http://en.rian.ru/news/20100822/160296266.html
15:42 22/08/2010
Iran unveiled on Sunday the country's first domestically-built unmanned bomber, Iranian Press TV reported.
The 4-meter long-range drone, dubbed as Karrar or striker, was inaugurated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a ceremony marking Defense Industry Day in the Islamic Republic, Press TV said.
The presentation of the bombing drone took place a day after Iranian and Russian specialists started fuelling Iran's first nuclear power station.
The construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran Iran's first nuclear plant was begun in 1975 by several German construction companies. They pulled out following a U.S. embargo on hi-tech supplies to Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent U.S. Embassy siege in Tehran.
Russia signed a contract with Iran to complete construction in February 1998.
Western powers suspect Iran of seeking to build nuclear weapons under the guise of its nuclear program, which Tehran says is aimed at the peaceful generation of civilian energy.
MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti)
UNESCO denies involvement in Gaza art exhibition
By JONNY PAUL, 22/08/2010
LONDON – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said it has no connection with the controversial exhibition of photographs and art by children from the Gaza Strip that toured Scotland last week.
The “Loss of Innocence” exhibition was brought to the UK last year by anti- Israel activist Rod Cox, a bar owner from Chester, and toured in four cities in Scotland – Dumfries, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh – claiming it was supported by UNESCO Gaza.
UNESCO in the UK said on Friday that it was not even familiar with the exhibition.
“I have been in contact with the UNESCO office in Ramallah, which has an antenna office in Gaza, and they have confirmed that they are not familiar with this project and have not contributed to the organization of the exhibition,” a UNESCO spokesman told The Jerusalem Post.
The exhibition was hosted by the extremist fringe group Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
The display has been erected in a number of universities and other venues, including Manchester Cathedral in the north of England, since last September.
Cox said he wants it to “achieve a wider awareness of Israel’s crimes” and wants the exhibition to show in schools.
“The pictures show attacks by the Israeli army on civilians. While the Israelis claim they are fighting a just war they are suppressing any evidence to the contrary. The pictures reveal evidence of bombs that tear off arms and legs, and of the widespread use of bulldozers in the front line, demolishing houses to bury people alive, as well as destroying agricultural land, so they could be evidence of war crimes, too,” he said.
Cox brought back the collection of children’s paintings and drawings after spending time in Gaza last year. He was part of the Viva Palestina convoy to Gaza, led by controversial former MP George Galloway in March 2009.
Earlier this year, the UK’s Charity Commission accused the group of misleading the public over the amount of money it had raisead for Gaza. The Commission said it raised around £180,000, not the over £1 million it had claimed.
G. Grass writes a poem
The Symbol of the Latin Christianity
Guenther Grass in 1944
The Passion inspired by M. Gibson's movie
Christian Communism Logo
Che Guevara and Castro meet
Benedict XVi and Castro meet
The Geocentric Dome of Dome of 13th century Bibi-Heybat Mosque
Azeri Language
Lars Vilks, Jesus-pedophile
Benedict XVi kissing sheikh
K. Wojtyla's Ordination as imam-bishop Cracow 1958
Body-soul (Cp. Paul's Spiritual body). Be ready for cosmic journey!
Bonestell-Landing on the Moon
Lunar-lander
Vishnu
Vishnu as Buddha in the sun and Greek Nature
Baal, Shiva, Aten, Odin - Greek god of Nature
The same greenish Hue
The same greenish Hue
Trident Jesus
Angel Gabriel and Virgin Mary
The Darwinian struggle for Survival at theVatican
The Most Learned canon of Ermland
Hegemonikon or the Ruler of von Lauchen's Heliocentrism
A Graphic Rendition of Copernicus's Book
Such circles deceived Copernicus into believing in heliocentrism
Death of Nicolaus Copernicus
Aisha Qaddafi seeks asylum in Israel
The Committee of 300 or British CHEKA
Black SS-Pope
Pope John Paul II's 'Breviary'
Workers-priests
Communist Pope
Superhubris
Very Evil Pope
Lethal Mix AIDS and Alkoholism
Theology of the Body or by boobs and by crux
Theology of the Body or from Palestine with Love
Justin Martyr: Jesus is an erected phallus, like Egyptian Min
The Phallic Mosque in Jerusalem
Symbol of Islam
Karl Marx monument viewed from back looks like a phallus
Hittite, Phoenician, Kassi cult of the Sun and Cross
The Nicene, evolving cat of Massachussetts
The Nicene Jesus in Trinity
UNSC rejects Palestine's bid for membership
An Italian Poster on the funeral day of pope JP2
Swastika - the Perennial symbol of sun gods
Allah is the sun god. He is Mar Alah, or the sun god Surya
Ethereal body in Hindu religion
Saint Paul, an ancient klansman
Obama, the Enabler
Qaddafi's Corpse
OccupyAurora Protest in Sankt Petersburg
The relics of John Paul II in Odessa
The Afghan Crucifix: Jesus died al kiddush ha-Shem
Wernher, shoot him down
Death to Assad
Nazi and fascist Dictators
Farrakhan with Rev. Pfleger
M. Gibson receives a honorary degree from a Catholic Notre Dame University
The Hate Propaganda sposored by theVatican
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon to me wishing me a happy New Year
Enough is enough
Baal, Ashera with the pagan symbol of Trinity
Jesus with the Pagan Symbol of Trinity
Putin meets Hu Jintao Oct. 12, 2011
Paul and Nancy
The Kurds in Syria demand an independen state of their own
A. Hitler's letter of 1919 postulating destruction of Jews
Who is Confucius but Moses speaking Chinese?
Yassir Arafat Dying of AIDS
The Aryan, heliocentric Ruler of Canaan
Mussolini, a sculpture by Polish artist S. Szukalski
The Jedwabne Monument in Poland Vandalized
Map of the Indo-British Empire of the Sun
Aria in the Behistun Inscription
Aria on Waldseemuler's map o 1507
Madison Grant's Nordic Theory
Moscow - Beijing Express
A New Huge Free Trade Zone in the Making
The Aryan Christ of the Jesuits
The Cosmic dance of Big Bang
Bestiality in Hinduism
Erotic Artwork on the facade of the Lakshmana temple
Buddhist Solar Trinity
Christian Copy of the Buddhist Solar Trinity
the Marriage of Philology and Mercury
Peter-Mercury in St. Peter's Church
The Geocentric Flag of the African Union
Sundisk from Alacohuyuk (Anatolia)
The True Sexist Palestinian
Kill Jesus
The Symbol of the Aryan Trinity AUM within the sun god Surya
A. Hitler's Historical Jesus under the radiant sun
St. Paul's Golden "Calf"
The Whore of Babylon behind the Holocaust
Behind the Holocaust
Holy Ghost in the shape of swastika
A Christian from the catacombs with swastikas
From Emperor Hadrian to Pope Pius XII
Why did he fail to marry?
Iraq buys Czech fighters
Reversed Evolution of Nebuchadnezzar
The Dying children in Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto Children
Palestinian Children play in water in Gaza Strip
Ammi Hai
M. Gottlieb: Yom Kippur in the Cracow Alte Shul
Obama Scraps the Global War on Terror
H. Clinton has a Crush on Al Jazeerah
Muslim-Obama
Perfect Together
Comrade
the Muslim Brotherhood Flag
The Quartet's Dream
Picture from national Holocaust Memorial Museum
Cartoon from Gaza
Zuckerberg's Intifada
The darwinian Patron Saint of Palestine
The Palestine mandate Flag with the British solar cross and the sun
Prayer to the sun god at Stonehenge, the Temple of the Druids and Masons
Osama Bin laden Dead
The Pentecost under the sungod Surya instead of YHWH
The United States in Burka
They say, Islam will conquer the world
Hamas Jugend
Fatah 11
The Geocentric Seal of Kansas
The Al-Qaeda SS
The Fathers of Modern Atheism
WikiLeaks Watchers over Democracy
After the WikiLeaks
Russian President to visit Israel in 2011
Business as usual
Picture of an early Christian from the catacombs
Jerusalem The Old City
Tea Party
Swastika Koran
Gorbachev: Victory in Afghanistan is impossible
Deauville Summit Supports the Talks
Statue of Confucius, Father of Chinese geocentrism goes up in Russia
Shimon Peres meets guests from China
the Ice Crystals of Auschwitz
Death Fugue
Anna Chapman, a Russian Spy receiving Top Honor
Al Turki in Bejing
The Spider Net
JFK and W. von Braun, SS Major
http://www.angloisrael.com/
In God We Trust - Tea Party
Tea Party on the Horizon
Give them an ultimatum Sept.16,2010
NYT Cartoon: Expect the worse
Burka
Martyrs Brigaes in action
German Award for the Muhammad Cartoonist
Abbas resembling Einstein
Bushehr nuclear power plant
Iran Inaugurates its first bombing drone
Russian 1800 Engraving dpicting the Whore of babylon, Riding the seven-headed monster
William Blake, The Whore of Babylon
Siege and destruction of Jerusalem
J. Pollard on Jerusalem Wall
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Jewish Scientists vs Israel
From Pope Pius VII to Pope John Paul II “The Subverter”
De Chardin shared the English Jesuit George Tyrrel’s opinion, that “the Church might have to die in order that it may live again in a greater and greater, global form.” The Roman Church must therefore perish like every other abortive attempt to discover a universal religion as Catholic as Science*. In his writings, Jesus is diminished to pygmy size. See, *Detlev J.K. Peukert The Genesis of the 'Final Solution' from the Spirit of Science. "To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer." - Hermann Joseph Muller
Click on the link to see Copernicus on a Nazi stamp faculty.kirkwood.edu/ryost/worldwartwo.htm
The "scientist… will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy in his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all--that his accumulation proves an entirely different thing. When you point out this miscarriage to him he does not answer your letters; when you call to convince him, the servant (lies) and you do not get in. Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money (from) them." - Mark Twain
In conversation with V. I. Arnold, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (March 1998), Pope John Paul II recognized that science alone is able to determine the truth, whereas religion, in the words of the pontificate, sees itself as better suited to evaluate the possible uses of new discoveries.
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
- Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills)
Revolutionary discoveries turn out to be wrong. Error is a normal part of science, and uncovering flaws in scientific observations or reasoning is the everyday work of scientists. Scientists try to guard against attributing significance to spurious results by repeating measurements and designing control experiments. But even eminent scientists have had their careers tarnished by misinterpreting unremarkable events in a way that is so compelling that they are thereafter unable to free themselves of the conviction that they have made a great discovery. Moreover, scientists, no less than others, are inclined to see what they expect to see, and an erroneous conclusion by a respected colleague often carries other scientists along on the road to ignominy. This is pathological science, in which scientists manage to fool themselves. If scientists can fool themselves, how much easier is it to craft arguments deliberately intended to befuddle jurists or lawmakers with little or no scientific background? This is junk science. It typically consists of tortured theories of what could be so, with little supporting evidence to prove that it is so." - Robert L. Park ("Voodoo Science")
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." - Galileo Galilei He was not much of a scientist.
Popes Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII, and Paul VI, endeavored to prevent the spread of the modernistic errors of this pseudo-scholar, who, as he himself confessed in a letter to a priest friend, has apostatized but deliberately remained within the Church to more easily spread his errors. (See The Strange Faith of Teilhard de Chardin, by Henri Rambaud.) In other words, John Paul II added to the 7 Cardinals, together with the “pygmy” already in his thrash can four Popes.
Final consequence of Teilhardian evolutionism: if there is no such thing as the Sacrifice of the Cross, then there is no such thing as the Sacrifice of the Mass (the core of Catholicism). A “memorial meal” and a bottle of a coca cola will do nicely.
On 12 May 1981 Card. Casaroli, in his capacity as Secretary of State sent a highly congratulatory message to Abp. Paul Poupard, lauding the work and thought of father Teilhard de Chardin whose centenary the Institute of Paris was celebrating. Stato’s message praised “the amazing echo of his research, joined with the radiance of his thought,” all of which “has left a durable mark on his age.”
De Chardin was the only Roman Catholic author whose works were on public display with those of Marx and Lenin in Moscow’s Hall of Atheism. That’s explains why the Press Office of the Holy See and L’Osservatore Romano were forced to publish an official statement correcting Stato’s praise of de Chardin and repeating the condemnation of 1960. A few weeks later, however, on 31 July 1981 Pope John Paul II established a study commission to reexamine the entire Galileo case under the leadership of Card. Paul Poupard who, once, together with the French bishops insisted on placing the birthday of K. Marx on the official Church liturgical calendar to be celebrated along with the birthdays and death of the Church’s saints and martyrs. (See, Evolution and Stalinism in America by Steven LaTulippe)
The Enemy Within: Viva Science, Viva Gaza
By December 1948, a distinguished contingent of Jewish scientists and intellectuals warned in The New York Times that those leading the effort to establish a Jewish state bear "the unmistakable stamp of a Fascist party". Albert Einstein joined concerned Jews who cautioned Americans "not to support this latest manifestation of fascism. "The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a few salient facts concerning Begin and his party, and of urging all concerned not to support this latest manifestation of fascism." Albert Einstein, The New York Times, 4 December 1948.
In 1975 Prof. S. Sambursky, a friend of Einstein’s introduced Copernicus and his good Baal to the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities as “the man who initiated this era of modern science…as the man who by the sheer force of imagination* broke the chains of sense perception, the ingenious discoverer of a scientific truth involving one of the greatest revolutions in man’s view of the world.” (See, Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, vol. V, No. 11). Now, Osiander in his famous preface to Copernicus's book also mentions imagination used to find out the causes of the apparent unequal motions as a legitimate “tool” but at the same time, unlike Prof. Sambursky, he warns the readers not to regard the hypotheses devised with the help of such a tool as the truth.
*Einstein himself admitted, "When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” The word "fantasy" equates, of course, with such things as: "delusion, illusion, misconception, trick, fool’s paradise, self-deception, hallucination, false light, figment of the imagination, something unsubstantial, thin air, mockery", etc.
These days, the American Jews have another A. Einstein and Karl Marx in one person who is a professor at the the prestigious MIT – Noam Chmosky. In May 2006 Noam Chmsky met the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and defended and praised Hezbollah's insistence on keeping its arms, in defiance of United Nations decisions. Obviously, Nasrallah knew ho was the real puppeteer who had put this marionette through his paces and that explains the 2006 war on two fronts. Jewish antisemitism is a taboo subject here as well as in Israel.
3 years ago :Speaking at the Socialist Rsistance Day school on the Middle East, Eva Jasiewiz explains the political and class struggles taking place for the control of Iraq's oil.
Last month, Jasiewicz was part of a group of activists who spray-painted “Liberate all ghettos, free Gaza and Palestine” on a wall of the original Warsaw Ghetto.
See It’s all relative: You say Einstein is ‘Jewish science,’ I say ‘liberal conspiracy’
By Joel N. Shurkin · August 17, 2010 (JTA)
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Gasman.htm
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1BTRc2/www.toddschorr.com/Paintings/image27.html
Look among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvelously;
For, behold, a work shall be wrought in your days,
Which ye will not believe though it be told you…
Art not Thou from everlasting,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
We shall not die.
(Habakuk, 1:5, 12)
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In 1910 a German fiction writer Ernest Adler von der Planitz published a number of 5th century Coptic papyri and other ancient fragments found in a tomb at Sakkara and purchased by a certain scholar named Baron von Rabenau. The legends written down in the document entitled The Letter of Benan are an ingenious presentation, in the best folk manner, of the hidden years in the life of Jesus.
A far-famed Egyptian astronomer named Putiphra dispatched the High Priest Ranebchru to the land of the Hebrews (Unlike the Romans, he did not call it Palestine! Interestingly, there is no name Palestine in the Koran either!) to learn the meaning of the appearance of the new star, Siriu, or The Scorching One. In Betlehem he found a child born in a cave the very moment Siriu appeared in the heavens. Ranebchru promised his parents that the child will be raised under the tutelage of the great astronomer Putiphra and Pinehas rabbi of the Jewish temple in nearby On (Heliopolis). When Putiphra died 12 years later Jesus returned to his parents in Nazareth. During his visit to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover he lectured in the temple all the learned doctors and rabbis on the principles of heliocentric astronomy and on the interstellar mysteries:
“A learned astronomer was present in the assembly at the temple, and he arose and asked Jesus: 'What do you know about astronomy?' Jesus without hesitation or faltering, explained the number of spheres and the heavenly bodies, and the meaning of their numbers; he expounded on their different natures and operations; he defined their aspects, triangular, square or sextile; he interpreted their course, direct or retrograde; he gave the motion of the planets each day, and each hour of the day; and he ended with a commentary on the interstellar mysteries beyond the reach of reason. And the astronomer turned and asked: “Pray, who can that be.” But this stuff was not included in the canonical Gospels.
Verse 51 of the Syrian version (Peshitta) of Luke 2 elaborates the incident of the Gospel of Mark so that it will be reverberating throughout the following centuries:
“And philosopher who was there present, a skillful astronomer, asked Jesus the Lord whether he studied astronomy. And the Lord Jesus answered him and explained the number of the spheres, and of the heavenly bodies, their nature and operations, their oppositions; their aspects, triangular, square and sextile; their course, direct or retrograde; the twenty-four and sixtieth of twenty-fourths, and other things beyond the reach of reason.” Almost a verbatim copy of the Letter of Benan's summary of Jesus' lecture. But the Greek evangelists of the New Testament don't mention this lecture in one word. Philosophical heliocentrism could not have been reconciled with the Hebrew Bible.
The Jesus of the Peshitta lecturing on the philosophical heliocentrism in the Temple of Jerusalem is, in the Jewish eyes, the same sacrilege as the one described by the horrified chronicler of I Maccabees: “On th 15th day of Chislev in the year 145” – in the reckoning of the Seleucid dynasty (that is, in the late Dec. of 167 B.C) – “the king set the Abomination of Desolation on the altar of holocausts”.
The name Syria derived from the name of the Hindu sun god Surya mirrors adequately the long tradition of the Syrian natural religion as opposed to the historical religion of the Hebrews under personal God YHWH who liberated them from the Egyptian slavery. The Syrian sun god known also under the name of Baal appears as the most potent rival of the God of the Bible. The activity of a certain Marcion, a son of the bishop of Sinope should be contemplated in the context of this centuries-old rivalry between Baal and YHWH. Marcion devised a Christianity totally different from the religion of the earliest apostles.
And that explains why Giordano Bruno despised and detested Jesus, and had a special contempt for the Cross and for any form of mass or the eucharist (exaclty like the Jesuit heliocentrist Teilhard de Chardin, the philosophical mentor of the young Karol Wojtyla, see below).
John Paul II vs. Jesus Christ
Declaration of Father Melchior Inchofer, 1631
"We say, pronounce, sentence and declare that you, Galileo, by reason of these things which have been detailed in the trial and which you have confessed already, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspect of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctrine that is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: namely that Sun is the centre of the world and does not move from east to west, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture. Consequently, you have incurred all the censures and penalties enjoined and promulgated by the sacred Canons and all particular and general laws against such delinquents. We are willing to absolve you from them provided that first, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, in our presence you abjure, curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and every other error and heresy contrary to the Catholic and Apostolic Church in the manner and form we will prescribe to you. Furthermore, so that this grievous and pernicious error and transgression of yours may not go altogether unpunished, and so that you will be more cautious in future, and an example for others to abstain from delinquencies of this sort, we order that the book Dialogue of Galileo Galilei be prohibited by public edict. We condemn you to formal imprisonment in this Holy Office at our pleasure. As a salutary penance we impose on you to recite the seven penitential psalms once a week for the next three years...”
Jesus, The Savior "Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."- John Calvin
F. Cardinal of Ascoli
B. Cardinal Gessi
G. Cardinal Bentivoglio
F. Cardinal Verospi
Fr. D. Cardinal of Cremona
M. Cardinal Ginetti
Fr. Ant. s Cardinal of. S. Onofrio
In 1820 Canon Giuseppe Settele, professor of astronomy in Rome and Washington, had written an elementary book in which the Copernican system was taken for granted, as a fact. On the 16th of August, 1820, the Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition) decided that Settele might teach the Copernican system as established, and this decision was approved byPope Pius VII. Fifty years later professor Settele was excommunicated. Professor Settele got his title only when he took an oath of fidelity to Napoleon, believed to be a new Apollo.
Following his victory over the Sultan's forces at Abukir, Napoleon informed the disappointed sheiks that he was a "true Muslim," that he hated the Christians whose altars and crosses he had overthrown, and that he had abjured his former faith. Furthermore, he ascribed his military successes to being the chosen instrument of Allah, the Creator of the Universe. Napoleon Bonaparte, the "Corsican Adventurer," was the supreme example of egotism, ambition, hypocrisy, and arrogance. He was a real Islamofascist, like Giordano Bruno or Galileo!
Heliocentrism recognized by Pope Pius VII as 'a fact' was anathematized by Vatican Council I:
"Let him be ANATHEMA...who shall say that Human Sciences ought to be pursued in such a spirit of freedom that one may be allowed to hold as true their assertions even when opposed to revealed doctrines. – -- Ecumenical Council of 1870.
Pope Benedict XVI in his Book Jesus of Nazareth wrote: Rabbi J. Neusner's A Rabbi Talks with Jesus more than other interpretations known to me has opened my eyes to the greatness of Jesus' words and to the choice that the Gospel places before us. (p. 69) And that explains why this pope did not embrace the 'Subito Santo' slogan postulating the immediate canonization of his predecessor. The consequences of such a move might prove disastrous for the future of catholicism.
Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, the Apostle of the Basque/Napoleon Religion
There was a Jesuit college in virtually every French town of note. It is important to remind here that the founder of the Society of Jesus was a Basque. While everyone was Christians, the Basques worshiped the sun and moon and a pantheon of nature spirits. Such spirits were often animal-like but sometimes took human form (the essence of evolutionism) and often were a combination like Greek satyrs. Grave markers that pay homage to the sun have been found in Basqueland dating from the first century BC well into medieval times. These rough, thick stones tell the story of Basque conversion, displaying every conceivable variation on the sun. In time, they more and more resembled crosses, and some stones even have a sun on one side and a cross on the other.
“Sun, sacred and blessed rejoin your mother,” are the ancient words still repeated in modern times as a bedtime prayer. No wonder then that Inigo Loyola, himself a Basue chose as a symbol of his new order not the cross but a sun. The founding ceremony, typically Basque, took place by a crypt in Monmartre, a subterranean site, said to be of pagan significance. At the Paris University Loyola heard a lot of talk about a Jesus refashioned into a beautiful Apollo, about God the Father addressed as father Zeus/Jupiter and about the still-living truth given to us by the ancient philosopher Pythagoras. Accordingly, in Copernican-Pythagorean heliocentrism the sun is called “Visible god”. Faithful to the Jesuit tradition Teilhard de Chardin set out to eradicate the last vestiges of the Church's “psychological geocentricity” believing Christianity's only chance to grow lay in her being born again among the “gentiles”. Well, Basque still have persistent belief in the existence of jentillak, gentiles, non-Christians, who wander the woods and remote rural areas with terrifying pre-Christian magical powers, maybe like Harry Potters...
The same pope Paul II, a master of humanistic studies, to whom Copernicus dedicated his book was behind Loyola organizing the Society of Jesus which was charged with implementation of the Council of Trent reforms.
De Chardin posited above Suess’s biosphere the existence of an even more significant covering of the earth – its “thinking skin”, the “noosphere”. The earth once again became a goddess. De Chardin’s “apostle” in Poland the young K. Wojtyla wrote a poem entitled Material about the “thinking skin” This “noosphere” was anticipated long before de Charin was born by an artist living in Cracow, Poland who happened to read Copernicus's book in Latin original.
