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THE DEMISE OF LOGIC, SANITY AND INNOCENCE – PART 2
October /14/2007……SCROLL BELOW

THE DEMISE OF LOGIC, SANITY AND INNOCENCE — PART 1
June /22/2007 ….. SCROLL BELOW

O JUSTICE, JUSTICE, WHEREFORE ART THOU
March /30/2007….…SCROLL BELOW

ISLAM’S SILENT PAST
January /9/2006……SCROLL BELOW

GEORGE W.’S CALL OF DESPERATION
October /4/2006…….SCROLL BELOW

WHOSE PEACE WILL PREVAIL
July /12/2006…… SCROLL BELOW

WHO WILL TEACH THE WHITE .HOUSE SOME CORE.VALUES
June /2/2006…….. SCROLL BELOW

THE WAR TO STOP IS THE NEXT ONE
.May /18/2006…… SCROLL BELOW

ONLY HUMANS DISTORT THE TRUTH
March /23/2006……SCROLL BELOW

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AMERICAN WAYS
February /5/2006…..SEE ARCHIVES

GEORGE THE BRASH HEARTED
November /4/2005…SEE ARCHIVES

THE WARRING OF GEORGE W. BUSH
August /14/2005… SEE ARCHIVES

BEYOND THE BUSH AGENDA
June /16/2005…….. SEE ARCHIVES

THE REAL HOAX OF GEORGE W. BUSH
June /4/2005…………SEE ARCHIVES

A POPE FOR LIFE
April /25/2005……….SEE ARCHIVES

WHERE REASONS FAIL
December /5/2004 …SEE ARCHIVES

LOOMING DISASTER
October /10/2004……SEE ARCHIVES

GEORGE W. THE CHRISTIAN APPRENTICE
September /29/2004 SEE ARCHIVES

THE ARABIAN KNIGHTS
August /16/2004…… SEE ARCHIVES

Recent years have taught us a great deal concerning the seasoning that can be cultivated within the meaning of words, in particular words that have been used by this administration to promote its agenda, while purporting to provide up front truth for the matter under review. The word “Victory” comes to mind along with its mirror image “Mission Accomplished”, words which were punctuated by the infamous and absurd farce of this President masquerading as a fighter pilot while emerging triumphantly from a passenger seat. It was not, however, totally illogical to use the word Victory in that context, since there was the appearance of a victorious military conclusion in the classic sense of the word, though far from the absolute Victories achieved by Generals MacArthur or Eisenhower.

Years have elapsed since the carrier embarrassment and the word Victory nevertheless continues to be uttered as if it had not been used in the first instance. We are therefore compelled to assume that, having previously achieved victory, the war we are now fighting must be a new undeclared war, one that began seamlessly as the original was being presumptuously terminated.

Logic might suggest to the White House occupants and their many compliable Senators that, for historical purposes, the current conflict in Iraq cannot have victory as its objective, since that has already been certified. A new desirable objective should now logically be targeted, a word more in keeping with current conditions, a word that is seldom heard in the White House, and that word is PEACE. This word, regretfully, was assumed by the White House intellectually sterile proponents of war to be an automatic reward for victory, while forgetting or ignoring potential recriminations based on the legendary actions of the invaded French in World War II, with an underground movement known as “La Resistance”.

It has become increasingly evident to a strong majority of caring people that the inevitable process for peace in Iraq is to get the uninvited mercenaries and their accompanying armies out of the cities and off the streets and highways, as a preliminary step to getting back to their homes and families where they belong, and let some of the world’s oldest societies find their own ways to deal with their problems which have plagued them off and on for close to fourteen hundred years. These problems will not be solved by the administration’s retinue of successive imperious generals and bands of undisciplined enforcers.

Even in a civil war, the militant factions of Iraq would be unlikely to be the cause of more deaths in the future than have been directly or indirectly caused by Americans to date. One thing is clear. The Iraqi could do no worse than we have been shown by the imported brains that have supervised the creation of the current insanity, and we ask, where is the logic in expecting that the willing perpetrators of such an incomprehensible disaster could possibly find sufficient resolve and wisdom to contain this inferno, which they have themselves kindled and fanned to ashes?


In 1789 a Second Amendment was added to the U.S. constitution after considerable debate and fine-tuning. The context of the times was that the leaders of the individual States realized that a strong central government was essential to the peaceful governance of this newly formed nation, and it needed to be supported by a strong military. Each State then had its own “Militia” which was a cross between the State police of today and the National Guard, and problems kept flaring up between States though kept reasonably in check. It was agreed to form a strong military backed central Government and the second amendment was enacted for the express purpose of ensuring that each State would maintain its legal right to defend its territory against a possible intrusion by any radicalized future central government. It reads as follows:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

That is all of it. There is nothing else. The Gun addicted aficionados of the U.S., ably supported by the gun Barons who make them and their well-heeled lobbyists and scruple-less lawyers, have for years read and interpreted the words of the Second Amendment in a manner clearly unlike the meaning and intent of the legislators. These warped minds specifically dispel the comma after the word “State” and substitute a period for their purposes, hoping that no one will notice, and ignoring grammatical correctness, they then read this amendment as having two separate sentences, but that is not how it was written or intended. They further interpret the words,” the right of the people” as the right of citizens or the right of individuals or the right of people, which is false. “The People” is a term universally recognized as denoting an assembly of persons, of individuals, in a common cause or regulated assembly, and that was the intent.

