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It was also the capital of the Aramean kingdom, as Hamath. Hamath is mentioned several times in the Old Testament.

In 720 BC Hama, as well as the rest of Syria was conquered by the Assyrians, followed by the Persians. Hama came to be known as Epiphania when it fell to the Seleucids in 200 BC. When the Romans and then the Byzantines took over, it was used as a center for administration until it fell to the Arabs yet remained weaker than the other Syrian states.

The Arabs took over Hama by capitulation in 636 AD.

When “this man,” the Messiah returns at His Second Advent, He will lead Israel to war and afterwards to “the peace” of Micah 5:5-9, and Israel will divide the land among the 12 tribes as prophesied in Ezekiel 47:13-21. (FOR A FULL EXPOSITION OF THIS PLEASE CONSULT WHOLE NUMBERED ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBERS 62 TO 69)

Micah 5:5-9 – And THIS MAN shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall HE deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. [7] And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. [8] And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. [9] Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

Ezekiel 47:13-21 – Thus saith the Lord God; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions. [14] And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. [15] And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; [16] Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazar-hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. [17] And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of HAMATH. And this is THE NORTH SIDE.

[18] And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side. [19] And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward. [20] The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side. [21] So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.

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‘Damascus interested in peace talks’

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 15, 2008

Syria has conveyed a message to Israel via Turkey that it is interested in renewing peace talks, Lebanese paper Al-Akhbar reported Saturday.

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According to the report, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has transmitted messages from Israel to Syria on several occasions expressing Israel’s interest in quick and intensive negotiations.

While Syria has responded positively, the Hizbullah-affiliated paper reported, Damascus set several conditions: That talks be conducted publicly and not secretly; that Israel show “serious signs” that it is willing to withdraw “from all occupied Arab territories;” that negotiations not be held “under fire” and while “Israel commits massacres against the Palestinians;” finally, that Israel simultaneously negotiate on other Arab tracks, although the report does not specify which.

The paper quoted an unnamed “informed source” as saying Damascus did not feel that the US was enthusiastic to achieve progress in negotiations between Israel and Syria, and there was no indication that Israel could override Washington’s will at this time.

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Syria has more active Jihad terrorist group headquarters contained in it than any other terrorist country in the world. The natural hatred for the Jews, which has grown steadily from the time Abraham chose Isaac rather than Ishmael as the son of the promise, was intensified to being unbearable when Bashar Assad’s father lost the Golan to Israel on his watch in 1967. I assure you this intensified hatred will continue until the Second Advent, and like it or not, its occurrence is not an event in the far distant future.

I have for 33 years attempted to warn that the Second Advent of Christ is not a distant event, and the day of the scoffers has intensified in both the number of them, and the intensity of their vocal cries. It has finally come to full bloom and is ready to be picked by the Lord.

II Peter 3:3,4 – Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [4] And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

It will be a time of judgment on mankind for its ungodly attitude toward God and toward his fellow man.

Its intensity and horror is beyond our wildest imagination following the blowing of

the seventh trumpet. All the saved will be experiencing judgment in heaven for rewards, or the lack of them, while God’s judgment is poured on those who were not taken up when the last trumpet sounded, after which they will return to the earth with Christ at his second Advent.

This is what they will be missing on earth while they are being judged in heaven.

Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be

Luke 21:25-27 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Malachi 4:1-3 – For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. [2] But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

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[3] And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

FOR A COMPLETE EXPOSITION OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET RAPTURE POSITION AND THE EVENT ASSOCIATED WITH IT, PLEASE SEE ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBERS 73D, 74A, 76, 78A, 82A, 114A, 144A, 144F, and 219B.

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Syria angles to reclaim Golan from Israel

Julian Barnes-Dacey. Chronicle Foreign Service

Thursday, March 6, 2008

(03-06) 04:00 PST Damascus, Syria — As a visitor enters Ali al-Zaher’s office, a photo of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group, Hezbollah, looms prominently. A scribbled message scrawled across the picture praises al-Zaher’s commitment to the struggle against Israel.

Al-Zaher, editor of the state-backed Golan newspaper, aims to remind readers of Syria’s claim to the Golan Heights, a 690-square-mile plateau captured by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War.

After years of unsuccessful negotiations, al-Zaher and other experts say Syria has decided to ratchet up the pressure on Israel by following Hezbollah’s example of expanding its political and military authority in southern Lebanon.

A political analyst in Damascus, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that Syrian leaders – emboldened by Hezbollah’s surprising military strength against Israel during a monthlong war in 2006 – are increasing the nation’s influence near the Golan border.

“Inspired by Hezbollah’s ability to resist the Israeli advance, the government wants more people to inhabit and know the region,” the analyst said. “The government saw that without popular resistance, the Israelis could easily send their tanks through the Golan on the road to Damascus” (some 30 miles from the Golan border).

While both Syria and Israel say they are ready to negotiate the territory’s status, peace talks ended after a U.S.-brokered peace agreement was nearly reached in 2000. At that time, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to return most of the Golan to Syria in exchange for normalization of relations. But talks broke off after Syria insisted on returning to the entire pre-1967 war frontier, which included 328 feet where Israel would not cede control.

“A peace deal is only possible if we regain our full rights,” President Bashar Assad told a Tunisian newspaper recently. “Complete rights and sovereignty on this land and nothing less.”

For its part, Israel now conditions renewed dialogue on Syria severing ties with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, the latter a militant group that governs the Gaza Strip and calls for the destruction of Israel.

Like many Golan natives, Mahel Awad, a 27-year-old student at Damascus University, is frustrated by the lack of negotiations.

