BLOOD MOON

Readers may recall Aesop's fable of the snake persuading a buffalo to give him a ride across the river if the snake promised not to bite. Once across, the snake of course bites the bison and responds with, "Well, you knew what I was when you gave me the ride."

And so, we continue to embrace the culture of Islam, ever-so hopeful that a cult which has nurtured and nourished the last eleven thousand terrorist plots killing thousands of men, women, and children, will not pick us to be next.

Under the banner of tolerance we have failed to take Muslims seriously, failed to recognize the malevolent dogma of Islam that demands its followers practice violent and deadly Intolerance. We cower in their presence, careful not to "offend," and watch Muslims use the freedoms that are unique to our way of life as a weapon against all freedom because to our current liberally influenced Americans to be intolerant is a fate worst than death.

We have failed to understand the word "Allah" pre-dates Islam, long before Mohammed, and referenced an astral cult who worshiped the sun, moon and stars. Wielding their vengeful justice, they killed by the light of a full moon...the "blood moon."

We fail to grasp people who scream "peace" while refusing to live along-side anyone who does not share their belief. We fail to grasp the significance of Muslims not allowing Christian church's to be built on their land under penalty of death.

We have failed to grasp Islam's goal is not for territory or political freedom, but for global cultural domination and they plan wars not based on weeks or months but decades and centuries. We eagerly surrender ourselves to a skulking cult because for so many, we have subordinated old fashioned American character and "guts" because it is easier to become a surrendering coward than to stand-up to thugs.

American culture is awash in trivial minutia of information that's meaningless and has no relevance to their daily life. Benjamin Franklin must have looked ahead to our time in the future when he warned that our democracy required: "A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Why don't we care enough about the lives today or the lives of our children to look these things up?

The PEW Research Center survey among Muslims living in America disclosed 26 per cent of those age 18 to 29 believe that suicide bombing can be justified. Translated to simpler terms, this represents 250,000 living here in the United States who think it's "okay" to bomb you. The same survey revealed 39 per cent of this same age group believe that Muslims in America should remain distant from our society at large.

The PEW numbers alone should raise the eyebrow of anyone who still maintains this outfit is "peaceful.'' Among other goodies the PEW research discovered was Muslims living in America being "clearly concerned over U.S. foreign policy and its impact on Muslims around the world." Muslims take full advantage of our existing laws interpreted by liberal courts to file 2,500 civil-rights complaints in 2006. (The number will be closer to 4,000 in 2007 at the current rate of advocacy group filings). I find this incredulous.

What a waste of our resources and sincere good intentions Muslims are slaughtering non-Muslims in 44 countries today and THEY are worried how America impacts them!? According to PEW, 60 per cent of Muslims consider themselves "Muslims first. They have no intention of assimilating our "melting pot" culture.

Islam makes no effort to hide their intent to eradicate Israel and the western culture that has befriended her. Muslims moving to the United States refuse to blend with our culture... their holy book, the Quar'an, expressly forbids them to do so.

Muslims in America are "offended" by everything that is America. Terrorism is the backbone of the deen [Islamic way of life]. Allah said "to terrify the enemies we should prepare ourselves [Jihad]. Jihad is a religious obligation. It is the religious obligation of a father to teach his son to be a mujahideen to protect the authority of sharia law. Mohammed took part in 27 offensive jihads.

My first question to the reader is to ask any Muslim to explain their feelings about Jews and their historic ambition to annihilate the Jewish nation. My second question for the reader involves human nature: If you were a member of say, the Lutheran Church, and that denomination was murderously butchering non-Lutherans around the globe would you continue to be a member? Would you and other Lutherans call for accountability of these actions?

Speaking "peace" with one tongue and ignoring or denying the global Muslim slaughtering of innocent people would not make sense to Sigmund Freud or any rational human. Training young children to kill as many innocent bystanders as possible is far from "peaceful"; it is demonic madness. Until Muslims living in the United States begin denouncing, often and loudly, the bloodlust their cult propagates, then they have no intentions of becoming "American."

