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I was working on writing about the Prophet of Islam, but I think more time is needed , since I don't want to project a biased view, in the meantime a few thoughts.
A recent development has surfaced in the Iranian nuclear tryst, the letter from President Ahmadinejad to President Bush. This letter is written in Persian and the contents are not as much to do with the nuclear standoff or a diplomatic resolution to it but more to do with the philosophy of the western world and President Bush.
The letter is more like questions posed to Mr. Bush against a backdrop of turbulent old wounds of the Western and Middle Eastern world.I would like to quote some of Mr Ahamdinejads statement as it appeared in the NY Times.Quote "Again let us assume that these events are true," he (Mr. Ahmadinejad) wrote about the Holocaust. "Does that logically translate into the establishment of the state of Israel in the Middle East or support for such a state?" unquote.It seems Mr. Ahmadinejad is in doubt about recorded history, he asks President Bush to assume the events of the Holocaust to be true.
Is he trying to say that the Kristallnacht progrom of November 1938 or the T-4 Euthanasia Program, Extermination camps, and Killing squads leading to the death of over 10 Million human beings , 7 million in 1939 alone in Central and Eastern Europe is a myth ?. Adolf Hitler’s anti-semitic views are well documented in his book Mein Kampf published in 1925 and gives enough insight to what that man was capable of. Whether Mr. Ahamdinejads posit calls for a Jewish settlement in the Middle East is another question.
He goes on to say about 9/11, quote Mr. Ahmadinejad also calls the 9/11 attacks a "horrendous incident" in which the killing of innocent people was "deplorable."But he asks: "Why have the various aspects of the attacks been kept secret? Why are we not told who botched their responsibilities? And, why aren't those responsible and the guilty parties identified and put on trial?" unquote; so according to the President of Iran, the head of state; there is a conspiracy theory because he insists, why those responsible and other guilty parties are not put on trial.This is interesting because Michael Moore may have been right, or maybe, banking on media leaks, Mr. Ahmadinejad posited a question to Mr. Bush whose ramification can but include a “shadow on the credibility of the President of America”, atleast in the eyes of his own people(not that his abysmal 34% rating is any better).
Whether the President of Iran goes on to accuse some people further in the letter is not known as the media version of the letter is not consummate in details and continuity. Stating further in his letter to Mr. President, Mr. Ahamdinejad says, quote If billions of dollars spent on security, military campaigns and troop movement were instead spent on issues including health and aid to the poor, he wrote, "would there have been an ever increasing global hatred of the American governments?" unquote. This is one point the Iranian president has voiced for millions of people around the world who have looked up to America as a moral tutor including Americans themselves.
A country, whose defense spending is 50% the defense budget of the World, has to most certainly re-think its policies, especially foreign policy. This in consonance with American uni-lateral support for Israel and blotched policies when dealing with Palestine and some of the South American governments surely makes the Iranian Presidents question strong in reckoning.
The most interesting part of the letter which caught my eye was quote The Iranian president also extends to Mr. Bush an "invitation" to return to governing the United States based on the values of Jesus Christ, whose name in the letter is followed each time by the letters "PBUH," which stands for "Peace Be Upon Him."Frequently quoting passages from the Koran, Mr. Ahmadinejad calls for a return to a religious basis of government."Will you not accept this invitation?" Mr. Ahmadinejad asks Mr. Bush. "That is, a genuine return to the teachings of prophets, to monotheism and justice, to preserve human dignity and obedience to the Almighty and His prophets?" "Liberalism and Western style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity," he wrote. "Today these two concepts have failed unquote.
It all finally returns back to where it started, the Abrahamic religions and their self devised confusions doled out through the hands of their own Prophet. Who is the last Prophet of God, who is the last Rasul? Tempting neo-philosophical terms like human dignity, obedience, monotheism as used by Mr. Ahamdinejad is a pseudo reflection of what the books have stated and what we human beings have followed.
