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"People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! " Islam… a religion of peace? | The Culture of Islam – Francisco Gil-White
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"Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be opened only for holy warriors!
There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and hadiths [sayings of Muhammad, the founder of Islam] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim."[4]
— Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
THE CULTURE OF ISLAM
An HIR Series
Historical and Investigative Research – 10 January 2007
by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/islam/culture01.htm
1 The Religion Peace
What, exactly, is 'moderate Islam'?
"Earlier this month [December 2006] during his visit to Istanbul, [Pope] Benedict [XVI] backed Turkey's admission into the EU, prayed toward Mecca in a mosque, and called Islam 'a religion of peace, tolerance, and love.'"[1]
Pope Benedict XVI prays barefoot at the Blue Mosque
Introduction ___________
For those not familiar with him, Pope Benedict XVI, who calls Islam a "religion of peace, tolerance, and love" (see above quote), is the head of the Catholic Church, a worldwide and influential religious institution. The Catholic Church is not a Muslim sect, and the popes of the medieval past — who in fact referred to Muslims as 'heathens' and 'infidels' — would have called Benedict an 'anti-Christ' (an agent of 'Satan') and burned him alive at the stake for praying in a mosque toward Mecca while functioning as a priest of the Church.
Some things have obviously changed in the Catholic Church.
One might say that the Catholic Church is joining the spirit of the times, because Pope Benedict's assessment of Islam is very common in the Western mass media. This admits of a simple statistical demonstration. On 7 January 2007, I asked the Lexis-Nexis database to give me all appearances, just in the major Western newspapers it archives, of the word 'Islam' within 10 words of the phrase 'religion of peace,' and it returned 738 results. By contrast, when I asked for all appearances in the same database of the word 'Islam' within 10 words of 'religion of war' I got only 66 results. This means that Westerners hear in the mainstream mass media that Islam is a 'religion of peace' more than 11 times more often than they hear the opposite argument. (And many of those 66 results, I must point out, were about how specific individuals got in trouble for saying that Islam was a 'religion of war,' so the true ratio is arguably higher.)
If we accept the common media representation of Islam, then those Muslims who quite obviously and openly preach war cannot be true or orthodox Muslims (despite the fact that they seem quite numerous), and therefore some qualifier will be needed to label their movements. Thus, we often encounter the terms 'fundamentalist Islam,' 'radical Islam,' 'Islamo-fascism,' 'Islamism,' and 'Islamist terrorism' when the media makes reference to warlike Muslim movements. By logical necessity, under this interpretation, the term 'moderate Islam' will refer to those Muslims who adhere to the traditional, orthodox, and true nature of Islam, which in this view is peace.
Should we rush to accept this common media representation of Islam, now pushed also by the head of the Catholic Church?
I think that might be rash. Although Pope Benedict XVI is certainly entitled to his own opinion, he is not a Muslim cleric or scholar. So before we commit ourselves to an interpretation it is probably wise at least to consult the recognized Muslim authorities on what the mission of Islam is supposed to be. If the interpretation of Muslim authorities agrees with Pope Benedict, very well. But if it doesn't, it would be absurd to privilege the views of the Catholic Pope over the views of those who have defined Islam for millions of Muslims throughout the ages.
The first thing I will do is contrast the modern media interpretation of the word jihad, the central concept in Islam, with that of a famous 20th century Muslim cleric and scholar. Then I will look at the views of medieval Muslim clerics and scholars, and finally at the views of modern Muslims whom the Western mass media loudly calls 'moderates.'
Table of Contents ( hyperlinked < )
< Introduction (above)
< The meaning of jihad in the modern media, against that of a prominent 20th c. Muslim cleric and scholar
< Medieval Islam and its understanding of jihad
< According to Western officials and the mainstream mass media, what is a modern 'moderate Muslim'?
< Do genuine 'moderate Muslims' exist? ___________________________________________________________
The meaning of jihad in the modern media, against that of a prominent 20th c. Muslim cleric and scholar ______________________________________
What does the word jihad mean? These days it is common for the mass media to present us with Muslims who defend the view that jihad — which is commonly translated as 'holy war' — can have many different meanings, and that its primary meaning has nothing to do with violence (naturally because Islam is 'the religion of peace'). For example, Riaz Hassan, writing in the South China Morning Post, explains:
"…jihad can be viewed as a revolutionary process in stages, proceeding from the spiritual to the temporal realm of politics. This interpretation is counter to the prevailing conception in the West… which views jihad in terms of destruction and suffering inflicted by religious fanatics on civilian populations."[2]
In other words, Hassan is saying that only Muslim "religious fanatics" will use the word jihad to mean 'terrorism': "destruction and suffering inflicted…on civilian populations." According to him, the word really has, primarily, a "spiritual" interpretation.
Western public figures routinely endorse such arguments. For example, in 1993, in a speech at the Sheldonian Theater in Oxford, where Charles the Prince of Wales is a patron of the Center for Islamic Studies, the future King of England said that "The guiding principle and spirit of Islamic law, taken straight from the Qur'an, should be those of equity and compassion."[2a] Strong stuff. Immediately after the terrorist attacks in New York on 11 September 2001, which US president George W. Bush attributed to a self-consciously Muslim terrorist organization, "President Bush join[ed American] Muslim leaders… to defend Islam as a religion of peace, not terrorism."[3] Prince Charles and President Bush obviously agree with Riaz Hassan that any Muslim giving Islam's central concept, jihad, a terrorist interpretation is a "religious fanatic," not a mainstream, orthodox Muslim.
It is true that Bush made his statement surrounded by American Muslim leaders, but in the United States Islam is a minority religion, and in the context of a terrorist attack for which a self-consciously Muslim terrorist was taking responsibility, it was obviously politic for American Muslim leaders to agree publicly with Bush. It will be instructive, therefore, to see what a Muslim cleric and scholar in a majority Muslim country says about Islam. I turn, therefore, to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led the creation of an Islamic Republic in Iran in 1979. On this very question of whether Islam is a religion of peace, Khomeini expressed himself with great clarity in a speech entitled Islam is not a Religion of Pacifists, as follows:
"Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be opened only for holy warriors!
It would appear that, concerning the nature of Islam, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini disagrees with the head of the Catholic Church, the future King of England, and the President of the United States. Benedict XVI says that Islam is "a religion of peace, tolerance, and love"; Prince Charles, claiming the authority of the Qur'an, says that Islam is about "equity and compassion"; and George Bush "defend[ed] Islam as a religion of peace, not terrorism." But Khomeini 1) called Islam a religion of war, 2) he called for killing "all the unbelievers," and 3) he was a major sponsor of terrorism around the world. Of course, Khomeini has been called a 'fundamentalist,' a 'fanatic,' a 'radical,' and an 'Islamist,' which is supposed to mean that he does not represent mainstream orthodox Islam. However, it is worth pointing out that unlike Pope Benedict, Prince Charles, or President Bush, who are not even Muslims, Khomeini was a widely respected cleric and scholar within Islam. And it is worth noting also that Khomeini bases his views on the Qur'an and the sayings of Muhammad.
In order to establish whether Khomeini was inside or outside what has traditionally been the Muslim mainstream, I shall now turn to the views of medieval Islamic scholars and see whether they are any different from Khomeini's. Then I will examine the views of modern Muslim authorities whom Western officials and the Western mass media have gone out of their way to praise as great 'moderates,' and again test to see whether their views are at all different from Khomeini's. Done with that, I will examine how much room there is for interpreting Muhammad's legacy in order to produce that phenomenon we keep hearing about: 'moderate Islam.'
Medieval Islam and its understanding of jihad _______________________________________
Medieval Islam, like modern Islam, was not a monolithic religion: there were sharp controversies, and different scholars defended contrasting views on many different points. I make this clear at the outset because whenever one talks about religion accusations easily fly that one has 'painted with a broad brush' and ignored the ideological diversity. And sure enough, this sometimes happens. We must indeed be fair to the various views within Islam, but we must also recognize that in a book-based religion the sacred texts will tether the debates around a center of gravity. By measuring the distance that separates the various disputants we can identify the point around which they all circle, thus recognizing the ideological diversity but characterizing also the broad agreement that keeps the disputants in the same intellectual community.
I will examine the views of Abū Muhammad 'Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'īd ibn Hazm (or Ibn Hazm, for mercy's sake), relying on the French scholar Roger Arnaldez, who wrote in 1962 an article entitled Holy War According to Ibn Hazm of Córdoba, where he examines the medieval jurist's views on the topic of jihad as expressed in his Kittab al-Muhalla.[5] I have chosen Ibn Hazm because he was 1) from a wealthy and politically powerful family in Muslim Córdoba (Spain), 2) advisor to the caliphs of the imperial Ummayad dynasty in the 12 century, and 3) one of the most prolific and influential theorists in Islam. Ibn Hazm was mainstream. Another reason is that Ibn Hazm sought to write a polemic attacking the controversies that existed within Islam in his time. Arnaldez explains that in his writings Ibn Hazm expresses "profound disgust" for the Muslim society in which he lives; his "purpose [is to] jolt and rouse a Muslim community that he considers to have fallen completely into religious decadence."[6] The mistaken interpretations of other Muslim scholars were, in his view, responsible for the sad state of Muslim society, and Ibn Hazm worked hard to refute these rival views. So by examining his writings we can see what distance separated his views from those of his opponents, and in this way identify the intellectual center of gravity of medieval Islamic civilization.
