YEEHAD!

Canadian Sons and Daughters Don't Need to Die in Afghanistan...

2006-04-23T07:22:00.000-07:00

Why are our sons and daughters dying to clean up the filth created by Washington?

I cried when I read that four young Canadian soldiers had died in a roadside blast detonated by the fanatic crazies of the Taleban -- the same crazies who were nurtured at one time by the US of A to fight the so-called godless Soviet Union. Fifteen Canadians dead so far and more likely on the way as we clean
up after the dirty work of the chief devil in Washington.

My argument for Canada immediately withdrawing from the Afghan war is very simple.

It is Washington that has created this mess. It trained Osama bin Laden and his band of Islamic fanatics, the offshoot of which is the Taleban. It used them to drive out the Soviets from Afghanistan. It used Islam in its most extreme and fanatic form. It encouraged the kind of violence and killings that eventually it would see turned on itself.

Then, when the same crazies turned on the US and staged 9/11, it used this as the pretext to invade Afghanistan and set up its own puppet regime with Hamid Karzai, a former director of an American oil company and Harvard trained, as president. US marines protected the building of an oil pipeline from a former Soviet Central Republic to the gulf even as they hunted Osama and his cohorts.

And now the US wants Canada to clean up its mess? And Canadian prime minister Steven Harper, ever eager to please his mentor and saint George Bush, is committing even more troops in the guise of reconstructing Afghanistan, bringing it democracy and progress? And playing along with him is the war mongering General Rick Hillier? And now Harper is talking about joining any military action against Iran. How long before he joins George W. Bush's Christian crusade, except this one may well involve nuclear weapons as Bush's is reported to have planned?

What is happening to my beautiful peace-loving country? Do these people realize that Canada is quickly losing her status as a peacekeeper of the world. Just recently, a Canadian taken hostage in Palestine was released when his captors found out that he was Canadian. How long will that happen at this rate?

We must leave Afghanistan immediately and let the US clean up its own mess. After that we can go in with the United Nations and help rebuild Afghanistan. Our sons and daughters cannot die for mess of those odious devils in Washington, George W. Bush, Condi Rice, and the gang.

Canada should never undertake any action except under the flag of the United Nations and then too only for peacekeeping and rebuilding. We are not a colonial or imperialist power and never will be and never should be. We are the most civilized of all nations, a multicultural nation where people from more than 100 countries live in peace and harmony.
That is my Canada, the heir to statesmen such as Lester Pearson, creator of the UN peacekeeping force and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and Pierre Trudeau, the father of multiculturalism.

Nobody wants the Taleban to rule Afghanistan. Nobody wants a
crazy theocratic dictatorship to force women and young girls into slavery and degradation.

But the US way is not the way. It is a way of the modern day conquistador or should we say Bushistador.

It forces a primitive people like the local Afghanis to fight back simply out of pride and nationalism and a religious fervour that is born out of a feeling that in that rugged and poor country there is little else left to define oneself except religion and tradition. And now here are the white devils trying to even take that away! This is the feeling we need to dispel from them. And bombs and tanks and jet fighters ain't gonna do it.

What President Ahmadinejad Actually Said About Israel...

2006-04-16T19:14:00.000-07:00

...and Iran's Nuclear Program

Full text of President's Ahmadinejad address
Palestine-Conference-President 04/14/06

(Reproduced courtesy of the Information Clearing House)

Islamic Republic News Agency -- -- The following is the first part of the full text of the President of the Islamic Revolution, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's address at the opening session of the Third International Qods Conference supporting the rights of the Palestinian people is as follows:

"In the Name of God, the Almighty Dear Scholars and Thinkers; Honorable Speakers and Members of Parliament, Ladies and Gentlemen, Sallamo Alleikom, On behalf of the people and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran I would like to welcome you and also express my own thanks and appreciation for your presence at this conference. I hope your blessed and fruitful presence in this conference will take pressure off and lighten hardship and the inconvenience of your journey from countries far and near.

Fortunately, the timing of the conference concurs and falls together with the anniversary birth of our great prophet. This augurs well and is a very auspicious concurrence.

Prophet of Islam is the messenger of compassion, mercy, justice and human dignity. He is source and center of unity for believers in God and all Muslims. Our prophet is the harbinger of peace and global harmony on the basis of oneness of God and justice. Our beloved prophet wants the good of the entire humanity, is the pinnacle of human perfection and inheritor of the goodness of all divine prophets.

I wish to seize this opportunity to offer my sincerest felicitations on the occasion of the anniversary of this auspicious birth to the honorable participants in this meeting, to all Muslims and to the entire humanity.
Excellencies, Dear Sisters and Brothers The question of Palestine has been the foremost preoccupation of the people of the region and Muslim ummah for the past sixty years.

This is a wound that has been inflicted by the Zionist occupiers upon the nations of the region, Muslims and especially the Palestinian people. This is an agonizing and heart-rending pain that will not disappear easily.
At this time, I would like to mention some of the costs to our region because of the imposition of this regime:

Unending Threat

The existence of the Zionist regime is tantamount to imposition of an unending and unrestrained threat so that none of the nations and Islamic countries of the region and beyond can feel secure from its threat. The closer these nations are to the epicenter of this threat, the more threatened they feel.

The people of Palestine are at the very core of such a threat. They have not been able to spend a day with peace of mind for the past sixty years. Three generations of sons and daughters of Palestinians have lived and are presently living under these circumstances. The peoples of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the entire Middle East are essentially under similar situation.

Wastage of Immense Resources of the Region and the Muslim Ummah

As a result of the presence of the usurp Zionist regime in the region, enormous wealth and assets of the Islamic countries of the region are spent for maintaining defensive strength, and at times for actual defense. In addition, an important part of the human resources, which are the principle assets of any nation, is expended for the same purpose.

Insult to Dignity of the Faithful and Believers

The existence of the Zionist regime is a threat to the dignity of the Muslim ummah, the believers and the faithful. In accordance with the noble verse from the Holy Koran, the domination of such a regime over the Muslim ummah that reside in the occupied territories and the region is contrary to the consent of the Almighty.

By its unending killings, destruction of homes and farms, encroaching upon sacred places, mosques and churches, unrelenting assaults on residential and non-residential places and targeted assassinations, this regime not only humiliates and disgraces Palestinian people, but also tramples upon the pride and dignity of all Muslims and freedom-loving people of the world.

How long can this situation last and be tolerated?

When Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful, heard that an anklet was forcefully removed from the the feet of a Jewish woman by the invaders in one of the frontier cities under his rule, he said, "If a man dies from grief because of this act, he should not be reprimanded."

Today, even the children are not spared and are targeted by their bullets.
Palestinian men and women are abducted and tortured in their fearsome prisons.

People are shot dead in schools, on the streets and at markets. Does this situation and scenes of atrocity befit the dignity and pride if humanity? SOWING SEEDS OF DISUNITY IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD AND AMONG NATIONS OF THE REGION The foundation of the continued existence of this usurper regime is on sowing disunity among the nations and governments of the region.

By their insidious interferences and by creating an atmosphere of mistrust and resentment, they separate and divide countries and governments of region.

Under this atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust they are able to establish covert liaison, impose costly military and economic and enforce the disgraceful political arrangements of the domineering powers on nations and governments of the region.

The Zionist regime is the focal and meeting point for bullying powers and adversaries of the Muslim ummah.

Our enemies and ill-wishers are putting pressures on countries, nations of the region and Muslim ummah by strengthening and supporting this threat and despite all their deep differences they become united when the time comes to encounter this region.

In fact, it is through Qods occupying regime that the domineering powers tend to impose their wishes on the Muslim nations.

This regime acts as a proxy and assumes the responsibility on behalf of bullying powers for acts of terror, creating disunity and division and sabotaging political, economic and cultural relations between the countries of the region and with other nations of the world.

PREVENTING THE PROGRESS AND ADVANCEMENT OF ISLAMIC COUNTRIES

The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.

They regard our advancement as a threat to the corrupt Zionist regime. They do not allow the countries of the region to tread on the path to progress and advancement.

They even oppose indigenous technologies in the Islamic countries and interpret any scientific advancement as a threat to the security of Qods occupier regime.

You can see how they treat our nation that has been able to have access to nuclear technology by relying on the innovations and creative minds of its own scientists.

Nuclear technology is one of the primary foundations for progress and serving the people, and in not too distant future, nations without this technology will have no choice but to resort to it in order to meet their growing energy needs and to use it for other scientific and economic purposes.

OFFENDING SANCTITIES AND DESTRUCTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

Offending the sanctity of al Aqsa mosque and demographic and physical alterations of Qods and al Aqsa mosque that are respected by all followers of divine monotheistic religions are the consequences of the Zionist occupation which has damaged these institutions and monotheism and precious heritage of humanity.

HOMELESSNESS OF INNOCENT PALESTINIANS

The homelessness of millions of Palestinian refugees and their forces displacement from their fatherland is a pain and brutality that cannot be explained in words.

EXCELLENCIES, DISTINGUISHED PARLIAMENTARIANS AND DEAR SISTERS AND BROTHERS

What I just briefly referred to are some of the dire consequences of the continued existence of this fictitious regime.
The question is: What is the philosophy and reasoning behind establishment and imposition of such a regime by certain Western powers? Some Western powers admit that they have killed a large part of Jewish population in Europe and founded the occupied regime in order to put right the wrong they had committed.

