Tokguru Musings…

2nd In Command to Chris asked:


Like the world for some reason is scared to speak out against radical Islam. And the UN doesn’t want anybody saying anything bad against Islam, whether it be regular Islam or radical Islam.

Doesn’t this mean that the radicals are actually WINNING?

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Nithin Sridhar asked:


The History of India has been whitewashed and distorted first by European rulers which after Independence were continued by eminent historians of India and their supporters the Leftists, Seculars and self claimed Progressives of India to meet their own ends. They have painted the pre-Islamic invasion period as Dark Age and have glorified the Islamic period to be very peaceful and prosperous. (The subject of distortions of history had been dealt by me in brief in the article “Indian History and ‘Avarana’ [Masking] of Truth by Marxists” which I elaborate here)

Ram Swarup says- “Marxists have taken to rewriting Indian history on a large scale and it has meant its systematic falsification. They have a dogmatic view of history and for them the use of any history is to prove their dogma. Their very approach is hurtful to truth…. The Marxists contempt for India, particularly the India of religion, culture and philosophy, is deep and theoretically fortified. It exceeds the contempt ever shown by the most die-hard imperialists”1 Some of the common claims of these eminent historians are-

1] Aryan Invasion Theory is True2

2] Large scale destruction of Buddhists and Jain temples was done by Hindus in pre-Islamic India3

3] The Muslim rulers were religiously tolerant and the Islamic rule was prosperous. The eminent historians deny the destruction of Hindu temples or the killing of Hindus at the hands of Muslim rulers. They also deny the religious motive behind the killing of Hindus at the hands of Muslim rulers.4

Let us examine the Aryan Invasion Theory [AIT].

The AIT was introduced to justify the presence of the British among their Aryan cousins in India, being merely the second wave of Aryan settlement there. It supported the British view of India as merely a geographical region without historical unity, a legitimate prey for any invader capable of imposing himself. It provided the master illustration to the rising racialist worldview-“the dynamic whites entered the land of the indolent dark natives and established their dominance and imparted their language to the natives; they established the caste system to preserve their racial separateness; some miscegenation with the natives took place anyway, making the Indian Aryans darker than their European cousins and correspondingly less intelligent; hence, for their own benefit they were susceptible to an uplifting intervention by a new wave of purer Aryan colonizers.”5

Dr.Koenraad Elst, in his “The Vedic Evidence”6 after examining the Vedic corpus for any evidence for Aryan invasion theory proposed by the Marxist school, concludes- “The status question is still, more than ever, that the Vedic corpus provides no reference to an immigration of the so-called Vedic Aryans from Central Asia….” He further provides Astronomical and Literary evidences against the AIT in his other essays.

Jim Shaffer. Wrote “Current archaeological data do not support the existence of an Indo-Aryan or European invasion into South Asia any time in the pre- or protohistoric periods. Instead, it is possible to document archaeologically a series of cultural changes reflecting indigenous cultural developments from prehistoric to historic periods…”7 Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, a U.S. expert who has extensively studied such skeletal remains, observes- “Biological anthropologists remain unable to lend support to any of the theories concerning an Aryan biological or demographic entity..”8

David Frawley while commenting on the Political and Social Ramifications concludes-“First it served to divide India into a northern Aryan and southern Dravidian culture which were made hostile to each other… Second, it gave the British an excuse for their conquest of India. They could claim to be doing only what the Aryan ancestors of the Hindus had previously done millennia ago. This same justification could be used by the Muslims or any other invaders of India. Third, it served to make Vedic culture later than and possibly derived from the Middle Eastern… Fourth, it allowed the sciences of India to be given a Greek basis… Fifth, it gave the Marxists a good basis for projecting their class struggle model of society on to India, with the invading Brahmins oppressing the indigenous Shudras (lower castes)” He further concludes that- “In short, the compelling reasons for the Aryan invasion theory were neither literary or archeological but political and religious that is to say, not scholarship but prejudice”9

Archaeological evidence in no way contradicts Indian tradition, rather it broadly agrees with it (except for its chronology). Whether from North or South India, tradition never mentioned anything remotely resembling an Aryan invasion into India. Sanskrit scriptures make it clear that they regard the Vedic homeland to be the Saptasindhu, which is precisely the core of the Harappan territory. As for the Sangam tradition, it is equally silent about any northern origin of the Tamil people. These clearly show that AIT which Marxists have been propagating is based on assumptions and pre-conceived notion, rather than hard evidences.

About the alleged destruction of Buddhist and Jain temples by Hindus, Sita Ram Goel observes10- “It is intriguing indeed that whenever archaeological evidence points towards a mosque as standing on the site of a Hindu temple, our Marxist professors start seeing a Buddhist monastery buried underneath. They also invent some Saiva king as destroying Buddhist and Jain shrines whenever the large-scale destruction of Hindu temples by Islamic invaders is mentioned. They never mention the destruction of big Buddhist and Jain complexes which dotted the length and breadth of India, Khurasan, and Sinkiang on the eve of the Islamic invasion, as testified by Hüen Tsang” He asks the eminent historians to produce epigraphic and literary evidences to suggest the destruction of Buddhists and Jain places by Hindus, the names and places of Hindu monuments which stand on the sites occupied earlier by Buddhist or Jain monuments. But, till today no concrete evidence has been given by the eminent historians to substantiate their claim.

But, there are enough evidences to show that Buddhist and Jain temples and monasteries at Bukhara, Samarqand, Khotan, Balkh, Bamian, Kabul, Ghazni, Qandhar, Begram, Jalalabad, Peshawar, Charsadda, Ohind, Taxila, Multan, Mirpurkhas, Nagar-Parkar, Sialkot, Srinagar, Jalandhar, Jagadhari, Sugh, Tobra, Agroha, Delhi, Mathura, Hastinapur, Kanauj, Sravasti, Ayodhya, Varanasi, Sarnath, Nalanda, Vikramasila, Vaishali, Rajgir, Odantapuri, Bharhut, Champa, Paharpur, Jagaddal, Jajnagar, Nagarjunikonda, Amravati, Kanchi, Dwarasamudra, Devagiri, Bharuch, Valabhi, Girnar, Khambhat Patan, Jalor, Chandravati, Bhinmal, Didwana, Nagaur, Osian, Ajmer, Bairat, Gwalior, Chanderi, Mandu, Dhar etc were destroyed by the sword of Islam.11

It should be noted that though Brahmanical, Buddhist and Jain sects and sub-sects had heated discussions among themselves and used even strong language for their adversaries, the occasions when they exchanged physical blows were few and far between. The recent spurt of accusations that Hindus also were bigots and vandals like Christians and Muslims seems to be an after-thought. Apologists, who find it impossible to whitewash Christianity and Islam, are out to redress the balance by blackening Hinduism.

The Islamic conquest has been described as the “Bloodiest”12, as “, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions.”13 And as “bigger than the Holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading Spanish and Portuguese”14

Irfan Husain in his article “Demons from the Past” observes- “While historical events should be judged in the context of their times, it cannot be denied that even in that bloody period of history, no mercy was shown to the Hindus unfortunate enough to be in the path of either the Arab conquerors of Sindh and south Punjab, or the Central Asians who swept in from Afghanistan…The Muslim heroes who figure larger than life in our history books committed some dreadful crimes. Mahmud of Ghazni, Qutb-ud-Din Aibak, Balban, Mohammed bin Qasim, and Sultan Mohammad Tughlak, all have blood-stained hands that the passage of years has not cleansed..Seen through Hindu eyes, the Muslim invasion of their homeland was an unmitigated disaster. Their temples were razed, their idols smashed, their women raped, their men killed or taken slaves. When Mahmud of Ghazni entered Somnath on one of his annual raids, he slaughtered all 50,000 inhabitants. Aibak killed and enslaved hundreds of thousands. The list of horrors is long and painful.These conquerors justified their deeds by claiming it was their religious duty to smite non-believers. Cloaking themselves in the banner of Islam, they claimed they were fighting for their faith when, in reality, they were indulging in straightforward slaughter and pillage…”

Dr.Koenraad Elst while while summarizing the Hindu losses at the hands of Muslim invaders concludes15- “There is no official estimate of the total death toll of Hindus at the hands of Islam. A first glance at important testimonies by Muslim chroniclers suggests that, over 13 centuries and a territory as vast as the Subcontinent, Muslim Holy Warriors easily killed more Hindus than the 6 million of the Holocaust. Ferishtha lists several occasions when the Bahmani sultans in central India (1347-1528) killed a hundred thousand Hindus, which they set as a minimum goal whenever they felt like “punishing” the Hindus; and they were only a third-rank provincial dynasty. The biggest slaughters took place during the raids of Mahmud Ghaznavi (ca. 1000 CE); during the actual conquest of North India by Mohammed Ghori and his lieutenants (1192 ff.); and under the Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526). The Moghuls (1526-1857), even Babar and Aurangzeb, were fairly restrained tyrants by comparison. Prof. K.S. Lal once estimated that the Indian population declined by 50 million under the Sultanate, but that would be hard to substantiate; research into the magnitude of the damage Islam did to India is yet to start in right earnest.”

