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  • buzz 4:32 pm on September 24, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: armageddon, dajjal, evil, Obama Biden, ,   

    This one has it all: presidential symbolism, satanic plot, sufi armageddon…

    Darkness and Light; the Caliphate of Barack Obama and the Judas of Islam (bin Laden)

    As all who know the Sharia law any child born of a Muslim father is Muslim; thus in the technical sense of the word Barack Obama might be considered the Envoy of the Hidden One; but since I represent this Hidden One as the Child of the Unity I would counsel those who are unreflective to see Osama bin Laden as the Antichrist: the diametric opposite of Barack Obama is then the “Man of Lawlessness”; the Global Terrorist.

    continues…

     

    • shams 5:15 pm on September 24, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Sufi armageddon? I skimmed it and I see nothing.
      That was a trick to make me read that crapfest, wasn’t it?

      • Buzz 5:20 pm on September 24, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Thus it not so much the Lawless Act of the Lawless One; but that he considers himself to be God; thus he is conjoined to a State of “fana” in which he believes he is but the “hand” or “extension” of Allah on earth; namely; the Sword of Allah itself.

        Those of the West are blinded by the “Smoke” of the ad-Dajjal; as Shakyh Hisham Kabbani so wisely reveals in his book “The Approach of Armageddon?”; they cannot “see” the Antichrist because they would have to then admit that the Last Day is indeed here; for St. Paul definitively states that once the Antichrist is revealed the End of Day of Christ is here; and indeed it is the Last Day which comes as a Thief in the Night; but it is Night from the Smoke of the ad-Dajjal; such is his sorcery.

        It is this dark magic that the Christians in the West cannot even see who he truly is: and it is this which is the “Earthquake” that

        Kabbani

        speaks about in his book; the one that comesto all in the West when the Lightning from the East reaches them: the Last Day is indeed here; and Osama bin Laden is the Judas of Islam; the Global Cain: the Islamic murderer of his Christian Brother.

        • Buzz 5:23 pm on September 24, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          I should not have said, “Sufi Armageddon.” I should say “Sufi Armageddon?”

        • shams 5:31 pm on September 24, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          one badly translated arabic word does not an armageddon make.

    • ibn sadiq 9:37 pm on September 24, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      lol @ sham… i read it too looking for the sufi link (then read ur respons and laughed)

  • thabet 4:42 am on August 23, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: evil, good, human behaviour, , saints   

    Comment is free has a series of posts on whether we need modern days saints.

    What do readers of Talk Islam think?

     

    • plimfix 6:23 am on August 23, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I know a Saint. She’s a working class Christian, a spinster, and she has adopted 3 children with special needs. The youngest is Muslim and the whole family now eat halal. She’s a kind mother, but strict. She respects people who are either informed or competent, but she’s no fear of authority, and is one of the most straight talking people I’ve ever met. I don’t think people like this are uncommon. They look and sound nothing like what most people imagine saints to be. They just do what needs to be done, quietly and selflessly. God bless ‘em all!

      • null 6:36 am on August 23, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        That made me smile.

      • Naila 1:46 pm on August 23, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        plimfix: this is off topic but your avatar drives me nuts. Is that the monster from the movie Predator? Cause that’s what I see (ink blot test, here I come). Seriously, if it is, like, a photo of your mom or something, please don’t be mad at me…I seriously cannot figure it out, and I cannot click on it to make it bigger and it is making me bonkers.

        I love Predator, btw, for what it is worth.

      • thabet 12:09 am on August 24, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Yes, I have had the same experience with Christian neighbours in the past.

        Imho, a true saint would be someone who doesn’t trumpet their goodness and godliness on a constant basis.

        Howeber, a popular saint our day and age of 24 hour rolling news, celebrity worship and consumerism would probably morph into another media image.

    • Crabby 5:38 pm on August 23, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I think the topic of sainthood is interesting for one of the reason that saints are suggested to be able to initiate divine intervention. I think people use saints as their moral & religious proxy, which is why I like this quote from Sirajudin Abbasi, “If you revere them as saints, you will benefit from their sainthood; but if you work with them as associates, you will benefit from their company.”

      How and where can a good man/woman be found?

  • aziz 2:14 pm on November 3, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: evil, , ,   

    Subhuman animals. I lost my cool last night… If only my vocabulary of maledictions was a bit less mundane, I could have really let loose. I certainly didn’t go far enough.

    I’m hoping Obama is far more interventionalist-minded than his comments on Pakistan indicate.

     

    • Fatemeh 2:33 pm on November 3, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      This broke my heart just as much as this. May Allah give these women peace and justice.

    • aziz 2:35 pm on November 3, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    • razib 10:41 pm on November 3, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      yeah, my rxn too….

    • fathima 7:22 pm on November 4, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      i subscribe to sasialist, a mailing list devoted to South Asian lit (anyone else?). some weeks ago someone sent out the link to Mohja Kahf’s article, “The Upside of Being a Muslim Woman,” and basically said the article was bullshit, because there could be no upside to wearing the hijab, since it is an expression of and justification for patriarchy.
      and while i found Kahf’s article superficial, i felt compelled to respond because a couple of points in that poster’s email irritated me(eg, all hijabis look the same).
      anyway, that was a while back, but today, under that same thread, that same poster linked to this story and wrote,
      “i don’t care what kind of rationalizations muslim women make about such oppression, be it wearing a burkha or chiffon hijab or confessing to adultery laws under sharia, if they claim that that if women can voluntarily practice these laws made to keep women down and quiet then somehow they become free women, then i call them not only delusional but collaborators.”

      and i got so tired, that where ordinarily i might have responded i just deleted the thread.
      this young girl’s murder is an instance of the innate capacity in humans for great evil. i don’t think we as people turn to religion or other sociocultural frameworks to excuse our evil, only to vindicate it after the fact.
      but to be accused in one fell swoop of being a collaborator in something i cannot even begin to conceive … this triggered a different, perhaps more selfish, kind of tiredness, on top of the first more existential kind.

    • aziz 9:17 pm on November 4, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      fathima, there’s actually a term for this – Bateson’s Double-Bind. I should write about this…

    • fathima 12:15 am on November 6, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      oh wow, thanks for linking that up, aziz. please do write about it. having it articulated it would go some ways to helping surmount the circularity of this il/logic.

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