Until Muslims can live and work in our communities without suing someone for mentioning "bacon," they have no intentions of becoming "American." Until Muslims denounce the currency of fear to press Islam's global agenda they will be taken for exactly what they are: A murderous, envious cult killing their way into the gates of a blood covered moon god. Until Americans begin standing these cultists up for their culpable silence to murder, we as a nation fall further into the pit of Muslim hell and closer to the day our grandchildren will wear sharia clothing.

American citizens must take back our nation and loudly denounce elected officials who kiss the ass of wretched Muslim cultists who derive their place in heaven from the shrapnel of car bombs and the blood of women and children. But that's not going to happen until Americans can begin paying closer attention to Islam's move into their neighborhoods and less attention to what a starlet ate for lunch.

If we don't act now, our sovereignty and freedoms will be drowned-out by the shrill din of five daily calls to Muslim prayer that are heard in France and England each day. The most popular baby name in England now is "Mohammed." Wake up America. Is a "blood moon" in your future?

The Age of Jahiliyah is a term used extensively in Muslim Arab terminology intimating “the time of ignorance”; i.e., ignorance of a revealed book, and hence the revelation of the unity and oneness of God. Unlike the South Arabians who were a more urban group, the North Arabians of Najd and Al Hijaz, were mostly nomadic. Aside from the indigenous tribes who followed the traditions of the Jews and the Christians, there were the Sabeans and the ‘Hanifs’ (believers in the One and Only God of Abraham and Ishmael; these latter must have been off-shoots from either the ‘Jews’ or the Christians or both).

The northern populations of Arabia developed no ancient culture of their own. They had no system of writing and the only information about them comes from oral traditions, proverbs, legends and mostly poems that were orally transmitted down the decades. Most of these were later committed to writing two to three hundred years after the events that they were supposed to represent (822/922 CE).

During Al Jahiliyah, all Arab tribes throughout Al Jazeerah (The Peninsula) continually fought each other for either acquisition of (or access to) water resources, blood feuds and supremacy (or some combination thereof). Each individual Arab was known and identified by the name of the tribe to which he belonged. There was no sense of unity or nationalism. Each tribe was a separate and independent entity, with different dialects and religious beliefs and had no feeling of affinity or loyalty to any other except in terms of mutually beneficial and convenient alliances. The sense of the ‘Umma al Arabia’, the nation and people of Arabia, was achieved only after all of Arabia was subjugated and united under Muhammad.

In general, the pagan Arabs – the majority in Arabia – had a very primitive and simple astral and animistic religion of at least 360 gods and goddesses. Among the gods of the pagan Arabs, Allah was one of the most important. In Mecca, Allah was the principal though not the only deity. He had three daughters: Al Lat (Crescent); Al Uzzah (Venus) and Al Manah (Fate) (53:19/20). Besides the Ka’ba of Mecca, caves, trees, waterholes, wells, etc., were also venerated especially in the bleak, arid and desolate land the Jazeerah is composed of. There were other ‘holy’ sites also called Ka’ba besides the one in Mecca, such as the ones in Petra, Sana’ and Najran.

Although the sun was worshiped, it did not hold the same level of importance as the moon. Moon worship inherently lends itself to a nomadic and pastoral society, whereas Sun worship is invariably associated with an agricultural one. This would be obvious to anybody who's experienced the scorching furnace heat of the Arabian Desert; the Sun actually is an enemy to the nomads depriving them of pasture, shade and water. On the other hand, the moon is their friend and ally providing them with light, coolness of the night, dew and shade; and this is reflected in its greater importance as a deity for them.

Pagan Arabs built no temples or special structures for their gods. They developed no elaborate mythology, no structured theology and no cosmogony comparable to that of any of their neighbours. The pagan Ka’ba was a special but very simple cube-like building that housed a fallen black meteorite, which was venerated as a fetish. Because of its holiness, the area surrounding it was pronounced prohibited/sacred (Haram). Even before ‘Islam’, it was an object of annual pilgrimage and sacrifice.

Most of the ‘holy’ places of their other divinities were trees, wells, caves or fallen meteors. The pagan Arabs made sacrifices – both human and animal – to ‘Venus’ (Al Uzzah) and it is recorded that Muhammad participated in giving sacrifices to this goddess as a young man. The Bedouins also believed that the desert was full of living creatures/spirits called Jinn whose purpose was to blight their lives with mischief and difficulties. The nomadic Arabs buried their dead while on the move (instead of special final resting-places, i.e., cemetaries). As such no special reverence was held for the dead nor any concept of an afterlife, resurrection, a day of judgement, heaven and hell were developed; all of these concepts were formally established with the advent of ‘Islam’.