With deference to all nations and followers of divine religions, we are asking if this atrocity is true, then why the people of the region should pay for it by occupation of Palestinian lands and unending suppression of Palestinian people, by homelessness of millions of Palestinians, by destruction of their cities and rural areas and agricultural lands.

Why should they pay by fire, bullets and imposition of forces?

And why should they pay by tolerating occupation of Islamic lands? Are the consequences of the establishment of this regime less than the Holocaust you are claiming? If there are doubts regarding the Holocaust, there is really no doubt regarding Palestinian disaster and Holocaust. The Holocaust in Palestine has persisted for more than sixty years.
EXCELLENCIES, DEAR SISTERS AND BROTHERS The bitter truth is that the vast Zionist network has been at the service of the bullying powers for decades.

The Zionist regime is serving these powers to expand their domination and supremacy, and some weaker Western nations have succumbed to the pressures of the Zionists.

Today, it is not only the Palestinians the Islamic world that are affected by the Zionist threats, but also a large part of economic and political interests of the people in the West are also hostage by the Zionists.

I regret to say that governments under the influence of the Zionists in some European countries are making key positions and posts, financial, industrial and agricultural resources available to them for the sake of consolidating the pillars of their power.

They are prepared to sacrifice the freedom, dignity and honor of their citizens under the feet of the Zionists.

There is much to say regarding this matter that I will hopefully share with European people in due time.

The question of Palestine is not solely a question for the Muslim world. Today, the entire world is affected by it.

The tragedy of occupation in Palestine and daily atrocities has harmed the dignity and honor of humanity.

How can any free-minded people condone what is happening in the occupied territories? There have been many Palestinian people that have passed away yearning for return to their homes. And there are many Palestinian children who are living with the dream of returning to Palestine. What should be done? And how should we move forward?

Excellencies, Distinguished Sisters and Brothers, Peace and harmonious relations can only be based on towhid, human dignity and justice. Oppressions and aggressions are not compatible with human dignity and justice. The Zionist regime is a clear example of oppression and its fundamental nature represents actual and permanent threat. The very purpose behind the establishment of this regime was to put in place a permanent threat in the region. Therefore, the continued existence of this regime is premised on the persistence of this threat. It will have no existence without threat and aggression and it is not inherently capable to survive in an atmosphere of peace and tranquility. Even if it manages to remain in one square meter of the Palestinian land, it will continue to be a threat to the region.

Take a good look at the bullying powers of the world. When it comes to supporting the Zionist regime, they recognize no red line and boundaries for justice, human rights and human dignity. The usurper Zionist regime is the meeting point of the injustices and brutalities of the corrupt bullying powers.

Only a government chosen by the people can resolve the problem of Palestine and the people of the region. The right to govern belongs to all people of Palestine and they must decide the governing model of their choice and elect their own officials.

For this purpose, there must be an opportunity for all genuine Palestinians; be they Muslims, Christians, or Jews, residing in Palestine or in Diaspora, to participate in a referendum to decide the political system of their choice and elect their leaders.

In other words, the only rational way which is compatible with the generally recognized international norms is holding of a referendum for all genuine Palestinians.

The supporters of the Zionist regime prefer to remain silent in face of this reasonable proposition. But I tell them that regardless of what they desire, the Zionist regime is falling apart.

The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering. The Zionist regime is a decaying and crumbling tree that will fall with a storm. Today even the inhabitants of the occupied Palestine, especially the African and Asian settlers are living in ain, poverty and discontent.

I tell the governments supporting the Zionist regime to open the doors to the prisons in the occupied Palestine and allow the refugees and displaced Palestinians to return to their homeland and summon the usurpers of the Palestinian lands. If you still consider yourself indebted to them, then find a proper place for them in your own territories, if not call upon them to return to their countries of origin to live like their forefathers.

Ladies and Gentlemen "Today we are all accountable in facing the question of Palestine. The enemies of humanity are trying hard to keep this nest of intrigue. They are using the resources and the wealth of their people to keep this regime in power at the expense of the poverty and destitution of their people.

With the grace of the Almighty, nations of the world-- especially the Muslim nations,-- are awake and are the greatest supports of the Palestinian people in the struggle against the Zionist usurpers.

Islamic governments can solve the problem of Palestine by their unity and solidarity. The parliaments of countries can play an important role in awakening and forging unity among nations and by placing the question of Palestine in their permanent agenda.

The question of Palestine is the present and lasting concern of not only Muslims, but the entire humanity. Palestine is the meeting point of right and wrong. Freedom for Palestine is the present aspiration of humanity. We must believe that good will prevail and evil will disappear. We must believe that Palestine will be free soon.

A regime based on injustice and threat cannot survive. Today all conditions for the freedom of Palestine are on hand and available. Vigilance, unity and resistance are the keys to victory. The destiny of the region will be decided in the land of Al-Qods and it will be a great honour to share in the victory of Palestine.

I pray to the Almighty for the power and strength of the Muslim Ummah and the victory of Palestinian people. Once again I offer my congratulations on the auspicious birth of our dear prophet and thank the organizers of this conference. I thank all the dear guests and brothers and sisters and hope the results of this conference will be a long step forward in realizing the noble Palestinian cause."

Prayers for the People

2006-03-09T14:06:00.000-08:00

Much as the Whispering-Yeehadi is not a prayer or god person -- I am spiritual and believe in something I find hard to describe -- I thought this sermon was a beauty and reproduce it here for all of you. Enjoy and if you like it, spread it around.

By Helen Porter

Written for delivery at the service at Bloor Street United Church, Toronto, Canada, September 28, 2003, following the Craddock Event Sermon, which was titled:
Are Today’s Deceptions of Biblical Proportions? by Craddock Event leader Barrie Zwicker.

O God, today we give thanks for the opportunity to learn about alternative media and open our minds and hearts to stories and points of view that we never hear. Today, we have a chance to see how often we take the biased mainstream news as truth and never seek out the other untold facts.

We recognize how often we are silenced and numbed by the news story which reflects the values of the status quo, the powerful, protecting the interests of Big Business which controls the mainstream news.

We ask that we be more open and searching for the truth, and willing to seek out alternative perspectives.

We pray that our media may be inspired to have more courage to be different, to report alternative perspectives instead of writing what is safe, flippant, and acceptable.

Today we remember the events that have not been told honesty or been forgotten by the press. We think of the media spins in such situations as: Sept. 11 [9/11], War in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, AIDS in Africa, the SARS virus, the arrest of innocent people, the war in Iraq the war in Libya, the heat wave in France that killed so many elderly, the economic summit in Cancun, the ongoing war in Israel and Palestine.

We acknowledge that only a fragment of the story was communicated in each case and that we must search if we want to find a truer portrait of what is happening in the world.

We ask that you help us to imagine and seek out the untold stories of those who don’t matter in the media reporting: the women, children, men, elderly, poor, oppressed, sick, lowly paid workers, farmers who suffer in silence, unseen, and unread in the world.
Today we pray that crucial stories about the earth’s environment, its water and food resources, its trees, its animals and bird, its plant sand foliage be told more fully rather than being reduced in size and shuffled to the back pages.

Help us also not to be distracted by the media culture of today’s world, that shrinks its stories to fit the limited attention span of its viewers.

Give us the strength to choose what we read and watch with a view to understanding the plight and position of other peoples in other places.

Help us to be more independent and resilient in our thinking and beliefs that we may be aware of the truly important issues of our time.

We give thanks for the talents of Barrie Zwicker and his passion for justice and truth. We pray for activists everywhere who are dedicating their best energies and gifts to working on behalf of the dispossessed of the earth, but are mostly ignored in the media.

Give them renewed strength and courage to continue their fight to change the world and be heard. May we also spread this vision more clearly in what we say, what we think and what we do.

In Jesus’ name we ask this. Amen.

GLOBAL TERRORIST GO BACK!

2006-02-22T07:30:00.000-08:00

CPI(M) Starts Blogs to Boycott Bush's Visit to India campaign...

See text below cartoon

Bendib says it best...

Please visit this wonderful and honest cartoonist: http://www.bendib.com

A blog page has been started containing links of the blog pages as part of the campaign against President Bush's visit to India commencing March 2, 2006. The blog web page is at: http://gobackglobalterrorist.blogspot.com/
Anyone can create a blog of their own and mail it to the address given below. This is an endeavour to encourage people to create more blogs opposing Bush's visit to India. This campaign if carried out effectively should see a thousand links opposing Bush.
We are sure our subscribers will join us in this form of protest and help in mobilising wider sections of the people.

globalterroristgoback@gmail.com

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Something Rotten in the State of Denmark!

2006-02-06T04:03:00.000-08:00

DOUBLE STANDARD PERHAPS?!

This cartoon by an unusually perceptive cartoonist captures the feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide who have been protesting all over against the clearly anti-Islamic cartoons inciting hate against Muslims by depicting their prophet as an evil terrorist, published in the media of several European countries.

Need I recall that the cartoons started with a competition announced by the Jyllands-Posten, a leading daily newspaper in Denmark, which then published a dozen or so cartoons. One of them showed Prophet Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb and another shouting to suicide bombers to stop because he had run out of virgins in heaven to supply them. Clearly meant to incite hatred and ridicule against Muslims.

