by jc » Mon May 15, 2006 12:19 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The following letter was sent by Islamic Party leader David Pidcock to The Sunday Telegraph, contrasting the French hysteric phobia of late with Napoleon Bonaparte's admiration for Islam.<br><br>An open letter to the Editor and owner Mr. Conrad Black<br><br>Gentlemen,<br><br>As an English convert to Islam, I feel bound to respond to your Editorial Comment, p.27, "The enemies within." (7/8/94).<br><br>Your reference to Mr.Charles Pasqua, the French Interior Minister, is clearly in ignorance of the debt his Department owes to Islam. With the exception of French family law, 95 per cent of French law, i.e., The Code Napoleon is, in its entirety Islamic. Unlike the United Kingdom ... which only has Courts of Law ... the French have courts of Justice.<br><br>Having recognised the divine nature of the Qur'an, Napoleon Bonaparte embraced the religion of Abraham in the latter half of 1798, taking Ali as his Muslim name. And, having further recognised the wisdom and superiority of Islamic Jurisprudence, he authorised the translation of the rulings of Imam Malik from the Arabic, and the implementation of it throughout the Empire. So The Code Napoleon, which is universally proclaimed and admired by the likes of Monsieur Pasqua, owes its origins entirely to Europe's Islamic past.<br><br>The Battle of Waterloo was, in fact, a battle of the usurers (represented by Wellington) and the opponents of debt - finance (represented by Napoleon Bonaparte). Unfortunately, the usurers won and wrote their account of history. On the 9th of February 1807, Napoleon had obtained the support of Rabbi David Sinzheim and the Grand Sanhedrin, in issuing a rabbinical Fatwa prohibiting usury. Napoleon clearly understood the root cause of Europe's problem. For, upon being shown a table of interest charges, he reflected for a while and made the following comment:<br><br>"The deadly facts herein revealed, lead me to wonder that this monster, interest, has not devoured the whole human race. It would have done so long ago if bankruptcy and revolutions had not acted as counter poisons." (Lincoln: Money Martyred; Omni Publications 1935). <br><br>Which makes it clear, why he found the liberating theology of Islam so attractive. In one of the most valuable pieces of evidence, attesting to his grasp of the subject, he is reported as having given the following reasons for his love of the Islamic religion. In a recently acquired copy of Bonaparte et l'Islam by Cherfils from the Bibliotheque National De France, we find on pages 105 - 125 the following well kept secret:<br><br>"Moses", Napoleon says, "has revealed the existence of God to his nation, Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent... Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad [re]introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and of Jesus Christ. The Arians and some other sects had disturbed the tranquillity of the East by agitating the question of the 'Father the Son and the Holy Ghost.' Muhammad declared that there was none but one God, who had no father, no son, and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry...<br><br>"The Parthians, the Scythians, the Mongols, and the Tartars and the Turks, had shown generally themselves to be enemies of science and the arts, but this reproach cannot be fastened onto the Arabs, no more than upon Muhammad. The first Omayad Caliph, was a poet and he granted peace to a Rabbi, because he prayed for grace in four beautiful Arabic verses...<br><br>"Al Mansour, Harun al Rashid and Al Mamun cultivated Arts and Sciences. They were fond of literature, chemistry, and mathematics; they lived with savants, caused the Greek and Latin authors, the Illiad, the Odyssey, Euclid, etc., to be translated into Arabic, and founded schools and colleges for medicine, astronomy, and moral science. Ahmed corrected the tables of Ptolemy; Abbas was a distinguished Mathematician; Costa, Alicude, Thabit, and Ahmed measured one degree of meridian from Saana to Kufa. Chemistry, alembics, sun - dials, clocks and numerical signs owe their existence to Arab invention. Nothing is more elegant than their moral tales; their poetry is full of fervour...<br><br>"Muhammad extolled everywhere the savants and such men as devoted themselves to a speculative life and cultivated letters... In the library of Cairo there were 6000 volumes on astronomy, and more than 100,000 on other subjects; in the library of Cordova there were 3,000,000 volumes... Sciences and Arts reigned under the Caliphs and made great progress, which was brought to naught by the Mongols...<br><br>"I hope that the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness..."<br><br>"Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. A society of true Christians would not be a society of men."