“We support peace, but when is it going to happen?” he told a reporter in his dormitory room adorned with photos of Golan. “We are used to talk of negotiations, but at the end nothing materializes.”

Today, Golan has a population of about 39,000, including 19,000 Arab Druze, 2,000 Muslims and 17,000 Jews. The territory has Israel’s only ski resort, on Mount Hermon, thriving agriculture and military bases. Some say it provides as much as 30 percent of Israel’s water supply. Since 1967, Israel has constructed 32 settlements, even annexing the territory in 1981 in violation of U.N. Resolution 242, which considers Golan part of Israel’s occupied territories.

The sovereignty over Golan lay dormant until Syria – in a move that surprised many Middle East observers – opted to participate in the U.S-sponsored Middle East peace summit in Annapolis, Md., in November.

“By participating at Annapolis, Syria showed it wants to put Golan on the peace track,” said Methat Saleh, director of the state Bureau of Golan Affairs. “With (Israeli) withdrawal, many problems in the region would be solved.”

In the meantime, Syria is using the Hezbollah model in southern Lebanon to reclaim Golan.

Through its state-run Popular Commission for the Liberation of Golan, Damascus provides financial support and educational opportunities at Syrian universities

for hundreds of Golanese living under Israeli control. The state requires them to return home after completing their studies to ensure territorial ties to Golan.

Last year, the government began constructing 1,000 apartments along the Golan border for an estimated 600,000 refugees.

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The Syrian government says the housing will face Israeli villages, with more units to come.

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In January, the government began issuing Syrian national identity numbers to the 19,000 Druze residents “to strengthen ties of the Golanese people with their mother country,” said Saleh. Tel Aviv has long offered the Druze citizenship, which has been accepted by nearly 2,000, according to the Israeli government.

Moreover, al-Zaher says the Golan newspaper will open bureaus in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan this year and even launch an English edition. “The resistance media will play its role in ensuring that the young generation will not forget their Golan,” he said.

To be sure, most observers in Syria and Israel say Syria does not want a war over Golan. “We have made a strategic choice for peace,” said Nadim Merze, director of the Golan Research Center in Damascus.

“The Syrians are trying to follow the model set up by Hezbollah, but I do not think they are interested in any confrontation,” said Eyal Zisser of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. “There is a limit to what extent a regular army can follow the tactics of a small organization like Hezbollah.”

But al-Zaher says Syria is prepared for all options.

“We believe that in the end what others obtain by force we will reobtain by force,” said al-Zaher. “A small group of resistance men similar to Hezbollah could achieve victory in a Golan war.”

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“I AM DOING IT FOR GOD”

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

“I AM DOING IT FOR GOD”

March 15, 2008

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I first came into the Middle East when Morocco was still French Morocco, and many of the countries of the Middle East were still under European occupation or just coming out from under it. In all reality the “man” in the street” was simply being transferred from a European Master to an Arab Dictator. Over the 56 years that have sailed by in Middle East society since I was first a part of it, I have watched a spirit of Islamic Jihad rise slowly at first, then more quickly after the French pulled totally out of North Africa. And it began to rapidly accelerate after the Iranian Revolution. The overthrow of the Shah of Iran, and a successful driving out of the Soviet Union, brought the rise of a spirit that has daily consumed the hearts of more and more of those of the Islamic faith across the Middle East. The spirit is an evil heart of lust for revenge through Islamic Jihad, and it can only end in chaos for all the peoples on this planet. I am convinced it is the spirit of Antichrist, but those who possess it are certain it is of God.

II Thessalonians 2:11 – And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

The last paragraph in the UK Independent.com series of excerpts from an article by Robert Fisk, which follows our heading, clearly manifests why there is not going to be peace in the Middle East until Armageddon is followed by the Second Advent of Christ. It contains a statement of a typical Islamic terrorist, which is the title of this Blog – “I AM DOING IT FOR GOD.”

The spirit of the Wicked One is now possessing the hearts of many of his followers to the extent they will follow his Antichrist to the death. The Wicked One himself will soon manifest himself outwardly from Islamic hearts filled with murderous hatred for the true God and for those who do not believe in their God Allah. The Antichrist himself will be filled and possessed bodily by Satan himself, who will reveal himself to the world as the God of it, which I believe will be him masquerading under the name of the Islamic God Allah. The Antichrist will be filled with the God of this world bodily, and Satan will openly reveal himself as God sitting in the temple (naos – body as a sanctuary) of a flesh and blood sinful man. I do not know who he is, but the Scriptures do indicate he will be revealed in his time. I believe he is one and the same as Islam’s Mahdi.

THE MAHDI ANTICHRIST WILL EVENTUALLY BE REVEALED!

The new Iranian President is a “died in the wool” religious Islamic fanatic from the top of his head to the tip of his toes. The Apostle Paul was a “Hebrew of the Hebrews,” and President Ahmadinjad is truly a “Shiite of the Shiites.” He is locked in combat with the old conservative heads that have governed Iran since the revolution that overthrew the Shah of Iran. He is trying to slip new leaders and departments into the government, attempting to get younger key members of the extremists from his Revolutionary Guard into top positions of power, putting out the old leaders who have held power for so long over all governmental decisions. It appears he has another revolution in mind, one in which he has absolute power to form a very radical Islamic Republic to replace the current conservative one. I truly believe the religious extremism in the fanatical Shiite beliefs, among their literal interpreters, is going to unveil the Middle East Antichrist. Both the Sunni and Shiite sects of the Muslim faith believe in a coming Al-Mahdi, which we would relate to as our looking forward to the return of Messiah Jesus Christ. The Shiites believe he has been hiding in a cave for some 1,100 years, but will soon come out to rule all Islam as the 12th Imam. Many Imams across Iran and Iraq are preaching his coming is very soon, and anxiousness for his arrival is growing.

