Imam Mahdi – May God Hasten His Appearance; A Friday Sermon of Al Qaeda/Taliban/US Alliance

Provisional Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran Ayatollah Mohammad Kashani sermonizing before a standing room only congregation said:

"US administration is propagating a certain version of Christianity that is not based on Jesus Christ (PBUH) teachings, but after securing Zionists' interests.

Based on this mentality, the Jews must gather in Palestine and then in the course of a revolution two thirds of them to get killed, and the remainder should see the reappearance of Jesus (PBUH).

Therefore, they are after gathering the entire Jews of the world in Palestine, which is definitely a move with political and Satanic roots, but the idea is put forth in the framework of an idea behind the hope for reappearance of Messiah. US President George W. Bush is the standard bearer of that mentality. That man is loathed to an extent in the United States today that the mentality he supports, too, has very limited number of supporters."

They have Satanic interactions with the Zionists, but such a mentality has extremely weakened in the Western world today.”

So, the U.S. led by George Bush is against peace, also the nation as a whole:

“They are well aware that the governing political system in the Islamic Republic of Iran is after establishment of peace and justice in the world, and that Iran is today a divine world power.”

Now we can understand just why the Islamic Republic is so dead set against the U.S. and Western world in general. This is all well and good and if we’re really, really lucky they’ll be victorious and save us from ourselves as, “the people in the United States and Europe are living wretched lives today.”

The Prayer Leader regrets:

“that family foundation has no real meaning in their societies; philanthropy, faithfulness, friendly relations, love, living with one another, and caring for spiritual matters have no place in Western societies.”

In part, the leader is mistaken, especially the “love” part as recent news has revealed to us here in the U.S. “anonymous love” that takes place daily in public restrooms across the nation.

"There is no doubt that justice would finally prevail through the channel of faith, and both God's blessings and His wrath, too, would be distributed through the same path."

The Ayatollah quoted “a saying from Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) advising Christians what to do to rid themselves of the problems with which they would be entangled at the end of the world.”

This helps shed a little light upon the interest in “peaceful nukes,” which seems to point to a hastening of the “end of the world,” so that we may know peace; I knew they had our better interests in mind with this cockamamie “peaceful nukes,” thing.

Also of newsworthy note is the fact that, according to Iranian Majlis deputy National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazem Jalali:

"US President George W Bush and American neoconservatives make utmost use of al-Qaeda and Taliban acts, Main crimes by al-Qaeda in the world are in line with interests of the US extremists. The MP noted that news reveal that the US works with Taliban and has confidential talks with al-Qaeda. In its terrorist acts, al-Qaeda takes interests of the US and the Zionist regime into consideration. Bush has always strived to cause obstruction and raise accusations against others and Iran in particular. This is while the world's public opinion know that al-Qaeda is led by Washington."

Elsewhere, while addressing the Security Council, Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mansour Sadeghi said of Hamas:

"Hamas has came to power through an election which the whole international community recognized as fair, free and democratic.

It is therefore high time for the international community to urgently weigh in to counter the Israeli regime's inhumane policies and practices in imposing humanitarian disasters on the defenseless Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere in the Palestinian territories."

Who knows, it's all very confusing. Perhaps this is just some of that panicked, backs up against the wall pressure that VDH theorizes they may beginning to react to.

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South Korean Guests of Taliban to be Released; Untolerable

According to The Korea Herald:

"The Taliban will set free all 19 South Koreans taken hostage in Afghanistan since mid-July."

The gist of the deal?

"The agreement was reached on conditions that South Korea withdraw its troops stationed in Afghanistan by the year's end and impose a ban on its Christian nationals' missionary activities in the Southwest Asian country."

Someone must think this is better than trading Taliban prisoners/fighters for the missionary hostages. Back on July 26th Chief Presidential Secretary for Security Policy Baek Jong-chun, following the slaying of one of the hostages said:

'"The Korean government clearly states that the organization responsible for the abduction will be held accountable for taking the life of a Korean citizen. The killing of an innocent citizen cannot be justified under any circumstance or for any reason, and any such inhumane act can not be tolerated.'"

Now that the abductors have been held "accountable," we can see how a nation refuses to tolerate "such inhumane" acts; by leaving. Thankfully with this strong response in hand the Taliban will hesitate when considering taking hostages in the future. Phew, that was a close one.

Details of when the 19 remaining hostages will be released will follow further "consultations" with the Taliban captors.

Proof positive that diplomacy can work...

Don't know why, but I woke up in the middle of the night and wondered how this group of people was doing and then this news...hmmmm.

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How About 16 of Your Females for 16 of Ours

According to The Korea Herald:

“Taliban militants Tuesday proposed that female South Korean hostages be freed in return for the release of an equal number of female Taliban prisoners held by the Afghan government.”

16 of the hostages taken by the Taliban, which the paper describes as “extremists, waging an insurgency against the government,” are women and any women arrested and convicted in Afghanistan would have been jailed being according to Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi “simple Taliban supporters, who were convicted for providing food or shelter to Taliban fighters.”