<br><br>This, of course, all went down like a lead baloon in government, theological, and banking circles of London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna and Rome. Your leading article follows the well established tactic of Ricoldo Cydones, who advised all those involved in the Greco - Roman - Islamic polemic and religious dialogue which originated between the Byzantines and Turks during the Ottoman expansion that:<br><br>"It is always easier to start by attacking the falseness of the Muslim faith than by proving the truth of Christianity ... in controversy with a Muslim. The Muslims are curious to hear something about the faith of the Christians, but the Christians must avoid supplying them with information." <br><br>Your Cecil B. De Millesque reference to "their God", as if "their God" was any other than the same one mentioned in the Bible, continues in this reprehensible tradition, and is again evidence that:<br><br>"Seldom does it occur that the opponents in strife attempt to comprehend or succeed in understanding the position of each other."<br><br>On this particular occasion however, having been born and raised as a Christian, in the West, with a long family tradition in political satire (particularly Napoleonic) going back to at least 1769, I have the advantage of comprehending and understanding both sides of this particular argument very well indeed. Therefore, your mischievous attempt to cast doubt on the fidelity of the Qur'an and its compatibility with previous divine scriptures, will fall on stony ground along with the hopes of evangelical Christians for a reconversion of us back to the Church of Rome or the Church of England, and to "hear us abjure the Muslim God", once again demonstrates the complete ignorance of Who the God of the Muslims actually was and still is.<br><br>To the best of our knowledge, the most ancient recorded Name of God is in Chaldean cuneiform tablets, and it corresponds with Allah's title: Al Alah, The Most High. (Source Scofield Reference Bible). In our prayers as Muslims we state, whilst prostrated: "Subhana Rabi al Ala" i.e, "Glory to my Lord The Most High".<br><br>The Judeo - Christian concept of God, as a Father as opposed to the Creator of man, is based on a false, pagan understanding. Likewise the form Jehovah, on its own, according to the Rev. T. K. Cheyne of Balliol College Oxford, <br><br>"is unhesitatingly to be rejected due to a misunderstanding of comparatively modern origin." [Source - Variorum Teachers Bible, London 188<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 0] --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/alien.gif ALT="0]"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> .<br><br>But the easiest way to demonstrate the fact that the God of The Children of Israel and the Children of Ishmael, and all the Semitic peoples was one and the same, is to read Exodus 18, verses 1 - 27 in the Old Testament. Which, surprisingly, still contains the most damning piece of evidence against the Judeo - Christian polemic, that the God of the Arabs and Islam, was different to the God of Isaac and the Children of Israel.<br><br>If the followers of Judeo - Christianity were seriously wanting to please God, they would take more care in following his Ten Commandments, and the example of His Prophets and Messengers. It is very clear indeed, from Exodus, that Moses, the law - giver to Israel, was married to Zipporah, the Arab daughter of Jethro, the Imam and Judge of the Arab Midianites of northern Arabia, who re - taught Moses his religion and how to administer justice among the Children of Israel: The Qur'anic account is to be found in Surah 28, Verses 22 - 25. Furthermore, the promise in Deuteronomy to Moses, that a prophet like unto him would be raised up amongst his family brethren, like unto him, takes on more meaning when you realise that it literally meant his Arab family brethren. Medina was originally called Yathrib, taking its original name from Sheikh Yethro/Jethro. Muhammad was invited and raised up by the people of Yathrib to rule over them.<br><br>Furthermore, Gershom and Eliezer, the half Arab sons of Moses are listed as Levites, the priestly line of the Israelites, regardless of their mother being a non - Israelite woman. Which should destroy, once and for all, the myth that inheritance and favour was only through the mother. The following extracts establish clearly and unequivocally that The Lord of the Arabs and Israel always was and always will be - Allah.<br><br>"And Moses went out and to meet his [Arab] father- in - law, and did obeisance and kissed him, and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent... And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which The Lord had done to Israel... And Jethro said, blessed be The Lord... Now I know that The Lord is greater than all gods, for in the thing they dealt proudly He was above them... And Jethro, Moses' [Arab] father - in - law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' [Arab] father - in - law before God." (Exodus 18:7 - 12)<br><br>In the Old Testament, the Ten Commandments are mentioned in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. The key commandment is: <br><br>"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." <br><br>In Deuteronomy 6, verse 4 we read: <br><br>"Hear O Israel: The Lord Our God Is One". <br><br>The significance of this Oneness of God is of paramount importance. In Hebrew and its sister language Arabic, which, by the way, has an unbroken pedigree of continuous use: Achad or Ahad signifies an indivisible single entity with no possibility of it representing a triune or multiple godhead.