The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a Shiite religious literalist, who believes in the imminent return of the 12th Imam. His segment of the Shiite faith believes the 12th Imam went into hiding in the 9th century.

The Sunni sect of Islam believes the Al-Mahdi, who is to arise and lead Islam to rule the world and establish a one-world Islamic religion, will be an ordinary man, born to an ordinary woman, and will live an ordinary life with the people of his time. But the Shiites under the same persuasion of their current President, believe that soon the 12th Imam, who disappeared mysteriously in the 9th century, will suddenly appear to lead the Shiites to victory over all enemies starting with the hypocrite mullahs and ending with the Jews.

In the Shiite theology, belief in Imams is the cornerstone of their faith. They believe the 12th Imam has been living in a cave-like well for more than ten centuries, and that he will suddenly surface from his hiding place below the earth as the Mahdi, their Messiah, and will then meet Jesus, the Son of Mary. They believe Jesus, the Prophet of Allah, will be second in command in that he will pray behind Al-Mahdi. They believe Allah will give Al-Mahdi the ability to rule all the Muslim nations with righteousness in the span of a night.

In the Shiite theology of the religious followers of the current President of Iran, the 12th Imam is still the sole source of legitimate power on the earth. I suspect a man will suddenly arise in Islam in the Middle East claiming to be the 12th Imam.

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He will declare himself to have returned with the power of Allah, but in reality he will be the antichrist. It is quite possible he will appear to have come back from the dead.

Islamic writers indicate the signs in the next paragraph will precede the 12th Imam.

There are many signs that will precede him, a very important sign is that he will come at a time when there is great confutation, intense disputing, and violent deaths – when people are experiencing great fear. Calamities will fall upon people, so much that a man shall not find a shelter to shelter him self from oppression. There will be battles and conflicts before his appearance. The people will be troubled to such an extent that they will long for death. It is then that Imam will arise. The messenger of Allah said he will be sent at a time of intense disputes and differences among people amidst widespread earthquakes.

It may well be that Paul’s man of sin, the antichrist, is the coming Islamic Al Mahdi.

II Thesalonians 2:3,4 – Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; [4] Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

The man of sin, the antichrist, the son of destruction, is described critically in verse 4.

The word translated as “opposeth,” is “antikeimai.” It means “to lie opposite,” hence, to oppose, to be adverse or repugnant to another person. God is the other person in this verse, against whom all this animosity is directed.

The word translated as “exalteth” is in the middle voice, meaning “to lift up one’s self over others in conceit or arrogance.” Antichrist in his own mind becomes the god of all gods, and demands that all worship be given to him alone.

The word translated as “shewing” means “to point away from other objects at one specific object,” in this case he fingers himself as the only object of worship. It is almost as if he is frantic to prove it to himself as well as others. One of the first things one will notice in most Islamic countries are the countless huge pictures and statues of the current despotic leader, an effort on their part to point to themselves as “El Jumbo Supremo.” The antichrist will be pointing to himself as the supreme one of all supreme ones, and his statues and pictures will blanket the countries of the Islamic world.

The examination of the phrase “he as God sitteth in the temple of God” is perhaps the most interesting part of verse 4.” It has commonly been taught this refers to a rebuilt temple of stone in Jerusalem, but I have every reason to believe this is not the kind of “temple” Paul refers to in this verse. Please bear with me in a rather lengthy discourse on this phrase, because it makes a lot of difference in other areas of prophetic interpretation. If Paul had used the Greek word “HEIRON” for temple in this verse, I would tell you immediately there was no question he was referring to a rebuilt temple in the old city of Jerusalem. But he chose to use the word NAOS for temple, and that makes it a horse of quite a different color.

There are two words commonly translated as “temple” in the New Testament – HIERON and NAOS.

Temple – HIERON is the word used of the Jerusalem stone temple itself and, at times, of the whole compass of the Temple Mount enclosure, including all the other subordinate buildings pertaining to the temple.

Temple – NAOS is any enclosure surrounding the place where the Spirit of God dwells. In the HIERON, it was the enclosure within the HIERON where the Spirit of God dwelled, namely, the Holy of Holies in the rear of the Temple, which was separated from the Holy Place by a thick curtain. It was torn from top to bottom by the power of God when Jesus commended his Spirit into his hands. It was his completion of the redemptive work that finished the plan of salvation for all men, and tore open the barrier between the presence of God and man. It is still open to all those who will receive him as the one who finished God’s plan of salvation.

John 19:30 – When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Matthew 27:50,51 – Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. [51] And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

The word “temple” appears some 24 times in the book of Acts, and it is ALWAYS “HIERON.” It first appears in Acts 2:46. Its last occurrence is in Acts 26:21.

Acts 2:46 – And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

Acts 26:21 – For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

The word “NAOS” does not appear in the book of Acts.

There is no question that Paul thoroughly understood the exacting differences between the two words. It is true that, at times, the word “NAOS” is used in the N.T. to refer to the entire temple building, but only because it was a part of it. But let’s take a detailed look at how Paul himself used the words “NAOS” and “HIERON.”

Paul used the word “NAOS” eight times in all of his N.T. writings – Seven of these cases follow: See if there is any possible way you could twist these usages by Paul to refer to the stone temple in Jerusalem.

