Sharia law is the rule of the land. However, it also includes anywhere in the world where local Islamic dissidents have aligned with Islamic State e.g. northeastern Nigeria where Boko Haram have terrorized Christians and Muslim citizens.

When Syria falls, it will be because of the Western nations' leaders aligned with the US government who agreed to bomb Libya, and consequently contributed to the murder of Gaddafi by clan members whose clans were brutally suppressed under the Libya despot.

In that scenario, it is more likely the reason for Libya falling was due to the proposed gold currency that he was fronting and his announcement to share oil wealth with every Libyan, a promise that faded when the Arab Spring morphed into civil war.

In Syria, the Alawite Shi'a minority run the government while the Sunni majority have been routinely suppressed under the al-Assad Dynasty. Indeed, before the current proxy war by the superpowers of the US, Russia, China, and the Gulf States of Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Syria outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, possibly due to their ties to CIA.

It is known that Pakistan routinely receives US aid, and that their spy organization ISI secretly trained mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union during the Afghanistan civil war that preceded the Taleban and later US invasion. Thus Pakistan is complicit in the war crimes that the US and its allies in the Coalition committed in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Today it is most likely that when Gitmo is closed, captured militants will be redeployed in Syria. This is likely why a certain militant was released from US custody.

Thus, in the future, this is what Homeland Security might do:

1. Closely scrutinize males from the Middle East who are not Israelis.
   
2. When said males exhibit radical Muslim ideology, isolate them from mainstream Muslims.
   
3. Send in psy ops specialists to convince said males to commit to a terrorist act on US soil.
   
4. Send in police and FBI to "foil" terrorist act and arrest said males.
   
5. Send in more psy ops to convince "home-grown terrorist(s)" that redeploying in Syria is the only option.
   
6. If they choose a trial, then that means their lawyer knows the truth about the covert mercenary plan devised by the FSG, particularly with the aid of Canada.