In 1898 the Polish magazine Życie ( (Life, II, 44, p. 579) edited by the most creative Polish dramatist and painter S. Wyspianski published a drawing by F. Bilek presenting the pagan inspiration for Copernicus’ heliocentrism. This terrifying vision of the Pythagorean-Copernican heliolatry in which the living Earth (i.e. the goddess Gaia) orbits the personified Logos or the sun god Jesus prepared the Polish audience for the shocking portrait of the Polish society morally devastated by the Renaissance revival of the Hellenistic paganism, presented in Wyspianski’s most popular drama The Wedding (Wesele).
De Chardin was delirious when he learned that a study of religious observance in France compiled in 1943 (when the Nazis issued the stamp bearing the likeness of Copernicus) by Abbes Godin and Danile, proved that 84% of the people were “paganized.” All the French bishops and cardinals collaborated with the Nazis. The Primate of Poland Card. Hlond was their guest of honor during WWII.
The October 1996 Catholic World Report recounted Yasser Arafat's “long closed-door session at the Vatican with Secretary of State Cardinal Sodano” The Palestinian post office issued stamps featuring the Palestinian flag, Bethlehem at Christmas time and “a beaming Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat posing with Pope John Paul II.” The Palestinin post office also issued a stamp featuring the sun god Baal (aka Surya). The Palestinians consider Jesus Christ to be “a first Palestinian.” As you may recall Jesus spoke Hebrew: “Eli, Eli, lamma...” There is no Palestinian language. Never was!
Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman, during a visit to Israel, said there was a similarity between Y. Arafat’s Palestinian Authority and A. Hitler’s Third Reich. He also warned against adopting a policy of appeasement, and stressed that there should be no negotiating with terrorists (The British and American press still call them “Palestinian militants”). Zeman made the comments during a TV interview on Channel Two, “I am here to express some gesture of solidarity of one small nation with another small nation which faces the dangers in the fight against worldwide terrorism,” he said. (Shalom, No. 62-63, March-April, 2002)
Czech Republic Rejected Concordat - A Vatican official said the decision by the Czech Republic not to ratify a Vatican treaty was “shocking and full of contradictions.” “The Holy See’s stance is clear and unambiguous – it wanted this accord, signed it and sought to have it implemented,” said Archbishop Erwin Ender, a papal nuncio to the Czech Republic. (The Tablet, Aug 2, 2003)
Thee clock constructed as early as 1410 by Miklush of Kadan is the symbol of John Hus’s Biblical revolution which regarded as the supreme head of the Church on earth not the Pope, but Jesus, the Defender of the Bible. On the astronomical dial of Prague, it is the starry skies shown by a smaller eccentric ring around which is moving around the earth and not the earth which spins on its axis. John Hus was burnt at the stake. But scientists mention only G. Bruno's death and never that of J. Hus.
The Challenge of the Slavonic Christianity
A Letter from my Archive:
Pavel Seifter, Director of Foreign Policy Department wrote to me on August 22, 1994 on behalf of Vaclav Havel, President of Czech Republic:
“President Havel would agree with you that, in this rapidly changing and transforming era, it is necessary to find some basic values which can bring greater security and meaning to life. He has often warned of the danger of those who think of man as the center of the universe, thus separating humans from the world around us and making it appear that we have no one to whom we answer. Because of such philosophies, the former regimes throughout the region left behind environments that were deeply damaged and societies that were badly shaken. The search for a new set of values which can form the basis of strong and healthy democracies here and around the world is one of the great challenges of the modern era. The President supports those, like you, who are engaged in this important task. He joins me in wishing you all the best. Please accept also the assurances of my highest regards.”
Reuters: Russia Church wants end to Darwin school "monopoly". June 14, 2010
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Orthodox Church called Wednesday for an end to the "monopoly of Darwinism" in Russian schools, saying religious explanations of creation should be taught alongside evolution.
Your little scientific "miscalculation" that came from arrogantly pretending that Genesis1 was only a religious "belief," and not a compelling FACT, caused compulsory lectures on atheism to be given to 600,000,000 Russian school children and to 800,000,000 Chinese school forced labor in the sugar fields before they were twelve-years-old, and in Hitler's Theistic Evolutionist Darwinian lunacy, it caused the genocide of over 6,000,000 Jews on the grounds that they were a lower form of life that had not evolved to the best form.
It caused the American school system to be turned into a depraved, dope-ridden, disease-infested jungle of half illiterates who managed many cities with freaks, criminals, and perverts.
"A year ago, a St. Petersburg high-school student Masha and her dad went to court to demand that the high-school biology curriculum of “outdated and erroneous” Darwinism be replaced by the theory that man was created by a Divine force (creationism). It’s an absurd situation: for some reason the courts must now decide whether the theory of evolution, which states that life emerged on Earth three billion years ago, is true, or whether the truth lies rather in the theory of creation, which, unlike the theory of evolution, does not present a single fact but states that life on Earth has existed for a few thousand years. It seems to be a question exclusively within the competence of science. Yet Masha and her dad received support from the Patriarch Alexis II who declared at the Christmas Educational Readings:
“There is no harm in knowing the Bible’s account of the origin of the world. If someone wants to think that they descend from apes, let them keep their view, but without imposing it on others.” (From the Letter of the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences to V. Putin)
Medvedev on June 1 signed a law making July 28 a national holiday to mark the Church's founding with the baptism of Prince Vladimir in Kiev in 988. Muslim lawmakers have since asked for a national holiday to mark the arrival of Islam in Russia. The Muslim States are not a part of Russia, like the Muslims are in the USA; they are now living in independent states.
New Russia holiday marked as Kremlin boosts Church
Washington Post - Amie Ferris-Rotman, David Stamp - Jul 28, 2010
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia marked its adoption of Christianity in 988 on Wednesday with a new public holiday, the latest show of Kremlin support for an Orthodox Church that has grown increasingly powerful since the fall of Communism.
Marking the anniversary Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, held a liturgy in Kiev, the capital of modern Ukraine and mediaeval Kievan Rus, whose leader Prince Vladimir made Christianity the state religion more than 1,000 years ago. Kievan Rus is seen as the precursor of modern-day Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
"Facing aggressive atheism and resurgent paganism we remain firm in our belief in God," Kirill, clad in a flowing gold cloak, told thousands of followers in Kiev's historic Pecherska Lavra monastery.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia's adoption of Christianity had brought it closer to Europe.
"This was an event of colossal significance ... Russia made a historical choice," he said after lighting a candle in Veliky Novgorod's Saint Sophia Cathedral, considered Russia's oldest.
A few excerpts from:
"Is Russia more Christian than the United States?" Click here
A couple of weeks ago Barack Obama skipped Church on Christmas Day while the President of Russia, Dimitry Medvedev, on January 6, 2010, attended mid-night mass services celebrating the Russian Orthodox Christmas in grand splendor in the traditional Vigil liturgy in Saint Christ the Saviour Cathedral in the presence of 4,000 people, including Patriarch Kirill.
Russia's turn to Christianity is a virtually unknown phenomenon in the United States. Most Christian leaders are oblivious to what is happening in Russia. Pastor Robertson or Pastor Hagee still believe Russia is an atheist and communist country and these prominent End-Times Christian pastors are rasing money and rattling their sabers to go to war against the Godless state.
De Chardin shared the English Jesuit George Tyrrel’s opinion, that “the Church might have to die in order that it may live again in a greater and greater, global form.” The Roman Church must therefore perish like every other abortive attempt to discover a universal religion as Catholic as Science*. In his writings, Jesus is diminished to pygmy size. See, *Detlev J.K. Peukert The Genesis of the 'Final Solution' from the Spirit of Science. "To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer." - Hermann Joseph Muller
Click on the link to see Copernicus on a Nazi stamp faculty.kirkwood.edu/ryost/worldwartwo.htm
The "scientist… will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy in his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all--that his accumulation proves an entirely different thing. When you point out this miscarriage to him he does not answer your letters; when you call to convince him, the servant (lies) and you do not get in. Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money (from) them." - Mark Twain
In conversation with V. I. Arnold, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (March 1998), Pope John Paul II recognized that science alone is able to determine the truth, whereas religion, in the words of the pontificate, sees itself as better suited to evaluate the possible uses of new discoveries.
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
- Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills)
Revolutionary discoveries turn out to be wrong. Error is a normal part of science, and uncovering flaws in scientific observations or reasoning is the everyday work of scientists. Scientists try to guard against attributing significance to spurious results by repeating measurements and designing control experiments. But even eminent scientists have had their careers tarnished by misinterpreting unremarkable events in a way that is so compelling that they are thereafter unable to free themselves of the conviction that they have made a great discovery. Moreover, scientists, no less than others, are inclined to see what they expect to see, and an erroneous conclusion by a respected colleague often carries other scientists along on the road to ignominy. This is pathological science, in which scientists manage to fool themselves. If scientists can fool themselves, how much easier is it to craft arguments deliberately intended to befuddle jurists or lawmakers with little or no scientific background? This is junk science. It typically consists of tortured theories of what could be so, with little supporting evidence to prove that it is so." - Robert L. Park ("Voodoo Science")
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." - Galileo Galilei He was not much of a scientist.
Popes Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII, and Paul VI, endeavored to prevent the spread of the modernistic errors of this pseudo-scholar, who, as he himself confessed in a letter to a priest friend, has apostatized but deliberately remained within the Church to more easily spread his errors. (See The Strange Faith of Teilhard de Chardin, by Henri Rambaud.) In other words, John Paul II added to the 7 Cardinals, together with the “pygmy” already in his thrash can four Popes.
Final consequence of Teilhardian evolutionism: if there is no such thing as the Sacrifice of the Cross, then there is no such thing as the Sacrifice of the Mass (the core of Catholicism). A “memorial meal” and a bottle of a coca cola will do nicely.
On 12 May 1981 Card. Casaroli, in his capacity as Secretary of State sent a highly congratulatory message to Abp. Paul Poupard, lauding the work and thought of father Teilhard de Chardin whose centenary the Institute of Paris was celebrating. Stato’s message praised “the amazing echo of his research, joined with the radiance of his thought,” all of which “has left a durable mark on his age.”
De Chardin was the only Roman Catholic author whose works were on public display with those of Marx and Lenin in Moscow’s Hall of Atheism. That’s explains why the Press Office of the Holy See and L’Osservatore Romano were forced to publish an official statement correcting Stato’s praise of de Chardin and repeating the condemnation of 1960. A few weeks later, however, on 31 July 1981 Pope John Paul II established a study commission to reexamine the entire Galileo case under the leadership of Card. Paul Poupard who, once, together with the French bishops insisted on placing the birthday of K. Marx on the official Church liturgical calendar to be celebrated along with the birthdays and death of the Church’s saints and martyrs. (See, Evolution and Stalinism in America by Steven LaTulippe)
The Enemy Within: Viva Science, Viva Gaza
By December 1948, a distinguished contingent of Jewish scientists and intellectuals warned in The New York Times that those leading the effort to establish a Jewish state bear "the unmistakable stamp of a Fascist party". Albert Einstein joined concerned Jews who cautioned Americans "not to support this latest manifestation of fascism. "The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a few salient facts concerning Begin and his party, and of urging all concerned not to support this latest manifestation of fascism." Albert Einstein, The New York Times, 4 December 1948.
In 1975 Prof. S. Sambursky, a friend of Einstein’s introduced Copernicus and his good Baal to the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities as “the man who initiated this era of modern science…as the man who by the sheer force of imagination* broke the chains of sense perception, the ingenious discoverer of a scientific truth involving one of the greatest revolutions in man’s view of the world.” (See, Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, vol. V, No. 11). Now, Osiander in his famous preface to Copernicus's book also mentions imagination used to find out the causes of the apparent unequal motions as a legitimate “tool” but at the same time, unlike Prof. Sambursky, he warns the readers not to regard the hypotheses devised with the help of such a tool as the truth.
*Einstein himself admitted, "When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” The word "fantasy" equates, of course, with such things as: "delusion, illusion, misconception, trick, fool’s paradise, self-deception, hallucination, false light, figment of the imagination, something unsubstantial, thin air, mockery", etc.
These days, the American Jews have another A. Einstein and Karl Marx in one person who is a professor at the the prestigious MIT – Noam Chmosky. In May 2006 Noam Chmsky met the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and defended and praised Hezbollah's insistence on keeping its arms, in defiance of United Nations decisions. Obviously, Nasrallah knew ho was the real puppeteer who had put this marionette through his paces and that explains the 2006 war on two fronts. Jewish antisemitism is a taboo subject here as well as in Israel.
3 years ago :Speaking at the Socialist Rsistance Day school on the Middle East, Eva Jasiewiz explains the political and class struggles taking place for the control of Iraq's oil.
Last month, Jasiewicz was part of a group of activists who spray-painted “Liberate all ghettos, free Gaza and Palestine” on a wall of the original Warsaw Ghetto.
See It’s all relative: You say Einstein is ‘Jewish science,’ I say ‘liberal conspiracy’
By Joel N. Shurkin · August 17, 2010 (JTA)
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Gasman.htm
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1BTRc2/www.toddschorr.com/Paintings/image27.html
Look among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvelously;
For, behold, a work shall be wrought in your days,
Which ye will not believe though it be told you…
Art not Thou from everlasting,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
We shall not die.
(Habakuk, 1:5, 12)
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In 1910 a German fiction writer Ernest Adler von der Planitz published a number of 5th century Coptic papyri and other ancient fragments found in a tomb at Sakkara and purchased by a certain scholar named Baron von Rabenau. The legends written down in the document entitled The Letter of Benan are an ingenious presentation, in the best folk manner, of the hidden years in the life of Jesus.
A far-famed Egyptian astronomer named Putiphra dispatched the High Priest Ranebchru to the land of the Hebrews (Unlike the Romans, he did not call it Palestine! Interestingly, there is no name Palestine in the Koran either!) to learn the meaning of the appearance of the new star, Siriu, or The Scorching One. In Betlehem he found a child born in a cave the very moment Siriu appeared in the heavens. Ranebchru promised his parents that the child will be raised under the tutelage of the great astronomer Putiphra and Pinehas rabbi of the Jewish temple in nearby On (Heliopolis). When Putiphra died 12 years later Jesus returned to his parents in Nazareth. During his visit to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover he lectured in the temple all the learned doctors and rabbis on the principles of heliocentric astronomy and on the interstellar mysteries:
“A learned astronomer was present in the assembly at the temple, and he arose and asked Jesus: 'What do you know about astronomy?' Jesus without hesitation or faltering, explained the number of spheres and the heavenly bodies, and the meaning of their numbers; he expounded on their different natures and operations; he defined their aspects, triangular, square or sextile; he interpreted their course, direct or retrograde; he gave the motion of the planets each day, and each hour of the day; and he ended with a commentary on the interstellar mysteries beyond the reach of reason. And the astronomer turned and asked: “Pray, who can that be.” But this stuff was not included in the canonical Gospels.
Verse 51 of the Syrian version (Peshitta) of Luke 2 elaborates the incident of the Gospel of Mark so that it will be reverberating throughout the following centuries:
“And philosopher who was there present, a skillful astronomer, asked Jesus the Lord whether he studied astronomy. And the Lord Jesus answered him and explained the number of the spheres, and of the heavenly bodies, their nature and operations, their oppositions; their aspects, triangular, square and sextile; their course, direct or retrograde; the twenty-four and sixtieth of twenty-fourths, and other things beyond the reach of reason.” Almost a verbatim copy of the Letter of Benan's summary of Jesus' lecture. But the Greek evangelists of the New Testament don't mention this lecture in one word. Philosophical heliocentrism could not have been reconciled with the Hebrew Bible.
The Jesus of the Peshitta lecturing on the philosophical heliocentrism in the Temple of Jerusalem is, in the Jewish eyes, the same sacrilege as the one described by the horrified chronicler of I Maccabees: “On th 15th day of Chislev in the year 145” – in the reckoning of the Seleucid dynasty (that is, in the late Dec. of 167 B.C) – “the king set the Abomination of Desolation on the altar of holocausts”.
The name Syria derived from the name of the Hindu sun god Surya mirrors adequately the long tradition of the Syrian natural religion as opposed to the historical religion of the Hebrews under personal God YHWH who liberated them from the Egyptian slavery. The Syrian sun god known also under the name of Baal appears as the most potent rival of the God of the Bible. The activity of a certain Marcion, a son of the bishop of Sinope should be contemplated in the context of this centuries-old rivalry between Baal and YHWH. Marcion devised a Christianity totally different from the religion of the earliest apostles.
And that explains why Giordano Bruno despised and detested Jesus, and had a special contempt for the Cross and for any form of mass or the eucharist (exaclty like the Jesuit heliocentrist Teilhard de Chardin, the philosophical mentor of the young Karol Wojtyla, see below).
John Paul II vs. Jesus Christ
Declaration of Father Melchior Inchofer, 1631
"We say, pronounce, sentence and declare that you, Galileo, by reason of these things which have been detailed in the trial and which you have confessed already, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspect of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctrine that is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: namely that Sun is the centre of the world and does not move from east to west, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture. Consequently, you have incurred all the censures and penalties enjoined and promulgated by the sacred Canons and all particular and general laws against such delinquents. We are willing to absolve you from them provided that first, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, in our presence you abjure, curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and every other error and heresy contrary to the Catholic and Apostolic Church in the manner and form we will prescribe to you. Furthermore, so that this grievous and pernicious error and transgression of yours may not go altogether unpunished, and so that you will be more cautious in future, and an example for others to abstain from delinquencies of this sort, we order that the book Dialogue of Galileo Galilei be prohibited by public edict. We condemn you to formal imprisonment in this Holy Office at our pleasure. As a salutary penance we impose on you to recite the seven penitential psalms once a week for the next three years...”
Jesus, The Savior "Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."- John Calvin
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In 1820 Canon Giuseppe Settele, professor of astronomy in Rome and Washington, had written an elementary book in which the Copernican system was taken for granted, as a fact. On the 16th of August, 1820, the Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition) decided that Settele might teach the Copernican system as established, and this decision was approved byPope Pius VII. Fifty years later professor Settele was excommunicated. Professor Settele got his title only when he took an oath of fidelity to Napoleon, believed to be a new Apollo.
Following his victory over the Sultan's forces at Abukir, Napoleon informed the disappointed sheiks that he was a "true Muslim," that he hated the Christians whose altars and crosses he had overthrown, and that he had abjured his former faith. Furthermore, he ascribed his military successes to being the chosen instrument of Allah, the Creator of the Universe. Napoleon Bonaparte, the "Corsican Adventurer," was the supreme example of egotism, ambition, hypocrisy, and arrogance. He was a real Islamofascist, like Giordano Bruno or Galileo!
Heliocentrism recognized by Pope Pius VII as 'a fact' was anathematized by Vatican Council I:
"Let him be ANATHEMA...who shall say that Human Sciences ought to be pursued in such a spirit of freedom that one may be allowed to hold as true their assertions even when opposed to revealed doctrines. – -- Ecumenical Council of 1870.
Pope Benedict XVI in his Book Jesus of Nazareth wrote: Rabbi J. Neusner's A Rabbi Talks with Jesus more than other interpretations known to me has opened my eyes to the greatness of Jesus' words and to the choice that the Gospel places before us. (p. 69) And that explains why this pope did not embrace the 'Subito Santo' slogan postulating the immediate canonization of his predecessor. The consequences of such a move might prove disastrous for the future of catholicism.
Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, the Apostle of the Basque/Napoleon Religion
There was a Jesuit college in virtually every French town of note. It is important to remind here that the founder of the Society of Jesus was a Basque. While everyone was Christians, the Basques worshiped the sun and moon and a pantheon of nature spirits. Such spirits were often animal-like but sometimes took human form (the essence of evolutionism) and often were a combination like Greek satyrs. Grave markers that pay homage to the sun have been found in Basqueland dating from the first century BC well into medieval times. These rough, thick stones tell the story of Basque conversion, displaying every conceivable variation on the sun. In time, they more and more resembled crosses, and some stones even have a sun on one side and a cross on the other.
“Sun, sacred and blessed rejoin your mother,” are the ancient words still repeated in modern times as a bedtime prayer. No wonder then that Inigo Loyola, himself a Basue chose as a symbol of his new order not the cross but a sun. The founding ceremony, typically Basque, took place by a crypt in Monmartre, a subterranean site, said to be of pagan significance. At the Paris University Loyola heard a lot of talk about a Jesus refashioned into a beautiful Apollo, about God the Father addressed as father Zeus/Jupiter and about the still-living truth given to us by the ancient philosopher Pythagoras. Accordingly, in Copernican-Pythagorean heliocentrism the sun is called “Visible god”. Faithful to the Jesuit tradition Teilhard de Chardin set out to eradicate the last vestiges of the Church's “psychological geocentricity” believing Christianity's only chance to grow lay in her being born again among the “gentiles”. Well, Basque still have persistent belief in the existence of jentillak, gentiles, non-Christians, who wander the woods and remote rural areas with terrifying pre-Christian magical powers, maybe like Harry Potters...
The same pope Paul II, a master of humanistic studies, to whom Copernicus dedicated his book was behind Loyola organizing the Society of Jesus which was charged with implementation of the Council of Trent reforms.
De Chardin posited above Suess’s biosphere the existence of an even more significant covering of the earth – its “thinking skin”, the “noosphere”. The earth once again became a goddess. De Chardin’s “apostle” in Poland the young K. Wojtyla wrote a poem entitled Material about the “thinking skin” This “noosphere” was anticipated long before de Charin was born by an artist living in Cracow, Poland who happened to read Copernicus's book in Latin original.
In 1898 the Polish magazine Życie ( (Life, II, 44, p. 579) edited by the most creative Polish dramatist and painter S. Wyspianski published a drawing by F. Bilek presenting the pagan inspiration for Copernicus’ heliocentrism. This terrifying vision of the Pythagorean-Copernican heliolatry in which the living Earth (i.e. the goddess Gaia) orbits the personified Logos or the sun god Jesus prepared the Polish audience for the shocking portrait of the Polish society morally devastated by the Renaissance revival of the Hellenistic paganism, presented in Wyspianski’s most popular drama The Wedding (Wesele).
De Chardin was delirious when he learned that a study of religious observance in France compiled in 1943 (when the Nazis issued the stamp bearing the likeness of Copernicus) by Abbes Godin and Danile, proved that 84% of the people were “paganized.” All the French bishops and cardinals collaborated with the Nazis. The Primate of Poland Card. Hlond was their guest of honor during WWII.
The October 1996 Catholic World Report recounted Yasser Arafat's “long closed-door session at the Vatican with Secretary of State Cardinal Sodano” The Palestinian post office issued stamps featuring the Palestinian flag, Bethlehem at Christmas time and “a beaming Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat posing with Pope John Paul II.” The Palestinin post office also issued a stamp featuring the sun god Baal (aka Surya). The Palestinians consider Jesus Christ to be “a first Palestinian.” As you may recall Jesus spoke Hebrew: “Eli, Eli, lamma...” There is no Palestinian language. Never was!
Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman, during a visit to Israel, said there was a similarity between Y. Arafat’s Palestinian Authority and A. Hitler’s Third Reich. He also warned against adopting a policy of appeasement, and stressed that there should be no negotiating with terrorists (The British and American press still call them “Palestinian militants”). Zeman made the comments during a TV interview on Channel Two, “I am here to express some gesture of solidarity of one small nation with another small nation which faces the dangers in the fight against worldwide terrorism,” he said. (Shalom, No. 62-63, March-April, 2002)
Czech Republic Rejected Concordat - A Vatican official said the decision by the Czech Republic not to ratify a Vatican treaty was “shocking and full of contradictions.” “The Holy See’s stance is clear and unambiguous – it wanted this accord, signed it and sought to have it implemented,” said Archbishop Erwin Ender, a papal nuncio to the Czech Republic. (The Tablet, Aug 2, 2003)
Thee clock constructed as early as 1410 by Miklush of Kadan is the symbol of John Hus’s Biblical revolution which regarded as the supreme head of the Church on earth not the Pope, but Jesus, the Defender of the Bible. On the astronomical dial of Prague, it is the starry skies shown by a smaller eccentric ring around which is moving around the earth and not the earth which spins on its axis. John Hus was burnt at the stake. But scientists mention only G. Bruno's death and never that of J. Hus.
The Challenge of the Slavonic Christianity
A Letter from my Archive:
Pavel Seifter, Director of Foreign Policy Department wrote to me on August 22, 1994 on behalf of Vaclav Havel, President of Czech Republic:
“President Havel would agree with you that, in this rapidly changing and transforming era, it is necessary to find some basic values which can bring greater security and meaning to life. He has often warned of the danger of those who think of man as the center of the universe, thus separating humans from the world around us and making it appear that we have no one to whom we answer. Because of such philosophies, the former regimes throughout the region left behind environments that were deeply damaged and societies that were badly shaken. The search for a new set of values which can form the basis of strong and healthy democracies here and around the world is one of the great challenges of the modern era. The President supports those, like you, who are engaged in this important task. He joins me in wishing you all the best. Please accept also the assurances of my highest regards.”
Reuters: Russia Church wants end to Darwin school "monopoly". June 14, 2010
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Orthodox Church called Wednesday for an end to the "monopoly of Darwinism" in Russian schools, saying religious explanations of creation should be taught alongside evolution.
Your little scientific "miscalculation" that came from arrogantly pretending that Genesis1 was only a religious "belief," and not a compelling FACT, caused compulsory lectures on atheism to be given to 600,000,000 Russian school children and to 800,000,000 Chinese school forced labor in the sugar fields before they were twelve-years-old, and in Hitler's Theistic Evolutionist Darwinian lunacy, it caused the genocide of over 6,000,000 Jews on the grounds that they were a lower form of life that had not evolved to the best form.
It caused the American school system to be turned into a depraved, dope-ridden, disease-infested jungle of half illiterates who managed many cities with freaks, criminals, and perverts.
"A year ago, a St. Petersburg high-school student Masha and her dad went to court to demand that the high-school biology curriculum of “outdated and erroneous” Darwinism be replaced by the theory that man was created by a Divine force (creationism). It’s an absurd situation: for some reason the courts must now decide whether the theory of evolution, which states that life emerged on Earth three billion years ago, is true, or whether the truth lies rather in the theory of creation, which, unlike the theory of evolution, does not present a single fact but states that life on Earth has existed for a few thousand years. It seems to be a question exclusively within the competence of science. Yet Masha and her dad received support from the Patriarch Alexis II who declared at the Christmas Educational Readings:
“There is no harm in knowing the Bible’s account of the origin of the world. If someone wants to think that they descend from apes, let them keep their view, but without imposing it on others.” (From the Letter of the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences to V. Putin)
Medvedev on June 1 signed a law making July 28 a national holiday to mark the Church's founding with the baptism of Prince Vladimir in Kiev in 988. Muslim lawmakers have since asked for a national holiday to mark the arrival of Islam in Russia. The Muslim States are not a part of Russia, like the Muslims are in the USA; they are now living in independent states.
New Russia holiday marked as Kremlin boosts Church
Washington Post - Amie Ferris-Rotman, David Stamp - Jul 28, 2010
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia marked its adoption of Christianity in 988 on Wednesday with a new public holiday, the latest show of Kremlin support for an Orthodox Church that has grown increasingly powerful since the fall of Communism.
Marking the anniversary Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, held a liturgy in Kiev, the capital of modern Ukraine and mediaeval Kievan Rus, whose leader Prince Vladimir made Christianity the state religion more than 1,000 years ago. Kievan Rus is seen as the precursor of modern-day Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
"Facing aggressive atheism and resurgent paganism we remain firm in our belief in God," Kirill, clad in a flowing gold cloak, told thousands of followers in Kiev's historic Pecherska Lavra monastery.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia's adoption of Christianity had brought it closer to Europe.
"This was an event of colossal significance ... Russia made a historical choice," he said after lighting a candle in Veliky Novgorod's Saint Sophia Cathedral, considered Russia's oldest.
A few excerpts from:
"Is Russia more Christian than the United States?" Click here
A couple of weeks ago Barack Obama skipped Church on Christmas Day while the President of Russia, Dimitry Medvedev, on January 6, 2010, attended mid-night mass services celebrating the Russian Orthodox Christmas in grand splendor in the traditional Vigil liturgy in Saint Christ the Saviour Cathedral in the presence of 4,000 people, including Patriarch Kirill.
Russia's turn to Christianity is a virtually unknown phenomenon in the United States. Most Christian leaders are oblivious to what is happening in Russia. Pastor Robertson or Pastor Hagee still believe Russia is an atheist and communist country and these prominent End-Times Christian pastors are rasing money and rattling their sabers to go to war against the Godless state.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Quartet: Direct Negotiations Without Building Freeze
Elul 10, 5770, 20 August 10 01:18, by Elad Benari
(Israelnationalnews.com) The Quartet is expected to publish on Friday a statement calling on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to begin direct peace negotiations.
Diplomatic sources in the US said that the statement by the Quartet (which is comprised of representatives from the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations) will not mention the issue of the building freeze in east Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. The statement will say that the peace talks should end within one year.
The sources added that the statement will call for direct and two-sided negotiations that will bring an “end to the occupation” and result in a Palestinian state living peacefully alongside Israel. The statement will also call on Arab countries to support the negotiations in order to ensure their success.
Although the statement does not mention the building freeze, it says that the Quartet is “fully committed to its previous statements,” in which Israel was called to completely halt building.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Thursday: "We think we are very, very close to a decision by the parties to enter into direct negotiations. We think we're well positioned to get there."
Last month, the Arab League published a letter backing direct talks with Israel. The letter repeated the preconditions set by Abbas: a return to 1967 borders, an end to settlements, and the return of refugees.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and members of his close inner cabinet decided to reject any preconditions as a basis for negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. A government source was quoted as saying: “The Quartet statement is a fig leaf. We would accept only an American statement that would not include preconditions.”
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Thursday Aug 19, 2010
Double Standard Watch: Why Israeli-Palestinian peace will be difficult to achieve
Posted by Alan Dershowitz
Despite earnest efforts by American President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas, it will be extremely difficult for a final peaceful resolution to be achieved between Israel and the Palestinians in the near future. The major obstacle to peace is the international community led by the United Nations. The international community has emboldened Arab leaders into believing that Israel can be delegitimated and weakened through international pressure, and that if the Palestinians hold out long enough, they can achieve their ultimate goal: Namely to end Israel's existence as a Jewish state accepted by the international community.
This was made plain by a statement issued this week from Damascus and signed not only by Hamas but by several secular Palestinian groups that had previously favored direct talks. The current position of these groups is to oppose negotiations and wait for Israel to be isolated even further. Here is the way the statement put it: "Insisting on direct talks throws a lifeline to Israel as its isolation deepens... A return to direct talks serves the US and Zionist aim to liquidate the national rights of the Palestinian people." By "the national rights of the Palestinian people," the groups that signed the statement mean the right of Palestinians to "return" to what is now Israel and to turn it into yet another Muslim-Arab state. Hamas leader Khaled Meshall praised the meeting that produced this negative statement as "exceptional," because it united eleven disparate groups, some religious, others secular, that he claims represent a majority of the Palestinians.
Why negotiate from a position of relative weakness, the signers of the statement ask rhetorically, when the international community is strengthening the position of the Palestinians, while weakening Israel? Delay, it is believed, will help the Palestinians get a better deal, perhaps even preserving their so-called right of return - a "right" no Israeli government could ever accept.
Even the more moderate Palestinian Authority, led by Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, is escalating its demands from what it sees as an increasingly isolated Israel. It is now demanding more than what it was offered by President Clinton and then Prime Minister Ehud Barak in 2000-2001. And it is offering considerably less in return. Back then, the Palestinian Authority could have offered Israel real peace on all of its borders. Today it can offer peace only on Israel's eastern border with the West Bank. Peace with the Palestinian Authority will not bring peace with Hamas on Israel's southwestern border with Gaza. Nor will it bring peace on its northern border with Lebanon, which is now controlled by Hezbollah, a proxy for Iran. And speaking of Iran, the virulently anti-Israel regime which now controls that country is the 800 lb gorilla in the room.
On a recent month long visit to Israel, I met with every Israeli political and military leader. During the course of our many hours of discussion, the issue of the Palestinians was clearly secondary to the threat posed by a nuclear armed Iran. Unless that threat is eliminated, or considerably delayed, many Israelis believe that they have little to gain from a partial peace with the group that threatens them least, namely the Palestinian Authority. And they have something to lose, because peace with the Palestinian Authority will require the dismantling of most West Bank settlements. This will not be easy for Israel to bring about, because there will be hostile resistance from at least some of the settlers. The vast majority of Israelis support the dismantling of the settlements, even if it requires civil turmoil, but only if they get real peace in return.
The Israeli government is now more conservative than it was in 2000-2001. Yassir Arafat was warned by then President Clinton, as well as by Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, that the Palestinians would never get a better deal. Nonetheless he rejected that generous offer and started the second intifada which caused the death of thousands of people including nearly 1,000 Israeli civilians. How then can the Palestinians expect to get more for less after rejecting a generous offer and starting a mini-war? That is the question many Israelis are asking. The answer has not been forthcoming.
A related reason why peace will be difficult to achieve in the short run, is that life is pretty good both for most Israelis and for most West Bank Palestinians. The Israeli economy is thriving, there has been little terrorism, and recent polls suggest that Israelis are among the happiest and most contended people in the world. I am aware of no polls regarding West Bank Palestinians, but I recently visited Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad, and what I saw was a thriving city with fancy cars, high tech shops, bustling restaurants and many other indications that life is also good in Ramallah, which is the functioning capital of the Palestinian Authority.
When times are good for both sides, neither side may be willing to make significant concessions. For Palestinians, such concessions include giving up any right of return, a demilitarized status and a willingness to accept some Israeli communities on the outskirts of Jerusalem on land captured by Israel during the Six Day War. For Israelis, such concessions, in addition to dismantling the settlements, include a strengthened Palestinian military and some loss of control over the borders of a Palestinian state.
Were the Obama administration able to assure the Netanyahu government that Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons - even if that required a military strike as a last resort - the Israelis would be more willing to take risks in order to achieve peace with the Palestinian Authority. In the absence of such an assurance, the attention of the Netanyahu government will remain focused on the only existential threat Israel faces: namely, a nuclear Iran.
There are those who theorize that if Israel were to strike a deal with the Palestinians, that would make it easier for the Obama Administration to prevent a nuclear Iran. Whether that is true or not, the Israelis with whom I spoke want more than theorizing. They want an assurance that they can achieve real peace and safety, not only in relation to the Palestinians but also in relation to Iran, if they are to surrender control over territories they won in a defensive war.
To say that peace will be difficult to achieve is not to suggest that the parties stop trying. But in order to succeed, they must take into consideration the risks and realties on all sides.
(Israelnationalnews.com) The Quartet is expected to publish on Friday a statement calling on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to begin direct peace negotiations.
Diplomatic sources in the US said that the statement by the Quartet (which is comprised of representatives from the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations) will not mention the issue of the building freeze in east Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. The statement will say that the peace talks should end within one year.
The sources added that the statement will call for direct and two-sided negotiations that will bring an “end to the occupation” and result in a Palestinian state living peacefully alongside Israel. The statement will also call on Arab countries to support the negotiations in order to ensure their success.
Although the statement does not mention the building freeze, it says that the Quartet is “fully committed to its previous statements,” in which Israel was called to completely halt building.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Thursday: "We think we are very, very close to a decision by the parties to enter into direct negotiations. We think we're well positioned to get there."
Last month, the Arab League published a letter backing direct talks with Israel. The letter repeated the preconditions set by Abbas: a return to 1967 borders, an end to settlements, and the return of refugees.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and members of his close inner cabinet decided to reject any preconditions as a basis for negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. A government source was quoted as saying: “The Quartet statement is a fig leaf. We would accept only an American statement that would not include preconditions.”
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Thursday Aug 19, 2010
Double Standard Watch: Why Israeli-Palestinian peace will be difficult to achieve
Posted by Alan Dershowitz
Despite earnest efforts by American President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas, it will be extremely difficult for a final peaceful resolution to be achieved between Israel and the Palestinians in the near future. The major obstacle to peace is the international community led by the United Nations. The international community has emboldened Arab leaders into believing that Israel can be delegitimated and weakened through international pressure, and that if the Palestinians hold out long enough, they can achieve their ultimate goal: Namely to end Israel's existence as a Jewish state accepted by the international community.
This was made plain by a statement issued this week from Damascus and signed not only by Hamas but by several secular Palestinian groups that had previously favored direct talks. The current position of these groups is to oppose negotiations and wait for Israel to be isolated even further. Here is the way the statement put it: "Insisting on direct talks throws a lifeline to Israel as its isolation deepens... A return to direct talks serves the US and Zionist aim to liquidate the national rights of the Palestinian people." By "the national rights of the Palestinian people," the groups that signed the statement mean the right of Palestinians to "return" to what is now Israel and to turn it into yet another Muslim-Arab state. Hamas leader Khaled Meshall praised the meeting that produced this negative statement as "exceptional," because it united eleven disparate groups, some religious, others secular, that he claims represent a majority of the Palestinians.
Why negotiate from a position of relative weakness, the signers of the statement ask rhetorically, when the international community is strengthening the position of the Palestinians, while weakening Israel? Delay, it is believed, will help the Palestinians get a better deal, perhaps even preserving their so-called right of return - a "right" no Israeli government could ever accept.
Even the more moderate Palestinian Authority, led by Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, is escalating its demands from what it sees as an increasingly isolated Israel. It is now demanding more than what it was offered by President Clinton and then Prime Minister Ehud Barak in 2000-2001. And it is offering considerably less in return. Back then, the Palestinian Authority could have offered Israel real peace on all of its borders. Today it can offer peace only on Israel's eastern border with the West Bank. Peace with the Palestinian Authority will not bring peace with Hamas on Israel's southwestern border with Gaza. Nor will it bring peace on its northern border with Lebanon, which is now controlled by Hezbollah, a proxy for Iran. And speaking of Iran, the virulently anti-Israel regime which now controls that country is the 800 lb gorilla in the room.
On a recent month long visit to Israel, I met with every Israeli political and military leader. During the course of our many hours of discussion, the issue of the Palestinians was clearly secondary to the threat posed by a nuclear armed Iran. Unless that threat is eliminated, or considerably delayed, many Israelis believe that they have little to gain from a partial peace with the group that threatens them least, namely the Palestinian Authority. And they have something to lose, because peace with the Palestinian Authority will require the dismantling of most West Bank settlements. This will not be easy for Israel to bring about, because there will be hostile resistance from at least some of the settlers. The vast majority of Israelis support the dismantling of the settlements, even if it requires civil turmoil, but only if they get real peace in return.
The Israeli government is now more conservative than it was in 2000-2001. Yassir Arafat was warned by then President Clinton, as well as by Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, that the Palestinians would never get a better deal. Nonetheless he rejected that generous offer and started the second intifada which caused the death of thousands of people including nearly 1,000 Israeli civilians. How then can the Palestinians expect to get more for less after rejecting a generous offer and starting a mini-war? That is the question many Israelis are asking. The answer has not been forthcoming.
A related reason why peace will be difficult to achieve in the short run, is that life is pretty good both for most Israelis and for most West Bank Palestinians. The Israeli economy is thriving, there has been little terrorism, and recent polls suggest that Israelis are among the happiest and most contended people in the world. I am aware of no polls regarding West Bank Palestinians, but I recently visited Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad, and what I saw was a thriving city with fancy cars, high tech shops, bustling restaurants and many other indications that life is also good in Ramallah, which is the functioning capital of the Palestinian Authority.
When times are good for both sides, neither side may be willing to make significant concessions. For Palestinians, such concessions include giving up any right of return, a demilitarized status and a willingness to accept some Israeli communities on the outskirts of Jerusalem on land captured by Israel during the Six Day War. For Israelis, such concessions, in addition to dismantling the settlements, include a strengthened Palestinian military and some loss of control over the borders of a Palestinian state.
Were the Obama administration able to assure the Netanyahu government that Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons - even if that required a military strike as a last resort - the Israelis would be more willing to take risks in order to achieve peace with the Palestinian Authority. In the absence of such an assurance, the attention of the Netanyahu government will remain focused on the only existential threat Israel faces: namely, a nuclear Iran.
There are those who theorize that if Israel were to strike a deal with the Palestinians, that would make it easier for the Obama Administration to prevent a nuclear Iran. Whether that is true or not, the Israelis with whom I spoke want more than theorizing. They want an assurance that they can achieve real peace and safety, not only in relation to the Palestinians but also in relation to Iran, if they are to surrender control over territories they won in a defensive war.
To say that peace will be difficult to achieve is not to suggest that the parties stop trying. But in order to succeed, they must take into consideration the risks and realties on all sides.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Those Scientific Palestinians
Philosopher M. Polanyi observed, “Newtonian physics and Darwin’s notion of the survival of the fittest were key elements both in the Marxist concepts of class warfare and of racial philosophies which shaped Hitlerism and scientific world view.”
And we focus attention and concern on the Jewish Holocaust because
somehow we all have the feeling that it might just happen again.
“Modern theoretical cosmology does not have the first piece of indisputable evidence to support its crazy declaration that an explosion of an infinitesimal "substanceless substance" 15 billion years ago created all that is. It’s "creation scenario" is an expensive, tax-funded mandate to establish evolutionism in space and on Earth through the media and "education". This fundamentally religious deception has been made possible by the acceptance of the pseudo-scientific, assumption-anchored in Copernican Mythology which is wedded to the Darwinian Mythology, now evolving rapidly into Panspermia Mythology. This symbiotic union of false physical science with false biological science has produced these and several other offspring: (Marxism, Freudianism, Einsteinism, Saganism...). Taken together, the teachings from this Bible-denying brood of "thinkers" now constitutes the entire woof and warp of modern man’s allegedly secular "knowledge".
This Panspermia Mythology is, of course rooted in the phallic architecture of Al Aqsa Mosque and is supposed to justify the Palestine First policy. The Copernican expression “family of stars” belongs to the teachings of the Aryan cosmogony. A few years ago, Father George Coyne, head of the Vatican Observatory Research Group suggested that we might view stars as God's sperm, which is the basic teaching of the Aryan cosmogony. In the Hindu Myth when the desire arose in it (i.e. in the sun god in the shape of linga (phallus) “the creation” or rather emanation or emission (ejaculation) of semen followed. The Christian heretic Justin who envisaged Jesus as ever-existent “seed-sowing Reason” believed that the good God was an erect phallus, like Shiva (Hippolytus, Refutation 5.7.21-22).
On 25 May 1977 I delivered at the Polish Oriental Society a lecture about Geocentric Astronomy of the Book of Job –“He stretched out the North over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7) – A heliocentric diagram from the period before Joshua’s conquest unearthed in Israel confirms that the ancient Jews knew the heliocentric system elaborated later by Pythagoras, but rejected it (The Babylonian epic Enuma Elish mentions that the sun god Marduk established the orbit of the earth around the sun). The Biblical Secretaries of God knew about the relativity of the sunlight and therefore could not accept the heliocentric sun as the Light of the World and a Visible God. My article “At the Sources of the Copernican Heliocentrism” was printed in the “Urania” 1/1981/LII, monthly of the Polish Association of the Friends of Astronomy. I pointed out in that paper that Copernicus did not prove immobility of the sun scientifically i.e. mathematically; rather he embraced the philosophical dogma that the sun being a god must rest (cp. Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover): “Moreover, the state of immobility is being considered more noble and more divine than the state of mutability and instability, which for that reason should be ascribed rather to the earth than to the universe (i.e. fixed stars and the sun) (De revol. I, 8 Polish edition of 1976, p. 18)
- Pierre-Paul Grasse, past President of the French Academie des Sciences, Editor of the 35-volume _Traite de Zoologie_: "Today [1977] our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs."
The Historical background of Copernicus's Book
Joscelyn Godwin, professor of music at Colgate University and th author of over fifteen highly-regarded books on music, harmony and the Western esoteric traditions wrote in The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance: “During the Renaissance, a profound transformation occurred in Western culture, fueled in large part by the rediscovery of the mythological, pagan imagination. While the Greek gods and goddesses had never been entirely eclipsed during the 'Dark Ages', with the Renaissance their presence once again became a powerful force in Western civilization.” J. Godwin explains how the European imagination was seduced by the pagan gods, and how people of wealth and leisure began to decorate their villas and places with images of them, write stories about them, and even produce music and dramatic pageants about them. In its deepest and most vibrant form, we discover how the pagan dream of the Renaissance represented nostalgia for a classical world untroubled by sin and in no need of redemption.
Aldous Huxley in his book Ends and Means, 1946, p. 70 explains enthusiastic reception of evolutionism as follows: “I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning...The liberation we desired was.;..from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”
Here is the key passage from The revoluitions in Latin original:
“In medio vero omnium residet Sol. Quis enim in hoc pulcherimo templo lampadam hanc in aio vel meliori loco poneret, quam unde totum simul possit illuminare. Siquidem non inepte quidam lucernam mundi, alii mentem, alii rectorem vocant. Trismegistus visibilem Deum, Sophoclis Electra intuente omnia. Ita profecto tanquam in solio regali Sol residens circum agentem gubernat Astrorum familiam.”
“Die Sonne ist des Himmels Herr, doch dein Gesetz, Herr, noch viel mehr.” (German Hymn)
My question: Do you believe, like Copernicus, that the sun is a god? Can you remove this religious belief from his book without destroying the logic of the Renaissance religious revolution as reflected in The Revolutions? Here is a relevant passage from the Qur'an:
Abraham and Sun
Thus did He show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, so that he might become a firm believer. When night drew its shadow over him, he saw a star. ‘That,’ he said, ‘is surely my God.’ But when it faded in the morning light, he said: ‘I will not worship gods that fade.’ When he beheld the rising moon, he said: ‘That is my God.’ But when it set, he said: ‘If my Lord does not guide me, I shall surely go astray.’ Then, when he beheld the sun shining, he said: ‘That must be my God: he is the largest.’ But when it set, he said to his people: ‘I disown your idols. I will turn my face to Him who has created the heavens and the earth, and will live a righteous life. I am no idolater. – 6:79
"Vishnu in the form of the Solar active energy, neither ever rises nor sets, and is at once, the sevenfold Sun and distinct from it," says Vishnu Purana (Book II., Chap. 1 1).
Shiva in his symbol linga is referred to as as fixed or immovable (dhruva). Shiva is worshiped in the form of the linga, in the center of the temple, or inner shrine. The cave temple of Elephanta (6th century) and the rock-cut temple of Ellura (8th century) are perfect examples. A baboon with an erected penis was a divinity in ancient Egypt. The god Min (Cp. the name minim) was modeled on it.