I Corinthians 3:16,17 – Know ye not that ye are the TEMPLE of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? [17] If any man defile the TEMPLE of God, him shall God destroy; for the TEMPLE of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Ephesians 2:21 – In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy TEMPLE in the Lord:

II Corinthians 6:16 – And what agreement hath the TEMPLE of God with idols? for ye are the TEMPLE of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall

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be my people.

I Corinthians 6:19 – What? know ye not that YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

None of these usages refer to the stone Jerusalem temple.

Paul did use the word HIERON for the temple located in Jerusalem in the following Scripture.

I Corinthians 9:13 – Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the TEMPLE? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

Paul certainly knew the difference between the two words translated as TEMPLE in the New Testament, and, considering the importance of the eighth and final use of NAOS by Paul in all his writings, I don’t believe a temple will be built in Jerusalem before the 2nd Advent.

II Thessalonians 2:4 – Who opposeth and EXALTETH HIMSELF above ALL that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the TEMPLE (NAOS) of God, SHEWING HIMSELF that he is God.

I believe that Paul’s usage of NAOS in II Thessalonians 2:4 carries the same meaning as Paul intended it to have in I Corinthians 6:19.

I Corinthians 6:19 – What? know ye not that your body is the TEMPLE (NAOS) of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

II Thessalonians 2:4 – Who opposeth and EXALTETH HIMSELF above ALL that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the TEMPLE (NAOS) of God, SHEWING HIMSELF that he is God.

The antichrist will sit in a sinful body of flesh on the temple mount. I now sit in a sinful body of flesh at 204 Hickory Street in Dardanelle, Arkansas. My body, even though it is sinful, is a NAOS I received in the womb. The antichrist will have received the NAOS in which he dwells by the same process. But inside it will dwell an evil spirit and soul, claiming to be God, and trying to prove it to mankind.

Jesus was God living in a temple of sinless flesh. He was God incarnate living in a sinless body formed by God in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

Jesus referred to his own body as a temple (NAOS), but the Pharisees and scribes thought he was referring to the Jerusalem temple.

John 2:19-21 – Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this TEMPLE (NAOS), and in three days I will raise it up.

[20] Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? [21] But he spake of the TEMPLE OF HIS BODY.

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Colossians 2:8-10 – Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. [9] For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. [10] And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

II Corinthians 5:19 – To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

John 10:30 – I and my Father are one.

John 14:9 – Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

The Devil is the greatest counterfeiter in all of history. His son, the antichrist, will be a man who the world will believe has returned from the dead, perhaps from after having received a deadly wound by a weapon of war. Jesus was the only begotten Son of God who came in sinless flesh and lived a sinless life. The Devil will come and dwell in the body of the antichrist after he is apparently returned from the dead.

When the antichrist sits on the temple mount near the end of the tribulation period, he will be Satan incarnate in sinful flesh, claiming to be God, and trying to prove it to man and himself.

II Corinthians 11:13,14 – For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, TRANSFORMING THEMSELVES into the apostles of Christ. [14] And no marvel; for Satan HIMSELF IS TRANSFORMED into an angel of light.

How can one make war against someone who can come back to life after death? Many would follow a man they believed has this power to their own deaths, believing he would resurrect them. Is that similar to what we believe as Christians? Is the Devil not the greatest of counterfeiters? Is not the Antichrist a false counterfeit Messiah?

Revelation 13:3-5 – And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. [4] And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? [5] And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

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Robert Fisk: The cult of the suicide bomber

Few players in the ‘war on terror’ are more chilling, or misunderstood, than suicide bombers. Yet the true scale of their grisly activities has never been properly calculated. Five years after the invasion of Iraq, Robert Fisk details the shocking extent of the most widespread campaign of self-liquidation in human history

Friday, 14 March 2008

Khaled looked at me with a broad smile. He was almost laughing. At one point, when I told him that he should abandon all thoughts of being a suicide bomber – that he could influence more people in this world by becoming a journalist – he put his head back and shot me a grin, world-weary for a man in his teens. “You have your mission,” he said. “And I have mine.” His sisters looked at him in awe. He was their hero, their amanuensis and their teacher, their representative and their soon-to-be-martyred brother. Yes, he was handsome, young – just 18 – he was dressed in a black Giorgio Armani T-shirt, a small, carefully trimmed Spanish conquistador’s beard, gelled hair.

And he was ready to immolate himself.

A sinister surprise. I had travelled to Khaled’s home to speak to his mother. I had already written about his brother Hassan and wanted to introduce a Canadian journalist colleague, Nelofer Pazira, to the family. When Khaled walked on to the porch of the house, Nelofer and I both realised – at the same moment – that he was next, the next to die, the next “martyr”. It was his smile. I’ve come across these young men before, but never one who so obviously declared his calling.

His family sat around us on the porch of their home above the Lebanese city of Sidon, the sitting room adorned with coloured photographs of Hassan, already gone to the paradise – so they assured me – for which Khaled clearly thought he was destined. Hassan had driven his explosives-laden car into an American military convoy at Tal Afar in north-western Iraq, his body (or what was left of it) buried “in situ” – or so his mother was informed.

It’s easy to find the families of the newly dead in Lebanon. Their names are read from the minarets of Sidon’s mosques (most are Palestinian) and in Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, the Sunni “Tawhid” movement boasts “hundreds” of suiciders among its supporters. Every night, the population of Lebanon watches the brutal war in Iraq on television. “It’s difficult to reach ‘Palestine’ these days,” Khaled’s uncle informed me. “Iraq is easier.”