Until Muhammad there was no Arab civilization to speak of. There was no central government, administrative personnel, documentation, permanent cities (other than Mecca and Medina), art, sculpture, temples and priesthood, army, etc. Neither did the Arabs of Mecca and Medina have any of these attributes; they left posterity no monuments or temples and no records of their achievements. They had absolutely nothing remotely resembling either the Byzantine or Persian civilizations. No national epic or dramatic literary work of first-class importance was ever developed by the Arabians. That was in unfavourable contrast to the contemporary Hebrews, Assyrians, Babylonians or the Egyptians of the time who had a much more advanced literary, written and oral traditions; the Arabs were the least literate among all the peoples of the Middle East. Their greatest legacy was the Arabic language.

The Bedouins’ love of poetry was their only cultural asset and legacy. Their poets were held with great esteem and were extremely influential because of their mastery of the spoken word. They acted as the historians, propagandists and spokesmen for their tribes; they were in fact the equivalent of the modern news media reporters. Although poetry reigned supreme among the Arabs of Al Hijaz and Al Najd (north-western and northern Arabia), prose was not well represented in the Jahiliyah literature since no system of writing had yet been fully developed and no trustworthy record of any Arabic literature existed prior to the Quran.

Islamic apologists claim that the pagan Arabs referred to ALLAH as the One True God of Abraham and Ishmael, and the Lord of the Ka`aba. While the first part MAY have been true in certain cases, I believe Allah was more often than not the God of gods to the pagan Arabs (and Lord of the Ka'aba intimated presiding above the other 359 deities). Islamic apologists also claim that the pagan religion was originally pure monotheistic in nature (devotion wholly to Allah), and that the pagan Arabs, however, tainted this simple monotheistic religion by resorting to worship of idols as intercessors to Allah. It is claimed the pagans would stand by an idol and, using it as an intercessor, worship Allâh through the idol. I'm skeptical. I believe the pagan Arabs were polytheistic in the full sense of term, i.e., all 360+ idols represented actual entities, albeit wholly subservient to Allah.

Allâh, the paramount deity of pagan Arabia, was the target of worship in varying degrees of intensity from the southernmost tip of Arabia to the Mediterranean. To the Babylonians he was "Il" (god); to the Canaanites, and later the Israelites, he was "El'; the South Arabians worshipped him as "Ilah," and the Bedouins as "al-Ilah" (the deity).

Just like in Greek and Roman mythology, the pagan Arabic pantheon was organized somewhat in a heirarchy and heading that heirarchy was the supreme deity akin to Jupiter or Zeus. This deity went by various names, e.g., Sin, Hubul, Ilumquh, Al-ilah, Allah. No doubt the etymology of the latter term was al-ilah elided. For the pagan Arabs, Allah was the God of gods. When Muhammad came along, he made all that go away, replacing even the pagan Allah with the Allah of Islam. Now the connotation of the elided word Allah becoming The God from a purely modern monotheisic perspective (the One True God of Abraham and Ishmael, and the Lord of the Ka`aba). However, at this time Allah no longer presided over 359 other deities; his "Lordship" at Ka'aba now being analagous to that of the God of Israel indwelling the Temple at Jerusalem.

It must be understood, that the Arabic language didn't have a formal alphabet or script until the Quran was committed to paper almost 200 years after Muhammad's death. c. Rabin makes reference to a tri-lingual script found in Zebed of Northern Arabia. But as I've explained, those tribes had no writing whatsoever and each tribe throughout Arabia utilized a particular term in accordance to the specific dialect spoken by their tribe. That the Arabs had a definitive concept of God and god is without any doubt. Whether the Christian or primitive-monotheist pagan Arabs spoke the unelided al-ilah, or the elided Allah, or some other Semetic, Syriac, Coptic, Maronite, Aramaic, etc., variant (most likely used interchangeably), the connotations being understood probably entirely dependent upon the context within which a particular word was used.

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