A passage in the Serpent Mantra, in the Aytareya-Brahmana, speaks of the earth as the Sarpa Rajni, the Queen of the Serpents, and "the mother of all that moves."
T. Campanella, the early defender of Galileo wrote in his book Apologia pro Galileo: “Aristotle testifies, that Pythagoras, who located the place of punishment in the center of the earth and made fire the cause of motion, described the earth as mobile and animate. So Ovid believes in “Metamorphoses”, Origin in his commentary on Ezechiel, and Plato. It is essential, if hell be in the center of the earth, for earth to be hot within, and, according to Gregory and others cited in the argument of St. Thomas, to be mobile. The interpretation of Galileo does not oppose the belief of St. Gregory, but rather that of Aristotle.”
On November 19, 1898 F. Bilek, a 19th century Czech artist published in Polish magazine Życie (Life), II, 44, p. 579 a cartoon mocking the Copernican heliolatry; Earth goddess Gaia, a great planetary organism circling around the sun god.
The Aryan Laws over the World and
Copernicus's Astrorum familia
Here is an example of how the term ‘Aryan’ is used in the Rigveda:
The Gods generated the Divine Word (Logos, Brahman), the cow, the horse, the plants, the trees, the Earth, the mountains and the Waters. Raising the Sun in Heaven, the bountiful Gods released the Aryan Laws over the world. Rigveda, X, 65.11 – translation, Rajaram & Frawley (1997:63).
In Thomas Digges's translation of The Revolutions the sun is “like the king in the middest of al who reigneth and geeveth lawes of motion to ye rest.”
In the Book of Hermes, "Pimander" is enunciated in distinct and unequivocal sentences, the whole trinitarian dogma accepted by the Christians. "The light is me," says Pimander, the DIVINE THOUGHT. "I am the nous or intelligence, and I am thy god, and I am far older than the human principle which escapes from the shadow. I am the germ of thought, the resplendent WORD, the son of God. Think that what thus sees and hears in thee, is the Verbum of the Master, it is the Thought, which is God the Father.... The celestial ocean, the ÆTHER, which flows from east to west, is the Breath of the Father, the life-giving Principle, the HOLY GHOST!" "For they are not at all separated and their union is LIFE."
Logos (Jesus) Christ, as St. Paul understood it, released the Aryan (Heliocentric) Laws over the world and abolished the geocentric Laws of the Hebrew (Semitic) Torah. The Palestinians pride themselves that they are descended from the Aryan Philistines.
According o Hindu definition there are thirteen emotions called Rasas. They are Sringara, also called Adi or the original sex rasa which lies at the very root of creation Accordingly, to this day, Shiva is worshiped in the image of his organ of procreation, often alone, and frequently conjoined with the corresponding female organ, which is sculpted to receive Siva's seed.
This representation of Shiva is known as the lingam. The word lingam literally means a 'sign' or distinguishing mark. Thu says the Linga Purana: “The distinctive sign by which one can recognize the nature of something is called lingam.” Primarily, the glowing, flaming linga was a pillar of fire, connecting heaven and earth.
In Vedic hymns, Rudra (an epithet for Shiva) is identified with Agni, who in these sacred texts is deified as the carrier of the sacrificial offerings to the gods for whom they are intended. Hence, Agni is the mediator between men and gods, and acts as a metaphysical bridge between the two, just like the cosmic linga. A pertinent observation here is that every creative process is accompanied by the generation of heat. Indeed the sexual act is nothing but the offering of the seed of life into the sacred fire of love. Hence, Agni, the God of Fire, is eminently suited as a metaphoric emblem of the tejas (creative heat) of Shiva, or speaking mathematically E=mc². That explains why Einstein so eagerly embraced father Lamaitre's imaginations (see below)
In his aniconic form Shiva is visualized as the cosmic pillar. Yet this pillar also evokes his phallus. As an abstract shape, the pillar symbolizes a purely conceptual reality that cannot be sensed in material terms. Visually however, the shape of the cylindrical pillar with a rounded top resembles that of the phallus. Also when the time came for Shiva to reveal himself to both Brahma and Vishnu, he did so in the form of a linga. Hence the linga is an object of the greatest sanctity, more sacred than any anthropomorphic image of Shiva. Not surprisingly thus, the innermost sanctuary of all Shiva temples is reserved for the linga, while the outer precincts of the sacred architecture may show him in his human form. Indeed, though his iconic images abound, no such image ever occupies the center of attention in a Shiva temple, this honor being reserved exclusivly for his linga.Hammurabi received his (Aryan) laws on top of a linga.
Most commonly, in the sanctuaries where it is worshiped, the lingam is represented surrounded by the female organ of generation, the yoni. The yoni grasps the lingam, and indeed it is only when the phallus, the giver of semen, is surrounded by the yoni that procreation can take place. From the relation of linga and yoni, the whole world arises. Everything therefore bears the signature of the linga and the yoni. Each individual linga that enters a womb and procreates is a harbinger of divinity, and engaging in a sacred act. John Paul II Theology of the Body speaks about Holy Sex (Exactly like in the sacred prostitution with its qdeshot)
For a long time, the pundits have wondered why it was necessary to decorate a place of worship with sexual material, but if one observes the materialistic (Loukika) thoughts of Hinduism, there is nothing unnatural about them The Indian scriptures argue that to attain moksha, and to dedicate oneself to dharma and adhyatma, one should first experience sexual fulfillment. This was also the mantra of Dr. Kinsey. Let me remind here that J.G.R Furlong in his book Rivers of Life (London 1883) coined the term “phalo-solar worshippers” denoting the inhabitants of the Anglo-Indian areas.
J.J. O’Connor and E.F. Robertson in their article Nicolaus Copernicus on website translated the above passage from Copernicus's book as follows: “At the middle of all things lies the sun. As the location of this luminary in the cosmos, that most beautiful temple, would there be any other place or any better place than the centre, from which it can light up everything at the same time? Hence the sun is not inappropriately called by some the lamp of the universe, by others its mind, and by others its ruler.”
Copernicus’s reference to Trismegistus’ calling the sun ‘Visible God’ and Electra’s title of the sun ‘All Seeing Being’ are lost in this translation. They also censored Copernicus’s belief in ancient cosmogony according to which sun god fathered the stars which he expressed mentioning “the family of stars.” It was Sophocles, mentioned by Copernicus, who called the sun “He who engenders the gods” and “Father of All Things.”
And here is the true German translation of this passage:
“In der Mitte aller (Planeten) aber hat die Sonne ihren Platz. Wer möchte wohl in diesem schönsten Tempel diese Leuchte an einem andern oder bessern Orte aufstellen als an dem, woher sie alles zugleich beleuchten kann! Ist es doch nicht unklug, dass einige sie die Leuchte der Welt, andere ihre Vernunft, andere ihren Lenker nennen. Trismegistus nennt sie den sichtbaren Gott, des Sophokles Elektra die alles Schauende. So herrscht fürwahr die Sonne, gleichsam auf königlichem Throne sitzend, über die sie umkreisende Familie der Sterne.” (De revolutionibus I, 10.)
And here is the best American translation of this verse:
“In the center of all rests the Sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place than this from which it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern, others, the mind, and still others, the Leader of the World. Trismegistus calls it ‘visible God’; Sophocles’ Electra, ‘that which gazes upon all things.’ And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around.”
In response of Nov. 22, 1989 to a letter by Marshall Hall, Lee Ranne of United States Department of Commerce, writing on behalf of Charles E. Liddick, Chief, Scheduling Branch Office of Scientific Operations stated that the “present movement of Geosynchronous Satellites #5 are planned and executed on the basis of fixed earth.”
Two years later Marshall Hall published book The Earth Is Not Moving. over 400 years of deception exposed. the bible told the truth all along. In June, 1994 Second Edition of the book had been printed. You will find facsimiles of both letters on p. 261 of the book.
Phallic Architecture of Al-Aqsa Mosque
Foreshadowed the Rise of Western Heliocentrism
The Muslims embraced three important components of Hindu religion: its mathematics, phallic architecture, and polygyny. The Moslem religion allows a man to have as many as four wives, and the Hindu religions sets no limit on the number of wives a man may have.
“When the ancient Hellenic culture was in decline, it found support in the Roman government. Rome defended the upper class against proletarian outbursts, and in defense of the Hellenes, Rome crushed the Jews and other Easterners, who challenged Hellenism in Cyprus, Egypt, Syria, and Cyrenaica. Likewise Rome occasionally persecuted the Christians. (Enc. Americana, entry Hellenism)
In the Moslem Empire, there was an unusual tolerance for strange Gnostic sects. Why? Because they rejected the Hebrew Bible, viewing it as a work of deception. They stated that it had been written by a race of thieves and deceivers, and was inspired by the worship of the false god, a demiurge, Jehovah (Cp. John 8:44). It was ecumenism in hatred. Unfortunately, this hatred endures.
The Above mentioned T. Campanella stressed: “If the Fathers are correct when they say the firmament stand unmoved, the stars stand with it. When the Master of the “Sentences,” St. Chrysostom, and other fathers declare, in harmony with Catholic faith that the firmament is unmoved, it is necessary that they state the same of the stars much more vigorously. Since the stars are immobile it follows that the earth is carried about as a ship, and that stars appear to be moved just as from a ship an island or a tower on the shore seems in motion.”
These early Church Fathers found their best allies in Arabs philosophers who hated the Hebrew religion with the same intensity as the imperial Romans.
Heliocentric astronomy of Copernicus did not succeed the geocentered astronomy of Ptolemy because Copernicus’s system corresponded to experience and Ptolemy’s didn’t. With sufficient epicycles Ptolemy’s system could be made to correspond to our observations. The Copernican heliocentrism had won for political reasons. The fight against the religious heritage of the Hebrew Bible was what united the Roman Catholics and the Muslims. Very early we observe the growing alienation of the Roman Church from the Old Testament and Hebrew roots because of the Hellenization and universalization of the Christian message. On the other side, for the millions of Muslims Abraham was neither Jew nor Christian, but the first Muslim. He was believed to have founded the Kaaba in Mecca as the central sanctuary of the one God, and in this way he became the ancestor of the Arabs. On this political premise, the 12th-century Arab philosopher Averroës based his criticism of the Ptolemaic system and of the Biblical geocentrism for that matter: “Therefore new research work is necessary in order to find the “true” astronomy, which can be derived from the true principles of physics. As a matter of fact, today there is no astronomy at all, and what we call astronomy is in agreement with our computations but not with the physical reality.” Popular myth saw Averroës as a vile atheist (like Al-Shariati).
Thomas Aquinas’s judgment of the Ptolemaic system sounds as a paraphrase of Averroës’s criticism: “The assumptions made by the astronomers are not necessarily true. Although these hypotheses seem to be in agreement with the observed phenomena we must not claim that they are true. Perhaps one could explain the observed motion of the celestial bodies in a different way which has not been discovered up to this time.” Copernicus’s only motive in his research was his conviction that there was no established doctrine and, not a spirit of opposition against the established doctrine. That explains the fact that he joined to his book the letter he had received from Cardinal Schőnberg some years before and that he dedicated his work to Pope Paul III. Card. Schőnberg urged him to publish his book: “Thus, learned Sir, I hope that I will not be deemed a nuisance when I urgently request you to communicate your discovery to the learned world.” Tiedman Giese, Bishop of Kulm also insisted for a long time on publication. Copernicus’s brother Andreas was a high-ranking curialist… John Paul II knew what he was doing when he “rehabilitated” Galileo who, like Muhammad, believed in “7 hanging paradises” and 72 virgins awaiting him…His Theology of the Body epitomizes this process is is called appropriately Neo-Catholicism i.e. a version of the New Age pseudo-religion.
It is not without interest to remark that the Arab physicians, who enjoyed a merited celebrity in the middle ages -- Averroes among others -- constantly spoke of the Hindu physicians, and regarded them as the initiators of the Greeks and themselves. One of them the Hindu Bramaheupto affirmed that the starry sphere was immovable, and that the daily rising and setting of stars confirms the motion of the earth upon its axis. His heliocentrism was embraced by the Greek philosopher Aristarch of Samos, born 267 B.C. Together with heliocentric mathematics the Hindu astronomers developed zero and the decimal number system, the differential, integral, and infinitesimal calculi. The Arabs adopted these inventions and used them in their architecture, as exemplified by the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, which was supposed to exterminate from human memory the mathematics used by the Biblical architects of the Solomon Temple together with this teaching of the Koran. Averroes's view both of the eternity of the world and of the unity of intellect or soul fitted well with Bruno's cosmological thought. In other words Averroes was an evolutionist, not a creationist.
Disappointed when the Jews did not acknowledge his leadership, Mohammed turned against them and invoked Hanifism, the supposedly uncorrupted religion of Abraham, against them (According to one tradition, in this “uncorrupted religion” Abraham went through with the sacrifice of his son). He also ascribed to Abraham many of the elements of Arab paganism that he took over into Islam. From this time on, Mohammed no longer regarded Islam as a form of revelation ranking with Judaism and Christianity; he proclaimed it to be the one and only true religion.
The early apologist of Galileo, the Dominican friar Campanella in his book Apologia pro Galileo (Frankfurt 1623) pointed out that Galileo shared Muhammad’s belief in “many worlds with lands and seas, and with human inhabitants (like huris).” Muhammad, for political reasons, rejected the idea of the Biblical Eden planted by God on earth and embraced instead the idea of the Garden of Immortality that the Babylonian myth placed in Heaven. Unlike the Biblical Adam who was simply “sent forth from the Garden of Eden” (Gen. 3:23), the Koran’s Adam was “sent down from the garden” (Sura Ta-Ha 20:123). In the Gospel of John (3:13) Jesus says of himself: “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” An d this explain the American popular religion of ET's with its “prophet” Spielberg, the director of the ill-famous and repugnant Munich.
We have to consider the dialogue between God and Abraham within the context of the ancient Near East. Abraham lived in a world of idolatrous child offerings, where fathers demonstrated fealty to Molech by placing their children on the blood-thirsty sun god Molech’s fiery altar (Tragically, this cruel form of idolatry has returned with a vengeance to the present-day Middle East, with Palestinian parents, teachers and preachers encouraging children to blow themselves up, along with innocent Israeli mothers and babies)
Dr. Rantisi, Hamas's dead leader used to argue that Allah - many times wrongly translated as 'God' - is not the God of the Bible, nor the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Allah is another deity, one who drinks blood as water, who loves jihad and terror, and promises virgins in his so-called paradise to those who kill Jews - the more the better. Accordingly, we learn from a Palestinian poststamp that the true god of Palestine is Baal-Zephon who was a principal mighty one of Ugait or Ras Shamra, and of the Canaanite people who lived in that area of Syria. Israel was given a choice; they could follow Yahweh to their permanent freedom in the Promised land or they could return to enslavement in Egypt with its idol worship, wherein the idolatry of Baal-Zephon was popular.
(A. Hislop in his Two babylons wrote: “From the historian Castor (in Armenian translation of Eusebius, pars. I, p. 81) we learn that it was under Bel, or Belus, that is Baal, that the Cyclops lived; and the Scholiast on Æschylus [chapter II, section II, sub-section I, note 22] states that these Cyclops were the brethren of Kronos, who was also Bel or Bal, as we have elsewhere seen [chapter II, section II, sub-section I]. The eye in their forehead shows that originally this name was a name of the great god, for that eye in India and Greece is found the characteristic of the supreme divinity. The Cyclops, then, had been representatives of that God—in other words, priests, and priests of Bel or Bal. Now, we find that the Cyclops were well-known as cannibals, Referre ritus Cyclopum, "to bring back the rites of the Cyclops," meaning to revive the practice of eating human flesh. (Ovid, Metam., XV, 93, Vol. II, p. 132. The term cannibal is derived from Cahna-Baal, priest of Baal. Pagan Rome of old offered human sacrifices to Baal on these crosses”)
Excavations in Ashkelon, Ekron, and Gath reveal dog and pig bones which show signs of having been butchered, implying that these animals were part of Philistines' diet.
There is no doubt about it that it was A. Hitler himself who inspired Dr. Rantisi to identify the god of Palestinians with the pagan Canaaneite sun god Baal (Bull). The Nazi leader said once about his Palestinian ally Mufti Haj Amin al Hussein: “ He looks like a peaceful angel, but under his robe hides a real bull!”
Baal was originally, it appears, associated with specific places and sanctuaries; in Ugarit temple he is equated with Dagon. Ball was also known as the sun idol, Baal-Hannan. He had received the name Hannan, or the “grace”. That is exactly what the Pauline Christians teach, that the manner of spiritual life is all grace. “The law has been done away with the Christ’s death; now, do anything you please” is the teaching of Pauline churchianity.
In other words Palestinian God is not the God of the Holy Qur'an who is the same as the God of the Bible and creates the world exactly, like YHWH does:
Your Guardian – Lord
Is Allah, Who created
The Heavens and the earth
In six days (7:54)
So in the eyes of the believing Muslims, the Palestinian are:
Pagans: Companions of Fire
It is not fitting,
For the Prophet and those
Who believe, that they should
Pray for forgiveness
For Pagans, even though
They be of kin, after it is
Clear to them that they
Are companions of Fire,( aka Baal, who was the god of fire)
You will better understand the political meaning of John Paul II's rehabilitation of Galileo in the context of the following quote from A. Koestler's The Sleepwalkers: The dials on the laboratory panels are turning into another version of the shadows in the cave. Our hypnotic enslavement to the numerical aspects of reality has dulled our perception of non-quantitative moral values ... Kepler's sun-spokes, Galileo's confidence tricks, and Descartes' pituitary soul, may have some sobering effect on the worshipers of the new Baal, lording it over the moral vacuum with his electronic brain.
"The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvement's and amplifications of this simple ... belief. The primitive mind, recognizing the beneficent power of the solar orb, adored it as the proxy of the Supreme Deity ... Among all the nations of antiquity, altars, mounds, and temples were dedicated to the worship of the orb of day ... The Tower of Babel ... was probably an astronomical observatory ... The sun, as supreme among the celestial bodies to the astronomers of antiquity, was assigned to the highest of the gods and became symbolic of the supreme authority of the Creator Himself ... Yellow is his color and his power is without end ... The sun thus became a Bull in Taurus and was worshipped as such by the Egyptians under the name of Apis, and by the Assyrians as Bel, Baal, or Bul (John Bull! –rp). In Leo, the sun became a Lion-slayer, Hercules, and an Archer in Sagittarius. In Pices the Fishes, he was a fish -- Dagon, or Vishnu, the fish-god of the Philistines and Hindoos." ["The Secret Teachings of All Ages", by Manly P. Hall, 33° Freemason, p. XLIX]The Dome of the Rock is his temple.
The bull Nandi is Shiva in his animal form as well as the mount upon which the Great God rides. The sexually potent bull is an expression of Shiva's cosmic creative energy. This image evolved from a prehistoric representation (Shiva Pasupati) in which the god was a horned fertility deity; his worship was central in the ancient Mohenjo Daro civilization of the Indus valley. And this ancient, primitive religion is expressed in the phallic architecture of the Dome of the Rock which is modeled on the architecture of the innumerable Indian shrines of linga and yoni.
Originally, the obelisk was associated with sun-worship, a symbol of "Baal," (which was a title of Nimrod), because it pointed toward heaven. It, also, had a sexual significance - the phallus, as with the sun, is a symbol of life. The same obelisk (the ancient symbol of Osiris, the solar phallic god) that stood in Egypt is, now, in the entrance to St. Peter's. The largest solar wheel on earth is the court of St. Peter at the Vatican in Rome - a wheel within a wheel, with eight spokes, a common symbol in paganism.
Did you ever wonder about the text in Exodus 32:1-4 concerning the golden calf that the Israelites made while Moses was up in the mountain with God? Verse 5 says, "they rose up early on the morrow." That calf was called "apis" by the Egyptians and was tied in with their pagan sun worship. That is why they rose up early, to worship the sun. Now lets see if they were warned about this pagan worship. Deut 4:12-20. says "Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similtude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them and serve them..."
The Bible calls Baal worship (sun worship) devil worship. Did you know that? Here it is in Leviticus 17:7, "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils after whom they have gone whoring." In Numbers 25:2-4 it says, "And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods, and Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor; and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel." Down through the centuries the distinguishing mark that separated the pagans from God's people was their day of worship, which was Sunday, or Sun's day. The pagans worshiped the sun on Sunday. They took the first day of the week and gave it the highest honor by naming it in honor of the sun god and worshiping the sun on that day.
According to Carl Matrisciana's Gods of the New Age (1985), the Shivites are “recognizable by the three horizontal lines painted on their forehead. These disciples of the god Shiva consider madness – one of Shiva's attributes (cp. the so-called Nordic berserkergang) – to be one of the highest levels of spirituality! Many Hindus believe insanity to be a form of god-consciousness.
Aryan Savior for Palestine
Peter Lefhebber in his website article Jesus of Nazareth and Maitreya the Christ wrote:
“Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ are not one and the same person...In fact the title Christ does not refer to an individual at all. Its the name of a function in the Hierarchy of Masters of Wisdom, that group of advanced beings who guide the evolution of humanity from behind the scenes. Whoever stands at the head of this Hierarchy automatically becomes the World Teacher, known in the East as the Bodhisattva, during the term of his office.
The Master Jesus has been incarnated in a Syrian body for about 640 years. He is described in Initiation, Human and Solar by Alice A. Bailey (published by Lucis Publishing Co.) as follows: He is rather a martial figure, a disciplinarian and a man of iron rule and will. He is tall and spare with rather a long thin face, black hair, pale complexion, and piercing blue eyes. In the Hierarchy he is described as the Great Leader, the General and the Wise Executive. No one is so closely in touch with the people who stand for all that is best in the Christian teachings and no-one is so well aware of the needs of the present moment. A A. Bailey, infected the United nations with her rabid Aryan Anti-Semitism.
During most of this time he has lived mainly in Palestine. Since 1984 however, he has lived in Rom. The intention is that he will try to raise the Christian churches out of their state of crystallization and rivalry and if invited to do so, to lead a newly united church. By doing so he hopes to resolve the many contradictions and misunderstandings which have arisen during the course of the centuries about this historic role and the teachings which he then disseminated as a vehicle for Maitreya.We observe the same politics behind the attemt at replacing the Jewish Queen of Poland, Mother of Jesus by singing Madonna (www.share-international.org/archives/AgelessWisdom/aw_pl-JnM.htm)
Towards One Nation Under Baal?
Please, note the coincidence, in 1984 in his address to the diplomats accredited at the Vatican pope John Paul II postulated creation of an independent Palestinian state. Does an “independent” Palestine foreshadow a Shivaite Christianity? And a Shivaite Islam centered on the Al Aqsa Mosque? During his visit to India pope John Paul II received Siva's mark on his forehead. He earned this sign by his sermons on the Theology of the Body proclaimed during his Wednesday audiences in 1980/81. This theology makes the ecumenical meting in the Shiva Temple on the Temple Mount possible.
Behind the Ritual of gay Pride Parades
The New Agers claim Jerusalem as one of their “holy sites” where “masters” can be found , which helps explain world pressure to delegitimize this city as Israel's capital and the seat of Judaism. I guess, the world dreams about a new utopia when all sanctuaries will turn into sexuaries. The world needs this potent sexual symbol (Al Aqsa) to logjam the teaching of the Torah with the visions of Ginsberg's “ultimate vaginas” and infinite orgasms. That explains their clamoring for the division of Jerusalem.
