[Mb-civic] FW: Ever Danced with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight?

Fri Jan 7 11:40:06 PST 2005

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Subject: Ever Danced with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight?

Friday, January 07, 2005

  Ever Danced with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight?

  January 07, 2005
Iran va Jahan
Nicole Sadighi

  Every which way we turn, in every corner of the globe we live amongst
people from all manner of backgrounds, races, colour, creed and
religions. For the most, mankind has conformed to a kind of global
social etiquette of tolerance of these many diversities, as long as
they live within the realms of civilised laws.

  Even so, the advancement of this multi-cultural harmony has
historically been faced with various uncompromising threats of
differing forms and dynamics and thus undermining the development of
the free and civilised world. In times gone by the world has often been
confronted by some very unsavoury characters, from the global dangers
of the spread of Nazi fascism to the menace of unsociable behaviour of
drunken youths, society has always managed to overcome these extremes
in the name of evolution and our ultimate survival. This will no doubt
be a generic part of our lives for many decades to come.

  However, the primary question that must be asked is have we learned
anything from these experiences? What lessons did we take away with us
after the fall of Hitler? Can we now recognise the treacherous cult
leaders of this world such as the infamous David Koresh and the Waco
disaster? Has the tragedy of Beslan taught us anything, anything at
all? The answers to all these questions will be in the actions we take
from today moving forwards; which means we must be evermore vigilant
with the choices we make as individuals, communities and nations. Today
there is threat to the world much greater than the Adolf Hitlers¹ and
David Koreshs¹ of our time, a threat that should make our alarm bells
ring much louder than ever before, a threat that is growing day by day
and yet, the world does not seem as troubled as they might have been
with Hitler or Koresh.

  This leaves one with a very uneasy sense, especially when the evidence
is staring one straight in the face. Theo van Gogh, the Dutch filmmaker
and great grandson of famous painter Vincent van Gogh, tragically fell
prey at the hands of this dangerous force. His appalling death was in
retaliation of a recent film he had made, ³Submission², criticising the
mistreatment of Muslim women. Van Gogh was hunted down by a radical
Islamic Dutch Moroccan, who had shot him several times, stabbed him
repeatedly, slit his throat and with the same knife, fixed a note on
his body containing versus from the Quran and a warning to Ms. Ayaan
Hirsi Ali, the films screenwriter and controversial Dutch MP, who is
widely known for her criticism of Islam. Others too, have fallen prey
to such threats. Mimount Bousakla, a Belgian senator of Morrocan
origin, also known for her criticism of Islam, Ms. Laurette Onkelinkx,
Belgium¹s Justice Minister, Belgium¹s Former Justice Minister Philippe
Moureaux and Brussells politician, Mohamed Chahid, Geert Wilders Dutch
MP who has called for a 5-year moratorium on all non-European
immigration, are all under 24 hour police protection. It is not clear
how long this list of names has to be before the warning bells start
sounding.

  The Cult of Psychological Warfare

  Van Gogh¹s assailant Mohammed Bouyeri, who was later found to be a
member of a larger team of extremist Muslims, was soon arrested and
faces six terrorism charges. He was a second-generation immigrant, with
Moroccan/Dutch citizenship who spoke little Arabic. The young boy who
gave up his studies, was no stranger to the police and boasted a list
of minor crimes, had links with the fundamentalist imam and follower of
the Tabligh movement, Mahmud El-Shershaby, along with his close friend
Samir Azzouz, who was allegedly arrested in Ukraine for terrorist
charges back in 2002 while en route to Chechnya. Even so, examining
Bouyeri¹s background, he is not unlike many others around his age,
whether black or white, Asian or Mid-eastern. Young, impressionable,
disillusioned, embittered, naïve, bored, high on testosterone, not
always wanting to conform to the rule of law, having come from a
dysfunctional background, looking for a new direction in his life,
perhaps even a little excitement to escape what he perceived as
³regulation².

