Chistmas, a constant innovation is being taking place for the past at least 20 years to a millenia of its meaning. The Classic critique of Christmas day relating to the Mythriac traditions are never dealt with. Taking this aside, christmas has become a Holiday season, Symbolic, and even its symbolism has lost meaning. What does Christmas mean to the vast masses ? Surely in the Secular world it has been reduced to "a reason for social interaction with family/friends and a day off for most" The greeting of "Happy Holidays" is suited now to the "Christian" masses.
The constant deriding of Christ and God is NO more a cultural taboo ....
The reduction of Christmas, in its Symbolism, i say is a continuing and slow one.... The Church has throughout history been hidden, apologetic, bending over backwards and changing/adapting the "rules" of its principles and relgion to somehow fit into the Secular model or ways of the masses irrespective of the teachings/principles of the bible ...
The Christians are in realisation of this fact and have become divided from more vocal secularists .... What a shame .... at least once upon a time, we The "God inclined" could share commonality" with those who "who celebrated xmas for the Sake of God" (i can reminese to those times)....
So is say, the Status of Christ, The status of God, is more deserving to be Held by the Muslims .... Surely if there was a Mass of Christ, the Muslims would be more deserving to hold it.
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Saturday, 18 December 2010
The Future is for islaam (in more ways than one)
Some may know the hadiths (sayings of the prophet) regarding the signs before the Day
of Judgement, a few of them regarding Kingship, Tyrants, the Fall of Rome and Rejoicing of the Muslims .
All prophecies foretold which become reality, yet we are waiting for many other events which have not come to pass. One of these is the eventual success of the Ummah (nation of islam) and subsequent ignorance ,,,,,
If i were to plot the current state of the Ummah on a bell curve-like representation it would surely be at the lower right end, with the major downward spiral already taken place ....
Yet, I want to pose a point, Success (in history) for the muslims correlated many a time with success militarily, in wealth and arts/science (see Golden islamic age) as is the course for any civilization .... If we take a GDP nominal and GDP per capita muslim nations (and eastern nations) now, we would find them lagging in ratios of up to 40:1 (per capita) and (20:1) per GDP output (these are aproximate "guestimates") for the sake in point. Yet in (as close as) 30-35 years Goldman sachs who predicted the Rise of the BRIC [1] (Brazil, Russia, India and China) the new super powers have also predicted N11 (Next 11) [2] , These are the new Emerging markets the powers of the future.
To Summarise what can be a very long discussion, the next 30-35 years it can be seen that many of the N11 nations are islamic ones, and nearly all Eastern (Asia). Combining this with the BRIC we can see that the G30 nations will be dominated by Eastern and islamic countries !
And what about GDP?For example, lets take Egypt, it will have a higher output than italy (double that) and it's GDP will be at a ration of (1:2) .... considering it's around 1:20 at present !
So this new found wealth, high GDP output, high GDP per capita with an even higher purchasing power parity, for a whole host of islamic and asiatic countries what will this mean for GEO-Political issues .... Well, the easy answer is, that it will all be very different ,,,, and so will the world.
[1] http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/book/99-dreaming.pdf
[2] http://www.internationalbusinessreport.com/Reports/Focus-reports/2008_emerging_markets.asp
of Judgement, a few of them regarding Kingship, Tyrants, the Fall of Rome and Rejoicing of the Muslims .
All prophecies foretold which become reality, yet we are waiting for many other events which have not come to pass. One of these is the eventual success of the Ummah (nation of islam) and subsequent ignorance ,,,,,
If i were to plot the current state of the Ummah on a bell curve-like representation it would surely be at the lower right end, with the major downward spiral already taken place ....
Yet, I want to pose a point, Success (in history) for the muslims correlated many a time with success militarily, in wealth and arts/science (see Golden islamic age) as is the course for any civilization .... If we take a GDP nominal and GDP per capita muslim nations (and eastern nations) now, we would find them lagging in ratios of up to 40:1 (per capita) and (20:1) per GDP output (these are aproximate "guestimates") for the sake in point. Yet in (as close as) 30-35 years Goldman sachs who predicted the Rise of the BRIC [1] (Brazil, Russia, India and China) the new super powers have also predicted N11 (Next 11) [2] , These are the new Emerging markets the powers of the future.
To Summarise what can be a very long discussion, the next 30-35 years it can be seen that many of the N11 nations are islamic ones, and nearly all Eastern (Asia). Combining this with the BRIC we can see that the G30 nations will be dominated by Eastern and islamic countries !