Well, The third edition of the Bishops’ Bible published in 1572 was called the Leda Bible from the decoration in the initial at the Epistle to the Hebrews which is a startling and incongruous woodcut of Jupiter visiting Leda in the guise of a swan. This and other decorations in the New Testament were taken from an edition of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses!” The Bishops’ Bible became the backbone of the Authorized King James Version.
Pansexuality under the god Shiva and Al Aqsa
A gay activist observed: “Queer Christians must also re-envision themselves as God’s lovers and discover a love relation with other species and with the universe itself. They need to become partners in their world with other species and learn to relate to them as friends and lovers. Because, as Pytagoras proclaimed, “Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul “(Cp. The myth of Zeus-swan and Leda).
The ideology behind the Gays' Pride Parades goes like that: Human beings, by nature must be, "pansexual" (from the Greek, Pan = all) a complete sexual person. We all possess various sexual possibilities generally classified as heterosexual, homosexual, bi-sexual, autoerotic, fetishist, sado-masochistic, etc. These tendencies in our nature can come out at any time, according to the development of each individual.
Children are born polimorphoperverse; the curiosity of discovery leads them to play with their mothers, touch their genitals, masturbate and investigate their excreta. Later, as they develop, they play games of "doctor" as they explore the bodies and functions of their friends. All this is perfectly natural. During puberty their ambivalence is natural and undeniable as they adapt to life as an adult. Only later does their sexual proclivity become more crystallized and definite, although the range of options remain open. These options are partially repressed or are made taboo, according to the society in which they live. (Peter Boom, The Theory of Pansexuality). The societies would have perished long time ago if the sexuality of their members were shaped by such views.
Turning Israel into a Part of a Greater Syria
In 1981 I found at the Yale University Library an abstract of a 1975 lecture by Prof. S. Sambursky, a friend of Einstein’s who introduced Copernicus to the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities as “the man who initiated this era of modern science…as the man who by the sheer force of imagination broke the chains of sense perception, the ingenious discoverer of a scientific truth involving one of the greatest revolutions in man’s view of the world.” (See, Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, vol. V, No. 11).
Science as a Fruit of Imagination Means Science Fiction
Truth is that "astronomers can see nothing" beyond the "shell of radiation". What they claim to see is fabricated and computer programmed, as this scientist who is beginning to smell a very big rat notes: "It is well to remember that a great deal of modern cosmology, especially when its practitioners are trying to predict its destiny and retrodict its origin, is sheer mathematical manipulation and evolutionary philosophical imagination. ‘It ain’t necessarily so!"
Einstein himself admitted, "When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” The word "fantasy" equates, of course, with such things as: "delusion, illusion, misconception, trick, fool’s paradise, self-deception, hallucination, false light, figment of the imagination, something unsubstantial, thin air, mockery", etc.
The youthful apostle of a one-world government, John Lenon’s song Imagine attacked religion (“Imagine there is no heaven. It’s easy, if you try, No hell below us. Above us only sky”), espoused a do you own thing philosophy (“Imagine all the people, Living for today”), attacked nationalism (“Imagine there’s no countries”), attacked religion (It is isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too”), called for the abolition of private property (“Imagine no possessions”), supported a new international order (“I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world”). Lenon called for abolition of private property but he did not believe his own imagination b ecause he left his Japanese-born widow a $250 million estate. Former President B. Clinton had chosen to play this tune on saxophone during his visit to Israel.
Politics and Science
The alleged proof of heliocentrism or, the Foucault's Pendulum(I call it merry-go-round) and the so-called moon walk (a trade mark of M. Jackson's musical performances) giving the false impression of the moving earth belong to the same magic repertoire. Indeed, in the heliocentric hoax, since emperor Julian the Apostate's dogma in his respect) the moon has to go on its trajectory around the sun in the opposite direction than the earth, but this dogma itself belies the heliohoax, because it suggests that the moon is moving back and forth at the same time, which inspired Lenin's dialectical derogatory dogma of 1904 about the party of Mensheviks going one step forward and two steps back. Well, I will never forget that M. Jackson passed away shortly before the 22nd July 2009 longest eclipse of the sun, which, ultimately, unmasked the heliohoax and became the best illustration to the Blog4Brownback which published tons of my comments.
U.S. pop star Madonna performed on Sunday in St. Petersburg at the only Russian concert of her Sticky & Sweet world tour. She was on the Palace Square stage for two hours and attempted to imitate Michael Jackson’s moonwalk. However, she ignored a request from local Communists to sing the Internationale. (RIA Novosti, Aug 15, 2009)
The political significance of the attached pictures will be better grasped when compared with the following videos of other eclipses (Google: Videos of the 22, July 2009 Eclipse):
The Video of the 29 March Total Solar Eclipse over Libya shows the moon moving in agreement with the heliocentric dogma established by Julian the Apostate.
The Israeli Video of the 22 July 2009 Eclipse Likuy Hamma Male' agrees with the Chines videos of the same eclipse.
The Greek video of the same eclipse shows moon moving backward like in the Libyan Video.
The NASA and Indian videos of the 22nd July, 2009 eclipse are not worth watching.
In 1980 I was rejected by the Consul of Israel in Vienna as as an “'ole” when I summarized to him the results of my scientific researches. I was told that Israel doesn't need people like me.
Well, Fr. Gregory Mustaciuolo, Secretary to the Cardinal John O'Connor, archbishop of New York wrote to me on April 29, 1993:” His Eminence is always grateful to those who are willing to share with him their thoughts and concerns. Know that His Eminence will remember you in his prayers as he offers the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Please pray for him...”
And Pavel Seifter, Director of Foreign Policy Department wrote to me on August 22, 1994 on behalf of Vaclav Havel, President of Czech Republic:
“President Havel would agree with you that, in this rapidly changing and transforming era, it is necessary to find some basic values which can bring greater security and meaning to life. He has often warned of the danger of those who think of man as the center of the universe, thus separating humans from the world around us and making it appear that we have no one to whom we answer. Because of such philosophies, the former regimes throughout the region left behind environments that were deeply damaged and societies that were badly shaken. The search for a new set of values which can form the basis of strong and healthy democracies here and around the world is one of the great challenges of the modern era. The President supports those, like you, who are engaged in this important task. He joins me in wishing you all the best. Please accept also the assurances of my highest regards.”
Prague - Former Czech president Vaclav Havel is among the personalities invited to a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI during his forthcoming visit to Prague, and he plans to attend the event hosted by the Presidential Office, Havel's secretary Sabina Tancevova told CTK today. (Aug. 19, 2009) Let me remind here that in 1995 in an interview for the Inside the Vatican Card. Ratzinger attacked the Galileo physics for “obscuring the truth.” On Jan 10, 2008 in an interview entitled The Bible calls it a Sin for Spiegel Online the present Patriarch of Russia Kyrill joined Benedict XVI by rejecting Darwinism.(“It would be wrong to treat Darwin's theory as the only correct one. It is the leading theory today, but it could be replaced by another theory tomorrow. There was also a time when Marxism considered itself the only correct and scientifically justified theory...”)Well, The Washington Post columnist R. Cohen called establishment of Israel “a mistake”.(Tuesday, July 18, 2006; A19). “ mistake” is a saecular counterpat of “a sin”. R. Cohen probably considers existence of Israel “a sin” against gods of New Age: Copernicus and Darwin. Well, during his recent visit to Israel Pope Benedict XVI spoke about a homeland (not a state) for Palestinians. Obviously, for him establishment of Israel was no “mistake.”
On July 25, 1993 Mr. Eitan Haber answered my letter to PM Itzhak Rabin: “Thank you for your letter dated July 6 and the enclosure, the contents of which have been noted.” PM Itzhak Rabin opposed the creation of a Palestinian state all his life. Most of my e-mails to Israeli scientists are blocked by spam filters.
There are lots of separation
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Tue, 27/10/2009 - 01:00.
There are lots of separation walls in the world. I can give a few examples: the wall at the US-Mexico border, the wall in Western Sahara (with the Moroccan border), a wall between north and south korean, a wall between botswana and zimbabwe, a wall between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, between Koweit and Iraq, a wal in Belfast and others.
But the only wall people call "wall of shame" is the wall in Israel...
Thanks to the wall terrorists attacks (blow ups etc.) have dropped by 96(!)% in Israel...
Is a defensive wall built to prevent terrorists attacks "wall of shame"?
Think about it, and stop always criticizing THIS wall please...
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i saw the following surahs in quran. does it mean we should give
israel to the yahuds?
5:21
5:44
7:137
10:84
7:159
17:104
17:76
17:2
And we focus attention and concern on the Jewish Holocaust because
somehow we all have the feeling that it might just happen again.
“Modern theoretical cosmology does not have the first piece of indisputable evidence to support its crazy declaration that an explosion of an infinitesimal "substanceless substance" 15 billion years ago created all that is. It’s "creation scenario" is an expensive, tax-funded mandate to establish evolutionism in space and on Earth through the media and "education". This fundamentally religious deception has been made possible by the acceptance of the pseudo-scientific, assumption-anchored in Copernican Mythology which is wedded to the Darwinian Mythology, now evolving rapidly into Panspermia Mythology. This symbiotic union of false physical science with false biological science has produced these and several other offspring: (Marxism, Freudianism, Einsteinism, Saganism...). Taken together, the teachings from this Bible-denying brood of "thinkers" now constitutes the entire woof and warp of modern man’s allegedly secular "knowledge".
This Panspermia Mythology is, of course rooted in the phallic architecture of Al Aqsa Mosque and is supposed to justify the Palestine First policy. The Copernican expression “family of stars” belongs to the teachings of the Aryan cosmogony. A few years ago, Father George Coyne, head of the Vatican Observatory Research Group suggested that we might view stars as God's sperm, which is the basic teaching of the Aryan cosmogony. In the Hindu Myth when the desire arose in it (i.e. in the sun god in the shape of linga (phallus) “the creation” or rather emanation or emission (ejaculation) of semen followed. The Christian heretic Justin who envisaged Jesus as ever-existent “seed-sowing Reason” believed that the good God was an erect phallus, like Shiva (Hippolytus, Refutation 5.7.21-22).
On 25 May 1977 I delivered at the Polish Oriental Society a lecture about Geocentric Astronomy of the Book of Job –“He stretched out the North over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7) – A heliocentric diagram from the period before Joshua’s conquest unearthed in Israel confirms that the ancient Jews knew the heliocentric system elaborated later by Pythagoras, but rejected it (The Babylonian epic Enuma Elish mentions that the sun god Marduk established the orbit of the earth around the sun). The Biblical Secretaries of God knew about the relativity of the sunlight and therefore could not accept the heliocentric sun as the Light of the World and a Visible God. My article “At the Sources of the Copernican Heliocentrism” was printed in the “Urania” 1/1981/LII, monthly of the Polish Association of the Friends of Astronomy. I pointed out in that paper that Copernicus did not prove immobility of the sun scientifically i.e. mathematically; rather he embraced the philosophical dogma that the sun being a god must rest (cp. Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover): “Moreover, the state of immobility is being considered more noble and more divine than the state of mutability and instability, which for that reason should be ascribed rather to the earth than to the universe (i.e. fixed stars and the sun) (De revol. I, 8 Polish edition of 1976, p. 18)
- Pierre-Paul Grasse, past President of the French Academie des Sciences, Editor of the 35-volume _Traite de Zoologie_: "Today [1977] our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs."
The Historical background of Copernicus's Book
Joscelyn Godwin, professor of music at Colgate University and th author of over fifteen highly-regarded books on music, harmony and the Western esoteric traditions wrote in The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance: “During the Renaissance, a profound transformation occurred in Western culture, fueled in large part by the rediscovery of the mythological, pagan imagination. While the Greek gods and goddesses had never been entirely eclipsed during the 'Dark Ages', with the Renaissance their presence once again became a powerful force in Western civilization.” J. Godwin explains how the European imagination was seduced by the pagan gods, and how people of wealth and leisure began to decorate their villas and places with images of them, write stories about them, and even produce music and dramatic pageants about them. In its deepest and most vibrant form, we discover how the pagan dream of the Renaissance represented nostalgia for a classical world untroubled by sin and in no need of redemption.
Aldous Huxley in his book Ends and Means, 1946, p. 70 explains enthusiastic reception of evolutionism as follows: “I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning...The liberation we desired was.;..from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”
Here is the key passage from The revoluitions in Latin original:
“In medio vero omnium residet Sol. Quis enim in hoc pulcherimo templo lampadam hanc in aio vel meliori loco poneret, quam unde totum simul possit illuminare. Siquidem non inepte quidam lucernam mundi, alii mentem, alii rectorem vocant. Trismegistus visibilem Deum, Sophoclis Electra intuente omnia. Ita profecto tanquam in solio regali Sol residens circum agentem gubernat Astrorum familiam.”
“Die Sonne ist des Himmels Herr, doch dein Gesetz, Herr, noch viel mehr.” (German Hymn)
My question: Do you believe, like Copernicus, that the sun is a god? Can you remove this religious belief from his book without destroying the logic of the Renaissance religious revolution as reflected in The Revolutions? Here is a relevant passage from the Qur'an:
Abraham and Sun
Thus did He show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, so that he might become a firm believer. When night drew its shadow over him, he saw a star. ‘That,’ he said, ‘is surely my God.’ But when it faded in the morning light, he said: ‘I will not worship gods that fade.’ When he beheld the rising moon, he said: ‘That is my God.’ But when it set, he said: ‘If my Lord does not guide me, I shall surely go astray.’ Then, when he beheld the sun shining, he said: ‘That must be my God: he is the largest.’ But when it set, he said to his people: ‘I disown your idols. I will turn my face to Him who has created the heavens and the earth, and will live a righteous life. I am no idolater. – 6:79
"Vishnu in the form of the Solar active energy, neither ever rises nor sets, and is at once, the sevenfold Sun and distinct from it," says Vishnu Purana (Book II., Chap. 1 1).
Shiva in his symbol linga is referred to as as fixed or immovable (dhruva). Shiva is worshiped in the form of the linga, in the center of the temple, or inner shrine. The cave temple of Elephanta (6th century) and the rock-cut temple of Ellura (8th century) are perfect examples. A baboon with an erected penis was a divinity in ancient Egypt. The god Min (Cp. the name minim) was modeled on it.
A passage in the Serpent Mantra, in the Aytareya-Brahmana, speaks of the earth as the Sarpa Rajni, the Queen of the Serpents, and "the mother of all that moves."
T. Campanella, the early defender of Galileo wrote in his book Apologia pro Galileo: “Aristotle testifies, that Pythagoras, who located the place of punishment in the center of the earth and made fire the cause of motion, described the earth as mobile and animate. So Ovid believes in “Metamorphoses”, Origin in his commentary on Ezechiel, and Plato. It is essential, if hell be in the center of the earth, for earth to be hot within, and, according to Gregory and others cited in the argument of St. Thomas, to be mobile. The interpretation of Galileo does not oppose the belief of St. Gregory, but rather that of Aristotle.”
On November 19, 1898 F. Bilek, a 19th century Czech artist published in Polish magazine Życie (Life), II, 44, p. 579 a cartoon mocking the Copernican heliolatry; Earth goddess Gaia, a great planetary organism circling around the sun god.
The Aryan Laws over the World and
Copernicus's Astrorum familia
Here is an example of how the term ‘Aryan’ is used in the Rigveda:
The Gods generated the Divine Word (Logos, Brahman), the cow, the horse, the plants, the trees, the Earth, the mountains and the Waters. Raising the Sun in Heaven, the bountiful Gods released the Aryan Laws over the world. Rigveda, X, 65.11 – translation, Rajaram & Frawley (1997:63).
In Thomas Digges's translation of The Revolutions the sun is “like the king in the middest of al who reigneth and geeveth lawes of motion to ye rest.”
In the Book of Hermes, "Pimander" is enunciated in distinct and unequivocal sentences, the whole trinitarian dogma accepted by the Christians. "The light is me," says Pimander, the DIVINE THOUGHT. "I am the nous or intelligence, and I am thy god, and I am far older than the human principle which escapes from the shadow. I am the germ of thought, the resplendent WORD, the son of God. Think that what thus sees and hears in thee, is the Verbum of the Master, it is the Thought, which is God the Father.... The celestial ocean, the ÆTHER, which flows from east to west, is the Breath of the Father, the life-giving Principle, the HOLY GHOST!" "For they are not at all separated and their union is LIFE."
Logos (Jesus) Christ, as St. Paul understood it, released the Aryan (Heliocentric) Laws over the world and abolished the geocentric Laws of the Hebrew (Semitic) Torah. The Palestinians pride themselves that they are descended from the Aryan Philistines.
According o Hindu definition there are thirteen emotions called Rasas. They are Sringara, also called Adi or the original sex rasa which lies at the very root of creation Accordingly, to this day, Shiva is worshiped in the image of his organ of procreation, often alone, and frequently conjoined with the corresponding female organ, which is sculpted to receive Siva's seed.
This representation of Shiva is known as the lingam. The word lingam literally means a 'sign' or distinguishing mark. Thu says the Linga Purana: “The distinctive sign by which one can recognize the nature of something is called lingam.” Primarily, the glowing, flaming linga was a pillar of fire, connecting heaven and earth.
In Vedic hymns, Rudra (an epithet for Shiva) is identified with Agni, who in these sacred texts is deified as the carrier of the sacrificial offerings to the gods for whom they are intended. Hence, Agni is the mediator between men and gods, and acts as a metaphysical bridge between the two, just like the cosmic linga. A pertinent observation here is that every creative process is accompanied by the generation of heat. Indeed the sexual act is nothing but the offering of the seed of life into the sacred fire of love. Hence, Agni, the God of Fire, is eminently suited as a metaphoric emblem of the tejas (creative heat) of Shiva, or speaking mathematically E=mc². That explains why Einstein so eagerly embraced father Lamaitre's imaginations (see below)
In his aniconic form Shiva is visualized as the cosmic pillar. Yet this pillar also evokes his phallus. As an abstract shape, the pillar symbolizes a purely conceptual reality that cannot be sensed in material terms. Visually however, the shape of the cylindrical pillar with a rounded top resembles that of the phallus. Also when the time came for Shiva to reveal himself to both Brahma and Vishnu, he did so in the form of a linga. Hence the linga is an object of the greatest sanctity, more sacred than any anthropomorphic image of Shiva. Not surprisingly thus, the innermost sanctuary of all Shiva temples is reserved for the linga, while the outer precincts of the sacred architecture may show him in his human form. Indeed, though his iconic images abound, no such image ever occupies the center of attention in a Shiva temple, this honor being reserved exclusivly for his linga.Hammurabi received his (Aryan) laws on top of a linga.
Most commonly, in the sanctuaries where it is worshiped, the lingam is represented surrounded by the female organ of generation, the yoni. The yoni grasps the lingam, and indeed it is only when the phallus, the giver of semen, is surrounded by the yoni that procreation can take place. From the relation of linga and yoni, the whole world arises. Everything therefore bears the signature of the linga and the yoni. Each individual linga that enters a womb and procreates is a harbinger of divinity, and engaging in a sacred act. John Paul II Theology of the Body speaks about Holy Sex (Exactly like in the sacred prostitution with its qdeshot)
For a long time, the pundits have wondered why it was necessary to decorate a place of worship with sexual material, but if one observes the materialistic (Loukika) thoughts of Hinduism, there is nothing unnatural about them The Indian scriptures argue that to attain moksha, and to dedicate oneself to dharma and adhyatma, one should first experience sexual fulfillment. This was also the mantra of Dr. Kinsey. Let me remind here that J.G.R Furlong in his book Rivers of Life (London 1883) coined the term “phalo-solar worshippers” denoting the inhabitants of the Anglo-Indian areas.
J.J. O’Connor and E.F. Robertson in their article Nicolaus Copernicus on website translated the above passage from Copernicus's book as follows: “At the middle of all things lies the sun. As the location of this luminary in the cosmos, that most beautiful temple, would there be any other place or any better place than the centre, from which it can light up everything at the same time? Hence the sun is not inappropriately called by some the lamp of the universe, by others its mind, and by others its ruler.”
Copernicus’s reference to Trismegistus’ calling the sun ‘Visible God’ and Electra’s title of the sun ‘All Seeing Being’ are lost in this translation. They also censored Copernicus’s belief in ancient cosmogony according to which sun god fathered the stars which he expressed mentioning “the family of stars.” It was Sophocles, mentioned by Copernicus, who called the sun “He who engenders the gods” and “Father of All Things.”
And here is the true German translation of this passage:
“In der Mitte aller (Planeten) aber hat die Sonne ihren Platz. Wer möchte wohl in diesem schönsten Tempel diese Leuchte an einem andern oder bessern Orte aufstellen als an dem, woher sie alles zugleich beleuchten kann! Ist es doch nicht unklug, dass einige sie die Leuchte der Welt, andere ihre Vernunft, andere ihren Lenker nennen. Trismegistus nennt sie den sichtbaren Gott, des Sophokles Elektra die alles Schauende. So herrscht fürwahr die Sonne, gleichsam auf königlichem Throne sitzend, über die sie umkreisende Familie der Sterne.” (De revolutionibus I, 10.)
And here is the best American translation of this verse:
“In the center of all rests the Sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place than this from which it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern, others, the mind, and still others, the Leader of the World. Trismegistus calls it ‘visible God’; Sophocles’ Electra, ‘that which gazes upon all things.’ And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around.”
In response of Nov. 22, 1989 to a letter by Marshall Hall, Lee Ranne of United States Department of Commerce, writing on behalf of Charles E. Liddick, Chief, Scheduling Branch Office of Scientific Operations stated that the “present movement of Geosynchronous Satellites #5 are planned and executed on the basis of fixed earth.”
Two years later Marshall Hall published book The Earth Is Not Moving. over 400 years of deception exposed. the bible told the truth all along. In June, 1994 Second Edition of the book had been printed. You will find facsimiles of both letters on p. 261 of the book.
Phallic Architecture of Al-Aqsa Mosque
Foreshadowed the Rise of Western Heliocentrism
The Muslims embraced three important components of Hindu religion: its mathematics, phallic architecture, and polygyny. The Moslem religion allows a man to have as many as four wives, and the Hindu religions sets no limit on the number of wives a man may have.
“When the ancient Hellenic culture was in decline, it found support in the Roman government. Rome defended the upper class against proletarian outbursts, and in defense of the Hellenes, Rome crushed the Jews and other Easterners, who challenged Hellenism in Cyprus, Egypt, Syria, and Cyrenaica. Likewise Rome occasionally persecuted the Christians. (Enc. Americana, entry Hellenism)
In the Moslem Empire, there was an unusual tolerance for strange Gnostic sects. Why? Because they rejected the Hebrew Bible, viewing it as a work of deception. They stated that it had been written by a race of thieves and deceivers, and was inspired by the worship of the false god, a demiurge, Jehovah (Cp. John 8:44). It was ecumenism in hatred. Unfortunately, this hatred endures.
The Above mentioned T. Campanella stressed: “If the Fathers are correct when they say the firmament stand unmoved, the stars stand with it. When the Master of the “Sentences,” St. Chrysostom, and other fathers declare, in harmony with Catholic faith that the firmament is unmoved, it is necessary that they state the same of the stars much more vigorously. Since the stars are immobile it follows that the earth is carried about as a ship, and that stars appear to be moved just as from a ship an island or a tower on the shore seems in motion.”
These early Church Fathers found their best allies in Arabs philosophers who hated the Hebrew religion with the same intensity as the imperial Romans.
