Thanks for the kind words, Robert. Most of the credit is due to our reader, "Marybeth," who forwarded me the links (and who also attended your last talk).

It is certainly interesting to see who remains on the honored guest lists.

Posted by: Solomon at November 22, 2004 8:32 PM

Why is this demagogue still here? I guess the FBI and law enforcement agencies don't have enough to do without the dauntless task of surveilling dangerous criminals like this.
We will surely go broke trying to defend ourselves from the enemies we knowingly admit to our country, so they can travel from coast to coast and incite their fellow lunatics to jihad.
I wish I could understand the logic of allowing our avowed enemies to migrate to America. Where will the line be drawn; how much more "tolerance" of the utterly intolerant is expected of us before clear, rational minds demand an end to this insanity? Or before angry, frustrated, resentful minds take matters into their own hands?
We have concocted a recipe for disaster that nobody has the courage to declare a miserable failure. I guess that won't happen until the pot boils over, and then it will be too late.

Posted by: Susanp at November 23, 2004 11:02 AM

Islamic Riddle

We all know that the Star in the Jewish religion is the Star of David.

And we know that the Cross in Christianity is there because Jesus was crucified on the cross.

But do you know where the Crescent or the Moon comes from in Islam?

a) The Turkish flag
b) Pre-Islamic Allah was a Moon God
c) The Arabs were deeply impressed with the shape of the Moon

If you chose b) then you are correct.

Prophet Mohammed worshiped a God named Allah before Islam was founded. Pre-Islamic Allah had three daughters - all mentioned in the Koran and were known as the Trinity Dessert Goddesses, Al-lat(u), Menat and Al-Uzza. [1 God + 3 Gods = 4 Gods.]

All of these Goddesses would have been important to Mohammed’s family or the Quraish. Allatu was Allah’s main daughter; a Mother Goddess, known simply as ‘The Goddess’. Allatu was so popular that she was borrowed by the Greeks and became Leto – Mother of Apollo. Al-Uzza was represented as the morning star - Venus.

But more significantly Menat had a cult which was between Mecca and Medina and was worshiped in the form of a ‘Black Stone’ or the Kaaba at Mecca; the very same black stone that every devote Muslim is required to encircle during his (her) pilgrimage or Hajj to Mecca at Ramadan.

This explains how it could be that Mohammed’s own father was named Allah or Abdullah - which translates into a servant of Allah – even before Islam was created. Mohammed was born into a family known as the Quraish {Webster's Third Dictionary}, who for more than 200 years were the caretakers of the ‘Black Stone’ or Kaaba at Mecca. Before Islam, Mohammed’s religion was known as Kaaba with Allah as God.

Worshiping Moon and Sun Gods and Goddesses were common in ancient times, from the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia to the Ancient Greeks. Historical facts seem to show that Islam has its foundation in this Mythology, with any Biblical connection being added later – perhaps to give the religion legitimacy in the face of the other powerful regional ‘One God’ religions. (Most things Islamic were developed under the Syrians, who took over Islam after killing Mohammed’s cousin.)

Posted by: Pass It On at November 23, 2004 11:24 PM