Regardless of who these are directed against, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, etc., such cartoons that incite such hatred and ridicule should have no place in the annals of modern human history. And people should not be allowed to hide behind the Western use-it-when-it-suits-me principle of a FreePress.

Enjoy this cartoon and do check out this artist's website by clicking here: Check-out-the-cartoon-book And spread his website. This cartoonist needs to be seen and heard worldwide.

The Real Story Behind Iran

2006-02-02T05:54:00.000-08:00

Before you believe all the politicized rubbish that is being handed to you about Iran by the Axis of Evil, the U.S., the U.K. and the EU, lead by George W. Bush, read the article published below by the Information Clearning House, a U.S. e-news distributor that is worth subscribing to -- it is free.

How many of you have heard of Iran's plan for a petro bourse in euros -- the competitor to the U.S. dollar -- rather than in US$? So far all oil transactions are done in U.S. dollars. Switch that to the euro and America has a major economic disaster on its hands! You're looking at a country with trillions in debt! It relies on the fact that all world oil transactions are pegged to its dollar.

Secondly, why sudddenly are we reading about so-called Iranian rebels in Khuzestan, the sliver at the south end of Iran which contains 90% of the country's oil? A bombing in which eight Iranians die and 45 are wounded? And Iran's official statement that it would release information soon that will link this to the British secret service, MI-6 (Military Intelligence-6), the cutthroat agency that continues to be used to murder simply to prop up Britain's continuing colonial imperialst goals, except now as the shoeshine boy to Uncle Sam. Was it a co-incidence that a few weeks earlier, two British commandos were caught with a truckfull of explosives dressed as Arabs in Basra, which is on the border with Iran?

Yes, the article below is right, the invasion of Iran is getting closer. The only thing missing in the article is the connection with Israel. Iran is now the only country left in the region that can take on Israel with ease, what with Iraq reduced to a U.S. protectorate and the rest busy gambling in Monaco. Israel and its lobbies in the U.S. and elsewhere in the Europe have a LARGE hand in manipulating the Christian Crusade we have been seeing September 11, 2001, against Islam. Let's not mince words here. It is a Christian Crusade against Muslims. Except Israel should realize that after the Muslims have been pummelled, it will be the turn of guess who!

Oh these White Western Devils (and I include Israel among them because Israelis are NOT Middle Easterners. They are Europeans!). Come on, it is common knowledge that Israel has scores of missiles with nuclear warheads and nuclear bombs. As do India and Pakistan, and none of these countries are being asked to empty their silos. Of course not, Israel is the policeman of the West in the Mideast, to check those A-Rabs. Pakistan is a U.S. ally in the so-called war against terror. India has a massively rich and middle class, a consumer group of about 300 million, that is the the sixth largest consumer bloc in the world! And guess whose goods they buy.

Check the cartoon below from one of my favourite cartoonists, Bendib and click on his website below the cartoon or later, I will repeat it after the article.

Here is Bendib's website: http://www.bendib.com/

Read the article below, pass it on and subscribe to the Information Clearing House by clicking on the ICH in the next paragraph:

Annexing Khuzestan; battle-plans for Iran
By Mike Whitney
02/01/06 "ICH" -- -- In less than 24 hours the Bush administration has won impressive victories on both domestic and foreign policy fronts. At home, the far-right Federalist Society alum, Sam Alito, has overcome the feeble resistance from Democratic senators; ensuring his confirmation to the Supreme Court. Equally astonishing, the administration has coerced both Russia and China into bringing Iran before the United Nations Security Council although (as Mohamed ElBaradei says) “There’s no evidence of a nuclear weapons program.” The surprising capitulation of Russia and China has forced Iran to abandon its efforts for further negotiations; cutting off dialogue that might diffuse the volatile situation.
“We consider any referral or report of Iran to the Security Council as the end of diplomacy,” Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told state television.
The administration’s success with Iran ends the diplomatic charade and paves the way for war. Now, UN Ambassador John Bolton will appear before the Security Council making spurious allegations of “noncompliance” that will rattle through the corporate media and prepare the world for unilateral military action. The administration has no hope of securing the votes needed for sanctions or punitive action. The trip to the Security Council is purely a ploy to provide the cover of international legitimacy to another act of unprovoked aggression. The case has gone as far as it will go excluding the requisite “touched up” satellite photos and bogus allegations of unreliable dissidents.
We should now be focused on how Washington intends to carry out its war plans, since war appears to be inevitable.
Those who doubt that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld team will attack Iran, while so conspicuously overextended in Iraq, are ignoring the subtleties of the administration’s Middle East strategy.
Bush has no intention of occupying Iran. Rather, the goal is to destroy major weapons-sites, destabilize the regime, and occupy a sliver of land on the Iraqi border that contains 90% of Iran’s oil wealth. Ultimately, Washington will aim to replace the Mullahs with American-friendly clients who can police their own people and fabricate the appearance of representative government. But, that will have to wait. For now, the administration must prevent the incipient Iran bourse (oil-exchange) from opening in March and precipitating a global sell-off of the debt-ridden dollar. There have many fine articles written about the proposed “euro-based” bourse and the devastating effects it will have on the greenback. The best of these are “Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar” by William R. Clark, and “The Proposed Oil Bourse” by Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D.
The bottom line on the bourse is this; the dollar is underwritten by a national debt that now exceeds $8 trillion dollars and trade deficits that surpass $600 billion per year. That means that the greenback is the greatest swindle in the history of mankind. It’s utterly worthless. The only thing that keeps the dollar afloat is that oil is traded exclusively in greenbacks rather than some other currency. If Iran is able to smash that monopoly by trading in petro-euros then the world’s central banks will dump the greenback overnight, sending markets crashing and the US economy into a downward spiral.
The Bush administration has no intention of allowing that to take place. In fact, as the tax-cuts and the budget deficits indicate, the Bush cabal fully intends to perpetuate the system that trades worthless dollars for valuable commodities, labor, and resources. As long as the oil market is married to the dollar, this system of global indentured servitude will continue.

In Fraud We Trust is the slogan for this deception greenback

Battle Plans
The Bush administration’s attention has shifted to a small province in southwestern Iran that is unknown to most Americans. Never the less, Khuzestan will become the next front in the war on terror and the lynchpin for prevailing in the global resource war. If the Bush administration can sweep into the region (under the pretext disarming Iran’s nuclear weapons programs) and put Iran’s prodigious oil wealth under US control, the dream of monopolizing Middle East oil will have been achieved.
Not surprisingly, this was Saddam Hussein’s strategy in 1980 when he initiated hostilities against Iran in a war that would last for eight years. Saddam was an American client at the time, so it is likely that he got the green-light for the invasion from the Reagan White House. Many of Reagan’s high-ranking officials currently serve in the Bush administration; notably Rumsfeld and Cheney.
Khuzestan represents 90% of Iran’s oil production. The control over these massive fields will force the oil-dependent nations of China, Japan and India to continue to stockpile greenbacks despite the currency’s dubious value. The annexing of Khuzestan will prevent Iran’s bourse from opening, thereby guaranteeing that the dollar will maintain its dominant position as the world’s reserve currency. As long as the dollar reigns supreme and western elites have their hands on the Middle East oil-spigot, the current system of exploitation through debt will continue into perpetuity. The administration can confidently prolong its colossal deficits without fear of a plummeting dollar. (In fact, the American war-machine and all its various appendages, from Guantanamo to Abrams Tanks, are paid for by the myriad nations who willingly hold reserves of American currency)
This extortion-scheme is typically referred to as the global economic system. In reality, it has nothing to do with either free markets or capitalism. That is just philosophical mumbo-jumbo. This is the dollar-system; predicated entirely on the ongoing monopoly of the oil trade in dollars.
Invading Khuzestan
In a recent article by Zolton Grossman, “Khuzestan; the First Front in the War on Iran?”, Grossman cites the Beirut Daily Star which predicts that the “"first step taken by an invading force would be to occupy Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan Province, securing the sensitive Straits of Hormuz and cutting off the Iranian military's oil supply, forcing it to depend on its limited stocks."
This strategy has been called the “Khuzestan Gambit”, and we can expect that some variant of this plan will be executed following the aerial bombardment of Iranian military installations and weapons sites. If Iran retaliates, then there is every reason to believe that either the United States or Israel will respond with low-yield, bunker-busting nuclear weapons. In fact, the Pentagon may want to demonstrate its eagerness to use nuclear weapons do deter future adversaries and to maintain current levels of troop deployments without a draft.
Tonkin Bay Redux
On January 28, 2006, Iranian officials announced that they would “hand over evidence that proved British involvement in bombings in the southern city of Ahvaz earlier in the week” that killed eight civilians and wounded 46 others. This was just one of the many bombings, incitements, and demonstrations that have taken place in Khuzestan in the last year that suggest foreign intervention. The action is strikingly similar to the 2 British commandoes who were apprehended in Basra a few months ago dressed as Arabs with a truckload of explosives during the week of religious festival.
Coincidence?
Perhaps.
But, step by step, Iran is being set up for war. What difference does the provocation make? The determination to consolidate the oil reserves in the Caspian Basin was made more than a decade ago and is clearly articulated in the policy papers produced by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) The Bush administration is one small province away from realizing the its dream of controlling the world’s most valued resource. They won’t let that opportunity pass them by.

