Following the shooting and killing of 26 people, 20 of them are the school children, Mike Huckabee blames the removal of God from school that is now creating young people Godless, violent and murderous.

God misunderstood: Jesus was not son of God, but of Mary

Huckabee has a point, but Americans and the rest of the so called Christian world do not have a God, they have Jesus, who is not God, he was a human being appointed by God as His messenger or prophet. People mistakenly made Jesus son of God or God himself, as the Trinity stands for. God is one and absolute authority over all and everything. People themselves made Jesus as their savior when he was a mere messenger and son of Mary. This one mistake resulted to indulging in polytheism of Trinity, drinking alcohol, eating pork, legalizing fornication and adultery in the name of ‘boy-friend and girl-friend as the order of the day in total denial of the sovereignty of God and His divine authority over such issues, etc. As long as this frame of faith and the prevailing behavior continues, no one will ever find God, let alone worshiping Him. http://now.msn.com/huckabee-blames-school-shooting-on-no-god-in-classroom?ocid=ansnow11

HOW ISLAM SAVED THE JEWS - lecture Prof David Wasserstein The JC ESSAY

HOW ISLAM SAVED THE JEWS - lecture Prof David Wasserstein The JC ESSAY Jewish Chronicle 25 May 2012 So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews? David J Wasserstein ISLAM SAVED Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth. The argument for it is double. First, in 570 CE, when the Prophet Mohammad was born, the Jews and Judaism were on the way to oblivion. And second, the coming of Islam saved them, providing a new context in which they not only survived, but flourished, laying foundations for subsequent Jewish cultural prosperity - also in Christendom - through the medieval period into the modern world. By the fourth century, Christianity had become the dominant religion in the Roman empire. One aspect of this success was opposition to rival faiths, including Judaism, along with massive conversion of members of such faiths, sometimes by force, to Christianity. Much of our testimony about Jewish existence in the Roman empire from this time on consists of accounts of conversions. Great and permanent reductions in numbers through conversion, between the fourth and the seventh centuries, brought with them a gradual but relentless whittling away of the status, rights, social and economic existence, and religious and cultural life of Jews all over the Roman empire. A long series of enactments deprived Jewish people of their rights as citizens, prevented them from fulfilling their religious obligations, and excluded them from the society of their fellows. This went along with the centuries-long military and political struggle with Persia. As a tiny element in the Christian world, the Jews should not have been affected much by this broad, political issue. Yet it affected them critically, because the Persian empire at this time included Babylon - now Iraq - at the time home to the world's greatest concentration of Jews. Here also were the greatest centres of Jewish intellectual life. The most important single work of Jewish cultural creativity in over 3,000 years, apart from the Bible itself - the Talmud - came into being in Babylon. The struggle between Persia and Byzantium, in our period, led increasingly to a separation between Jews under Byzantine, Christian rule and Jews under Persian rule. Beyond all this, the Jews who lived under Christian rule seemed to have lost the knowledge of their own culturally specific languages - Hebrew and Aramaic - and to have taken on the use of Latin or Greek or other non-Jewish, local, languages. This in turn must have meant that they also lost access to the central literary works of Jewish culture - the Torah, Mishnah, poetry, midrash, even liturgy. The loss of the unifying force represented by language - and of the associated literature - was a major step towards assimilation and disappearance. In these circumstances, with contact with the one place where Jewish cultural life continued to prosper - Babylon- cut off by conflict with Persia, Jewish life in the Christian world of late antiquity was not simply a pale shadow of what it had been three or four centuries earlier. It was doomed. Had Islam not come along, the conflict with Persia would have continued. The separation between western Judaism, that of Christendom, and Babylonian Judaism, that of Mesopotamia, would have intensified. Jewry in the west would have declined to disappearance in many areas. And Jewry in the east would have become just another oriental cult. But this was all prevented by the rise of Islam. The Islamic conquests of the seventh century changed the world, and did so with dramatic, wide-ranging and permanent effect for the Jews. Within a century of the death of Mohammad, in 632, Muslim armies had conquered almost the whole of the world where Jews lived, from Spain eastward across North Africa and the Middle East as far as the eastern frontier of Iran and beyond. Almost all the Jews in the world were now ruled by Islam. This new situation transformed Jewish existence. Their fortunes changed in legal, demographic, social, religious, political, geographical, economic, linguistic and cultural terms – all for the better. First, things improved politically. Almost everywhere in Christendom where Jews had lived now formed part of the same political space as Babylon - Cordoba and Basra lay in the same political world. The old frontier between the vital centre in Babylonia and the Jews of the Mediterranean basin was swept away, forever. Political change was partnered by change in the legal status of the Jewish population: although it is not always clear what happened during the Muslim conquests, one thing is certain. The result of the conquests was, by and large, to make the Jews second-class citizens. This should not be misunderstood: to be a second-class citizen was a far better thing to be than not to be a citizen at all. For most of these Jews, second-class citizenship represented a major advance. In Visigothic Spain, for example, shortly before the Muslim conquest in 711, the Jews had seen their children removed from them and forcibly converted to Christianity and had themselves been enslaved. In the developing Islamic societies of the classical and medieval periods, being a Jew meant belonging to a category defined under law, enjoying certain rights and protections, alongside various obligations. These