From Mohamud Quasim to Tipu Sultan, every Mohammedan invader killed, converted, taken as slave or put Jiziya on Hindus. Entire cities were burnt down and the populations massacred, with hundreds of thousands killed in every campaign, and similar numbers deported as slaves. While describing the conquest of Kanauj, Utbi sums up the situation thus: “The Sultan[Ghazni] levelled to the ground every fort, and the inhabitants of them either accepted Islam, or took up arms against him. In short, those who submitted were also converted to Islam. In Baran (Bulandshahr) alone 10,000 persons were converted including the Raja”. The conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu population; the region is still called the Hindu Kush, i.e. Hindu slaughter. The Bahmani sultans (1347-1480) in central India made it a rule to kill 100,000 captives in a single day, and many more on other occasions. The conquest of the Vijayanagar empire in 1564 left the capital plus large areas of Karnataka depopulated.

About the Conversion of Hindus to Islam, K.S.Lal observes- “The process of their conversion was hurried. All of a sudden the invader appeared in a city or a region, and in the midst of loot and murder, a dazed, shocked and enslaved people were given the choice between Islam and death. Those who were converted were deprived of their scalp-lock or choti and, if they happened to be caste people, also their sacred thread. Some were also circumcised. Their names were changed, although some might have retained their old names with new affixes. They were taught to recite the kalima and learnt to say the prescribed prayers”.16

When Mahmud Ghaznavi attacked Waihind in 1001-02, he took 500,000 persons of both sexes as captive[This figure is given by Abu Nasr Muhammad Utbi, the secretary and chronicler of Mahmud Gahzni] Next year from Thanesar, according to Farishtah, the Muhammadan army brought to Ghaznin 200,000 captives[Tarikh-i-Farishtah, I, 28]. When Mahmud returned to Ghazni in 1019, the booty was found to consist of (besides huge wealth) 53,000 captives. The Tarikh-i-Alfi adds that the fifth share due to the Saiyyads was 150,000 slaves, therefore the total number of captives comes to 750,000. In 1195 when Raja Bhim was attacked by Aibak 20,000 slaves were captured, and 50,000 at Kalinjar in 1202. Sultan Alauddin Khalji had 50,000 slave boys in his personal service and 70,000 slaves worked continuously on his buildings. In the words of Wassaf, the Muslim army in the sack of Somnath took captive a great number of handsome and elegant maidens, amounting to 20,000, and children of both sexes. Iltutmish, Muhammad Tughlaq and Firoz Tughlaq sent gifts of slaves to Khalifas outside India. To the Chinese emperor Muhammad Tughlaq sent, besides other presents, 100 Hindu slaves, 100 slave girls, accomplished in song and dance and another 15 young slaves. Firoz Tughlaq collected 180,000 slaves.17

About the destruction of Hindu Temples, Sita Ram Goel writes -“Mahmûd of Ghazni robbed and burnt down 1,000 temples at Mathura, and 10,000 in and around Kanauj. One of his successors, Ibrãhîm, demolished 1,000 temples each in Hindustan (Ganga-Yamuna Doab) and Malwa. Muhammad Ghûrî destroyed another 1,000 at Varanasi. Qutbu’d-Dîn Aibak employed elephants for pulling down 1,000 temples in Delhi. “Alî I ‘Ãdil Shãh of Bijapur destroyed 200 to 300 temples in Karnataka. A sufi, Qãyim Shãh, destroyed 12 temples at Tiruchirapalli. Such exact or approximate counts, however, are available only in a few cases. Most of the time we are informed that “many strong temples which would have remained unshaken even by the trumpets blown on the Day of Judgment, were levelled with the ground when swept by the wind of Islãm”.18

Some of the Temples converted into Mosques are19-

Epigraphic evidences-

1. Quwwat al-Islam Masjid, Qutb Minar, Delhi by Qutbud-Din Aibak in 1192 A.D.

2. Masjid at Manvi in the Raichur District of Karnataka, Firuz Shah Bahmani, 1406-07 A.D

3. Jami Masjid at Malan, Palanpur Taluka, Banaskantha District of Gujarat: ?The Jami Masjid was built? by Khan-I-Azam Ulugh Khan, The date of construction is mentioned as 1462 A.D. in the reign of Mahmud Shah I (Begada) of Gujarat.

4. Hammam Darwaza Masjid at Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, Its chronogram yields the year 1567 A.D. in the reign of Akbar, the Great Mughal

5. Jami Masjid at Ghoda in the Poona District of Maharashtra, The inscription is dated 1586 A.D. when the Poona region was ruled by the Nizam Shahi sultans of Ahmadnagar

6. Gachinala Masjid at Cumbum in the Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh, The date of construction is mentioned as 1729-30 A.D. in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah.

Literary evidences-

7. Jhain[name of the place], Jalalud-Din Firuz Khalji went to the place and ordered destruction of temples, mentioned in Miftah-ul-Futuh.

8. Devagiri, Alaud-Din Khalji destroyed the temples of the idolaters , , mentioned in Miftah-ul-Futuh.

9. Somanath, Ulugh Khan, mentioned in Tarikh-i-Alai

10 Delhi, , Alaud-Din Khalji , Tarikh-i-Alai

11. Ranthambhor, mentioned in Tarikh-i-Alai

12. Brahmastpuri (Chidambaram), Malik Kafur, Tarikh-i-Alai

13. Madura, mentioned in Tarikh-i-Alai

14. Fatan: (Pattan), mentioned in Ashiqa

15. Malabar: (Parts of South India), Tarikh-i-Alai

16 The Mosque at Jaunpur. This was built by Sultan Ibrahim Sharqi

17 The Mosque at Qanauj it was built by Ibrahim Sharqi

18 Jami (Masjid) at Etawah. it is one of the monuments of the Sharqi Sultans

19 Babri Masjid at Ayodhya . This mosque was constructed by Babar at Ayodhya

20 Mosques of Alamgir (Aurangzeb)

According to the reports of Archeological survey of India.

21 Tordi (Rajasthan)- early or middle part of the 15th century

22 Naraina (Rajasthan)- The mosque appears to have been built when Mujahid Khan, son of Shams Khan, took possession of Naraina in 1436 A.D

23 Chatsu (Rajasthan)- At Chatsu there is a Muhammadan tomb erected on the eastern embankment of the Golerava tank. The tomb which is known as Gurg Ali Shah’s chhatri is built out of the spoils of Hindu buildings. The inscription mention saint Gurg Ali (wolf of Ali) died a martyr on the first of Ramzan in 979 A.H. corresponding to Thursday, the 17th January, 1572 A.D.

24 SaheTh-MaheTh (Uttar Pradesh)

25 Sarnath (Uttar Pradesh)- the inscriptions found there extending to the twelfth century A.D

26 Vaishali (Bihar)

27 Gaur and Pandua (Bengal)- The oldest and the best known building at Gaur and Pandua is the Ãdîna Masjid at Pandua built by Sikandar Shãh, the son of Ilyãs Shãh. The date of its inscription may be read as either 776 or 770, which corresponds with 1374 or 1369 A.D? The materials employed consisted largely of the spoils of Hindu temples and many of the carvings from the temples have been used as facings of doors, arches and pillars

28 Devikot (Bengal)- The Dargah of Sultan Pir, The Dargah of Shah Ata are the Muhammadan shrines built on the site of an old Hindu temple

29 Tribeni (Bengal)

These whitewashing of history, the policy of “Suppresio Veri, Suggestio Falsi” followed by ‘Eminent Historians’ of India is not only dangerous to national integration but also the future of the entire nation. It is time that, the self interests are kept aside and the facts of history is made known to the masses.

Footnotes-

1 Indian Express, January 15, 1989, quoted in book “Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them Vol. 1” by Sita Ram Goel

2 For example, JNU historian Romilla Thapar.[Article titled “Romila Thapar Defends the Aryan Invasion Theory!” by Vishal Agarwal published here- http://www.india-forum.com/articles/60/1 ]

3 In letter published in The Times of India dated October 2, 1986, Romilla Thapar had stated that handing over of Sri Rama’s and Sri Krishna’s birthplaces to the Hindus, and of disused mosques to the Muslims raises the question of the limits to the logic of restoration of religious sites. How far back do we go? Can we push this to the restoration of Buddhist and Jain monuments destroyed by Hindus? Or of the pre-Hindu animist shrines? [ Quoted in book- Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them Vol. 2

The Islamic Evidence by Sita Ram Goel]

4 In his book Medival India [NCERT 2000], Satish Chandra writes- “The raid into India (by Timur) was a plundering raid, and its motive was to seize the wealth accumulated by the sultans of Delhi over the last 200 years… Timur then entered Delhi and sacked it without mercy, large number of people, both Hindu and Muslim, as well as women and children losing their lives.”, but Timur repeatedly states in his memoirs, the Tuzuk-i-Timuri, that he had a two-fold objective in invading Hindustan. “The first was to war with the infidels,” and thereby acquire, “some claim to reward in the life to come.” The second motive was “that the army of Islam might gain something by plundering the wealth and valuables of the infidels.” He further says “Excepting the quarter of the saiyids, the ulema and other Musulmans, the whole city was sacked.”