Now here is Bendib's cartoon URL again, do check it out: Here is Bendib's website: http://www.bendib.com/

But here is another Bendib cartoon after Vice-President Dick Cheney shot a 'friend' with buckshot during a grouse hunt. And he is a Pax-Americana Emperor in the waiting!

I LOVE YOU HAROLD PINTER: Nobel Truths

2005-12-10T05:32:00.000-08:00

Art, truth and politics

To those of you who have followed Harold Pinter's plays -- a camera obscura of the human existence that tells us more about ourselves than many a philosophicial or religious discourse. A MUST read. I have selected here portions that are in keeping with the political nature of this blog. Enjoy and post your comments if you feel up to it. Oh! Amerika! when will you shed your devil's workshop and destroy false idols such as those of Ronald Reagan, the two Bush family members, etc. etc.

Art, truth and politics

Harold Pinter Thursday December 8, 2005

In 1958 I wrote the following:
'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.'
I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by them but as a citizen I cannot. As a citizen I must ask: What is true? What is false? ...

But as I have said, the search for the truth can never stop. It cannot be adjourned, it cannot be postponed. It has to be faced, right there, on the spot.

Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice. He must be prepared to approach them from a variety of angles, from a full and uninhibited range of perspectives, take them by surprise, perhaps, occasionally, but nevertheless give them the freedom to go which way they will. This does not always work. And political satire, of course, adheres to none of these precepts, in fact does precisely the opposite, which is its proper function. ...

Political language, as used by politicians, does not venture into any of this territory since the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.

As every single person here knows, the justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed a highly dangerous body of weapons of mass destruction, some of which could be fired in 45 minutes, bringing about appalling devastation. We were assured that was true. It was not true. We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Quaeda and shared responsibility for the atrocity in New York of September 11th 2001. We were assured that this was true. It was not true. We were told that Iraq threatened the security of the world. We were assured it was true. It was not true.

The truth is something entirely different. The truth is to do with how the United States understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it.

But before I come back to the present I would like to look at the recent past, by which I mean United States foreign policy since the end of the Second World War. I believe it is obligatory upon us to subject this period to at least some kind of even limited scrutiny, which is all that time will allow here.

Everyone knows what happened in the Soviet Union and throughout Eastern Europe during the post-war period: the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought. All this has been fully documented and verified.

But my contention here is that the US crimes in the same period have only been superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged, let alone recognised as crimes at all. I believe this must be addressed and that the truth has considerable bearing on where the world stands now. Although constrained, to a certain extent, by the existence of the Soviet Union, the United States' actions throughout the world made it clear that it had concluded it had carte blanche to do what it liked.

Direct invasion of a sovereign state has never in fact been America's favoured method. In the main, it has preferred what it has described as 'low intensity conflict'. Low intensity conflict means that thousands of people die but slower than if you dropped a bomb on them in one fell swoop. It means that you infect the heart of the country, that you establish a malignant growth and watch the gangrene bloom. When the populace has been subdued - or beaten to death - the same thing - and your own friends, the military and the great corporations, sit comfortably in power, you go before the camera and say that democracy has prevailed. This was a commonplace in US foreign policy in the years to which I refer.
The tragedy of Nicaragua was a highly significant case. I choose to offer it here as a potent example of America's view of its role in the world, both then and now.

I was present at a meeting at the US embassy in London in the late 1980s.
The United States Congress was about to decide whether to give more money to the Contras in their campaign against the state of Nicaragua. I was a member of a delegation speaking on behalf of Nicaragua but the most important member of this delegation was a Father John Metcalf. The leader of the US body was Raymond Seitz (then number two to the ambassador, later ambassador himself). Father Metcalf said: 'Sir, I am in charge of a parish in the north of Nicaragua. My parishioners built a school, a health centre, a cultural centre. We have lived in peace. A few months ago a Contra force attacked the parish. They destroyed everything: the school, the health centre, the cultural centre. They raped nurses and teachers, slaughtered doctors, in the most brutal manner. They behaved like savages. Please demand that the US government withdraw its support from this shocking terrorist activity.'

Raymond Seitz had a very good reputation as a rational, responsible and highly sophisticated man. He was greatly respected in diplomatic circles. He listened, paused and then spoke with some gravity. 'Father,' he said, 'let me tell you something. In war, innocent people always suffer.' There was a frozen silence. We stared at him. He did not flinch.
Innocent people, indeed, always suffer.

Finally somebody said: 'But in this case "innocent people" were the victims of a gruesome atrocity subsidised by your government, one among many. If Congress allows the Contras more money further atrocities of this kind will take place. Is this not the case? Is your government not therefore guilty of supporting acts of murder and destruction upon the citizens of a sovereign state?'

Seitz was imperturbable. 'I don't agree that the facts as presented support your assertions,' he said.

As we were leaving the Embassy a US aide told me that he enjoyed my plays. I did not reply.

I should remind you that at the time President Reagan made the following statement: 'The Contras are the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.'
The United States supported the brutal Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua for over 40 years. The Nicaraguan people, led by the Sandinistas, overthrew this regime in 1979, a breathtaking popular revolution.

The Sandinistas weren't perfect. They possessed their fair share of arrogance and their political philosophy contained a number of contradictory elements. But they were intelligent, rational and civilised. They set out to establish a stable, decent, pluralistic society. The death penalty was abolished. Hundreds of thousands of poverty-stricken peasants were brought back from the dead. Over 100,000 families were given title to land. Two thousand schools were built. A quite remarkable literacy campaign reduced illiteracy in the country to less than one seventh. Free education was established and a free health service. Infant mortality was reduced by a third. Polio was eradicated.

The United States denounced these achievements as Marxist/Leninist subversion. In the view of the US government, a dangerous example was being set. If Nicaragua was allowed to establish basic norms of social and economic justice, if it was allowed to raise the standards of health care and education and achieve social unity and national self respect, neighbouring countries would ask the same questions and do the same things. There was of course at the time fierce resistance to the status quo in El Salvador.

I spoke earlier about 'a tapestry of lies' which surrounds us. President Reagan commonly described Nicaragua as a 'totalitarian dungeon'. This was taken generally by the media, and certainly by the British government, as accurate and fair comment. But there was in fact no record of death squads under the Sandinista government. There was no record of torture. There was no record of systematic or official military brutality. No priests were ever murdered in Nicaragua. There were in fact three priests in the government, two Jesuits and a Maryknoll missionary. The totalitarian dungeons were actually next door, in El Salvador and Guatemala. The United States had brought down the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954 and it is estimated that over 200,000 people had been victims of successive military dictatorships.

Six of the most distinguished Jesuits in the world were viciously murdered at the Central American University in San Salvador in 1989 by a battalion of the Alcatl regiment trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, USA. That extremely brave man Archbishop Romero was assassinated while saying mass. It is estimated that 75,000 people died. Why were they killed? They were killed because they believed a better life was possible and should be achieved. That belief immediately qualified them as communists. They died because they dared to question the status quo, the endless plateau of poverty, disease, degradation and oppression, which had been their birthright.

The United States finally brought down the Sandinista government. It took some years and considerable resistance but relentless economic persecution and 30,000 dead finally undermined the spirit of the Nicaraguan people. They were exhausted and poverty stricken once again. The casinos moved back into the country. Free health and free education were over. Big business returned with a vengeance. 'Democracy' had prevailed.

But this 'policy' was by no means restricted to Central America. It was conducted throughout the world. It was never-ending. And it is as if it never happened.

The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.

Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn't know it.

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.

I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road. Brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless it may be but it is also very clever. As a salesman it is out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self love. It's a winner. Listen to all American presidents on television say the words, 'the American people', as in the sentence, 'I say to the American people it is time to pray and to defend the rights of the American people and I ask the American people to trust their president in the action he is about to take on behalf of the American people.'

It's a scintillating stratagem. Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable. This does not apply of course to the 40 million people living below the poverty line and the 2 million men and women imprisoned in the vast gulag of prisons, which extends across the US.

The United States no longer bothers about low intensity conflict. It no longer sees any point in being reticent or even devious. It puts its cards on the table without fear or favour. It quite simply doesn't give a damn about the United Nations, international law or critical dissent, which it regards as impotent and irrelevant. It also has its own bleating little lamb tagging behind it on a lead, the pathetic and supine Great Britain.

What has happened to our moral sensibility? Did we ever have any? What do these words mean? Do they refer to a term very rarely employed these days - conscience? A conscience to do not only with our own acts but to do with our shared responsibility in the acts of others? Is all this dead? Look at Guantanamo Bay. Hundreds of people detained without charge for over three years, with no legal representation or due process, technically detained forever. This totally illegitimate structure is maintained in defiance of the Geneva Convention. It is not only tolerated but hardly thought about by what's called the 'international community'. This criminal outrage is being committed by a country, which declares itself to be 'the leader of the free world'. Do we think about the inhabitants of Guantanamo Bay? What does the media say about them? They pop up occasionally - a small item on page six. They have been consigned to a no man's land from which indeed they may never return. At present many are on hunger strike, being force-fed, including British residents. No niceties in these force-feeding procedures. No sedative or anaesthetic. Just a tube stuck up your nose and into your throat. You vomit blood. This is torture. What has the British Foreign Secretary said about this? Nothing. What has the British Prime Minister said about this? Nothing. Why not? Because the United States has said: to criticise our conduct in Guantanamo Bay constitutes an unfriendly act. You're either with us or against us. So Blair shuts up.