And what about GDP?For example, lets take Egypt, it will have a higher output than italy (double that) and it's GDP will be at a ration of (1:2) .... considering it's around 1:20 at present !
So this new found wealth, high GDP output, high GDP per capita with an even higher purchasing power parity, for a whole host of islamic and asiatic countries what will this mean for GEO-Political issues .... Well, the easy answer is, that it will all be very different ,,,, and so will the world.
[1] http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/book/99-dreaming.pdf
[2] http://www.internationalbusinessreport.com/Reports/Focus-reports/2008_emerging_markets.asp
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Finding something Offensive ....
In this secular world we live .... Where God is mocked, The prophets Mocked and religion Mocked, Why do we (islamic and religious peoples) find offense (to the extreme) in this ?
For the non muslim to understand the person has to alter his/her mindset .... So What do i mean by this?
The answer, i say, rests in the understanding of "What is Sacred" !!
The understanding of Sacreligious is something overlooked, denied and unapreciated... "What" is offensive and "Why" something is offensive (when mocking sacreligiousity) is thus not apreciated In our modern era "The Sacred" is placed side-by-side and with equal measure that which is not Sacred ... "Homesexuality, Race, God .... the prophets" Are these all the same?
When "That which Sacred" is apreciated in its entirety and given its due weight apreciating "what is offensive and why it is offensive" will similarly be apreciable...
So why does the mockery of God, the prophets offend muslims ?
Holding something "Sacred" is "not to cross the line, is something that is more loved than ones life itself, than ones mother, than ones father, country and graves of dead siblings ... " This is an attempt to articulate what "The Sacred" means to oineself .. but is more than what mere words can express since the heart cannot write ..... !!
As we know Freedom of speech has its limits ! But to cross the line into "What is held Sacred" has to be understood by the "not-religiously inclined ..." into why offence is caused !!
For the non muslim to understand the person has to alter his/her mindset .... So What do i mean by this?
The answer, i say, rests in the understanding of "What is Sacred" !!
The understanding of Sacreligious is something overlooked, denied and unapreciated... "What" is offensive and "Why" something is offensive (when mocking sacreligiousity) is thus not apreciated In our modern era "The Sacred" is placed side-by-side and with equal measure that which is not Sacred ... "Homesexuality, Race, God .... the prophets" Are these all the same?
When "That which Sacred" is apreciated in its entirety and given its due weight apreciating "what is offensive and why it is offensive" will similarly be apreciable...
So why does the mockery of God, the prophets offend muslims ?
Holding something "Sacred" is "not to cross the line, is something that is more loved than ones life itself, than ones mother, than ones father, country and graves of dead siblings ... " This is an attempt to articulate what "The Sacred" means to oineself .. but is more than what mere words can express since the heart cannot write ..... !!
As we know Freedom of speech has its limits ! But to cross the line into "What is held Sacred" has to be understood by the "not-religiously inclined ..." into why offence is caused !!
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Who is oppressed ...
Many times we hear the slogan "Opression of Muslim Women" in our culture so
finely and deeply engraved that it is "fixed" within common speech ....
The ignorance of islaam in its details is something complex. The evolution
of this ignorance stems from 100's of years if not a millennia, from the middle ages at least Evolving from orientalists, Crusaders to politicians ....
Knowledge and slogans have been developed and to unwind this culture of ignorance is a mammoth task for the 1-2% of native and immigrant muslims in the West to achieve ....
Going back to the Slogan of "Women are opressed in islam" I would say that the one who is an advocate of this slogan to reflect upon "What is opression" .... and they would find that they fall into opression inadvertantly ... I will list now some opressions that we may fall into ....
I) Slave to the Wage ... the depression/recession that we have just gone throuh post 2007+ spurred by Usury has created an enourmous opression... House values were previously (50 years ago) at a ratio of 1:2 of a mans wage .. Now they are up to 6:1 .....
This has created a new culture of Huge Mortgages that has created a lifetime dependancy upon the bank for anyone. Freeing oneself from the dependancy of the banks is a mammoth task ... and Sacrificing ones family and time for this "freedoom" is surely an opression .... and has created something bordering on Poverty of existence ...
II) The opression of the Mind : A person who lacks an open mind and who has given up the struggle in understanding the world can be said to be opressed. His Vision Narrow, insights few and his life darkened .... Lost in the repetitve habitual bore of life ...
III) Opression of the Media : The opression of a person being dictated to daily by politicans and media in what to feel, in what to hate, in what to love is a source of opression .... The narrowness of this existence is one that is dark and contradictory ...
What is more empowering than for a muslilm to choose The level of his/her piety and for the muslim women to choose his/her closeness to God in their clothing or actions ...