What was surely not the amendment’s intent was to give individuals the right to play a “defensive” role against a central government, as was the case in the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, and the attempts on Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, or for that matter the elimination of individuals of any age that they do not agree with. Nothing in the amendment prevents today’s legislators from ruling on any conditions to be imposed on citizens to possess arms, or the types, of arms that can be sold to them.

Legislators are motivated in a number of ways: Election concerns, political affiliation, social and moral conscience, religious concerns, personal gain, intimidation and gutlessness. We will leave it to readers to select the reasons why their legislators have avoided their obligation for the strengthening of gun regulations in the face of the growing evidence of its urgency.

The world may eventually come to a sordid end, but there is every reason to believe that humans will be spared the experience since all human life may by then have self-exterminated carrying with it much of animal life as well. For billions of years earth has managed to survive, while passing through assorted whims of nature and supporting and destroying many of life’s numerous experiments, but man has seriously interfered with nature’s normalcy and we are beginning to see and live the dawning of earth’s ominous response.

We have taken from the earth its combustible materials and consciously transformed them into poisonous polluting gasses, which have risen to the top of the world and hang above us as a modern day “Sword of Damocles”. We have compromised our breath of life and created a fatal imbalance in the higher reaches of earth’s atmospheric protective shield, and humanity’s penalty may render redundant its historical tradition of massive self-mutilation.

Coal is the major atmospheric pollutant, but since its use is utilitarian and it is under industrial control, there is little that individual users can contribute. Gasoline is the next prime offender representing 20% of all oil production usage worldwide with jet fuel accounting for another 5%. Of the 85 million barrels of oil produced daily in the world, 21 million are used in the United States, incredibly, a number which equals the next 6 users combined, and 45% of the U.S. oil is converted into gasoline, the second most dominant source of atmospheric pollution. These disproportionate figures indicate that close to half the earth’s atmospheric pollution through the burning of gasoline, originates in the U.S. but in this case, some self-satisfying options are available to caring and conscientious citizens.

It is simplistically evident that automobiles of lesser weight can operate with smaller engines and thereby consume less carburant. Logic in this case hits an impenetrable wall. The American notorious obsession with anything that is bigger and stronger found willing allies in the U.S. auto industry and unwavering support in the oil industry whose executives have their own lockers at the White House. By common consent gas-guzzlers became the “vehicle du jour”, and any young man who did not conform had better possess other attributes to confirm his masculinity.

Avoiding an overflow of technical details we would however make the point that the truck industry benefits from the development of automatic transmissions with up to 20 speeds, which makes it possible to propel a mastodonic vehicle at extended highway speeds, using engines barely larger than that of a high-end American sedan or SUV. Logic would suggest that considerable reduction in the use of petrol could be realized by the use of small engines coupled to a transmission with a much greater number of speeds, without reducing the American buyer’s cherished size preference. It is a compromise surely worthy of a trial.

Recently, a small step was taken by raising the available speeds to 6 in some cars, but before rejoicing at these companies’ newly found sense of responsibility, it should be noted that even these cars are being tuned and marketed for greater performance with no compromise on power, and not for any improved gas mileage. Currently America uses 21 million barrels of oil per day but produces barely 9 million. The reduction of this oil dependency factor, is a most desirable political objective for the U.S. and this plan could potentially close the gap by perhaps 4 million barrels a day, and coupled with important planned production increases in the friendly confines of the Alberta tar sands, it is conceivable that the U.S. could close in on oil independence, while simultaneously advancing the environmental cause.

Paul Forest
Polforest@aol.com
Polforest.blog.com

Logic as a science has its roots in the early history of some founding types of societies such as India, China and Greece but there really wasn’t that much to be logical about in those early times. If you knew how to build a building that stood still for a while or were able to reason with people without starting a war, that was about as good as you would need.

Medieval thinkers tried to ratchet it up a notch and left us with a large number of books to read, few of which can be of much help today in avoiding daily aggravations and tribulations. We now navigate in a world strewn with the need to arrive at quick and firm decisions concerning a vast array of problems and concerns, including our own daily survival and pleasures.