rights and protections were not as extensive or as generous as those enjoyed by Muslims, and the obligations were greater but, for the first few centuries, the Muslims themselves were a minority, and the practical differences were not all that great. Along with legal near-equality came social and economic equality. Jews were not confined to ghettos, either literally or in terms of economic activity. The societies of Islam were, in effect, open societies. In religious terms, too, Jews enjoyed virtually full freedom. They might not build many new synagogue - in theory- and they might not make too public their profession of their faith, but there was no really significant restriction on the practice of their religion. Along with internal legal autonomy, they also enjoyed formal representation, through leaders of their own, before the authorities of the state. Imperfect and often not quite as rosy as this might sound, it was at least the broad norm. The political unity brought by the new Islamic world-empire did not last, but it created a vast Islamic world civilisation, similar to the older Christian civilisation that it replaced. Within this huge area, Jews lived and enjoyed broadly similar status and rights everywhere. They could move around, maintain contacts, and develop their identity as Jews. A great new expansion of trade from the ninth century onwards brought the Spanish Jews - like the Muslims - into touch with the Jews and the Muslims even of India. ALL THIS was encouraged by a further, critical development. Huge numbers of people in the new world ofIslam adopted the language of the Muslim Arabs. Arabic gradually became the principal language of this vast area, excluding almost all the rest: Greek and Syriac, Aramaic and Coptic and Latin all died out, replaced by Arabic. Persian, too, went into a long retreat, to reappear later heavily influenced by Arabic. The Jews moved over to Arabic very rapidly. By the early 10th century, only 300 years after the conquests, Sa'adya Gaon was translating the Bible into Arabic. Bible translation is a massive task - it is not undertaken unless there is a need for it. By about the year 900, the Jews had largely abandoned other languages and taken on Arabic. The change of language in its turn brought the Jews into direct contact with broader cultural developments. The result from the 10th century on was a striking pairing of two cultures. The Jews of the Islamic world developed an entirely new culture, which differed from their culture before Islam in terms of language, cultural forms, influences, and uses. Instead of being concerned primarily with religion, the new Jewish culture of the Islamic world, like that of its neighbours, mixed the religious and the secular to a high degree. The contrast, both with the past and with medieval Christian Europe, was enormous. Like their neighbours, these Jews wrote in Arabic in part, and in a Jewish form of that language. The use of Arabic brought them close to the Arabs. But the use of a specific Jewish form of that language maintained the barriers between Jew and Muslim. The subjects that Jews wrote about, and the literary forms in which they wrote about them, were largely new ones, borrowed from the Muslims and developed in tandem with developments in Arabic Islam. Also at this time, Hebrew was revived as a language of high literature, parallel to the use among the Muslims of a high form of Arabic for similar purposes. Along with its use for poetry and artistic prose, secular writing of all forms in Hebrew and in (Judeo- )Arabic came into being, some of it of high quality. Much of the greatest poetry in Hebrew written since the Bible comes from this period. Sa'adya Gaon, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Ibn Ezra (Moses and Abraham), Maimonides, Yehuda Halevi, Yehudah al-Harizi, Samuel ha-Nagid, and many more - all of these names, well known today, belong in the first rank of Jewish literary and cultural endeavour. WHERE DID these Jews produce all this? When did they and their neighbours achieve this symbiosis, this mode of living together? The Jews did it in a number of centres of excellence. The most outstanding of these was Islamic Spain, where there was a true Jewish Golden Age, alongside a wave of cultural achievement among the Muslim population. The Spanish case illustrates a more general pattern, too. What happened in Islamic Spain - waves of Jewish cultural prosperity paralleling waves of cultural prosperity among the Muslims - exemplifies a larger pattern in Arab Islam. In Baghdad, between the ninth and the twelfth centuries; in Qayrawan (in north Africa), between the ninth and the 11th centuries; in Cairo, between the 10th and the 12th centuries, and elsewhere, the rise and fall of cultural centres of Islam tended to be reflected in the rise and fall of Jewish cultural activity in the same places. This was not coincidence, and nor was it the product of particularly enlightened liberal patronage by Muslim rulers. It was the product of a number of deeper features of these societies, social and cultural, legal and economic, linguistic and political, which together enabled and indeed encouraged the Jews of the Islamic world to create a novel sub-culture within the high civilisation of the time. This did not last for ever; the period of culturally successful symbiosis between Jew and Arab Muslim in the middle ages came to a close by about 1300. In reality, it had reached this point even earlier, with the overall relative decline in the importance and vitality of Arabic culture, both in relation to western European cultures and in relation to other cultural forms within Islam itself; Persian and Turkish. Jewish cultural prosperity in the middle ages operated in large part as a function of Muslim, Arabic cultural (and to some degree political) prosperity: when Muslim Arabic culture thrived, so did that of the Jews; when Muslim Arabic culture declined, so did that of the Jews. In the case of the Jews, however, the cultural capital thus created also served as the seed-bed of further growth elsewhere - in Christian Spain and in the Christian world more generally. The Islamic world was not the only source of inspiration for the Jewish cultural revival that came later in Christian Europe, but it certainly was a major contributor to that development. Its significance cannot be overestimated. David J Wasserstein is the Eugene Greener Jr Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. This article is adapted from Iast weeks Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