This is what "home-grown terrorism" actually means. In the case of the recent train station bombings in Russia by Chechen militants, it may be funded by the CIA. As well, the Boston bombings is inspired by Chechen militancy and is an example of homegrown terrorism. It is well known that the Chechen Muslims who did Hajj may have radicalized in Saudi Arabia. Thus it is imperative for Western nations to identify and monitor imams who support Islamic terrorists groups such as al Qaeda and ISIL in their countries, particularly in nations with large Muslim immigrant populations such as Germany and their Turkish immigrants, most of whom immigrated to avoid Turkish suppression of potential Salafi militants. Additionally, the revisionism of Imam al-Sharif needs to be implemented in Western nations amongst the Islamic diaspora in order to prevent Muslim youths from being seduced by charismatic imams who use Salafi ideology as the means to their own ends - Islamic militancy. Because it is the misuse of ideology that is dangerous, the current propaganda that neoconservatives are manufacturing — that Islam is dangerous to America — consists of generalizations about Islam that also indicate the misuse of ideology. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but Salafi ideology is misused by charismatic imams in the name of al Qaeda and Islamic State. The irony is that al Qaeda has been in the pockets of the US government all along. Perhaps al Qaeda did not plan 9-11 all on its own but was facilitated by a covert psy ops team embedded in al Qaeda to choose two symbols of American power to destroy, namely the Twin Towers in NYC and the Pentagon. Possibly that the passenger jet that was downed in Pennsylvania might have contained an expendable CIA operative who inspired the passengers to take down the crew. The purpose of this was to instill patriotism in American people. However, there may be an unlikely scenario aboard an American passenger jet in which a purported terrorist is murdered by heroic passengers but misrepresented in the mainstream news as an "aborted hijacking." This incident will be used to inspire American passengers to aid the air marshal if a would-be hijacker attempts a hijack. The problem here is, most passengers are compliant and non-aggressive. Thus, it might be more useful to hire covert agents who have trained in hijacking scenarios to be placed on air flights in which potential terrorists are most likely to be embedded amongst passengers. These agents would be trained in techniques useful to defusing hostage situations. With this in mind, the Air France Flight 8969 is a good example of the tactics used by air crew to establish rapport with AIG terrorists. Of the four terrorists, "Bill" was probably not a terrorist, but was a poor goat-herder taken along for the ride. Additionally, it would be important to Americans to learn to be friendly to Muslim Americans so as to establish with and to dialog with Muslim Americans rather than base their actions solely on the Islamophobic propaganda that the neoconservatives are peddling. Regarding Islam, if I read another lie about Aisha and Muhammad, then my satire is going to get interesting: for example, defending teenaged pregnancy by claiming that the Virgin Mary was an unmarried pregnant lady who was married by Joseph to prevent scandal. It is likely that she would have been stoned for having premarital sex with someone she called "The Lord" after someone named "Gabriel" told her about being mother to the coming Messiah. Therefore the Christ story was probably concocted as propaganda long after Roman occupation of Judea after 63 BCE. However, Jesus never existed as depicted in the Bible. Rather, there may have been a priest-king named Jesus of whose cult members were persecuted by Saul. Therefore, Paul of Tarsus is the chief propagandist of the Christ myth. My reason for this alternate theory to the Christ story is due to the modern day Christian's role in the bloody debacle being played out in Syria today. Their right wing advocates against the Syrian government of al Assad are peddling the Islamophobic propaganda among Tea Party members by their GOP handlers. They use generalizations based on the fallacy that all terrorists are Muslims — "all terrorists are Muslims. Al Qaeda is a Muslim terrorist organization. Osama bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda. Therefore Osama was a Muslim terrorist." However, not all Muslims are terrorists. Most Islamophobic propaganda does not distinguish between radicals and moderates. This is why I call Islamophobia propaganda. Additionally, the fallacy that Bashar al Assad is almost as evil as Hitler is propaganda used to justify war on Syria. In conclusion, regarding Syria, no one's hands are clean of this mess. All participants including Canada may be guilty of war crimes. You have been informed. Update: As of February 3, 2014, al Qaeda has broke with the ISIL due to a dispute between al Qaeda and ISIL. Additionally, the ISIL militants have taken over oil wells and placed tolls on vehicles entering its territory. Syrian rebels has stated that they don't mind al Qaeda's remaining terrorists in the Nusra Front since they are not as eager in profiting from the fact that much of the infrastructure in parts of Syria are ripe for making gobs of cash. It looks like the American government has created a monster. Update: As of December 7, 2015, it is most likely that the American government created the Islamic State. Originally known in the West as ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) or ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), in the Middle East, and among informed academics and politicians in the West, another name associated with the Islamic State: Da'esh. Documented proof exists that the Islamic State was manufactured by the US government to fight in Iraq and in Syria, mainly to destabilize both nations. Back in 2005, in an opinion editorial in the L. A. Times by UC Berkley law professor John Yoo, he mentions a tool that could be used to fight against al Qaeda: "Another tool would have our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within Al Qaeda's ranks, causing operatives to doubt others' identities and to question the validity of communications." According to Peter Santilli, who runs an alternate media show in his name, this is the smoking gun that points to his contention that Islamic State was created by the CIA. He contends that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a CIA covert agent. Originally, al-Baghdadi was created by al Qaeda to legitimize the leadership of the Islamic State of Iraq prior to 2010. Later on, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi replaced the Iraqi actor who played al-Baghdadi. When al-Baghdadi was killed in 2010, he was replaced by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. An elaborate back story for Abu Bakr — also known as Abu Dua — has enhanced his prestige as leader of Islamic State. However, at the time of the Coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a Muslim cleric who helped found the militant group Jamaat Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaah (JJASJ), in which he served as head of the sharia committee. After he was arrested by US Forces-Iraq in 2004 near Fallujah, he was detained at Camp Bucca detention center under his name Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badry. In 2005, he was released from Camp Bucca as a "low level prisoner". In 2006, his group JJASJ joined the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC). He served as a member of the MSC's sharia committee. Later that year, when MSC became Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), Abu Bakr was the general