Early in life, bambinos rationalize that mamma is the soft touch when there is a need or a desire, and dad must be listened to because he is bigger than everyone else, and has a big voice. This is natural, practical logic, a kind of street logic in a way, but it is really the only logic we really need. Academic logic tells us that if x occurs, then expect y to follow, and financial analysts do their thing on companies they know, and then conclude that this stock should be bought because their logic suggests that it should rise in value, but it doesn’t always, as we all know. Logic is probably the most worthy of all human mental attributes, but it is however highly suspect when it emerges from the minds and emotions of subjective people, the requirement of objectivity being an essential ingredient.

Consistent deviants from straight and true logic impart the appearance of having a serious sanity problem, as they distort logic in such a manner as to create for others an impression of perverse rationalization, or so it appears to people whose logic always seems to lead to the right answers. Other participants in this expose of mind orientations are the people who seldom engage in logical rationalization, having adopted an attitude of “what will be, will be”, and are content to “ride with the flow” in an area which is often referred to as the “moderate middle”, where the innocents of the world seek safe harbor.

When rationalizing this subject matter, the disappearance of logic, sanity and innocence from our society’s fiber, we naturally look for explicit examples of their being AWOL, particularly in areas where it is considered important for logic to be ingrained, and this leads us to consider the vagaries of everybody’s friend, Gunk Gonzales, the esteemed Attorney General. We have here a man who is totally devoid of integrity values, a factor most appreciated by G.W. Bush, and logic leads us to ask ourselves whether the cart in this case is not preceding the horse.

Whose agenda is being followed in domestic matters and why? It seems fairly evident that the Administration’s policies point to a strong pro illegal immigration bias along a wide front, with little consideration given to the American people’s stated preferences. Are these the policies of an American President or are they being generated by this sick mind whose genealogy is deeply rooted in the offending side? Could it be that G.W.’s self-declared legendary loyalty to his long term associates has more to do with the knowledge that they possess concerning his own tainted past? There is a word for that isn’t there? Is this idle speculation or is it instead a very logical perception? “Gonzo” has been part of G.W. Bush’s shadow for 14 years and knows intimately every fine details of every nefarious scheme that has lodged in the perverse brain of a man who has cross-pollinated deceit over the greater part of the world. Rummaging through our observations concerning this godforsaken administration, we have to ponder:” Where is the sanity? Where is the innocence?”

For those of us who believe that there is a God and that includes almost everyone that has lived, as we seek to reach out to him we have been conditioned to believe that this cannot be achieved directly, that we must use the good offices of a Religion, an organization exclusively dedicated to this purpose. They in turn, most often rely on a single individual, a prophet, who has claimed a personal relationship with God or his favorite Angel, and is therefore ably suited to intervene on their own as well as our behalf.

Though clear logic is difficult to locate in the foregoing, we are expected to overcome our apprehensions and enter a special dimension called “Faith”, a mental state where strong beliefs are based on the absence of evidence. Individuals who are tempted to apply rules of logic may do so by reducing the number of blind faiths involved, from 3 to 1, and believe firmly and directly in a God to whom they can in fact attribute characteristics of their choosing. They may even adopt a new identity as “Disciples of God” and I am sure that God himself will genuinely appreciate the personal touch.

The Catholic Church is well intentioned and in the annals of history, no other organization has been more beneficial to human kind. However, there seems to be a serious problem in reconciling logic with dogma. Their prophet, the peace advocate champion of all times, a man that saw good in poverty and condemned the proud, the wealthy and the hypocrites, this universal idol is served by Catholic leaders, in a resplendent aura of pomp, pageantry and massive wealth. Where did their prophet’s innocence disappear?

Islam is much more faithful to its original precepts, which from the outset were based on militancy, war, pillage and mass assassinations, while creating by conquest the most extensive military dominance known to man. In fact the original leaders of Islam themselves were not spared from this carnage. All of this we know through their own scribes, who, incredible as this may sound, began writing the sacred books of Islam 200 years after their prophet had died. They artfully clarify that thousands of the prophet’s followers and their descendants, during that period of time, memorized the exact words which the Jewish Angel Gabriel had apparently recited to their prophet, who could barely read or write, and whose words were secretarially transcribed by his friends, companions and followers. These revelations it is stated, were written on whatever was convenient at the time, specific mention being made in the scriptures to “papyrus, flat stones, palm leaves, shoulder blades and ribs of animals, pieces of leather and wooden boards.”

Though this may appear to be barren of logic, it takes on a different perspective when we appreciate that the original scribes now call themselves Muslim Priests, Clerics, Mullahs, Imams and Ayatollahs, and, through self-serving rules of their own creation, dominate through fear a quarter of the world’s population, most of whom would prefer, by their nature, to be peaceful and law abiding.