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading - as a last resort - all other justifications having failed to justify themselves - as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.

We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'.

How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice. But Bush has been clever. He has not ratified the International Criminal Court of Justice. Therefore if any American soldier or for that matter politician finds himself in the dock Bush has warned that he will send in the marines. But Tony Blair has ratified the Court and is therefore available for prosecution. We can let the Court have his address if they're interested. It is Number 10, Downing Street, London.

Death in this context is irrelevant. Both Bush and Blair place death well away on the back burner. At least 100,000 Iraqis were killed by American bombs and missiles before the Iraq insurgency began. These people are of no moment. Their deaths don't exist. They are blank. They are not even recorded as being dead. 'We don't do body counts,' said the American general Tommy Franks.

Early in the invasion there was a photograph published on the front page of British newspapers of Tony Blair kissing the cheek of a little Iraqi boy. 'A grateful child,' said the caption. A few days later there was a story and photograph, on an inside page, of another four-year-old boy with no arms. His family had been blown up by a missile. He was the only survivor. 'When do I get my arms back?' he asked. The story was dropped. Well, Tony Blair wasn't holding him in his arms, nor the body of any other mutilated child, nor the body of any bloody corpse. Blood is dirty. It dirties your shirt and tie when you're making a sincere speech on television.

The 2,000 American dead are an embarrassment. They are transported to their graves in the dark. Funerals are unobtrusive, out of harm's way. The mutilated rot in their beds, some for the rest of their lives. So the dead and the mutilated both rot, in different kinds of graves.

Here is an extract from a poem by Pablo Neruda, 'I'm Explaining a Few Things':

And one morning all that was burning,
one morning the bonfires
leapt out of the earth
devouring human beings
and from then on fire,
gunpowder from then on,
and from then on blood.
Bandits with planes and Moors,
bandits with finger-rings and duchesses,
bandits with black friars spattering blessings
came through the sky to kill children
and the blood of children ran through the streets
without fuss, like children's blood.
Jackals that the jackals would despise
stones that the dry thistle would bite on and spit out,
vipers that the vipers would abominate.
Face to face with you I have seen the blood
of Spain tower like a tide
to drown you in one wave
of pride and knives.
Treacherous
generals:
see my dead house,
look at broken Spain:
from every house burning metal flows
instead of flowers
from every socket of Spain
Spain emerges
and from every dead child a rifle with eyes
and from every crime bullets are born
which will one day find
the bull's eye of your hearts.
And you will ask: why doesn't his poetry
speak of dreams and leaves
and the great volcanoes of his native land.
Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see
the blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood
in the streets! *

And you will ask: why doesn't his poetryspeak of dreams and leavesand the great volcanoes of his native land.

Come and see the blood in the streets. Come and seethe blood in the streets. Come and see the bloodin the streets! *

Let me make it quite clear that in quoting from Neruda's poem I am in no way comparing Republican Spain to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. I quote Neruda because nowhere in contemporary poetry have I read such a powerful visceral description of the bombing of civilians.

I have said earlier that the United States is now totally frank about putting its cards on the table. That is the case. Its official declared policy is now defined as 'full spectrum dominance'. That is not my term, it is theirs. 'Full spectrum dominance' means control of land, sea, air and space and all attendant resources.

The United States now occupies 702 military installations throughout the world in 132 countries, with the honourable exception of Sweden, of course. We don't quite know how they got there but they are there all right.
The United States possesses 8,000 active and operational nuclear warheads. Two thousand are on hair trigger alert, ready to be launched with 15 minutes warning. It is developing new systems of nuclear force, known as bunker busters. The British, ever cooperative, are intending to replace their own nuclear missile, Trident. Who, I wonder, are they aiming at? Osama bin Laden? You? Me? Joe Dokes? China? Paris? Who knows? What we do know is that this infantile insanity - the possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons - is at the heart of present American political philosophy. We must remind ourselves that the United States is on a permanent military footing and shows no sign of relaxing it.

Many thousands, if not millions, of people in the United States itself are demonstrably sickened, shamed and angered by their government's actions, but as things stand they are not a coherent political force - yet. But the anxiety, uncertainty and fear which we can see growing daily in the United States is unlikely to diminish.

I know that President Bush has many extremely competent speech writers but I would like to volunteer for the job myself. I propose the following short address which he can make on television to the nation. I see him grave, hair carefully combed, serious, winning, sincere, often beguiling, sometimes employing a wry smile, curiously attractive, a man's man.

'God is good. God is great. God is good. My God is good. Bin Laden's God is bad. His is a bad God. Saddam's God was bad, except he didn't have one. He was a barbarian. We are not barbarians. We don't chop people's heads off. We believe in freedom. So does God. I am not a barbarian. I am the democratically elected leader of a freedom-loving democracy. We are a compassionate society. We give compassionate electrocution and compassionate lethal injection. We are a great nation. I am not a dictator. He is. I am not a barbarian. He is. And he is. They all are. I possess moral authority. You see this fist? This is my moral authority. And don't you forget it.'

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection - unless you lie - in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

I have referred to death quite a few times this evening. I shall now quote a poem of my own called 'Death'.

Where was the dead body found?
Who found the dead body?
Was the dead body dead when found?
How was the dead body found?
Who was the dead body?
Who was the father or daughter or brother
Or uncle or sister or mother or son
Of the dead and abandoned body?
Was the body dead when abandoned?
Was the body abandoned?
By whom had it been abandoned?
Was the dead body naked or dressed for a journey?
What made you declare the dead body dead?
Did you declare the dead body dead?
How well did you know the dead body?
How did you know the dead body was dead?
Did you wash the dead body
Did you close both its eyes
Did you bury the body
Did you leave it abandoned
Did you kiss the dead body

When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror - for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.

I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.

If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man.

* Extract from "I'm Explaining a Few Things" translated by Nathaniel Tarn, from Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems, published by Jonathan Cape, London 1970. Used by permission of The Random House Group Limited.

© The Nobel Foundation 2005

Weep humans with America dancing in your eyes. For all you know is a heap of broken images created with a camera demential in the White House of Satan.

2005-12-07T08:52:00.000-08:00

Democracy! What Democracy!

We saw it in Algeria, where more than a decade ago, the Islamist party swept the first ever fair elections held in that country. The CIA immediately made sure that the army annulled the elections and took power, leading to a blood insurgency pitting the army against Muslim rebels. The brutal insurgency continues. Of course, the Muslims have got a bad name when there is documented evidence that most of the brutal rapes and murders of entire villages and areas were committed by the army or its henchmen and then blamed on the Muslim rebels. An old CIA tactic.

Now we are seeing it in Egypt, its first free elections, so-called, where the banned Muslim Brotherhood's candidates are making huge gains against the the U.S. puppet government of Hosni Mubarak, a brutal dictator by any other name. We are reading reports of government folks with machetes and knives outside polling stations where there is even more MB support. The army and the police firing tear gas into people demanding to vote at polling stations where Mubarak's storm troopers know there is MB support.

And in Iraq, democracy U.S. style ... well read the other posts on this blog.

What is this fear of Islamic parties taking over? Isn't it better to let them take over through a proper democratic process, get them hooked to surviving only in relationships with the rest of the world, economically and politically, and then nudge them toward evolving toward the kind of equality and reforms we have already arrived at in the West? The same as Europe did with the old Soviet Union?

The other alternative is what the CIA did in Algeria and elsewhere and we still see the repercussions via 9/11 and more to come, believe me.

The US does not learn. It is now targeting somebody I believe is the socialist Messiah of the 21st Century, Hugo Chavez, the firebrand president of Venezuela, the world's fifth largest oil producer. One saw it in the filthy rich of Venezuela, who own most of the land, boycotting the elections held this week in which Chavez's party and those that support him won a landslide. The rich and their parties claimed fraud even when the European Union and the Organization of America States monitored the vote. The US quickly said it is 'worried' about democracy in Venezuela. Of course it is. Chavez is expropriating land and giving it to peasants to grow food and providing them, as Qaddafi (Ghaddafi) of Libya did with the infrastructure to market their food. He has toppled US plans to set up a free trade zone in South America where the White Houe of Satan would be king. He hangs out with Fidel Castro. He has openly stated that the CIA is out to assassinate him. He has openly stated that the US will cause turmoil in his country as it did in the past in Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, where scholar and commentator Noam Chomsky says US trained hencemen killed so many innocent people that America should be tried for genocide and war crimes at the international court of justice.

And America now wants to teach the world what democracy is all about! Really, a country where two parties, one a lesser evil that the other, have a hegemony on democracy, where you cannot get elected as president if you do not have access to millions upon millions of dollars, where you would be jailed for saying that Osama bin Laden makes some sense and needs to be considered, where freedom extends as far as your bank account, where the infant mortality rate in the ghettoes of WAshington, DC, is lower than that of Bangla Desh, where money talks and it does not tell the truth ... is teaching its form of democracy to the world?

Venezuela is scary. It is was this type of worry expressed by America about democracy that led to the illegal American invasion of Iraq and we are seeing the consequences. It was a similar boycott by the rich and their parties that led to henchman trained by the CIA murdering the democracatically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, who like Chavez was an admirer and friend of the people's president, Fidel Castro.