In order to follow Roger Arnaldez my readers should know that Islam traditionally divides the world into two regions, Dar al Islam, and Dar al Harb. The first means the 'House of Islam': the region where Muslims are a majority and politically dominant; the second, revealingly, means the 'House of War': the rest of the world, where Muslims are not yet dominant.
What did Ibn Hazm think of jihad? "As for holy war," Arnaldez explains, "it is clear that we do not find in Ibn Hazm's writings any attempt to spiritualize the notion. For him, the jihad remains essentially a war waged with arms…"[7] Summarizing Ibn Hazm's philosophy, Arnaldez says:
"Jihad is an obligation incumbent upon all Muslims. But when some of them fulfill it, drive back the enemy and bring war (gazwa) to his home territory, when they defend the frontier towns, the others are relieved of this obligation… Nevertheless, in the case of an emergency, every believer who has no serious impediment can be called up to fight. The Muslim in the Dar al Harb who receives orders to fight must obey, unless he has a valid excuse. Ibn Hazm does not mean that the Muslims, even those who are in fact relieved of the obligation, should dissociate themselves from the jihad on the pretext that it is not a personal requirement in the highest degree (fard 'ayn). The texts that he cites are typical of his concern for keeping [all] the believers [whether or not directly involved in killing infidels] involved. The Qur'an, in many verses, insists on this duty: Offer your help, whether you have little or much weight, wage jihad by enlisting your property and your persons. Now, Ibn Hazm says that this is a 'general' command, since there is no one who is not 'either light or heavy.' According to one hadith, 'he who dies without having waged war (wa lam yagzu), or without having harbored the hope of doing so (wa lam yuhaddith bihl nafsahu), dies in a sort of hypocrisy.' According to another, the Prophet [Muhammad] declared: 'No abandonment [of the cause] after victory, but jihad and steadfast resolve (niyya). And if you are called, come to their aid.' It seems therefore, that besides the war, strictly speaking, there is something like a permanent psychological preparedness for war. In this latent form, the jihad must not cease."[8]
In other words, for Ibn Hazm jihad is much more than armed combat against infidels to expand the frontiers of Dar al Islam; jihad is the total contribution that every Muslim makes all the time, in every way possible (excepting occasional valid excuses) toward the success of the permanent war waged on the line dividing Dar al Islam from Dar al Harb. Arnaldez cites what Ibn Hazm — basing himself on the hadiths and the Qur'an — considers the Islamic obligations incumbent on non-combatants, and then makes the following comment: "This text is interesting because it shows the antiquity of a very broad concept of the jihad, which consists of making a fundamental commitment to obey God in everything."[9] The point of obeying God in everything is to maximize the probability of success for armed combat on the frontiers of Islam: one's whole life must be oriented toward this goal. As the scholar Jacques Ellul once observed, "jihad is an institution and not an event — that is, it is part of the normal functioning of the Muslim world."[10]
The key point is this: in the context of what he writes, if Ibn Hazm was "profoundly disgusted" with the Islamic society of his times, then he was upset that Muslims were going soft, distracting themselves from their supreme obligation: war. Since Ibn Hazm was influential, it follows that in medieval Islam moderation was perceived to be heterodox, producing in reaction authoritative accusations of betrayal of Islam.
But Arnaldez explains that for Ibn Hazm "it is not enough to be a mercenary run amok to enter Paradise."[11] The Muslim jurist took pains to clarify how a good Muslim wages jihad, by following the law in everything even as he kills the infidel.
Against those who say that if two Muslims face three or more of the enemy it is legal for them to flee (but not before), Ibn Hazm demonstrates, with asperity, that the Qur'anic verse on which his opponents base their affirmation has been interpreted in a frankly absurd pseudo-literal manner. Islam does not specify any number. The Muslim must always err on the side of attack even when the enemy's strength is far superior, retreating only when this is tactically advisable to wage a better battle. Ibn Hazm doesn't go so far as to defend an obligation to 'martyrdom' (a suicidal attack), but he does make it clear that martyrdom is positively valued.[12]
Abu Bakr, another Muslim jurist, recommends not to cut any fruit trees or to destroy the cultivated lands of the enemy. Ibn Hazm replies that "in enemy territory it is permissible to burn the produce of the land, the trees and the vineyards," because the very "Prophet [Muhammad] set fire to the palm groves of the Banu 'l-Nadir, a Jewish tribe of Medina." But Abu Bakr is within his rights to make his recommendation, concedes Ibn Hazm, because there is not in fact an obligation to destroy everything, merely a permission to do so, and the decision in each particular case must be made by the commander.[13]
The great Malikite and Hanafite currents within Islam allow the killing of all of the domestic animals which the infidels possess because "war should bring destruction upon the enemy, and everything that is not consumed by the Muslim invader must be rendered unusable."[14] But Ibn Hazm replies — in marked contrast with his views on the destruction of lands and crops — that this is forbidden, and that the domestic animals of the infidels may not even be harmed (except for the pigs, for these must all be killed).
Although the foregoing reveals that for Ibn Hazm not everything is allowed in war, he nevertheless agrees that against the infidels themselves practically anything is permitted. For example, as Arnaldez explains, Ibn Hazm maintains that
"The lives of women and children must be spared, at least when they are not fighting in the ranks with the men. If they are struck down in the course of a nighttime attack (bayat) or unintentionally in the fray, there is no crime. Apart from these two exceptions, it is permitted to kill all infidels, whether combatants or not: merchants, hired servants or common laborers, old men, peasants, bishops, priests or monks, the blind or the lame, without a single exception. Some authors cite various hadiths in favor of other exceptions: old men, monks, merchants. Ibn Hazm rejects them all. Nor does he admit that the permission to kill is limited to combatants. As a justification for his thesis, he recalls the Prophet's [Muhammad's] extermination of all the men in the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza, who were put to death without exception, while the women and the children were sold as slaves."[14a]
(It is worth pointing out that Muhammad had done this with the Banu Qurayza after they had willingly surrendered to Muhammad following his seige of their stronghold.[14b])
Emphasizing his point, Ibn Hazm affirms that, according to the Prophet Muhammad, it is even legal to kill a very old man whose mind no longer works very well if he never "made islam," which is to say if he never submitted to Allah, thus converting to the true religion (the meaning of 'Islam,' in English translation, is usually rendered as 'submission').
'War booty' refers to that property of infidels which the Muslim army takes by force. Many Muslim scholars defended the view that, in many cases, even if the property of a Muslim were found among the war booty (for example, a slave who had escaped to Dar al Harb), this property should not be returned to the Muslim owner but divided among the soldiers. That such an opinion should have been so widespread provokes Arnaldez to comment: "This teaching is interesting because it shows the importance that the Muslims attributed to the division of booty [among the soldiers], over and above any other consideration."[15] Division of the booty is obviously a strong incentive for Muslims to wage war. But Ibn Hazm carefully points out that an infidel cannot legally own what was once the property of a Muslim, because he is a dirty infidel, and so the soldiers may not take another Muslim's property, even should they find it among the war booty. As Arnaldez says, "The very important thing about these indignant reactions is that Ibn Hazm affirms therein that only Muslim law counts, even when it is a question of non-Muslims"[16] It also reveals that Ibn Hazm perceived many Muslim mercenaries to be beyond the pale, but not because they were in the habit of murdering all infidel men and enslaving the women and children (he was in warm agreement with that), but because they took the property of Muslims found in the war booty.
It is important to see this: the problem was not that Muslim soldiers were genocidal but corrupt. Here lay the decadence of medieval Muslim society that so disgusted Ibn Hazm.
On the topic of lying to the infidels, Ibn Hazm defends the view that this is not a sin: treaties and oaths with infidels have no validity and are made to be broken.[17] What would be a sin against a Muslim is justified with an infidel because the defeat of infidels is the whole point of Islam.
The jurist Abu Hanifa maintained that if an infidel in Dar al Harb converted to Islam and stayed there until the Muslims conquered his country, he should remain a free man when the conquest happened and keep all of his movable property. His children who were not yet of age would also become automatically Muslims and keep their freedom. But the convert's land, and the fetus in the womb of his wife, even though Muslim, is part of the war booty (in Islamic law it is permissible for a slave to be Muslim). And if the convert had migrated to Dar al Islam, says Abu Hanifa, then everything he left behind becomes part of the war booty when the conquest happens, and will be divided among the soldiers. The same happens if he first came to Dar al Islam as an infidel and then submitted, with the difference that, in this latter case, his children are not automatically Muslims and form part of the war booty.
Ibn Hazm rejects all of Abu Hanifa's teachings because they do not produce the proper incentive for conversion to Islam: the laws must be designed so that infidels realize that the way to protect themselves from Muslim soldiers is to convert. So Ibn Hazm states that he who submits to Allah may keep his children and all his property regardless of where he finds himself when the Muslims conquer his country. The exceptions are the wife and those children who are already adults: these may legitimately be considered part of the war booty, probably because, being adults, they may prove difficult to indoctrinate and hence it is better to enslave them.[18]
This will suffice. The distance that existed between the very influential Ibn Hazm and his opponents does not allow us to say that any medieval jurist defended Islam as 'the religion of peace.' Clearly, they were all agreed that Islam was a religion of war — and terrorist war at that. This was the ideological center of gravity, based on the actions and sayings of Muhammad, who was fond of exterminating infidels and in particular Jews.[14b] The disagreements among the medieval Islamic jurists were about just how much terrorist destruction it was lawful to apply, and the specific manner of it. It follows, therefore, that the opinion of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — and not that of Pope Benedict XVI, Prince Charles of Wales, or President George W. Bush — is the one that best matches the medieval Islamic tradition.
