” For one who acknowledges that Gambia and Gambian fora
are not significant in determining policy, you seem to be spending an
awful lot of time trying to defend the indefensible.”
I was responding to some of the anti-Semitic and downright racist anti-Zionist
articles that you have been posting fiti-fata, these past twenty four hours all
to prove that you are “more sober and sophisticated than the half-baked
….and can see through the mistruths, half-truths” etc.
You posted these.
1. FWD: Palestine & Israel: Know and Understand The Facts And Decide For
Yourself
2 FWD: 'Israel's Right To Exist': Is It A Real Issue?
3. FWD: The Occupation Of Palestine
4. FWD: 'Wiped off the Map' ? The Rumor of the Century
5. FWD: Palestine: Israeli Killing Fields
6. FWD: Israel's Right To Be Racist
7. FWD: Compassionate Oppression: Subjugating Your Inferiors With A Human
Touch
8. Fwd: Holocaust Museum: Israeli Holocaust Against Arabs
9. FWD: Zionism and the Media
10. FWD: Zionism as a Racist Ideology
11. FWD: A Review Of The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine By Ilan Pappe
12. FWD: UN RESOFWD: Various Articles On The Farce Of Israeli Democracy
13. FWD: Various Articles On The Farce Of Israeli Democracy
14. FWD: Answering Zionist Propaganda
You are all very important as people, most of you are Muslims, and I have
nothing against that.
I have not been trying to defend anything.
I have posted some links and you may believe what you want.
I don’t know whether answering your twenty questions will make any
difference, but please give me some time to think about it, and I will try to
answer them in my own personal way.
Of course, you know that avoidable or unavoidable human suffering and
tragedy causes much pain to all of us. The daily carnage that we witness on
TV, from Iraq, sometimes I wonder if we are still human beings.
(Have you tried to obtain Saudi citizenship yet?)
I could ask you twenty easy questions, but you don’t have to convince me
about anything. I am not easily convinced and if you are destined to follow the
prophet Moses, so be it, if not it doesn’t mean that you are going to go – to
hell.
I CAN TELL YOU THIS: THAT SINCE Israel’s “Independence day” 59 years ago,
ISRAEL HAS NOT KNOWN A SINGLE DAY OF PEACE.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA
It’s akin to the period 610-623 of Islam. You could say that the whole period
during which the Islamic revelation took place, was during a state of
emergency.
There has been much more bloodshed among and between Muslims since that
time, though not on the scale of the 2nd World War bloodshed was
concentrated within six years.
Militarism is therefore an ideal that Muslims follow, with the Prophet of Islam
(S. A. W.) and Imam Ali (A.S.) as role model and this overemphasis on Jihad
etc and Palestinians unwillingness to negotiate is what puzzles me.
I find it a little disturbing, that the military agenda is at the top of Muslim’s
political agenda…. And oh yes, the Shia have also suffered very much…. As
you well know.
The year was 1987, and this was my first Sufi Teacher and this is how I met
him: I was once sitting with some Gambian friends. One of them was lamenting
something – and BLACK is my weakness.
There and then, I counted the sum of eight thousand Kronor and handed it
over to him as a loan. He needed the money. Later on, when I asked him for it,
he told me to get out” did we sign any paper etc.
In the first week of Ramadan, I was reading the Qur'an and came to the
section where it said that if someone owes you some money, give him more
time to pay it, but it would be even better, if you waived it as Sadaka, and I
did just that. I wrote a letter to this my Gambian friend, and told him that this
was Ramadan sadaka from me to him.
Immediately after that, I was impelled to go to Vattumannen Bookshop -
three minute walk from where I lived, and there I bought, “In the Paradise of
the Sufis” by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh. When I got home, I opened the book, on
the first page or so, saw an address, and phone number. (Of course, I thought
that Dr. Nurbakhsh the author was in Iran. I called the London Branch
number, and was told that Dr. Nurbakhsh was not at home, and could I call
the Khaniqah, later. I did so half an hour later and talked to Dr. Nurbakhsh I
think that it was on a Monday, and he said that I could see him on
Wednesday, in London.
After I put down the phone. I danced - I mean DANCED and cried for half an
hour.
I was there on Wednesday, popped in to see my mother at Edgware, and
stayed with her that week.
Within fifteen months I went so see Dr. Nurbaksh eight nine times – eight
times in London and once in Cologne, Germany when he invited me to the
opening of the Khaniqah there.
But that was just the beginning of something and I tell you this (it’s not a
secret) because I want you to understand that I am not some unfeeling brute
who wants to slaughter any Muslim heaven forbid, or Palestinian, but in a
them or US situation what do you do?
http://www.google.se/search?
hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBR_enSE222SE222&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&
q=DR.+Nurbakhsh+on+LOVE
So, sabre, please, my Judaism puts a lot of emphasis on CHESED, perhaps my
greatest weakness and with that too, I will try to answer your questions.
Much love,
Cornelius
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