Muslim Heretics Conference

By Olivia Rondonuwu and Telly Nathalia
JAKARTA, June 9 (Reuters) - A small but vocal militant Islamic group is putting Indonesia’s president, leader of the world’s most populous Muslim country, to the test over religious freedom, potentially hurting his re-election chances in 2009.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a reform-minded former general and Indonesia’s first directly elected president, still tops opinion polls and is the favourite to win the 2009 presidential election.
But his failure to crack down on a hardline Muslim group that often resorts to violence could alienate mainly moderate voters and reduce his clear lead against his closest rival, former president Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Some ordinary Indonesians are frustrated by his reluctance to defend religious freedom following several incidents that threaten Indonesia’s stability and reputation for tolerance.
On June 1, the Islamic Defenders’ Front (FPI), known for smashing up bars and clubs during the Muslim fasting month, provoked an outcry when its members beat up women and old people at a peaceful rally held to celebrate Pancasila.
Pancasilia, Indonesia’s official ideology, stresses religious tolerance and unity.
The rally had also urged tolerance for the Ahmadiyya sect some Indonesians consider heretical because its followers do not recognise the Prophet Mohammad as Islam’s final prophet and believe Ahmadiyya’s founder is a prophet and messiah.
Yudhoyono, often referred to by his initials SBY, is under pressure from hardline, and even some mainstream, Muslim groups to ban Ahmadiyya.
In the meantime, some of the sect’s mosques and buildings have been torched or attacked by militant Muslims, often with little sign of police effort in stopping them.
“It is quite obvious the government has turned a blind eye to extremist attacks,” wrote Soeparman from Tangerang, near Jakarta, in a letter to the daily Jakarta Post in response to the FPI’s attack on the Pancasila rally.
“The FPI is becoming an organised crime outfit, just like the Yakuza or Mafia. It must be stopped … do it now, SBY, or you’ll lose my vote next year,” wrote A. Subiakto from Bogor, West Java.
While former President Suharto crushed dissent during his 32 years in power, his ouster in 1998 paved the way for greater democracy, as well as more fringe and extremist groups.
The militant FPI, a de facto vigilante group, emerged in 1998 with close links to powerful members of the police and military.
Among the political parties to emerge, the Justice and Prosperous Party, or PKS, started as a conservative Islamist movement in university campuses, but now wants to be considered more mainstream, with a stress on fighting corruption.
That’s helped it win a couple of key elections for provincial governor this year, and some analysts see it as a rising political force in next year’s general elections.
BRUTAL ATTACK
Human rights activists and moderate Muslims slammed the FPI’s brutal attack on the June 1 rally in Jakarta in which more than a dozen people were injured. Police eventually detained some of those suspected of involvement, but critics said Yudhoyono should have acted sooner to curb the FPI, which has long gone unchecked.
While Yudhoyono clamped down on the militant Jemaah Islamiah, which bombed Western targets in Bali and Jakarta between 2002 and 2005, he seems wary of striking at FPI for fear of losing allies.
He won the presidency in 2004 with 61 percent of the vote, beating incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri, but his Democratic Party only won 7 percent of the votes in parliamentary elections, giving it just 57 seats.
So he relies on the support of secular and Muslim parties in parliament. Some of their members sympathise with FPI and want Ahmadiyya outlawed.
“He is being cornered politically. With a drop in support from more moderate political parties, he is forced to find support from the Muslim parties,” said Yudi Latif, chairman of the Centre for Islam and State Studies.
“To make sure he gets support from the Islamic parties, he must not show hostility towards (hardline) groups”, he said.
While Yudhoyono’s popularity has fallen from a high of 80 percent just after the 2004 election, polls show that he would still win if an election were held today.
A recent survey by the Indonesian Research and Development Institute found 57.5 percent of those polled would vote for Yudhoyono. Forty percent would pick Sukarnoputri of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P.
Still, some fear that Yudhoyono’s lead over Sukarnoputri could narrow if he appears to condone militant Islam.
Indonesia has a secular constitution and the vast majority of its Muslims follow a moderate form of the faith.
Indeed, despite the rise and high profile of some radical groups, surveys show Indonesian Muslims have become more secular and many disagree with people using violence in the name of Islam, and support for Islamic law and radical groups has declined.
A recent survey by the Setara Institute found 95 percent of young people do not support religious violence.
“With a case like this where hardline groups were involved in violent attacks that doesn’t necessarily mean that hardline Islam is on the rise,” said Greg Fealy, an expert on Indonesia at the Australian National University. (Writing by Sara Webb; Editing by Jerry Norton)

ANALYSIS-Indonesian president faces test over religious freedom | Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: A Muslim political leader urged Western governments Monday to hit out more strongly against acts that are offensive to Islam.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, warned there seemed to be a growing “campaign of hate and discrimination” against Muslims by a small number of individuals and organizations.