Are Hugo Chavez's day's numbered? I think so. When the CIA gets into action, it's game over, because it, like American foreign policy, does not stop at anything, murder, assasination, mayhem, mini-genocides, everything in the name of protecting the interests of that sickly looking pedophiliac image, Uncle Sam.

Oh boy. Where is the old Soviet Union when you need it. Why didn't the Soviets have a leader like Mao Zedong? I can hardly wait for China to rise even higher and challenge the US, which is now sucking India into its trap, to emerge and challenge China. Isn't that why the White House of Satan lifted its nuclear freeze with India and signed a deal under which it began retransferring nuclear technology to India? Even though India still refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty? Only the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) wrote a large position paper about this treaty and attacked New Delhi. Read it on its website. Also read its analysis of the US-India trade and other deals. Quite an eye opener when Indian pilots are taking part in joint exercises with US Air Force pilots in Alaska and with Israeli pilots in the Himalayas. Where is all this headed?

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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAD! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAD! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAD!

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

2005-11-18T15:33:00.000-08:00

Good Muslim / Bad Muslim = Pro-Amerika / Anti-Amerika

Yes, it has been a while since I posted and I promise to be more regular.

Here goes. I attended a lecture yesterday, Nov. 17, 2005, that was the equivalent of reading a dozen books. It also left me with information that blew my mind and exposed the diabolical nature of the CIA and the American government. Could Ayatolah Khomeini (Khomaini) have been right when he called the White House the Home of Satan (Shaitan in Arabic) and the President Shaitan al Buzurg (The senior most diablo)?

The lecture was given by Professor Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government Director, Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. It was in Toronto, hosted by the Canadian Institute of Internatonal Affairs (CIIA = no link to the devil’s workshop whose name misses one ‘I’). The title of the lecture: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim : Culture and Politics in the Post 9/11 World.” This is also the title of his book. It was being sold at the lecture by the Toronto Women's Book Store. The lecture by the way was sponsored believe it or not by the Bank of Montreal (BMO). I wonder how they felt about sponsoring what he had to say after the lecture was over. Toward the end, all the Muslims and non-Muslims present partook of red and white wine courtesy of the rich bank. I too partook of the forbidden (haraam or non-kosher) juice (Islam bans all intoxicants) given that I love wine and remember that I am NOT a practising Muslim hence wine, beer, scotch et al is perfectly Kosher for me.

However, I am not going to post the entire lecture here, but simply give you my take-aways from this packed gathering.

What not only remained with me but left me surprised, astonished, and in total puzzlement how a country’s government can totally lose all conscience when it comes to its world interests, its scheme for world domination perhaps? Could it really be true for America that it has no permanent friends and no permanent enemeies? Just permanent interests? Think of how it has now begun supplying nuclear know-how to India, the so called largest democracy with 75 per cent illiteracy and the majority of its people not knowing where their next meal is coming from? While the rest live in decadent luxury and surf the net!

Okay, let's go back in time. The setting is Afghanistan. The Soviet Union is occupying this country and the U.S. under Reagan sees the opportunity to finally stick it to the Soviets, regardless of who falls in the way or what the eventual coutcome. Now you’ve all heard of the infamous Madrassa or the Islamic school. You’ve been told by the media, including such big names as The New York Times and the Washington Post and the London Times that these Islamic schools with their fundamentalist Muslim teachings mixed in with everyday knowledge are the breeding grounds of Islamic terrorism and especially suicide bombings. Anytime you hear of a Muslim being arrested anwhere in the Western world and you hear that the accused had “attended a Madrassa” the immediately connection is that the person is more than likely guilty and could blow himself or herself up in the name of Allah. Allah by the way is not a special god but a generic god, simply speaking it is Arabic for god with a small 'g'.

Listen to Professor Mamdani:

[Ronald] Reagan made another big change. That was to bring the language of religion into politics. In a speech before the National Association of Evangelicals, Reagan dubbed the Soviet Union as the “evil empire.” I think it is important to understand the political uses of the language of evil. The war against evil has to be a permanent war. You cannot coexist with evil. You must destroy evil or be destroyed. And in the fight
against evil any alliance is permissible because nothing is worse than evil. You can hear echoes of [Bush's] war on terror.

One must remember as Mamdani points out that Reagan first of all established some very immoral alliances, with murderous regimes such as the White regime in South Africa that promoted apartheid - the one backed by an extremist conservative segment of the Dutch Reformed Church which promotes the idea that the Blacks = Cain, the evil one, and the Whites = Abel, the good son who was murdered by Cain. It was this that caused extreme fundamentalist evangelical Christians to support Apartheid. Reagan also allied with the Portuguese-backed Renamo in Angola, another brutal movement whose horrors inflicted on Angolans, especially young boys and girls, are too horrible to repeat here. And with the Contras in Nicaragua, another bunch of murderous thugs and drug dealers.

Then, his administration began to create a religious army, a Muslim army of mujahids or holy fighters, to drive out the godless Soviets. The CIA got Osama bin Laden and began using him for recruitment and training, providing the most sophisticated equipment and training, including surface to air rockets. As we all know, when the Soviets were driven out, the Soviet Union crumbled and the CIA lost interest in Afghanistan and Muslims, Osama didn't. He took his mujahid training seriously and turned his guns on his trainers. In Afghanistan when Soviets were still there, the CIA did more than just train a religious army with Bin Laden. Listen to this bit from Professor Mamdani’s lecture:

An entire network of schools was created to train these cadres. They were called madrassas, but they were a gross mutation of the historical madrassa. Often the curriculum of the madrassa was a joint enterprise between Americans, Saudis, and Pakistanis. I will give you an example from my book [Good Muslim, Bad Muslim]. USAID gave a grant of 50 million USD to the University of Nebraska to write textbooks for madrassas. Here is a question from a grade three mathematics textbook: “One group of mujahideen attack fifty Russian soldiers. In that attack twenty Russians are killed, how many Russians fled?” It's a simple question: 50-20=30. The grade four textbook ups the ante: “The speed of a Kalashnikov bullet is 80 m. per second. If a Russian is at a distance of 3,200 m from a mujahid and that
mujahid aims at the Russian’s head, calculate how many seconds it will take for the bullet to strike the Russian in the forehead.” That is, 3,200 divided by 800 = 4. But the question says much more.

Huh! Did you know this? I sure as hell didn’t? This left me dumbfounded. How on earth could a nation live with such cold-blooded brainwashing on its conscience? And this is the only superpower left in the world? Is this superpower our future? Is there no way to contain the diabolical plots being hatched in the White Hosue? At the CIA? What length would it go to so as to have its way?

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Just one more take-away although I would love to tell you about the Sudan and Darfur and what Mamdani calls the American plan to divide the African continent into the Black Africans and the Arab Africans and of course in the grand old tradition of colonialism, conquer it in the sense of controlling it. These days, as Enron has recently started saying in its rebirth, you don’ need to own assets. You just need to control assets.

The final Mamdani takeaway: How the Western media has been totally coopted. Very simple, Richard Nixon and others learned the hard way after being forced to withdraw from Vietnam, that it was probably more important to win the war in their own country as much as it was to win it in the battlefield. It was the uprising of peaceniks in America that forced its troops out of Vietnam. Well, this time around, in Aghanistan, but more so in Iraq, it would take care of this through a technique called ‘embedding’. Simply speaking, it gave reporters and the camera people the chance to hang out with the troops in action and be ‘one of the boys’. There were guidelines and restrictions on coverage of course, but the payola can be seen in a media that kow-tows to the administration at every turn. Where do you think the concept of Good Muslim Bad Muslim and the War on Terror come from? How have their become common idioms, household words, accepted practice, without any questions? Bribe the media into being in a positiion from where they could achieve person glory through reporting and photography awards of course! Thank the goddess that a lot of the remaining media exposed this hollowness and coopting. But hey the media today - what with the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and the soon-to-come Iran - is not the same as what one read during the Vietname war, which I did by looking up archieves and reading books.

Two more paragraphs from Mamdani and then it is ciao for now:

When the event we know as 9/11 happened, I was in New York City. As the weeks rolled by, and I read the American Press to try and make sense of the kind of debate that was developing, I was struck by reports that more and more Americans were going to bookshops to buy copies of the Koran to understand the motivation of those who hijacked the planes, and drove them into the Twin Towers. Soon the New York Times was telling us that the Koran was amongst one of the highest selling books in American bookshops. After some time there was the American invasion of Afghanistan and then of Iraq. I wondered how many Afghanis and Iraqis were going to bookshops to buy copies of the Bible to gain an understanding into the motivation of those who were dropping bombs on them. Like others, I new that President Bush claimed to have a direct connection with God and claimed to be inspired from above. And, yet, I somehow did not think that many Afghanis or Iraqis were going to the Bible to find a clue as to why America was bombing them. So I asked myself - why the difference.