Opression spans more than an apearance (a facade) and can be said to encompass many facets in human existence..
finely and deeply engraved that it is "fixed" within common speech ....
The ignorance of islaam in its details is something complex. The evolution
of this ignorance stems from 100's of years if not a millennia, from the middle ages at least Evolving from orientalists, Crusaders to politicians ....
Knowledge and slogans have been developed and to unwind this culture of ignorance is a mammoth task for the 1-2% of native and immigrant muslims in the West to achieve ....
Going back to the Slogan of "Women are opressed in islam" I would say that the one who is an advocate of this slogan to reflect upon "What is opression" .... and they would find that they fall into opression inadvertantly ... I will list now some opressions that we may fall into ....
I) Slave to the Wage ... the depression/recession that we have just gone throuh post 2007+ spurred by Usury has created an enourmous opression... House values were previously (50 years ago) at a ratio of 1:2 of a mans wage .. Now they are up to 6:1 .....
This has created a new culture of Huge Mortgages that has created a lifetime dependancy upon the bank for anyone. Freeing oneself from the dependancy of the banks is a mammoth task ... and Sacrificing ones family and time for this "freedoom" is surely an opression .... and has created something bordering on Poverty of existence ...
II) The opression of the Mind : A person who lacks an open mind and who has given up the struggle in understanding the world can be said to be opressed. His Vision Narrow, insights few and his life darkened .... Lost in the repetitve habitual bore of life ...
III) Opression of the Media : The opression of a person being dictated to daily by politicans and media in what to feel, in what to hate, in what to love is a source of opression .... The narrowness of this existence is one that is dark and contradictory ...
What is more empowering than for a muslilm to choose The level of his/her piety and for the muslim women to choose his/her closeness to God in their clothing or actions ...
Opression spans more than an apearance (a facade) and can be said to encompass many facets in human existence..
Islam or Liberal Atheism
Another devastating blow from an Andreas Tzortis debate ... (IERA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI9owlpOQl0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI9owlpOQl0
Sunday, 22 August 2010
Distorting the True Picture ... Presenting information
Edward Said said of Bernard Lewis' literature in that it was typically a-Political .... This
rang a bell with me in how Orientalist literature and interpretation of Occident culture
is presented to the masses ...
Briefly, Orientalism being the study of "Other cultures" ... They were instrumental in giving Advice
to Napolean in his invasion of Egypt and (continuing in the tradition) for George Bush similar in his Iraq Foray ...
How facts are "presented" can itself give a distorted picture of reality...
For many years (pre-Iraq war) people thought that the Middle east was a place of conflict, purely from the isolated
Palestinian situation, the whole region was labelled as a "War zone" .. this again was the simplistic journalism inspired
mass "way of thinking"
when i read an article on pakistans history recently it was itself a list of facts presented (with unreoprtional weight given) illustrating a region of chaos,
where tradegy and strife is listed categoricaly in a way that a picture is presented can hide the "reality"
from a historical perspective the deep rooted (secular) principles of dismissing religions
is again followed in this model... The life and times of Zoroaster founder of the iranian religion is presented
so that it seems that Zoroaster influenced the notion of Monotheism within Christianity and islam ... This assumption/allegation
is again an interpretive way to strip divinity from the basis of religions and to purely "look" at it in cultural intercourse
terms in that men were sharing ideas ....
But if one looks closely and deeply into the monotheistic principles of islam is unique, in that it well defined, removed from any paganistic
associations and Rich in its theology ... The complex and wealth of the principles of islam is not given weight and since Monotheism and its purity
is THE most important facet in islam it is not given weight in its comparison with Zoroaster ....
And let us ask, did Monotheism START from
Zoroaster ? ..... or was he a continuation of the message (of old).... ? When the Hajj or Ka'ba is referenced by the orientalists they interpret it
as A Pagan practice that is left behind and islam adopting it ... I am surprised that they do not give another interpretation to this i.e. the Islamic
interpretation .....
In that Pagan practices crept in (via innovations) and abused the pure way of way of Worshiping God ....
Averoes (ibn rushd) and Aristotle
Let us digress again and see how ibn rush (Averoes) is presented ... Averoes is never given weight in what he achieved for Europe ....
He is known as the "Commentator" .... Averoes ideas of Greek-Islamic Rhetoric were "killed" off by islam by the likes of Ghazali) and
deemed heresy and survives to this day purely in academic circles.. Yet What Averoes for Europe is something completely different ....