According to Western officials and the mainstream mass media, what is a modern 'moderate Muslim'? _______________________________________
You may remember the civil wars of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia. Much of this happened in a place called Bosnia, populated by Slavic Muslims, Serbs, and Croats. One of the main protagonists in the Bosnian civil wars was the Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic.
NATO backed Alija Izetbegovic with force because, NATO officials insisted, Izetbegovic was a moderate Muslim trying to preserve a democratic, tolerant, and multi-ethnic Bosnia against what the same NATO officials claimed were the racist and genocidal attacks of the Bosnian Serbs. The Western mass media by and large repeated this representation as if it were obviously true. Here follow a few samples of how Alija Izetbegovic was represented.
In an official statement, the US State Department said after Alija Izetbegovic's death:
"President Izetbegovic's personal courage helped the Bosnian people endure one of Europe's greatest tragedies since World War II. His determined leadership was instrumental in Bosnia and Herzegovina remaining a unified multiethnic country."[19]
Warren Zimmerman, former US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, wrote in Foreign Affairs:
"Izetbegovic was…A devout Muslim but no extremist, he consistently advocated the preservation of a multinational Bosnia."[20]
The Financial Times, in a headline, called him a
"Former rebel with a pacifist cause."[21]
The Observer stated:
"Izetbegovic is rapidly emerging as an intelligent and moderate mediator in the conflict in Yugoslavia."[22]
The Independent:
"Alija Izetbegovic, the Muslim President of Bosnia, has tried to steer a moderate course."[23]
The New York Times:
"The Bosnian President, Mr. Izetbegovic, a Muslim Slav regarded by Western diplomats as a moderate."[24]
The New York Times again:
"President Alija Izetbegovic, a moderate Muslim Slav…"[25]
The Washington Post:
"Bosnian President Alija IZETBEGOVIC, 70, a moderate Muslim often accused by the Serbs of trying to set up a fundamentalist Islamic state…"[26]
Newsweek magazine,
"The government of Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic…has always been committed to a multiethnic society."[27]
And Newsweek again:
"The moderate Muslim-led government of Alija Izetbegovic…"[28]
Knight-Ridder News Service, in reference to Izetbegovic's movement, stated that,
"The Bosnian [Muslims] are struggling for democracy, human rights, and a multiethnic country."[29]
Inter-Press Service:
"Izetbegovic, a moderate Muslim intellectual…"[30]
United Press International:
"President Alija Izetbegovic, a Muslim nationalist who is considered a pro-reform moderate"[31]
Associated Press:
"Izetbegovic, 66, won a reputation as a moderate…"[32]
You can see from the above why many people got the impression that Alija Izetbegovic was a 'moderate Muslim': the media said that he was. But it would be silly to form an opinion of Izetbegovic from media claims when Izetbegovic himself laid out in black and white what he believed. In a book titled Islamic Declaration (sometimes translated as Islamic Manifesto), and first published around 1970, Alija Izetbegovic wrote:
"Oh Prophet, incite the believers to combat. If there can be found among you twenty who will endure, they will vanquish two hundred, if one hundred can be found, they will vanquish a thousand infidels, because they are people such as cannot understand."[33]
"And combat on Allah's path those who combat you, and don't disobey. True, Allah does not love the disobedient! And kill them where you will find them; chase them from where they chased you: association is a graver sin than murder. But don't fight them near the sacred Mosque unless they fight you there first. And if they fight you there, kill them then. Such is the retribution against infidels. Should they cease, Allah is, surely, forgiving and merciful."[33a]
I think this line in particular is quite revealing: "association [with an infidel] is a graver sin than murder [of a fellow Muslim]," because it tells us what the Qur'anic attitude — and Izetbegovic's — is toward Muslims who wanted to get along with non-Muslims.
Now, the above two excerpts are quotations from the Qur'an that Izetbegovic reproduced without any comment or adornment, so he considered them self-evident. Indeed, they are quite clear. It is significant that these Quranic quotes appear in a section with the title: "The Relations Between the Islamic Society and Other Societies" (the entire section consists of similar Quranic quotes, all of them equally chilling, and all of them without comment or adornment). Consistent with this, Izetbegovic affirmed in the same book that "It is not in fact possible for there to be any peace or coexistence between 'the Islamic Religion' and non-Islamic social and political institutions."[34] He also asserted that Muslims were required to take power by coup as soon as they were numerous enough to succeed.
As far back as 1983, Izetbegovic had been jailed by the government of Yugoslavia for inciting Muslims against non-Muslims in Bosnia.[35] Izetbegovic re-released his book — which was a call to genocide — as his election platform in the 1990 Bosnian elections, and subsequently recreated the SS Handzar Division. This had been a terrorist army created out of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslim volunteers who committed genocide against Serbs, Jews, and Roma ('Gypsies') in WWII, and launched by Hajj Amin al Husseini, former Mufti of Jerusalem. Hajj Amin al Husseini was the father of the so-called 'Palestinian movement' and the top leader, with Adolf Eichmann, of the German Nazi Final Solution.[36] Izetbegovic's resuscitated Handzar behaved precisely as the original, killing great numbers of innocent Serbs (and the few Jews and Roma that could still be found) during the 1990s. To learn about all this, read HIR's three-part series:
"WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN BOSNIA?: Were the Serbs the criminal aggressors, as the official story claims, or were they the victims?"; Historical and Investigative Research; 19 August 2005; by Francisco Gil-White. www.hirhome.com/yugo/ihralija1.htm
The views of Alija Izetbegovic, whom Western officials and the mainstream mass media lionized left and right as a great 'moderate,' agree perfectly with those of Ibn Hazm and the Ayatollah Khomeini.
He is not an isolated case.
Somebody else who is sold by Western officials and the mainstream mass media as a 'moderate Muslim' is Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. 'Abu Mazen'), the current leader of Al Fatah and the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization). In a different piece I have analyzed the representation of Mahmoud Abbas in the mass media,[37] and I will reproduce that analysis here.
I ran a little test on September 20, 2005, that anybody with access to the Lexis-Nexis Academic database can easily repeat.
First, limiting myself to "major papers," I asked the database to give me any newspaper articles that mentioned the word 'antisemite' or 'anti-Semite' within ten words of 'Abu Mazen,' which is Mahmoud Abbas's nickname. I got nothing. Zip. Then I tried the word 'terrorist' within ten words of 'Abu Mazen.' This gave lots of results but when I started reading the articles I noticed that the word 'terrorist' and the nickname 'Abu Mazen' usually did not even appear in the same sentence.[38] These articles were not saying that Abu Mazen was a terrorist in the least. I was looking for something like, 'the terrorist Abu Mazen,' 'Abu Mazen, the terrorist,' 'Abu Mazen, who is a terrorist' — anything like that. So I shortened the search to 'Abu Mazen' within 5 words of 'terrorist.' This time I got only 62 results, and as I started reading the articles I found the same phenomenon: the word 'terrorist' would end one sentence and the name 'Abu Mazen' would begin the next, as in "…and ceasing the targeted killings of suspected terrorist leaders. Abu Mazen may represent Israel's best chance…"[39] Or else these were sentences that explicitly alleged that Abu Mazen was not a terrorist, as in "Sharon spokesman Raanan Gissin said: 'Contrary to Arafat, Abu Mazen is against terrorist activity…'"[40]
So, according to my test, nobody much seems to accuse Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) of being a terrorist. That's interesting because Fatah is one of the world's worst terrorist organizations, and "Abu Mazen is… one of the founders of Fatah, one of the original Arafat band of brothers."[41] Moreover, Fatah is the controlling organ in the PLO, and as early as 1992 the PLO made clear that Mahmoud Abbas would be Yasser Arafat's replacement.[42]
I tried one more search. This time I asked the database for appearances of 'Abu Mazen' within ten words of 'moderate.' Now I got a grand total of 121 results. Below I reproduce not a cherry-picked selection of these but simply the first five in the chronologically ordered list. You will notice an obvious — and lightning quick — progression.
1) 1992 (Financial Times). "Mr [Mahmoud] Abbas, whose nom de guerre is Abu Mazen and who is regarded as a moderate…"[43]
Notice the words "who is regarded as." They seem innocent, but they are not. If some people regard Abbas as a moderate, it should matter to the reader who these people are. Are these people sane or insane? Knowledgeable or ignorant? Impartial or biased? All of these things can potentially be ascertained by the reader if only the identities of those who supposedly consider Abbas a moderate are not withheld. Why is the Financial Times leaving out this vital information? The effect of this prose, at least, will be to make most readers think that it is a scientific and/or widespread opinion that Abbas is a moderate (and the first hypothesis for any behavior ought to be that its actual effects were intended).