supervisor of the ISI's sharia committee and a member of the group's senior consultative council. When Osama bin Laden died in May 2011, Abu Bakr praised the leader of al Qaeda and threatened violent retaliation. On May 5, 2011, al-Baghdadi claimed responsibility for an attack in Hilla, that killed 24 policemen and wounded 72 others. On August 15, Mosul was targeted by ISI, resulting in 70 deaths. Later, on their website, in response to bin Laden's death, ISI vowed to kill 100 attacks throughout Iraq. As leader of ISI, al-Baghdadi orchestrated the killing of prominent Sunni lawmaker Khalid al-Fahdawi in August 28 2011. According to a June 11, 2014 Washington Post interview of Colonel Kenneth King, Abu Bakr was detained from 2005 to 2009. This disinformation was used by conspiracy theorists to substantiate claims that the CIA trained Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and to support the theory that the Islamic State is in fact the tool used to destabilize Iraq and Syria. In 2013, as ISIL insurgency made its way into eastern Syria, al-Baghdadi declared that ISI would now be known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which could be alternately translated from Arabic as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). He also stated that al-Nusrah Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) be merged with ISIL. This led to a break with al Qaeda, with 80% of al Nusrah Front being absorbed into ISIL. Mainstream media use of the alternate name for ISIL, ISIS, led to its popularity due to the acronym being similar to Isis, an ancient Egyptian goddess of life and fertility. A few Christian and Muslim religionists might manufacture the fallacy that ISIS is as evil as the ancient Egyptians who conquered the Middle East because some of them were the pagan worshipers of Isis. Yet there is no evidence that the ancient conquest of the Middle East was done in the name of Isis, given that the ancient Egyptian god Ra is associated with ancient Egyptian royalty and their conquests. Of course, mainstream media refrains from the use of such a pointless fallacy. By the beginning of 2014, after pushing al Nusrah Front out of the Syrian city of Ar-Raqqah, and fighting with the faction throughout the Deir ez-Zor Governorate left hundreds of militants dead and displaced tens of thousands of Syrians. In February 2014, al Qaeda cut off all ties with ISIL. Meanwhile, mainstream media discovered that al-Baghdadi and the ISIL received private financing from citizens in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Then in June 2014, al-Baghdadi declared that ISIS would be known as the Islamic State (IS), and he would be its Caliph. Over the intervening months, the Islamic State murdered a Jordanian pilot, which led to a response from the military of America, Jordan and other Arab nations to attack them. In time, Russia joined them, defending Syria from the IS and recently clashing with Turkey. Perhaps the fall of Syria has been delayed. Only time will tell. Update for December 19, 2015: Islamic State is a joint CIA and Pakistan ISI product known in the mainstream media as terrorist organization. Yet what the news reports fail to mention is that Islamic terrorists groups like the Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban have been manufactured by Israeli Mossad with aid from the US spy agency (CIA), Pakistan's ISI, Canada's black ops unit, Joint Task Force, and many other spy agencies of Western nation allied with the Us military. Five Eyes are needed to manipulate the news media to prevent an honest and truthful exposure of this smoke and mirrors shell game that the intelligence agents play while replacing honest reporting in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the US with the straw man called "the Islamic militant" AKA "Muslim terrorist." Even the Paris attack consisted of a black ops crew consisting of French military personnel in plain clothes who led the dissidents on their killing spree last month. Likewise, the shooting in San Bernardino was morphed into a terrorist attack, with the purported terrorists' home open to news reporters in an effort to contaminate the scene of the dissidents' bomb-making. These false flag operations are designed to satisfy the MSM's hunger for terrorism, and their desire of the government to protect its citizens. Instead, sometimes the dissidents go roguecafter training and morph into terrorists thanks to their radicalization in Saudi Arabia during Hajj, the Muslim faithfuls' annual pilgrimage to Mecca to worship God Almighty as they circumambulated the Kaaba. If you want to stop terrorism, then demand that the governments of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand bring home their spies from the Middle East. Though it may be true that those who live by the sword may die in bloody conflict, this militancy has not been sanctioned by a imam, thus proving that Islamic State is only Islamic in name only. Islamic State's religious leanings remind me of a darker and more homicidal version of US domestic terrorism, with the trappings of religion so as to legitimize these militants' violence by declaring that all of Islam in the Middle East is apostate and thus ought to be excommunicated from the mosques ad the streets, by force if necessary. Yet its militants are subtle secularists who have worn the robes of Muslim holy rollers and whose action gives religion a day name. For a true Muslim has no need to wage jihad on the Crusaders embedded in the Coalition's forces, who are inspired by Christ an war hawks. Thus islamophobia that paints Islam as a warrior religion ignores the old Testament as the source of such militancy in Christendom. Indeed, the Old Testament is full of stories about armies warring to win the Holy Land for the nomadic Semites in ancient times, who settled in Jerusalem after captivity and became the jews of today. While the West overlooks the religious origins of rivalry between Sunni and Shi'a due to socialist romaticism, the truth is, favoring Israel over Jordan and perpetuating the bloody mindedness of thechosen ones in spite of the promise of Jesus Christ to return. Mankind cannot usher in a free world devoid of religion, due to the willingness to mistake that freedom for license, breaking bonds of spiritual devotion in order to deal thoroughly with the secular world because it is the 21st century. How modern to fight each other with weapons, with the Israeli government willing to compromise human rights for the sake of right-wing radicalisms that favour assassination, servitude, and starvation. Small wonder the New Left is willing to risk being seen as antisemitic when, in fact, antisemitism now only consists of hate crimes against Jews. Yet Israeli rightwingers are wont to say they don't misrepresent the truth that Palestine is not an urban legend but rather the fact they need to show friendliness to the Syrian immigrants and live what the Christ taught us. It is the obligation of the West to love one another and to love your enemies, because love is the answer to militancy and war! I am sure that all you need is to willingly practice the charity that Paul wrote of in 1 Collosians 13, which is of the Christ. Even a true Christian, Jew, and Muslim would know this to be true, but would only abandon the Old Testament fir churchvdoctrine, and replace charity and love with subtle antisemitism and the willingness to split up the house of Shem into Arab and Jew, Jews and Muslims. Both Judaism and Islam are based in part on ancient Hebrew tradition and Arabic principles of justice, not petty tribalisms like honkurvkukkings. That war in the Middle East was manufactured by the West's foreign policy in the Middle East. So no nation usi free of responsibility.

