March 16, 2015
!) The fundamental SPARK that allows this PERVERSION of Wahabi Fundamentalist tradition is, of course the Hypocrisy of today's horribly mis-led, less-than-Jewish Israel which has oppressed the Palestinian people for as long as my retired sister has been alive; and which the so-called Christian moral "civilized" West has not seen fit to coerce into acting JEWISH because of our exceeding Guilt over looking the other while Six Million Jews were slaughtered during World War II. One may hope (and pray) that right now the people of my mother's mothers' folks will vote to remove an enemy of peace/Shalom and true Judaism, Benjamin Nazi-Yahoo from the Leadership of Israel. Anyone who pays scant attention to international affairs recalls that the last person in charge of Israel who was actually heading towards a peaceful resolution with our Palestinian cousins was Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in the pale of Netanyahoo's anti-Peace, anti-Jewish, anti-Yitzhak Rabin tirades that set such an evil atmosphere of the time, that's for sure. Let's all hope & encourage the victims of Shoah to stop committing atrocities against their Palestinian cousins (under Abraham/Ibrahim Isaac-Ishmael) by giving them "A Partner for Peace" such as the Labor coalition alternative to those who ignore Moises law against theft and murder of one's neighbors..
2) The more IMMEDIATE cause for the rise of the Iblis-mic snakes of ISIS-ISIL Da-eesh/whatever being of course the Bashir Assad Mafia evil slaughter of the Syrian People (with support of course from the anit-theosophus fascist Czar named after "Vlad, the Impaler" of Transylvania - Putin. (Shows how accurate the Bush family can spot a '"good soul"). Supported as well, sadly by the Persian Imam who seems to care more for those who broke off from mainstream Shi-ism than for the damnable acts which such commit against innocent civilians !
Another contributing factor was, of course; Obama's incompetence in NOT aiding the Free Syran Army thru arms, etc say the day after his re-election (given how the GOP-Trogolodyte coalition would criticize ANY action by him in that season). The FSA's relative weakness allowed the extremists to gain ascendency amongst those trying to free the Syrian people. In this regard Barack even refused to listen to the advice of his own State Department experts ! We all know he ran as an anti-war candidate, however sometimes "some support in time - saves creation of evil-eines" ! To evolve Franklin's wisdom for this case.
3) Dumbo Malaki, "tutored" by airhead Shrub-bush into destroying everything that our Military and Foreign Policy tried to accomplish over the last decade, renting the Iraqi Nation asunder, Shia from Sunni.
Of course the reason we HAD Malaki, screwing things up was the stupidity of Cheney & shrub invading Iraq for the Oil Companies thinking it was going to be a piece of cake, a walk in the park, with all the Iraqi's throwing rose petals as they were being occupied by foreigners who immediately concluded ALL Bath-ists were un-redeemable Sadaam-ists (which was not our attitude after the cold war when we realized that anyone wishing to get an education/employment etc. had to "join" the communist party, ostensibly - though many had little true fidelity to such).
4) More long-term, of course what leads to such perversions of the "oft-forgiving loving-kindness" TRUE Islam of Mohammad, who was in fact a PROGRESSIVE in his day - who required all justice to be meted out equally to rich as well as poor, like Moses; what a concept - Just Justice ! … and he stopped the Arabic people of his day from burying their female babies in the sand (infanticide of females), which was common practice then.
In other words he was a Progressive "Liberal" in his day and age.
An important issue regarding Islam's "scripture" arises because of the somewhat hypocritical perspective of the "Hadith" or 'sayings/traditions of the prophet' IN HIS DAY.
HE emphasized that ONLY the QURAN is the revealed 'Word of God' and yet, like Siddhartha Gwuatama - the original BUDDHA (who NEVER wanted a religion built around him); Mohammad's followers have tended to give almost scriptural weight to how Muhammad lived in his day! Quite worth of study, no doubt - but hardly a 'strait-jacket' for today's extremely different society I
Studying the Encyclopedia Britannica, one finds that the so-called 'quotations' of Mohammad in Hadith were not collected until two or three HUNDRED years after the prophet's death ! As troubling is the process thru which any particular doctrine became 'accepted' in which those who wished to INSERT their own beliefs were able to manipulate whatever original utterance came from Muhammad. One should note MOST importantly that the Prophet himself did NOT WANT his sayings to even be written down! He insisted that the inspiration from Allah lay in his Quran, not any fallible human being like himself !