<br><br>Monotheism, by definition, is entirely incompatible with the ideas of Triunity and the Three - ology of the Athanasian creed, which was imposed on the Roman Empire by Constantine at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. Of course, I hear your objections and understand the sense of outrage this iconoclastic view generates. But by what scriptural authority did Constantine overturn the orthodox - unitarian - concept of God?<br><br>Apart from error, continuing to delighting its followers, I suggest, that in order to maintain the status quo, Constantine indulged in what I have come to call generic engineering - all he did was change the name of Mythra, the pagan son of god, into that of Christ, the son of god, and everything in the pagan state remained the same except, of course, the name of the crucified saviour.<br><br>When we take a cold hard look at the facts, we find that the concept of an atoning death for the sins of man is far older than Christianity, and far older than Judaism. For example, we find a curious similarity between all the cults and myths of the ancient world. We also find that for every lie to succeed it must contain an element of truth within it.<br><br>In my book Satanic Voices Ancient & Modern, I have made mention of the glaring similarities between all the redeeming sons of god. For example, if we were living in York or Chester and the date was March the 1st, 50 B.C., we would be preparing for the same Easter festival we have today, following the same Christmas festivities of December 25th. During which time we would have commemorated his birth to a virgin mother in a cave, of one who had 12 disciples; one who was called saviour; one who sometimes figures as a lamb; one whose disciples were initiated through baptism; and one in whose remembrance sacramental feasts were held. The only difference you would notice, if you went back in time, would be his name; for then it was Mythra not Jesus Christ.<br><br>At the time of the appearance of the real Messiah to the lost sheep of the House of Israel: Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, there were temples without end dedicated to redeeming gods like Appolo or Dionysus among the Greeks; Herculese amongst the Romans; Mythra among the Persians - A pre - Christian crucifix was found in County Cork with a Persian inscription on it, dedicated to Mythra; In Syria and Phrygia Attis & Adonis; in Egypt Osiris, Isis and Horus; in ancient Babylon Bel/Baal and Astarte. So you see, my question is - By what authority are we to accept these major departures from orthodox monotheism.<br><br>The recent release of Dead Sea Scroll material confirms the Islamic view of what occurred at the time of Christ and after his alleged crucifixion. Eisenman and Wise have this to say in The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered. Having made mention of Paul's incipient theological approach to the alleged crucifixion of Christ, on which stands the basis of Christian theological understanding of it thereafter, they state on page 10: <br><br>"What we have here is a picture of what Christianity actually was in Palestine. The reader, however, probably will not be able to recognise it because it will seem virtually the opposite of the Christianity with which he or she is familiar." <br><br>On page 234: <br><br>"Paul they considered an apostate from the Law... they are certainly the community that held the memory of James in the highest regard, whereas Paul they considered 'the Enemy', or Anti Christ... Such a stance is not unparalleled in crucial passages from the letter in James' name in the New Testament. We have already shown that this letter, in responding to some adversary who believes that Abraham was justified by faith alone, states that by making himself 'a friend of man', this adversary has turned himself into 'the Enemy of God'. This 'Enemy' terminology is also known in Matt. 13:25 - 40 'parable of the tares', perhaps the only anti - Pauline parable in the Gospels, where an 'Enemy' sows the 'tares' among the good seed...."<br><br>The Gospel of Barnabas opens with a warning that Paul is preaching a most impious doctrine; repudiating the circumcision and other portions of the Covenant between God and Abraham, which Moses came to renew and Christ came to fulfil and announce the coming of the desired prophet, the "Himdah" or "Ahmed" of all nations - Mahmad, Mahamod, and Machammad in Hebrew and MuHaMmad, i.e. Muhammad, in Arabic; the one imbued with the Spirit of Truth; the Comforter - The Periqlyte, or Paraclete. The Old Testament mentions him in the following terms. <br><br>"And the Ahmed of all nations will come" (Haggai, ii.7).<br><br>"And I will shake all nations, and the Himada / Ahmed/ Paraclete of all the nations will come; and I will fill this house with with glory, says the Lord of hosts. Mine is the silver, Mine is the gold, says the Lord of hosts, the glory of My last house shall be greater than of the first one says the Lord of hosts; and in this place I will give Shalom, says the Lord of hosts" (Haggai, ii.7 - 9).<br><br>The Holy Prophet King Solomon names this bringer of Peace / Shalom, as "Muhammadim" the suffix "im" is used to express absolute respect as with the "im" added to "Eloah" to make "Elohim" (Allahumma) which denotes absolute respect for God.