The American governance heritage was originally crafted in a wizardry created to resist all intrusions into its sanctity, and simply named “Checks and Balances. It was intended to have 3 main independent powers: Executive, Legislative and Judicial, but the ultimate trump card was given to the people whose unalienable right it is to possess and use weapons, should it become necessary to discourage a Government’s kidnapping of their liberties. Simple and logical right? Well not necessarily. Though not mentioned specifically as a condition for continued employment, it was assumed that all elected Presidents would heartily embrace the Constitution and its intent. It was not foreseen that one day a President would surround himself with a brood of shadowy knaves bent like himself on the recreation of the Constitution. The checks and balances however were designed to prevent such a blasphemy, right? The Legislative Branch will uphold the sanctity of the Constitution and people’s rights will triumph. Good logical deduction but in practice, the legislative majority had turned in their brains and conscience in exchange for a rubber stamp, prioritizing their political Party’s agenda over the Constitution of the United States.

The Constitutional Fathers apparently had not anticipated that loyalty to a political party would emerge as the overall dominant force, and that it would allow a single being, a President to steam roll an entire country, overpowering legislative bodies comprised of 535 elected representative, who would otherwise have been expected to act honestly, within the limitations of their brains and consciences.

The solution to this insanity can easily be found with simple logic. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate are sorely lacking in Independent minds, elected members who are not blindly tied to a political party, or for that matter to any single political philosophy. Independent Congressmen and Senators possessing clear autonomous minds and consciences might be expected to act for the benefit of the people on each and every issue, and that apparently is beyond logical expectations from members of either political party. These Independents, without collective pre-arrangements, would nevertheless hold the balance of power, and perhaps cause the reinstatement of the power to the people.

In the next scheduled election, it appears inevitable that a President will be chosen from the ranks of a political party, but it would be a Godsend if at least 50 totally independent house representatives were elected, and as many Senators as possible, thereby aborting dictatorial powers from either side. In this manner would not the American people themselves fill an obvious void in the Checks and Balance blueprint? Inevitably, the merry go round will otherwise continue its dizzying course, and with all due respect to the great Kate Smith, the words to her legendary rendition could then possibly be changed to: “God Save America”
Paul Forest
Polforest@aol.com
Polforest.blog.com

Surprisingly however, through the miracles provided by oversimplification, we have succeeded in isolating some elements of justice whose presence has contributed considerably in tipping the scale of justice to the positive side. In simple terms, Justice must be objective and never personal. It should be applied evenly and unsparingly as one would apply a coat of paint, and its application must take whatever time may be needed to cover all flaws.

Justice does not always triumph, and in fact in the minds of opposing parties involved in justice proceedings, justice is most often considered to have failed by half of the people concerned. Justice is not likely to ever become an absolute, but if it did, that fact would become self-evident, as all Supreme Court decisions would then necessarily be unanimous.

Occurrences of individual injustices, painful as they can be to innocent victims, pale into insignificance however when compared to the appalling injustices that have been perpetrated historically on massive segments of the many societies of the world, and continue to desecrate our moral fibers today.

Dominant among these is the “Plight” of Women, a word that has long been linked to women in the universal game of word association. Following our in-depth cursory study of all significant factors relative to this issue, we have concluded that nature, is the prime cause for most problems besetting women.

The Gene Creator of the universe, whom we all recognize as the creator of nature as well as the universe, had devised a master plan for human kind, which was based on people of the female gender being given the power of propagating human generations, and the responsibility of caring for them individually in their formative years.

To aid in accomplishing these tasks the creator had provided the female with a superior intellect, and had designed a male companion giving him a fleeting role in procreation and assigning him the responsibility of protecting the female, and providing her and their offspring’s with necessities for human survival. It was not believed that these male tasks required an inordinate amount of intelligence and the male was therefore conceived accordingly, but was given considerably more corpulence to better carry out his assigned duties.

Thus began the world’s most lasting injustice, pinning the mainly physical half of the world’s population against the generally intellectual half. Unable to understand or accept his destiny, and unresponsive to anything but physical values, the males undertook to employ their physical attributes in competitive clashes among themselves, and females became the original collateral casualties of all times.

Even today ancient societies fail to provide equal status for women and this is amply illustrated by practices within the two main religions of the world, which are dominated by pretentious male egocentrics who cannot accept that their given attributes, from their God, their right to rule and command, are due exclusively to their physical strength as a society group, and in no way reflects particularly noteworthy intellectual or spiritual values.

Outright slavery, ranks second as a world class mass injustice, and given the self evident great accomplishments of African descendants living today in modern societies, it is clear that, there as well, brute force was again the medium through which that injustice was blatantly perpetrated. There is undoubtedly a pattern which clearly indicates that injustice and superior force are close allies, a conclusion which is amply demonstrated in most areas where circumstances point to a need for justice.

Are wars ever just? During WW2 it is estimated that over 60 million human lives were taken of which close to half were Soviet. Were these casualties fully justified by pseudo-Aryan pride and Japanese territorial ambitions? In both cases years of preparation had contributed to Germany and Japan believing in their own invincibility. The madness of power and injustice had prevailed.

