Now the thing is this - even Steve Bannon, the strident supporter of the new Right in the USA, and even after 9/11 and a series of wars in the Middle East, which at least on a certain level are virtual wars of religious ideology - even Bannon never wanted such a crass step to be taken as the 're-writing' of the Quran. In fact he has been at pains, to state categorically that all religious faiths and practices are free to exist in all advanced Western democracies.
The BBC recently suggested the Turkish people were using their traditional 'Turkish Kolonya' to kill the coronavirus. |
It is necessary and vital for informed debate to have authentic sources of originating fact, available to anyone who wants to critique some belief or ideology, and from which basis those who have the capability of defending their position and their beliefs and practices are then able to mount a rational defense, if that's what they wish to do.
But in all events, human societies are formed culturally over thousands of years, not over a few decades of some lunatic dictator's reign over people.
In today's world we have several examples of 'ignorant fanatic religions' one of which is Chinese Communism, and another of which is modern 'science...' Science was originally the idea that you questioned what you didn't actually know, and then you even continued questioning albeit perhaps less vigorously, what you maintained that you did 'know' and added any new available information, until the functional usefulness of that 'knowledge' was refined to its maximum capacity. And it was also continually tested, monitored, modified according to feedback results.
Actual Turkish 'Rose-Amber' Kolonya; the other pic was a Florentine line of similar items. |
But now, there is a politicized form of science, whose principal characteristic is shouting down anything and anyone who wishes to question whatever particular science manifesto is being touted at any given moment. It has its own 'Allah Kalam' intellectual angle of moment, as it were.
If science existed in a vacuum of intellectualizing, which explained the Universe, then things might not be so dramatic. But science exists among numerous other systems of' understanding' at least one of which certainly does say that time is fluid enough at 'the axis' such that human beings can see into the past as well as the future. 'The axis' is a concept that appears in the music of Jimi Hendrix, by the way, and you would indeed wonder how he got hold of such ideas at all.
The following is a very anti-'Sunni Islam' piece of poetry and music and should not be watched by good Sunni Muslims - however perhaps Emperor Xi can re-write it to be more palatable (advise you watch the whole thing, even though it starts slowly):
The music was beautiful as was the video. The singer's voice is stunning even if I can't understand a word of it. Very soothing but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get from it...or maybe soothing is the point I admit I'm a simple guy.
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ReplyDelete(The previous deletions were just on account of typographical errors). A lot of people have supposed that some of the West and the US military has some kind of natural antipathy towards, Islam; they don't. We are about to find that the single biggest supporters of people's right to have a religion (or not have one) is the current White House administration, not the mullahs in Iran. This article was headed about 'Xi,' not about Muslims or Islam, and that is because Xi just tried to alter the text of the Quran - in fact he DID do it and forced his version to be used inside Communist China by the Muslims there. This is not something the media has widely reported. But Xi has been very active against the West as well, in ways that are as 'in your face' as what he did to the Muslims inside Communist China, but we don't get told about it. Even if I blurted it out here, it probably would be laughed at. Next article will be a link to Steve Bannon saying what I just said. ...As for the music above, it was a Hindu singer, singing with some Pakistani Muslims, singing a fairly anti-Sunni Muslim verse (because the writers of these verses in the music don't accept that anyone other than 'Ali' should have been custodian of the Quran, consequently most Sufis and some Shi'ia hold that the Quran as found today is a large-scale fabrication -, which is an anathema to Sunnis), inside a Christian church, using typical modern classical and jazz instruments and format mingled with traditional local instruments, mostly played by Sunni Muslims, while the singer performs a Sufi mystical dance. The fact that the 'axis' in such Sufi dances represents direct contact with the Vedic 'Shiva' probably heaps more coals onto the fire here! Oh you understood it perfectly - you said 'beautiful,' and 'stunning.' When the Hebrew priests do their main rituals calling down the 'glory of the Adonnai' - as I proposed in the immediate last article - you see the same trance effect with the participants. Cynics say 'enhanced arousal.' But you said 'beautiful,' and 'stunning.' ...Just wait till I post up some stuff about the 'enhanced arousal' path that procures WEALTH. I'll have to look around and find it, now where is it...
ReplyDeleteI guess I did understand. As far as the enhanced arousal path to wealth...that would be nice and hopefully your readers will benefit. I may not. War is in the wind and I'm just not built for that. I sense my city in Canada may be hit very hard.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why a political ideology automatically draws a pass when it cloaks itself in the guise of a religion. Theologies that would be condemned as Fascist if they were political ideologies are given legitimacy because the theology/ideology is said to stem from a god. I don't get it.
ReplyDeleteFor one thing, there is a lot of sheer ignorance involved - if you are for example looking at Islam: NO 'wider-world' Muslims speak or read Arabic as genuine Arabic linguists and they are simply not aware of either the actual language in which the Koran was written (which is EXTREMELY RUDE AND CRUDE and not anything at all like the present-day versions even the book NOW called OFFICIALLY 'the Quran' produced by the KSA), or its background - for example, people are almost NEVER told of the officially 'authentic and strong' hadiths in which Muhammad himself believed and said directly that he was possessed by Satan when he first encountered the being that told him to 'Iqrah!' ('Recite'), but his wife then told him it was probably an angel and that he was a prophet... Well what gave her the authority to say such a thing? You will NEVER get an answer about that from today's 'scholars.'' And that is because the situation is hidden by the politico-religious leaders. There is so much hidden and obscured and omitted about virtually all of these religions that what common people 'believe' is terribly flawed; common state-allowed religions ARE secular political tools. Let's place that firmly at least.
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