<br><br>Muhammadim is usually translated, intentionally or otherwise, as "altogether lovely", in itself not an unfitting tribute to the one who would come and renew Abraham's religion of Peace i.e., Salaam. The Hebrew, transliteration in Roman script from the Song of Solomon is as follows:<br><br>"Hikko Mamittaqim Vikullo MAHAMMADIM<br><br>Zeh Dudi Vezew Raai Benute Yarushalam"<br><br>Meaning:<br><br>"His mouth is most sweet; yet, he is Mohamad, altogether lovely. This is my beloved and this is My friend, o daughter of Jerusalem!"<br><br>As with the rest of Islam's civilising influence on Europe, which, in its pride, Europe finds hard to admit, even grudgingly, Western gratitude, as usual, has a very short shelf - life.<br><br>On the questions of who the real 'terrorists' and 'subversives' are, violent revolution has not only been the opium of 'intellectuals' but of 'bankers' also. Take for example, Montagu Norman, the overt Nazi Governor of the Bank of England, and step - father of Peregrine Worsthorne of Daily Telegraph fame, who went to the elected British Government and instructed them to lend Germany £90 million pounds. He is reported to have said: <br><br>"We may never be paid back, but it will be less loss than the fall of Nazism".<br><br>Many of those who opposed him, were locked up under Regulation 18B, The Defence of the Realm Act, if I may be permitted to say so, a highly illiberal act, worthy of any fundamentalist terrorist state. ... The subversive Nazi Union Banking Corporation was co - founded and sponsored by Prescott Bush's father in law, George Walker in 1924, following a personal agreement between Skull & Bones member Avrell Harriman and Fritz Thyssen in 1922.<br><br>In seizing the property of Prescott Bush, the authorities were, in fact, seizing the property of Fritz Thyssen, the man who boasted in his 1941 book 'I Paid Hitler', that his contributions to Adolph Hitler had begun in October 1923, with the payment of 100,000 marks for his attempted "putsch". One wonders, if French Interior Minister Pasqua is aware of the sinister, enemy within, background of the late husband of America's current Ambassador to France, Mrs. Pamela Digby Avrell Harriman?<br><br>Having become the tools and vassals of rich men, it is evident that the job of today's journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, and to fawn at the foot of Mammon, and sell himself, his country, and his race for his daily bread to those who lend money to the state at interest. <br><br>Yours sincerely, <br><br>Author: David Pidcock<br>Date Published: Jan 1995<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.islamicparty.com/commonsense/14antidote.htm">www.islamicparty.com/comm...tidote.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The New Age: The Coming of Dajjal<br><br>The very first issue of Common Sense was published during the gulf crisis of 1991. In that issue we quoted some apocalyptical Ahadith and linked them to the events that were unfolding before the eyes of the world. Naturally, no - one can be sure that any Hadith about events to come, phrased broadly enough to permit it being swallowed by the prophet's contemporaries, relates to any particular event we witness, until well after it. Yet, what has happened in the gulf, and still continues, seems too big an occasion to having been entirely missed by the messenger of Allah - peace be upon him - when he even foretold occurrences much less significant than these.<br><br>After the conclusion of the gulf war, a reader wrote to us, that considering that all the allied forces returned back home safely, the hadith couldn't have been right. We responded by saying, that if the hadith referred to that event, which we still believe to be the case, it simply meant, the whole thing wasn't over yet. Allah's messenger warned us of a battle over mountains of black gold near the Euphrates which was going to be fought in three distinct stages. Recently, on a Radio 4 news comment following the new military build - up in the region, the "courageous" shelling by America's high - tech forces of a retreating third world army was referred to as the "first gulf war". It is unusual in language to use ordinal numbers for one - off events, so maybe the commentator new better than we do, that there is going to be a "second gulf war" and that the scenario leading up to it is as meticulously planned as previously, the butcher of Baghdad playing the American fiddle as well as the Amir of You-Wait or the King of Saudi - America. The ambitions of Eretz (Greater) Israel stretch from the Nile to the Euphrates, and the politics of the region are of key importance in ushering in the final phase of a one - world government seated in Jerusalem, as predicted by Ben Gurion as far back as 1962, administering total control over a world population kept in chains by economic exploitation, brain - washed by mass media indoctrination, and driven crazy by an abundance of New Age Cults. Hail the coming of Dajjal, the Anti - Christ.