My response to Mike-Hassan controversy over Arab-Israeli conflict

I would like to invite all to reflect on the divine perspective in concerning fairness and justice, especially in dealing with dispute between people. God teaches the believers to uphold the truth, fairness and justice even if that position goes against your own interest and the interest of your kith and kin. So, in principle, believers must take a stand against any kind of injustice inflicted upon the victims no matter who are the perpetrators. Thus, the narrative of Mike is true about the existence of host of injustices inflicted in every corner of the globe. As if, entire humanity continues to be infested by unjust behaviors of those wrong people who are holding the power, rather illegally. I may even add to the list of such narrative the sufferings of Kurds by their fellow Muslim people and countries like Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey who are denying the right of freedom for the Kurds. The believers must also not ignore or refuse to recognize the truth about the killings of Armenians at the wake of World War I, as they must fear God. However, is it fair to bring the example of those wrong doings to argue against and undermine the sufferings of the people of Palestine, rather defending the actions of Zionists in the pretext such narrative? I don't think that such defensive mentality reflect in any way an honest, sincere and objective attitude of the defenders of Zionist agenda. It is rather expected that the Jews, zionist and non-zionist alike, must feel, more than anybody else, for the pain and sufferings of Palestinian people, because of what they had gone through in the past two Melania. Thus, occupation and brutality must not be the way of Zionism. One must not also forget the fact, while defending Israel, that Israel was imposed on the people of the land who had the natural and moral reason to resist intrusion. Any people will do that and has been doing everywhere in the world, as the narrative of Mike, because it is a natural reaction of the victims against the perpetrators. Yet, let us don't ignore the fact that all pro-Palestinian stakeholders by now are ready, in fact proposing, to recognize, albeit with pain, the state of Israel within the pre-1967 border. I believe, even Hamas will eventually accept Israel of the same border, but the ball is in the court of the Zionists. They must be ready to withdraw from the occupied territories, plain and simple, and understand that the time has changed not to the benefit of occupation, as the world is against it, and will continue changing in the same direction until the end of the occupation. The Zionists for their true security and honor, must not continue living in illusion of their false pride and hope. Instead, they must become realistic, honest and sincere about the sufferings of the victims caused by their venture of Zionism. Otherwise, it is just a matter of time, when it will be too late even to say sorry. History of power politics tells us that.

