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This information is a few days old, but it is far too important for me to let it go by without mentioning. Solomon has kindly alerted me to an email that circulated to the Islamic Society of Boston's email list in the midst of the struggle to compel that city to divest from Israel.
Solomon points out that they are now saying their list is unmoderated, so it may be that they do not approve of the sentiments in this message. But I also found it at Al-Jazeerah.info — again with a disclaimer.
It is interesting that one of the Qur'an's neck-smiting verses is quoted (8:12), in the context of a clear call for the total destruction of Israel. Since this call is rooted in the traditional understanding of jihad and the assumption that the land belongs to the House of Islam in perpetuity, and since those ideas are closely related to the doctrines of violent jihad that terrorists use to justify their actions, it would be illuminating to know how many among the Islamic Society of Boston actually subscribe to the sentiments in this message — but that, of course, is a question that in today's politically correct environment cannot be asked.
Dear Friends of Palestine,Quite by accident, the Aldermen of Somerville, Massachusetts selected the night of November 9th, 2004 to vote on the Socially Responsible Investment Resolution which recommends that the city's retirement benefits investment plans be taken out of Israeli security bonds and companies such as Caterpillar which aid in the Israeli occupation army's war crimes against the civilian population of Palestine.
On the 9th of November, quite possibly the Night of Power, the American people will stand up to the Zionist community. Already, the Zionist telephone hate hotline has been busily threatening and trying to intimidate the Aldermen and their families. We hope that the Aldermen will not be swayed in their decision to avoid investing public money in controversial companies or in countries that the disregard human rights rulings issued by the World Court. There is every reason to believe that the truth will be victorious on that night, for it is the most holy night in the sacred month of Ramadan.
Allah says about the Night of Power: "Ah, What will convey unto thee what the Night of Power is! The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit descend therein, by the permission of their Lord, with all decrees. Peace until the rising of the dawn." (Surat al Qadr 97:1-5). The Night of Power, the night when the Quran was first revealed to the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, is called Laylat Al Qadr, and it is the night during which destinies are decided. (See Surat Ad-Dukhan 44:4). Laylat Al Qadr is a night in which angels descend to earth and ascend back to heaven, carrying with them the sincere prayers of the people who are awake.
It is a unique privilege to be able to experience Allah's mercy and forgiveness on this blessed night when Muslims all over the Boston area, and all over the world, will spend the night awake in prayer and reflection. To receive the Holy Spirit of Allah in this Night of Power is worth more than 84 years of life. The Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, said that he who seeks blessings and guidance from Allah on this Night of Power will have his previous sins forgiven: the ultimate liberation.
Inshallah, this Night of Power will go down in history like John Brown's uncompromising stand against slavery. Life's purpose is not just to find linguistic loopholes to evade the clear criteria given to us by our Creator which define right and wrong. For Allah has said: "I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he crieth unto Me. So let them hear My call and let them trust in Me in order that they may be led aright." (Surat/Chapter al Baqarah 2:186).
Oh Muslims who are praying tonight, remember the good people in Somerville who want their city to divest from Israel, because they are coming up against the Beast, and they will have to make this jihad, but they are not alone. "Victory cometh only by the help of Allah. Lo! Allah is Mighty, Wise." (Surat Al Anfal 8:10).
If there is even one person in Somerville, Massachusetts, who is attending the Alderman meeting with the weight of a mustard seed of faith in his or her heart, I pray the sky open up and Allah's glory be made manifest for the sake of bestowing dignity and honor upon the keepers of the holy shrines in the holy land.
If Allah does not grant victory to the Palestinian people, the noble mosques and dignified churches in which the names of the prophets are recalled, will be bulldozed to the ground. If Palestine is crushed, so too will the spirit of humanity be ground into the dirt. Like Rachel Corrie, our back will be broken.
In a grave and deadly hour such as this, the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, prayed for the safety of his companions in the heroic Battle of Badr. "Oh Allah, if this small band of Muslims is destroyed, You will not be worshipped on this earth." Early in the history of Islam, when it appeared that the enemies of Islam would mass murder the Muslims, the Muslims refused to submit to anything other than Allah. Therefore "Allah willed that He should cause the Truth to triumph." (Surat Al Anfal 8:5).
