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" ... But Islam does win converts in the West, and there are good reasons to expect that some of the next great religious awakenings in the Western world will be Islamic ones. For one, Islam is a living faith, whereas the established Christian churches are mostly dead. Islamic imams make headlines for proclaiming what they believe. Christian theologians and pastors make headlines for announcing what they doubt or no longer believe. However far behind the Islamic world is from the West economically, the presence of an Islamic government in Iran, and the wide-ranging Sunni revival that is upending the Middle East, speak to a faith that has immediate relevance. In Europe, Islam comes across as streetwise and assertive. Mosques are full and thriving, the anchors of growing communities. Churches are wan, empty, scandal-ridden, and irresolute. Even the worst of Islamism has not been a barrier. The British journalist Yvonne Ridley was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, but has since converted and become an activist on behalf of Muslim causes in Britain. Conversions to Islam in the U.S. increased after the Sept. 11 attacks. Even committed Christians will find themselves envying the unity and devotion that is prevalent across Islam. My own experience walking through Cairo at evening during the call to prayer taught me this lesson. The ancient chant rises above the city, and in alleyways men from all classes roll out mats and bow in prayer. Some shopkeepers momentarily slide curtains in front of their entrances. Among Christians, this kind of wide, open, unselfconscious, nation-defining piety is entirely absent. The only Christian analogue that comes to mind is the way, in the 1980s, drivers in the west of Ireland might still cross themselves as they passed by a parish church. But that habit has since died, and anyway it is rather like comparing dipping water from a malfunctioning faucet to the roar of a living river. The separation of church and state and the centuries of secularization give the impression that Christian theology is conducted in an almost private sphere. In important ways, Christians have internalized the idea that the church is merely a private pursuit. Meanwhile, the great social, political, and moral issues are debated in terms that are public. Environmentalism, feminism, anti-racism, and all manner of social reform movements do not hole themselves up in private institutions — they issue forth into the public square and demand reform. Islam matches this way of thinking. Islam does not need to invent intellectual disguises like "natural law" to sneak ideas into the public square. It may be more honest to say that Islam often subsumes the political sphere into the religious one. Islam's primary intellectual project is not theology, but jurisprudence, the right conduct and governance within the ummah. " ---Source : https://lnkd.in/d3f3VCFr

https://lnkd.in/dBd3pp9t -> Does christian America really have any problems with christian Russia? Can you get a bird's-eye view of society by getting rid of the media's grip, such as seclusion like Muhammad? Or is this a problem that happened between Jews and Russians, and then inherited to christians by being imported by jewish? It's an imported vendetta for the Americans....Sad. If there is a problem somewhere, there is a jew there who raises this problem, that is, the jew is the disgrace of the Jacob family and the curse and worm of the tree of humanity by being the slave and donkey (porter) of the devil. The reason why this problem was born as a problem is sectarianism. Let's think of a glass, and if this glass is first divided into four parts, and then officially divided into 37,000 parts (sects), can you drink water with this glass now? Islam sent with Jesus.... Scholars know that the book has been changed, but while he was engaged in an interest-oriented endeavor, he was captured by zionist jews and satan, threatened and used for zionism, as well as Jewish clerics and so-called Muslim clerics. The Clear Evidence Chapter Bimillahirrahmanirrahim 1. Those who disbelieved from among the followers of the Book and the polytheists could not have separated (from the faithful) until there had come to them the clear evidence: 2. An apostle from Allah, reciting pure pages, 3. Wherein are all the right ordinances. 4. And those who were given the Book did not become divided except after clear evidence had come to them. 5. And they were not enjoined anything except that they should serve Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience, upright, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, and that is the right religion. 6. Surely those who disbelieve from among the followers of the Book and the polytheists shall be in the fire of hell, abiding therein; they are the worst of men. 7. (As for) those who believe and do good, surely they are the -best of men. 8. Their reward with their Lord is gardens of perpetuity beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein for ever; Allah is well pleased with them and they are well pleased with Him; that is for him who fears his Lord.

