You mean like this conspiracy? This calendar is for the month of Sept, 2001. Is it a wild coincidence, or an instance of pre-knowledge?
Posted on 12/08/2003 7:06:15 PM PST by webber
By Tom Barrett ConservativeTruth.org
We are at the beginning of what some would call the Christian "holy month" - the month leading up to the day we celebrate as the day of Jesus* birth. We will celebrate by giving to the poor, making extra efforts to be kind to others, and remembering the great sacrifice Jesus made for the world. Muslims have just completed the celebration of their "holy month" of Ramadan. They celebrated by increasing the violence and terrorist attacks against Jews and Christians to ever higher levels.
I personally disagree with the concept of a Christian "holy month". The Bible says that every day is holy unto the Lord. Besides, the best scholarly research shows that Jesus was probably born in the summer. All that aside, even Christians-in-name-only - people who call themselves Christians because their parents were, but don*t attend church except at Christmas - tend to be kinder and more giving as Christmas approaches.
In stark contrast, Muslims worldwide used the "holy month" month (it should be called the "UNholy month") of Ramadan to escalate the reign of terror they have released upon the world community. Throughout the month there have been calls for more killing, more bombings, issued by Muslim leaders, INCLUDING THEIR CLERGY. Muslims have been recruited from all over the world to kill US soldiers in Iraq during Ramadan.
Please don*t give me that tired old argument that all Muslims are not terrorists. Even Forest Gump knows that. There are some very nice Muslims. Some wouldn*t hurt a fly. But the fact is that even the nice Muslims support terrorism.
They support terrorism by giving hundreds of millions of dollars to Muslim "charities" (all of it tax-deductible) that PAY HOMICIDE BOMBERS to murder Jews and Christians.
More important, they support terrorism by allowing their Mullahs & Imams (their version of preachers) to preach death and hate toward all infidels (that*s you and me, in case you didn*t know).
You don*t think their "holy men" would do such things - What planet do you live on? Such preaching of violence is so widespread that even the liberal press has been shamed into reporting it. In Pakistan and Afghanistan and Iran and dozens of other Muslim countries, even people who don?t go to religious services can*t escape the hated spewed by their "ministers." LOUDSPEAKERS mounted outside their mosques blare forth calls for "holy war" and "jihad" against all infidels (that*s you and me, folks), compliments of the Muslim clergy.
The worst part is that the same stuff is going on right here in the good old US of A. Oh, they*re more subtle here. They don*t use outdoor loudspeakers. But if you were willing to risk your life going into many mosques here in America wearing a wire, you could come out with tapes of calls to violence and murder that would scare most Americans into action.
Our President is a good man, but he is very na~ve when it comes to the Muslim threat. He has repeated the lie that the word Islam means "peace" so many times that he probably believes it himself. As we have reported in previous articles (and as you could find out with just a little research instead of listening to the garbage the media feeds you), the word Islam actually means "submission."
The Muslim religion is a violent, bloody religion.
Throughout the ages, their idea of converting infidels has been to give them one chance to convert, then cut their heads off. Mohammed himself personally murdered hundreds of infidels, including infants. This is historical fact.
Today, Muslim religious leaders lead ceremonies in which various body parts are removed for minor infractions. They still condone beheading for more serious things, like a woman showing her face in public. You don*t believe that? What short memories we have. Less than two years ago the Mullahs chopped of the heads of several dozen women in the national soccer stadium in Afghanistan. Peaceful religion, indeed.
Their stated goal is the same as Hitler*s was. (Perhaps that is why Germany and Iraq had such a cozy relationship while Saddam was in power.) They believe that Islam is destined to rule the world. They do not want to peacefully coexist with us. They want to rule us. Want proof? Just look at all the attempts Israel has made over the last fifty years to peacefully coexist with its Muslim neighbors. The answer has always been the same. "Death to all Jews."
"We will push you into the sea." "No Jew filth will be left to pollute our holy land." Yet Bush insists that "Islam means peace"!
In response to an email about the Muslim holiday stamp, one well-meaning person wrote the following: "Christ set an example of tolerance and acceptance. Christ taught of loving thy neighbor. Christ taught of feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and clothing the naked" he did not call them names and denigrate them. He embraced them and earned their respect."
This man was well-meaning, but ignorant of much of the Scripture that does not support his contentions. "Tolerance and acceptance" - He neither tolerated nor accepted the money changers when he drove them out of the Temple with a whip. "He did not call names and denigrate them." How about when he called the religious leaders of His day "hypocrites" and likened them to whitewashed graves" He didn*t care about "earning their respect." He told the truth, and didn*t care one bit whether His listeners liked it!