It is in such a perilous hour that we live today, when we have no choice but to stand up against the raging Beast consuming all that is beautiful and holy on this earth, because this is not just about doing our moral duty towards our brothers and sisters in Palestine, but this is about being willing to follow in the footsteps of the prophets. We all have to be willing to uphold universal principles of justice as defined by Allah through Moses, Jesus and Mohammed, peace be upon them, not justice as the pro-Israel public relations agents redefine it.
"Allah Almighty says: (When ye sought help of your Lord and He answered you, saying): "I will help you with a thousand of the angels, rank on rank." Allah appointed it only as good tidings, and ... remove from you the fear of Satan, and make strong your hearts and firm (your) feet thereby when thy Lord inspired the angels, (saying:) "I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will throw fear into the hearts of those who cover up the Truth. Then smite the necks and smite of them each finger." (8:9-12).
The State of Israel is the primary threat to World Peace today, especially in that it controls American politics. The American people have a duty to break the neck of the State of Israel by cutting off its supply of funding. We must kill the stranglehold that the supporters of Israel have placed upon our throats. These criminals have destroyed our democracy with the Patriot Act, ruined our economy with useless wars designed to make Israel the world superpower, they have printed lies in the newspapers that resulted in thousands of innocent Muslims to be imprisoned indefinitely without charge, tortured, and degraded. These people would knowingly put another family out of their home, and then happily move into their house. These people, dual citizen Israeli-Americans, are willing and eager to put American lives at risk just so they can enjoy stolen real estate at bargain prices available only to themselves.
On the 9th of November, when the organized Jewish community will attempt to deny, justify, or downplay Israeli war crimes, the American people will say no to Israel's occupation of Palestine. I pray Allah give the good people of Massachusetts the right words to say, and the courage to declare total opposition to Israel's use of our money. We must all thank these good Americans for standing up for all Americans' right to make socially conscious decisions in regards to their investments.
Any of you who believe in angels, this is the night for us to wake up and believe there is such a thing as Truth. Allah will send down His reinforcements like He did in that great battle centuries ago. Allah will back us up with 1000 angels. The Battle of Badr showed the world that a small group of people armed with the truth can prevail against those who wish to prevent the truth from being spoken.
True peace is the submission of the heart to make the decision to do the right thing no matter what the cost. This kind of peace exists within, and is not dependent on the evildoers' willingness to cease bombing those who refuse to worship the Beast. For we know that we too could face torture like Jesus faced at the hands of the Romans, or like our friends in Guantanamo, Israel's prisons, and Abu Ghraib.
On this night the testimony will be made about the truth of Israeli war crimes on American soil, in a government building, on live TV. Whether we are in Somerville at the Town Hall, or saying a prayer in the masjid (mosque), or tucking our kids into bed on that night, we should all be clear that if we are ever to succeed in taking this first step towards divesting from Israel, this is the night we could really do it.
All of you who are seeking the victory of Allah on behalf of the Palestinian people who are hungry, afraid, and abandoned, in these holy nights at the end of Ramadan, God willing, this is the night for salvation, for victory, for success.
Posted by Robert at November 19, 2004 7:58 AM
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Yes, we know. 500,000,000 Arabs live in squalor in the Middle East because there are 5,000,000 Jews in Israel.
A campaign to divest from companies/countries that are state sponsors of terror has been initiated. Unfortunately, it faces one hell of a catch-up game.
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at November 19, 2004 9:51 AM
Invoking the "Battle" of Badr.
A most BLATANT LIE! It was not a 'battle'.
It was the ROBBERY OF BADR!
Only the creativity of twisted minds can justify as a "HOLY" Jihad, an attack on a group of merchants, for the purpose of common banditry, and spoils of war.
And this is what this twisted religion is based on.........raping, looting, torturing, beheading,disembowling etc.
This was the Pedophile Prophet and his merry miscreants. And we see this today, in Beslan, Bali, Thailand, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Iraq.
at November 19, 2004 10:03 AM
FYI, I checked the city of Somerville's minutes of the meeting and couldn't find any reference to this resolution. There is a letter posted on their website from the mayor urging the aldermen NOT to support the resolution. I called the City Clerk to find out the status but he's out until Monday!