This man the head of state of a nation, like a juvenile suggests a return to a “religious basis of government”, theocracy, to the President of the longest running most effective Democracy in the world. Hence a world which is increasingly becoming global and de-centralized and surely Panarchic in times ahead, has to revert back to a form of autocracy; autocracy since the most practiced monotheistic religions are but the philosophy and revealed Consciousness of their own Prophets.This inevitably leads to semi-presidential forms of government with a religious head of state.
Most theocratic states are living examples of oppression and deprivation of freedom of the human being(http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/fiw/FIWAllScores.xls). Human life has suffered enough in the hands of religious intolerance, to now build geographical boundaries based on theocracy and possibly end up in World War-3 or the “Last Crusade”. Well the initiatives of President Bush don’t fall far behind in defining small scale crusades in the Middle East. More so when he made a statement few months back that Christ had or rather God had asked him to go to war.
Maybe President Bush is a Messiah and he talked to what he thought was God, his awareness of Consciousness (chic) and thus made the statement. If you mention this to Noam Chomsky, you might get killed with his pen.Noam Chomsky through his recent book “Failed States” reflects his belief that the United States has the attributes of a failed state. Chomsky sees the US as an out of control predatory hegemon reserving for itself alone the right to wage permanent war on the world and justify it under a doctrine of "anticipatory self-defense" or preventive war.
The Bush administration claims justification in its actions, against any nation it sees as a threat to national security. Sacred international law, treaties and other standard and accepted norms observed by most other nations are just seen as "quaint (and) out of date" and can be ignored. It hardly matters to those in Washington that in the wake of WW II, the most destructive war ever, the UN was established primarily "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war" and possibility of "ultimate doom." .The philosophy of Chomsky in determining a failed state, among others is;1. The threat of nuclear war2. Environmental disaster and its contributors3. The sharp divide between public opinion and public policyThe United States perceives and amply contributes atleast to the above three points in defining itself as a failed state. Despite this image, US policies intend to embark on a mission of democracy and peace, with very strong undertones of selfish political advantage and Oil access, but the bunch of un-realized beings that we are; the question is at what cost?
Authored By Amit Patnaik
A recent development has surfaced in the Iranian nuclear tryst, the letter from President Ahmadinejad to President Bush. This letter is written in Persian and the contents are not as much to do with the nuclear standoff or a diplomatic resolution to it but more to do with the philosophy of the western world and President Bush.
The letter is more like questions posed to Mr. Bush against a backdrop of turbulent old wounds of the Western and Middle Eastern world.I would like to quote some of Mr Ahamdinejads statement as it appeared in the NY Times.Quote "Again let us assume that these events are true," he (Mr. Ahmadinejad) wrote about the Holocaust. "Does that logically translate into the establishment of the state of Israel in the Middle East or support for such a state?" unquote.It seems Mr. Ahmadinejad is in doubt about recorded history, he asks President Bush to assume the events of the Holocaust to be true.
Is he trying to say that the Kristallnacht progrom of November 1938 or the T-4 Euthanasia Program, Extermination camps, and Killing squads leading to the death of over 10 Million human beings , 7 million in 1939 alone in Central and Eastern Europe is a myth ?. Adolf Hitler’s anti-semitic views are well documented in his book Mein Kampf published in 1925 and gives enough insight to what that man was capable of. Whether Mr. Ahamdinejads posit calls for a Jewish settlement in the Middle East is another question.
He goes on to say about 9/11, quote Mr. Ahmadinejad also calls the 9/11 attacks a "horrendous incident" in which the killing of innocent people was "deplorable."But he asks: "Why have the various aspects of the attacks been kept secret? Why are we not told who botched their responsibilities? And, why aren't those responsible and the guilty parties identified and put on trial?" unquote; so according to the President of Iran, the head of state; there is a conspiracy theory because he insists, why those responsible and other guilty parties are not put on trial.This is interesting because Michael Moore may have been right, or maybe, banking on media leaks, Mr. Ahmadinejad posited a question to Mr. Bush whose ramification can but include a “shadow on the credibility of the President of America”, atleast in the eyes of his own people(not that his abysmal 34% rating is any better).
