For people who don’t know it, Tomdispath.com is often worth keeping an eye on, and the articles of Chalmers Johnson are usually interesting.http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174852/chalmers_johnson_12_books_in_search_of_a_policy
Chalmers Johnson on US foreign policy
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Abdassamad Clarke is from Ulster and was formally educated at Edinburgh University in Mathematics and Physics. He accepted Islam at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi in 1973, and, at his suggestion, studied Arabic and tajwid and other Islamic sciences in Cairo for a period. In the 80s he was secretary to the imam of the Dublin Mosque, and in the early 90s one of the imams khatib of the Norwich Mosque, and again from 2002-2016. He has translated, edited and typeset a number of classical texts. He currently resides with his wife in Denmark and occasionally teaches there. 14 May, 2023 0:03 View more posts
Dear Abdassamad
Salaam
Thank You and I am sure it is worth it – the site.
However, I would rather a site that could look ahead than caught in a jetstream of the Bald Eagle.
How would the global economy play out next month, next 3 months, next 6 months, next 1 – 3 years, next 5 – 7 years:
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يَوْمَ ÙŠÙŽÙ‚Ùول٠الْمÙنَاÙÙÙ‚Ùونَ وَالْمÙنَاÙÙقَات٠لÙلَّذÙينَ آمَنÙوا انظÙرÙونَا نَقْتَبÙسْ Ù…ÙÙ† نّÙورÙÙƒÙمْ Ù‚Ùيلَ ارْجÙعÙوا وَرَاءكÙمْ ÙَالْتَمÙسÙوا Ù†Ùورًا ÙَضÙرÙبَ بَيْنَهÙÙ… بÙسÙور٠لَّه٠بَابٌ بَاطÙÙ†ÙÙ‡Ù ÙÙيه٠الرَّØْمَة٠وَظَاهÙرÙÙ‡Ù Ù…ÙÙ† Ù‚ÙبَلÙه٠الْعَذَا
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One Day shalt thou see the believing men and the believing women-
how their Light runs forward before them and by their right hands:
“Good News for you this Day!
Gardens beneath which flow rivers to dwell therein for aye!
This is indeed the highest Achievement!”
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One Day will the Hypocrites – men and women –
say to the Believers:
“Wait for us! Let us borrow from your Light!”
It will be said: “Turn ye back to your rear! then seek a Light!”
So a wall will be put up betwixt them, with a gate therein.
Within it will be Mercy throughout, and without it,
all alongside, will be Punishment!
(Al-Hadid: 12 – 13)
Have you ever read of The Hashashim (also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin or Assassins)
(They had a militant basis which was employed in various political or religious purposes. They were thought to have been active from 1090 to 1272)
Their Muslim contemporaries were extremely suspicious of them; in fact they were described using the term Batini. The term was used pejoratively to refer to those, especially Ismaili, who distinguished an inner, esoteric level of meaning (batin) in the Qur’an. This constant religious estrangement would eventually see them go so far as allying with the Occidental Christians against Muslims on a number of occasions.
Legends abound as to the tactics used to induct members into what became a quasi-religious political organization. One such legend is that future assassin was subjected to rites similar to those of other mystery cults in which the subject was made to believe that he was in imminent danger of death. But the twist of the assassins was that they drugged the person to simulate a “dying” to later have them awaken in a garden flowing with wine and served a sumptuous feast by virgins. The supplicant was then convinced he was in Heaven and that the cult’s leader, Hassan-i-Sabah, was a representative of the divinity and that all of his orders should be followed, even unto death. This legend derives from Marco Polo, who visited Alamut after it fell to the Mongols in the thirteenth century…