Alan is wrong and Abbas is right about the real peace between Israel and Arabs

Bad mouthing is the reflection of bad heart and bad character and you have just proven yourself to the world, hence to God.
Listen, Israel was established at the end of an era, colonial era, the norm of which had still alive, hence the West, the UN and the rest of the world accepted Israel. That era and its norm died out now, almost 98%. The Zionists need to understand that reality. Arabs and Muslims had found Israel hard to accept, understandably, but they finally understood that Israel was the outcome of the past era and its norm. Thus, eventually they made a smart decision by expressing their readiness to accept Israel of 1948 border. Israel likewise needs to make a smart move by withdrawing from the occupied lands before asking for negotiated peace with Arabs and Muslims.

Sufism in the Quran: Is there any trace?

May God firgive the Sufis, guide the sufis to the right path and give them understanding of the path of God - the Islam.

If you look at each of these verses in this posting

Tolerance is the way to the peace and success (In response to the preaching of intolerence)

The truth of the proverb may lie somewhere else: "Intolerance of tolerance and justice must lead to destruction". Crusade war did, extermination of the natives did, dehumanizing the blacks did, sub-humanizing women for original sin did, criminalization of Jewish Deicide did, colonizing the world did, colonial rivalries between colonial powers did: I&II World Wars, imperial foreign policies did and will do, intolerance against Muslims and Islam will do. Tolerance is the way”.

Well Wisher

Good News? Bad News: More than 100,000 American Muslims Support Al-Qaeda

This is in reference to the following blog: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20857&page=1&viewID=1401139

It is not a good news that 100,000 Muslims support al-Qaida, if they do, it is because they are desperate being under seize, as John Esposito puts it, by the West, especially America. Therefore, Muslims are as if willing to support any one fighting against America and Israel and the dictators supported by the West. This is not good news. It needs to change by freeing Muslims from the seize, by giving the rights of Palestinian peoples, and freeing Muslims in general from the rule of dictators protected by the US.

Iran can do better without nuclear bomb: Path of moral upright and legal

Yes, it is neither moral nor necessary for Iran to become a nuclear power in the world to kill the unarmed and innocent victims, hence cooperate with the bullies. However, Iran must continue growing in all aspects of desirable power to prove its actual superiority. Also, must begin condemning agents for creating the state of Israel illegally and supporting it in its criminal and inhuman treatment of the Palestinian victims vigorously until the truth prevails.

Well Wisher

The Treaty of Hudaibiya: Iran must follow it as the model in dealing with the West

I am worried about another embarrassment that will cause by the Israeli attack not only on the nuclear facilities but also on Tehran to cripple the entire infrastructure, much more severe than it did to Egypt in 1967, Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007. It will do again on Iran, and will cause a huge embarrassment to the entire Muslim ummah and humiliate them. Then Israel will give the Palestinians what they want, independence and the land, so the rest of the world will be silent.

I don't think Iran is looking at the world, the enemies, through the eyes of God, simply because they cannot do so while believe in the idol of Mahdi alMuntazir and almost worship this imaginary god who never existed. They should reform their belief and concentrate only in the Quran and follow its teachings and the wisdom of the Prophet, instead of the imaginary god of Imam Mahdi. They must also follow the model of the Treaty of Hudaibiya in dealing with the enemies allowing the enemies bully a bit, while hoping the enemy's defeat in time.