5 Koenraad Elst, in “The Politics of the Aryan Invasion Debate”

6 “The Vedic Evidence – The Vedic Corpus Provides no Evidence for the so-called Aryan Invasion of India” by Koenraad Elst

7 Jim G. Shaffer, “The Indo-Aryan Invasions : Cultural Myth and Archaeological Reality,” in Michel Danino “The Indus-Sarasvati Civilization and its Bearing on the Aryan Question”

8 Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, “Have Aryans been identified in the prehistoric skeletal record from South Asia ?” in Michel Danino “The Indus-Sarasvati Civilization and its Bearing on the Aryan Question”

9 David Frawley, in “Myth of Aryan Invasion Theory of India”

10 Sita ram Goel, Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them Vol. 2-

the Islamic Evidence

11 Sita ram Goel, Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them Vol. 2 -

the Islamic Evidence

12 Will Durant in “Story of Civilization” observes- “The Mohammedan Conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.”

13 “Histoire de l’ Inde” – By Alain Danielou; he notes- “”From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions. It is, as usual, in the name of ‘a holy war’ of their faith, of their sole God, that the barbarians have destroyed civilizations, wiped out entire races.” Mahmoud Ghazni, continues Danielou, “was an early example of Muslim ruthlessness, burning in 1018 of the temples of Mathura, razing Kanauj to the ground and destroying the famous temple of Somnath, sacred to all Hindus. His successors were as ruthless as Ghazni: 103 temples in the holy city of Benaras were razed to the ground, its marvelous temples destroyed, its magnificent palaces wrecked.” Indeed, the Muslim policy vis a vis India, concludes Danielou, seems to have been a conscious systematic destruction of everything that was beautiful, holy, refined.”

14 Francois Gautier

15 Dr. Koenraad Elst in “Was There an Islamic “Genocide” of Hindus?”

16 K.S. Lal in “Indian Muslims Who Are They”

17 K.S. Lal in “Muslim Slave System in Medieval India”

18 Sita Ram Goel, in “Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them Vol. 2

The Islamic Evidence”

19 It is taken from the large list of places documented by Sita Ram Goel in his magnum Opus “Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them Vol. 1- The Preliminary Survey”



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Nora asked:


Islam is a great religion and I am very happy and glorified because I am muslim.I don’t want to ask this question because the answer is very cleare and if any one want to know the pure answer he or she can enter Islam and see. But I Want just to know your opinion.

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Mysterion Thundercock asked:


I’m not saying that Islam is responsible for terrorism. What I’m saying is that the prevalence of extreme, uncompromising forms of it are. While there will always be dangerous extremists resulting from any religion (or belief system for that matter), I think there are a particularly large amount coming from certain Middle Eastern countries because extreme forms of Islam are more socially acceptable there than extreme versions of the prevailing religion are in other parts of the world.

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Prof.dr. Ibrahim Khalil asked:


The politician wishes to draw the people’s attention to the condition that Islam ‘is the biggest danger threatening us’. According to his opinion, ‘Everything we are proud of, we sell to the devil. Also, He has earlier already expressed his fear of a ‘tsunami of “Islamification” in Holland’.

This is because Islam is the first wide-spread religion allover the world.

The Dutch politician said : ‘Go along the street and look where it leads to. You feel you’re no longer in your own country. A fight has started, and we must defend ourselves. Soon there are more mosques than churches!’

When I heard this news I laughed and said what a funny and unfortunate fact that the history of man returns itself back.

The statement of the Dutch politician reminds me with the statements of the Arabs before Islam.

Condition of the Arabs before Islam:

There was no education worthy of mention among the Arabs. Ignorance bred superstition, and they were given to all sorts of queer beliefs. They had faith in the existence of genii and evil spirits, whom they would conjure up in solitary places. The Arabs were ignorant of the very rudiments of social virtues. Their manner of life made the evolution of any social virtue impossible. Tribal feuds engaged their whole attention. A settled and peaceful mode of life, indispensable to the cultivation of social qualities, was unknown to them. The prospect of hostilities with another clan that might break out at any time was ever present before their minds. They used to bury their daughters alive to dispose the dishonor of the girls.

How did those Ignorant Arabs deal with the Quran?

17:41 We have explained (things) in various (ways) in this Qur-an, in order that they may receive admonition, but it only increases their flight (from the Truth)!

17:82 We send down (stage by stage) in the Qur-an that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe: to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss.

17:89 And We have explained to man, in this Qur-an, every kind of similitude: yet the greater part of men refuse (to receive it) except with ingratitude!

10:15 But when Our Clear Signs are rehearsed unto them, those who rest not their hope on their meeting with Us, say: “Bring us a Reading other than this, or change this,” say: “It is not for me, of my own accord, to change it: I follow naught but what is revealed unto me: if I were to disobey my Lord, I should myself fear the Penalty of a Great Day (to come).”

41:26 The Unbelievers say; “Listen not to this Qur-an, but talk at random in the midst of its (reading), that ye may gain the upper hand!”

34:31 The Unbelievers say: “We shall neither believe in this scripture nor in (any) that (came) before it.” Couldst thou but see when the wrong-doers will be made to stand before their Lord, throwing back the word (of blame) on one another! those who had been despised will say to the arrogant ones: “Had it not been for you, we should certainly have been believers!”

However, I do not blame the Dutch politician because he just expresses clearly what is inside his heart May be other politicians hide their exact feeling in order not to ruin the diplomatic and the commercial relations with the Arabs and Muslim countries?

But That Dutch politician and many of his alike give a good proof about the prophecy of the Quran which says”

3:118 …..They only desire your ruin: rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: what their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom.

3:186 …..and ye shall certainly hear much that will grieve you, from those who received the Book before you and from those who worship many gods. But if ye persevere patiently, and guard against evil, then that will be a determining factor in all affairs.

However, I am not sure what part of the holy book he wants to tear out?

May be this part?

11:4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: (11:4-6) These verses clearly show that the mass murder of innocent children by God (see 12:29-30) was premeditated.

11:5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.

11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

(Exodus 11)

Or may be this one?

12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

(Exodus 12)

I bet, it may be these parts?

6:24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.

(Joshua 6)

7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

7:25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

(Joshua 7)

3 So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night

4 with these orders: “Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.

5 I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them.

6 They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are running away from us as they did before.’ So when we flee from them,

7 you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The LORD your God will give it into your hand.

8 When you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do what the LORD has commanded. See to it; you have my orders.”

18 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his javelin toward Ai.

19 As soon as he did this, the men in the ambush rose quickly from their position and rushed forward. They entered the city and captured it and quickly set it on fire.

20 The men of Ai looked back and saw the smoke of the city rising against the sky, but they had no chance to escape in any direction, for the Israelites who had been fleeing toward the desert had turned back against their pursuers.

21 For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that smoke was going up from the city, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai.

22 The men of the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives.

23 But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

24 When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the desert where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it.

25 Twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

26 For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had destroyed [a] all who lived in Ai.

27 But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the LORD had instructed Joshua.

28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day.

29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree and left him there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take his body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.

After Joshua kills all the inhabitants of Ai, burns their city, and hangs their king on a tree, he kills some animals and burns them as a “peace offering” to his warlike God.

30 Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel,

31 as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses—an altar of uncut stones, on which no iron tool had been used. On it they offered to the LORD burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings.

(Joshua 8 )

Or it may be this one :

28 That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

29 Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and attacked it. 30 The LORD also gave that city and its king into Israel’s hand. The city and everyone in it Joshua put to the sword. He left no survivors there. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

31 Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Libnah to Lachish; he took up positions against it and attacked it. 32 The LORD handed Lachish over to Israel, and Joshua took it on the second day. The city and everyone in it he put to the sword, just as he had done to Libnah.

(Joshua 10)

But certainly he should tear out this part:

5 They go up the way to Luhith, weeping bitterly as they go; on the road down to Horonaim , anguished cries over the destruction are heard.

6 Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush [e] in the desert.

7 Since you trust in your deeds and riches, you too will be taken captive, and Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and officials.

8 The destroyer will come against every town, and not a town will escape.

The valley will be ruined , and the plateau destroyed, because the LORD has spoken.

9 Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste , her towns will become desolate, with no one to live in them.

10 “A curse on him who is lax in doing the LORD’s work!

A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed!

(Jeremiah 48)

Indeed, I may advice him to tear out the verse which says:

“Cursed by he that keepeth back his sword from blood.”

Nevertheless, I may remind him with the Golden teachings of the Great Prophet Jesus who was talking about “Judging the others” and said:

1″Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3″Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. (Matthew 7)

Is not amazing that an intellectual man living in the 21st century still recalling what the Ignorant Arabs used to say more than 1400 years ago?



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This is a rare inside look at the current cultural, ethnic, historical, religious, social, and linguistic dimensions of eastern Romania. It also investigates the issue of Islam in Europe. Click the link at the bottom and top of this article to view the images that go with this article.