2) 1993 (Financial Times). "Mr Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), the PLO moderate. . ."[44]
3) 1993 (Financial Times). "Mr Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen)…a key moderate…"[45]
The views at the Financial Times matured quickly in a consistent direction: Abbas began as "a moderate" according to implied but unidentified multitudes, and a year later became "the PLO moderate" (said in passing because it is supposedly so obvious), and also "a key moderate."
Could Abbas become any more moderate? Yes he could.
4) 1994 (The Observer). "Abu Mazen, the leading moderate in the PLO. . ."[46]
But with a little effort, who's to say that Abbas could not become an arch-moderate?
5) 1995 (The Guardian). "…the arch-moderate Abu Mazen…"[47]
This is now the ceiling; by 1995, the propaganda had reached its final destination. Abbas had become Gandhi, practically.
Now, here is what ought to be terribly surprising to anybody who was taught by the mainstream media, the US government, and the Israeli government, to think of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) as a moderate: After Yasser Arafat died, the Fatah terrorists who publicly cried against 'peace' and promised to go on killing innocent Israelis were precisely those most eager to see Mahmoud Abbas succeed Yasser Arafat as Fatah chief.
An Associated Press wire dated 27 November 2004 reports that:
". . .in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, about 1,000 Palestinians — including scores of armed, masked militants affiliated with Fatah — demonstrated for the continuation of the uprising.
The demonstrators also declared their support for Mahmoud Abbas, the new head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Fatah's candidate in Jan. 9 presidential elections."[48]
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade branch of Fatah was passionate, taking Abbas's side vociferously when it seemed like Marwan Barghouti, another Fatah leader, might seek the post:
"Abbas already has been nominated as Fatah's presidential candidate, so Barghouti must run as an independent. But as a leading Fatah member, he would likely undermine Abbas' prospects. . . Zakaria Zubeidi, the 29-year-old West Bank leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent group linked to Fatah, said he would back Abbas. 'Barghouti. . .should resign from Fatah,' he told the Associated Press."[49]
The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, as Newsday once explained, is "the deadliest Palestinian militia,"[50] so what we see above is that the most extreme Arab terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza are also the most enthusiastic supporters of Mahmoud Abbas.
Why? Because Mahmoud Abbas is an arch-moderate?
As we've seen above, Abbas is one of the founders of Fatah. The big force behind the creation of Fatah was the afore-mentioned Hajj Amin al Husseini, leader of the German Nazi Final Solution.[51] He received the best anti-Jewish training in the world, because Husseini supervised his training by German Nazis who were in Cairo to improve Egypt's intelligence and military apparatus after the defeat of 1948.[51a] And as historian Howard Sachar explains, "from the outset… the Fatah's reputation depended largely upon the success of its Moslem traditionalist approach of jihad against Israel."[52]
Mahmoud Abbas is one of the authors of the strategy of promising 'peace' to the Israelis in order to divide them and gain a better position from which to exterminate them.[53] This strategy eventually became the Oslo 'Peace' Process, and Abbas's importance to it may be gauged by the fact that the Oslo process resulted from "secret talks conducted [by]…Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister, and Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas]."[53a] It is Abbas's signature, not Arafat's, that graces the agreement, and not coincidentally he is called the "architect" of Oslo.[53b] The entire strategy follows Al Fatah's "Moslem traditionalist approach of jihad," because traditionally, from ancient times to the present, Muslim clerics and scholars have defended, as we saw in the case of Ibn Hazm's treatise on jihad, that it is okay to lie to the infidel in order to destroy him. Western governments and the mainstream media assist these lies when they represent Mahmoud Abbas as a supposed "arch-moderate."
Given their obvious ideology, if Alija Izetbegovic and Mahmoud Abbas are the modern 'moderate Muslims,' then we have once again identified what continues to be the center of gravity in the culture of Islam: terrorist war against non-Muslims.
Do genuine 'moderate Muslims' exist? _________________________________
They do, in fact.
For example, in Part 2 and Part 3 of the above-mentioned HIR series on Bosnia, you will learn that a majority of Muslims in Bosnia voted against Alija Izetbegovic and for the Bosnian Muslim candidate who advocated peace with non-Muslims: Fikret Abdic. This was a very slim majority, however, which helps explain why the moderate Bosnian Muslims did not succeed. In fairness, though, the support for Izetbegovic coming from the NATO powers and the Muslim states played a larger role.
Because a majority of Muslims had voted for the moderate Fikret Abdic, Alija Izetbegovic, supported by NATO and the Muslim states, illegally seized power. When that happened, some of Abdic's supporters decided to fight rather than be ruled by the racist Izetbegovic, and they liberated the so-called 'Bihac pocket,' fighting also alongside the Bosnian Serbs to preserve a peaceful, multiethnic Bosnia.
The details of all this are in the above-mentioned HIR series on Bosnia, but consider here just the following wire from Agence France Presse, entitled "Bihac refugees defy Izetbegovic plea to return home." The Muslim refugees — refugees from Izetbegovic's slaughters against dissenters within his community — obviously did not trust his promises that they would be given amnesty, and chose to go on fighting. I have placed the key paragraph in italics.
[Agence France Presse wire begins here]
Some 10,000 refugees from Bosnia's breakaway Bihac enclave remained entrenched here Saturday between Croatian army and rebel Serb forces, ignoring appeals from Sarajevo authorities for them to return home.
Izetbegovic on Friday offered fresh guarantees for the refugees' safety if they returned from the UN-controlled neutral zone between Croatian army lines and rebel Serb forces to the western enclave of Bihac, the former stronghold of routed rebel Moslem leader Fikret Abdic.
But there were no signs that the refugees, many wearing military uniforms, were ready to go back to Bihac.
"We will only return home if (Bosnian President Alija) Izetbegovic's army withdraws completely from the Bihac pocket," said one of the refugees, Dzenad Seferic. None of his fellow refugees nearby contradicted his sentiments.
Seferic added that the refugees would stay put until Bihac was "placed under the control of the UN Protection Force and [Fikret] Abdic returns as our head of state."
Another refugee, Sefer Adic, 43, said he would rather die than return home.
"The world has not understood that Izetbegovic is an assassin, a (Moslem) fundamentalist who represents a danger for the whole of Europe," he charged. "Of course we are Moslems. But we are moderates, not like those in Sarajevo."
The Bosnian president had asked European Union officials in the zone Friday to assure the refugees that an amnesty for "soldiers and civilians" in the enclave had been "extended indefinitely."
Sarajevo said the amnesty covered Abdic's routed troops, provided they surrendered to government forces [i.e. to Izetbegovic's illegal government] within seven days.
Croatia has refused entry to the refugees, who fled Bihac fearing reprisals after Abdic's defeat last week by the Bosnian government army [i.e. Izetbegovic's illegal 'government' army, made up significantly of foreign mujahedin terrorists sent by Iran (see here)], and a dozen Croatian armored vehicles were deployed Saturday to prevent them from moving beyond the UN-controlled zone.[54]
There were lots of moderate Muslims in Bosnia, and, as we see above, they were concerned about the impact of Izetbegovic's terrorism on the rest of Europe: they cared about their fellow human beings, even when these fellow humans were non-Muslims.
What I wish to impress upon you, however, is the position of a moderate Muslim in the ideological context of Islamic culture. As far as orthodox Islam is concerned, a moderate Muslim is a heretic, and there is precious little support for his position in the Muslim texts. Thus, moderate Muslims can easily be attacked by Muslim clerics and scholars such as Ibn Hazm and the Ayatollah Khomeini for deviating from what the Qur'an demands: the slaughter of infidels. The position of 'moderate Muslims' within the culture of Islam is therefore quite fragile, because the trend among Muslim clerics and scholars, taking their cue from the Qur'an, is to preach terrorist war. The moderate Muslim who wishes to live in peace with non-Muslims will thus be told that he is a traitor to Islam. You may think the solution is simple: moderate Muslims, who are obviously uncomfortable with their own religion, should convert to a different religion or become atheists. But this, you see, is punishable by death: one has become an infidel. And since Western governments turn out to be assisting Muslims who advocate terrorism against infidels, it is obvious that moderate Muslims cannot succeed.
From this point of view, the spread of Islam must be understood as a danger to world peace, notwithstanding the fact that moderate Muslims indeed exist.
But why do Western leaders and the media completely misrepresent Islam as 'the religion of peace'? As you may recall, we began with quotes showing the president of the United States, and the Catholic Pope, to be defending the view, to the millions of Westerners whom they influence, that Islam is a religion of peace. What is the problem, here?
That will be the subject of a future HIR piece on the topic of Islam.
The next piece in this series is:
"Dhimmitude: The fates of non-Muslims in Islamic society"; from THE CULTURE OF ISLAM; Historical and Investigative Research; 9 September 2007; by Francisco Gil-White http://www.hirhome.com/islam/culture02.htm
Footnotes and Further Reading _____________________________________________________
[1] Christians in crisis, The Jerusalem Post, December 24, 2006, Sunday, OPINION; Pg. 13, 712 words
[2] The Pope was wrong on jihad, too, South China Morning Post, September 23, 2006 Saturday, NEWS; Pg. 13, 1014 words, Riaz Hassan
[2a] "Prince Charles of Arabia"; by Ronni L. Gordon and David M. Stillman; Middle East Quarterly; September 1997. http://www.meforum.org/article/356
[3] Bush goes face to face to build anti-terror alliance, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 18, 2001 Tuesday, Home Edition, Pg. 1A, 1015 words, SCOTT SHEPARD [nota de fotografía].