On Holy Rebellion Gershom Scholem, a German Jew who immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1923 was a legend at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He titled his important Hebrew language essay translated as “Redemption Through Sin". According to Scholem biographer David Biale, the 1934 essay “possibly more than any other of his writings, secured his reputation in the eyes of both his colleagues and a wider public as the most provocative Jewish scholar of his generation.” Biale writes: “Zionism had made it possible for Jews to explore the most heretical moments in Jewish history since it freed them from the need to justify themselves in the eyes of the non-Jewish world.” What of the failed messianic movement of Shabbetai Zevi in the mid-17th century? For Scholem, the seeds of Jewish modernity logically followed Shabbetai in his conversion to Islam. There is no doubt that the enthusiasm for Shabbetai Zevi among Jews from Yemen to Cracow undermined the rabbis' authority. Traditionalists argued that the modern Zionist movement mimicked Sabbateanism in its rejection of rabbinic authority. Jews participated in the same heresy as Shabbetai Zevi two hundred year earlier. This time the heresy embraced was not Islam or in Jacob Frank’s case Christianity—it was socialism and nationalism. I would argue that Secular Zionism was a necessary and holy defying of God's will. For more than 1700 years the strategy of not going up to Israel without a messiah allowed Jewish communities to thrive through the vehicle of self-government. With the waning of the Ottoman and British Empires, Jews could create a sovereign state in the Land of Israel. The Shabbetai Zevi debacle proved that. But with Emancipation and the creation of nation-states the heresy of the Jewish nation-state saved our people. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook realized that most traditionalists would not defy the oath not to immigrate to Israel “like a wall.” He transformed Zionism into a messianic movement with the “heretics” serving the holy purpose of God to usher in the messianic advent. I would argue that even without the messianic component of Rav Kook’s thought, that the defying of God by socialist and nationalist Zionists was a holy act that saved a remnant of the Jewish people, inspired Jews to overcome disaster, and has, ironically, led to a renaissance of Judaism and Jewish life in the State of Israel and the Diaspora. Heresy transformed into a holy mandate of the Divine. Is “Holy Rebellion” necessary? Often it is not and it can be harmful. The “heresy of Zionism” has strengthened all Jews and saved a remnant from annihilation. Follow the will of God by defying Him? Zionism has forced us to confront the forces of passivity that led to disaster. Reality hits you: God is sending you a message. I respect the achievements of Yavneh but we have lived in times when challenging rabbinic interpretations of God’s will is absolutely necessary. Not all the time. Thank God for Zionism.

Amid an Israeli strike, a look at Isfahan’s Jewish community https://ift.tt/j180v2a Isfahan, located on the route from Tehran to the Persian Gulf, hosts one of Persia’s oldest Jewish communities, dating back to various early historical periods as reported by Pehlevi, Armenian, and Muslim sources.  Amid an alleged Israeli strike, as reported by various news outlets, in Isfahan, there are currently some 1,500 Iranian Jews. The city hosts one central synagogue along with 13 smaller ones.  According to Jewish Virtual Library, first documented during the reign of Sassanid ruler Frūz in 472 C.E., the city’s Jewish community faced persecution, including the execution of half its population. Under Arab rule from 641, the community was notably vibrant, with Isfahan’s Jewish quarter, Jayy, becoming so significant that it was called “the city of the Jews.” Isfahan was also the birthplace of a Jewish sectarian movement led by Abu ‘Isā during the Umayyad era. Isfahan Jews persecuted in the 17th century  Renowned for its scholarship in Hebrew grammar and exegesis, the city’s Jewish population was estimated at 15,000 in the 12th century by Benjamin of Tudela. The community thrived under the Safavid dynasty, engaging in various crafts and trades. However, in the 17th century, local Jews suffered greatly from persecution and forced conversions. Their plight during this period is well-documented in Judeo-Persian chronicles and by various eyewitnesses. Currently, some 15,000 Jews live in Isfahan. (credit: Franco Pecchio/ Wikimedia commons) Jewish religious life in Isfahan was traditionally orthodox, with several synagogues, schools, and communal institutions. The 17th century saw translations of biblical texts into Persian, enhancing Jewish literary culture. However, the community’s prominence declined with the Qajar dynasty’s shift of the capital to Tehran in the late 18th century. Despite threats from missionary activities in the 19th century, the community’s cultural life was sustained partly by the establishment of a Jewish school by the Alliance Israélite Universelle in 1901. Isfahan remains a site of pilgrimage, particularly to the grave of Serah bat Asher near Pir Bakran, signifying its enduring cultural and religious significance to Jews. Source link via POTPOURRINEWS https://ift.tt/NkKScrv April 24, 2024 at 01:06PM