Too true. No one doubts that the road to Baghdad – or Tal Afar or Fallujah or Mosul – lies through Syria, and that the movement of suicide bombers from the Mediterranean coasts to the deserts of Iraq is a planned if not particularly sophisticated affair. What is astonishing – what is not mentioned by the Americans or the Iraqi “government” or the British authorities or indeed by many journalists – is the sheer scale of the suicide campaign, the vast numbers

of young men (only occasionally women), who wilfully destroy themselves amid the American convoys, outside the Iraqi police stations, in markets and around mosques and in shopping streets and on lonely roads beside remote checkpoints across the huge cities and vast deserts of Iraq. Never have the true figures for this astonishing and unprecedented campaign of self-liquidation been calculated.

But a month-long investigation by The Independent, culling four Arabic-language newspapers, official Iraqi statistics, two Beirut news agencies and Western reports, shows that an incredible 1,121 Muslim suicide bombers have blown themselves up in Iraq.

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This is a very conservative figure and – given the propensity of the authorities (and of journalists) to report only those suicide bombings that kill dozens of people – the true estimate may be double this number. On several days, six – even nine – suicide bombers have exploded themselves in Iraq in a display of almost Wal-Mart availability. If life in Iraq is cheap, death is cheaper. […..]

[…..] Suicide bombers in Iraq have killed at least 13,000 men, women and children – our most conservative estimate gives a total figure of 13,132 – and wounded a minimum of 16,112 people. If we include the dead and wounded in the mass stampede at the Baghdad Tigris river bridge in the summer of 2005 – caused by fear of suicide bombers – the figures rise to 14,132 and 16,612 respectively. Again, it must be emphasised that these statistics are minimums. For 529 of the suicide bombings in Iraq, no figures for wounded are available. Where wounded have been listed in news reports as “several”, we have made no addition to the figures.

And the number of critically injured who later died remains unknown. Set against a possible death toll of half a million Iraqis since the March 2003 invasion, the suicide bombers’ victims may appear insignificant; but the killers’ ability to terrorise civilians, militiamen and Western troops and mercenaries is incalculable.

Never before has the Arab world witnessed a phenomenon of suicide-death on this scale. During Israel’s occupation of Lebanon after 1982, one Hizbollah suicide-bombing a month was considered remarkable. During the Palestinian intifadas of the 1980s and 1990s, four per month was regarded as unprecedented. But suicide bombers in Iraq have been attacking at the average rate of two every three days since the 2003 Anglo-American invasion.

And, although neither the Iraqi government nor their American mentors will admit this, scarcely 10 out of more than a thousand suicide killers have been identified. We know from their families that Palestinians, Saudis, Syrians and Algerians have been among the bombers.

In a few cases, we have names. But in most attacks, the authorities in Iraq – if they can still be called “authorities” after five years of catastrophe – have no idea to whom the bloodied limbs and headless torsos of the bombers belong.

Even more profoundly disturbing is that the “cult” of the suicide bomber has seeped across national frontiers. Within a year of the Iraqi invasion, Afghan Taliban bombers were blowing themselves up alongside Western troops or bases in Helmand province and in the capital Kabul. The practice leached into Pakistan, striking down thousands of troops and civilians, killing even the principal opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto. The London Tube and bus bombings – despite the denials of Tony Blair – were obviously deeply influenced by events in Iraq. […..]

[…..] Khaled is – or was, for I no longer know if he is alive, since I met him a few weeks ago– influenced by his brother Hassan, whose journey to Iraq was organised by an unknown group, presumably Palestinian, and whose weapons training beside the Tigris river was videotaped by his comrades. Hassan’s mother has shown me this tape – which ends with Hassan cheerfully waving goodbye from the driver’s window of a battered car, presumably the vehicle he was about to ram into the American convoy at Tal Afar.

None of this addresses the issue of religious belief. While there is evidence aplenty that the Japanese suicide pilots of the Second World War were sometimes coerced and intimidated into their final flights against US warships in the Pacific, many also believed that they were dying for their emperor. For them, the fall of cherry blossom and the divine wind – the “kamikaze” – blessed their souls as they aimed their bombers at American aircraft carriers. But even an industrialised dictatorship like Japan – facing the imminent collapse of its entire society at the hands of a superpower – could only mobilise 4,615 “kamikazes”. The Iraq suicide bombers may already have reached half that number. […..]

[…..] Not even a disparaging remark about those who would send him on his death mission – that they were prepared to live in this world while sending others like Khaled to their fate – could discourage him. “I am not going to become a ‘shahed’ [martyr] for people,” he replied. “I am doing it for God.” […..]

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FOUR THINGS MAKE U.S. CRY!

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Four things make U.S. Cry:

Gold, Oil, Prejudice and Sighs,

All Parts of Our Lives Passing By!

Gold and Oil Prices Hit Record Highs,

As the Dollar Weakens to Kill Pie in the Sky,

So Obama’s Pastor Preaches out Oh Me, Oh My,

Damn America’s run by Rich White Men, and not I!

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And this mess grows worse as the Tribulation doth draw nigh

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I will vote for former Secretary of State Colin L. Powel for President in a New York minute, and am more than willing to vote for a vast array of black men and women on America’s political scene. I would vote for countless numbers of women for President in our political spectrum. So please do not accuse me of gender or racial prejudice.

The reason I will not vote for Barak Obama is based on two things: (1) I do not believe he has the experience to deal with the enemies of the United States and, (2) His membership in a church espousing the views of its former pastor, and one that exhibits a viewpoint of racial hatred toward whites based on a prior white prejudice toward them.

Their bias is somewhat comparable to that which most whites held toward blacks for a very long time, until many whites, myself included, realized how terribly wrong we were in doing so.