<br><br>For those to whom the above statements still sound too phantastic to be true, the October issue of the "Investors Bulletin" published by Bob Beckman holds an even more astonishing surprise when analysing the developments in the Gulf under the heading "Saddam Hussein rides again". The article talks about nuclear proliferation promoted by Moscow to raise the stakes. "The purpose", the article says, would be "the advancement of discussion involving the structures of a World Government." It quotes Russian sources as expecting "an explosion to be detonated in the Spring, so that the terror associated with this 'accident' would be bound to dominate preparations for the subsequent G8 Summit in the following July." This is being corroborated by the following statement of the Soviet dissident Anatoly Golitsyn: "In a different context, the Russians may be expected to provoke an incident unattributable to themselves involving the explosion of a nuclear device somewhere in the West not excluding the United States. The purpose would be to reassert the necessity for the Russian - American partnership now and to create pressure for eventual World Government." We agree with the Investors Bulletin that "the first victim of any military conflict is the truth", and we would extend this to be a valid observation for propaganda wars as well. So whilst we do not want to deliberate on whether America, or Russia plays the tune, or both dance to the tune blown by some forces behind them, the admission that world government is being sought after and that its coming about could be facilitated by the build up of a military threat, makes interesting reading indeed. Turbulent times may well lie ahead.<br><br>Given the impact of those coming tribulations, we decided to take a closer look at the beast of whom all prophets since Noah have warned their people. Although Muslims have the best advance warning system in their scriptures, most of them will, as usual, be caught unawares, because they do not know how to use it. In the days of the prophet, peace be upon him, knowledge meant applied knowledge, and great victories were won, because of the wisdom to make the right connections and take appropriate action. Today, knowledge, even for Muslims, is understood to be contained in a certificate by which some raise themselves over others, and wisdom has been replaced by vanity and self - centredness. "Religion" has been separated from most spheres of life (and reflecting on world politics the way we do may well be considered haram by some...); the treasures inherited from those before us have been made inaccessible and irrelevant through narrow definitions and childish interpretations; self - glorification, rivalry and petty - mindedness prevent us from tackling even the most simple issues in hand. The Muslims thus dismembered will continue to impress each other with horror - stories about the giant who walks across the sea whilst the water hardly reaches his ankles, the Arabic words "kafir" (disbeliever) clearly written over his forehead, yet they will trod ignorantly behind him without recognising him for what he is; they will boast about how to deal with the disbelievers, basking themselves in the glory of Muslim conquests, whilst we are driven out from every corner of the world; they will preach an Islam so uncompromising and regulated that it will drive even the most kind - hearted and open - minded away; and they will endlessly strive to make a little bit more money out of a system they loudly denounce as corrupt and of the devil's making when in the privacy of their four walls. Mahdis appear by the dozen, everybody wants to be a Caliph, but nobody wants to go out of their way to seriously and responsibly address a situation that has deteriorated for far, far too long. It is easy to denounce and demolish, but difficult to plan and build. Muslims of today are known to prefer doing things the easy way.<br><br>Who then is the Dajjal? What are we to do, to avoid his curse? There are no easy answers, but we shall try, as always at the risk of being dismissed as unorthodox or even cranky, to separate superstition from fact, to hold up the mirror, even though the image may be painful to behold, to interpret the trends that continue around us regardless of whether we care to acknowledge them or not, to warn of the consequences of ignorance and indifference, and to point to where we must begin if we want to remedy our current state of affairs. We know that common sense is rare, and expect no miracles. We simply stand to be counted.<br><br>Author: Islamic Party of Britain<br>Date Published: Jan 1995<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.islamicparty.com/commonsense/14antidote.htm">www.islamicparty.com/comm...tidote.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Dajjal - Myth & Reality<br>                <br>Whilst Gog and Magog are mentioned twice in the Qur'an, the Dajjal has no direct mention. This is extraordinary, given the assertion of the prophet, peace be upon him, that there is no more significant matter between the creation of Adam and the last hour than the Dajjal.<br><br>People reading or listening to traditional descriptions of Dajjal, the anti-Christ, may be forgiven for considering him to be a character of fiction. He is of an enormous size, travels at the speed of the clouds blown by the wind on a donkey, the distance between his ears being 40 arm spans, the deep sea only reaches up to his ankle, he has with him a mountain of bread and rivers, and works amazing miracles. He has been around since the prophet's days, tied in iron chains on an island in the sea which is populated by spies. When he is let loose, time will become short and the ground will shrink.