The Triumph of the Dhimmi: Why Radical Islam Hates Israel The Israeli-Arab conflict is not simply a 100-year-old political battle. Its roots are 1400 years old. "Land for peace” has been a failure. We must go back into the history of Jews living under Islamic sovereignty since the great conquests of Muhammad’s successors in the Middle East dating back to the 7th century CE. There has been no peaceful resolution of a conflict that is not solely political but religious. With the rise of Islam, large numbers of Christians and Jews were incorporated into the great Islamic empires. Jews and Christians were considered as people who possessed Scripture that was divinely inspired and were guaranteed self-government, religious tolerance and exemption from military service. But the "dhimmi"--dependent peoples--had to be humiliated for rejecting Muhammad and the Qur'an. Jews and Christians could not carry weapons, could not make converts, were not allowed to live in houses higher than those of Muslims, could not make a public display of their rituals, could only ride donkeys and not horses, could not build new churches or synagogues and had to pay a yearly poll tax. They had to wear distinctive clothing to differentiate them from Muslims. While during the Jewish golden ages in Spain and the Ottoman empire Jews rose to great heights politically and financially, the dhimmi rules were usually enforced. Dhimmitude shaped the psychology of Islam. The rise of the State of Israel turned the dhimmi status on its head. No longer would Jews be a “dependent” people but an independent people. For most of the history of Jews under Islamic sovereignty the dhimmi were treated poorly--there were some exceptions--and there were even incidents where Muslims forced Jews to convert to Islam and caused Islamic destruction of Jewish communities—such as in Granada in 1066. But with the founding of the modern state of Israel how Muslims define themselves in regard to Jews has had to change radically. Either Muslims make peace with Jews or they choose to destroy them. The Ottoman Empire ordered an end to the dhimmi status in 1856. But a legal decree abolishing the dhimmi status could not wipe away more than a millennium of institutionalized humiliation of the Jews. This is a thorn in the side of Muslim theology and the way Muslims understood their superiority over Jews. The Jewish capital is in Islam’s third holiest site for the past 57 years. The failure of the peace process with the Palestinians, the hatred of Israel in the streets of Tehran: we must go beyond the politics of the past century and look back into the relationships in history between Muslims and Jews. The State of Israel obliterates the idea that the Jew “must know his place” in the hierarchy of Muslim societies. Independent people are no longer dependent and humiliated. The Sunni Arabs have overcome traditional Islamic views of Jews through the Abraham Accords. While Radical Islam has turned to genocide.

https://lnkd.in/gB5b5wif "Finally, and most important, Arab anti-Semitism isn’t confined to the fringes of society. Whereas in Israel, as in other Western countries, overt bigotry is scolded, ignored, or kept out of politics, mainstream Arab culture promotes extreme anti-Semitic ideas through schools, newspapers, television, popular culture, and official ideology. It’s hardly even controversial. Bernard Lewis’ classic book Semites and Anti-Semites provides insight into how this condition came to be. As he notes, anti-Semitism in Arab countries (and non-Arab Islamic states such as Iran) has risen as Jew-hating in the areas formerly known as Christendom has plummeted. For example, whatever one thinks of the extent of anti-Semitism still extant within the Catholic Church, most Westerners consider the 1964 decision by the Second Vatican Council to repudiate claims that Jews killed Christ to be a mark of progress, to say the least. In Islam, however, centuries of teaching that the Jews didn’t kill Christ have now given way to an embrace of the very claims Christians have renounced. When Vatican II convened, it was Arab and Muslim organizations that most vehemently opposed exculpating the Jews of deicide—the Quran notwithstanding. ADVERTISEMENT Traditionally, Islam did not demonize Jews. In Muslim lore, Jews registered as only minor figures, drawing neither special hatred nor fondness. It was Christianity, in fact, whose teachings first propounded anti-Semitism. At first it was a fairly straightforward business: Jews didn’t view Christ as the messiah, and so they were denounced or oppressed. When times got bad, they were exiled or persecuted. Over time, Christian anti-Semitism acquired a racial dimension along with its religious thrust. This had significant consequences. After all, when Jew-hating was rooted in religion, a Jew could convert to Christianity and become, as it were, fully kosher. But when states began forcing Jews to convert—or face expulsion or execution—the authenticity of the Jews’ conversions became suspect. After Christians conquered Spain from the Muslims in 1492, they forced Jews and Muslims to convert, flee, or die. Many Jews converted yet practiced their old faith secretly, leading church officials to make new rules discriminating against all so-called conversos. In the 19th century, anti-Semitism became increasingly racialized. The Enlightenment certainly made life better for Jews, at least in Western Europe, where religious tolerance took hold. Yet the Enlightenment also brought new “scientific”—or, as we now say, pseudoscientific—notions that human beings belonged to different races, some superior to others. Under these notions, Jews (as well as Africans, Arabs, and others) were deemed to be biologically and thus immutably inferior to white or “Aryan” Europeans."