I deeply regret the prejudice

I felt toward blacks well into my teens.

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I was just totally wrong in my racially prejudiced attitude, repenting of it in my late teens, and I do apologize to all blacks. But it was not their response to it that totally changed me – It was the Word of God.

While I freely admit some forms of racial prejudice do still exist in our society, I am firmly convinced that the vast majority of whites are trying to do better, and I am also equally convinced that some black leaders make it sound much worse than it is.

However, after having said all that, as I have stated many times, it does not make a great deal of difference to me who wins the Presidency this November for two reasons, (1) I feel sorry for the poor devil, whether black or white, or male or female, who is unlikely to finish his or her first term before all hell breaks loose in the Middle East, and (2) I don’t believe anyone can stop the economic, political, military, and tectonic chaos, which I believe is likely to begin in earnest at some point in time between 2010 and 2015, regardless of who is President.

The three articles which follow are harbingers of a beginning of a world economic decline, which will have good days and bad days for the next year or so, but should accelerate rapidly as 2010 approaches.

Begin Article from World News

Gold prices hit $1,000 milestone

Precious metal hits key level on fears about economy and further weakness in the dollar.

By David Goldman and David Ellis, CNNMoney.com staff writers

Last Updated: March 13, 2008: 4:50 PM EDT

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Gold prices touched the $1,000 milestone for the first time Thursday as the dollar plunged amid nagging fears about the health of the U.S. economy.

After weeks of flirting with the key psychological mark, COMEX gold for April climbed to $1,000 an ounce in morning floor trading. Prices later pared their gains and were most recently up $16.60 to $997.10 an ounce.

Sending prices higher were another drop in the dollar, looming Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, and rising inflation.

“Supply and demand is not really the driver of gold prices,” said UBS metal strategist Robin Bhar.

“This is about global financial stresses.

“Falling dollar. The dollar hit a 12-year low against the yen and retreated to yet another record low versus the euro Thursday. As the price of gold appreciates compared to the dollar, investors pour money into the commodity in hopes that their gold will maintain some value.

“Perhaps some investors have reached a point where there is nothing better than a hard, physical asset like gold,” Bhar said.

Interest rate cuts.

Many economists expect the Fed to cut interest rates by one-half of a percentage point when the U.S. central bank meets next Tuesday. As interest rates continue to dip, and funds tied to interest rates like money market accounts lose their yield, investors look to an asset that will provide a stronger return on their investments.

“Gold is a non-interest yielding commodity, so lower interest makes gold a more attractive commodity,” said Bhar.

Rising inflation. When the central bank slashes rates, inflation rises as the dollar loses its value. As the Fed has cut rates to 3%, prices have risen at an annual rate of 2.5%, according to a U.S. Labor Department reading.

Traditionally, investors put money into government bonds and TIPS to ward off inflation. But recently bonds have provided historically low yields, and many have now transferred their funds into gold.

“It may be that we’ve reached a point that not even those instruments are adequate insurance against inflation,” said Bhar.

But historically, gold has failed to keep pace with inflation. When the economy ends its current downturn, gold prices should eventually fall, as they did 28 years ago. After hitting the $847 mark in January 1980, gold futures fell 70% to $253 in August 1999.

Still a long way to go. Even so, gold may continue to soar. The shiny commodity has long been considered a safe haven for investors worried about the economy.

“The current environment is such that the doom and gloom scenario plays right into investors’ hands,” said Bhar, who believes that gold prices will continue to rise as long as investors are worried about an economic recession.

“Though forecasts point to no recession, hedge fund clients are quite fearful right now.”

And 1980 is proof that gold prices could continue to go up. Though gold has never been traded at a higher price, the $847 level in 1980 would be worth $2,170 in today’s money, more than double the current price of gold.

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OPEC monopoly threatens to put oil on boil

14 Mar, 2008, 0354 hrs IST,

WASHINGTON: For much of its 47-year existence, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has been a cartel in name only.

It could not control oil prices because many of its members regularly breached the production quotas that were intended to regulate the market. So OPEC followed oil prices up and down, as supply and demand shifted. But now OPEC may be the real deal: a cartel that works. If so, that’s bad news for the rest of the world.

Look no further than last week’s OPEC meeting in Vienna. Oil ministers declined to increase production despite a strong case for doing so. Not only were oil prices fluttering above $100 a barrel, but the United States is either in or near a recession and much of the rest of the world faces an economic slowdown.

What’s wrong is that a fall of oil prices is one of the mechanisms by which a recession or economic slowdown corrects itself. Lower prices for gasoline, home heating oil and diesel fuel improve consumer purchasing power.

Begin DAWN (THE INTERNET) NEWS Article

Oil hits record $107.85

March 11, 2008

LONDON, March 10: Oil prices hit a record high $107.85 on Monday as the White House announced that US Vice President Dick Cheney will head to Opec kingpin Saudi Arabia next week to seek increased production.

Dealers said oil had fallen in early trade on profit-taking but concerns over the weakness of the dollar and tightening supplies provided support and news of the Cheney trip then added an extra twist.

The New York contract for April delivery had hit a previous peak of $106.54 on Friday.

Elsewhere on Monday, Brent North Sea crude for April struck a record high $104.35 on barrel.

The latest spike came as the White House said Monday that Cheney would next week urge Saudi Arabia to push Opec to boost output in an effort to rein in sky-high prices.

“I’m sure that energy issues will come up,” spokeswoman Dana Perino said in a preview of Cheney’s trip to the Middle East next week. “Obviously we want to see an increase in production.”