Oh, well then, that’s ok…

On a brighter note and in what would not have been seen five short years ago in Afghanistan:

“Around 300 Afghans demonstrated Monday in the southern city of Kandahar calling for the release of 21 South Koreans who have been held by the extremist Taliban militia for more than two weeks.”

“The demonstrators moved through the city in pickup trucks, minivans and cars, distributing leaflets condemning the kidnappers and chanting anti-Taliban slogans through loudspeakers.”

“They especially criticized the holding of female hostages, as 16 of the 21 Christian aid workers being held under threat of death are women.”

"Death to those who have abducted the South Koreans," the crowd shouted.

Their leaflets condemned hostage-taking, and especially the abduction of women, as cowardly and in contravention of Islam and Afghan culture.”

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Riaz Hassan, the Pope, the Taliban and 22 South Korean Hostages

According to an editorial written by Australian professorial fellow and emeritus professor at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, Riaz Hassan, (“Interrupting a history of tolerance?”):

“The Zionist project for a Jewish state was predicated on centuries of Jewish sufferings in Europe.

Anti-Semitism was not an entrenched characteristic of Islamic ideology and history until the 20th century. Without doubt, European anti-Semitic writings and their translation into Arabic during the 19th century and German National Socialism in the 20th century were instrumental in instigating anti-Semitism throughout Arab lands.”

Strange revelation, not so much from Hassan, but more due to its publication in The Korea Herald today, following the extension of the deadline set by the Taliban for the release of 22 South Koreans for roughly the same number of Taliban in Afghanistan.

Pope Benedict recently chimed in on the hostage situation that may lead to the murder in cold blood of the 22 Christian missionaries calling the exploitation of innocent people as a "grave violation of human dignity:”

"Unfortunately the usual practice of exploiting innocent people for their own ends is spreading among armed groups. It is a grave violation of human dignity that clashes with every elementary norm of civility and rights and gravely offends divine law.”

Hopefully this will not exacerbate the situation as according to Professor Hassan in the September 26, 2006 issue of the Daily Times of Pakistan in his “VIEW: The Jihad and the West:”

“The need for a dialogue between Islam and the West has never been more acute than now, but Pope Benedict XVI’s recent description of Islam as “evil and inhuman” is clearly not the best approach. In his lecture on Faith and Reason at Regensburg University, the pope quoted the 14th century Byzantine Christian emperor Manuel II Palaeologus as saying, “Show me just what Muhammad [peace be upon him] brought was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by sword the faith he preached.” Notwithstanding the Vatican’s statement that the pope meant no offence and, in fact, desired dialogue, in the eye of many Muslims his remarks only reinforced a false and biased view of Islam — not conducive to dialogue.”

In another example of intolerance toward radical Islam the South Korean government has asked YouTube to remove video clips from 2004 that “showed Koreans condemning Islam after a Korean translator was killed in Iraq in 2004, and a Korean woman preaching Christianity to a group of Afghan children. It was not disclosed who posted the videos, which have now been taken down.”

Further in the effort to avoid provoking the Taliban, “the Korean Government Information Agency asked Youtube last Friday to delete the content on the grounds that it falsely portrays Christians and Koreans alike.” The Christian portrayal refers to a quote from a YouTube post that said, "I am Korean myself and right now 90 percent of Korean public also think that those stupid Korean Christians deserve what has happened."

So in the effort to bring the 22 hostages home safely a view of the world that the likes of the Taliban most violently represents is wiped from the public record.

Good luck with real negotiations.

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Red Mosque Siege in Pakistan and the Board

Yesterday, the editorial board of The NY Times had some advice for the Bush Administration regarding General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan. Of Musharraf the board said:

“he has done far less than he promised — and far less than is needed. It’s not clear which side his intelligence services are rooting for, while Taliban and Qaeda fighters continue to find shelter and support on Pakistan’s side of the Afghan border.”

One cannot disagree that Musharraf’s Pakistan has done less than promised in the fight against terrorism, however via the opinion of the toiletPaper all the nuance that they find commendable in a Kerry, they don’t apply to themselves with regard to a problem that is not at all as simple as they would like.

Question to the board: whose intelligence will Musharrafs be if he is replaced whether Democratically or by other means?

The board believes:

“Washington needs to make clear to the Pakistani people that America is the ally of their country, not their dictator, and that the United States favors the earliest possible return to free elections and civilian rule.”

Well, this is hard to disagree with as well; but their people are definitely a mixed bag as are the many different parts of the government there. “America is the ally of their country,” including one assumes of Mohammed Abdul Aziz and Abdur Rashid Ghazi; the fellas in the lead on the Red Mosque stand-off.

Did the boards words strike fear in Musharraf and lead to the recent military storming of the mosque? Hmmmmm…..

BBC News considers the consequences of the siege:

“Pakistan's military ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, has often been accused of tolerating elements in the military and the intelligence services who are known to maintain ideological and strategic links with the country's Islamic militants.

That includes those holed up in Islamabad's Red Mosque (Lal Masjid).

So does the final showdown at the mosque mean that Gen Musharraf is moving decisively against those elements - and if so, what are the consequences?”

The board should consider more than just their simplistic biased views when blowing the hot air of their clarion call; whatever the subject.

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