Hey there, don-o.
The ‘People of the Book,’ the Ahl al-Kitab, supposedly worship the same God, right? But, just as the cross appeared at Ground Zero, there is no alternate interpretation of who God Almighty is. Besides, God does not have 99 names, even if Allah does. At that, NOI perverts that.
In my studies, I learned all about Allah, but couldn’t come to reject Christ. Everyday, we recited the shahada. I thought it was cool to know a different language, so different from English. Arabic was taught from the Qur’an. Interestingly, the sura that we read that included much about Satan had a lot of s’s in it and sounded like hissing.
And there’s the rub. Learning about the Middle East, Arabic and Farsi was for me all about the curiosity of trying to figure out the foreign-ness, not belief. I was learning from Westerners, not natives, for the most part.
And it was so subtle, teaching Americans ever so incrementally to embrace Islamic culture. It is the basis for Palestinian support here among non-Palestinians, as though they are underdogs; American support of the downtrodden is used against us. Insidious.
Sometimes, it was like learning from TE Lawrence. The ambiguity approached the veil between the West and the Occident. The understanding came crookedly, like camel trails. Freaked me out to be taught about Dracula by a Romanian, though. She was a dark personality. But Clinton would have rathered we take up the Ottoman effort to overthrow Europe; seems to me Clinton’s dark work is winning, while Vlad’s lifelong battle becomes the stuff of fairy tales.
Now I know different. But I came to those conclusions in 1979—Carter’s dust in the desert disaster notwithstanding—and my warnings treated as mere fleas. Here we are, and those who don’t understand our war stand at the veil between Judeo-Christian culture and Islam, not extreme or radical Islam, but Islam itself, and do not even presume to look through that veil or behind it to see the dread future that lies in our path.
But Muslims know, and the NOI takes it in a perverted, more ‘American’ direction, based on Blackness and blackness. It is all for the same goal. Little do Blacks here realize that their skin color will prove detrimental in the extreme. In a very sadistic way, I am quite happy about that, as they could not be more deserving with their mindset and foolish support of their own destruction, even should they survive the jihad against all things American, to bring us into the fold or wipe our memory off the map, “changing our history,” as MO said.
Know thy enemy. He has studied us very well and wants what we have. Tolerance for the enemy within our ranks leads only to our own demise.
That’s what my posts on this thread means. Or any time I post on the ME and Islam. They will kill themselves to further their ends. Anyone who doesn’t know that—and the expectation for such action lying behind 0bama’s limo and trailing minigun, his closest, all-Black guard and illegality in nearly everything he says and does, is simply not worth my time anymore. He reads well, except from the Holy Bible. And without an accent. Apparently, he was diapering his newborn on 9/11/2001, but I’d wager he had to cover her head, too.
Bingo...somebody gets it in it’s entirety. My parents lived in Saudi and I traveled to Israel in July 2001-I absolutely understand their agenda. Sometimes I wish I didn’t....
I learned the reality of that divide from a Lebanese Christian friend. His parents immigrated to the U.S., my friend was born in the U.S. and fought in WWII in Europe. He spoke Arabic and spent a number of years after that War in Europe and the Balkans. He worked for my father-in-law late in his life and I spent many occasions at family gatherings discussing this. He seemed surprised that I was even conversant on the subject and that we were in total agreement. Later we both discovered that we had other things in common. We had both traveled in the East. He is dead now, and I miss our discussions, and the wisdom of my friend.