#luo #hebrew Name 'Mumbo' The House of Mumbo are Israelites who escaped India, also named after Mumbai. The god Mumbo from the African new religious movement Mumboism Mumboism, also known as the Mumbo cult, was a new religious movement founded by Onyango Dunde in the early 20th century. Followers of the religion, known as Mumboites, were most active in the Nyanza region of Kenya near Lake Victoria. The movement had anti-imperial teachings and was suppressed by the colonial government of Kenya. Mumboism began during the British colonial era in Kenya, when Christian missionaries were active in the region. In 1913, Onyango Dunde began to preach that he had been swallowed by a serpent in Lake Victoria. The serpent spit him out, and gave him a prophecy that he would spread to his followers: I am the God Mumbo whose two homes are in the sun and in the lake. I have chosen you to be my mouthpiece. Go and tell all the Africans....that from henceforth I am their God. Those whom I choose personally and those who acknowledge me, will live forever in plenty....the Christian religion is rotten.... All Europeans are your enemies, but the time is shortly coming when they will all disappear from the country." #suppression The Foreign military bases spread in the region are for Luo containment.The rules based order was created specifically for Luo suppression. During the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, it was resolved that the royalty of Tartarian Empire exiled in the Great lakes region be eliminate, and erased from History. The region was pumped with violence (genocides) diseases, Ebola, HIVAids, etc so as to eliminate Iberian Peninsular diaspora population. The emergence of Paul Kagame disrupted there activities. Putin Russia also rejected the ideology of supersessionism or Replacement theology, a doctrine that the power of whiteness has replaced the Luo people as God's chosen people on Earth. It asserts that the New Covenant through western hegemony has replaced the Mosaic covenant. This means that God has abandoned the promises made to the Luos and given their role to Western Countries. The West corrupts Hamito-Bantu-Cushitic elites to do there bidding and oppress the Luo, in exchange of aid. Kenya and Tanzania are among the largest recipients of aid money in Africa, along with Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2022, these countries received 46.4% of all aid money to Africa, totaling $37.8 billion. Kenya received $3.3 billion, Tanzania received $3 billion, and Uganda received $2.4 billion. The $3.3 billion Kenya receives, goes to ensure the Luo are kept out of state projects and decisions making processes and centres. The state is incentivised to target and profile the Luo as dangerous and violent, which has entrenched police brutality against the Luo. Technically the Luo are Prisoners of War, denigrated by the state, stripped of its life, and has been at the receiving end of state brutality, time and time again.

I love when my friends (of other religions) take out time to wish me, "Happy Moharram". Except, Moharram is a time of grief. But what I love about that, albeit wrong wish, is that my friends care enough to respect my religion and.. yet do not know much about it, simply because not much about it is covered in mainstream media. But I realise that it is also partly my fault. I never post much about it. So let me take you today through the story of the Battle of Karbala which occurred on 10 October 680 which forms the premise of observance of Moharram. When Prophet Mohammed died, he was survived by his only daughter, Hazrat Fatima. She was married to Hazrat Ali and had two sons, Hasan and Hussain. Problems ensued after the death of the Prophet about who would lead the muslims and rule over the estate. So it was not only about the religious power but also about the political seat of power: the Caliphate. Now other key members of the Prophets expedition, wanted to be the Caliph and denied Fatima, much of the Prophet's estate saying that Prophets don't leave inheritance and started doing zulm (cruelty) on Her and her family. And it was of unbearable nature, Hazrat Fatima also passed away 70 days after the death of her father, at the tender age of 23. After that, Her Husband Ali, briefly became Caliph but was also murdered during his prayer time in Kufa. Due to the political environment of that time, the elder son of Fatima-Ali, Hasan entered into the peace treaty with the next Caliph, Muwaiya. One of the key elements of the treaty was that after the death of Muawiya, the next Caliph should be chosen by the people. Obviously, Muawiya did not keep any promises in the treaty and poisoned Hasan. And 10 years later, when Muawiya died, he passed on his Caliphate to his son Yazid and also advised him, to secure allegiance from Hussain, the surviving brother of Hasan, so as to get accepted by all Muslim Community. Imam Hussain, (may peace be upon Him), started recieving letters from people of Kufa, a garrison town in Iraq and also the seat of his father Caliphate. The letters expressed huge dissatisfaction with rule of Yazid and wanted Imam Hussain to come and lead them for a revolt. Erstwhile, Yazid used his whole power to secure allegiance from Imam Hussain, who resided in Medina. Imam Hussain knew that there would be bloodshed because in no condition, would he ever give allegiance to Yazid, who was corrupt and became Caliph unjustly by breaking the peace treaty. Thus Imam Hussain moved from Medina and began his journey towards Kufa, to answer all the letters people of Kufa had sent him. But first, he sent his half-brother, Muslim ibn Aqeel, to assess the political environment in Kufa. Muslim ibn Aqeel found that the people of Kufa were indeed eager to support Imam Hussain and sent a letter to Imam stating this. More in comments because of word limit. #Nafwrites #Karbala #Moharram #ImamHussain(AS)