The difference, I realized, was due to the nature of the public debate in the U.S. Key intellectuals like Samuel Huntington at Harvard University and Bernard Lewis at Princeton University, even though they define opposite points of a debate, share a common ground which has come to be translated as “common sense” in the U.S. And
that common sense is that there is a difference between Americans (or the West)
and the rest, in particular Muslims. And the difference, it is claimed, is
that you can read the politics of Muslims from their culture. That in
America and the West culture is about creativity; that culture is historical in
America and the West; that the attitude of Westerners towards their own culture is self-reflexive; that they separate out the good from the bad; they build on the good, they correct the bad; their culture develops historically. But it is said that for Muslims this is not the case. Except for a founding prophetic moment and some monuments, Muslims are simply born into a culture, and are said to live it like a destiny. They wear it as a badge; they suffer from it like a twitch; maybe a desert fever or a tropical fever. Their culture is not historical; they are condemned to live it and to pass it on from one generation to another. So Samuel Huntington argued that we are at the
onset of “a clash of civilizations,” that the Cold War was a timid affair because it was a civil war inside the West - a parochial affair; that the real war, the war between civilizations, is coming, and at its core, this will be a war with Islam. And from this point of view there is no such person as a “good” Muslim: every Muslim is potentially bad.

If there was any gaping hold in Professor Mamdani's lecture, it was this: There was NO mention of Israel and its role in shaping the Muslim image. Come on professor, you cannot be that afraid of the Israeli lobby! Are you that scared of losing your Lehman professorship? And your position at Columbia University where recently a professor was accused of anti-semitism because he talked to his class about the torture and repression carried out by the storm-troopers of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF)? Let's face it, if Washington is the home of the devil then its single biggest helper and benefactor that receives billions of dollars in aid (aid? Israel?) is Israel. Hence, Israel to me becomes the handmaiden of the diablos in Washington!

Okay, so, with the media gone, with Michael Moore being taken less and less seriously and more as a comedian who makes a few points that can be discarded during the first local town parade, with Israel exerting enough pressure to zip influential lips at universities, in the media, in government, in public life, what are we left with. Indeed what are we left with …

Gloominess O Gloominess who will tell the tale! Yeehad and the Whispering Yehaadi promise to do their best. And post some more pleasantries to shake you up.

CIA=666 ==> Setting Al-Qaida against Shias

2005-09-15T18:18:00.000-07:00

Is it just me?
Can the rest of you not see what is going on in Iraq?
The news today convinced me that as the Evil Empire (the US of A) tightens the noose around Iran, the CIA continues with its long-term plan of pitting the Sunnis (almost 90% of Muslims worldwide) against the Shias (almost 10%). I believe that this is being done throug Al-Qaida, the organization that everyone has come to associate with evil incarnate, when in fact it is being run like a puppet by CIA spymasters. Consider this news story today:

Iraq's al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has declared "all-out war" on Shia Muslims in Iraq in response to a US-Iraqi offensive on the town of Tal Afar, according to an audio clip posted on the internet.
"The al-Qaeda Organisation in the Land of Two Rivers (Iraq) is declaring all-out war on the Rafidha (a pejorative term for Shia), wherever they are in Iraq," said the voice which could not be immediately verified but sounded like previous recordings
attributed to al-Zarqawi.
"As for the government, servants of the crusaders headed by Ibrahim al-Jaafari, they have declared a war on Sunnis in
Tal Afar," the clip added.
Earlier on Wednesday, al-Qaida said in an internet posting it
was waging a nationwide suicide bombing campaign to avenge the military offensive on Tal Afar as a string of explosions in Baghdad killed at least 150 people.

It is the oldest strategy in the world, the one employed so well by the British in India -- divide and rule, pit the Sunnis against the Shias. Zarqawi as the CIA puppet has declared war on the Shias, the majority in Iraq. Already in Pakistan, which is nothing but a puppet state of the CIA, the Sunnis have been bombing Shia mosques, blowing up hundreds of Shias.

Any Muslim with any sense of his or her history knows that the Mohammed's concept of Ummah -- a world community of Muslims united in their religion -- is not going to be built when these two sects are at each other's throats. But the question is why would the CIA want to keep the two apart? Why would it want to divide them? Why would it want to make sure that Mohammed's Ummah does not become a reality? Why would it galvanize first of all the feminist movement against the Muslims, creating a furore over the veil, the hijab, other female values in the Koran? Why would it then galvanize the left, or what's left of it, against the so called fundamentalists?

I would suggest that the first reason is that if the Muslim ummah or world community became a reality, it would be a major headache for the global capitalist system as we know it, which by the way incudes the kingdoms of the Gulf States and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (kingdoms by the way are illegal under Islam).

For instance, while the Christians and Jews have largely given up on this, the true Muslims take the ban on usury seriously and the giving or taking of interest such as in credit cards and other loans and mortgages is haram or outlawed. Money is loaned at a risk. If the the business receiving the money makes a profit, the lender shares in this and vice versa.

Kingdoms are also haram and a state is meant to be run on ijma or consensus.

But the west needs an enemy and Islam is it now that the Communists are busy making a profit from what were people's enterprises.

My take: The al-Qaida is a CIA run organization (not directly but through proxies). It blows up the twin towers and the US can invade Afghanistan and as it hunts terrorists it completes a pipeline to carry oil built by US oil companies. It invades Iraq on false pretext and controls the second largest oil reserves. It will now neutralize the only threat to Israel in the region, Iran, and as a prelude sets up Shia and Sunnis against each other in Iraq.

Bottom Line: CIA = 666 = the evil empire = al-Qaidi

If only Osama and Zarqawi knew who is pulling the strings and goading them on, the history of the world might proceed differently. Hey, maybe Zarqawi does know and enjoys the wealth that is being accumulated for him.

I smell a rat here being hatched somewhere between the White House and Company HQ in Virginia. Think about all this and the mayhem in the world starts making sense. Think of who the winners are and who the losers are.

This has got to be the most disgusting time in human history. Muslims are set soon to become the pariahs of the world, hated, hunted, shunted, and show the doors to the gas chambers. And with the media image that is carefully being created for them, no one will bat an eyelid. In the eyes of the world, it will not be a holocaust, it will be a necessary extermination, hijab, fez cap and all.

Oh how I hate religon and the woes it has caused over the centuries. And now George Ghengiz Bush and his born-again crazies and going to repeat some of the worst excesses committed in the name of the god that they believe is not just supreme but is a man!

Stay Tuned for more thoughts from the whispering yeehadi!

The Hand Behind the Scene...

2005-08-17T05:08:00.000-07:00

I read an op-ed opinion piece in the Toronto Star this morning about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia planning to destroy the home of Prophet Mohammed. The article also mentioned a Saudi architect based in Washington (read CIA, perhaps!) saying that since 1932, the rulers of Saudi Arabia, who follow the Islam of Abdul Wahab -- literally the Calvin of Islam -- have destroyed scores of old buildings in Mecca and now intend to destroy the home where the prophet got his revelation. Which is wrong, because the religion, according to local history, was first revealed to him in the desert when he was on a caravan -- at the time he was an employee of the woman whom he would later marry, Khadija, one of his first converts to the new religion and the owner of the caravan company.

Why is all this news suddenly surfacing now, when it has been going on since 1932, if we are to believe the writer in the Toronto Star quoting the architect, Salim Angawi, recently discovered by the media and the Independent newspaper in Britain? Did the western media have no regard for Islamic architecture prior to 9/11 and before the crusade that George Bush launched against Islam (the enemy that replaced Communism after the unfortunate fall of the Soviet Union), prodded on by the evangelical churches of America?

For starters, I am no fan of the Saudi regime or of any religious regime or government for that matter, because I fervently believe that religion has been responsible for some of the most heinous massacres in history and the sooner the human race sheds religion and simply retains its universal principles, the better. But this focus on the old buildings of Mecca, along with other sudden bursts of news coverage that puts the spotlight on Islam and Muslims in a negative light, seem to suddenly surface every now and then. And writers like the one who wrote the Toronto Star article seem to be easy preys for the Hand that is motivating this -- they will tag along for personal glory at the expense of more than a quarter of humanity being stereotyped as terrorists, fundamentalists, crazies, what have you.

Is this constructive? Sure, there are legitimate news stories, such as the destruction of the ancient sand constructed, gorgeous Buddhist statues in Afghanistan by the Neanderthal fundamentalist Taliban regime. But they threatened to destroy them, the media reacted, the world reacted, the US and UK did not send in the marines or the special op forces, and the Taliban did destroy them. But Saudi Arabia's "historic sites"? Why is all this news coverage suddenly happening to this stalwart friend and ally of the US and Britain now?

Let's examine the spate of anti-Saudi rhetoric in the western media lately, when the media should have gone after this country's fascist regime years and years ago. But of course, at the time, there was no Hand to feed the media such material. Does the Hand have a master plan? For starters, such news sows total dissension among Muslims at a time when they could benefit being together and progressing to the next stage of their cultural and religious development -- a natural development that was thwarted thanks to western colonial conquests of their countries. The Shiites (10% of Muslims) are mad as hell at the destruction report because they believe in symbols and structures and images. Some other non-Wahabi Muslims will no doubt fume even though the prophet makes it very clear as does Islam that treating anyone's earthly possessions as a shrine of sorts is taboo. Even graves are supposed to be unmarked so as to avoid ancestor worship. Soon, news stories such as these will exacerbate the divisions among Muslims. What a perfect scheme? Didn't the British use it to divide and rule in India?