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Originally posted on 1/19/14, 12:24 PM Pacific Standard Time

References:

Pentagon admits to 'Zarqawi as legendary terrorist' propaganda:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-behind-al-qaeda-in-iraq-pentagon-acknowledges-fabricating-a-zarqawi-legend/2275

Bashar al Assad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad

Al Qaeda Breaks With Jihadist Group in Syria: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/world/middleeast/syria.html

Documented proof that the US government created the Islamic State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqIyJycXxOo

Go on the Offensive Against Terror: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/13/opinion/oe-yoo13

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_al-Baghdadi

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi

How ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became the world's most powerful jihadist leader: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/11/how-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-became-the-worlds-most-powerful-jihadi-leader/

Criticism of Jihad movement: Sayyed Imam al-Sharif: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyed_Imam_Al-Sharif#Criticism_of_Jihad_movement

Why we need Muslim terrorists in Canada (satire)

1. They will assassinate drug dealers but never deal in marijuana.
   
2. Sharia law will be enforced, rather than be eroded by anti-religion manifestos like in Quebec. Though the government will have to pay them off to keep their women safe from honor killing and FGM.
   
3. They could be used to keep the Pakistani-Canadian gang members in check e.g. assassinate pedophile Muslims.
   

Seriously though, the Canadian government is going to watch these guys when they return from Syria. It's unlikely they'll be on Muslim criminals' side after becoming Salafi. Those guys are anti-drug to the point of beheading drug dealers in Syria. So, why not use our Canadian al Qaeda to take a bite out of Muslim crime in Canada? Isn't that why the Canadian government sent them to al Nusra Front in Syria in the first place? I mean, we have Canadians there fighting beside the rebels against Assad. They will eventually come home once Assad is overthrown and his army obliterated.