Imam Khomeini's Effort to Unite Muslims against the enemies

I was curious about Imam Khomeini’s contribution towards the unity among Muslims. What he said is not unusual for a leader who wants to be a great leader, leader of not only the world of Shia Muslims but also the rest of it. But it is just the rhetoric, not real. The division and disunity within Muslim ummah is of many kinds including the sectarian division: Shia and Sunni. This division is deep rooted, both theological and ideological differences, rightly or wrongly, rather wrongly. Shiism and Sunnism were not preached by the Prophet, let alone the Quran. Therefore, both secterianisms must be talked about as issue of unity vs. disunity in the Muslim ummah. Imam Khomeini could have denounce both Shiism and Sunnism, but he did not. He knew that as long as Shias believe in shiism, they theologically reject, rather condemn the Sunnis as Sunnis, not Muslims.
Although Sunnis, almost 100%, sympathize with Imam Husain against Muwawiya and his son Yazid, Sunnis are still Sunnis because they are refusing to accept the Shia Islam, which is much better than the position of Jews in the eyes of Christian belief for the murder of Jesus called the “Jewish Deicide” a charge of collective guilt for all time, unless the Jews become Christian. The Shia rejection of Sunnis is so strong that they don’t consider Sunnis as Muslims. The Sunnis, on the other hand, do not consider Shias as the true followers of the Quran and Sunna simply because the Shias virtually worship their imams and waiting for the last one, the 12th imam, who was never born, nobody saw, never existed, it is all imaginary, to appear divinely. They had made the entire Islam suspended for them until the Imam reappears, which will never happen because he never existed.
By being the Imam worshipers, the Shias are just like the Catholics, who worship Jesus, and Hindus worshiping Krishna and Ramayan, without one God. They could be worshiping one God today had they followed their divine scripture. Shias have virtually abandoned the teaching of the Quran and the Prophet in preference to waiting for the imaginary Imam, Imam Mahdi, who never existed. Imam Khomeini did not renounce these main issues of sectarianism to unite Muslims under the banner of Quran and Sunnah. So, he was not real, nor sincere. Iranian leaders are following Imam Khoneini absolutely, but not the Quran, and talking about the unity in the same way Khomeini did, but that is the way of insincerity and dishonesty, actually Un-Islamic. Iran, if sincere, must denounce both Shiism and Sunnism on grounds of the Quran and the Prophet and affiliate itself with the Islam of Quran and the Prophet of God. No one can fool with God. All Muslims must remember, mere victory, say over America in 1979, does not make Shiism or Sunnism a valid or invalid sect of Islam. This victory is both moral and material, which God knows better. Muslims must be critical about their faith and behavior in light of the teachings of the Quran and example of the Prophet of it. Neither the Shias nor the Sunnis are doing that self-criticism and that has made them just like the Christians and Jews and it needs to be fixed.

Peace

"Welcome To Israel, Joe!" by Yousef Munayyer

Israel insulted America and the members of all civil societies, just like the way, for instance, the Turks, Iran, Iraq, and Syria would do to anyone speak for the right of the Kurd in the Middle East because nationalism does not regard the issues of justice as moral or legal, but of "might-is-right" kind of norm that has sprung from the colonial and post colonial mentality. What Israel and those Middle Easter countries are doing to their victims is nothing Jewish or Zionist, but egoistic colonial and post colonial manner of arrogance. So, the problem between Israel and Palestinians could only be resolved by force.

Alternatively, the main powers of the world including the UN today must first confess and pass resolutions to confess the mistake and injustice done to the people of Palestine by creating the state of Israel and by mandating it as a legitimate state. The world powers must also apologizing to the people of Palestine just like the way the whites have apologized to the Native Americans and black people, the victims, for their past treatment of them, followed by unconditional support for the victims in Palestine. Israel then automatically be demoralized and feel helpless to stop behaving the way it is behaving now, including the Zionists. the pressure should also be exhorted upon those Middle Eastern countries to release the lands they are occupying that belong to the people of Kurd. Thing will change and the world will be back to normal.

Iran Seeks Compensation, What about the poor Palestinain Victims?

This should be the beginning of the demand for justice against all other injustices committed following the WW I and WWII, especially the victimization of the people of Palestine since 1917. The perpetrators of this injustice are chronologically the UK, US, and UN. Not to mention the Zionists and their servants.