The current conflict in Iraq is a model of injustice. Led by an intellectually strained President whom nature unjustly deprived of integrity, the world’s most dominant nation attacked a small country 8000 miles away from their shores, masking their true intentions of establishing their control over one of the world’s oil rich geographies. Though overtly intent on displacing a malevolent dictator, they saturated the country with violence, destroyed civilian infrastructures, and caused the death of over 50,000 people, few of which were military.

Meanwhile, back on the farm, hordes of invaders were allowed to stream unharmed into their country, and the population’s job providing sector was allowed to seep out to other countries so that corporations could be more generous to their shareholders.

G. W. Bush, an errant accident of nature, does not appear to have ever applied the scales of justice to any of his decisions and he will emerge in history as one of the most flagrant abusers of justice to have ever marred this earth.

Perhaps little can be more revolting than a crooked judge, or prosecutor, the expected level of integrity related to those responsibilities defying gravity. A country’s top law enforcer should be expected to effectively maintain a standard of integrity even beyond theirs, but no one appears to have informed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales of these basic requirements. Enough is being said currently concerning his woes, but if anyone wishes to go beyond current news, a reading of Wikipedia’s article “Alberto Gonzales” paragraph “War on terror” would confirm their darkest apprehensions.

The cold war is also a case in point. It may be argued that the US, in view of their strong economy, was stronger militarily than the Soviet Union, but since each had attained a saturation point as to their potential for the extinction of the human race, peace and justice prevailed, and a tolerant friendship ensued. There was not the margin of superiority on either side needed to justify undertaking an unjust war adventure.

Deceit and injustice are partners in crime and are not always self-evident but often raise questions:

Do G.W. Bush and conspirators have a covert agenda in support of a dominant class, while attempting to subjugate the working class?

Was the Iraq war partly the result of a needed re-tooling of the U.S. military apparatus?

Was Tony Blair aware of the nuclear device story fabrication from the outset?

Did the Iraq war spending result in the largest graft fraud of all times?

Was justice respected when the prosecutorial powers in the Hussein trial removed the trial judge as being too accommodating to the defendant?

Were the sacred scriptures of Islam really the words of the great prophet Mohammad, though unwritten till 200 years following his passing?

Should steroid pumping athletes not be sued for damages by honest athletes who have been unjustly deprived of their rightful monetary rewards?

Did G.W. Bush ever consider taking his troops out of Iraq or was his real intent always to station an army in this oil rich area, indefinitely?

These possibilities are but a few examples of where deceit may lie, there are many more, and they illustrate that most deceits and injustices are created by perpetrators who enjoy a position of strength and responsibility, factors which provide irresistible temptations to demagogues wrongdoers, and criminals.

The greater mass injustices of our present times, are easily identified and it is clear that the oppressed are the meek and vulnerable. It is also clear that the world powers who have claimed to represent decency, have never taken action against oppressors till a considerable amount of blood had flowed in the streets, as can attest Kosovo, Rwanda and Darfur. If, as we surmise, injustices in the form of sectarian or racial murders and genocide require that one side be militarily dominant, then let the so called power brokers of peace at a very early stage prove their all-out military support for the weaker side and thereby create a power balance in the area and possibly prevent a calamity before it even begins.

Paul Forest

PolForest@aol.com

The rest of the civilized world was relatively peaceful at that time, most nations in an expanded Middle-Eastern region being otherwise in a state of recovery from tumultuous centuries of conflict between the rival Byzantine and Persian empires, and what better time to launch a successful invasion of surrounding nations. Thus was born the great Arabian and Moorish empire.

The wars up to that period of time, all appeared to have strong religious overtones as the rulers had found it appropriate to share the responsibilities of justice and governance with their own God, whose characteristics they created to suit their own purposes. Constantinople and Adarshir adopted the doctrines of Manichean and Zoroastrian, but they stopped short of the earlier pretenses of Caesar and Alexander the Great who self-proclaimed themselves as Gods.

These were religions of acts, the Gods and leaders of those days being apparently satisfied with overt expressions of devotion such as the worshipping of idols, the sacrificing of animals and humans, the burning of incense, prostration, genuflexion, bowing and other traditional acts of devotion. Then evolved the concept of religions of thought, and thus was born Christianity.

Mohammad prior to establishing himself as a spiritual and sectarian leader at the age of forty, had traveled to and resided in the western part of the Middle East, was aware of their religions, their history and their cultures, and was therefore able to identify and assemble the elements most likely to assure success in the great enterprise which he and his “companions” were meditating for the future. They would combine the time proven course of God assisted governing and related social behavior, and enhance it to its ultimate potential with a plethora of specific beliefs, deemed to have found their origin with a till then unknown God, whose language of expression was, providentially, the one used in that region at that time. Thus were born the foundations of Islam, the principle documents known as the Koran (The words of Allah) the Sunnah (the words of Mohammad), the Haddith (oral accounts) and the works of biographers and historians Sira, Bukhari, Muslim and Tabari.