Heliocentric astronomy of Copernicus did not succeed the geocentered astronomy of Ptolemy because Copernicus’s system corresponded to experience and Ptolemy’s didn’t. With sufficient epicycles Ptolemy’s system could be made to correspond to our observations. The Copernican heliocentrism had won for political reasons. The fight against the religious heritage of the Hebrew Bible was what united the Roman Catholics and the Muslims. Very early we observe the growing alienation of the Roman Church from the Old Testament and Hebrew roots because of the Hellenization and universalization of the Christian message. On the other side, for the millions of Muslims Abraham was neither Jew nor Christian, but the first Muslim. He was believed to have founded the Kaaba in Mecca as the central sanctuary of the one God, and in this way he became the ancestor of the Arabs. On this political premise, the 12th-century Arab philosopher Averroës based his criticism of the Ptolemaic system and of the Biblical geocentrism for that matter: “Therefore new research work is necessary in order to find the “true” astronomy, which can be derived from the true principles of physics. As a matter of fact, today there is no astronomy at all, and what we call astronomy is in agreement with our computations but not with the physical reality.” Popular myth saw Averroës as a vile atheist (like Al-Shariati).
Thomas Aquinas’s judgment of the Ptolemaic system sounds as a paraphrase of Averroës’s criticism: “The assumptions made by the astronomers are not necessarily true. Although these hypotheses seem to be in agreement with the observed phenomena we must not claim that they are true. Perhaps one could explain the observed motion of the celestial bodies in a different way which has not been discovered up to this time.” Copernicus’s only motive in his research was his conviction that there was no established doctrine and, not a spirit of opposition against the established doctrine. That explains the fact that he joined to his book the letter he had received from Cardinal Schőnberg some years before and that he dedicated his work to Pope Paul III. Card. Schőnberg urged him to publish his book: “Thus, learned Sir, I hope that I will not be deemed a nuisance when I urgently request you to communicate your discovery to the learned world.” Tiedman Giese, Bishop of Kulm also insisted for a long time on publication. Copernicus’s brother Andreas was a high-ranking curialist… John Paul II knew what he was doing when he “rehabilitated” Galileo who, like Muhammad, believed in “7 hanging paradises” and 72 virgins awaiting him…His Theology of the Body epitomizes this process is is called appropriately Neo-Catholicism i.e. a version of the New Age pseudo-religion.
It is not without interest to remark that the Arab physicians, who enjoyed a merited celebrity in the middle ages -- Averroes among others -- constantly spoke of the Hindu physicians, and regarded them as the initiators of the Greeks and themselves. One of them the Hindu Bramaheupto affirmed that the starry sphere was immovable, and that the daily rising and setting of stars confirms the motion of the earth upon its axis. His heliocentrism was embraced by the Greek philosopher Aristarch of Samos, born 267 B.C. Together with heliocentric mathematics the Hindu astronomers developed zero and the decimal number system, the differential, integral, and infinitesimal calculi. The Arabs adopted these inventions and used them in their architecture, as exemplified by the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, which was supposed to exterminate from human memory the mathematics used by the Biblical architects of the Solomon Temple together with this teaching of the Koran. Averroes's view both of the eternity of the world and of the unity of intellect or soul fitted well with Bruno's cosmological thought. In other words Averroes was an evolutionist, not a creationist.
Disappointed when the Jews did not acknowledge his leadership, Mohammed turned against them and invoked Hanifism, the supposedly uncorrupted religion of Abraham, against them (According to one tradition, in this “uncorrupted religion” Abraham went through with the sacrifice of his son). He also ascribed to Abraham many of the elements of Arab paganism that he took over into Islam. From this time on, Mohammed no longer regarded Islam as a form of revelation ranking with Judaism and Christianity; he proclaimed it to be the one and only true religion.
The early apologist of Galileo, the Dominican friar Campanella in his book Apologia pro Galileo (Frankfurt 1623) pointed out that Galileo shared Muhammad’s belief in “many worlds with lands and seas, and with human inhabitants (like huris).” Muhammad, for political reasons, rejected the idea of the Biblical Eden planted by God on earth and embraced instead the idea of the Garden of Immortality that the Babylonian myth placed in Heaven. Unlike the Biblical Adam who was simply “sent forth from the Garden of Eden” (Gen. 3:23), the Koran’s Adam was “sent down from the garden” (Sura Ta-Ha 20:123). In the Gospel of John (3:13) Jesus says of himself: “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” An d this explain the American popular religion of ET's with its “prophet” Spielberg, the director of the ill-famous and repugnant Munich.
We have to consider the dialogue between God and Abraham within the context of the ancient Near East. Abraham lived in a world of idolatrous child offerings, where fathers demonstrated fealty to Molech by placing their children on the blood-thirsty sun god Molech’s fiery altar (Tragically, this cruel form of idolatry has returned with a vengeance to the present-day Middle East, with Palestinian parents, teachers and preachers encouraging children to blow themselves up, along with innocent Israeli mothers and babies)
Dr. Rantisi, Hamas's dead leader used to argue that Allah - many times wrongly translated as 'God' - is not the God of the Bible, nor the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Allah is another deity, one who drinks blood as water, who loves jihad and terror, and promises virgins in his so-called paradise to those who kill Jews - the more the better. Accordingly, we learn from a Palestinian poststamp that the true god of Palestine is Baal-Zephon who was a principal mighty one of Ugait or Ras Shamra, and of the Canaanite people who lived in that area of Syria. Israel was given a choice; they could follow Yahweh to their permanent freedom in the Promised land or they could return to enslavement in Egypt with its idol worship, wherein the idolatry of Baal-Zephon was popular.
(A. Hislop in his Two babylons wrote: “From the historian Castor (in Armenian translation of Eusebius, pars. I, p. 81) we learn that it was under Bel, or Belus, that is Baal, that the Cyclops lived; and the Scholiast on Æschylus [chapter II, section II, sub-section I, note 22] states that these Cyclops were the brethren of Kronos, who was also Bel or Bal, as we have elsewhere seen [chapter II, section II, sub-section I]. The eye in their forehead shows that originally this name was a name of the great god, for that eye in India and Greece is found the characteristic of the supreme divinity. The Cyclops, then, had been representatives of that God—in other words, priests, and priests of Bel or Bal. Now, we find that the Cyclops were well-known as cannibals, Referre ritus Cyclopum, "to bring back the rites of the Cyclops," meaning to revive the practice of eating human flesh. (Ovid, Metam., XV, 93, Vol. II, p. 132. The term cannibal is derived from Cahna-Baal, priest of Baal. Pagan Rome of old offered human sacrifices to Baal on these crosses”)
Excavations in Ashkelon, Ekron, and Gath reveal dog and pig bones which show signs of having been butchered, implying that these animals were part of Philistines' diet.
There is no doubt about it that it was A. Hitler himself who inspired Dr. Rantisi to identify the god of Palestinians with the pagan Canaaneite sun god Baal (Bull). The Nazi leader said once about his Palestinian ally Mufti Haj Amin al Hussein: “ He looks like a peaceful angel, but under his robe hides a real bull!”
Baal was originally, it appears, associated with specific places and sanctuaries; in Ugarit temple he is equated with Dagon. Ball was also known as the sun idol, Baal-Hannan. He had received the name Hannan, or the “grace”. That is exactly what the Pauline Christians teach, that the manner of spiritual life is all grace. “The law has been done away with the Christ’s death; now, do anything you please” is the teaching of Pauline churchianity.
In other words Palestinian God is not the God of the Holy Qur'an who is the same as the God of the Bible and creates the world exactly, like YHWH does:
Your Guardian – Lord
Is Allah, Who created
The Heavens and the earth
In six days (7:54)
So in the eyes of the believing Muslims, the Palestinian are:
Pagans: Companions of Fire
It is not fitting,
For the Prophet and those
Who believe, that they should
Pray for forgiveness
For Pagans, even though
They be of kin, after it is
Clear to them that they
Are companions of Fire,( aka Baal, who was the god of fire)
You will better understand the political meaning of John Paul II's rehabilitation of Galileo in the context of the following quote from A. Koestler's The Sleepwalkers: The dials on the laboratory panels are turning into another version of the shadows in the cave. Our hypnotic enslavement to the numerical aspects of reality has dulled our perception of non-quantitative moral values ... Kepler's sun-spokes, Galileo's confidence tricks, and Descartes' pituitary soul, may have some sobering effect on the worshipers of the new Baal, lording it over the moral vacuum with his electronic brain.
"The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvement's and amplifications of this simple ... belief. The primitive mind, recognizing the beneficent power of the solar orb, adored it as the proxy of the Supreme Deity ... Among all the nations of antiquity, altars, mounds, and temples were dedicated to the worship of the orb of day ... The Tower of Babel ... was probably an astronomical observatory ... The sun, as supreme among the celestial bodies to the astronomers of antiquity, was assigned to the highest of the gods and became symbolic of the supreme authority of the Creator Himself ... Yellow is his color and his power is without end ... The sun thus became a Bull in Taurus and was worshipped as such by the Egyptians under the name of Apis, and by the Assyrians as Bel, Baal, or Bul (John Bull! –rp). In Leo, the sun became a Lion-slayer, Hercules, and an Archer in Sagittarius. In Pices the Fishes, he was a fish -- Dagon, or Vishnu, the fish-god of the Philistines and Hindoos." ["The Secret Teachings of All Ages", by Manly P. Hall, 33° Freemason, p. XLIX]The Dome of the Rock is his temple.
The bull Nandi is Shiva in his animal form as well as the mount upon which the Great God rides. The sexually potent bull is an expression of Shiva's cosmic creative energy. This image evolved from a prehistoric representation (Shiva Pasupati) in which the god was a horned fertility deity; his worship was central in the ancient Mohenjo Daro civilization of the Indus valley. And this ancient, primitive religion is expressed in the phallic architecture of the Dome of the Rock which is modeled on the architecture of the innumerable Indian shrines of linga and yoni.
Originally, the obelisk was associated with sun-worship, a symbol of "Baal," (which was a title of Nimrod), because it pointed toward heaven. It, also, had a sexual significance - the phallus, as with the sun, is a symbol of life. The same obelisk (the ancient symbol of Osiris, the solar phallic god) that stood in Egypt is, now, in the entrance to St. Peter's. The largest solar wheel on earth is the court of St. Peter at the Vatican in Rome - a wheel within a wheel, with eight spokes, a common symbol in paganism.
Did you ever wonder about the text in Exodus 32:1-4 concerning the golden calf that the Israelites made while Moses was up in the mountain with God? Verse 5 says, "they rose up early on the morrow." That calf was called "apis" by the Egyptians and was tied in with their pagan sun worship. That is why they rose up early, to worship the sun. Now lets see if they were warned about this pagan worship. Deut 4:12-20. says "Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similtude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them and serve them..."
The Bible calls Baal worship (sun worship) devil worship. Did you know that? Here it is in Leviticus 17:7, "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils after whom they have gone whoring." In Numbers 25:2-4 it says, "And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods, and Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor; and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel." Down through the centuries the distinguishing mark that separated the pagans from God's people was their day of worship, which was Sunday, or Sun's day. The pagans worshiped the sun on Sunday. They took the first day of the week and gave it the highest honor by naming it in honor of the sun god and worshiping the sun on that day.
According to Carl Matrisciana's Gods of the New Age (1985), the Shivites are “recognizable by the three horizontal lines painted on their forehead. These disciples of the god Shiva consider madness – one of Shiva's attributes (cp. the so-called Nordic berserkergang) – to be one of the highest levels of spirituality! Many Hindus believe insanity to be a form of god-consciousness.
Aryan Savior for Palestine
Peter Lefhebber in his website article Jesus of Nazareth and Maitreya the Christ wrote:
“Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ are not one and the same person...In fact the title Christ does not refer to an individual at all. Its the name of a function in the Hierarchy of Masters of Wisdom, that group of advanced beings who guide the evolution of humanity from behind the scenes. Whoever stands at the head of this Hierarchy automatically becomes the World Teacher, known in the East as the Bodhisattva, during the term of his office.
The Master Jesus has been incarnated in a Syrian body for about 640 years. He is described in Initiation, Human and Solar by Alice A. Bailey (published by Lucis Publishing Co.) as follows: He is rather a martial figure, a disciplinarian and a man of iron rule and will. He is tall and spare with rather a long thin face, black hair, pale complexion, and piercing blue eyes. In the Hierarchy he is described as the Great Leader, the General and the Wise Executive. No one is so closely in touch with the people who stand for all that is best in the Christian teachings and no-one is so well aware of the needs of the present moment. A A. Bailey, infected the United nations with her rabid Aryan Anti-Semitism.
During most of this time he has lived mainly in Palestine. Since 1984 however, he has lived in Rom. The intention is that he will try to raise the Christian churches out of their state of crystallization and rivalry and if invited to do so, to lead a newly united church. By doing so he hopes to resolve the many contradictions and misunderstandings which have arisen during the course of the centuries about this historic role and the teachings which he then disseminated as a vehicle for Maitreya.We observe the same politics behind the attemt at replacing the Jewish Queen of Poland, Mother of Jesus by singing Madonna (www.share-international.org/archives/AgelessWisdom/aw_pl-JnM.htm)
Towards One Nation Under Baal?
Please, note the coincidence, in 1984 in his address to the diplomats accredited at the Vatican pope John Paul II postulated creation of an independent Palestinian state. Does an “independent” Palestine foreshadow a Shivaite Christianity? And a Shivaite Islam centered on the Al Aqsa Mosque? During his visit to India pope John Paul II received Siva's mark on his forehead. He earned this sign by his sermons on the Theology of the Body proclaimed during his Wednesday audiences in 1980/81. This theology makes the ecumenical meting in the Shiva Temple on the Temple Mount possible.
Behind the Ritual of gay Pride Parades
The New Agers claim Jerusalem as one of their “holy sites” where “masters” can be found , which helps explain world pressure to delegitimize this city as Israel's capital and the seat of Judaism. I guess, the world dreams about a new utopia when all sanctuaries will turn into sexuaries. The world needs this potent sexual symbol (Al Aqsa) to logjam the teaching of the Torah with the visions of Ginsberg's “ultimate vaginas” and infinite orgasms. That explains their clamoring for the division of Jerusalem.
Well, The third edition of the Bishops’ Bible published in 1572 was called the Leda Bible from the decoration in the initial at the Epistle to the Hebrews which is a startling and incongruous woodcut of Jupiter visiting Leda in the guise of a swan. This and other decorations in the New Testament were taken from an edition of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses!” The Bishops’ Bible became the backbone of the Authorized King James Version.
Pansexuality under the god Shiva and Al Aqsa
A gay activist observed: “Queer Christians must also re-envision themselves as God’s lovers and discover a love relation with other species and with the universe itself. They need to become partners in their world with other species and learn to relate to them as friends and lovers. Because, as Pytagoras proclaimed, “Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul “(Cp. The myth of Zeus-swan and Leda).
The ideology behind the Gays' Pride Parades goes like that: Human beings, by nature must be, "pansexual" (from the Greek, Pan = all) a complete sexual person. We all possess various sexual possibilities generally classified as heterosexual, homosexual, bi-sexual, autoerotic, fetishist, sado-masochistic, etc. These tendencies in our nature can come out at any time, according to the development of each individual.
Children are born polimorphoperverse; the curiosity of discovery leads them to play with their mothers, touch their genitals, masturbate and investigate their excreta. Later, as they develop, they play games of "doctor" as they explore the bodies and functions of their friends. All this is perfectly natural. During puberty their ambivalence is natural and undeniable as they adapt to life as an adult. Only later does their sexual proclivity become more crystallized and definite, although the range of options remain open. These options are partially repressed or are made taboo, according to the society in which they live. (Peter Boom, The Theory of Pansexuality). The societies would have perished long time ago if the sexuality of their members were shaped by such views.
Turning Israel into a Part of a Greater Syria
In 1981 I found at the Yale University Library an abstract of a 1975 lecture by Prof. S. Sambursky, a friend of Einstein’s who introduced Copernicus to the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities as “the man who initiated this era of modern science…as the man who by the sheer force of imagination broke the chains of sense perception, the ingenious discoverer of a scientific truth involving one of the greatest revolutions in man’s view of the world.” (See, Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, vol. V, No. 11).
Science as a Fruit of Imagination Means Science Fiction
Truth is that "astronomers can see nothing" beyond the "shell of radiation". What they claim to see is fabricated and computer programmed, as this scientist who is beginning to smell a very big rat notes: "It is well to remember that a great deal of modern cosmology, especially when its practitioners are trying to predict its destiny and retrodict its origin, is sheer mathematical manipulation and evolutionary philosophical imagination. ‘It ain’t necessarily so!"
Einstein himself admitted, "When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” The word "fantasy" equates, of course, with such things as: "delusion, illusion, misconception, trick, fool’s paradise, self-deception, hallucination, false light, figment of the imagination, something unsubstantial, thin air, mockery", etc.
The youthful apostle of a one-world government, John Lenon’s song Imagine attacked religion (“Imagine there is no heaven. It’s easy, if you try, No hell below us. Above us only sky”), espoused a do you own thing philosophy (“Imagine all the people, Living for today”), attacked nationalism (“Imagine there’s no countries”), attacked religion (It is isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too”), called for the abolition of private property (“Imagine no possessions”), supported a new international order (“I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world”). Lenon called for abolition of private property but he did not believe his own imagination b ecause he left his Japanese-born widow a $250 million estate. Former President B. Clinton had chosen to play this tune on saxophone during his visit to Israel.
Politics and Science
The alleged proof of heliocentrism or, the Foucault's Pendulum(I call it merry-go-round) and the so-called moon walk (a trade mark of M. Jackson's musical performances) giving the false impression of the moving earth belong to the same magic repertoire. Indeed, in the heliocentric hoax, since emperor Julian the Apostate's dogma in his respect) the moon has to go on its trajectory around the sun in the opposite direction than the earth, but this dogma itself belies the heliohoax, because it suggests that the moon is moving back and forth at the same time, which inspired Lenin's dialectical derogatory dogma of 1904 about the party of Mensheviks going one step forward and two steps back. Well, I will never forget that M. Jackson passed away shortly before the 22nd July 2009 longest eclipse of the sun, which, ultimately, unmasked the heliohoax and became the best illustration to the Blog4Brownback which published tons of my comments.
U.S. pop star Madonna performed on Sunday in St. Petersburg at the only Russian concert of her Sticky & Sweet world tour. She was on the Palace Square stage for two hours and attempted to imitate Michael Jackson’s moonwalk. However, she ignored a request from local Communists to sing the Internationale. (RIA Novosti, Aug 15, 2009)
The political significance of the attached pictures will be better grasped when compared with the following videos of other eclipses (Google: Videos of the 22, July 2009 Eclipse):
The Video of the 29 March Total Solar Eclipse over Libya shows the moon moving in agreement with the heliocentric dogma established by Julian the Apostate.
The Israeli Video of the 22 July 2009 Eclipse Likuy Hamma Male' agrees with the Chines videos of the same eclipse.
The Greek video of the same eclipse shows moon moving backward like in the Libyan Video.
The NASA and Indian videos of the 22nd July, 2009 eclipse are not worth watching.
In 1980 I was rejected by the Consul of Israel in Vienna as as an “'ole” when I summarized to him the results of my scientific researches. I was told that Israel doesn't need people like me.
Well, Fr. Gregory Mustaciuolo, Secretary to the Cardinal John O'Connor, archbishop of New York wrote to me on April 29, 1993:” His Eminence is always grateful to those who are willing to share with him their thoughts and concerns. Know that His Eminence will remember you in his prayers as he offers the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Please pray for him...”
And Pavel Seifter, Director of Foreign Policy Department wrote to me on August 22, 1994 on behalf of Vaclav Havel, President of Czech Republic:
“President Havel would agree with you that, in this rapidly changing and transforming era, it is necessary to find some basic values which can bring greater security and meaning to life. He has often warned of the danger of those who think of man as the center of the universe, thus separating humans from the world around us and making it appear that we have no one to whom we answer. Because of such philosophies, the former regimes throughout the region left behind environments that were deeply damaged and societies that were badly shaken. The search for a new set of values which can form the basis of strong and healthy democracies here and around the world is one of the great challenges of the modern era. The President supports those, like you, who are engaged in this important task. He joins me in wishing you all the best. Please accept also the assurances of my highest regards.”
Prague - Former Czech president Vaclav Havel is among the personalities invited to a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI during his forthcoming visit to Prague, and he plans to attend the event hosted by the Presidential Office, Havel's secretary Sabina Tancevova told CTK today. (Aug. 19, 2009) Let me remind here that in 1995 in an interview for the Inside the Vatican Card. Ratzinger attacked the Galileo physics for “obscuring the truth.” On Jan 10, 2008 in an interview entitled The Bible calls it a Sin for Spiegel Online the present Patriarch of Russia Kyrill joined Benedict XVI by rejecting Darwinism.(“It would be wrong to treat Darwin's theory as the only correct one. It is the leading theory today, but it could be replaced by another theory tomorrow. There was also a time when Marxism considered itself the only correct and scientifically justified theory...”)Well, The Washington Post columnist R. Cohen called establishment of Israel “a mistake”.(Tuesday, July 18, 2006; A19). “ mistake” is a saecular counterpat of “a sin”. R. Cohen probably considers existence of Israel “a sin” against gods of New Age: Copernicus and Darwin. Well, during his recent visit to Israel Pope Benedict XVI spoke about a homeland (not a state) for Palestinians. Obviously, for him establishment of Israel was no “mistake.”
On July 25, 1993 Mr. Eitan Haber answered my letter to PM Itzhak Rabin: “Thank you for your letter dated July 6 and the enclosure, the contents of which have been noted.” PM Itzhak Rabin opposed the creation of a Palestinian state all his life. Most of my e-mails to Israeli scientists are blocked by spam filters.
There are lots of separation
Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Tue, 27/10/2009 - 01:00.
There are lots of separation walls in the world. I can give a few examples: the wall at the US-Mexico border, the wall in Western Sahara (with the Moroccan border), a wall between north and south korean, a wall between botswana and zimbabwe, a wall between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, between Koweit and Iraq, a wal in Belfast and others.
But the only wall people call "wall of shame" is the wall in Israel...
Thanks to the wall terrorists attacks (blow ups etc.) have dropped by 96(!)% in Israel...
Is a defensive wall built to prevent terrorists attacks "wall of shame"?
Think about it, and stop always criticizing THIS wall please...
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i saw the following surahs in quran. does it mean we should give
israel to the yahuds?
5:21
5:44
7:137
10:84
7:159
17:104
17:76
17:2
Friday, August 13, 2010
Response to A‘jad’s Holocaust Denial: Imams’ Tears at Auschwitz
Elul 2, 5770, 12 August 10 11:57, by Hillel Fendel
(Israelnationalnews.com) A group of American Muslim leaders made a first-of-its-kind visit to Nazi concentration camps this week, prompting tears from at least one of them.
Eight imams made a three-day trip Dachau and Auschwitz this week, co-sponsored by a German think tank and the New Jersey-based Center for Interreligious Understanding, and strongly supported by the United States government.
The trip, as reported in the Jewish Forward, was the brainchild of law professor Marshall Breger, an Orthodox Jew and former senior official in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Breger said, “There is a view that there is growing anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, reinforced by people like President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, that there is growing Holocaust denial in the Muslim world. In light of that, the idea was to offer education to those who might not have the kind of knowledge that we’ve had about World War II and the Jewish community, and to do this in a public way.”
The imams prayed at Dachau, with a concluding prayer by Muzammil Siddiqi, imam of the Islamic Society of Orange County, California: “We pray to G-d that this will not happen to the Jewish people or to any people anymore.”