Posted by: CGW at November 19, 2004 10:09 AM
as a former resident of somerville, i can attest that with its near proximity to m.i.t. & harvard, there is a contingent population that is really an extension of cambridge itself. so, i'm sure that this initiative falls on the sympathetic ears of people who live in a cocoon rife with intellectual narcissism
the conspiracy theories and bad argumentation are indicative of just how far removed from objective reality is this "cause" -- aka denial of totalitarian bigotry
Posted by: ted at November 19, 2004 10:17 AM
UPDATE:
I talked to the mayor's office, and an aide told me that the resolution is still being looked at in committee and may not even be on the agenda for months.
NO NIGHT OF POWER, eh? How dissapointed they all must be!
Posted by: CGW at November 19, 2004 10:20 AM
disappointed
Posted by: CGW at November 19, 2004 10:20 AM
Only from Muslims do we hear tales of the rapists being viewes as the victims.
And their hijacking of Christ, to try and get Christian sympathy.
The Psychopaths are claiming to be in the same predicament as Christ.
The question to ask Muslims is not :
"are you with us or against us?"
BUT
"Muhammed the bloodthirsty savage, rapist and pedophile; Are You with him or against him?"
Posted by: Uhller_Isshaytan at November 19, 2004 10:26 AM
Yes, by all means let's compare Jesus with the terrorists held in Guatanamo. Regular Christian disciples.
Posted by: former liberal WF at November 19, 2004 11:55 AM
The Nov. 9th vote was postponed until Dec. 7th meeting, due to the huge response on the issue. The Somerville City Clerk will be accepting written testimony through the end of this month, which the Aldermen will review before making a decision on December 7.
People can submit written testimony (through the end of November) to the Somerville City Clerk, John Long, jlong@ci.somerville.ma.us, or by mail to City Hall, 93 Highland Avenue, Somerville 02143. Please be civil and polite in your correspondence!
Posted by: kelley
at November 19, 2004 12:10 PM
Oh these retards........It's too bad that Muslims have to be such story twisting slap-nuts....
I hope the Jewish Mob, and yes, there is a Jewish Mob, starts making these Muslim Imam sand crabs start disappearing......
Posted by: DCWatson at November 19, 2004 12:27 PM
Well, it is up to Somerville's aldermen to decide whether on December 7, the Day That Will Live in Infamy, by their actions they Add or Subtract from the previously-existing store of infamy. One hopes that instead of adding a Muslim-inspired mite, they choose to subtract.
And Mayor Menino gave the Boston Islamic Society -- Alamoudi and all -- land at rock-bottom prices, because they so kindly agreed to deliver "free lectures" on Islam, and 5,000 works of Islamic propaganda, to Roxbury Community College across the way.
One should keep careful note of who says what, and votes which way, at this meeting. And if there are any servicemen from Somerville who have returned from Iraq, their views on the wonderfulness of Islam might be most welcome.
Someone should surely go, quoting sura and verse -- and distributing same ahead of time to the Aldermen beforehand. No need to exaggerate --one only has to get the truth out, and the Truth Shall Make Ye, if not Free, at least Extremely Wary.
This episode demonstrates that the mere presence of large numbers of Muslims, whether enrolled in Al Qaeda or similar organizations, or not, represent a clear threat to the interests of non-Muslims, and they will push, in every way, aided and abetted by the usual JoeStork(HumanRightsWatch),NancyMurray(ACLU of Massachusetts "constititutional rights" promoter, perhaps DianeEck bringing up the "pluralism project" troops to, rather ultra vires, support this project, and of course, Noam Chomsky, fighter against all imperialisms except the longest lasting and most successful imperialism of all --that of the Arabs, employing the vehicle of islamization to spread arabization. Ask Habib Malik or Ibn Warraq or Anwar Shaikh or V. S. Naipaul or Ivo Andric (his 1924 Ph.D. thesis on the history of the Balkans) or any number of scholars of Islam about all that.