[4] Bostom, A. G. 2005. The legacy of jihad. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. (p.226)
[5] Arnaldez, R. 1962. "La guerre sainte selon Ibn Hasm de Cordoue," in Études d'Orientalism dediees a la memoire de Levi-Provençal, vol. 2, pp. 445-59. Paris: Masionneuve and Larose.
Reproduced in: Bostom, A. G. 2005. The legacy of jihad. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. (pp,.267-81). Translation by Michel J. Miller.
[6] Arnaldez 1960 (in Bostom 2005), p.281.
[10] Les Chretiens d'Orient entre Jihad et Dhimmitude: VIIe-XXe siecle. (1991).
Translated to English in: Ye'or, B. 1996. The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (pp.18-19).
[11] Arnaldez 1960 (in Bostom 2005), p.271.
[12] Arnaldez 1960 (in Bostom 2005), pp.272-73.
[14a] Arnaldez 1960 (in Bostom 2005), p.275.
[14b] Bostom, A. G. 2005. The legacy of jihad. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. (pp.17-19). http://www.hirhome.com/islam/art.htm
[19] M2 Presswire; October 21, 2003; Headline: US Dept Of State – Death of former President Alija Izetbegovic – Press Statement – Adam Ereli
[20] 'The last ambassador: a memoir of the collapse of Yugoslavia.' By Warren Zimmerman; Foreign Affairs March-April 1995 v74 n2 p2(19) (8919 words)
[21] Financial Times (London), March 7, 1992, Saturday, Pg. 6, 1108 words, Man in the News:
[22] Bosnia dragged into the bloodbath: Serbia continues its march to the Adriatic, The Observer, September 15 1991, Pg. 13, 957 words, NICK THORPE, BANJA LUKA
[23] Defiant Bosnia heads for showdown, The Independent (London), January 23, 1992, Thursday, FOREIGN NEWS PAGE; Page 10 , 649 words, By STEVE CRAWSHAW, East Europe Editor
[24] Bosnia Calls Up Guard and Reserve, The New York Times, April 5, 1992, Sunday, Late Edition – Final, Section 1; Part 1; Page 3; Column 1; Foreign Desk, 681 words, By CHUCK SUDETIC, Special to The New York Times, SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia, April 4
[25] Bosnia's Besieged Government Near Disintegration, The New York Times, May 8, 1992, Friday, Late Edition – Final, Section A; Page 10; Column 3; Foreign Desk, 1058 words, By CHUCK SUDETIC, Special to The New York Times, SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 7
[26] LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD; How the wars began and how the world hopes to end them, The Washington Post, December 17, 1995, Sunday, Final Edition, A SECTION; Pg. A34, 991 words
[27] Newsweek, December 18, 1995, United States Edition, National Affairs; Pg. 32, 1240 Words, Sarajevo On The Spot, By Russell Watson And Rod Nordland
[28] Last Rites for Bosnia, Newsweek, May 10, 1993 , UNITED STATES EDITION, SPECIAL REPORT; Crisis In Bosnia; Pg. 30, 1207 words, By Charles Lane
[29] Bosnia suffers genocide as the world – and America – remains silent. (Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) Jennifer Scarlott; Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Dec 21, 1993 p1221K5689 (696 words)
[30] YUGOSLAVIA: FUTURE STILL UNCERTAIN, IPS-Inter Press Service, February 22, 1991, Friday, 621 words, by Svetislav Maksovic, BELGRADE, Feb. 22
[31] Officials of two republics apparently seek foreign support, United Press International, March 17, 1991, Sunday, BC cycle, International, 749 words, BY NESHO DJURIC, BELGRADE, Yugoslavia
[32] Moderate President No Stranger to Captivity, The Associated Press, May 3, 1992, Sunday, AM cycle, International News, 346 words, AP Photo FRA1, SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
[33] Izetbegovic, Alija. 1999 [1980]. Le manifeste Islamique (original title: Islamska deklaracija). Beyrouth-Liban: Éditions Al-Bouraq (pp. 118-19).
[33a] Le manifeste Islamique (p.118-19).
[34] Le manifeste Islamique (p.81).
[35] "…The court found the accused guilty because it held that their activity had been directed against brotherhood and unity, and the equality of our nations and nationalities with a view to destroying Bosnia-Hercegovina as a Socialist Republic and thus of undermining the social order of the SFRY.
For the criminal act of association for the purpose of enemy activity and counter-revolutionary threatening of the social order Alija (Mustafa) Izetbegovic was sentenced to 14 years'…"
SOURCE: Copyright 1983 The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Summary Of World Broadcasts, August 22, 1983, Monday, Part 2 Eastern Europe; B. Internal Affairs; Yugoslavia; Ee/7418/B/1; , 372 Words, Muslim Nationalists Convicted, (A) Yuqoslav News Agency 1555 Gmt 12 Aug 83 Text Of Report Belgrade Home Service 1700 Gmt 20 Aug 83
[36] "How did the 'Palestinian movement' emerge? The British sponsored it. Then the German Nazis, and the US"; from UNDERSTANDING THE PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT, An HIR series, in four parts; Historical and Investigative Research; 13 June 2006; by Francisco Gil-White. http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov4.htm
[37] The analysis is borrowed from the section entitled "Is Mahmoud Abbas a moderate?" from the piece:
"WHAT IS SEEDS OF PEACE?: Does this US Intelligence operation groom young Arab leaders who want peace with Israel, or who wish to destroy Israel?"; Historical and Investigative Research; 21 September 2005; by Francisco Gil-White. http://www.hirhome.com/israel/seeds.htm
[38] Here are three examples of the common pattern:
"It is clear, however, that Arafat only acts on his own commitment to crack down on Palestinian terrorism when it is too late — after a massive terrorist attack. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) admitted as much to the New Yorker, stating 'until March (after the suicide bombings) we weren't serious.'"
SOURCE: Get serious, The Jerusalem Post, December 13, 1996, Friday, OPINION; Pg. 4, 824 words
"Until now, Sharon, the architect of Israel's 1982 war against the PLO in Lebanon, has not softened his rejection of the PLO, calling it a terrorist organization and Arafat himself a 'war criminal.' The Sharon-Abu Mazen meeting was indeed a watershed event, in that it symbolizes the recognition of the PLO by the right-wing of the Likud."
SOURCE: The Sharon watershed, The Jerusalem Post, June 30, 1997, Monday, OPINION; Pg. 6, 850 words.
"(b) Abu Mazen, longtime deputy to Yasir Arafat; (c) Marwan Barghouti, head of the terrorist Tanzim faction."
SOURCE: Office Pool, 2002 , The New York Times, December 27, 2001 Thursday, Late Edition – Final , Section A; Column 1; Editorial Desk; Pg. 19, 705 words, By WILLIAM SAFIRE; E-mail: safire@nytimes.com, WASHINGTON
[39] AN ALTERNATIVE TO ARAFAT, The Boston Globe, March 23, 2003, Sunday, ,THIRD EDITION, Pg. H10, 472 words
[40] Israel in warning on Arafat deadlock, The Australian, April 23, 2003 Wednesday All-round Metro Edition, WORLD; Pg. 7, 500 words, Robert Tait
[41] THUS FAR AND NO FATAH FOR MR PALESTINE; Resistance is growing within the PLO over Yasser Arafat and the Israeli peace process, The Guardian (London), November 12, 1993, THE GUARDIAN FEATURES PAGE; Pg. 24, 1204 words, DAVID HIRST
[42] "The PLO leadership has agreed that Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, will be Yasser Arafat's successor, Palestinian sources in East Jerusalem said yesterday. However other Palestinians were skeptical of the report.
According to the sources, Abu Mazen, a PLO executive committee member, and two other leaders will serve as a senior committee to take some of the pressure off Arafat in light of his current health problems.
The Israeli Arab newspaper, published in Jerusalem, reported that the other two committee members will be Farouk Kaddoumi and Khaled al-Hassan.
According to the paper, Abu Mazen, 59, was born near Safed and was one of the PLO's founders. He was responsible for making contacts with Israeli leftists and supporting the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks. He studied in Moscow and has a degree in Zionist history. Abu Mazen is known to support the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, believing that such a state would eventually absorb Israel."
SOURCE: Abu Mazen is Arafat's heir, sources say, The Jerusalem Post, June 11, 1992, Thursday, News, 464 words, Jon Immanuel and Itim
[43] PLO crisis talks as Arafat is reported missing, Financial Times (London,England), April 8, 1992, Wednesday, Pg. 20, 437 words, By TONY WALKER
[44] Peres joins direct talks with PLO, Financial Times (London,England), September 4, 1993, Saturday, Pg. 3, 448 words, By JULIAN OZANNE and MARK NICHOLSON, JERUSALEM, CAIRO.
[45] How the secret deal was hatched: Only Peres' private coterie knew of talks with PLO, Financial Times (London,England), September 4, 1993, Saturday, Pg. 3, 485 words, By JULIAN OZANNE.