Romania

English name: Romania/Rumania

Local name: Romania

Population: 22,276,056

Religion: Orthodox 86.8%, Protestant, 7.5%, Roman Catholic 4.7%, other (mostly Muslim) and unspecified 0.9%

Language: Romanian with Greek and Italian commercial resident minority

Ethnic groups: officially Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 2.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4%

Average fertility/woman: 1.38 per woman

Migration rate: -0.13 migrant(s)/1,000 population [Romanians are leaving]

Per capita average income: $9,100

Unemployment: officially 6.1%

Population below poverty line: officially 25%

Extant populations elsewhere of Romanians: Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary

Source: CIA World Factbook

Romania is one of the more unique nations of Europe, akin to no other. It is a nation with a long and disjointed history compounded by the rule of several world powers both via Jihad and European conquest alike. Its geography gives the region a complicated history with a variety of occupying ethnic groups, empires, and religious. Its original inhabitants were the Iranian-origin Thracian tribes of Thrace, pre-Slavic Bulgaria and Romania, and western Anatolia. The Roman conquest and Slavic invasion displaced this declining previous ethnic minority, but many Romanians and scholars continue to debate to what degree modern Romanians descend from either Slavs, Thracians, or both. It is largely a cultural blend of Slavic and independent, with a Latin-based language, a result of its volatile position between the Slavic, Romanic, and Greek worlds, as well as the center of Roman-ruled Dacia and Latin-speaking crusader empires after the 4th Crusade of the 13th century. It has a rich Orthodox Christian heritage. Its greatest historical heroes are today deemed by the new West as mass murderers of Muslims and Jews alike, including Hitler’s greatest and most loyal ally Ioan Antonescu and the mythified Vlad Dracul “the Impaler”. Its disunified states of Wallachia and Moldavia fell under the brutal rule of the Jihad of Islam by the Ottoman Turks for nearly four centuries, where many were forced to convert or face unlivable conditions or execution en masse. It made the most drastic transitions in the Cold War as a strong and willing Fascist state into a volatile and unstable Communist state under the Warsaw Pact. After the war, the northern part of Romania called Moldova also declared independence due to broken promises of the collapsed Soviet Union for additional rights, which today too is split between Moldova proper and the pro-Russian Transnistria (which is unrecognized). Therefore, due to its complicated and tumultuous history, we were some of the first to enjoy its allegedly growing tourist industry. We landed at Constanta (Constantza), which is often considered quite poor, but is it a precise indicator of the Gypsy situation and the poverty of Romania that cannot profit from the wealthier Hungarian influence in the west (especially Transylvania) or the commercial business of Bucharest.

Romanians in diaspora and in Romania alike often blame the calamity and sluggish hardship of their nation on a race that is hated in every country where it sets foot: the Gypsies. Upon arrival, I was amazed that these racist and degrading claims of this people as criminal, deceptive, and thieving were entirely true. These “Roma” or “Sinti” people, who descend from migrations out of northern India (and thus retain this cultural and, often, religious link in syncretism), settled for centuries along the Black Sea, where they were systematically annihilated throughout the Middle Ages by nearly every nation they lived. The Jewish settlers suffered a similar fate then and, along with them, during what is now called the Holocaust. They are viewed by Romanians as leeches and a bacillus that only drains the native Romanian economy; therefore, many Romanians view the Fascist leaders of the past highly as nonetheless brutal figures who saw a social problem and addressed it without remorse. One Romanian whom I asked why Romania does not address the Roma problem replied with, “How? Sadly, Antonescu and Hitler are dead.” This social characteristic makes Romania quite unique in this era of post-war world liberalism. Today, the Roma (Gypsies) walk the streets on every corner begging for money, many virtually naked (some adults and many children wear only an oversized shirt to cover genetalia, which often fails), pleading to alleviate their hardship and suffering that they have faced ever since they settled. They defecate in the streets. At least 5 of our cruise ship’s passengers were robbed by Gypsies, each losing their entire wallets. They do not wash their clothes nor hair, their clothes and food are taken from public disposal basins, they do not shave, and every one of them seems to be sick with a cough (possibly to inspire sympathy). They sleep on the ground or illegally in homes whose walls have been bombed or collapsed during the number of wars the country has been unable to alleviate. One corner we passed showed us a sick Gypsy woman laying on the ground — conveniently in full public view — coughing with a thick mucous report. Whether or not this is a legitimately oppressed and homeless people or a group of swindling leeches, most Romanians view them as the latter. Some Romanians nonetheless offer them coins from the Lei (which is a virtually useless currency), but most who fell for this alleged “act” tend to be tourists with sympathy. One Romanian told me that she regularly donated to the local Gypsies, all the time chastised by her brother, who later drove her to northern Romania, where she saw huge Gypsy homes that she called “palaces”; she considers this obviously a great lie and swindling of the natives. In one instance, I saw a child with dirty clothes and an unwashed face beg for coins to be greeted with sad tourists’ faces and open purses, only to walk away with a pair of headphones in his ears from an iPod or other listening device. Elsewhere, I saw Romanians actually pretend to hit the Gypsy children or parents, and one even spat at them. Outside of the Christian churches or mosques in Romania, Bulgaria, and Ukraine, they even stand outside the property with their hands open asking for donations whilst saying “God bless you” and emulating a Christian cross. This is entirely a falsity to inspire Christian philanthropy, as the Gypsies are not a Christian race but rather a syncretism of a unique native religion of India combined with the culture they infiltrate. It was interesting — all during a disastrous lunch of mackerel-type fish pizza (which was called a delicacy) — to see that Gypsy parents literally trained their children before they could even speak to panhandle Romanians and visitors. The same Gypsy-Slavic clash occurs in Bulgaria (see our Inside Bulgaria article).

Elsewhere, Romania’s Constanta seems to have a huge harbor due to the large military of the Axis period, thus Romania’s city seems quite plain and smoggy. Turkish military ships enter the harbor frequently, some with missile launchers oddly. Theft is considered common in Romania, as is corruption, though in reality (or by the belief of the locals), the former is attributed to the Gypsies and Muslims. The Communists are deemed more corrupt than now; the Communist dictator of the Warsaw Pact period mowed down some 7,000 homes and churches for his 12-room mansion apparently. Fascism is held in high regard in Romania, though many dislike it because of the ultimate fate it brought Romania (due to Fascism’s opposition to the Soviets and Americans). Liberal democracy is also considered weak (though generally the best at this time) in Romania because of the fact that it has no ability to quickly alleviate the raft of problems Romania faces due to fears of inequality and lack of freedom.

Some 50% of the buildings outside of the city center are half-finished, demolished, with open ceilings or windows, or generally dilapidated. There are thousands and thousands of birds (especially swallows) flying everywhere (which was actually quite fun instead of irritating). Going through the city though it seemed that most of the parts that were objectionable and impoverished to an imminent degree had very few Romanians, rather Turks or Gypsies. Romania is nonetheless wickedly poor and dilapidated. I calculated that Romania is some 75% Romanian, 10% Gypsy, 14% Turkic, and 1% other even in this “resort city”. Romania was a lovely source to explore social conflict between different races and ethnicities, as well a complex political history in this world of democratic perceived ideal. The food is a combination of Indian, Turkish, Italian, Russian, and in some parts German. Restaurants are in the streets (open-air) generally, a fun characteristic that the Gypsies take advantage of sadly. Most of the people in the streets are either quite young (15-year-olds or so) or elderly. The youths don’t dress promiscuously generally, unlike in (as I saw for the teens) in Ukraine, Russia, and the United States. The cars are old and worn down. The grounds are unpaved; a pedestrian trips constantly as we saw all throughout the day. Drivers are relatively safe in comparison to horrifying Turkey, though in Bucharest traffic is so compacted it is almost nonfunctional. There are police and soldiers everywhere and by nearly every important building with machine guns. There are no Communist memorials in sight; Romania takes pride in its own heritage and history due to all it has endured for centuries. However, there is little trash laying in the streets except near Gypsy homes. There is seldom graffiti either, but some Swastikas and Communist signs can be seen throughout cities. The government seems to be making efforts to fix their country by repairing and constructing previous buildings, as well as large housing tracts and even aquariums. This is difficult due to the fact that Romania must develop its capital of Bucharest first, which ignores the remainder of the nation (which is a huge problem in Greece as well).

Romania’s currency of the past, the Old Lei, was so worthless that the government embraced a similar tactic of Mexico, Italy, and Turkey by slashing several zeroes from its value. The “New Lei” is relatively valuable by comparison to other currencies of poor nations, but Gypsies and local store owners exploit mathematical difficulties as well as the ignorant tourists to charge them double or worse. Almost no English is spoken, though for youth it is compulsory often. There are few shops for visitors because they do not expect any.

The role of religion was also interesting to see here. Romania and Romanian states of the past have always been staunchly Orthodox like their Russian and Ruthenian ancestors, though there is a presence of Catholism in parts due to the influence of their military allies against the groundshaking Jihad of the coming Muslims, including Catholic Hungary (and thus Hungarian Transylvania), Lithuania-Poland, and Germany. The history of influence by the Germans (a Lutheran-majority culture) has also caused Lutheranism to be common as well. There are gorgeous Orthodox churches everywhere that are quite beautiful, adorned atop with gold leaf and massive crosses with the traditional Orthodox diagonal bars. Despite atheistic Communist rule for decades (which Romanians rejected, as they were one of the few Soviet vassals to entirely overthrow the puppet government), Romanians are a religious people with a proud Orthodox heritage. Religion is used here as a binding familial duty as well as a central theme to Romanian cultural and historical heritage, which survived centuries of rule of Catholic Hungary and the Turkic Golden Horde and Ottomans only to emerge as staunchly Orthodox as before. As early as 0700 until 1600, Romanians can be seen flocking to the churches in the city during the week even. There are fewer basins for money donations, a trait that is common in the Catholic world (conveniently in several languages), and they seldom charge for visitors to light candles to celebrate the holy saints of Orthodoxy. The churches are minimalist in that there are none or few chairs for communion by a primal speaker like a priest or metropolitan. At all hours of the day, Orthodox popes await visitors. Entrants are required to wear long pants, whilst women must wear veils or headscarves and cover their shoulders; Orthodoxy is extremely conservative much like Islam. Christians who enter can be seen in public kneeling before a metropolitan, who covers their heads with a tie-like holy wrap from his chest, where the two engage in prayer aloud (yet quietly) for all to see this expression of faith. There are no confessionals like in Catholic religion. Entrants can be seen lighting candles for the saints, and bowing their heads whilst holding their hands against wonderful mosaics of the saints for prayer. Whereas in Islam the body faces holy Makkah (or Mekka), and in Catholicism it faces a large cross at the center, here prayer often faces ancient portraits of saints dating hundreds of years in age. This was a lovely experience, and revealed much about Romania’s unique culture, heritage, and history. Romania has sadly quite a long way to go to return to the former glory when they were a recognizable continental power against the Turks and against the Allies of World War II.