Hope the F.B.I. and the local police are taking names of everyone involved in this. Check their status -- check it twice. See if they've been naughty or nice. Then act accordingly.
at November 19, 2004 12:38 PM
And I thought Night of Power was a monster-truck event.
Uhller Isshaytan's characterization of this as "the creativity of twisted minds" can hardly be disputed. Here's my two favorites:
1) Defining the Israeli security barrier as the "Apartheid Wall". Talk about belittling what happened in South Africa, which was genuine racism.
2)"The State of Israel is the primary threat to World Peace today, especially in that it controls American politics. The American people have a duty to break the neck of the State of Israel by cutting off its supply of funding. We must kill the stranglehold that the supporters of Israel have placed upon our throats. These criminals have destroyed our democracy with the Patriot Act, ruined our economy with useless wars designed to make Israel the world superpower, they have printed lies in the newspapers that resulted in thousands of innocent Muslims to be imprisoned indefinitely without charge, tortured, and degraded. These people would knowingly put another family out of their home, and then happily move into their house. These people, dual citizen Israeli-Americans, are willing and eager to put American lives at risk just so they can enjoy stolen real estate at bargain prices available only to themselves."
Did someone drop a little too much LSD back in the Sixties?
Posted by: Mike at November 19, 2004 12:40 PM
The response to this little initiative, from a JihadWatch post of early September of this year:
http://divestterror.org/enlist.html
Folks: get your letter writing hands out, especially if you live in the Sommerville Mass environs.
PS: I understand there is a move afoot as well re: divestment from Sudan in the Black community in the US, but Sudan has been a no-go for American investors for a while.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at November 19, 2004 12:49 PM
Uhuuumm,........This creature said>
It is in such a perilous hour that we live today, when we have no choice but to stand up against the raging Beast consuming all that is beautiful and holy on this earth
UHummmm, do you mean LIKE THIS?????????
http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/research/bamiyan/buddha/statue.html
Or forgive me perhaps this "thing"...this "man" means this???
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3536308.stm
Are we figuring this out yet???
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/002962.php
Could it be perhaps this "being" seeks to illustrate something more imediate? like mebbie .......THIS?
http://www.womenenews.com/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1908
It is in such a perilous hour that we live today, when we have no choice but to stand up against the raging Beast consuming all that is beautiful and holy on this earth.
Yup ,...good point.mr thing....The planet needs to help the muslims lift themselves out of the slavery of Islam .Then perhaps the muslim masses can turn to a modern-productive happiness inducing lifestyle and STOP DESTROYING our stuff,and our people and their people!
at November 19, 2004 7:40 PM
Well, we've had some wild and wooly Christians involved in political agitation. I'm no fan of Confederate nostalgia, but the abolitionist John Brown had a bloody career between his days in Kansas to the day his followers accidentally killed a free black working as baggage master at the Harper's Ferry train station at the time of his raid. True, there are good, biblical reasons to question such tactics, but this indeed is a case where my religion went off track.
As for the Muslims in Somerville, it seems they are using the argument and persuasion thing, which, much as I disagree with what they're doing, seems to fall under the Free Speech clause.
Posted by: Kepha1 at November 19, 2004 10:18 PM
Kepha1:
"Free speech" has its limits, even in the US. See Mike's recap of Uhller Isshaytan's "characterizations" of the garbage arguments the "Friends of Palestine" used in support of the resolution. According to them, not only do 500,000,000 Arabs live in fear of 5,000,000 Israelis, but over 300,000,000 Americans are also subserviant to Israel and the 6,000,000 Jews who live in the US. This is no different from the bile spread by Ernst Zundel et al. It's hate speech, plain and simple.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at November 20, 2004 4:40 PM
We have to expose the Muslims as liars! Let's see what a famous abolishionist, John Qunicy Adams had to say about Islam!
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE (Adam's capital letters)….Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant…While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men.” [p. 269]
No doubt John Brown would have had the same contempt for Islam that Adams did, a religion that believes thoroughly in slavery and has long sanctioned that a man could do whatever he wanted to a woman he possessed with his right hand.
at November 20, 2004 10:41 PM
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