Suhaib Webb, an imam from Santa Clara in the Bay Area, grew up in a white Christian household in Oklahoma and later converted to Islam. Walking around Auschwitz with tears in his eyes, he said, “It was far worse than I imagined.”
“No Muslim in his right mind, female or male, should deny the Holocaust,” said Mohamed Magid, imam and executive director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society. “When you walk the walk of the people who have been taken to be gassed, to be killed, how can a person deny physical evidence, something that’s beyond doubt?”
Just a few days earlier, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinajad reiterated his claim that the Jews "made up" the "so-called Holocaust."
The delegates’ level of knowledge about the Holocaust prior to the trip seemed to be fairly low, the Forward reported. When they met with Max Mannheimer, a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau, they appeared to particularly affected by seeing the number the Nazis had tattooed on his arm, and asked many questions.
The delegation’s youngest member was Yasir Qadhi, 35, dean of academics at Al Maghrib Institute, in New Haven, Conn. Qadhi has since recanted, both vocally and in print, his Holocaust-denial claims, explaining that he had been ignorant and exposed to materials such as the anti-Semitic “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” “That’s why I was very happy to come on this trip,” he said, “because I wanted to see for myself how wrong I was.”
Breger told the Forward, “These imams all have significant constituents in American Muslim communities as recognized legal scholars, people with mega-mosques, people with radio shows, people on the web, people who reach out to youth.” He said that the Jewish community, in contrast, often looks to engage with Muslims who meet specified criteria but do not have large constituencies.
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(Israelnationalnews.com) A group of American Muslim leaders made a first-of-its-kind visit to Nazi concentration camps this week, prompting tears from at least one of them.
Eight imams made a three-day trip Dachau and Auschwitz this week, co-sponsored by a German think tank and the New Jersey-based Center for Interreligious Understanding, and strongly supported by the United States government.
The trip, as reported in the Jewish Forward, was the brainchild of law professor Marshall Breger, an Orthodox Jew and former senior official in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Breger said, “There is a view that there is growing anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, reinforced by people like President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, that there is growing Holocaust denial in the Muslim world. In light of that, the idea was to offer education to those who might not have the kind of knowledge that we’ve had about World War II and the Jewish community, and to do this in a public way.”
The imams prayed at Dachau, with a concluding prayer by Muzammil Siddiqi, imam of the Islamic Society of Orange County, California: “We pray to G-d that this will not happen to the Jewish people or to any people anymore.”
Suhaib Webb, an imam from Santa Clara in the Bay Area, grew up in a white Christian household in Oklahoma and later converted to Islam. Walking around Auschwitz with tears in his eyes, he said, “It was far worse than I imagined.”
“No Muslim in his right mind, female or male, should deny the Holocaust,” said Mohamed Magid, imam and executive director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society. “When you walk the walk of the people who have been taken to be gassed, to be killed, how can a person deny physical evidence, something that’s beyond doubt?”
Just a few days earlier, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinajad reiterated his claim that the Jews "made up" the "so-called Holocaust."
The delegates’ level of knowledge about the Holocaust prior to the trip seemed to be fairly low, the Forward reported. When they met with Max Mannheimer, a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau, they appeared to particularly affected by seeing the number the Nazis had tattooed on his arm, and asked many questions.
The delegation’s youngest member was Yasir Qadhi, 35, dean of academics at Al Maghrib Institute, in New Haven, Conn. Qadhi has since recanted, both vocally and in print, his Holocaust-denial claims, explaining that he had been ignorant and exposed to materials such as the anti-Semitic “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” “That’s why I was very happy to come on this trip,” he said, “because I wanted to see for myself how wrong I was.”
Breger told the Forward, “These imams all have significant constituents in American Muslim communities as recognized legal scholars, people with mega-mosques, people with radio shows, people on the web, people who reach out to youth.” He said that the Jewish community, in contrast, often looks to engage with Muslims who meet specified criteria but do not have large constituencies.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Al-Azhar Clerics Oppose Ground Zero Mosque
Special Dispatch|3158| August 11. 2010
Al-Azhar Sheikh: The West Isn't Really Working For Peace in the Middle East, Interfaith Dialogue Is Futile; Al-Azhar Clerics Oppose Ground Zero Mosque; Al-Aqsa Research Academy Member Dr. Abd Al-Mu'ti Bayumi: Mosque Is a 'Zionist Plot' That Could Link Islam to 9/11
In an extensive interview with Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate chairman Makram Muhammad Ahmad, Al-Azhar Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, who has been in office since March 2010, gave his views on an array of important topics, including the role of Al-Azhar as an institution and the extent of its dependence on the Egyptian regime, Islam's relations with Judaism and Christianity, and the Palestinian issue.
Al-Tayyeb acknowledged in the interview that Al-Azhar's status had declined with the rise of extremist factions, and explained that the decline had begun during the socialist era when the Egyptian regime had repressed religion, allowing Wahhabism to fill the resulting void. He added that Al-Azhar intended to produce television programs aimed at young people in which its clerics would respond to various common extremist ideas.
He noted that although the operation of every country's religious establishment was subject to regime policy, Al-Azhar enjoyed relative freedom and was not obligated to condone everything the government did. He also said he would not be opposed to choosing Al-Azhar sheikhs via internal elections instead of by the current method of presidential appointment.
Al-Tayyeb said that he rejected depictions of Islam as a religion of the sword, pointing out that Muslims were only allowed to take up the sword in self defense. He criticized the interfaith dialogue talks, claiming that they could not change how a person viewed another's religion, or how decision-makers approached the Palestinian issue, or the West's support of Israel. Accusing the West of insincerity in its efforts to resolve the Palestinian issue, he said that it persistently created centers of tension in order to increase demand for the weapons it manufactures.
Also in the interview, the sheikh emphasized the importance of a unified Arab stance in resolving the Palestinian issue, saying that expecting the Jews to give the Palestinians and Arabs their rights on a silver platter was a dream and that the Palestinians must actualize their legitimate right to resist occupation. In contrast to his predecessor Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, Al-Tayyeb said that he would not meet with rabbis or shake the hand of the Israeli president, because he opposed normalization with Israel until it gave the Palestinians their rights.
Al-Tayyeb also said that Al-Azhar had a religious duty to maintain national unity with the Coptic community, noting that he did not object to music in their churches and that the Copts were entitled to handle their own marriage and family matters and to build their own houses of worship. However, he maintained that only Muslims should be eligible to be president, since the country has a Muslim majority. Al-Tayyeb also stated that the difference between Sunnis and Shi'ites came down to the importance each attributed to the various caliphs, but that this was not an essential difference.
In an interesting sidebar, some clerics from Al-Azhar recently spoke out in opposition to the construction of the Cordoba House mosque near New York's Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center once stood. Dr. Abd Al-Mu'ti Bayumi, a member of Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Academy, said that the mosque's construction could link Islam to 9/11, even though Islam is innocent of the deed. He also called the plan a "Zionist plot."[1]
Abd Al-Mu'ti Bayumi gave an interview to Abu Dhabi TV in April 2005, in which he discussed jihad; to view the full clip of the interview on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/652.htm.
Following are excerpts from the interview with Al-Azhar Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyeb:[2]
The Sword Does Not Represent Islam
Q: "There are those in the West who claim that Islam was spread by the sword, and there are Muslims who believe that the sword is the proper symbol of Islam."[3]
A: "It is not true that Islamic civilization imposed itself upon the world by the force of the sword. Islam spread throughout the world because it is the religion of natural faith and the religion of wisdom, which spoke to the minds of the people and to their hearts, cultivating equality among humans and promoting justice. The sword is not fitting as a symbol of Islam because Islam [represents] mercy and justice, and because a Muslim does not bear his sword in order to attack others, but in order to protect the land, the homeland, and the faith. Islam encourages a Muslim to be strong and capable of defending his homeland, his religion, and himself, but does not encourage him to act aggressively toward others."
The Void Left By Al-Azhar's Decline Has Been Filled By Extremism
Q: "Why has there been a decline in Al-Azhar's status as a moderate source of authority in the Islamic world, to the benefit of extremist schools and ideologies? It is because Al-Azhar has become subordinate to the ruler? Because it has lost the ability to innovate? Or because the Al-Azhar's sheikh [is appointed by the president] rather than elected?"
A: "We must look for the true reasons, [and understand] why, 50 years ago, Al-Azhar was pushed into a solitary corner, while the extremist schools and streams and took over the scene. I am entirely convinced – and this is confirmed by documents – that the Egyptian regime [of President Gamal 'Abd Al-Nasser], which chose socialism as its doctrine, wanted to weaken Al-Azhar, so that it would become nothing more than [just another] mosque, whose only role is to teach religion. The socialist camp had a clear position: it opposed religion as 'opiate of the masses' whose role must be limited. Religion is at odds with socialist thinking, which adopted atheism."
Q: "But Egypt did not adopt socialism to the extent of opposing religion and calling for atheism."
A: "True, but the takeover of culture in Egypt by various Marxist and socialist elements during this period contributed to limiting Al-Azhar's role and status, and [also] caused a decline of its role outside of Egypt. Others increased their efforts to fill the [resulting] void: the Western church increased its missionary [activity] in Africa; Marxism increased its efforts to diminish the importance of religion; the law of the desert ruled [in certain areas]. Wahhabism also strove to fill a part of this void. There is an important document that was written by [former Al-Azhar] sheikh [Mahmoud] Shaltut explaining all of these factors. In a letter to Egyptian president 'Abd Al-Nasser, [Shaltut] complained about this void and about Al-Azhar's weakness, and signed off with an important message: If, in [this] delicate period, Egypt cannot annex new territory to Al-Azhar, it must at least defend the territory Al-Azhar has won outside of Egypt, especially in Africa..."
Al-Azhar Encourages Integration of Religious and Secular Studies
Q: "The Al-Azhar Development Law, passed in 1961, is a matter of controversy among Al-Azhar [scholars] to this very day. Some think that [the law – which led] Al-Azhar to combine modern civilian education with religious education, in order to produce graduates who are doctors and engineers, and who combine [their] profession with religious da'wa – constitutes a step forward, as there are [now] contemporary preachers who can contribute to progress in the [daily] lives of peoples in Africa and other places. Others, [however], think that [the law] was meant to weaken Al-Azhar's religious role."
A: "That is an excellent and important question, and the proper answer is a summary of the current situation. True, the principle behind this law is a good one, but unfortunately [the law] was not properly implemented, so that the principle was distorted and emptied of content. The law was drafted in haste – in fact, it was reportedly drawn up in a single night. I was among the first to experience the new system when the law was passed in 1961. I had to study both curricula in full – the Ministry of Education and Culture's curriculum and Al-Azhar's curriculum – for five years. Despite the difficulty of integrating the two curricula, we continued with [our] studies, since education was rigid [in those days, and students were tough]. Regrettably, [today] the situation has changed, and students are no longer able to absorb both curricula. [So now] students are weak in both [fields]. What made the situation worse is that anyone who succeeded in Al-Azhar's high school automatically entered [Al-Azhar] University, even if he [only earned a passing grade]. Now we are trying to rectify the situation by establishing a [religious] sciences department at Al-Azhar, alongside the literature department and the [secular] sciences department, for those who want to specialize in religious sciences..."
Q: "I fear that the majority may opt for a civil education."
A: "Al-Azhar will be the one to gain if in every district there is one class [modeled after] Al-Azhar's religious sciences department, whose graduates will be strong religious scholars. They will have a required amount of religious sciences that will round out their characters. According to the plan, there will be numerous incentives to encourage students to join this faculty, primarily that Al-Azhar will cover all tuition and living expenses..."
Al-Azhar Does Not Forbid Playing Music in Churches
Q: "Are you at Al-Azhar against music?"
A: "We do not forbid music, because it lifts the human spirit."
Q: "Did the Church add music to its religious ceremonies in order to attract young people?"
A: "Music entered the church because the Christian faith allows the physical representation of God, which constitutes an important part of [Christian] mysticism. Islam is based upon the abstract conception and the unity of Allah, who has no equal. Therefore, I do not need music or the representational arts in the mosque..."
No Religious Establishment Can Be Expected to Act Against the Regime in Its Country
Q: "Can your answers be taken to mean that the restoration of Al-Azhar's status and role depend [solely] on its graduates becoming exalted clerics and preachers, and that this has nothing to do with the subordination of Al-Azhar to [Egypt's] ruler, or with the appointment, rather than the election, of Al-Azhar's sheikh?"
A: "Let us be honest in answering this question. There is not a religious institution in the world that can exist outside the framework of its country, or can be expected to act against its country's regime. This is true [even] of the Vatican, which, despite being a state within a state, is part of the West and would not deviate from its supreme policy. When I was asked in Qatar about the extent of Al-Azhar's affiliation with the government, I preferred to give a short answer, and said: Can [Qatar resident and head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars] Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi say a word against the regime of the Qatari Emir?[4]
"What I can assure you, as the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, is that this institution does not bear the government's agenda on its shoulders, and is not obligated to bless everything [the government] does. However, it would not be fitting for Al-Azhar to oppose the government, since it is part of the state. When I assumed my role as Al-Azhar Sheikh, President Mubarak accepted my resignation from the National Democratic Party's Political Bureau in order to free Al-Azhar from any restrictions. I do not think that there is any [other] Islamic state in which the religious establishment enjoys the status, honor, and freedom that Al-Azhar enjoys.
"Let me take this opportunity to say that I am not opposed to electing the Al-Azhar sheikh from among the clerical staff, but that I fear the emergence of cliques and of the [kind of] sycophancy that corrupted the election of [our] faculty deans..."
Azhari TV Does Not Represent Al-Azhar
Q: "Does the [new satellite] channel Azhari [TV] represent Al-Azhar?"
A: "The channel adopted Al-Azhar's name without Al-Azhar's noticing it. We have already expressed our opposition to this, but former Al-Azhar Sheikh Dr. Sayyid Tantawi said: Let it [continue] using the name, but it does not represent Al-Azhar."
Q: "What is your criticism of Azhari [TV]?"
A: "The channel's director is not an Al-Azhar scholar. The channel is funded by non-Egyptian [sources] and there are claims regarding foreign interests, which are a cause for concern. That is why [Al-Azhar's] Academy for Islamic Research is against the channel representing Al-Azhar."
Al-Azhar to Produce Television Programs to Fight Extremism
Q: "The sheikhs who work at the station, notwithstanding their considerable extravagance of dress and their [efforts] to be fashionable, have succeeded in reaching a large percentage of the young men and women."
A: "That [only] proves that [the channel's programming] is not about science or religion, and is not for the sake of heaven – but is commercialism for its own sake. We are now getting ready to produce new programs for the public that will address young people and women, and will spread the proper Islam and call for the use of reason. We will start with a weekly program with several reliable preachers – ones known for their ability to relate the audience as well as for their erudition and instrumental knowledge of shari'a – and react to problems, fatwas, and opinions spread by people who are pious in nonsense or fanatical in superstition."
No Religious Coercion
Q: "As Muslims, must we always live in war and strife with the other, until Allah grants Islam victory over all the other religions?"
A: "This is not a duty imposed on us, and I do not think that all people will someday be of one religion, namely Islam. This does not appear in any Islamic text. Differences between people – in faith, language, color, and thought – are a Koranic fact, and they will remain so until Allah inherits the Earth and everything upon it. I have already said in one of my lectures on globalization, at a Christian convention held in Rome, that globalization is destined to fail, because people were created different. As a Muslim of the present generation, I am not obligated to bear the sword in order to convert people of other faiths [to Islam]. I am obligated to be familiar with other peoples and maintain mutually beneficial ties with them. If you peruse the Koran, verse by verse, you will find no mention of the sword... On the other hand, in the Book of Joshua in the Bible, the [word] 'sword' appears 31 times... Nevertheless, it is Islam which is referred to as a religion of the sword."
Q: "But there are preachers who evoke the 'verse of the sword' in the Koran, which calls for war against heretics, so that there will be no fitna, and so that religion as a whole will be Allah's."
A: "The 'verse of the sword' descended regarding those who came out against Islam and fought Muslims, expelled them from their homes, and did them great injustice. The context of the verse – the verses which precede and follow it – confirm this [understanding]. Proper Koranic thinking determines that there is no religious coercion. When Allah approached the Prophet and said: 'Will you then force men till they become believers?' [Koran 10:99] the intent of the question at the beginning of the verse is to refute [any claim] that the Prophet was forcing the people to believe [in Islam]."
Interfaith Dialogue Has Not Benefitted the Muslims; The West Is Not Making a Sincere Effort to Resolve the Palestinian Problem
Q: "In a previous interview you said that interfaith dialogue has not achieved real results, and that dialogue about principles of faith is a futile one, since no one will change anyone else's mind."
A: "But we can agree over the good values shared by all religions. If we succeed at this, it will be an important gain for everyone. Unfortunately, in some of the dialogue sessions I attended in Italy, France, Germany, and the U.S., the dialogue was paralyzed. It did not significantly [benefit the] Muslims and did not lead to any actual change in the West's positions at the decision[-making] level: [it did nothing to change] the West's longtime support of Israel and [did not stop the West from] assisting [Israel] in deferring [its] commitment to the rights of the Palestinian people; [nor did it promote] the need to respect Islam's symbols, just as we Muslims respect the emblems of the other religions. This is clearly evident in the case of the offensive cartoons [depicting] the Prophet, which were interpreted as a matter of freedom of expression, despite the fact that [the cartoons] had nothing to do with freedom of opinion. It is true that the dialogues led to a certain degree of friendship and cooperation, but they did not truly change the situation."
Q: "Why?"
A: "I think that in the West, certain imperialist principles still predominate, [though the West] is trying to make some cosmetic changes [to these principles] so as to fit them to the 21st century. They still invent and produce conflict zones in [different] regions throughout the Arab and Islamic world, in order to create great demand for the weapons they manufacture. They are, furthermore, not making a sincere effort to achieve a just and dignified resolution of the Palestinian issue."
Q: "What can be done?"
A: "So long as the Arab positions are not unified, there is no hope. The Koran says: 'Do not quarrel, for then you will be weak in hearts and your power will depart.' [Koran 8:46]."
The Palestinians Must Actualize Their Right to Resistance
Q: "When we speak about interfaith dialogue, it is confined almost exclusively to Christians, not Jews. Why?"
A: "[Relations] between Christianity and Islam have always seen ups and downs. According to the Koran, the Christians are closer to the Muslims [than the Jews] because there are priests and monks among them, and Maryam [Mary] was the greatest of all women. On the other hand, the Children of Israel only expect the dialogue to drag the Arabs toward normalization, without granting the Palestinians anything real. The Prophet maintained with the Jews relations [characterized by] a high degree of friendship and respect – to the extent that if a Muslim desired to marry a Jewish woman, he asked him not to require her to convert, and to take her to synagogue to pray. However, despite this, few Jews are inclined toward justice. The Arabs and Palestinians must know that Israel will not grant them their rights on a silver, copper, or paper platter. Whoever thinks otherwise is dreaming. The Palestinians must unite in order to protect their legitimate rights and take advantage of their legitimate right to resist occupation, with everything this entails."
Q: "Does resistance justify murdering innocent civilians?"
A: "The resistance should be directed at the occupation forces to weaken the military ability of the occupier and the settlers."
I Will Not Meet with Rabbis or Shake Peres' Hand
Q: "I saw you often in the company of the late Imam, [Al-Azhar sheikh] Dr. Sayyed Tantawi. What do you think of some of his controversial views?..."
A: "I believe that he did a great deal for Al-Azhar and contributed to the expansion of Al-Azhar's education, but the many problems were what limited his role."
Q: "Would you meet with rabbis in your office, as he did? And would you shake Shimon Peres' hand, if you met him by chance on some occasion?"
A: "I will not meet with rabbis or to shake Peres' hand, nor am I [willing] even to be with him in the same place. I do not think that Sheikh Sayyed Tantawi knew he was greeting Peres."
Q: "Why such extremism on your part?"
A: "Not because he is a Jew, but because he is one of those who planned the atrocious Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, and the takeover of Jerusalem, which is one of the most important of the Islamic holy places... If I shake Peres' hand, it will be an accomplishment for him, since it would mean that Al-Azhar shook Israel's hand. It will be a loss on my part and on the part of Al-Azhar, because the handshake will signify agreement to normalizing relations. And I will not allow such a thing, unless Israel grants the Palestinians their legitimate rights."
Maintaining Good Relations with the Copts Is a Religious Duty
Q: "Why are the Muslims backward, and why is superstition widespread among them, even though Islam regards it a religious duty to use one's mind and [powers of] reasoning?"
A: "Because the Muslims have disregarded the correct faith. The primary sources of Islam encourage thought and [the acquisition of] knowledge, and make a clear distinction between norms that are not to be questioned and superstition. It is this correct Islam that [gave birth to] Muslim civilization which made many achievements in the domains of science, medicine, astronomy and engineering, because Islam never limited the use of one's mind, but [only] warned against division, which weakens [the Muslims]. In the West, the opposite was true: its progress began only after the role of religion was diminished and that of reason increased – because the church was an ignorant tyrannical [force] that opposed knowledge and reason."
Q: "When you began your [role] as the sheikh of Al-Azhar, you said that Al-Azhar's first duty is to achieve national unity. How [is this to be done]? By embracing Patriarch Shenouda again, as we do in every crisis?"
A: "The ties between Islam and Christianity are numerous and tight, and there are family and marriage ties between Christians and Muslims – so preserving national unity is part of Al-Azhar's religious duty. When a Muslim maintains good relations with his Christian neighbor, he fulfils a [religious] duty for which he will be rewarded on the Day of Judgment. Al-Azhar's duty is to review the books of Muslim history and tradition, and the directives of the [Muslim] faith, and draw from them the wealth of Muslim traditions that encourage good relations with the Copts – because our faith commands us to do this in order to preserve national unity. The Coptic Church must do the same with respect to the cultural tradition of [friendship] with the Muslims. I think that there will be cooperation in this area."
Copts Are Part of the Community of Believers
Q: "In Islam, do the rights of dhimmis [non-Muslims living in Muslim lands] amount to full citizenship?"
A: "Yes, and more than that. [In the past, dhimmis paid] the jizya [poll] tax in return for the protection of their person, because they did not serve in the army. But this tax was abolished [in Egypt] a long time ago, because the Copts do serve in the army and today they take part in defending the homeland. Their rights and duties are identical to our own. But justice dictates that the role of president be discharged by a member of the Muslim [community]. That's how it is all over the world: [the president is a member of the majority]."
Q: "Are [the Copts] part of the community of believers?"
A: "Yes, because they believe in Allah and in the Day of Judgment. If the Prophet, in the Covenant of Al-Madina, regarded the Jews part of the community of believers, then our Coptic maternal cousins are [certainly] worthy of [this designation]. They are the ones whom our forefather Ibrahim took for his in-laws, as did the Prophet [himself]. According to Islam, a Muslim may not marry an infidel and may not eat the food of an infidel, but he may eat the food of a Copt, and may [even] marry a Coptic woman; and she is permitted to keep her faith for the rest of her life."
Q: "Do you agree with [Coptic] Patriarch Shenouda that the Islamic shari'a permits the Copts to handle their marital matters according to their beliefs and customs?"
A: "Yes, I agree with him completely. His claim is completely correct."
Q: "Will Al-Azhar accept a law that sets out uniform [regulations] for building Muslim and Coptic houses of worship?"
A: "Islam guarantees the Christians and Jews [the right] to build churches and synagogues, and to ring their bells and celebrate their festivals."