The role of Islam — ever controversial and heated in the Europe that fought against their Jihad for more than 1,200 years across the continent — was also fascinating here in Romania. The Romanians had resisted the threat of Islam for more than a thousand years even before Romania was unified after independence from the Ottomans. The Turkic Kipchaks (Penechegs), the Turkic Avars, and the mighty Sunni Golden Horde had constantly assaulted the region over centuries of Jihad, which caused Hungarian rule over the Romanian states to collapse. From the 15th century onward, the powerful Romanian states of Wallachia and Moldovia were quickly trampled under the boot of the world’s greatest superpower’s Jihad: the Sunni Ottoman Empire. Christian European nations like German Prussia, Hungary, Italian city-states, Transylvania, Balkan states still free of the Jihad, and Russia all joined the collapsing Romanian states to fight against Islam and the Turks. Wallachia’s prince Vlad Dracul became known as “the Impaler” (and Romania’s greatest hero) for his heroic defense of the natives against the Islamic invaders, where he is known to have slaughtered tens and tens of thousands of Muslim settlers, impaling them on stakes where he enjoyed his favorite local wine and delicacies, watching them expire. When the Jihad eventually obliterated central Romania, the state of Moldova offered a loyal and impressive defense before it too became annihilated; all of Romania was ruled by the Islamic Ottoman Empire from the 16th century until the 19th, when it rose up in a war of independence after which Romania was unified.

Due to this long history of brutal Islamic rule (and equally so the brutal massacre of Muslim settlers by the native Christians), one would expect a large Muslim population of Turks and converts alike. Fascinatingly, there are few. Again here, Romanians take pride in their endurance and resilience all whilst being in the very center of so many world empires’ expansionist efforts. Romanian culture is distinctly Christian Slavic and Greek. However, there is surely a large population of Turkish Muslims who settled during the centuries of foreign rule as well as in the massive foreign guest worker programs of the new Turkey in Europe (especially in Germany and Greece). There is a small but extremely faithful Muslim population, with some of them being white Slavs who were forced to convert to avoid execution, persecution, or completely unlivable taxes (the Jizyah) levied on Christian civilians (as the Jews were long dead or gone) who were barely able to survive or eat without them. There are several mosques in Romania (and two in Constanta) that made a deep impression on me. In poor places like Albania and Romania with little measures of defense against terrorism, walking around mosques is rather frightening for a Christian tourist or even native. One mosque was encircled by a series of Turks as well as Gypsies (oddly), from which we promptly steered clear for our safety. The other mosque in the center of town was quite glorious and huge. A huge minaret with a crescent as its centerpiece complimented the large dome of arguably the city’s most appealing building excluding the radiant Orthodox churches. Infidels are allowed to enter (unlike in Albania) if they pay quite a large fee of 5 Euros per entrant. The administrators of this mosque were white converts of the past by majority. Inside, an empty room is beautified by dozens of massive handmade rugs, with the walls decorated with fantastic flowers, vines, and Arabic passages (Surah) from al-Qur’an all the way to the top of the huge building. It was interesting that the only fully maintained and upright buildings in the city were either mosques or Orthodox cathedrals. Shoes must be removed, the legs and shoulders covered, and women must don veils or headscarves if entering the mosque proper. However, in this mosque entrants are able to experience something almost impossible anywhere else in the world: to climb the minaret (the spire pillars around mosques from which the call to prayer is sounded). From there, the entire city can be viewed, intentionally with the mosque towering over the Christian city. Later in the day, a very quiet call to prayer can be heard from the mosque. The Romanians appeared irritated by it, whilst the few ethnic Turks seemed to hurry by the dozens. Plaques in the mosque fervently thank a local Turk for paying for the mosque’s air conditioning system. A rare privilege, I tried to look into the mosque at the praying imams only to be expelled as an infidel by the owner. Islam is rejected here then and now, but the mark of the Jihad is firm in this far reach of the world’s greatest empire for centuries: the Ottomans.

Romania is approaching entry into the EU, which will allow them movement all throughout the remainder of the European Union member states. Europeans of other countries reject this because of the fact that Romanian immigrants generally do not work, bring crime and drugs, and are uneducated when in diaspora. Romania has a long way to go.

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They freely slander Christians and blame Jews for everything, yet when it comes to Islam (even the radical kind), they are quick to defend them. The left thinks the UN is the greatest organization in the world; the UN wants to make it illegal to attack radical Islam.

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If everyone in the world would convert to islam then there would be no need for holy wars and we could all live in peace as long as we follow the teachings of the Koran. So would that be so terrible?

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This is an inside look at the current cultural, ethnic, historical, religious, historical, social, and linguistic dimensions of Turkey. It also analyses the issue of Islam in Europe as well as their controversial entry into the EU. Is Turkey by any means European? Do the Turks have any right to merge with Europe as the US and EU encourage? Click the link at the bottom and top of this article to view the photos that go with this article.

Turkey –

English name: Turkey

Population: 71,158,647

Religion: Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2%

Language: Turkish, with near-illegal Kurdish minority, Armenian

Ethnic groups: Turkish 80%, 20% Kurdish, minute Armenian

Average fertility/woman: 1.89 per woman

Migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population [none leave, none enter]

Per capita average income: $9,000

Unemployment: officially 10.2%

Population below poverty line: officially 20%

Extant populations elsewhere of Albanians: Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, France

Source: CIA World Factbook

I went to Turkey not only with a great fascination for Islam, but also to investigate first hand the question: are Turkey and the Turks by any means European culturally, ethnically, religiously, politically, and historically, and do they have any right to merge with Europe as the United States & European Union so staunchly debate and often encourage today? In Germany and Europe to which they (rarely illegally) emigrate for better labor opportunities and government social monetary benefits, they are generally hated and deemed completely diametrically polar to European culture, history, and modern politics. The nation of Turkey is often deemed a backwards Islamic nation of goat herders, an unstable government, and the wickedly poor. Is this image by any means true, and if not, does this then imply that they have any right to integrate with the Europeans whom reject them?

Turkey is relatively new to tourism due largely to a popular stigma of Westerners that the Middle East or the Islamic world are dangerous or volatile. Our cruise ship landed in Istanbul and Kusadasi, two distinctly Islamic and Turkish cities rife with ancient ruins of other cultures long dead and expelled but by no means multicultural. The Kurdish Sunni minority is responsible for nearly all of Turkey’s terrorism (primarily by the PKK [the Kurdssh Workers' Party] terrorist group), which is further incited by American support for the Kurd minority in northern Iraq and Syria, another reason why Saddam Hussein has been executed for genocide of a very volatile minority. The majority of the Kurds are in the east. They are incited historically not only because they are a different race with a different language than the Turks (the Kurds being Persian with a Farsi-derived language), but also largely because the post-WWI Allied victors promised Kurdish statehood in Kurdistan, which the Turkish founding father Atatürk completely obliterated in a military expansion after the war. Upon learning that the west along the coast would be spared the majority of this ethnosocial calamity, I was anxious to experience the very capital nation of the Islamic world whose Jihad caused Europe to quake in its boots for nearly 5 centuries, not only as an investigation of history, but as a rare chance to experience Islam first-hand. They are unique in their own right as a race, culture, and (in part) history than the Arab tribes with whom they are often affiliated (to the anger of the Turks).