Belief in the absolute validity of Islam scriptures requires unhindered faith, which is only possible in the minds of a totally committed devotee. Independent scholars when undertaking a study on the origin of the Islamic documents and the circumstances of their creation, cannot avoid realizing that there are elements in the transmission of this knowledge which make it almost impossible for a logical and objective mind to accept at face value, the accuracy or perhaps even the authenticity of the scriptures. Of course many poeple have a similar view of the Old Testament as well.

Islam believes that the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mohammad and recited to him while in seclusion, revelations that are claimed to be the exact words of God himself. These were dictated in the Arabic dialect used exclusively by the Quraish tribe of Mecca of that time.

Mohammad could barely read or write, and verbally repeated these revelations to “companions”, who were numerous, but most likely also marginally literate.

The revelations were written on whatever was convenient, specific mention being made in the scriptures to “papyrus, flat stones, palm leaves, shoulder blades and ribs of animals, pieces of leather and wooden boards.” Mohammad’s “Companions” undertook it appears to memorize these revelations word for word and little effort was made to assemble or organize them till 30 years after Mohammad’s death. The recounting of that period’s history as it is affirmed today, including the biography of Mohammad, was not undertaken till 200 years following Mohammad’s death. The extent of the claimed Koranic revelations can be estimated by the size of their translation into the English language, which approximates 150,000 words.

No less than 23 of the personalities incorporated in the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Bible, are recognized as prophets in their own rights in the Koran, the appropriate historical notes and anecdotes concerning each, being also present in the Koran, with minor variations. The similarities between the Tanakh, the Bible and the Koran are explained as having been issued of a common divine source, the Christian or Jewish texts being separate authentic divine revelations provided to their prophets as well.

We are told that each prophet, with the exception of Muhammad, was sent to convey God’s message to a specific group or communities. Muhammad’s message however is the only one specifically destined for the whole of mankind and it was God’s will that he would be the last prophet the world would ever know.

We are therefore compelled to believe that extensive and complex writings which were provided verbally in an obscure language and are the equivalent of a 150,000 word book, were committed to memory for 30 years by an unknown number of partly literate people before being scripted provisionally for posterity.

There are schools of thought that see Mohammad, as a successful Arab merchant and formidable speaker, who gathered many followers, referred to as “companions. Mohammad they say became a kind of persona about whom legends are created, and these were initially made real over time by more literate groups of future generations of writers and scribes, who had no personal knowledge as points of reference.

Mohammad’s biography and the history of his times were effectively written 200 years later in the Sira, and it tells us that Mohammad became an outstanding General, and that in fact his troops initially financed by its conquests, were successfully involved in 26 battles during a period of 7 years between years 623 and 630. Abu Bakr his constant companion and successor, continued this mission, and he and other successors were subsequently engaged in more than 55 battles on their way to conquering a large part of the “civilized” world.

As we study the history and precepts of Fundamental Islamic Clerics over the years,we are struck by the absence of processes that could lead to peaceful conversions of non-Muslims, but we do find an abundance of threats of death, and other forms of violence, when Allah is not promptly accepted as their God. The words of Tabari IX:69 “We fight people until they believe in Allah”, though one of the scripture’s shorter sentences reflects much of the overall philosophy of Islam.

There are indications that Mohammad was immersed in self-doubt. He is said to have destroyed many revelations, which in his view may have originated from the devil pretending to be the Angel Gabriel. He admonished his “companions” for noting his sayings, and it is thought that he ordered the burning of many early revelations.

A change of direction to Mohammad’s original intent may have occured when more militaristic “companions” took over the reins of the Muslim movement in the earliest stages perhaps even during Mohammad’s lifetime, and years later authored a complete rewriting and editing of the Koran, with the intent of redirecting Mohammad’s original purpose to a path of violence, and conquests, that being their own agenda. Thus were born the evils of Al Qaeda which have been kept alive for fourteen centuries by fundamentalist Clerics and their restrictive authoritarian heritage which has provided all the excuses needed to justify the killing of innocents.

It follows that the writings of Islam, were scripted after the death of Mohammad, and were therefore never read to him or approved by him, and they appear to be the work of generations of his followers, who subjectively and progressively over centuries wrote texts designed to fulfill their own agenda of world dominance, total control of their adherent’s lives, and the subservience of women. A reading of the Sharia section in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is required reading for any curious mind not familiar with the extent of the control being exacted by fundamentalist Clerics, particularly as it concerns the physically weaker gender.

It is the prevailing purpose of the Islam originator’s legatees, today’s Fundamentalist Clerics, to maintain this status quo indefinitely by any means possible including deaths, violence and of course their main weapon, fear, fear of fanatic fundamentalists and fear of God. There can be no improvement to this world problem till the Muslin Moderates overcome their fear of their Fundamentalist brothers and find a way to clearly distance themselves from them in a tangible and visible manner, for the whole world to appreciate.