In a speech to a conference in Kuala Lumpur on improving ties between Muslims and the West, Ihsanoglu praised Western nations for criticizing acts such as the recent release of an anti-Quran film by a Dutch lawmaker, but said more should have been done.

“Mere condemnation or distancing from the acts of the perpetrators of Islamophobia will not resolve the issue, as long as they remain free to carry on with their campaign of incitement and provocation on the plea of freedom of expression,” Ihsanoglu said.

Earlier this year, the release of the film “Fitna” by Dutch politician Geert Wilders sparked protests by Muslims for showing images of terror attacks interspersed with text from the Quran.

Ihsanoglu also urged the media to reject “proponents of hatred and intolerance totally,” citing other incidents such as the republishing in Denmark of cartoons considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad.

“It requires a strong and determined collective political will to address the challenge,” Ihsanoglu said. “It is now high time for concrete actions to stem the rot before it aggravates (the situation) any further.”

Ihsanoglu did not suggest what action should be taken.

At the conference, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi appealed to world leaders to work together to nurture “common grounds in the interest of our common agenda of peace.”

“This biased view (of Islam) in the West persists, and, I must admit, it is not helped by the misguided actions of a discredited few from the Muslim side,” Abdullah said.

Muslim leaders urge Western governments to condemn acts that insult Islam - International Herald Tribune

From fiscal year 2001 through December 2007, Congress provided the Department of Defense with about $635.9 billion for its efforts in support of the Global War on Terrorism.

The Defense Department has reported obligations of about $527 billion for military operations in support of the war from fiscal year 2001 through fiscal year 2007 and for fiscal year 2008 through December 2009.
Meanwhile, many political leaders are more than willing to allow our enemies — in this case, Islamic Fascists — access to the homeland.
However, in his latest fictional work, Pandemonium in 2012 , author Leland W. Cross provides the reader with a front seat into the near future — a future when the very foundation of the United States of America is in serious jeopardy.
Cross’ America is on the rocks after two years of rule by the nation’s first woman president — Kipper Rodwell. The chain of destruction ends with her untimely death. Meanwhile a hero emerges on the American scene and — under his direction — suddenly the nation starts turning around.
However, the power brokers in Washington, DC don’t like the trend they are witnessing. Their plan for the nation’s political savior and America is the Pandemonium of 2012.
But fate plays a wild card. Patriots won’t let the republic die, as they struggle against Islamic terrorism, loss of civil liberties, a great nation unraveling at the seams, and revolution.
Lee Cross’ works are published by the Virginia City Publishing Company in Nevada. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Colorado Desert of Southern California.
He concedes that his works often have unusual themes: exploring reincarnation or the wonders of time travel. He attributes that to belonging to the generation that grew up watching the Twilight Zone. He considers his latest release a political satire with “cataclysmic implications of our own times.”

Pandemonium in 2012: Islamofascism and Chaos by Book Review

A champion of secular Islam looks to harness ‘heresy’

MURAD SEZER/AP

The two sides of Islam’s religious-secular divide are captured in this image of a woman passing artist Burak Delier’s work Untitled in Turkey, a country that remains nominally secular. Oct. 4, 2005

Lynda Hurst
Feature writer

It was billed as the first-ever “Muslim Heretics Conference.”

Provocative? To be sure.

But when Sudanese-American scholar Abdullahi An-Naim organized it in Atlanta this April, what he really wanted to do was ignite some innovative thinking – brainstorm the predicament of traditional Islam in the modern world.

“I deliberately wanted to shock people into seeing `heresy’ as a creative force,” he laughs.

Naim may describe himself as a Muslim heretic (his conservative critics certainly do), but his peers in academia prefer the rather more admiring designation of public intellectual. Either way, the Emory University law professor has become famous throughout the Muslim world for championing the concept of secular Islam. The case he makes for it is simple but, given the political tenor of the times, paradigm-changing. To wit: Human rights are universal and trump religious dictates. The state must be secular because neutrality protects all religions. Faith belongs in the private, not the public, domain.