For a brief historical walkthrough, the region of today’s Turkey (Anatolia) was originally populated by a variety of peoples, the majority of whom Iranians and Scythians before and during Zoroastrianism took root long before Judaism’s dualist monotheism was founded. After the heroic conquest of the old Zoroastrian Iranian state (Persia) by the Greek Alexander the Great, Anatolia became populated by Greeks. This later coalesced — after the Roman conquest — into the heart of the Byzantine Orthodox Empire. But by the 10th century, the many nations of the Turkish race (at the time in central Asia) adopted the Sunni faith of Islam, and, pressured by the Mongol tribes and in search of better crop yields, traveled by equine into Anatolia. Here, they encountered and conquered the infidel Christian Greeks with every mile. The battle of Malazirt (Manzikert) in the 11th century foreshadowed a dark future for the powerful Christian Byzantine Empire. The next 3 centuries marked a reality that the Turkish Muslims were superior to the supreme power of the past. These Seljuks (Salçuk) Turks established a powerful Seljuk Empire, which conquered much of then-Sunni Iran and Iraq (Mesopotamia), as well as eastern Anatolia. Annihilated by the coming Mongol hordes, the Turkish Muslim race re-established itself under Asman, establishing the “Ottoman” Empire in central Anatolia. By the early 15th century, under the banner of the holy Jihad, the Ottoman Turkish Muslims had encircled the Byzantines by conquering their Slavic and Greek neighbors: the Greek city-states, the Byzantine land in today’s Greece proper, Slavic Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, later Bosnia, Serbia, and nearly all of southern Hungary, where they forced the conversion of millions of their subjects with death or unlivable taxation as a penalty for not submitting to Islam. On 29 May, 1453, the Turks completely stormed the Byzantine capital of Constantinople, which they renamed Istanbul (”Islam aplenty”). By the 19th century, though, they had declined due to bankruptcy and internal rebellion by the variety of races that they had conquered. Russia had crippled their fleets in nearly a dozen Russo-Turkish Wars. In World War I, the Ottomans allied with the Germans against Russia. Failing, their former lands in the Arab world became ruled by the French and British. In 1923, the sultanate was abolished, and Mustafa Kamal “Atatürk” (Father of the Turks) banned the Arabic alphabet (hence it is today written with a German and Latin base), declaring a secular republic with an ultraconservative and centralized government. By no means at all was this out of admiration for freedom, tolerance, or multiculturalism, but rather to alleviate the Turks’ post-war economic collapse by opening economic and political ties with the victorious West. The rebellious Armenian Christian minority that was accused of massacring Turkish soldiers (and did) and civilians was slaughtered by the Turks in the denied Armenian genocide. The statehood claims of Kurdistan, Greater Armenia, and Western-ruled land was completely conquered. The government of Turkey became an ultra-right wing military state until today. Today, the very people who rose the banner of Jihad against Europe is seeking to exploit its multicultural liberal goals to integrate universally with its former mutual enemy.

Istanbul is arguably the greatest city in the world archaeologically, historically, and culturally. Nowhere else but in Muslim Turkey do nationalism and pride in culture, heritage, history, their distinct race and language, the Islamic faith, and tradition coalesce so strongly into national awareness. Aside from the endless mosques, there are thousands upon thousands of massive Turkish flags proudly announcing the Turkish heritage rooted in the star and crescent of Islam. Nearly every home has a Turkish flag on display for all to see, often right next to government-ordered sets of 20-flag standards or 25-foot massive flags in the center of town. From its cultural capital (not political) of Istanbul, the triumph of Turkish and Islamic history, culture, and heritage over its predecessors of the Romans and Greeks (Byzantines) can be studied in the same city. By no means but politically is Turkey a secular or godless state as they accuse America of being. The Turks embrace their secular politics today with great wisdom: by being politically secular but culturally a staunchly Islamic nation, the Turks can distinguish themselves from the Arabs they hate and deem so primitive, and trade amply with Europe and America as well as the Islamic world, without limiting the importance of Islam in daily life to the Turks. Prayer or “Ezan” is sounded for miles five times per day to be heard from miles and miles away from the hundreds upon hundreds of mosques whose massive minaret spires reach for the heavens:

In Arabic:

Allahu Akhbar; Allahu Akhbar.

Ashadu-allah, Ilaha il Allah. Ashadu-allah, Ilaha il Allah.

Ashadu-anna Muhammadan Rasulallah. Ashadu-anna Muhammadan Rasulallah.

Hayyah a Salah. Hayyah a Salah.

Hayyah a Falah. Hayyah a Falah.

Allahu Akhbar. La Ilahai Allah.

In English:

Allah is great; Allah is great.

I confess that there is no majesty but Allah. I confess that there is no majesty but Allah.

I confess that Muhammad is his messenger. I confess that Muhammad is his messenger.

Hurry to prayer. Hurry to prayer. Hurry to success. Hurry to success.

God is great. There is no majesty but Allah.

Looking in one direction in one portion of the massive city of Istanbul, one can see anywhere from 5 to 50 mosques with two or more minarets each towering above the city’s Muslim inhabitants. There are hardly any Christian churches or synagogues that are not museums that were not burnt by the Ottoman Jihad. Turkey is reportedly 99.8% Muslim (majority Sunni). These mosques are built 500 years ago as they are only recently. The “secular” government funds the construction of mosques as well as pays their imams (equivalent of priests) and mullahs a form of government salaries. Many argue that this is to allow pro-government (right-wing) imams to prevent radical militant Islam that is commonplace in Turkey among Turks and Kurds both. There are signs everywhere in the city listing the latest times of the call to prayer based upon adjustments to the direction of the sun. When the loud pencefold prayer (five per day) is not being echoed with synchronism between the endless mosques in the nation for several minutes at a time, one can hear Islamic lectures, chants, and prayers from the mosque’s loudspeakers throughout the day, reaffirming the Turks as a Muslim people who are by no means akin to their Arab, west Iranian, or Uzbek subjects of the past. Prayer can be heard even from ships outside the harbor at all hours of the day: as early as 0200 and as late as 2300. Stars and crescents not on flags are visible all throughout the city, distinguishing the Turks’ usage of these symbols from being simply their traditional flag, but rather an expression of their heritage and submission to Islam. Unlike in some parts of the Islamic world, like in Uzbekistan and Morocco, the nation’s Muslims do not generally just bow on the spot and initiate prayer. Rather, hundreds of people can be seen walking into each mosque all throughout the day (though prayer can be performed at home or at work, and often is instead of going to the mosque all day long). Women in veils or full burqas, men with regular conservative clothes, men with full beards and Hamas-esque frightening turbans and aggressive expressions, and children of all ages can be seen hurrying to prayer. Many Turks are militant and ultra-nationalist in their faith, which frightens the secular government and its military state. Islam is ultraconservative: men must cover shoulders and legs, and women must cover shoulders and their heads with veils or headscarves. No infidels (Christians, Jews, etc.) are allowed in mosques during prayer. Inside the mosques, though, foreign white tourists can be seen bypassing this law to the dismay of the imams who cannot regulate some 400 people in one mosque at a time. Shoes may not be worn inside the mosques nor anywhere on the steps around it (which is strongly enforced). Men and women can be seen performing ablutions (washing the hands, head, and feet to void the soul of sin, dirt, and worldliness) in local blessed fountains with Arabic writing around them before entering. Outside of mosques, ablution fountains can be seen everywhere in Turkey by the hundreds to encourage both cleanliness as well as prayer in solitude away from mosques. Men and women are strictly segregated inside and outside of mosques during religious rituals and prayer, virtually in separate rooms. Turkey is nonetheless one of the few places in the world whose big tourist cities allow infidels to enter mosques. During prayer, again, no infidels are allowed. The “whirling darvishes” (or dervishes), Sufi monks who stand and spin about to near themselves to Allah, are celebrated and sold all throughout the city in pewter, plastic, and wood, as the Sufis played a large role in the conversion of world peoples to Islam.

Aside from the Islamic religion, which is rejected and found incompatible with European culture by most Europeans, the issue of the headscarf and veil is a common conflict in the European theatre. The millions of Muslims who immigrate to Europe (illegally and legally) are more and more being forbid to wear the headscarf in public and in schools, with some claiming that it has no place in Europe and others arguing that it is an object of female oppression. During the sultanate period (pre-1923), all women were forced to wear a veil or headscarf. Since the republic was declared, women are no longer required. Today, most Turkish women still do wear veils or headscarves, arguing that it is an element of Islamic heritage expected of them by their families and their nation. Many do not cover their heads (especially the youth), with some arguing that it is limiting and uncomfortably hot, and others arguing that it makes them look like the Arabs they deem so primitive and violent; it is not a rejection of Islam, though Islam and al-Qur’an require all women to cover their heads in public at all hours of the day every day. Most younger women (prepubescents to 23 or so) do not cover their heads, but most adults and elderly do (who comprise the vast majority of the Turkish population). Many women of all ages wear not only a multicolored personal headscarf, but a full hijab (body covering with the face exposed) or occasionally a Taliban-esque burqa (covering all but the feet). Most men dress conservatively, but some wear full white robes with turbans and beards (which reminds a European of terrorist mullahs to great personal fright). Most youths of both genders dress conservatively instead of sexually or promiscuously, which is rejected in Islam and in Turkish Muslim culture. The hijab (any type of head covering) is forbidden in most government buildings, though in most shops and buildings women still cover their heads, and al-Qur’an is proudly visible even in government offices and state buildings. A perceived shift of the Turkish women’s dress from ultraconservative and veiled to “Westernized” with an exposed head does not indicate a liberalization of Islam or right-wing “Turkishness” as the EU and USA would love to see occur, but rather a celebration of separate Turkish culture and heritage instead of affiliation with “Arab terrorists”. Illegal in Islam as well, beer is legal in Turkey and is drunken by many Turks (though many refuse it), the most famous of which being Efes, a very strong lager-type beer. During Ramadan or even during prayer-time, many stores and bars which normally sell beer refuse to do so as Muhammad demanded.

From these conclusions, the liberal goals the European Union has embraced as imported by the post-war victorious powers of tolerance, freedom, complete social and political secularism, and social rights are rejected in every sense of the word in the possible Turkish membership and merger with its former victims of its Jihad. Turkey and the Turks are by no means European – culturally, ethnically, politically, historically, and socially – and thus have no right to merge with Europe. This reality by no means denigrates the Turks nor their proud and glorious Islamic nation.