Allah, God, Jehovah, the one Creator by any name, surely does not wish to dismantle that which he has miraculously assembled, nor could he or the Prophet Mohammad, possibly approve of those who presume to destroy any of his human creations said to be in his image. If not under God’s authority, or Mohammad’s, for whose benefit are the current acts of violence and self-immolation being perpetrated?

Paul Forest
PolForest@aol.com

“Hello Ehud, its me..George ..yeah the President.. right.. of the United States heh.. heh. I wanted to give you a call on a new idea I’ve had simmering around in my brains, since we had our get-together last may.. you remember? heh.. heh.. and its something that I can’t discuss with too many people, not even Condi and Dick, so I would be much obliged if you could keep this quiet for now .. No one’s written anything for me on this, like the stuff that I read at my news conferences, so I’m gonna try to explain this as well as I can without any help from nobody.”

“Ya.. Laura is fine.. and the children too.. growing up and staying out of the newspapers, as far as I know.. I don’t read newspapers much you know.. very depressing.”

Paul Forest

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Did he know that Islam, not England, not France, not Russia, Germany, or China, Islam was the most successful conqueror in the history of the world, its conquests extending from Spain to China? . Did he know that at that time Baghdad was the original base of early Islam? Did he really believe that a culture with such a length of heritage would convert to his incredibly shallow values?

War, of course, is the peace terminator, that everyone instantly distinguishes from peace when the thought of one or the other occupies our minds. There is no middle ground. When the U.S. and the Soviet Union were building and accumulating incredible arsenals of weaponry in anticipation of having to destroy each other and the world 100 times over, during that 44 year period known as the cold war, in actual fact there was no war.

That was a time of peace, costly peace but nevertheless each side had leaders that recognized the consequences of starting a war that could bring about the end of civilization. Anyone who believes in God should perhaps say a silent prayer of thanks that George W. Bush did not sit in the White House during those years.

The U.S.A. entered this century with a strong record of dedication to the cause of peace and in the wars in which they involved themselves, they are deemed to have carried the baton of peace for all freedom loving countries. It is very unfortunate that such an enviable record, unique in history, should now be desecrated, perhaps beyond decontamination, by a President that is unknowingly deprived of wisdom and who wages war like a barnyard rooster protects his harem. Meanwhile the United Nations, starving for a more forceful leadership, has dishonored itself for its lack of meaningful and immediate action to the plight of the vulnerable people of the world. Was it not originally created specifically for that purpose?

The disruption of peace historically, has been a ponderous affair requiring long periods of preparation before evolving into endless wars. There was traditionally, a strange reluctance on the part of potential defenders of peace, in realizing the imminence of conflict and this was specifically reflected at Pearl Harbor, in Poland and New York. This is probably the reason why today, with the awesome development of weapons of mass destruction, the opposite may have become reality, and some Governments are suffering from chronic fear inflammations due to the real possibility of a mass carnage as yet never seen before.

Though much has been written concerning the nuclear ambitions of Iran, an immediate danger lies in waiting in the vaults of North Korea whose leader may suddenly decide that Islamic terrorists should have the right to at least one of his nuclear weapons.

Would these committed terrorists make use of these weapons, and why are these firebrand religionists giving up their own lives to kill unknown enemies? Why are they intent on killing masses of strangers in New York, Spain, London and now India? It is because they have been told that this is what Allah himself expects of them, and no understanding of this “war” is possible without an objective study of their scriptures.

“Muhammad’s Own Words” by author Craig Winn (http://www.prophetofdoom.net/quotes.aspx?g=405) carries a large number of quotations all of which are referred to in the sacred scriptures of Islam: the Qur’an, Sira, Ta’rikh, and Hadith. These are organized in 32 groups for easy reference. The author, in fairness, points out that he compiled these quotes placing his emphasis on Mohammad’s apparent violent rejection of all that is non-Muslim.

It should be appreciated that each quotation is accompanied by an international Arabic Scriptures code, and the placing of those codes in a Google search window between quotation marks, clearly shows that these are universally recognized quotations. They were neither created nor manipulated by the author.

Some of these quotes read as follows:

Qur’an:9:5 :

“Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive,

harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”

Muslim:C40B20N4676 :

“Jihad Is Compulsory.”

Tabari IX:113

“Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an.”

Bukhari:V3B48N826

“The Prophet said, ‘Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a

man?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.’”

Ishaq:316

“Following Badr, Muhammad sent a number of raiders with orders to capture some of the Meccans and burn them alive.”

These are but a few of the many such thoughts carried in the Muhammad’s Own Words site. The reading of this collection of quotes by non-Muslims, gives rise to considerable peace deprivation on the part of those of us described as infidels and unbelievers, since these thoughts, which even today are considered to be decrees from Allah continue to be promoted by Clerics with a fanatical bent towards radicalism.

