Posted on 11/15/2002 12:24:53 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:10:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
November 15, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - In their separate messages to the world, Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden both use the word "Pharaoh" - raising new questions about the possibility of coordination between the two.
"They may be linked," said David Rodier, an expert on world religions at American University.
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No wonder it's difficult to understand this mindset. Bomb Iraq and I bet OBL is dead. The heck with these crazies.
A little Islamics history is in order, I think.
According to Islamics thought, the Israelites and early Christians were (and are) called "the people of the Book". Mohammad defeated the Jews at Medina is his early rise to power in the 7th century and this was interpreted (by Mohammad) as God's repudiation of them. Thusly, as Mohammad defeated and repudiated the Jews as a religion (a religion he tried to join but was rebuffed by the same Jewish enclave at Medina that he later extracted revenge from) they no longer have a history as a "people" and their claims to the land of Israel as a mandate from God was made illegitimate.
And that, dear friends, is why the islamics deny that there is any connection between the modern state of Israel's claim of continuous occupation of the land on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The people who inhabited that land prior to the rise of islamics in the 7th century were absorbed into the 'new' god's, allah, hegemony known as the arabs, and any others on the lands that refused to convert lived on only at the whim of the islamic occupiers in the form of "Dhimmi" otherwise known as islamic aparthied.
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