Beast of East horns now moving Together!
Beliefs widely differ in the Beast of the East!
A strange sect arose in the radical Islam Faith
Producing great slaughters by Alawite Butchers
The brutal sin of the father is repeated in his Son
As an event that precedes the Final War of This Age
Likely to start at some point in time twixt 2013 & 2015
When all the rivers of the Middle East will flow with Blood
At the Time Shi’I, Sunni, and Alawite Do Bond as Clay & Iron
Under an Antichrist who will eventually arise in “Greater Syria!”
August 5, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The following excerpts are from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alawite State, also known in French as Alaouites, after the locally dominant Alawite sect of Shi’a, was a French mandate territory in the coastal area of present-day Syria after World War I.
History
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I brought on a scramble to take control of various provinces of the disintegrating empire.
France occupied Syria in 1918, and received the Alawite Territory as a mandate from
the League of Nations on September 2, 1920.
Initially it was an autonomous territory under French rule, but on 1 July 1922 was incorporated into French Syria.
On September 29, 1923, it was declared a state with the port city of Latakia as its capital, and on 1 January 1925 was formally renamed
the Alawite State.
On September 22, 1930, it was renamed the Sanjak of Latakia.
The population at this time was 278,000.
On 5 December 1936 (effective in 1937) it was fully incorporated into Syria.
Alawis are self-described Shi’i Muslims, and have been called Shia by other sources including the highly influential Lebanese Shia cleric Musa al-Sadr of Lebanon.[37] On the other hand, conservative Sunnis do not always recognize Alawi as Muslims. At least one source has compared them to Baha’is, Babis, Bektashis, Ahmadis, and “similar groups that have arisen within the Muslim community”, and declared that “it has always been the consensus of the Muslim Ulama, both Sunni and Shi’i, that the Nusayri Alawi are kuffar unbelievers and mushrikun polytheists.” On the other hand, the prominent Sunni Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, issued a fatwah recognizing them as part of the Muslim community
The Alawite sect initially resisted encouragement to be categorized as Shi’ite Muslims. Alawites have had a mixed view of themselves propagated. Ali Sulayman al-Ahmad, chief judge of the Alawite state, replied “We are Alawi Muslims. Our book is the Quran.
Our prophet is Muhammad. The Ka`ba is our qibla, and our religion is Islam.”
Heterodox
Many of the tenets of the faith are secret and known only to a select few Alawi. In the 19th century, however, an Alawite named Sulaiman al-Adni converted to Christianity and in 1863, compiled a book called Al-Bakurah as-Suliamaniya fi Kashf Asrar ad-Diyanah an-Nusairiyah (The First Fruits of Sulaiman in Revealing the Secrets of the Nusairi Religion). Orientalists like Louis Massignon gained access to a number of Nusairi manuscripts.
According to some sources, Alawis have integrated doctrines from other religions (Syncretism), in particular from Ismaili Islam and Christianity.[8][11][38] According to scholar Cyril Glasse, it is thought that “as a small, historically beleaguered ethnic group”, the Alawi “absorbed elements” from the different religions that influenced their area from Hellenistic times onward, while maintaining their own beliefs, and “pretended to adhere to the dominant religion of the age.” Alawites are reported to celebrate certain Christian festivals, “in their own way”, including Christmas, Easter, and Palm Sunday, and their religious ceremonies make use of bread and wine According to Matti Moosa, a “leading scholar of the Nusayris”,
The Christian elements in the Nusayri religion are unmistakable. They include the concept of trinity; the celebration of Christmas, the consecration of the Qurban, that is, the sacrament of the flesh and blood which Christ offered to his disciples, and, most important, the celebration of the Quddas (a lengthy prayer proclaiming the divine attributes of Ali and the personification of all the biblical patriarchs from Adam to Simon Peter, founder of the Church, who is seen, paradoxically, as the embodiment of true Islam).
Alawis have much in common with the Ismailis in terms of overall beliefs, and they are sometimes regarded as “an offshoot of this group.”] According to scholar Umar F. Abd-Allah, who uses Sulaiman al-Adni’s book along with other sources, the Alawis, like the Ismailis and related groups, believe that the Shariah has both an esoteric, allegorical (Batini) meaning and an exoteric, literal (zahiri) meaning and that only the hidden meaning is intended. Alawis believe the esoteric meaning is known only to the Imams and later to the Bab and was hidden even to the Islamic prophet Muhammad himself. Only the Bab has access to this esoteric meaning in
the absence of the Imam.