The Turkish national founding father, Mustafa Kamal Atatürk (Father of the Turks) is virtually mythologized in Turkish life. Having brought the Turkish Ottoman state from complete economic and political collapse into a powerful and proud new Turkish nation and military power that conquered its neighbors in less than two years (and successfully assaulted the new Greece to return “lost” land), this culture-creating leader is celebrated with a portrait in nearly every major building, every office building, every police station and shack, in every public monument, and in hundreds of homes and ships. He acts today as a paradigm for all future politics of Turkey, which is why current efforts to Islamicize politically-secular Turkey is met with a sizable public outcry. Aside his portraits and statues are dozens of flags, some stretching 20-feet in length, to celebrate independence Turkish nationhood and Islam. Many of his statues are adorned with Arabic script and quotes from al-Qur’an that he today in the West is perceived to have assaulted. Turkey and Islam are indivisible, though the Turks have been smartly able to avoid the theocracy of Khomeini or bin Laden. This ulterior political goal must be recognized.

The Turkish and Muslim traditions other than in the mosques is subsidized by the state to protect it from the “Western imperialists” who are encroaching on their Islamic and homogeneous heritage. The traditional and world-famous rug/carpet-producing techniques are paid for by the boards of culture and economics. Here, the exclusive double-knot Turkish carpet-making tradition requires female members of families to produce carpets for years and years at a time by hand from the ilk of silk worms for sale around the world. This is but one of the cultural measures protected by the Turkish government today. The Turkmen minority (a people related to the Turks by race, history, and the same Sunni Islam) dominate this field. This is a great source of income for Turkey on the world market for textile production where Iran (Persia) and India are their biggest competitors. The traditional Muslim dowry (akin to bride-price) is generally paid and encouraged to be paid by the man to the woman upon marriage, though the Muslim near-universality of polygamy is illegal in urban Turkey. Most Turkish women still receive dowry in the form of money, carpet, or other heirloom to cement the Muslim marriage.

Regarding the cities themselves, Muslim Turkey has more treasures from ancient empires of the past than can be seen completely in a lifetime. Outside of Kusadasi, an ancient provincial capital of Greek-ruled Anatolia (later to be annexed and expanded by the Romans) called Ephesus remains the very greatest and most well-preserved city in the world. Like Pompeii, a city some 5 centuries before the life of Jesus can be traversed in near entirety. A world monument, the House of the Virgin Mary can be visited as a major Christian (almost exclusively Catholic of course) site of pilgrimage. It is proported to be the very house of Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus of Nazareth. Inside, very little can be seen other than walls and a commemorative tomb with no corpse therein. A wall can be seen on the way out with endless notes from pilgrims to Mary and Heaven. The modern Islamic Turkey has its own endless treasures. Turkey is very economically upright and apt for Western trade; English is highly common amongst the youth and adult alike. Almost no English or other language is used in the cities though. There is almost no trash visible anywhere on the street, and almost no graffiti at all. Oddly, there are literally almost no trash basins anywhere in the cities of Turkey. We learned that this is a security measure imposed by the military government to stop from fires as well as Kurdish terrorism (assumably, bombs in trash cans). Soldiers with machine guns are everywhere in Turkey, as Turkey’s government is regulated and controlled by the huge military to a large extent. There are hardly any broken or collapsed houses with waste affront. The buildings are all plain and simple. There are no blatantly poor areas like “ghettos” like in America or some of the larger European cities. However, there is little safety precaution unlike in the US to resist lawsuits, and it is very easy to injure oneself. The streets are largely narrow in the bigger Turkish cities. The drivers are outright maniacs. Many drive at top speed in complete traffic without stopping, even driving on one-way streets through popular business areas with food carts to get to their destination more quickly. Driving is impossible. Everything in the society seems economically uniform and upright. However, there is a relatively pungent and foul smell throughout much of the Turkish cities, and bathrooms are virtually impassable to a European or American. Water and a thick foul smell seem to flow on the ground of every bathroom. The toilets are generally sunken into the floor or are a hole for defecation, always with a horrific smell. A thick layer of water on the floor by the pungent toilets, in theory, imply that they have recently been cleaned and washed. There are an endless amount of stores on every corner with businessmen on the streets watching for pedestrian tourists like vultures. Some 50% of these stores are all for the sale of rugs, totaling hundreds of thousands of carpets each hundreds of dollars in worth. Nearly every store has goods ranging from t-shirts to traditional veils and headscarves, pewter, metal, jewelry, illegal DVDs, etc. Nearly every store offers dozens of huqqah (hookah) waterpipes for smoking tobacco (marijuana and other drugs are illegal). Tobacco and huqqah, which are believed to have both originated as a cultural device in the Ottoman Empire, are a source of pride for the Turks. Many of their victim nations of the past or regions to which Turks and Muslims immigrate have popular huqqah “bars” for smoking, especially in Ukraine where the Turkic Crimean Tatars offer it to the local Slavs. A trait unique to Turkey occurs upon passing any business: business owners and employees literally stock passerbyers for miles to coax them into seeing their wares. Several people at once pursue pedestrians for several minutes and even later in the day again if another encounter occurs, offering tea and friendship, asking from where the visitor comes and his nationality. This hospitable ploy is in reality an attempt to make a sale to the coming wealthier tourist from Europe. Businessmen can be seen carrying trays of ultra-strong Turkish tea all over the city to be brought to later shop clients. One can barter in any store. Many stores are willing to drop as much as 50% of a product’s worth to make a sale with only little effort by the client. Turkmen and Azerbaijani (Azeri) businessmen can be seen everywhere in Turkey, as both descend from the same race (though the latter professes Iran’s Shi’ia Islam); they integrate well into the society of their brethren. Kurdish minority businessmen can also be seen in their tight-knit yet marginalized society that is directly hampered by the government. Their language is illegal in schools and government, and the Kurds’ Iranian-based language may only air on television by law on a select few number of channels for a small number of minutes per week. Armenian Christians and Jews are given just as few rights in this staunchly Islamic society. This inequality, along with Turkey’s denial of the genocide of Armenians (who were assaulting Turks in an independence movement), is a major criticism by the social-liberal US and EU against Turkey. Turkey is incredibly homogeneously; nearly all the inhabitants are of the same race (Turks) or their descendants (Azeris, Turkmen, Tatars), with some unrelated Muslim Baluch, Arab, and Uzbek minorities (aside from the marginalized Armenian, Greek, and Georgian Christians).

Just walking through the cities of the western coast (especially Istanbul and Kusadashi), one can encounter Byzantine Greek Christian treasures before the Turkish conquest, pre-Christian Greek cities preserved in entirety, Roman arches, and ancient Iranian tombs. The Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia) – considered among the greatest buildings ever built – rests in the center of the Islamic cultural capital (Istanbul) of the last 500 years (after Baghdad before it and Damascus before that). With its foundations built before the life of Jesus, and its massive domed walls built by the greatest Byzantine empire since Constantine the Great himself, Justinian (conquerer of the southern German conquerers of the Roman Empire), the Ayasofya was the largest Christian building in the world until St. Peter’s Basilica was built in the Vatican in the 11th century. It was so magnificent a Christian church that it impressed the heathen Slavic king Vladimir the Great, king of the Germanic-built Kievan Rus, to convert all Slavs of Europe to the Orthodox faith of the Greeks. In the 15th century, when the Muslim Jihad delivered the ultimate fate into the heart of the Byzantine infidel capital of Constantinople (now Istanbul), the holy Orthodox church was converted into a mosque. Today, it remains among the greatest and most majestic mosques in the world; a true testament to the victory of Islam over Christendom. When the republic was declared, it was converted into a museum. Nonetheless the call to prayer is firmly and proudly emitted from it for the entire city to hear. The interior is ancient, tarnished, and fading as expected from its age. It is rich in ancient Orthodox Christian mosaics and frescoes of John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Saints dating over 1,500 years of age. All evidence of Jesus was entirely erased or burnt when the Jihad reached the Byzantine capital, with the mosaics of Jesus and the saints covered in a plaster base. This was later uncovered when the building became a museum, and can be seen today with much of it removed due to age and peeling. The original Byzantine design during the Roman period and afterward (under Justinian) can be seen, oddly with Hakenkreuze (or the Indian Swastika) all throughout the building and arches in obverse and reverse both. The building is almost entirely in reconstruction with painters carefully repainting the surface. Original massive plaques cover the walls of the building with verses from al-Qur’an and the holy 99 names of Allah all about the massive overhead dome. The original Mihrab (the gate in the center of the mosque showing the direction of Makkah to which all must pray) and Minbar (the steps to heaven from which the imam or mullah speaks to the taliba) are in perfect golden condition. Only 200 paces from the huge mosque, the walls of Constantinople that the Turks struggled for years to overrun can be touched. One can even see the black marks where the Mujahidin’s cannons bombarded the Christian gates for years and years before final victory. Within eye’s length from the Ayasofya, one can see the greatest mosque in all of Turkey: the Blue Mosque or the Sultan Ahmed mosque. Built in the 15th century, its blue iznik domes is arguably the center of Istanbul, where most of the most famous imams and Islamic scholars attend. The interior is gorgeous, massive, clean, segregated, completely covered in carpets, and decorated in blue flower designs with Arabic inscriptions and plaques with “Allah” written on nearly every wall. The main area for prayer is forbidden to infidels during all hours. Sitting in the courtyard between the Ayasofya and Blue Mosque during prayer is a sad reminder of the collapse of faith and tradition in the US and gradually Europe, and the strong resilience of faith in the Islamic world.