Countries willing to stand for justice must begin demanding of Britain, US, and UN to confess for the crime committed against humanity that amount to moral and legal atrocities by announcing the Balfour Declaration in 1917, by creating the State of Israel on the land and home of the people of Palestine, and by supporting Zionist illegal activities with veto power that caused millions of Palestinian victims to be de-humanized and criminalized, when they are the victims of illegal, unjust, and immoral acts of these three entities: Britain, US, and UN. Unless they first admit that they acted wrongfully and apologize to the people of Palestine, the Zionist ego will never show any humility to the victims, hence not any peace agreement with the victims who the Zionist consider as sub-human beings.

The Pope, the American settlers and the White in general have apologized to the native Indians, to the black people for looting the fortune of the native people, for exterminating them, and for enslavement of the Black people in barbaric way, which is good though too late, but the sufferings of the people of Palestine is just like those of the past. So, before it is too late, a correction process must start with the initiative of God fearing people and the people who stand by the victims against criminal entities.

Muslim Extremists are Todays Nazis: A Tuisted and False color painted to hide the TRUTH

Too much of this propaganda is launched by the Zionists and the Crusaders, the ally in crime. I understand that Arab-Muslims are pursuing their legitimate cause but may be following the wrong methods, especially if they are fabricating stories against the Jews and promoting those within their people, because end does not justify the means, the evil means. What about the Zionists and the Crusaders? Are they honest and truthful? Come on!

Let us get real, if and only if you fear God for being dishonest, unjust, and oppressive, you may want to read what I am going to tell. If not, don't waste your time. You will not benefit from my thought. Instead, you will innovate your evil strategy against all people of the truth, justice, honesty and sincerity. Remember, Arab-Muslims were not promoting such hatred against the Jews for the last 1300 hundred years. On the contrary, Muslims had always been the saviors and shelter givers of Jews when they were persecuted by the Christians for centuries. Jews were treated with respect and given positions in the Islamic administration and many other professional positions. There was almost no incidence of any hateful relationship between Jews and Arab-Muslims until recently. Even at the time of Holocaust when Hitler was killing Jews, the Kind of Morocco took the risk of his life and existence of his kingdom, mainly because Hitler had already occupied France, the colonial authority of Morocco, by rejecting Hitler to execute all the Jews in Morocco. By the way the Jews of Morocco still recognize that incidence and celebrate in honor of the King.

Look Arab-Palestinian land was declared to taken by the British colonial authority and given it to the Zionists followed by the creation of the state of Israel in the land of the People of the land, followed by the occupation of further land in 1967 and 1973 in total disregard of the situation of the people of the land who, as a result, lost their land, home, and dignity. The Balfour declaration of 1917 was illegal, hence a crime against humanity and justice. It was more illegal to officially take the land and create the state of Israel in 1947. You know it well, what is happening to the people of Palestine having tooted their land by intruders and being refugees for over 60 years now, the killings and destruction, and humiliation.

Read books written by the Western authors about the Zionist crimes, just like the Crusaders. Go online and see how many tens of thousands of Jews are unrecognized Zionism and the illegitimate state of Israel. They are in tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands. Zionism is based on false and fabricated premises, religiously and legally. Religiously Biblical prophesies were relevant the time, place and people over three thousand years back. After Torah came the New Testament and Finally the Quran. The issue of legitimacy of one religion disputed by the other and never resolved. Then comes the legal and secular way of life, both legal, civil, and humanitarian neither of which accept such intrusion, expulsion of the native people for their home and humiliate them like dirt, but the Zionist are doing just that. It is rather shocking to see that the West joined the Zionists in this inhuman, illegal, unjust, unGodly, and oppressive venture of the Zionism and continues to back up the venture. Because no body is to condemn the Britain for creating this criminal tradition, the UN for ratifying and legalizing such criminal entity, and the US for taking part in it and since 1948 for actively supporting and blocking the rest of the world by using its veto power allowing the illegal and immoral entity continue its attrocities against the Palestinian victims. This is criminal and God will not forgive the perpetrators for committing such crime. It is just the matter of time. Palestinian are angry and hateful of the Zionists for reasons, for their survival against injustice and attrocities, let alone occupation. Their hatred is as old as 1917, the year of Balfour declaration. So, instead of criminalizing them and comparing them with the Nazis, be honest, truthful, fair and just, and act seriously at least to give their land that you have occupied beyond the border of Israel that was granted by the UN in 1947.