Perhaps true followers should take the advice of the Prophet in putting much LESS emphasis on hadith than those who have tried to manipulate Islam through putting their thoughts in Muhammad's mouth !
In this perspective, I am personally on my third reading of what I translate as "The Exhortation Testament"/ Quran, but have never availed myself of the hadith tradition, which seems more like old testament commentary than any possible quotations of the Prophet himself (ever played "rumor" with 20 people, or over 20, 200 years ?). BTW I've also availed myself of the Judao-Christian scriptures as well (along with some others).
Muhammad's original progressive tendency has been altered by the Wahabi's extreme fundamentalist "letter of the law" from back in the thirteenth century Hanbali school of Islamic law (Ibn Taymiyah in particular) trying to be imposed on today's world. - which, simple minds can imagine is living up to the "jot and title" of the eternal words spoken by God, or interpreted by hadith 'science' scholars in reality, but if you ignore what wisely is called in LAW not just the letter, but THE SPIRIT of the law - that is the real INTENT - what's desired in the ETERNAL PRINCIPLES of things like Justice, and Truth and Humane Co-existence with one's fellow beings - & if one totally IGNORES the Spirit - for THAT's what is eternal ! The LETTER interpretation for society of the day HAS TO EVOLVE as Society develops thru TIME as technology changes, as the whole way humans interact changes - the letter has to evolve with Society ! The Principles ARE Eternal - the spirit should be honored forever, but in order to do that - the letter HAS to change. It has to move with Society, not be perverted, not be ignored and allow laisee - faire totally free will without concern for what one's actions do to everyone else but, appropriate interpretation for the day's reality has to be taken into account…. it has to be the true goal of the eternal principles at least as much as it's proper interpretation 1400 years ago. After all modern issues may just not have been foreseen as to what's the proper interpretation of this, that or the other principle in this or that technology & reality of how society currently operates, it just wasn't necessary to be defined back in the Prophet's day ! So, when people try to simple-mindedly go back to the fundamentals and ignore the fact that the reason the prophet was such an important manifestation of Allah, or God on earth is that he brought forth PROGRESS in the moral fabric of humanity ! (as did Moses & Jesus in their dispensation).
It may prove helpful for pious Muslims to consider how in Wester Society we were able to end a potentially eternal series of "religious wars" thru the process of THE ENLIGHTENMENT in which the principles live on, and are eternal but where one's particular mode of worship, strain of religion - whether it's Orthodox or Catholic or Protestant is less important than maintaining those principles thruout Society ! ….and that sort of not really transition but incorporation really of morality (what we now call morality) which is really applied Christianity…..or applied Judaism to use another term for much the same thing. That sort of Integration where one can really only live up to the religion by explicitly allowing people NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS! to have that FREEDOM/FREE WILL to live in their minds with whatever moral principle they desire as long as in their ACTIONS in society, in the real world - they live up to reasonably moral restrictions on how their actions affect other people; because TRUE RELIGION is not forcing someone to mouth some words - thats not a conversion - it means NOTHING to the SOUL of that person , and nothing to any TRUE GOD! What matters is what someone BELIEVES in their HEART. …and that is between them and God. You can never even know what it is - people can lie to you all-day-long & you'll never have a clue, it's foolish to imagine we can ever really know what someone else's mind is ! So the only TRUE Religion is that which does NOT REQUIRE a verbal mouthing of ANY belief - but allows people the freedom to BELIEVE what they wish but REQUIRES them to ACT in a commonly accepted UMMAH-like community decency. Not extremist Sariah punishment law, however; incorporating that concept in a more free-manner such that people ACT towards each other (at least physically) in a religious manner, even if they don't have to say "Oh I believe in x,y and z; and I don't believe in r, q & s". Again since you never know if anyone is telling you the truth anyway …and ultimately it doesn't matter ! What matters is You, and the Ultimate Truth - whatever you believe that is; YHWH, Allah, Father of Jesus, Grandest Buddha, Krishna/Bhrama/Vishnu whatever you choose…….or even "just the Eternal Principles of Truth, Life & perhaps Love".