This is probably why no country is supplying the rebels with bigger firepower yet. If only automatic rifles and smaller arms gets to them, then it'll be easier for the Syrian military to keep them at bay. However, it would be stupid to supply them with enough firepower to wipe out Assad, because that would force China and Russia to step in. When you add to this al Qaeda forces coming out of Pakistan, it's not hard to suspect Pakistan's Islamists and Taleban are doing what comes naturally for them, since Pakistan was the staging ground for most of the Taliban of Afghanistan.

Remember: there are up to 100 Canadian al Qaeda at the moment. Think of how useful they will be cleaning up Canadian inner cities from Halifax to Toronto to Edmonton to Vancouver, keeping it free of drug dealers. Sadly though, the security experts predict they will turn to crime and blow up trains and assassinate city councils. That's only if we deny them sharia law courts. However, it's going to cost a lot of money to keep them in line.

I'm sure sending in al Qaeda to take a bite out of crime in Canada is worth it because the RCMP are doing a shitty job of it as of now. The reports of Canadians in Syria fighting for al Qaeda implies they will get tips on how to foment "revolution" in Canada when they return. However, they may also eliminate gang members who offend them, not to steal drugs but to show what happens when sharia is used against drug dealers. Our criminal gangs in Canada are out of control. Legal enforcement and the justice system only recently legislated against gang violence by criminalizing it. However, they still fight with staff in youth custody facilities.

There was a recent incident in BC where a youth detention staff member was severely injured by a suspected teenaged gang member. I bet the government employees union is grieving that. For how can a staff member do his job if he is going to get beat up or killed at work?

While turning Canadian al Qaeda into anti-drug squad is fraught with the risk of death and injury, the risk of death and injury is prevalent in the lifestyle of gang members. The Surrey Six who died needlessly is a case in point.

When you start assassinating your rivals for horning in on your territory, then you are acting in a psychopathic manner that is contrary to the safety and security of law-abiding citizens like the two guys who were pulled in and murdered in cold blood, merely for being witnesses. Instead of targeting the State (the US government) for depriving their gangs of cocaine from Mexican cartels, gangsters in Vancouver plotted to kill off gang rivals in the big fight to distribute the dwindling supply of cocaine.

Overall, the deaths of four gang members and two innocent bystanders is a senseless waste of lives and of time. It was done because one gang tried to extort a "fee" from rival gang members to deal in their territory. When the rivals wouldn't pay up, they were executed. If Canadian al Qaeda are added to this, gang members could hire their services to wipe out other gangs.

However, the risk would be that the al Aqaeda would wipe them out if they don't convert to Islam and fight for the greater good of the imminent Caliphate. Islamists like this will threaten the group dynamics in the prison system if arrested and incarcerated with the general population.

You will see prisoners converting to Islam because the Islamists will protect you to the death. This is happening in the UK right now. It's only a matter of time before it occurs in Canada.

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Originally posted: March 27, 2014 3:52 AM

References:
Syria is a training ground for Canadian homegrown terrorists.
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/21/officials-al-qaeda-tries-to-recruit-americans-in-syria/

We have Canadians in Syria fighting alongside the rebels against Assad:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/damian-clairmont-killed-fighting-with-al-qaeda-linked-rebels-in-syria-1.2497513

Inspiration for this article:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/fbi-agent-ibragim-todashev-boston-marathon-report

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.

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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.

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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

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.

In Defense of Veena Malik

Where was Pakistan when Veena was a struggling actress? Calling her names and shaming her. Where were you when Veena was being disowned by her father? Siding with her father and shaming her. Where were you when Bollywood gossips tried to turn the FHM photo op into a scandal? Hating her and shaming her and calling her names.

No man has the right to judge Veena Malik unless he has seen all her movies and show. One picture is not enough.. Instead, you need to look at the evidence before even committing yourself to a judgment.