You will then find the Arab-Muslims are forgiving people. It is an insult to humanity that you are the perpetrators of crime and attrocities, and barbaric treatment of the people of Palestine and, beyond that, you condemn them as Nazis. Fear God and remember, God is just. It is just the matter of time. Remember, what happened to Europe, the self killing and destruction especially in the WW I & II. That probably was from God for the crime committed to the victimms of colonialism over the past centuries. Fear God before it is too late.

Israel-Palestine Resolution: Original sins must be confessed by the West

Dear all: (You are reminded to fear God if you are dishonest, unjust, and oppressive in attitude and actions.)

The original sins with regard to the Israel-Palestine Resolution was the expropriating the land of Palestinian people and giving it to the Zionists. It was first done by the British in 1917 and by the UN in 1947, a sin that has caused the people of Palestine to lose their land, honor, dignity while suffering the pain of loss and humiliation inflicted by the intruders and occupiers who were directed, protected, and supported by the West ever since.

It amazes me to listen how a Zionist talk about their position and about their enemies, especially the Palestinian resistance activities, now it is Hamas, Hezbullah and Iran. Before it was basically PLO and others. Listening to Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in the UN security assembly on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 blasting UN and the rest of the World, especially European nations for not condemning Hamas attack on Israel and not doing enough to deter Iram from advancing in nuclear power, and so on. When Ahmadi Nijad, President of Iran, was talking and blasting the West and Israel for their treatment of the people of Palestine, many walked out the Assembly including the US, but not when Netanyahu was blasting them. Why? Because in their mind and heart Israel is part of them, and so the Middle East has to be managed, no matter how. Legality of issue and moral justification of their actions is not in their dictionary. Best way possible, yes, but if that does not work, any other way, even if that require killing in millions and destroying nations. They did that with the Native Americans, with Africans, with people in the Indian subcontinent, and with themselves (refer to the European wars in the 14th and 15th centuries, the Atlantic wars between 15th and 19th centuries, war in the Americas including the US civil wars, wars following the French revolution culminated in the Napoleonic war that finally stretched to Moscow and took hundreds of thousands of lives, not to mention the I & II World Wars that took 60 million lives. Talking about the killings during the 19th and 20th centuries Algeria alone lost over million lives to earn their freedom in 1962. Indians lost several more millions, and so were the Africans. And now including Iran-Iraq war, Gulf War, and finally Iraq and Afghan wars took close to 3 million lives. This is the summary picture of what to expect from the western mind and culture.

However, the West has also gave birth of some new sense of accountability and fairness, but it only comes on their own term at a time when such apology is irrelevant and too late, not to resolve under pressure the unresolved situation, but to play good guy as they feel like, when the magnitude of the situation has already been diminished. I mean the apology of Pope John Paul II to the Native American in 1990/1991 for looting their wealth, especially the gold, and build the gold roof of cathedral in the Vatican by those gold, whites’ apology to the black people for the sufferings of slavery and to the American Native people for exterminating them, etc. For sure these confessions are not really confessions to suffer the consequence, but to play the good guy game and on their own term.

The West has not come to the point of playing such good-guy game with regard to the injustice inflicted upon the people of Palestine yet and when they do it will be too late. But such apology is needed now urgently, especially by the British, by declaring that the award of Palestine in 1917 to the Zionists to create their new home there was unjust and illegal. Another injustice and illegal act was indulged in by the UN in 1947 by mandating the land of Palestine to the Zionists and giving birth to the state of Israel, as it was unjust to the owners of Palestine, hence illegal. Both British and UN did that in the sheer disregard of the people who physically were the owners of the land and give it to the Zionists, in the way of playing power game. The Zionist thus expelled all Palestinian people from their home and land that began in 1917 with the Balfour declaration and culminated in the UN mandate in 1947. As a result the People of Palestine are since then either refugees or under the occupation, especially since 1967, most of whom are now so called terrorists.