Yet, it would seem that like many terrorists, he did not escape
restrictions, quite to the contrary it would seem that prior to the
pre-meditated murder, he had already given in to the clutches of a much
stronger and deep-rooted controlling dominance than that of the rule of
law; led by some high divine right which was to be the driving force
that compelled Bouyeri to kill in cold blood. One must hasten to add
that this does not necessarily imply all children from dysfunctional
backgrounds will set their sights on religious fundamentalist terrorism
under the misapprehension that it would be the answer to all their
troubles. Nonetheless, Bouyeri was an easy target and great a candidate
for any imam or Islamic cleric to indoctrinate and brainwash as a
future terrorist by stirring up racial hatred.

  As with Hitler or David Koresh, by exploiting the vulnerable and
impressionable in such a way, fundamentalist Islamic clerics have begun
to recruit a sinister cult of spiritual slavery, dictating how they
live, what they do, how they think to the point where they cannot
reason and moulds them to accept everything without question.
Conscience can be manipulated and thought patterns altered, turning man
into a moth that becomes impatient to cremate itself on the flame. The
one common aspect of all Islamic terrorists is that they have all
attended regular sermons at Mosques; which are scattered all over the
globe, therefore they are more easily exposed to the fundamentalist
messages.

  This display of dogma is also televised on some Arabic and Islamic
television stations, enabling radical Sheiks and Clerics to use
stations such as Al-Jezeera as a platform for their violent propaganda.
They even endorse domestic violence and preach how a husband should
beat his wife. The influential Sunni cleric, Sheikh Yousef Qaradhawi,
Oct. 5, 1997 appeared on Al-Jezeera (memri.org) giving a detailed
account of the how¹s¹ and circumstances a wife should be beaten.

Jasem Muhammad Al-Mutawah, apparently an expert on family matters in
Islam, hosts a show on Saudi Arabia's Iqraa TV
(www.memri.org.streamvideo/), in which he says ³We all know that Allah
has given authority to the man, including admonishing and guiding the
wife in case of disobedience, banishing her from the bed, and then the
beatings². Dr. Muhammad Al-Hajj, lecturer on Islamic faith at the
University of Jordan (Amman) who was a guest on the show stating how
the Koranic versus instructs discipline on wives says: ³The issue is
who directs this institution (the family) because two people cannot
drive a car  there must be one driver. Islam has given the wheel of
this car, the car of the family to the man!².

This dogmatic method of controlling the people was typical centuries
ago when heads of states enforced religion onto their people.

  However in 21-century; Theo Van Gogh was no stranger to offending both
Christians and Jews in some of the work he had produced, however they
did not resort to cold bloodedly murdering the poor man so tragically
on the streets, but instead they simply did the civilised deed and made
formal complaints. Apart from the odd cult or new age religion, most
religions have moved forwards with the changing times, meeting the
modern socio-political requirements and expectations that would fuse
with the civilised world in order to keep an equilibrium. However there
is a great threat to this balance and the world must rapidly take heed
of the warning signs. This is not the 16-century anymore, and we cannot
simply tolerate any manipulation that threatens the very foundation
that the civilised world is based on. There are many young Muslim boys
just like Bouyeri who are being prepared to ³serve Allah² through
bloodshed because they will earn their place in ³Paradise where 70
virgins will be waiting!² These control tactics have been responsible
for many acts of fundamentalist terrorism. If one finds a weak spot,
one can control any person and the imams and clerical leaders who are
the real perpetrators of this tactical psychological warfare against
all infidels, know that they have the advantage in exploiting the
vulnerable, just as with the white supremacy groups. If you pull the
right strings then you¹ll soon find you¹ve hit a nerve.

  Fundamentalism is growing at a rapid rate and Islamo-fascism is
spreading even faster. It has now been reported that Hirsi Ali is
making the sequel to ³Submission², in the meantime radical Muslims
around the world continue to be told of the evils of non-believers and
the modern democratic society. Even infants and children are
conditioned to embrace martyrdom as their icon as easily as they might
embrace Mickey Mouse. All freedom loving countries must now wake up and
realize that yet again, the future of the civilized world is under a
great threat that must not be ignored and swept under the carpet any
longer. The matter must be an international agenda of the highest
priority; otherwise we may see an army of young impressionable Muslim
boys who are enticed by some high divine right to dance with the devil
by the pale moonlight.
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Nicole Sadighi is a freelance journalist and advocate of non-violent
movement. She can contacted by e-mail: nicolesadighi at hotmail.com
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