Perhaps even more contentiously, Naim calls for sharia, the Islamic code of laws for living, to be “renegotiated” and brought into the present: Regarding sharia as “an immutable body of principles universally binding on all Muslims would have been inconceivable,” he says, “to those who created it in the 8th and 9th centuries.”

Even as a boy in Sudan, Naim says he contested sharia because its rules, particularly relating to women, seemed manifestly unconnected to the true nature of Islam.

The son of an illiterate mother and self-educated father, he was a law student at the University of Khartoum in 1968 when he joined a reform movement called the Republican Brothers. It was led by Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, a Sufi reformer, regarded by many as a mystic, but by Naim as a mentor.

He was profoundly affected by Taha’s belief that a balance must be struck between the individual’s need for absolute freedom and the state’s need for total social justice.

Taha recognized the state of Israel, says Naim, and inveighed against all violence, warning years before 9/11 that it had to be checked in certain Muslim societies. He argued that sharia rules were archaic and that the Qur’an must always be understood in its historical context.

Those views guaranteed trouble when a sharia-enforcing Islamist dictatorship took control in Sudan. In 1985, Taha was hanged, his books burned. Naim fled the country.

“But you can’t kill an idea by killing the author,” he says.

In 1989, he became head of the Africa bureau of Human Rights Watch and made his first foray into shark-infested waters with his book, Towards an Islamic Reformation. Since 1995, he’s taught law at Emory in Atlanta ( a school he praises for having gone to court in the early `60s to end racial segregation).

As director of its Religion and Human Rights Program, he has overseen a global study on how sharia family law is applied in the non-monolithic, hugely diverse Islamic world – and was heartened by some of the results. In several states where sharia law is the public law, changes and adaptations are happening, he says: A man wishing to take a second wife, for example, now requires judicial approval.

That may not seem much to the Western eye, but to him, it’s a critical start. He’s convinced that modern communications will accelerate progress. Reform will come.

Naim’s latest book, Islam and the Secular State (Harvard University Press) is the culmination of his life’s work, he says. At 61, he’s spent 40 years working through the seeds planted by Taha and reaching his own considered conclusions.

“Taha’s great lesson was to be yourself, not a carbon copy of him. He would approve of the book because I am standing my own ground.”

What criticisms Naim makes of religious tradition are made as a devout, observant Muslim, he stresses: “When I protest the inequality of women, I do it as a Muslim, as the fulfilment of Islam.”

The book argues that sharia can become a relevant code for living if it is reworked to include modern democratic principles as well as Islamic values. And secularism, despite its bad press among Muslims, should be welcomed by them. It is not a refutation of true Islam, as many assume, but the reverse: a protection.

Easier said than understood, much less implemented. A recent Gallup global poll found that 80 to 90 per cent of Muslims want democracy, but similar majorities also want sharia to be a source, or the only source, of law in their countries.

Naim knows some Muslims who immigrate to the West cling to sharia because it is “the boundary of self-identity, the gatekeeper of communal autonomy and cultural self-determination.” He also knows that Ontario, in 2004, almost stumbled into allowing sharia to be used to settle Muslim family disputes, sparking a furious debate on the role of religion within multiculturalism. Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ultimate decision to ban religious law courts – saying all Canadians, regardless of origin, must be bound by the same laws – was abolutely the right call, Naim says.

“People immigrate for economic reasons but once in a place like Canada, they think they’re getting the best of two worlds. Some conservatives exploit the liberal space of the society.”

He sees the furor as just a pothole in Canada’s multicultural path. “Regression is part of progression. Societies learn from experience just like people do. Setbacks are necessary so that everyone can get onto the same page.” He pauses, then adds: “Cultural sensitivity is a challenge for Muslims.”

Naim is aware that Canada is not officially secular. Most nations aren’t, though he rattles off a few that have declared secularism: France, Germany, Senegal. He wishes it otherwise, but “tactically, it’s not always possible for governments to do that.”

Then, too, the nature of politics means that gains made can become gains lost: “Algeria had a progressive family court in 1985, then there was civil war, and it receded. Look at Iran. That selfish egotist (President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad, playing his game.”