*"The End of the Arabs".* A new book by Jewish scholar Jacob Dunne, translated by one of the Muslims: "Tired Islam" to Arabs and Muslims in general and to the Gulf and Gulf in particular, so that you know the truth about the situation around you and that people were planning to weaken you and take power over you. A summary of the most important points of the book ((Tired Islam)) ) Chapter: ((The End of the Arabs)) This book is in the United States Library of Congress, and they are working to implement this which was written there by the Zionist writer Jacob Dunn. It is a malicious book, and here is a summary of what it contains: 1) If we destroy the belief of the Arabs and the people of the Middle East, we destroy the belief of the Muslims, who are those who most faithfully apply the correct teachings of Islam. 2) The Arabian Peninsula has many people who put religion above all else and worship God sincerely. 3) We must destroy women in their state and encourage feminism and decadence in order to facilitate control of their minds 4) The people of the Arabian Peninsula raise their children in love of Islam and sacrifice for it 5) They preserve all the pillars of Islam, memorize the Quran and make sacrifices for this, and they pass it on to every generation. 6) We must start attacking the sheikhs, the mosques and the Friday sermons so that the public moves away from them, abandons the mosques, moves away from the teachings of the Quran and prefers our culture to its religion. 7) A gap must be created between parents and children so that their conception of filial piety ceases and we cultivate in them self-love and individual interest above family interest. Thus, a generation will be born that will not respect the generation that preceded it and will be a prelude to the disintegration of society.* 8) All fatwas which contain significant disagreements and cause discord and conflict must be supported.* 9) Poison must be mixed with honey so that the Muslim gets used to the fact that everything is permitted and that what is forbidden has two words: one that is permitted and one that is forbidden, so that he has no pangs of conscience. .* *10) Motivate people to allow women to travel alone and adapt to the fact that Western morals and behavior are natural and correct, but what is strange to humans is morality of the Muslim, that he works alone among all religions, races and cultures. Thus, we ensure the subordination of women and youth to us and to our material civilization, which is free from the morality of Islam.* *11) Technology and the Internet are the weapons of our time. We must focus on supporting the negative aspects that undermine the personality and behavior of the Muslim and reduce their positive use in order to allow the new generation to lose themselves in empty pleasures and enjoyments. *Extract from the book “Jacob Dunne”  The Zionist. Me ‏ Fourth Edition, Volume Seven, Library of Congress 2011 AD.*

How Peace Flourished In Ottoman Palestine:  A story of Palestine, Jews etc……….coexistence History HOLDS that THE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT was birthed from the minute OTTOMAN EMPIRE ceded administration mandate to the British. As it was later revealed that the British, the French…….and generally Europe had other ideas and; which was to remove the JEWS their soil, having already secretly signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916 and publicly announced the Balfour Declaration in 1917. Palestine, which yearns for peace and stability for over a century, saw its longest period of peace during the 401 years of Ottoman rule, from the conquest of Jerusalem in 1516 to the dawn of the British Mandate in 1917. But how was that possible? During OTTOMAN EMPIRE administration had the central authority at one time recognized various religious groups, such as the Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Catholic, Protestant………..etc denominations among Christians, granting them the autonomy to appoint their leaders, manage their internal affairs, preserve their language, maintain independent courts and practice religious beliefs. Members of these communities often occupied prominent roles in government and pursued various economic and professional endeavors. And yet, given Jerusalem’s position as sacred to the two other Abrahamic religions, OTTOMAN EMPIRE never tried to disturb the harmony that existed between believers of different religions who lived in the Holy Lands. In this perspective OTTOMAN peace cannot be brought back by the British or Americans but others as it immensely and imminently appears; not as a matter of choice but need.