Of course, the writer in the Star uses the clichéd metaphor from Hamlet... something rotten in the kingdom... and not all the perfumes of Arabia can wipe out the stench of blood... Arabia of course, it all boils down to Arabia for the Hand. There are two reasons for this, one is of course oil, and the Hand is patting George Bush's back for securing the second largest oil reserves in the world (Iraq) and for using the American Marines and Special Forces to secure a portion of Afghanistan and complete the pipeline that brings oil from Kazakhstan and vicinity to a port in Pakistan. Hameed Karzai, the US-installed president of Afghanistan, is a former director of one of the American oil companies that is involved in building this 1,040 kilometre pipeline. He was Handpicked as were UNOCAL and the other oil companies.

And the other is for the Hand to make sure that there is no coming together of Muslims everywhere given that they control the largest oil reserves, the fuel that feeds the engine of western domination. They also take seriously the Biblical precept against usury (the Koran is largely a rewrite of the Old Testament). Hence, in an Islamic state, banks would not be allowed to charge interest and would have to base their fees on the profit and loss situation of the business to which they lend, and credit cards would not be allowed to fleece individuals by asking them to take their own sweet time to pay. More on this economic threat in some later blog.

Personally, I would rather see countries such as Saudi Arabia behave like Burraq, the fire at the end of a lightning bolt, the name of the Arabian steed (totally mythological of course) that carried Mohammed to meet god, strike a sudden Burraqi deal with Israel, unify Arabia as T.E. Lawrence had envisaged except this time around it would involve Israeli technology and brains, take over the world and unseat the Hand. Come on Saudi Arabia, build a pipeline right into Israel-Palestine and change the history of the world.

Pipe dreams! But there is something rotten happening in the world and only the Hand can provide an answer! You and I are both under the shadow of this Hand. The media is under the shadow of this Hand. Maybe we need to chop off this Hand!

Yeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaad!

The Primal Post (Part 1)

2005-07-23T09:39:00.000-07:00

Yeehad... is a word I coined while deliberating the phenomenon of Islamic Jihad (as in suicide bombing, murder and terrorism and not as in the Housing Jihad [jihad literally means struggle and not holy war] that Iran once launched to build homes) on the one hand, and the Jihadi (as in murder and terrorism) response of the Christian West on the other, both now and since the advent of Islam fourteen hundred years ago. Throw in all the fundamentalists, extremists, what-have-you from the other religions prevalent everywhere and you may well see the eternal footman standing there with a big grin on his face, opening the door to doomsday.

Everytime I heard the word Jihad pronounced in the media by people in the West and some in the East -- Jeeeeee-Haaaaaaad -- it triggered memories of my favourite flick.

Remember the crazy U.S. Air Force captain in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 classic, “Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”? You don’t? Well, I am not going to get into the doomsday scenario of this movie, it is one of Peter Seller’s best, see it. But here is the dialogue from the Continuity Script of the movie (feel free to substitute the names of current leaders):

(Note: words in square brackets are stage directions; those underlined are my additions to explain the context.)

Kong:
Yee-haa! Aaaaaaaa hooooo! [the nuclear bomb is dropped on the “Godless” Soviet Union, and Kong along with it ]
Bombardier:
Hey, what about Major Kong?
Kong:
Yee-haa! Waaaaa hooooo! [Kong rides the bomb in its falling
arc waving his hat over his head, celebrating his success in ecstatic rodeo style. On reaching the ground, the bomb detonates. ]
Cut to: International War Room
Strangelove [on a wheelchair, executes an about face from the big board to face the camera.] : Mr. President [of the United States] I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy... heh heh... rolls forward into the light at the bottom of ah ... some of our deeper mineshafts. The radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep. And in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in dwelling space could easily be provided.
Muffley:
How long would you have to stay down there?
Strangelove:
Well let's see now ah, [searches within his lapel] cobalt thorium G. [notices circular slide rule in his artificial gloved hand] aa... nn... Radioactive half-life of uh,... hmm.. I would think that uh... possibly uh... one hundred years. [On finishing his calculations, he pulls the slide rule roughly from his gloved hand, and returns it to within his jacket. ]
Muffley:
You mean, people could actually stay down there for a hundred years?
Strangelove:
It would not be difficult mein Fuhrer! Nuclear reactors could, heh... I'm sorry. Mr. President. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plantlife. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the available mine sites in the country. But I would guess... that ah, dwelling space for several
hundred thousands of our people could easily be provided.
Muffley:
Well I... I would hate to have to decide.. who stays up and.. who goes down.
Strangelove:
Well, that would not be necessary Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. [Slams down left fist. Right arm rises in stiff Nazi salute.] Arrrrr! [Restrains right arm with left.] Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to
each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years. …
Turgidson:
Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Strangelove:
Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

The movie has taken on a whole different meaning for me today, because I believe that Islam has replaced Communism and the Soviet Union as the new enemy of the Christian West. The memory of the Kong scene was triggered in my mind recently as I watched a loudmouth from the deep south in the United States talking about the Islamic Jeeee-Haaaad. And then some Congressman talked of taking out Mecca in retaliation for any large-scale terrorism attack.

And in terms of Jihadi violence from both sides in recent times, we have of course had 7/23 in Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt, 7/7 in London, another fizzled attempt some days later, then some Asian looking guy under surveillance shot five times in the head by British cops (or SAS marksmen) who thought he was carrying explosives (as we know he turned out to be an innocent Brazilian electrician), and before that Madrid, 9/11 in New York, the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, the Bali bombing, tens of thousands of innocent victims killed in all of these, some half-wit trying to set off explosives hidden in his runners using a matches in a passenger aircraft, former U.S. president Bill Clinton bombing a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan that produced anti-malaria medication claiming it produced weapons of some kind of destruction, Africa and India facing gruesome AIDS epidemics and now India allowed use of American nuclear technology without having to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Israel walling in itself and its huge arsenal of nukes and rockets (the best kept secret in the world, indeed) from suicide bombers, Pakistan clamping down on its religious madrassas or schools after London, the Americans tripling the number of their evangelical and pentecostal madrassas after 9/11 ... enough before I go mental...

Meanwhile, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan has turned that country into a big oil and opium pipeline guarded by American troops who drop a large bomb every time they hear the word Osama or Taliban. And most recently our own Canadian General Rick Hillier, chief of the armed forces, saying he was sending additional Canadian troops and the elite J2F2 commandos to Afghanistan’s dangerous Kandahar region to kill those “detestable murderers” and “scumbags” (and he doesn’t mean the Americans) who “detest our values.”

Reading Hillier’s comments I first thought of Lester Pearson, our former Prime Minister who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his vision efforts in turning the Canadian armed forces into Peacekeepers and inspiring the United Nations peacekeeping troops. His motto, a phrase he used in his acceptance speech, “Peace through understanding…”

I then visualized General Hillier, like major Kong in Dr. Strangelove, sitting atop an American bomb nicknamed “Good Morning Osama, Good Bye Taliban,” waving his Canuck toque as he sped downwards with the weapon of mass destruction to destroy those “detestable murderers” and “scumbags.”

What then is the answer to the madness prevalent everywhere? Enter Yeehad! with its very simple philosophy: Live and let live! An evolving philosophy. Remember: It cannot work or be spread without your contribution to the Yeehad! blog and the Yeehad mindset.

Am I just paranoid? Am I overreacting? Does anything I have said make any sense at all to any of you out there? Hello!

Okay, first go on to The Primal Post (Part 2) or Life is a Gigolo and then you die… to complete my rationale for this blog. And then I am hoping to hear from potential Yeehadis out there to tell me that I am ready for committal to a mental home (oops! sorry, home for the mentally challenged). Or alternatively, we may end up launching our own Yeehad! in our communities and our favourite watering holes or teashops where alcohol is taboo.

The Primal Post (Part 2) or Life is a Gigolo and then you die…

2005-07-23T09:19:00.000-07:00

So here is the purpose of this blog:

I believe that the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Almost forces me to believe the observation of my one-time friend, Cheesehead: “What we need is a nuclear war so we can start all over again.” Except, if there is a nuclear war then there may be nobody left to start all over again! (Unless of course the Strangelove minesite scenario is put into place.) That’s not what you had in mind Cheesehead? Did you? And where would you then get your Keith’s - India Pale Ale?

So, as a non-practising and cultural Muslim, a small ‘l’ liberal, freethinking Yeehadi with lots of non-practising, freethinking, liberal Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Zoroastrian, and what-have-you friends, I figured it was time to give it a shot and see what is out there. Are there enough Yeehadis out there to take us back to the sanity that prevailed before the Bushama pandemic set in?

For myself, I’ve always believed that there is too much to experience in this life, too much to enjoy, too many less fortunate ones whose tears we the fortunate still have to wipe, too much poverty and hunger and sickness to eradicate, too many environmental polluters to eradicate (if the state and non-state terrorists don't get us, mercury and dioxin will), to accord any religion more than about ten per cent of our lives… (okay, make it twenty percent for all those of you whose jaw dropped at the figure ten). And that ten per cent for me is primarily a personal spirituality shaped by the religions and philosophy I saw and heard around me while growing up and the universal truisms (thou shalt not kill, steal, etc.) of Bertrand Russell.

To reposition and restate the final two sentences of Karl Marx’s famous Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848). (Sorry, Karl, but this is a sacrifice required for the future of the human race, whether it deserves this sacrifice or not.):

"Yeehadis of the world unite!
You have nothing to lose but the losers…"

And as you ponder the merits of Yeehadiism, remember the motto of the religious-corporate, buy-buy-buy, Wal-Mart society we live in:

LIFE IS A GIGOLO AND THEN YOU DIE!