Dispiriting? “No. I’m a pragmatic optimist. My eyes are open, I’m wise to human power and greed. If I’m not optimistic, I’m giving in to the lowest part of human nature.”

Naim’s book is subtitled Negotiating the Future of Sharia. But should it have a future?

Not according to Tarek Fatah, author of Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State. He disagrees with Naim’s evocation of true Islam in place of out-of-date sharia: “He’s not looking in the right place for political answers. People don’t want to hear about secularism.” But Fatah describes Naim as that rare thing, “a scholar with a sense of humour. If he wasn’t constrained by being in academia, he could be another Gandhi.”

Lynda Hurst is a feature writer for the Toronto Star. She can be reached at lhurst@thestar.ca

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A translation of the Koran into Gaelic has enthusiastic backing from Scotish Muslims - but lacks a Arabic-Gaelic translator

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Muslim scholars are working on a Gaelic translation of the Koran in an attempt to promote better understanding between faiths.

The Muslim Academic Trust, which is publishing the translation, said that it was important that every language had a version of the holy book.

Abdal Hakim Murad, who heads the trust and lectures on religion at the University of Cambridge, said: “The Koran speaks of the diversity of human languages as a sign of God’s beauty and creative power. We feel that the specific genius of each language needs to be honoured by Muslims, and that a good translation of the Koran would be an important way of bringing this about.”

Although Scottish Muslims have embraced the project, which costs £50,000, church leaders in the Western Isles, where 61percent of the population speak Gaelic, say that there is no demand for a Gaelic Koran. The Reverend Iver Martin, of Stornoway Free Church, said: “I wouldn’t have thought there would be much of a market for this. I’m not sure that a lot of Gaelic-speaking people would be inclined to read it.

“Of course, Muslims have the freedom to do what they want, but it is worth pointing out that in many Muslim countries Christians do not have the freedom to read the Bible.”

Bashir Maan, convener of the Muslim Council of Scotland, said that the translation would foster understanding about Islam. “I think this is a very good thing. This is the only language in the world left without a translation of the Koran, and I am very grateful to the people who are working on it,” he said.

“I think it is very important that every person in the world knows what Islam is, and what the Koran says. The book is the source of Islam and it will help people know what Muslims are, what we feel, how we live, how we pray, and what the culture is.

“I think it will be very good for community relations. Not many people know what Islam is, and they just go by what they read and hear about it. It is worth every penny that will be spent on it.”

The publishers hope to produce two versions of the Gaelic Koran - a decorative colour edition that marries Celtic and Arabic calligraphy, and a simple print edition.

Although they hope to complete the project by 2012, they have been unable to find anyone who knows Gaelic and Arabic well enough to start work on it.Instead they are considering setting up a translation committee to translate the existing Irish Gaelic version into the closely related Scots Gaelic.

Mr Murad said that if the book could not be done to a high standard, the project may be scrapped. “We are very anxious to get this done properly and to the highest standard. Better to not do it at all than for it not to be done well,” he said.

Muslim scholars start a Gaelic Koran, but gesture may be lost in translation - Times Online

Written by Zahir Ebrahim

Thursday, 05 June 2008

by Zahir Ebrahim
Why this fanatical preference for waging the ‘war on terror’ against only ‘Islamofascism’ today? [An earlier version of this essay appeared here.]
Personally, I think that the fanatics of all ‘religions’ can be equally fascists.
It would not bother me so much if all such ‘fundamentalist’ fascist fanatics would be thusly labeled using the English language’s choicest words, and equitably hung and then burnt at stake as monumental criminals after a stint in Guantanamo Bay with vicious dogs grabbing at their genitals and entirely reenacting for them the barbarisms that transpired in Abu Garib prison for good measure!
However, as a rather straightforward and ordinary Muslim, I do find it deeply offensive that:

a) only uniquely label our ‘pirates’ thusly disparaging only Islam unjustly after these ‘pirates’ have been deftly created/nurtured by the ‘emperor’ and now have germinated,
b) use them as a convenient excuse for “imperial mobilization” in the pretext of fighting an endless “War on Terror” as otherwise, “democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization”, and “that exercise requires a high degree of doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment”, including a “sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being” and “truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat” such as a “new pearl harbor”,
c) profound morons on the planet, mostly the educated ones, and almost all of them living in the West - the supposed ‘enlightened civilization’ - and including some indigenously well placed ‘Native Informants’, continue echoing ‘a‘, and conveniently ignore ‘b‘ as the proverbial dancing/trumpeting/shitting monstrous elephant right in the nuptial bed that needs ‘a‘ as much as fish need water!