Alawis believe in a “trinity”or “schema”] of `Ain-Mim-Sin, which stands for `Ali, Muhammad, and Salman al-Farsi, the Persian Companion of Muhammad. Muhammad is known as ism, or “name”, Ali as bab, or “door”, and Salman al-Farsi as ma’na, or “meaning”, with both Muhammad and Ali considered to be emanations of Salman al-Farsi. According to Abd-Allah, each of these three is said to have been an incarnation of God. Ali, however, constitutes the most important part of this trinity. The Alawi testimony of faith is: `I have borne witness that there is no God but He, the most High, the object of worship and that there is no concealing veil (hijab) except the lord Muhammad, the object of praise, (as-Sayyid Muhmmad al-Mahmud), and there is not Bab except the lord Salman al-Farisi` The Nusairis believe in the subsequent incarnation of God in other persons after the passing of `Ali, Muhammad, and Salman al-Farisi…
Some sources have suggested that the non-Muslim nature of many of the historical Alawi beliefs notwithstanding, Alawi beliefs may have changed in recent decades. In the early 1970s a booklet entitled al-`Alawiyyun Shi’atu Ahl al-Bait (The Alawis are Followers of the Household of the Prophet), was issued in which doctrines of the Imami Shi’ah were described as ‘Alawi, and which was “signed by of numerous `Alawi` men of religion”. This book and Musa Sadr’s proclamation have led one scholar to wonder whether “a mass conversion from Nusairism to Shi’ah Islam” has taken place Another scholar suggests that factors such as the high profile of Alawi in Syria, the strong aversion of the Muslim majority to apostasy, and the relative lack of importance of religious doctrine to Alawi identity may have induced Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad and his successor son to press their fellow Alawi “to behave like ‘regular Muslims’, shedding or at least concealing their distinctive aspects.”[43]
Alawis have their own scholars, referred to as shaikhs, although more recently there has been a movement to bring Alawism and the other branches of Twelver Islam together through educational exchange programs in Syria and Qumm. Distinct Alawi beliefs include the belief that prayers are not necessary, they don’t fast, nor perform pilgrimage, nor have specific places of worship.
Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Special Report
The Orontes River runs red as Syrian anti-aircraft guns pound Hama
DEBKAfile Special Report
August 4, 2011, 10:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
Horrifying images of bodies and limbs floating in the Orontes River in Hama were aired by Syrian state television early Thursday, Aug.
4.
Contrary to official claims that they belonged to Syrian soldiers torn to pieces by protesters, DEBKAfile reports they are the victims of Syrian tank fire and ZU-23 automatic anti-aircraft artillery trained on residential buildings and streets in the last 48 hours as the dead pile up in the streets.
Citizens cowering in their homes are throwing the dead out of windows and off roofs into the river.
They are reliving the terrors of the massacre President Bashar Assad’s father inflicted on this city of half-a-million in 1982 which left 30,000 dead.
Our sources report that the Syrian ruler decided to take advantage of three events for unleashing an all-out assault against rebellious Hama:
1. World attention was riveted on the deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s trial which opened in Cairo Wednesday. As Mubarak was stunningly wheeled into the courtroom on a stretcher and deposited in an iron cage, Syrian tanks thundered into central Hama, indiscriminately shelling buildings and torching
them. Their anti-aircraft guns mowed down the rebels who were firing anti-tank weapons from roadblocks.
Buildings suspected of housing snipers at windows or on rooftops were flattened.
Casualty figures cannot be confirmed because the Syrian authorities have cut off all the city’s ground and cell telephone and Internet links. Electrical current and water are also switched off. The dead are believed to be in the hundreds and ris
ing all the time because the thousands of injured cannot be reached for medical care.
The satellite phones in the hands of some of the dissident leaders provide the only source of information on the situation in the embattled city.
2. The crisis between the Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and the army after the entire top command resigned in a body, which Assad expected would preoccupy all the decision-making levels in Ankara to the exclusion of Syria.
He counted on no one in authority venturing to order the Turkish units poised on
the Syrian border for weeks to cross into northern Syria and establish a buffer zone there to ease the siege on Hama and other towns.
3. The UN Security Council convening Wednesday night routinely condemned the killing of civilians in Syria and human rights abuses but stopped at approving sanctions or any concrete penalties for the delinquent Assad regime.
Although US UN representative Susan Rice called the statement “an important and strong step,” Bashar Assad was not impressed and the Syrian army’s onslaught on Hama kept going through the night.
Assad was further encouraged by an event in the US Congress.
After the Senate Tuesday, Aug. 3 approved the bill raising the national debt ceiling, the lawmakers were scheduled to turn to the crisis in Syria. However, US Ambassador Robert Ford, on hand to brief the senators, saw them hurrying to leave Capitol Hill. Only one senator remained for the briefing.
The Syrian ruler has therefore concluded he can safely ignore international opinion.
In the face of US and Western indifference, he can continue to mercilessly slaughter his people without fear of the sort of intervention they undertook in Libya or UN sanctions.
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