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), which produces 40 per cent of the world’s crude, decided at a policy meeting last week to maintain its daily production target of 29.67 million barrels despite calls by US President George W. Bush for it to do more.

Opec blamed the high cost of crude on speculative buying as investors sought a hedge against a weakening dollar and rising inflation.

The weak US currency encourages demand for dollar-priced commodities like oil because it makes them cheaper for buyers using other currencies.

“Tight fundamentals remain the dominant force underpinning prices in our view, with the combination of disappointing non-Opec production, solid non-OECD demand and defensive Opec output policy all exerting upward pressure on prices,” said Barclays Capital analyst Kevin Norrish.

At about 1700 GMT, New York’s main oil contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April, stood at $107.54, up $2.39 from Friday’s close.

Brent for April stood $1.75 higher at $104.15.

Prices had dropped in early trade on Monday amid concerns that energy demand would drop in the United States because of its weak economy, analysts said.

Prices also fell on easing geopolitical tensions involving crude producer Venezuela, they added.—AFP

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Still No Antichrist after 50 Years!

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Still No Antichrist

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Fifty years ago, as I served and issued FBUK Warnings in England, the European Common Market “Six” was forming. I literally watched its small parliament come into existence when it was actually happening in the European zone where I was living at the time. The Soviet Union was at its zenith.

The world lived in constant fear of the final war of the great nuclear war between the United States and the West against the Soviet Union and China.

The world eventually was flooded with a publication titled “The Late Great Planet Earth,” perhaps the most popular prophetic offering of any century. For the last 34 years of my life I have shouted from the roof tops, and written three books to warn any who would listen, that the major tenants of the Hal Lindsey’ s book are incorrect.

A generation of prophetic teachers bought into it, and its major themes are still the basis for prophetic proclamations made daily by the popular prophetic buffs on worldwide television.

The major teachings in his book, with which I vehemently disagreed, were Lindsey’s assertions that:

1. The Antichrist would come out of Europe.

2. He was to immediately arise there after the tenth horn of Daniel 7 and Revelation was added to the original six horns of the common market, which also represent the ten toes of Daniel 2.

3. The rapture, or catching out of the saved, would occur before this European Antichrist attacked Israel leading the first six common market nations, plus the four, which at that time were to soon be quickly added

to make a total of ten. The European Antichrist was to be the eleventh horn.

Well, it has been fifty years, and still no European Antichrist.

And now the Daniel’s statue has 27 toes, and his, as well as John’s beast, has 27 horns. Now, most of the prophetic world is till trying to revive a horse that died when the toes passed their predicted limit in the last century, and as Europe turned into a land filled with followers of Islam. And the prophetic world is still attempting, with each little minor quiver of a heartbeat in the EU of 27 nations, to say NOW it will rise to be a people led by the European Antichrist.

I am acutely aware that the prophetic teachings of any individual, other than the writers of the Bible, are subject to change, and I am certainly aware that Brother Lindsey wishes he could rewrite things he wrote in all of this books, especi

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ally since I would like to rewrite a few things in my books, as well as in my early Prophecy Archives. However, once you publish something, it is as if it is engraved in stone, and you are stuck with it until the Second Advent of Christ. In the last century I was quite confident Israel would be attacked at some point in time between 2003 and 2008, and

the attack would mark the beginning of the last three and one-half years of the tribulation period.

However, I invariably included the statement: “But if I wake up on New Year’s Day of 2008, I will just say I was wrong, and continue to believe the attack would occur soon.” Well, in 2006, before I woke up on New Year’s Day of 2008, I simply admitted

I was wrong. So, my rejection of Hal Lindsey’s views is not personal. I rather like him, and give him credit for waking up America to the awareness the rise of Antichrist and the catching out of the saints was not some far distant event.

I implore you to take a look at what was taught by most orthodox prophetic teachers before 1827 about Daniel’s 70th Week. It is fully exposited in our Prophecy Archives on Updates 230B, 231, 231A, 231B, 232, 232A, 232B, 232C, 233, and 233A.

Also please scan Updates 73D, 74A, 76, 78A, 82A, 114A, 144A, 144F, and 219B for the position held on the catching out of the saints prior to 1740.

How will you ever be so certain what I advocate is wrong if you have never considered the proofs I offer to its validity. I confess it is certainly not something new in that I leaned it from the writings of men of God who wrote prior to the twentieth century, many of them prior to the nineteenth, some of them prior to the eighteenth century, and a few of them prior to the seventeenth century. Where they all wrong and the modern day writers correct? It is your call – I hope you make it!

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Islam is a Society Now Led by Voices from the Grave!

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Islam is a Society Now Led by Voices from the Grave!

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We are in conflict with a society which has no desire to change with the passage of time. It is now led by the Islamic voices of the past from the grave, which is leading the extremists to follow a path of “regressing, not progressing.” In so doing, they constantly conduct themselves “in a superstitious and un reasona

ble manner.” A leader like the bold, brash Iranian President Ahmadinejad is among those living “in a world of the supernatural.” Turki Al-Hamad’s analysis of his own society has a ring of truth about it.

In the Koran, under The Prophets 21:97, it is written: “It is ordained that no nation We have destroyed shall ever rise again. But when Gog and Magog are let loose and rush headlong down every hill; when the true promise nears its fulfillment; the unbelievers shall stare in great amazement crying: ‘Woe to us!

Of this we have been heedless.

We have done wrong,’”

But in Ezekiel 38:1-3, the Lord God states: “And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, [3] And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

The Lord God also indicates by the pen of Zechariah, that after initial great success by Gog and his Islamic armies against Israel, including the capture of Jerusalem, that the true God will fight against Gog, and then Messiah will return with all his saints to destroy the false prophet, the Islamic antichrist, and all his armies.