---Hindi translation--
वीना एक संघर्षरत अभिनेत्री थी जब जहां पाकिस्तान गया था? उसके नाम बुला और उसे शर्मसार. वीना अपने पिता द्वारा अस्वीकृत किया जा रहा था जब तुम कहाँ थे? उसके पिता और उसके शर्मसार साथ साइडिंग. बॉलीवुड गपशप एक घोटाले में FHM के फोटो सेशन बारी करने की कोशिश की जब आप कहाँ थे? उसे नफरत और उसे शर्मसार और उसके नाम बुला.

वह सब उसे फिल्मों और शो में देखा गया है जब तक कि कोई भी आदमी न्यायाधीश वीना मलिक का अधिकार है. एक तस्वीर के लिए पर्याप्त नहीं है .. इसके बजाय, आप भी एक निर्णय करने के लिए अपने आप को करने से पहले सबूत देखने की जरूरत है.
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Vīnā ēka saṅgharṣarata abhinētrī thī jaba jahāṁ pākistāna gayā thā? Usakē nāma bulā aura usē śarmasāra. Vīnā apanē pitā dvārā asvīkr̥ta kiyā jā rahā thā jaba tuma kahām̐ thē? Usakē pitā aura usakē śarmasāra sātha sā'iḍiṅga. Bŏlīvuḍa gapaśapa ēka ghōṭālē mēṁ FHM kē phōṭō sēśana bārī karanē kī kōśiśa kī jaba āpa kahām̐ thē? Usē napharata aura usē śarmasāra aura usakē nāma bulā.

Vaha saba usē philmōṁ aura śō mēṁ dēkhā gayā hai jaba taka ki kō'ī bhī ādamī n'yāyādhīśa vīnā malika kā adhikāra hai. Ēka tasvīra kē li'ē paryāpta nahīṁ hai.. Isakē bajāya, āpa bhī ēka nirṇaya karanē kē li'ē apanē āpa kō karanē sē pahalē sabūta dēkhanē kī jarūrata hai.

---Arabic translation--
حيث كانت باكستان عندما كان فينا ممثلة تكافح؟ استدعاء أسماء لها والفضح لها. أين كنتم عندما كان يجري تبرأت فينا من قبل والدها؟ انحياز مع والدها والفضح لها. أين كنتم عندما حاول بوليوود الثرثرة لتحويل التقاط صور تذكارية FHM إلى فضيحة؟ كره لها والفضح والدعوة لها أسماء لها.

لا يوجد انسان لديه الحق في الحكم فينا مالك ما لم يكن قد رأيت كل أفلامها والمعرض. صورة واحدة لا تكفي .. بدلا من ذلك، كنت بحاجة الى ان ننظر في الأدلة حتى قبل ارتكاب نفسك إلى الحكم.

War Against Terrorism Musings

Sadly we may be in denial and mislead into believing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq had to do with 9-11.

America was ready to fight Iraq since the mid 1990s, Iraqi-American Ahmed Chalabi was already collaborating with a NY Times reporter to inject propaganda with false claims of WMD, which still have yet to be proven.

Thus the War on Iraq consists of the invasion of a sovereign nation under the guise of War of Terrorism, purportedly to depose Saddam Hussein.

In actual fact, Iraq was invaded to control its natural resources, primarily its oil.

In the case of Afghanistan, America was poised to depose the Taleban because of human rights violations and unwillingness to negotiate a diplomatic solution and stick with it.

Today we have the Department of Homeland Security protecting America including airport checks, which shows fascism appearing like cracks on the facade of democracy.

Even though I realize all of this about the War on Terrorism, I also have found mass media to be like a fair weather friend.

Before the War on Terrorism, they published propaganda about WMD in Iraq. Now they vilify Bush for his false claims of WMD, claims which were first reported in the NY Times.

So, if 9-11 had to do with the War on Terrorism, then mass media propaganda has done its job. For it is simpler to believe that than to connect the dots.

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Engineering consent: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5931.htm