Q: "Did Islam set out conditions [for implementing this principle]?"
A: "Islam did not set out any conditions. The churches will be constructed according to the needs of the Copts. That is what the Prophet promised the Christians in [the Treaty of] Najran. The decree of Sultan ['Abd Al-Majid] is not part of the Islamic [shari'a]. It is a law that was dictated by a certain reality, and is subject to change. If circumstances change, laws change as well."
Q: "Can a Muslim society be defined as one whose laws do not contradict the shari'a? Is this enough?"
A: "Ours is a Muslim society, and anyone who denies this is a sinner. Some shari'a laws are not implemented in Egypt. These are laws which, if violated, render one guilty of disobeying a religious commandment, but not of heresy. [For example], one who drinks wine dies a sinful Muslim, not an infidel. We cannot judge him in advance as one who will go to Hell, because nobody knows humans better than Allah. That is Al-Azhar's position and our middle way..."
The Difference Between Sunna and Shi'a Is Not Fundamental
Q: "My last question pertains to the fitna between Sunnis and Shi'ites which has once again emerged in Iraq. What are the differences between the two sides?"
A: "The differences are not fundamental. [The Shi'ites] believe in Allah, the One and the Eternal, as do we [Sunnis]. They follow Muhammad and hold the Koran sacred, as do we. We can pray with their Imams, and vice versa. The difference lies only in the [relative] importance they ascribe to each of the Caliphs, because they believe 'Ali is the most worthy and righteous [of the Caliphs], and they believe in their succession of Imams and in their Mahdi, whose [return] they await."
[1] Al-Masri Al-Yawm (Egypt), August 5, 2010
[2] Al-Ahram (Egypt), July 10, 2010.
[3] A reference to the symbol of the Muslim Brotherhood – a sword and a Koran.
[4] It should be noted that the day after the interview, an Al-Azhar spokesman clarified that Al-Tayyeb and Al-Azhar hold both Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi and the Qatari Emir, as well as their respective roles, in high esteem. Al-Ahram (Egypt), July 11, 2010.
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Al-Azhar Sheikh: The West Isn't Really Working For Peace in the Middle East, Interfaith Dialogue Is Futile; Al-Azhar Clerics Oppose Ground Zero Mosque; Al-Aqsa Research Academy Member Dr. Abd Al-Mu'ti Bayumi: Mosque Is a 'Zionist Plot' That Could Link Islam to 9/11
In an extensive interview with Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate chairman Makram Muhammad Ahmad, Al-Azhar Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, who has been in office since March 2010, gave his views on an array of important topics, including the role of Al-Azhar as an institution and the extent of its dependence on the Egyptian regime, Islam's relations with Judaism and Christianity, and the Palestinian issue.
Al-Tayyeb acknowledged in the interview that Al-Azhar's status had declined with the rise of extremist factions, and explained that the decline had begun during the socialist era when the Egyptian regime had repressed religion, allowing Wahhabism to fill the resulting void. He added that Al-Azhar intended to produce television programs aimed at young people in which its clerics would respond to various common extremist ideas.
He noted that although the operation of every country's religious establishment was subject to regime policy, Al-Azhar enjoyed relative freedom and was not obligated to condone everything the government did. He also said he would not be opposed to choosing Al-Azhar sheikhs via internal elections instead of by the current method of presidential appointment.
Al-Tayyeb said that he rejected depictions of Islam as a religion of the sword, pointing out that Muslims were only allowed to take up the sword in self defense. He criticized the interfaith dialogue talks, claiming that they could not change how a person viewed another's religion, or how decision-makers approached the Palestinian issue, or the West's support of Israel. Accusing the West of insincerity in its efforts to resolve the Palestinian issue, he said that it persistently created centers of tension in order to increase demand for the weapons it manufactures.
Also in the interview, the sheikh emphasized the importance of a unified Arab stance in resolving the Palestinian issue, saying that expecting the Jews to give the Palestinians and Arabs their rights on a silver platter was a dream and that the Palestinians must actualize their legitimate right to resist occupation. In contrast to his predecessor Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, Al-Tayyeb said that he would not meet with rabbis or shake the hand of the Israeli president, because he opposed normalization with Israel until it gave the Palestinians their rights.
Al-Tayyeb also said that Al-Azhar had a religious duty to maintain national unity with the Coptic community, noting that he did not object to music in their churches and that the Copts were entitled to handle their own marriage and family matters and to build their own houses of worship. However, he maintained that only Muslims should be eligible to be president, since the country has a Muslim majority. Al-Tayyeb also stated that the difference between Sunnis and Shi'ites came down to the importance each attributed to the various caliphs, but that this was not an essential difference.
In an interesting sidebar, some clerics from Al-Azhar recently spoke out in opposition to the construction of the Cordoba House mosque near New York's Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center once stood. Dr. Abd Al-Mu'ti Bayumi, a member of Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Academy, said that the mosque's construction could link Islam to 9/11, even though Islam is innocent of the deed. He also called the plan a "Zionist plot."[1]
Abd Al-Mu'ti Bayumi gave an interview to Abu Dhabi TV in April 2005, in which he discussed jihad; to view the full clip of the interview on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/652.htm.
Following are excerpts from the interview with Al-Azhar Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyeb:[2]
The Sword Does Not Represent Islam
Q: "There are those in the West who claim that Islam was spread by the sword, and there are Muslims who believe that the sword is the proper symbol of Islam."[3]
A: "It is not true that Islamic civilization imposed itself upon the world by the force of the sword. Islam spread throughout the world because it is the religion of natural faith and the religion of wisdom, which spoke to the minds of the people and to their hearts, cultivating equality among humans and promoting justice. The sword is not fitting as a symbol of Islam because Islam [represents] mercy and justice, and because a Muslim does not bear his sword in order to attack others, but in order to protect the land, the homeland, and the faith. Islam encourages a Muslim to be strong and capable of defending his homeland, his religion, and himself, but does not encourage him to act aggressively toward others."
The Void Left By Al-Azhar's Decline Has Been Filled By Extremism
Q: "Why has there been a decline in Al-Azhar's status as a moderate source of authority in the Islamic world, to the benefit of extremist schools and ideologies? It is because Al-Azhar has become subordinate to the ruler? Because it has lost the ability to innovate? Or because the Al-Azhar's sheikh [is appointed by the president] rather than elected?"
A: "We must look for the true reasons, [and understand] why, 50 years ago, Al-Azhar was pushed into a solitary corner, while the extremist schools and streams and took over the scene. I am entirely convinced – and this is confirmed by documents – that the Egyptian regime [of President Gamal 'Abd Al-Nasser], which chose socialism as its doctrine, wanted to weaken Al-Azhar, so that it would become nothing more than [just another] mosque, whose only role is to teach religion. The socialist camp had a clear position: it opposed religion as 'opiate of the masses' whose role must be limited. Religion is at odds with socialist thinking, which adopted atheism."
Q: "But Egypt did not adopt socialism to the extent of opposing religion and calling for atheism."
A: "True, but the takeover of culture in Egypt by various Marxist and socialist elements during this period contributed to limiting Al-Azhar's role and status, and [also] caused a decline of its role outside of Egypt. Others increased their efforts to fill the [resulting] void: the Western church increased its missionary [activity] in Africa; Marxism increased its efforts to diminish the importance of religion; the law of the desert ruled [in certain areas]. Wahhabism also strove to fill a part of this void. There is an important document that was written by [former Al-Azhar] sheikh [Mahmoud] Shaltut explaining all of these factors. In a letter to Egyptian president 'Abd Al-Nasser, [Shaltut] complained about this void and about Al-Azhar's weakness, and signed off with an important message: If, in [this] delicate period, Egypt cannot annex new territory to Al-Azhar, it must at least defend the territory Al-Azhar has won outside of Egypt, especially in Africa..."
Al-Azhar Encourages Integration of Religious and Secular Studies
Q: "The Al-Azhar Development Law, passed in 1961, is a matter of controversy among Al-Azhar [scholars] to this very day. Some think that [the law – which led] Al-Azhar to combine modern civilian education with religious education, in order to produce graduates who are doctors and engineers, and who combine [their] profession with religious da'wa – constitutes a step forward, as there are [now] contemporary preachers who can contribute to progress in the [daily] lives of peoples in Africa and other places. Others, [however], think that [the law] was meant to weaken Al-Azhar's religious role."
A: "That is an excellent and important question, and the proper answer is a summary of the current situation. True, the principle behind this law is a good one, but unfortunately [the law] was not properly implemented, so that the principle was distorted and emptied of content. The law was drafted in haste – in fact, it was reportedly drawn up in a single night. I was among the first to experience the new system when the law was passed in 1961. I had to study both curricula in full – the Ministry of Education and Culture's curriculum and Al-Azhar's curriculum – for five years. Despite the difficulty of integrating the two curricula, we continued with [our] studies, since education was rigid [in those days, and students were tough]. Regrettably, [today] the situation has changed, and students are no longer able to absorb both curricula. [So now] students are weak in both [fields]. What made the situation worse is that anyone who succeeded in Al-Azhar's high school automatically entered [Al-Azhar] University, even if he [only earned a passing grade]. Now we are trying to rectify the situation by establishing a [religious] sciences department at Al-Azhar, alongside the literature department and the [secular] sciences department, for those who want to specialize in religious sciences..."
Q: "I fear that the majority may opt for a civil education."
A: "Al-Azhar will be the one to gain if in every district there is one class [modeled after] Al-Azhar's religious sciences department, whose graduates will be strong religious scholars. They will have a required amount of religious sciences that will round out their characters. According to the plan, there will be numerous incentives to encourage students to join this faculty, primarily that Al-Azhar will cover all tuition and living expenses..."
Al-Azhar Does Not Forbid Playing Music in Churches
Q: "Are you at Al-Azhar against music?"
A: "We do not forbid music, because it lifts the human spirit."
Q: "Did the Church add music to its religious ceremonies in order to attract young people?"
A: "Music entered the church because the Christian faith allows the physical representation of God, which constitutes an important part of [Christian] mysticism. Islam is based upon the abstract conception and the unity of Allah, who has no equal. Therefore, I do not need music or the representational arts in the mosque..."
No Religious Establishment Can Be Expected to Act Against the Regime in Its Country
Q: "Can your answers be taken to mean that the restoration of Al-Azhar's status and role depend [solely] on its graduates becoming exalted clerics and preachers, and that this has nothing to do with the subordination of Al-Azhar to [Egypt's] ruler, or with the appointment, rather than the election, of Al-Azhar's sheikh?"
A: "Let us be honest in answering this question. There is not a religious institution in the world that can exist outside the framework of its country, or can be expected to act against its country's regime. This is true [even] of the Vatican, which, despite being a state within a state, is part of the West and would not deviate from its supreme policy. When I was asked in Qatar about the extent of Al-Azhar's affiliation with the government, I preferred to give a short answer, and said: Can [Qatar resident and head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars] Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi say a word against the regime of the Qatari Emir?[4]
"What I can assure you, as the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, is that this institution does not bear the government's agenda on its shoulders, and is not obligated to bless everything [the government] does. However, it would not be fitting for Al-Azhar to oppose the government, since it is part of the state. When I assumed my role as Al-Azhar Sheikh, President Mubarak accepted my resignation from the National Democratic Party's Political Bureau in order to free Al-Azhar from any restrictions. I do not think that there is any [other] Islamic state in which the religious establishment enjoys the status, honor, and freedom that Al-Azhar enjoys.
"Let me take this opportunity to say that I am not opposed to electing the Al-Azhar sheikh from among the clerical staff, but that I fear the emergence of cliques and of the [kind of] sycophancy that corrupted the election of [our] faculty deans..."
Azhari TV Does Not Represent Al-Azhar
Q: "Does the [new satellite] channel Azhari [TV] represent Al-Azhar?"
A: "The channel adopted Al-Azhar's name without Al-Azhar's noticing it. We have already expressed our opposition to this, but former Al-Azhar Sheikh Dr. Sayyid Tantawi said: Let it [continue] using the name, but it does not represent Al-Azhar."
Q: "What is your criticism of Azhari [TV]?"
A: "The channel's director is not an Al-Azhar scholar. The channel is funded by non-Egyptian [sources] and there are claims regarding foreign interests, which are a cause for concern. That is why [Al-Azhar's] Academy for Islamic Research is against the channel representing Al-Azhar."
Al-Azhar to Produce Television Programs to Fight Extremism
Q: "The sheikhs who work at the station, notwithstanding their considerable extravagance of dress and their [efforts] to be fashionable, have succeeded in reaching a large percentage of the young men and women."
A: "That [only] proves that [the channel's programming] is not about science or religion, and is not for the sake of heaven – but is commercialism for its own sake. We are now getting ready to produce new programs for the public that will address young people and women, and will spread the proper Islam and call for the use of reason. We will start with a weekly program with several reliable preachers – ones known for their ability to relate the audience as well as for their erudition and instrumental knowledge of shari'a – and react to problems, fatwas, and opinions spread by people who are pious in nonsense or fanatical in superstition."
No Religious Coercion
Q: "As Muslims, must we always live in war and strife with the other, until Allah grants Islam victory over all the other religions?"
A: "This is not a duty imposed on us, and I do not think that all people will someday be of one religion, namely Islam. This does not appear in any Islamic text. Differences between people – in faith, language, color, and thought – are a Koranic fact, and they will remain so until Allah inherits the Earth and everything upon it. I have already said in one of my lectures on globalization, at a Christian convention held in Rome, that globalization is destined to fail, because people were created different. As a Muslim of the present generation, I am not obligated to bear the sword in order to convert people of other faiths [to Islam]. I am obligated to be familiar with other peoples and maintain mutually beneficial ties with them. If you peruse the Koran, verse by verse, you will find no mention of the sword... On the other hand, in the Book of Joshua in the Bible, the [word] 'sword' appears 31 times... Nevertheless, it is Islam which is referred to as a religion of the sword."
Q: "But there are preachers who evoke the 'verse of the sword' in the Koran, which calls for war against heretics, so that there will be no fitna, and so that religion as a whole will be Allah's."
A: "The 'verse of the sword' descended regarding those who came out against Islam and fought Muslims, expelled them from their homes, and did them great injustice. The context of the verse – the verses which precede and follow it – confirm this [understanding]. Proper Koranic thinking determines that there is no religious coercion. When Allah approached the Prophet and said: 'Will you then force men till they become believers?' [Koran 10:99] the intent of the question at the beginning of the verse is to refute [any claim] that the Prophet was forcing the people to believe [in Islam]."
Interfaith Dialogue Has Not Benefitted the Muslims; The West Is Not Making a Sincere Effort to Resolve the Palestinian Problem
Q: "In a previous interview you said that interfaith dialogue has not achieved real results, and that dialogue about principles of faith is a futile one, since no one will change anyone else's mind."
A: "But we can agree over the good values shared by all religions. If we succeed at this, it will be an important gain for everyone. Unfortunately, in some of the dialogue sessions I attended in Italy, France, Germany, and the U.S., the dialogue was paralyzed. It did not significantly [benefit the] Muslims and did not lead to any actual change in the West's positions at the decision[-making] level: [it did nothing to change] the West's longtime support of Israel and [did not stop the West from] assisting [Israel] in deferring [its] commitment to the rights of the Palestinian people; [nor did it promote] the need to respect Islam's symbols, just as we Muslims respect the emblems of the other religions. This is clearly evident in the case of the offensive cartoons [depicting] the Prophet, which were interpreted as a matter of freedom of expression, despite the fact that [the cartoons] had nothing to do with freedom of opinion. It is true that the dialogues led to a certain degree of friendship and cooperation, but they did not truly change the situation."
Q: "Why?"
A: "I think that in the West, certain imperialist principles still predominate, [though the West] is trying to make some cosmetic changes [to these principles] so as to fit them to the 21st century. They still invent and produce conflict zones in [different] regions throughout the Arab and Islamic world, in order to create great demand for the weapons they manufacture. They are, furthermore, not making a sincere effort to achieve a just and dignified resolution of the Palestinian issue."
Q: "What can be done?"
A: "So long as the Arab positions are not unified, there is no hope. The Koran says: 'Do not quarrel, for then you will be weak in hearts and your power will depart.' [Koran 8:46]."
The Palestinians Must Actualize Their Right to Resistance
Q: "When we speak about interfaith dialogue, it is confined almost exclusively to Christians, not Jews. Why?"
A: "[Relations] between Christianity and Islam have always seen ups and downs. According to the Koran, the Christians are closer to the Muslims [than the Jews] because there are priests and monks among them, and Maryam [Mary] was the greatest of all women. On the other hand, the Children of Israel only expect the dialogue to drag the Arabs toward normalization, without granting the Palestinians anything real. The Prophet maintained with the Jews relations [characterized by] a high degree of friendship and respect – to the extent that if a Muslim desired to marry a Jewish woman, he asked him not to require her to convert, and to take her to synagogue to pray. However, despite this, few Jews are inclined toward justice. The Arabs and Palestinians must know that Israel will not grant them their rights on a silver, copper, or paper platter. Whoever thinks otherwise is dreaming. The Palestinians must unite in order to protect their legitimate rights and take advantage of their legitimate right to resist occupation, with everything this entails."
Q: "Does resistance justify murdering innocent civilians?"
A: "The resistance should be directed at the occupation forces to weaken the military ability of the occupier and the settlers."
I Will Not Meet with Rabbis or Shake Peres' Hand
Q: "I saw you often in the company of the late Imam, [Al-Azhar sheikh] Dr. Sayyed Tantawi. What do you think of some of his controversial views?..."
A: "I believe that he did a great deal for Al-Azhar and contributed to the expansion of Al-Azhar's education, but the many problems were what limited his role."
Q: "Would you meet with rabbis in your office, as he did? And would you shake Shimon Peres' hand, if you met him by chance on some occasion?"
A: "I will not meet with rabbis or to shake Peres' hand, nor am I [willing] even to be with him in the same place. I do not think that Sheikh Sayyed Tantawi knew he was greeting Peres."
Q: "Why such extremism on your part?"
A: "Not because he is a Jew, but because he is one of those who planned the atrocious Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, and the takeover of Jerusalem, which is one of the most important of the Islamic holy places... If I shake Peres' hand, it will be an accomplishment for him, since it would mean that Al-Azhar shook Israel's hand. It will be a loss on my part and on the part of Al-Azhar, because the handshake will signify agreement to normalizing relations. And I will not allow such a thing, unless Israel grants the Palestinians their legitimate rights."
Maintaining Good Relations with the Copts Is a Religious Duty
Q: "Why are the Muslims backward, and why is superstition widespread among them, even though Islam regards it a religious duty to use one's mind and [powers of] reasoning?"
A: "Because the Muslims have disregarded the correct faith. The primary sources of Islam encourage thought and [the acquisition of] knowledge, and make a clear distinction between norms that are not to be questioned and superstition. It is this correct Islam that [gave birth to] Muslim civilization which made many achievements in the domains of science, medicine, astronomy and engineering, because Islam never limited the use of one's mind, but [only] warned against division, which weakens [the Muslims]. In the West, the opposite was true: its progress began only after the role of religion was diminished and that of reason increased – because the church was an ignorant tyrannical [force] that opposed knowledge and reason."
Q: "When you began your [role] as the sheikh of Al-Azhar, you said that Al-Azhar's first duty is to achieve national unity. How [is this to be done]? By embracing Patriarch Shenouda again, as we do in every crisis?"
A: "The ties between Islam and Christianity are numerous and tight, and there are family and marriage ties between Christians and Muslims – so preserving national unity is part of Al-Azhar's religious duty. When a Muslim maintains good relations with his Christian neighbor, he fulfils a [religious] duty for which he will be rewarded on the Day of Judgment. Al-Azhar's duty is to review the books of Muslim history and tradition, and the directives of the [Muslim] faith, and draw from them the wealth of Muslim traditions that encourage good relations with the Copts – because our faith commands us to do this in order to preserve national unity. The Coptic Church must do the same with respect to the cultural tradition of [friendship] with the Muslims. I think that there will be cooperation in this area."
Copts Are Part of the Community of Believers
Q: "In Islam, do the rights of dhimmis [non-Muslims living in Muslim lands] amount to full citizenship?"
A: "Yes, and more than that. [In the past, dhimmis paid] the jizya [poll] tax in return for the protection of their person, because they did not serve in the army. But this tax was abolished [in Egypt] a long time ago, because the Copts do serve in the army and today they take part in defending the homeland. Their rights and duties are identical to our own. But justice dictates that the role of president be discharged by a member of the Muslim [community]. That's how it is all over the world: [the president is a member of the majority]."
Q: "Are [the Copts] part of the community of believers?"
A: "Yes, because they believe in Allah and in the Day of Judgment. If the Prophet, in the Covenant of Al-Madina, regarded the Jews part of the community of believers, then our Coptic maternal cousins are [certainly] worthy of [this designation]. They are the ones whom our forefather Ibrahim took for his in-laws, as did the Prophet [himself]. According to Islam, a Muslim may not marry an infidel and may not eat the food of an infidel, but he may eat the food of a Copt, and may [even] marry a Coptic woman; and she is permitted to keep her faith for the rest of her life."
Q: "Do you agree with [Coptic] Patriarch Shenouda that the Islamic shari'a permits the Copts to handle their marital matters according to their beliefs and customs?"
A: "Yes, I agree with him completely. His claim is completely correct."
Q: "Will Al-Azhar accept a law that sets out uniform [regulations] for building Muslim and Coptic houses of worship?"
A: "Islam guarantees the Christians and Jews [the right] to build churches and synagogues, and to ring their bells and celebrate their festivals."
Q: "Did Islam set out conditions [for implementing this principle]?"
A: "Islam did not set out any conditions. The churches will be constructed according to the needs of the Copts. That is what the Prophet promised the Christians in [the Treaty of] Najran. The decree of Sultan ['Abd Al-Majid] is not part of the Islamic [shari'a]. It is a law that was dictated by a certain reality, and is subject to change. If circumstances change, laws change as well."
Q: "Can a Muslim society be defined as one whose laws do not contradict the shari'a? Is this enough?"
A: "Ours is a Muslim society, and anyone who denies this is a sinner. Some shari'a laws are not implemented in Egypt. These are laws which, if violated, render one guilty of disobeying a religious commandment, but not of heresy. [For example], one who drinks wine dies a sinful Muslim, not an infidel. We cannot judge him in advance as one who will go to Hell, because nobody knows humans better than Allah. That is Al-Azhar's position and our middle way..."
The Difference Between Sunna and Shi'a Is Not Fundamental
Q: "My last question pertains to the fitna between Sunnis and Shi'ites which has once again emerged in Iraq. What are the differences between the two sides?"
A: "The differences are not fundamental. [The Shi'ites] believe in Allah, the One and the Eternal, as do we [Sunnis]. They follow Muhammad and hold the Koran sacred, as do we. We can pray with their Imams, and vice versa. The difference lies only in the [relative] importance they ascribe to each of the Caliphs, because they believe 'Ali is the most worthy and righteous [of the Caliphs], and they believe in their succession of Imams and in their Mahdi, whose [return] they await."
[1] Al-Masri Al-Yawm (Egypt), August 5, 2010
[2] Al-Ahram (Egypt), July 10, 2010.
[3] A reference to the symbol of the Muslim Brotherhood – a sword and a Koran.
[4] It should be noted that the day after the interview, an Al-Azhar spokesman clarified that Al-Tayyeb and Al-Azhar hold both Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi and the Qatari Emir, as well as their respective roles, in high esteem. Al-Ahram (Egypt), July 11, 2010.
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