So to equalize the ‘American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives” on ‘the Grand Chessboard’, and as a plebeian computer scientist but well versed in identifying the ‘most significant bits’ of complex issues - just as the old wise man of antiquity, St. Augustine - let’s call a spade a spade, shall we?
Fight Zionofascism (fascism of the Zionists – too well known to need an explanation), and Christofascism (fascism of the Evangelical Christians hell bent on bringing on ‘Armageddon’), and Judeofascism (fascism of the Jews hell bent on asserting their ‘god’s chosen peoples’ mantra that puts them beyond the pale of ordinary people’s morality), and Neofascism (fascism of the neo-cons to conquer the world regardless of the cost to anyone else), and Atheofascism (fascism of godless atheists who seem to be in the majority among the imperialists du jour who play realpolitik with other peoples’ blood), and last but not least, Uberfascism (fascism of all the Nietzscheian supermen in all cultures who think they are better than human beings and can run rough-shod upon ordinary mortals as their ‘god-given’ primacy imperative), in your own backyards in this holy “War on terror” - the ‘highest order bits’ upon which the real ‘page faults’ (in computer science geek-speak) - and the threat of ‘Islamofascism’ 20,000 miles away will automatically melt away without spending an additional dime as the insignificant and dependent ‘lower order bit’.
Indeed, ‘Islamofascism’ will magically disappear from the international scene just as it was deliberately brought into existence by “God on your side” with people in foreign ’suits and ties’ as noted in this open letter to the veritable ‘ubermensch’ Middle East Scholar Daniel Pipes.
Then we shall be left with the more harmless and normative struggle for Renaissance within cultures and societies - a social struggle normal for every generation in every epoch as human beings attempt to keep up with the ‘modernity’ of their times and continually attempt to overcome their demons of history and its concomitant cultural baggage - as opposed to the fabricated ’synthetic terror’ that is criminally and most audaciously being cultivated for “imperial mobilization” today!
To rationally and efficaciously eradicate the synthetic curse of the ‘islamofascists’ and the attendant suicide bombers, requires first and foremost, to nullify with extreme and ruthless prejudice, its highest level gardeners, and their deliberate aiders and abettors and exponents in all guises. The weeds, without its deft cultivation and nurturing, will die out in due course. It is a monumental crime against humanity to kill the weed with the most inhuman ’shock and awe’ and blithely call the shattering of the tabula rasa of innocent civilians surrounding them ‘collateral damage’, while leaving not only their mastermind covert-patrons to cultivate more, but the very act of ’shock and awe’ in itself being its rather obvious deft cultivator. If someone ever kills my loved ones in a ’shock and awe’ as ‘collateral damage’, they better kill me too, or in my abject insanity, I will surely loose my gift of being a human being first and become the worst criminal – an easy recruit for a gardener! Let me know if there is another human being on this planet who would remain immune from such insanity. In the statistical law of large numbers, one can harvest a thousand a day!
And what of the so called ‘misanthropic’ statements or doctrines in the Islamic scriptures? Well, let’s begin with the far more blatantly misanthropic and tortuous content in the Rabbinical Talmudic literature first as noted by the Jewish ‘native informants’ themselves, shall we? Followed surely by the Zionist and Christian Zionist doctrinal literature of hate and ‘Armageddon’, and then of course the neo-cons’ blatantly chauvinistic ‘American Mein-Kampfs’ in duplicate and triplicate editions. Surely the Islamic literature must also not escape full-spectrum scrutiny-in-context either. If there are doctrines in ‘Islamic’ literature which are misanthropic, as in any influential doctrinal system, let’s expunge them, for any god that is selective, racist, particularistic, misanthropic, iniquitous, and preaches hateful doctrines of ‘primacy’ and ‘might makes right’, can only be man-made and therefore, can easily be eradicated in the ‘civilized’ modernity du jour!
Thus we should be able to not only equitably excise all such misanthropic garbage in all fascist doctrines - be they emanating from the minds of White House National Security Council, or from the penmanship of imperial thinkers, or the crooked fingers of mullahs, priests, and rabbis and the assorted self-righteous ‘ubermensch’ deviants of all stripes - but also charge their authors and exponents, whether alive or dead, and whether self-proclaimed prophets, presidents, emperors, professors, editors, think tankers, journalists, or national security advisers, as the worst monumental criminals to ever poison mankind’s thoughts and acts and thus accordingly deposit the living among them into Guantanamo Bay with full military ‘enemy-combatant’ protocol.