[46] THE PEACE BROKERS, The Observer, January 16, 1994, Sunday, THE OBSERVER MAGAZINE PAGE; Pg. 20, 3200 words
[47] THE AXE IS SHARPENED FOR ARAFAT; He once carried the hopes of his people. Now Yasser Arafat faces their bitterness as the peace process stalls and allegations of corruption, incompetence and even collaboration dog him. In the first of three articles, DAVID HIRST looks atthe slow collapse of the latest Palestinian dream of freedom., The Guardian (London), April 15, 1995, THE GUARDIAN FEATURES PAGE; Pg. 21, 3747 words, David Hirst
[48] Associated Press Online, November 27, 2004 Saturday, INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 991 words, Palestinian Security Unit to Be Disbanded, IBRAHIM BARZAK; Associated Press Writer, GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip.
[49] Barghouti Seeking Palestinian Presidency, Associated Press Online, December 1, 2004 Wednesday, INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 836 words, MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH; Associated Press Writer, RAMALLAH, West Bank
[50] Newsday (New York, NY), September 8, 2002 Sunday, NASSAU AND SUFFOLK EDITION, Pg. A05, 1333 words, WEST BANK; Inside the Crucible; An occasional series on te Israel-Palestine conflict; Militia Goes More Quietly; Al-Aqsa changes tactics after losses, By Matthew McAllester. MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT
[51a] Al Fatah's Nazi training was CIA-sponsored; Historical and Investigative Research; 22 July 2007; by Francisco Gil-White. http://www.hirhome.com/israel/cia-fatah.htm
[52] Sachar, H. 1982. A history of Israel: From the rise of Zionism to our time. New York: Knopf. (pp. 698)
[53] 2005 — Mahmoud Abbas, who will soon have total control over Gaza, is the one who invented the strategy of talking 'peace' the better to slaughter Israelis. The US ruling elite loves Mahmoud Abbas. ( This piece written before Gaza was turned over to the PLO ); from "IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A Chronological look at the evidence"; Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White. http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally2.htm#2005
[53a] THE PEACE BROKERS, The Observer, January 16, 1994, Sunday, THE OBSERVER MAGAZINE PAGE; Pg. 20, 3200 words
[53b] "Mr Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), the PLO moderate who initialed last week's draft Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement in Norway"
SOURCE: Peres joins direct talks with PLO, Financial Times (London,England), September 4, 1993, Saturday, Pg. 3, 448 words, By JULIAN OZANNE and MARK NICHOLSON, JERUSALEM, CAIRO.
"Oslo could, perhaps, have worked. But its architect, the arch-moderate Abu Mazen, warned from the outset that it would lead 'either to a Palestine state or the liquidation of the Palestine cause.'"
SOURCE: THE AXE IS SHARPENED FOR ARAFAT; He once carried the hopes of his people. Now Yasser Arafat faces their bitterness as the peace process stalls and allegations of corruption, incompetence and even collaboration dog him. In the first of three articles, DAVID HIRST looks atthe slow collapse of the latest Palestinian dream of freedom., The Guardian (London), April 15, 1995, THE GUARDIAN FEATURES PAGE; Pg. 21, 3747 words, David Hirst
[54] Bihac refugees defy Izetbegovic plea to return home, Agence France Presse — English, August 27, 1994, International news, 414 words, Sonia Bakaric, TURANJ, Croatia, Aug 27
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The present work is a translation of The Perception Chapter of Jewel of Reflection on the Truth, a foundational text by the great fourteenth-century Indian logician Gangesa Upadhyaya. The authors' introduction and running commentary to the translation provide essential theoretical and historical background, contextualization, analysis, and comparison of Nyaya and Western traditions. Includes a detailed glossary and index.


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Megan Kleven doesn't fit into your average singer-songwriter cut-out. With an affinity for the dark and shadowed, she tends to gravitate toward songs that exude strength, power, and sometimes sadness. Many of her songs are influenced by the sounds of powerful and compassionate artists such as Hozier and Alanis Morissette.
Through her 2020 debut album "I AM," Kleven explored genres ranging from folk to rock to country — with hints of Celtic flavors thrown in for good measure. She is currently working with other musicians in the acoustic pop duo Going Up, the songwriting trio Driftless Troubadours, and the New Jersey-Minnesota songwriting collaboration Earling Kleven.
Megan began writing music in 2010 after spending time with musicians in Japan who supported and inspired her throughout her three years teaching in Yamagata prefecture. She continued teaching after returning to the United States in 2013, and she made the decision to pursue music full-time in 2018 after losing her job and struggling to cope with anxiety and depression. Music has since provided a purposeful direction for her to move toward better self care and mental well-being. The journey of discovering who she is and who she wants to be is an ongoing one, but it's one she finds well worth traveling through her continued musical endeavors.
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Voltage Optimisation works like a control valve to reduce energy consumption in voltage dependent loads by reducing or controlling voltage levels to within European Harmonised voltage limits to return an energy saving.
Voltage Optimisation is a term used around voltage management when a desire to reduce energy consumption is managed by adjusting and controlling voltage levels on a user's site.
Voltage optimisation is a transformer based technology that comes in many forms, fixed ratio, multi tap, stabilising or regulating and works by controlling or optimising the incoming grid voltage to return an energy saving.
The principal is based around supplying an optimised voltage level more suitable to the actual electrical device in order for it to perform its task more efficiently and in line with limits of European harmonized voltage while basic design is a low loss series connected transformer designed to optimise a whole site or individual loads to target the most optimizable loads.
There are benefits over a whole site isolating transformer as the voltage optimizer would normally offer a greater range of adjustment to target a higher level of savings and is inherently more efficient with less losses.
Put simply, Voltage Optimisation is a form of Voltage Management specifically designed for reducing energy consumption.
Basic electrical law dictates that power required by certain loads is proportional to the square of the voltage while a supply voltage in excess of the nominal harmonized 230V/400V may result in an electrical device consuming more energy than need be.
How Does Voltage Optimisation Work ?
An agreement in 1988 was reached to create a common voltage level throughout Europe based on a 230V / 400V system which would come into effect from the 1st January 1995 and known as Voltage Harmonisation.
To simplify the market for electrical equipment, the European Union has introduced the Low Voltage Directive (LVD) 2006/95/EC to regulate the operating voltage of electrical equipment to be supplied in Europe. Equipment that meets the standard bears the CE mark and is designed to operate within harmonized voltage levels.
In reality through, nothing has changed, voltage levels on average in the UK remain around 242v (419V) as the costs to reduce voltages at grid level are too inhibitive and unnecessary as we remain within the harmonized voltage limits.
CE mark compliance simply dictates that the device must operate safely between harmonized limits, it does not however state that it must operate efficiently or maintain its design lifespan.
It could be argued that Voltage Optimisation therefore exploits the CE Mark regulations as a lower voltage level is applied to the electrical device and closer to the nominal design voltage of 230V rather than at the UK average voltage of 242V.
Consideration should also be given towards accelerated deterioration of the electrical device at the higher voltage levels, voltage can be described as a pressure, there is therefore an opportunity to regulate the pressure more towards mainland European levels to protect the device and maintain its designed life span while returning a level of energy saving.
Most electrical devices are now manufactured more for the wider European market rather than the unique challenges faced in the UK, a classic example is the operation of LED lighting, higher voltage levels increase the risk of premature failure of the driver circuits while at lower regulated levels, the pressure is reduced and the design lifespan achieved.
One thing is for sure, Voltage Optimisation will not benefit every site although for the right type of sites, the benefits can be great in both financial terms and environmental.
How Does Voltage Optimisation Save Energy ?
Many motors are oversized for their application and often operate for all or much of the time at partial load which leads to increased losses, a motor in general could be described as voltage dependent and therefore would consume less energy through voltage optimisation.
Most motor loads do not operate anywhere near their design capability and frequently are operated outside of their rated output, when operating within 70-90 per cent of their rated output they are very efficient with less losses and effectively voltage independent.
Most process loads are generally motor loads that are electronically controlled, careful consideration therefore should be given when evaluating process loads for energy reduction as the potential energy savings through voltage optimisation is dependent on how the loads are controlled.
In general, resistive heating loads operating at a higher voltage level will result in an increase in power demand and vice versa although defendant on the control, resistive loads could be described as Voltage Dependent or Voltage Independent.
Time based resistive loads with thermostatic control are generally deemed as voltage independent as the purpose of the electrical device is to carry out a specific task like a Kettle for example where receiving a lower voltage results in water taking longer to boil and consuming the same amount of energy.
Resistive heating loads that have less control and generally switched on for a fixed period of time could be described as Voltage Dependent and offer a significant reduction in energy consumption.
How Does Voltage Optimisation Save Money ?
Dependent on the load dynamics, the savings will come from a kw/h reduction.
A small reduction in demand is possible although this is not normally significant enough to reduce Authorised Supply Capacity charges.
Reactive power charges may reduce slightly as demand reduces.
Significant reductions in CO2 emissions can be achieved as consumption is normally directly associated with kw/h consumption.
A device operating at a higher pressure than need be to perform the same task will not last as long as a device with a regulated pressure.
A System delivering a fixed percentage of voltage reduction and normally commissioned during installation as the most appropriate "tap" is selected to achieve the desired voltage reduction.
The optimised voltage will be proportionate to the incoming voltage.
A System usually combined with a degree of control to adjust the voltage level without interruption to the supply. Typically, the control system would react to fluctuations in grid voltage to ensure minimum voltage levels are not compromised.
Optimised voltage will be proportionate to the incoming voltage - additional control measures deal with exaggerated fluctuation in grid voltage.