Whether the President of Iran goes on to accuse some people further in the letter is not known as the media version of the letter is not consummate in details and continuity. Stating further in his letter to Mr. President, Mr. Ahamdinejad says, quote If billions of dollars spent on security, military campaigns and troop movement were instead spent on issues including health and aid to the poor, he wrote, "would there have been an ever increasing global hatred of the American governments?" unquote. This is one point the Iranian president has voiced for millions of people around the world who have looked up to America as a moral tutor including Americans themselves.
A country, whose defense spending is 50% the defense budget of the World, has to most certainly re-think its policies, especially foreign policy. This in consonance with American uni-lateral support for Israel and blotched policies when dealing with Palestine and some of the South American governments surely makes the Iranian Presidents question strong in reckoning.
The most interesting part of the letter which caught my eye was quote The Iranian president also extends to Mr. Bush an "invitation" to return to governing the United States based on the values of Jesus Christ, whose name in the letter is followed each time by the letters "PBUH," which stands for "Peace Be Upon Him."Frequently quoting passages from the Koran, Mr. Ahmadinejad calls for a return to a religious basis of government."Will you not accept this invitation?" Mr. Ahmadinejad asks Mr. Bush. "That is, a genuine return to the teachings of prophets, to monotheism and justice, to preserve human dignity and obedience to the Almighty and His prophets?" "Liberalism and Western style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity," he wrote. "Today these two concepts have failed unquote.
It all finally returns back to where it started, the Abrahamic religions and their self devised confusions doled out through the hands of their own Prophet. Who is the last Prophet of God, who is the last Rasul? Tempting neo-philosophical terms like human dignity, obedience, monotheism as used by Mr. Ahamdinejad is a pseudo reflection of what the books have stated and what we human beings have followed.
This man the head of state of a nation, like a juvenile suggests a return to a “religious basis of government”, theocracy, to the President of the longest running most effective Democracy in the world. Hence a world which is increasingly becoming global and de-centralized and surely Panarchic in times ahead, has to revert back to a form of autocracy; autocracy since the most practiced monotheistic religions are but the philosophy and revealed Consciousness of their own Prophets.This inevitably leads to semi-presidential forms of government with a religious head of state.
Most theocratic states are living examples of oppression and deprivation of freedom of the human being(http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/fiw/FIWAllScores.xls). Human life has suffered enough in the hands of religious intolerance, to now build geographical boundaries based on theocracy and possibly end up in World War-3 or the “Last Crusade”. Well the initiatives of President Bush don’t fall far behind in defining small scale crusades in the Middle East. More so when he made a statement few months back that Christ had or rather God had asked him to go to war.
Maybe President Bush is a Messiah and he talked to what he thought was God, his awareness of Consciousness (chic) and thus made the statement. If you mention this to Noam Chomsky, you might get killed with his pen.Noam Chomsky through his recent book “Failed States” reflects his belief that the United States has the attributes of a failed state. Chomsky sees the US as an out of control predatory hegemon reserving for itself alone the right to wage permanent war on the world and justify it under a doctrine of "anticipatory self-defense" or preventive war.
The Bush administration claims justification in its actions, against any nation it sees as a threat to national security. Sacred international law, treaties and other standard and accepted norms observed by most other nations are just seen as "quaint (and) out of date" and can be ignored. It hardly matters to those in Washington that in the wake of WW II, the most destructive war ever, the UN was established primarily "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war" and possibility of "ultimate doom." .The philosophy of Chomsky in determining a failed state, among others is;1. The threat of nuclear war2. Environmental disaster and its contributors3. The sharp divide between public opinion and public policyThe United States perceives and amply contributes atleast to the above three points in defining itself as a failed state. Despite this image, US policies intend to embark on a mission of democracy and peace, with very strong undertones of selfish political advantage and Oil access, but the bunch of un-realized beings that we are; the question is at what cost?
Authored By Amit Patnaik
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