A solution is needed to the situation urgently. Like many other illegal and injustices committed by the colonial west, the creation of Israel in the country of others by expelling the victims was a crime, but it happened and it cannot be and should not be reversed, as many think. Alternatively, the crime of illegality and injustice could be confessed by the British, America, and the UN and ask the people of Palestine, as they had done to others mentioned above, to forgive them for doing this and at the same time urge them to accept the existence of Israel and recognize it, Israel of UN mandate in 1947. This will force the Zionist to morally calm down and to stop talking so arrogantly like this, as Netanyahu did this time as always, to fool the world. The Zionists will not change a bit, they needed to be told by the West that the illegality and injustice committed to the people of Palestine is a fact and truth that needs to be recognized and what is the current fate of the Zionists. But the West will never tell the Zionists the truth, unless they confess themselves the injustice they had committed initially by awarding the Zionists the land that belonged to the Palestinians. The rest of the world thus need to begin talking about the original sins of the West with regard to the plight of Palestinian people and convince them that, yes, it was because of what we the West initiated was indeed illegal and unjust to the people of Palestine and that must first be recognized before expecting the Zionists to humble themselves and confess or even to appreciate the sufferings of the Palestinian victims. By the way, the West will eventually confess, may be unofficially, just like they do now about the Crusaders War, but it was too late for the victims of the Crusaders, and it will be too late as well for the Palestinian cause unless the rest of the world wakes up and make a push to convince the West of their wrong doings to the people of Palestine.

Muslim, Christian, and Jewish America?

There is a good article on the models of Americanism entitled, "Beyond Herberg: An Islamic Perspective On Religious Pluralism In The USA After 9/11" by H. Salem available online: http://www.jsri.ro/old/html%20version/index/no_11/hajerbenhadjsalem-articol.htm. In this article you will find that Muslim community and religious leaders are looking beyond this model of Judaeo-Christian-Islamic or Abrahamic culture of America and suggesting that the new motto of all these religious groups should be simply 'Americanness', because American now, as demonstrated by scholars like Diana Eck, that in America now there are Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs and many more religious communities all of them are now in big size. So, to be fair, American people should be realistic and look beyond their tunnel vision. With this, the issue of Muslim inclusion in the cultural and religious platform is non isue. But Muslims' place in America and their role in the promotion of Americanness along with their counterparts, Christians and Jews, remain an issue. Again, it would not be an issue either had there not been the crisis of Zionist entity of Israel and the sufferings of Palestinians, as a result, was not there.
You are insulting President Carter, but he is the most conscientious American leader that everybody should be proud of. What he has confessed with regard to the conflict in the Middle East, is the truth that everybody knows about, but many of you do not admit the truth for reasons that no one should fail to understand. The evil faith, evil desire, evil attitude, evil religious position, evil character and evil frame of mind, as per the sense of legality, ownership, plunderism, theft, murder, and legal, ethical, and moral sense of justice is concerned. Taking land from the legal inhabitants of it, occupying more from around, dehumanizing the victims, ethnic cleansing and exterminating them like cockroach represent an effort of "new world order" that redefine the concept of legal right of land, treatment of human being the way the Zionist are doing, with many of your support, driving the people from their home and transform those home and land into yours are some of the examples of the "new wold order" the the British first initiated in 1917 by giving the land of Palestinian people to the Jews and subsequently the entire West, the US being the leader of it, has created a order that can only generate conflict, crisis, and blood shed with never ending episode. It hearts me to see that millions of people in the West are actively supporting this "new World Order" based on evil faith, evil desire and evil method of holding it. This evil ridden situation can be stopped in a matter of second by just confession the guilt of creating the state of Israel, of occupation, of dehumanization of the Palestinians, of destroying them systematically, of continuous settlement project (it is going on as we are talking), of not recognizing the truth of the conflict, of deceiving the world and your own conscience, of lies, and many more. Then apologize and ask the Arabs and Muslims to accept the existing Israel that was mandated by the UN. I guarantee, they will accept Israel and forgive the evil mongers, if not forget. Also, because they know that it was the crimes committed by the Zionists, not by the real God fearing Jews, and there are many Jews and Christians who are against Zionism.