That's all you can really ask, or that's all we really SHOULD ask of each other at this point in our battle against Evil to survive; because after Hiroshima there's absolutely no guarantee that we won't extinct ourselves tomorrow, or over the next century thru ignoring Scientific Prophets' predictions about our pollutions - so that we're AROUND long enough to HAVE a good debate and see, perhaps by reading each others scriptures what we can LEARN about TRUTH from each other and have, y'know good healthy PEACEFUL non-violent discussions such that we might be found WORTHY by whatever Just Justice exists in the Universe to SURVIVE. As opposed to what JOB's Adversary Lucifer/evil/stupidity who claims that Humans are not worthy to be around y'know - should not be entitled to take up this real estate in the Universe ! He/it will be handed quite an argument if we EXTINCT OURSELVES by "trying to be so 'Holy'" that we slaughter anyone who disagrees with us - that's not a sign of our 'fealty to God'. THAT's a sign that Ibliss/Satan is correct in saying we're not worthy to exist, "Look, they even killed themselves, committing the greatest Sin imaginable, SPECIES-CIDE because they're too STUPID to humane-ly sit around and discuss their differences.
SALAM/SHALOM/SURVIVAL in this day and age.
Dr. Steven Dwight Ferber, Ph.D. Chemist
Mono-Thei-ist attendee of services at Mosque, Reform Temple & Anglican Church
(once a Season) Hardly Perfect but hardly ignorant
2200 North George Mason Drive, No. 7123
Arlington, Virginia native
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A quick 'email to the Editor's' for the '14 Election
What is the Truth about right-wing criticisms of Democratic Leadership ?
Let's see…. Cut Obama's Stimulus package in half, and then complain when the
economy recovers slower & weaker than it would have under the full Stimulus.
…..& then blame the black President
…. Cut the funding for Health & Medical Services available to the Executive Branch, & then complain when things don't go perfectly well with the Ebola outbreak (including the fact that the GOP corporate Insurance-run system in Dallas was more concerned with whether patient #1 had insurance coverage than what his health issues were - which delay killed him & infected the nurses)…….
…..& then blame the black President.
Deny the ability to even hold hearings for required Cabinet appointments & then complain when things don't go perfectly well as they should…….
….& then blame the black President.
…….and WHO does this ? Of course, the so-called 'Party of Lincoln' (which seems to have lost it's morality at Ford's Theatre - except for Teddy Roosevelt, who tried to REPLACE it with something less corrupt & Mammon based = the Bull Moose crew)
- along with the anti- (REAL) 'Tea Party' extremists who claim any leader with a 'natural tan' must have been born on Mars - or something equally "logical".
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Pass all kinds of Voter-Denial ID laws in order to prevent the poor, the elderly & other Democratic Voters their God-given rights "in order to remedy" a crime that doesn't EXIST in this country (by any reasonable standard), Voter Fraud, of which we've had like half a dozen cases of over the last five years!!!
This, from the party which lauds it's founder's quotation of American Government being "of, by and for the people". It seems, thanks to the bogus appointments made by impeachable/inprisonable Traitors Reagan/Bush for 6 years after Iran/contra's lack of prosecution that the quote now effectively reads "of, by and for the Corporate Persons" for whom they are puppet prostitutes (Slaves of Mammon as quoted in the Truth Book).
Also, if one recalls the evidence of providence in history and (for the earlier majority of farmers/country folk) the "All Hallowed Even" Blizzards blowing thru the South should make one wonder if the modern day prophets of Climatic Instability (pooh-poohed by the corporate right); the Scientists, who eschew wealth for truth-seeking all their lives should be ignored quite so completely by any "God Respecting People".
One thing for sure about those who 'make long prayers(speeches) in public places to be seen of men while insuring the overly wealthy become even more so is that this simple cheer applies……….
------------------Hip Hip Hyp-o-crites !!!!!!!!------------------------
Dr. Steven Dwight Ferber, Ph.D. Chemist '05
and a Graduate of Mr. Jefferson's University '76