The hundreds of other mosques throughout Turkey and Istanbul are equal treasures, as are the endless temples and palaces built by the numerous Turkish sultans, especially at their main palace of Topkap1 (Toep-kop-uh) whose halls and harems seem to bear no end. Inside the sultan’s main palace, a fantastic treasure horde of the personal swords, helms, and standards of the most valiant of Islamic Jihadists and conquerers can be found. The swords of Mehmet II (who obliterated the Byzantine Empire forever), Sulayman the Magnificent (who led the golden age of the Ottomans), Sultan Ahmed (who brought a height of Islamic architecture), and other Jihadist Mujahidin can be seen with Arabic script and surah quotes from al-Qur’an engraved in gold leaf on the scimitar blade. Other collected treasures taken from European victim nations can also be found dating centuries before the conquest of the Christian Balkans. There is a separate chamber for white eunuch slave guards forcibly conscripted, converted to Islam, and castrated after being taken from their Christian families in Europe after the conquest (excluding tens of thousands of white Christians regularly converted and forced into the janissary elite armies). Under the city, a massive and still-damp Roman aqueduct can be traversed. The ancient and world-famous indoor Grand Bazaar with its 20,000+ shop stalls is a national treasure with endless products for sale at cheap prices; it is easy to get lost.

Turkish music is entirely unique in its own right, but is greatly akin to traditional Arabic, Farsi, and Berber music. The Christian European nations subject to the Jihad (including Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, today’s southern Ukraine [the Crimea], etc.) all have in part a degree of Turkish or Arabic influence in some of their music aside from the works of foreign immigrants. The tobacco and huqqah culture of the Muslims has spread there with great success in popular youth culture. The Crimea in Ukraine, where the previous Turkic Tatar Muslims were time and time expelled by the Slavs before being conquered and saved by the Ottomans, is rife with Turkish influence where it was not exterminated. The strange Turkish “blue eye” (a figure with a black center, white interior, and light blue exterior against a deep blue base), which is used as a Turkish cultural agent of superstition and piety to Islam can be seen in all of the Muslims’ former conquests, including Greece, Ukraine, and in the far south of Russia near Chechnya and Dagestan. Turkish food (which is fantastic), including kebabs of lamb and beef along with vegetables and rice, yogurts and dates can be seen in each of their subject Christian states as well. Pork is largely unavailable, forbidden by al-Qur’an.

Traveling to Turkey was one of the most amazing experiences of my life, especially in Istanbul, but it was utmost important to come to the conclusion via personal experience that the Turks are distinct — politically, culturally, ethnically, and historically — from Europeans in every fashion of the word, and any possible effort to merge them with the peoples of Europe or its EU-puppet governments is not the employment of logic but rather a blind act of incompatible multicultural union.

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The destruction of another Sunni mosque in Iran and its consequences

Reza Hossein Borr

 

 

 

 

The security forces of Iran attacked a mosque and a religious school at three o’clock in the morning today, 27 August 2008, arrested the students and staff and destroyed the mosque and the religious school in the North East of Baluchistan, Iran.  The security forces used several bulldozers and tractors to completely destroy the building of Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque in Azimabad, a suburb of the city of Zabol.  Nobody knows what has happened to the students, teachers and staff of the school and the mosque.  The people who witnessed this morning operations observed that the students and teachers were very frightened.  The security forces began beating them as soon as they attacked the school and bundled them into secure police cars as they were crying and screaming.  The attack happened at a time that all of the students and staff were sleeping.  There was not any warning by the police or security forces about the destruction of the mosque and the school.

 

The Iranian authorities destroyed another mosque about a year ago in the northern part of Iran and its Imam and staff were arrested and thrown into prison.  Several mosques which belonged to the Sunnis of Iran have been destroyed since the emergence of the Shia fanatic Republic of Iran.  There are 15 to 20 million Sunnis in Iran.  They have been discriminated against systematically.  Molana Ahamad Narouee, the deputy director of the main theological school in Zahedan was arrested two weeks ago. The security forces have demanded that the religious school must expel all foreign students who are studying at the school.  According to the head of the school a small number of students from the Central Asian republics are studying in the school.  But they have been denied students visas.  There are hundreds of Shia students from the Central Asian republics who are studying in different Shia theological schools of Iran.

 

Fifteen thousand foreign students are studying in the Iranian Shia schools.  The Iranian regime has given them scholarship and pays for their families too.  These students learn the Iranian version of Shia which believes the Sunnis are infidels.  The students will return back to their home countries with very strong radical, militant and anti-Sunni studies which will create enormous divisions between the Sunnis and Shia population of Islamic countries.

 

Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque was destroyed once before and the people had to relocate it. The religious leaders of Baluchistan and Iran protested against destruction of the Sunni mosques but so far the Iranian regime has continued its policy of destroying Sunni mosques in different parts of Iran while it is building new Shia mosques in Sunni dominated villages and cities.  The Irna news agency reported on 25th of August that the government has sent 600 Shia missionaries to the Sunni dominated areas of Baluchistan to convert the Sunnis in Islam as if the Sunnis are not Moslems.  The way they have trained these missionaries indicate that they clearly believe that the Sunnis are not Moslems and they must be converted into Shiism which is the real Islam.  The process of Shiaeezation of the Sunnis began from the beginning of Islamic Republic but so far the regime has very little success in converting the Sunnis into Shiism, yet the financial rewards that the Iranian regime is providing for the newly-converted Moslems

( Shia) have been very tempting as some of the Afghani and Pakistani Shias have gone to Iran and claimed to be Baluch Sunnis and they were ready to have the honour of becoming Moslems (Shia).  The Shia fanatic regime pays thousands of dollars to the newly converted Shias to persuade them to convert their relatives and children.  Consequently some bloody disputes have happened among the members of the same family who have refused to change their religion.

 

The destruction of Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque in Azimabad will not be the last onslaught of the Shia regime on the Sunnis of Iran. The Iranian constitution allows diversity of religion and respects the performance of religious duties but the Iranian regime ignores its own constitution and arrests religious leaders, destroys the Sunni schools and mosques.  In reaction to the systematic Shia offensive on the Baluch and other Sunnis of Iran, the process of intensification of religious feelings in Sunnis are widening and deepening all over ran.  As the Iranian regime defines itself as the lawful and legitimate heritage of Islam, the Iranian Sunnis have responded by identifying themselves as true Moslems.

 

The Iranian Sunnis were usually secular minded people but the Shia aggression has turned them into Sunni political militants. Lack of support by the international community and Islamic countries have pushed the Sunni Muslims of Iran towards the only sources of support that are available and they are Taleban and Alqaedah.  The international community could have supported the Sunnis of Iran to move them away from Taleban and Alqaedah but it seems that there is a concerted effort to allow the Islamic Shia regime of Iran to continue the oppression of the Sunnis.  There was some news that some young Iranian Sunnis who have been disappointed by the Islamic and Arab governments have become sympathetic to Taleban.  The majority of the people who live in the Eastern part of Iran are Sunnis and when they become sympathetic to Taleban, the movement of Taleban and Alqaedah members and the power of their manoeuvres in the region become more dynamic and widespread. The pressure by the government on the Sunnis is so brutal that the Sunnis feel desperate for any kind of help which relieves some of the pressures on them.  The Sunni governments and countries so far have refused to help them directly as the Iranian regime is widely supporting the Shias of all countries, or exerting some practical pressure on the Iranian regime to stop  further discrimination and pressure on them.

 

The international community must use all United Nations Conventions and human rights charters which allow freedom of worship to exert pressure on the Iranian regime to halt the destruction of Sunni mosques and media onslaught on Sunni principles.  The Iranian Sunnis witness everyday unbearable offences against the Sunni principles of Islam.  The intensification of pressure on Sunnis would have severe consequences, not only for Iran and Iranians but also for international community when the patience of Sunnis ran out and a religious war between the two sects of Islam may begin.  At the same time when the pressure becomes unbearable on the Sunnis of Iran they may look for separation from Iran as their locations are located near the borders of Iran with other countries.

 

The Iranian government, the Shia population of Iran and the opposition groups of Iran, Iranian intellectuals, journalists and human rights activists will be responsible for any civil or religious war in Iran or for any separatist movement that maybe created in Iran if they do not stop the regime from further execution of the Sunni leaders and destruction of their schools, mosques and violations of their rights.  The political, social and cultural discrimination against the Sunnis would have added consequences in which the Sunni people of Iran will lose any hope for a better life in Iran.  Those Iranian who choose silence over the brutal oppression of the Iranian nationalities and Sunnis will be responsible for any civil war that might follow as the consequence of these repressive policies.

Reza Hossein Borr is an NLP Master Trainer and a leadership consultant and the creator of 150 CDs and 14 Change management models. He is also the author of Manual Success, Manual of Coaching and Mentoring, Motivational Stories that Can Change Your Life, and a New Vision for the Islamic World. He can be contacted by email: sarawani@aol.com  www.rezaaa.com

 



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