Dealing with Iranians by truth
Is Folly
Dealing with Iran by Falsehood is Folly
Dealing with Iran by a bit of Both is Folly
Dealing with Iran by dire warnings is Folly
Dealing with Iran by more sanctions is Folly
Dealing with Iran by direct action is not Folly
But Nothing Is Going To Stop Middle East War
We are dealing with a fanatical emotional Jihad
Based on Religious Mind Implanted Lies & Fables
From the Koran Legends, Myths, and outright Lies
Which can only End in a Final War to Close this Age!
September 17, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
During many years of personal contact with Sunni and Shiite military personal, I learned to never try to reason with them on any of the wild stories and legends they are emotionally convinced are the truth. I quickly learned the majority of wild tales they passed on to me were not even in the Koran.
And after I read the Koran, I was not surprised to discover how differently Sunni and Shiite interpret some of its verses.
After my initial attempt to exchange conversation on what I knew was based on the Bible, and what they believed based on the Koran, I rarely ever made a second attempt to bring up the subject again.
I was often greeted with the same reply: “There is one God, Allah, and Muhammad is his Prophet,” which was usually repeated several times, and often in more of a chant that normal conversational dialog,
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The Myth of al-Aqsa: The Holiness of Jerusalem to Islam Has Always Been Politically Motivated –
Mordechai Kedar (Ynet News)
Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran. After Palestine was occupied by the Muslims, its capital was Ramle, 30 miles to the west of Jerusalem, signifying that Jerusalem meant nothing to them.
In 682 C.E., 50 years after Mohammad’s death, Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr rebelled against the Islamic rulers in Damascus, conquered Mecca and prevented pilgrims from reaching Mecca for the Hajj. Abd al-Malik, the Umayyad ruler, needed an alternative site for
the pilgrimage and settled on Jerusalem which was then under his control.
In order to justify this choice, a verse from the Koran was chosen which states: “Glory to Him who caused His servant to travel by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque.” The meaning ascribed to this verse is that “the farthest mosque” is in Jerusalem and that Mohammad was conveyed there one night (although the journey took three days by camel) on the back of al-Buraq, a magical horse with the head of a woman and wings of an eagle.
He tethered the horse to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount and from there ascended to heaven.
Orthodox Muslim thinkers have concluded that the nocturnal journey was a dream of Mohammad’s. The people of Mecca, who knew Muhammad well, did not believe this story. Another difficulty with this belief is that Islamic tradition tells us that al-Aqsa mosque is near Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula.
This was unequivocally stated in Kitab al-Maghazi, a book by the Muslim historian and geographer al-Waqidi.
One aim of the Islamization of Jerusalem is to undermine the legitimacy of the older religions, Judaism and Christianity, which consider Jerusalem to be a holy city.
Though Judaism and Christianity can exist side by side in Jerusalem, Islam regards both of them as betrayals of Allah and will continue to do all in its power
to expel both of them from this city.
Notably, this expulsion is retroactive: The Islamic broadcasters of the Palestinian radio stations consistently make it a point to claim that the Jews never had a temple on the Temple Mount.
Must Judaism and Christianity defer to myths related in Islamic texts or envisioned in Mohammad’s dreams, long after Jerusalem was established as the ancient center of
these two religions, which preceded Islam
? Should Israel give up on its capital just because some Muslims decided to recycle the political problems of the Umayyads?
The writer, a former Israeli military intelligence officer, is a research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
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