In his systematic, methodological clarity, interpreting
and explaining what aristotle meant and then presenting this "Curriculum" to Europe aided in giving Europe its Greek culture .... Yet
he is again dismissed as purely a translator .... And as muslims know of Ibn Kathir, Ad-Dhahabee that the muslims are lost without the
"Explainers of texts" .. Yet Averoes in Europe is almost never acknowledged ...
rang a bell with me in how Orientalist literature and interpretation of Occident culture
is presented to the masses ...
Briefly, Orientalism being the study of "Other cultures" ... They were instrumental in giving Advice
to Napolean in his invasion of Egypt and (continuing in the tradition) for George Bush similar in his Iraq Foray ...
How facts are "presented" can itself give a distorted picture of reality...
For many years (pre-Iraq war) people thought that the Middle east was a place of conflict, purely from the isolated
Palestinian situation, the whole region was labelled as a "War zone" .. this again was the simplistic journalism inspired
mass "way of thinking"
when i read an article on pakistans history recently it was itself a list of facts presented (with unreoprtional weight given) illustrating a region of chaos,
where tradegy and strife is listed categoricaly in a way that a picture is presented can hide the "reality"
from a historical perspective the deep rooted (secular) principles of dismissing religions
is again followed in this model... The life and times of Zoroaster founder of the iranian religion is presented
so that it seems that Zoroaster influenced the notion of Monotheism within Christianity and islam ... This assumption/allegation
is again an interpretive way to strip divinity from the basis of religions and to purely "look" at it in cultural intercourse
terms in that men were sharing ideas ....
But if one looks closely and deeply into the monotheistic principles of islam is unique, in that it well defined, removed from any paganistic
associations and Rich in its theology ... The complex and wealth of the principles of islam is not given weight and since Monotheism and its purity
is THE most important facet in islam it is not given weight in its comparison with Zoroaster ....
And let us ask, did Monotheism START from
Zoroaster ? ..... or was he a continuation of the message (of old).... ? When the Hajj or Ka'ba is referenced by the orientalists they interpret it
as A Pagan practice that is left behind and islam adopting it ... I am surprised that they do not give another interpretation to this i.e. the Islamic
interpretation .....
In that Pagan practices crept in (via innovations) and abused the pure way of way of Worshiping God ....
Averoes (ibn rushd) and Aristotle
Let us digress again and see how ibn rush (Averoes) is presented ... Averoes is never given weight in what he achieved for Europe ....
He is known as the "Commentator" .... Averoes ideas of Greek-Islamic Rhetoric were "killed" off by islam by the likes of Ghazali) and
deemed heresy and survives to this day purely in academic circles.. Yet What Averoes for Europe is something completely different ....
In his systematic, methodological clarity, interpreting
and explaining what aristotle meant and then presenting this "Curriculum" to Europe aided in giving Europe its Greek culture .... Yet
he is again dismissed as purely a translator .... And as muslims know of Ibn Kathir, Ad-Dhahabee that the muslims are lost without the
"Explainers of texts" .. Yet Averoes in Europe is almost never acknowledged ...
Assyria and Western asia/middle east
http://www.atour.com/health/docs/20000720a.html
The Above link a scientific summary of the gentic closeness of the Weste Asian peoples (Middle easterners)
to one another is an eye opener. Professor Sforza is a a leading genticists and widely referenced. The relative
homegenity of this group is contradicted by the differing language families that are spoken by the set, indo-European, turkic and Semitic .....
My previous blog showed the Ancient Mergarh Civilization of india linked to the Middle east .. Again we have here
more proof of intercource of current islamic populations that are (also) rooted in pre-islamic times. As the islamic
Global sphere, Golden age and Civilization that heralded the principles of what we have now can be
understood in that it was not the starting point of interaction for these populations but rather a defining one ....
The so called disparate groups of west asia are shown to be close genetically suggesting more than cultural
interaction within the peoples ...
The Above link a scientific summary of the gentic closeness of the Weste Asian peoples (Middle easterners)
to one another is an eye opener. Professor Sforza is a a leading genticists and widely referenced. The relative
homegenity of this group is contradicted by the differing language families that are spoken by the set, indo-European, turkic and Semitic .....
My previous blog showed the Ancient Mergarh Civilization of india linked to the Middle east .. Again we have here
more proof of intercource of current islamic populations that are (also) rooted in pre-islamic times. As the islamic
Global sphere, Golden age and Civilization that heralded the principles of what we have now can be
understood in that it was not the starting point of interaction for these populations but rather a defining one ....
The so called disparate groups of west asia are shown to be close genetically suggesting more than cultural
interaction within the peoples ...
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