Zechariah 13:8 to 14:5 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. [1] Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. [3] Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

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[4] And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. [5] And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

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The Middle East Media Research Institution

March 12, 2008 No. 1868

Reformist Saudi Intellectual Turki Al-Hamad: I’m “Pessimistic” about Possibility of Real Change

In an Al-Arabiya TV interview, Saudi author and reformist Turki Al-Hamad said that Arab society and culture were “regressing, not progressing,” and, worse, doing so “in a superstitious and unreasonable manner.” He said that the Arabs “are living in a world of the supernatural,” not today’s world of “logic,” and that the “so-called religious awakening” had turned every thing

upside down – while “the prevalent culture is backward, yet the political regime

uses this culture to glorify itself, without realizing that it is destroying the future… We move forward with our eyes looking backward.”

He concluded by stating that he was “not optimistic” about the possibility of “making real changes in our culture and society,” adding, “As time goes by, I am becoming more pessimistic about this.”

Turki Al-Hamad is a former political science professor who has been harassed and arrested several times by the Saudi police. He was included in Osama bin Laden’s 2006 list of Arab “freethinkers” who should be killed.

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Following are excerpts from the interview, which aired on February 15 and 22, 2008:

To view this clip, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1700.htm.

To view the MEMRI TV page on Turki Al-Hamad, visit:

http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/602.htm.

“Today’s World is Ruled By Logic… We, On The Other Hand, Have Forsaken This Future for the Sake of Myth…. We Live in the World of the Supernatural”

Turki Al-Hamad: “The taboos in Saudi Arabia are different from the taboos in Lebanon, and from the taboos in Egypt, and so on, even though I believe that in all these countries, they tend to view the taboo itself as fundamental. This was not the case in the past. I believe that we’ve reached the point where everything is ruled by prohibitions. Everything is prohibited unless it is proven to be permitted. This is the problem of Arab society and culture. Instead of making progress, we are regressing – and if only we were regressing in a reasonable manner. Unfortunately, we are regressing in a superstitious and unreasonable manner.”

Interviewer: “So in your opinion, this nation is living in myths and superstitions, rather than living reality, as it should.”

Turki Al-Hamad: “Absolutely. Today’s world is ruled by logic.

It operates according to a certain logic, which views the future according to certain criteria and considerations.

We, on the other hand, have forsaken this future for the sake of myth. We live in the world of the supernatural, not in the real world, which we have completely neglected.” […]

The “So-Called Religious Awakening” Has Turned Everything “Upside Down” – “The Dead Have Taken Control Over the Living”

“In the past, our society was more open, more accepting of other opinions and different behavior. But the so-called ‘religious awakening’ – and I regard it as a religious ‘slumber,’ not as an awakening – especially with regard to the Iranian revolution, and the Juhaiman movement, [which took over] the Al-Haram Mosque in Mecca in 1979… Everything has turned upside down. The dead have taken control over the living. Juhaiman, for example, had very backward ideas.

He was killed, and his movement was eliminated, but ultimately, his ideas were implemented. The ideology of Juhaiman, and the Salafi ideology in general, has spread throughout the Arab world – and it is not what can be called the enlightened Salafi ideology, which was evident in the early 20th century among some Islamic thinkers.” […]

“The Prevalent Culture Is Backward, Yet The Political Regime Uses This Culture To Glorify Itself, Without Realizing That It Is Destroying The Future”

“The question is why this ideology has spread. I believe this is a kind of psychological mechanism. With all the defeats and disappointments of the Arab world… If you examine the history of the Arabs in the 20th century, you will see one defeat after another, one disappointment after another. The future has become uncertain and dark, rather than enlightened.

[…]

“I blame the political regime.

I blame the Arab intellectual. I blame the prevalent culture. It is a mixture of many things. Let me give you an example.

The prevalent culture is backward, yet the political regime uses this culture to glorify itself, without realizing that it is destroying the future.

That’s one reason. Another example is when intellectuals turn everything into ideology, riding a wave of populism and flirting with the peoples, instead of enlightening them. They flirt with the peoples and follow them, rather than leading them. I place the blame to some extent on these intellectuals. The prevalent culture is stagnant. It does not recognize the ‘other,’ and does not want to recognize that it is one of many cultures in the world. It considers itself to be the ‘number one’ culture – the world itself. Therefore, as said by a poet from the age of pre-Islamic ignorance – and I believe that we are still living in that age – “We are a people of worthy of world leadership – or the grave.” We cannot live in the middle ground between these two extremes, and that is the problem.” […]

“We Move Forward With Our Eyes Looking Backward… I Am Very Pessimistic About The Possibility Of Making Real Changes In Our Culture And Society”

“From the early 20th century to this day, we constantly hear people say: We should adopt the good things [from the West] and ignore the bad. You cannot do such a thing. When you consider the products of modern civilization – the car, the computer, and so on – these are all products of a certain philosophy, a certain way of thinking. If you adopt the product, but ignore the producer – you have a problem. You cannot do such a thing. [For us,] the product is new, but the thought is not. We move forward with our eyes looking backward.

[…]

“After this period of my life, I am very pessimistic about the possibility of making real changes in our culture and society. I hope I am wrong. In any case, this does not mean we should not try. Future generations will ask what we did about this. At least we tried, at least we made our voice heard. Time will tell whether we were successful in achieving any result. But I am not optimistic, and as time goes by, I am becoming more pessimistic about this.”

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