A system to reduce and control the output voltage level to a programmable optimised level irrespective of incoming grid voltage.
A system to control the output voltage level to a programmable optimised level irrespective of incoming grid voltage being high or low, unlike a voltage stabiliser, a regulator would also increase the voltage to the pre programmed optimised voltage level in the event of low grid voltages.
To determine the impact Voltage Optimisation could have on a sites energy consumption, a detailed survey should be carried out to understand the dynamics of the load and to determine how much of the electrical equipment is voltage dependent and what proportion of the total energy consumption that represents.
The survey should also include detailed load monitoring for a period of time suitable to ensure all load types and processes are recorded in order to evaluate voltage levels, phase balance, demand levels and volt drop throughout the site.
If most of a sites electrical consumption is made up of voltage dependent loads, savings are likely to be high, savings on voltage independent loads are likely to be poor although benefits still exist as operating equipment close to its fundamental design voltage may maintain the life expectancy in line with the manufactures expectations.
System features should also be considered and based on the return of investment, the dynamics of the load, site conditions in respect of voltage fluctuation and the level of functionality required.
Bypass features should be considered to disconnect the Voltage Optimisation system from the supply in order to perform maintenance procedures for example. A bypass switch can be installed to electrically disconnecting and isolate the Voltage Optimiser from the electrical circuit and reconnect the electrical supply. The site load is therefore diverted through the bypass mechanism and the Voltage Optimiser isolated in the bypass state.
Installation is in series with the main supply and therefore it is vitally important to ensure the correct level of due diligence is carried out in the form of a detailed survey.
It is also recommended that a suitably rated protective device in integrated into the optimiser, this is especially critical if the optimizer has been rated for the size of demand and not the capabilities of the existing supply ie matched to the maximum demand (plus an approximate 30% overload) rather than the current rating of the main supply.
A voltage optimiser could also be installed on sub supplies or individual loads to target the most optimisable loads.
Voltage Optimisation has been around since the turn of the 20th century and although in many cases their individual benefits and attributes make them a viable form of energy reduction in the right environment, in truth it is only recently that they have been considered as a powerful energy saving technology which when combined offer complimentary correction to improve energy efficiency and reduce consumption across a whole site.
A combined approach introduces the best of both technologies to reduce energy consumption, remove reactive power penalties, reduce carbon emissions, reduce capacity and availability charges, improve utility and protect electrical equipment from higher than need be voltage levels.
The combined approach also helps each individual technology, the power factor correction system reduces circuit currents to reduce demand on the voltage optimiser while the voltage optimiser reduces voltage levels to avoid premature failure of the power factor correction capacitors.
Combining the technologies offers two chances to reduce energy spend and reduce harmful emissions in one single installation while enhancing the return on investment and reducing ongoing maintenance costs, all with immediate effect.
There is now momentum towards a global low carbon economy with creation of the Paris Agreement, the impact around climate change, increase in energy costs, introduction of penalties for inefficient users and a need to reduce demand as electricity tariffs move towards time of day demand based billing.


I heard yesterday (Saturday) was going to be really hot, so I thought it would be cool (pun intended) to hide inside the earth for a bit. Near Mt. St. Helens, Washington, there's this part of the park called Ape Caves, which is a former lava tube.
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As we began our descent into the cave, there are a couple things you notice: a stark change in temperature – from 90°(f) to the average temp inside the cave of 45°(f) – and there's a really interesting breeze blowing through. Immediately, you're struck with a decision. A decision you have to make quickly because if the cave is busy there's many people behind you, pushing their way in. Your two choices are this: Take the lower (or easier) cave or take the upper (harder) cave. In "life+art=reality" and in spelunking, we took the more challenging road.
As you make your choice and walk further into the cave. You lose all sense of perception as your mind, and optical nerves, adjust to the reality of complete darkness. The cave walls seem to absorb all extra noise and soon you find yourself in a weird, yet comfortable, sensory perception deprivation state. It's blissful, almost, you're now on your journey, flashlights in hand and ready to climb throughout this former volcanic river.
Then the real "climb" begins. As you're walking into (or out of) the cave, you have to climb and scurry around, having chosen the more difficult path. Over large boulders of rock that once floated through the canyon, watching your head for low hanging objects, squeezing through tight spaces requiring you to use your mind and body in unison to get through a difficult pass. Inside each pathway, I noticed there were almost always two decisions, two routes to take, the more difficult and challenging (or sometimes impossible) route and the relatively simple, well-traversed route. Many times you didn't know the outcome of your choice until you took that first step. Then, it was too late to go back and start over.
Placing your feet in the correct spot was one of the more challenging tests. Each rock was either: solid and stable, shifted slightly, or was completely rickety. The problem was, no matter how many ways you tested it with your toes, you really didn't know which state that rock was in until you put your full weight onto it.
Much like life, you never know the outcome of something, unless you give it your all. Having scurried through the cave; I did not fall once. I doubted myself many times; but, I did not fall. I have some bruises, sore muscles, and reminders of low-hanging stalactites. But, every step I took turned out, in the end, to get me to my destination. I never considered turning around. I kept putting one foot, in front of, or high above, the other. My spelunking partner and I made sure to support each other in each difficult pass, every challenging route, and every moment of rest, including moments to stop and look around at the cave's beauty.
The toughest challenge was wall-walking. If you've seen someone rappel down the side of a cliff or mountain then you've seen someone do this before. You grab the rope, lean all of your body weight into your legs, and walk up the wall. Yesterday was my first experience with this.
There's a part of the path which used to be a lava-waterfall and it is only about ten feet tall, but it's still challenging to climb. Having examined the wall, I noted it's cover of cave-slime, instantly you're nervous about placing your feet on the wall, afraid of slipping. Up I went. I grabbed the rope firmly, leaned back, took a deep breath, placed my feet on the wall, and pulled myself up. The adrenaline kicked in and I went for it! Up the wall I climbed, over the edge and sure-footed on the top. A challenge overcome.
There were a couple places in the cave, where the groups bunched up, waiting for the last climber in their team to navigate the pass. As with life, there's always one or two people who are impatient or unwilling to wait for someone else. There were a few of those inconsiderate people in this cave, trying to climb over/around others to get through faster. Luckily peer pressure, in this case, succeeded in forcing them to back off and wait their turn.
As we rounded a corner, we started to see light. Which gave us hope. Nearing the end, (or so we thought,) spirits lifted, we walked a little faster, and started looking around. Only to find out, it was a skylight. A place where the cave had collapsed the roof, giving us only a small peek into the outside world.
We pressed on, undeterred, and made it through to the end. Climbed out of the cave and made the hike back to the car in blue skies and beautiful weather. Challenging as the hike was, the reward was really worth it. A day spent with a friend, pushing myself to new limits, understanding what I'm fully capable of: climbing a wall of slime, seeing how nature survives in darkness, and coming through the other side.
All these things, I think, we deal with in real life, I just don't think we take enough time to celebrate the successes. In that cave, especially in the extreme darkness, I felt great fear. No cellphone service, no light (except from our flashlights,) fear of bats(!) and virtually no sounds (except for our breathing.) Well worth the experience.
While I never intended, when we set out yesterday, to come back with a fable of cave dwelling and it's application to real life. There are so many connections to be made here: People climbing over you to get ahead, feeling alone in large caverns, being unsure of your footing and pushing yourself to do things outside your comfort. Job well done!
Very cool. I really must get out there one of these days!
Thanks. It's really pretty awesome.


Another thing we discovered was Scythe BD and Duo 230WD. While Scythe is a stamina type that can OS everything at fast speed (even Duo and Phantom BD along with E230/230MB combos and left spin). Duo 230WD surprisingly OSED Girago Dragoon SA165BWD and stood well against Balro.
Like you might have guessed, Drain Fafnir dominated Mumbai too and though I did some attempts to counter it with non obvious combos (like A2KW) but it was surely more powerful then I ever expected (as you might seen here lol). Though we found some pretty new combos too. Like Valkyrie Atomic and especially K2KO which too was more powerful then I expected. It beated Neptune or Balance Blader and OSed Drain ato once (I wish I had better disk like spread or Polish). I did some free play test where it beated Wyvern and A2 too. S2 surprisingly did amazing. It beated V2, K2, R2 and even Drain Fafnir. overall it seem like people here finally started liking burst and as it will be released here this month I can say we would have more burst event through out year.
Thanks for reply bro. But Snidmist don't quote such a huge post.
Missed it seems like everyone had fun!
You need to rectify some spelling mistakes.
Don't tame the Dragon Emperor.
(Aug. 16, 2017 4:22 PM)HarryAlchemist Wrote: Missed it seems like everyone had fun!
Yeah lol we really missed you there. Hope to see you next time!
And yeah lol. I typed all on phone so.
(Aug. 16, 2017 1:41 PM)FIREFIRE CPB Wrote: Thanks for reply bro. But @[Snidmist] don't quote such a huge post.
wow when was i born beyblade just started and now its so big and so many types of beys in this world.