Well, here*s some truth our politicians won*t like even a little bit. The reissuing of a US postage stamp commemorating a Muslim religious holiday (EID) which celebrates the end of Ramadan was a dumb move that has infuriated millions of Americans. The stamp was first issued in September, 2001 just ten days before the World Trade Center bombings. By that time good old short-memory America had already forgotten the thousands of Americans murdered by Muslim terrorists in the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, Pan Am 103, the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the military barracks in Saudi Arabia, the American Embassies in Africa, and the bombing of the USS Cole (to name just a few).
Prior to 911 many Americans were buying the "Islam means Peace" lie and the first printing of the stamp went pretty much unnoticed. But to re-issue the stamp in post-911 America is a slap in the face to the family members of the thousands who died because Muslims thought it was "holy" to kill them. And I*m not the only one who thinks so. Just one of the dozens of Internet polls on the subject asks that very question. When I checked the results earlier today 22,500 had responded. By a margin of almost three to one, Americans felt that re-issuing the stamp was a "slap in the face" of those bereaved families.
Instead of understanding and honoring the grief of these families, the United States Postal Service has decided to re-issue with a commemorative first class holiday postage stamp that honors EID Muslim holiday. At the same time liberal politicians and judges are working overtime to remove any vestige of the religion upon which this nation was founded from public life. From removing any reference to God in our schools, to removing "Under God" from the pledge, to removing the Ten Commandments and nativity scenes from public property, these vicious people will not be satisfied until it is illegal to utter God*s Name in public.
As I write this there is a movement forming to remove Christmas as a national holiday! And in its place they choose to honor a religion whose stated goal is the destruction of America and all that it stands for!
Americans are banding together to vocally boycott this stamp at our Post Offices. Boycott leaders are encouraging patriots to not only refuse to buy the stamps, but to SPEAK OUT at the Post Office against this stupidity. That sounds terribly intolerant, doesn*t it?
How about a deal, Muslims? We*ll promise to be more "tolerant" if you stop killing us! Sounds fair to me.
Look at some examples of decorative calligraphy. They can make birds and all sorts of stuff out of letters. To make Twin Towers out of letters would not be a problem. Look at the letters. Other designs are possible. One alternative design would be to emphasize large, circular loops. Instead the calligrapher highlighted extended, dual vertical strokes, making Two Towers out of them with debris falling from out.
In the Arabic alphabet, even in highly decorative calligraphy (which this is not--it's pretty close to how Arabic is printed in most books), there are rules that need to be followed. To write mubaarak you need to write an extended aa, which is done be extending an alif (a) out of the preceeding consonant. As the alif is what is called a disjointed letter (not joined with the letter that follows), 'baa' looks like a backwards J. The other 'tower' is the Arabic 'k'. Like 'k', it is written with a tall portion, so it looks similar to a J with a flat bottom. In the case of the word 'mubaarak', k is preceded by an Arabic 'r' (its the little squiggle between and slightly below your 'two towers'). The Arabic 'r' is what is also a disjointed letter, so the r and the k are not connected, which is why the tall part of k stands alone.
The 'extended, dual vertical strokes' are neccessary for the word mubaarak to be written.
Either the calligrapher was only following the standard rules of the Arabic alphabet, or he was a member of a vast Muslim conspiracy and had full knowledge of 9/11 months (if not years--I don't know when the calligraphy was done) before it happened. I know which choice is the more rational one.
Sorry, actually more of a large comma that starts in the 'baa'. FYI, if you really want to keeping believing in your consiracy theory, I'd focus on why the r starts in the 'baa'.
You mean like this conspiracy? This calendar is for the month of Sept, 2001. Is it a wild coincidence, or an instance of pre-knowledge?
Nope, just a boring whiteboy (mainly Irish/German) that's nominally Christian. My love of beer and bbq ribs forever prevents me from converting to Islam, along with the fact I don't think I'd like to stone anybody, for whatever reason.
If you aren't, what made you want to study Arabic?
I'm a religion nut. Got my bachelor's in Comparative Religions, with a focus on Buddhism. My favorites to study are Buddhism and Islam. I have no idea why, as I would never convert to either. Maybe its because I find the mysticism of both religions fascinating. My Chinese gets me pretty far in terms of studying Buddhism, so I've taught myself a bit of classical Arabic, mainly through books designed to teach Muslims to read the Qu'ran. Pimsleur's Eastern Arabic course has also been a big help in learning a but of the spoken language.
Are you sympathetic toward the Islamist Terrorist, or are you a Gung Ho American?
I'm very unsympathetic to people that would kill me on sight, be they Islamists or whatever. I think the War on Terror is going in the right direction. But I tend not to get gung ho about anything, more for reasons of personal temperament than a lack of principles. But get enough beer in me and I'll argue passionately for just about anything.
Or are you just plain confused?
I'm definately confused, about a great many things.
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