FBI, Navy Foiled Alleged Terror Plot on Quantico

American Forces Press Service ^ | Gerry J. Gilmore

[A.A. Cunningham]

Attacking a Marine Corp(sic) base? Not the sharpest tools in the shed.

Pot. Kettle. Black. It's Corps, Einstein.

[stripes1776]

The Presstitues got wind of and were going to public with it so the arrests had to be mad quickly I’m told.

Well, if that is true, why was the presence of these terrorist cells leaked to the press? I think it was done on purpose by the Obama administration.

Here is one possible scenario. The Obama administration has decided to send more troops to Afghanistan, but they know the left-wingers who are Obama's core of support will go nuts with outrage. But if there are a lot of stories about terrorist cells planning to explode bombs in various cities across American, the criticism from the hard-left will be less credible. In fact, some lefties may even sober up a bit from their drunken enthusiasm to accommodate radical Islam.

It is very strange that Obama spoke of a nuclear facility in Iran today. That facility has been know about for a long time. Why talk about that now? It has been a forbidden subject up to now since Obama wanted to make friends with Iran. All of a sudden the tone of discourse is changing.

I think some big change is coming in Obama's foreign policy. With his popularity plunging and his domestic agenda in shambles, he is trying to change the focus of attention to the threat of terrorism and a nuclear Iran.

[Pikachu_Dad]

It is virgins.

That idiot piece that tried to claim it was raisins was BEYOND ABSURD.

[VOA]

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[The_Reader_David]

No, actually, the piece giving a textual exegesis of the Sura promising 72 houris to Muslims who persevere to the end, was neither “idiot” nor “BEYOND ABSURD”: I personally know a number of Arab Christians who are native speakers of Arabic, who insist that that passage of the Koran makes no sense in Arabic.

The word houri does not occur in Arabic prior to those passages of the Koran. And, the Arabic word for virgin is “batul” (cognate to the Hebrew “betula”, maiden—which anti-Christian rabbis insist means “maiden” in the weak sense of “young woman”, while the translator of the Septuigent rendered it in Greek as “maiden” in the strong sense of virgin, translating it as “parthenos”). The Assyrian word for raisin is, evidently, “houri”. The notion that a “houri” is a magically-renewing beautiful virgin was made up after Koran had been composed, by carnally-minded Muslim commentators, as a way of motivating Muslim armies.

There is a strong tradition among Arab Christians that Mohammed had been sent to the Arabian peninsula as a Christian missionary by the (Nestorian) Church of the East, among whom the dominant language was Assyrian or East Syriac, and “went off the reservation” once he started to get a following. Some passages of the Koran, esp. in the earlier more pacific Suras, are identical to or strongly parallel to Nestorian writings from the period, and the later, warlike sections are stylistically different, and less well written. (I know of one Arab Christian, who says that the Koran is so bad as Arabic poetry that that alone is proof it is not of divine origin.)

The explanation for the structure of the Koran given by Arab Christians is that the earlier parts were not composed by Mohammed, but by his unknown Christian mentor, while the later parts were his own writing.

One wonders whether Mohammed’s Christian mentor might not have been a bishop named Gabriel, since early Christian bishops were sometimes called “angels”—indeed the Orthodox Bishop of Haran-Bosra is still titled “The Angel of Haran”. Actually, there was a contemporaneous Nestorian bishop, Mar Gabriel of Karkha dhe Beth-Slokh, the city which is now Kirkuk, maybe he’s the one whose missionary got big (demonic) ideas and set up on his own.