<br><br>This myth of a giant, however, is probably the reason that so many ahadith about him survived to the present day. Acquainted with the workings of modern technology, we are able to appreciate that the abilities of this superhuman creature are due to the equipment at his disposal. We have witnessed car and plane travel, we see images from across the world beamed into our living rooms via television, we use mobile telephones to keep in touch with people in the remotest corners of the world. We can understand how somebody can be in many places at once, listen to what happens at different locations in the earth, travel at speed and show us water you cannot taste and fire that does not burn you. To people before us, anybody accomplishing such tasks, must have been a magical being. Our unforgivable mistake is, that we love to hold on to the magic like a fairy tale from childhood which we can't let go of.<br><br>If we are talking about Dajjal, representing a system of disbelief clearly visible to anybody as such, be he literate or not, irrespective of the fact that it is being proclaimed in the name of trinitarian Christianity, then this Dajjal is alive and kicking amongst us, no longer tied down since he mastered the art of using iron, throwing off his chains and restrictions, making everything fancy from computer hardware to destructive weapons. He is one-eyed, materialistic, deprived of spirituality, his promised paradise is hell and his hell is paradise, and he is followed by an army of Jews, women and bedouins. He controls the resources of the world through his interest banking system, and has indeed mountains of bread, and people will suffer hunger unless they follow him. Whilst the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, would have argued with him on our behalf, were he still around, now everybody will have to argue with him on his own behalf.<br><br>Yet, Dajjal, the system, is not sufficient an explanation for all the descriptions given of him in the prophetic traditions. Many of them speak of Dajjal as an ordinary, short man of Jewish extraction (like Ibn Sayyad), with curly and coarse hair and a beak of a nose, and biting teeth. He commands armies and, ultimately, he will be slain. Dajjal the person is the leader who will ultimately lead the forces of evil on this earth, the system of Dajjal. He belongs to the one-world government of the brutish ruler of the empire succeeding the Romans, he will desire Madinah, but it will be out of reach for him. He will land at a place near Madinah, to the east, which could well be Kuwait, but he will be diverted north, to the region of al-Sham, that is Syria, (or possibly Iraq?) where he will be destroyed. He will emerge after fierce battles As-Sufyani (the Brute) will have with the Muslims, marked by hitherto unknown destructiveness. The fight will be over mountains of (black) gold near the Euphrates. The Muslims will be the loosers, but those who are sincere amongst them will eventually unite under the banner of al-Mahdi who will come from Madinah and will be given allegiance in Makkah, although he'd rather escape that responsibility, which rules out any of those who wish to be known as candidates for being the Mahdi. Finally, 'Isa bin Maryam, the real Christ, will return and put an end to Dajjal and his machinations.<br><br>Muslims should take the warnings about the Dajjal seriously. We should watch the "peace process" in Palestine and the military intimidation in Arabia with close concern. A shift to unified world government (under American UN leadership directed from Tel Aviv) might not be too far off any more. Bar coding, cable and satellite communications, computer networking, international monetary control, and endless other innovations of our times have put almost complete control at the disposal of the future head of the Dajjal system. Scientists still try to master the art of thought reading and mind control, but even without those techniques the word freedom has a more and more hollow sound. The fiction of Orwell's 1984 has long since been outdone by the facts. Soon this new Messiah will draw people around the globe into a mass hypnosis for his latest fashion new age cult. We must retain our critical faculties, and as always with dissent, in a dictatorial system, there is a price to be paid. Patiently holding on to one's beliefs, and acting upon them, will be like holding a burning coal in one's hands. Yet, this is bliss, as not to do so and to acquiesce into injustice and oppression out of fear of falling into the hell the Dajjal has in store for his opponents, means to deny the truth, belie humanity, and earn eternal condemnation. Worse still, to be so busy in petty pursuits and endless squabbles amongst each other, that we fail to notice altogether that we are being taken for a ride. <br><br>Author: Islamic Party of Britain<br>Date Published: Jan 1995<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.islamicparty.com/commonsense/14antidote.htm">www.islamicparty.com/comm...tidote.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>Some interesting articles I came across today. Thought I'd throw them in the mix. See what you make of them. There's a few more if you follow the links. <p></p><i></i>