The most supportive pro- Muslim scripture scholars are in agreement, that Mohammad could neither read nor write, and that these monumental scripture are at best the result of word of mouth being carried for two centuries, prior to being written in an obscure language of the times.

Potentially this leads to a reasonable possibility that Muhammad was unquestionably a fervent devotee of Allah, who sought and obtained guidance from Him, perhaps even in states of trances as is claimed, and the violence found in the scriptures may have originated in large measure, from the Islamic leaders in centuries that followed, in their quest for world political dominance through military action. The Islamic terrorists of today, would then be responding to the words of centuries old Religious leaders, rather than words that belonged to Mohammad or Allah.

Modern Muslim clerics by association are considered by many of their followers to be in-line legatees in their Prophet’s mission in fact Shiite Imams are deemed to speak for God in any new precept, which they may pronounce as a supplement to existing Islamic law or moral dogma. If the Clerics’ teachings today are from the words attributed to Muhammad, and they are creating a new violent generation of hate-filled young Muslim, all non-Muslims of the world are fully justified in being wary of Muslims that overtly cling to traditional attributes directly related to their religion, its precepts and presumably its most horrid commandments, all the while enjoying the worldly benefits available in a westernized society.

All the nations of the world, all the cultures of the world, all the religions of the world, have in their midst a percentage of their people who genetically or for any other reasons, adopt a life of crime, of violence, generally a natural tendency towards anti-social behavior. Studies suggest that a figure of 10% of overall populations may be a reasonably estimate of people naturally prone to violence and crime. It follows that 90% of the world’s population whether In Europe, Asia, the Americas, or whether they are, Christians, Muslims or Buddhist, are normal, sensitive, peaceful individuals by nature, and only 10% are not.

The Catholic Church has its mafia, despite generating the most peaceful of religious messages. Islam’s natural militants, no more prevalent than in other sectarian groups, are however immersed as children in violent thoughts attributed to Mohammad, that they are selectively obligated to memorize. Peace should not be a primary factor at this time since it is unattainable.

The White House, having opted for an overall policy of threats and intimidation, there is no solid ground from which a political peace process can be seriously entertained. A stable status quo is perhaps the best possible foreseeable scenario but the longer-term future for these totally discordant Western and Islamic cultures must be consolidated from a firmer base than presently exists.

It is possible that God’s judgment concerning each individual may have as a major determinant, people’s own deeds and thoughts towards each other? Could everyone be held accountable for acts that may have prevented God and them from enjoying peace within their souls? If this is so, for those who in this manner may have disturbed the peace of God, where will they find peace?

Whose peace will prevail in the end? It will not be Islamic, since too many of the words attributed to Mohammad tell us that peace was never part of the agenda, nor can it originate from George W. Bush and his bad angels, who believe that peace without victory is an admission of defeat.

t will be God’s peace, one way or another……

Paul Forest

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“God take revenge on the Americans and those who brought them here. They have no regard for our lives.” Those are the heart wrenching words of a brother whose sister has just been gunned down by trigger-happy young Marines in Samara, while she was racing towards her maternity hospital. For how many people is he speaking? Millions? Billions?

The youthful soldiers’ excuse is that he told them to stop and they didn’t. Where did such a war philosophy ferment itself? What heedless minds are responsible for programming the captive brains of these delusional combatants, and now indicate that they will teach them “Core Warrior Values”? Have none of them ever read books other than high school required reading, which would perhaps have described for them the atrocities of Ancient Warriors? Is the word soldier insufficient to relate to what is now but a complex policing operation? Is the choice of that word a further gaffe for a Military that is becoming legendary in this area?

Few people would doubt, that if this administration’s sole objective had been to surgically remove Saddam Hussein, as George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. asserted, the Iraq war would have received much support from many Arab states. The appearance is, however, that despite the U.S. air strike success in Kosovo, the Bush Administration nurtured a hidden agenda that required massive deployment of occupation forces, and the establishment of a loyal and friendly new controlling block in Iraq. This machination by an oil-impregnated administration was conceived as a manner of controlling a sufficient amount of world oil reserves, for the U.S. to be itself an influential factor in the world price for oil.

Paul Forest

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The truth of the matter is that lying is here to stay, and prosper. Though lying of itself seldom provides a discernable sensation or feeling of pleasure and satisfaction, its results when coupled with a reasonable degree of expertise are likely to exceed any possible measure of success to be expected from overt truthfulness, a great virtue which it is said provides its own reward, and sacrifices

The main catalyst and justification for lying is the golden rule of survival: “The end justifies the means”, and it often begins at a very tender age. It is said that some two-year-old children, after creating an unannounced mess on the floor, carpet, or even closer to home, try to attribute responsibility to a conveniently present brother or sister.

Paul Forest