For good measure, we can pass equitable global laws outlawing all misanthropic doctrines, be they practiced by the Jews, Christians, Muslims, Atheists, Neo-cons, Hindus, Europeans, Americans, Free Masons, et. al.
Indeed, to equitably identify, adjudicate, and suitably consign all such forms of hateful doctrinal fascism and their fascist exponents who continually hide behind ‘legal cover’ of powerful nations, a radical free-thinking dialog algorithm is proposed in “Dialog Among Civilizations: Whytalksfail?“.
I suspect most everyone with an ounce of moral imagination would subscribe to such equitable distribution of collateral language and agree for a perpetual ‘holy jihad’ against all fascism. Even the erstwhile ZioNeoConoFascist literati cabal who possess imagination by the bucketful - moral or not - and love ‘perpetual war’, will surely join in. Nothing inspiringly new or terribly profound here beyond simple self-evident moral truths and obvious empiricism!
And the only point of rehearsing this ad nauseam by the non-fascists is because the manifest Machiavellian deceit is also rehearsed ad nauseam by the ‘ubermensch’ fascists and their academic exponents who are almost always beyond the pale of any ‘earthly’ justice system. To take down and refute one sentence of their lie almost takes 10 paragraphs. And they blithely go on synthesizing new ones - as an infinite number of lies are possible on any topic - all it takes is some Straussian imagination. And to bring to book even a single one of these monumental criminals seems to require the ‘victors’ justice’ and an unconditional surrender in an Apocalyptic World War!
Okay, so having done all that hard intellectual work, i.e., dispelled the myths, unraveled the deceptions, and identified all the terror philosophies in ancient texts and their modern exponents, then what? Who will equitably implement the actual excising of these doctrines from among mankind?
We are merely defenseless civilians, we don’t possess vast armies of conquest, or even for our self-defense against the fascists, nor ‘WMDs’, nor other means of initiating détente through any ‘MAD’ checks! And nor do we have any resources to reach the mainstream audience in the world’s most powerful ‘populist democracy’ who are indeed the accomplice prime-movers of this ‘imperial mobilization’ by virtue of their zombie-like ‘United We Stand’ as ‘Good Germans’ behavior of continually ‘looking from the side’, as atrocities upon atrocities upon the ordinary ‘lesser’ human beings continue to mount while the ‘populist democracy’ stays veritably busy pursuing its “American Dreams”!
So one mostly ends up preaching to the equally impotent choir - with some cheerleading here and there - and then all of us go home after a day’s worth of hard loquacious workout on the treadmill of in-efficacious protests as noted in “History is great fun to rehearse - what does it do for us today?” and in this open challenge of courage thrown to Amnesty International, USA.
What has changed since October 7, 2001 when Afghanistan was bombed into pre-history and today 6 years later? Iraq was still bombed in the interim! And this time around, Iran may be bombed with Nuclear Weapons! And us, the so called ‘voice of conscience’, are still occupied dispelling and unraveling the lies ad infinitum - while Muslims across the world continue to die in large numbers from ZioCon inspired American and British peoples’ own horrendous weapons of mass destruction bought and paid for by the American and British tax payers! It’s better to not mention the soldiers of economic conscription also needlessly dying at the behest of their masters wrapped in the false flag of patriotism, for they are, after all, bombing and killing another peoples on their own indigenous land and are thus the aggressors. They do have the choice to say no! I’ll be content mentioning only their victims, for those are my peoples as human beings first - regardless of their race and religion and nationality.
As per the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, all blame for aggression, and for “all the evil that follows”, is laid upon those who initiate the first aggression. Yes even under the euphemistic but well worn mantra of “preemptive self-defense” - an idea deftly exploited by Hitler as he went in search and annexation mission for his ‘Lebensraum’ that caused the destruction of much of Europe, most of it due to Allied bombing of civilian centers to free the European cities from the clutches of the occupiers! Before you send your precious sons and daughters off to fight the fictional “War on Terror” - do remember these veritable lessons of ‘victor’s justice’ subsequently enshrined into International Law not too long ago!

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