The Kid Without Fear�well... maybe a little bit of fear, joins the Gentle Giant Ltd. Marvel Animated Statue series! Daredevil will be the 13th character in their popular and adorable Marvel Animated statue line. The blind acrobat crimefighter is clearly still learning the ropes in this statue, inspired by the month-long variant cover event that helped birth these statues! The Daredevil Animated Statue was digitally sculpted and carefully printed on state of the art 3D Systems 3D printers. The high-resolution prints were then used in the creation of prototypes needed to produce this animated collectible. Each animated statue is hand-cast, hand-painted, and hand-numbered with a limited edition Certificate of Authenticity.


Primus is one of the world's leading developers and manufacturers of lightweight, reliable stoves, lanterns and headlamps for every conceivable sort of outdoor activity. Started in 1892, Primus has been the company of choice for real outdoors people the world over. Dating back to the late 1890's such places as the North Pole, South Pole, and even Mt. Everest have all been home to Primus stoves. Whether you're going on a challenging expedition, faced with living outdoors or even just a family camping trip, Primus has the equipment you require. Primus has been almost everywhere. Where have you been?


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Robert W. Doll (August 10, 1919 –  September 7, 1959) was an American professional basketball player who played in the early days of professional basketball for the St. Louis Bombers and Boston Celtics during the early years of the NBA.

College and amateur career
Doll starred at Chaffey High School in Ontario, California and played collegiately at the University of Colorado from 1939 to 1942, leading the Buffaloes to a period of great team success.  A  post player, "Ichabod" Doll was known as a voracious rebounder and defender with a soft shooting touch.  In his first season of eligibility as a sophomore in 1940, Doll led the Buffaloes to bids in both the NCAA Tournament and NIT.  While the NCAA tournament appearance lasted only one game, Doll led the Buffs to the NIT title and was named the tournament Most Valuable Player after averaging 15.5 points per game.  Two years later, Doll was named a consensus second team All-American and led Colorado to its first Final Four.

Following the close of his collegiate career, Doll played for several years in the Amateur Athletic Union and was named an AAU All-American in 1943 while playing for the Denver American Legion team.

Professional career
In 1946, Doll joined the St. Louis Bombers of the Basketball Association of America (BAA).  After two years with the Bombers, Doll joined the Boston Celtics as a free agent.  During his two-year stint with the Celtics, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association.  Doll played for one more year with the Celtics in the inaugural NBA campaign.  Bob Doll averaged 8.4 points and 1.4 assists per game for his four-year BAA/NBA career.

Death
Doll was found shot to death on September 18, 1959, on Rabbit Ears Pass in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. A .45 caliber pistol he owned was discovered near his body and his death was determined to be a suicide. Doll had vanished on Labor Day but had not been reported missing until five days before the discovery of his body. The coroner determined that he likely died sometime around the Labor Day weekend.

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Hello Sonya! Welcome to the Disney Parks Moms Panel.
Congratulations on the upcoming addition of your Grand-Mouseketeer! As I continue to experience Walt Disney World Resort first-time experiences with my kids, I smile when I imagine a time when I will be able to relive them all again with my grandchildren.
As far as vacation planning is concerned, cancelations depend on the type of reservations you made for your Walt Disney World Resort vacation.
The major aspect to note is that there are major differences between the cancellation policy for Room-Only Reservations and Magic Your Way Vacation Packages that include tickets, dining plans or any additional items beyond simply the Resort Hotel Room Reservations.
I usually refer to the posted terms and conditions whenever I am unsure about a future Walt Disney World Resort vacation package. It outline the dates by which cancelations must be requested in order to receive a full or partial refund, as well as when a refund will not be granted.
For Room-Only Reservations, cancelations for a full refund of any monies paid will be granted as long as they are requested at least 5 days before Check-In.
If you have any concerns or issues about your specific circumstance, you can always contact a Cast Member at (407)939-1936, to get your specific dates for cancelations depending on your specific Resort Hotel Reservations. Cancelations may be done by phone or through your My Disney Experience Account when still within your cancelation range.


I made my way north for the glorious battle grounds on a steed named Toyota.
Slipping past the guards of the road, I parked her in a bush promising "they won't tow ya".
The poor lads behind me had their breeches ruffled and with dark potions they were caught red handed.
Then Sir Roland Tings laid down some fully sick chunk and that I really do fancy.
My squire and I spent half our gold on oriental cuisine t'was a very poor deal.
Got down to the bangers and exposed to the world her boulders.
Upon exiting the Kingdom two knights took up arms and duelled over a hussy.
And journeyed home after a glorious day of music and celebrations.
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Print and use these pages to write a report on sharks. Each report page includes a graphical insert and the title of the specific shark or ray. There is one page to write a report on sharks in general. For additional writing space, print a Blank Report page.


Learning to paint is a two-fold exercise, consisting of painting Theories and Techniques. I like to refer to these as the two "T"s of a successful painting. While these Ts work harmoniously in every successful painting, it is often easier to focus on one or the other when first learning to paint. Attempting to compose the elements of an unfamiliar scene, determining its relative light and dark relationships, evaluating the color relationships within its borders, while learning a new painting medium or trying a new painting method, can prove very frustrating. Often this "too much, too quickly" painting approach leads to discouragement. This is why I recommend the student make one "T" at a time a focus.
and the aesthetics of beauty. The theories of aerial-atmospheric perspective, linear perspective, center of interest, color harmony, and compositional design are some of the most commonly referenced. When learning the manipulative aspects of these theories and how they affect the painting's outcome, it is best to work in a familiar painting media, utilizing techniques that you are confident with. If you are secure in your abilities within that media, you will be able to focus your energies on the job of administering the theory.
confidence, work from familiar subject matter. Even better, copy a previous painting that was successful. This will allow you to focus on the techniques of product application without the distraction of orchestrating all the visual elements of the scene.
By designating theory and technique as separate fields of painting study, you will become a more confident artist. Eventually the two come together and you will respond intuitively to painting situations, and thus avoid the dreaded third painting T—Tentative!
I really liked the previous layout. Now the email I get looks like spam, I didn't even realize for awhile that it had Richard McKinley's blog. I thought the "feedblitz" name had been stolen by spammers, and expected to be asked to buy prescription meds from it. Cheez, who advised you to make this change in the website-a fourteen year old gamer? I have always printed out the blogs and have kept each week's offering in a notebook, which I read in the car on trips, etc…Now when I print it prints the blog plus all of the comments by readers, PAGES of them..how dumb, since I don't want to include them in my notebook, and they are way too small to read anyway!!! Get a grown up with some experience in customer relations to help you with getting it back to the way it was.
oh, and now the lovely picture included in each blog will not print, I get just the text. The whole 'new' thing is such a disappointment.


I grew up in a small, rural town (I mean very small. One stop light. One flashing light.) I moved to the Cincinnati area 5 years ago. I still drive the hour and 10 minutes back home often to see family and once every 5 weeks to visit the local salon. Recently on a trip back home I heard something that has broke and stirred my heart with compassion. Children are going hungry! We are no longer talking about a third world country. This is happening right under our noses daily as we walk around in a zombie-like state consumed with our social media and to-do list thinking it only happens in other places. Truth is? There is a mission field in your back door and often times the neighbor across the street.
I met a young woman at my church who spoke of her childhood. All through school she went hungry. There were often only beans to eat. Baths were often taken in the creek when there was no electric or water. But mom and dad always had cigarettes and beer. This was not during the depression era, this was in the early 2000's. It breaks my heart to think of her as a little girl going to bed hungry.
During the school year children who have 2 charges are then fed a peanut butter sandwich by the school. School administrators call the parents and ask them to please fill out the "free lunch" forms so their children can have a hot meal. The parents often refuse to fill out the form for varying reasons. The end result? Their children go through the day with only a peanut butter sandwich. Do you remember how hungry you were by lunch or at the end of a school day? Me too.
A small child came home and told their mother that friends were not eating lunch and were hungry by the end of the day. The compassion of this child was compelling. The mother tried putting more on the students account, packing their lunch, and letting the friends use the account. She was advised she could not do this. So instead? This woman goes to the school anonymously every month or so and pays for the charges, often wiping out her own bank account so the children can eat.
During the summer the Ministerial Association of my home town has come together to feed the children. Each church or business takes turns going to the small park and having food for the children who eagerly show up to get at least one meal that day.
But what about the weekends? The local school district ensures the students are fed during the day, but a lot of children have no means of getting food for the weekend. The Leesburg Ministerial Association, in conjunction with the Freestore Foodbank, would like to alleviate this problem and make sure no child in the community goes to bed hungry. With your help, Power Packs can be provided to the children at school before they leave for the weekend. Power Packs provide nutritious non-perishable food and drinks for two days that is easy for every child to prepare.
The cost is $4 per pack during the 40 weeks school is in session. $160.00 per year, per student in need, would ensure no child goes to bed hungry on the weekends. They are asking for pledges of $160 for the next three years to further the cause. If you cannot pledge to this amount, any donation would be greatly appreciated just the same. All donations are tax deductible and checks/money orders can be made payable to the "Fairfield Ministerial Program" and sent to 236 South Fairfield St., Leesburg, OH 45135.
I ask that you please pray for the children not only in Leesburg, but all across the United States who are going to bed hungry. If enough people rise up to take care of the mission fields in their own back yards, we can change our little corner of the world! I truly believe that small acts, done with great love, can change the world!!
If I had the means? I'd write the check without blinking. Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of money in the bank. But I do have a voice. We all have a voice. And it's time we rise up and take care of the least of these who can't take care of themselves.