http://www.israellycool.com/2007/06/10/close-the-door-on-your-way-out/ Down Under Punditry in the Middle East Fri, 25 May 2012 23:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.israellycool.com/2007/06/10/close-the-door-on-your-way-out/comment-page-1/#comment-9270 Anonymous Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:54:24 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2007/06/10/close-the-door-on-your-way-out/#comment-9270 The fact that he's holding that cat is animal cruelty. The fact that he’s holding that cat is animal cruelty.

]]> http://www.israellycool.com/2007/06/10/close-the-door-on-your-way-out/comment-page-1/#comment-9269 Anonymous Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:44:50 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2007/06/10/close-the-door-on-your-way-out/#comment-9269 I think all "Muslim leaders" should be required to recite specific parts of the Quran, just to confirm whether they can do so without flinching, as proof that they really believe: "Pharoah sought to scare them [the Israelites] out of the land [of Israel]: but We [Allah] drowned him [Pharoah] together with all who were with him. Then We [Allah] said to the Israelites: 'Dwell in this land [the Land of Israel]. When the promise of the hereafter [End of Days] comes to be fulfilled, We [Allah] shall assemble you [the Israelites] all together [in the Land of Israel]." "And [remember] when Moses said to his people: 'O my people, call in remembrance the favour of God unto you, when he produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave to you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin.'" A Muslim who believes the Quran and follows its teaching even though his personal opinions and interests might make it hard, is a real Muslim. Incidentally, did you know what Wahabiism was considered a heresy less than a century years ago? T.E. Lawrence wrote: "The Wahabis, followers of a fanatical Moslem heresy, had impressed their strict rules on easy and civilized Kasim. In Kasim there was but little coffee-hospitality, much prayer and fasting, no tobacco, no artistic dalliance with women, no silk clothes, no gold or silver head ropes or ornaments." I think all “Muslim leaders” should be required to recite specific parts of the Quran, just to confirm whether they can do so without flinching, as proof that they really believe:
“Pharoah sought to scare them [the Israelites] out of the land [of Israel]: but We [Allah] drowned him [Pharoah] together with all who were with him. Then We [Allah] said to the Israelites: ‘Dwell in this land [the Land of Israel]. When the promise of the hereafter [End of Days] comes to be fulfilled, We [Allah] shall assemble you [the Israelites] all together [in the Land of Israel].”
“And [remember] when Moses said to his people: ‘O my people, call in remembrance the favour of God unto you, when he produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave to you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin.’”
A Muslim who believes the Quran and follows its teaching even though his personal opinions and interests might make it hard, is a real Muslim.
Incidentally, did you know what Wahabiism was considered a heresy less than a century years ago?
T.E. Lawrence wrote:
“The Wahabis, followers of a fanatical Moslem heresy, had impressed their strict rules on easy and civilized Kasim. In Kasim there was but little coffee-hospitality, much prayer and fasting, no tobacco, no artistic dalliance with women, no silk clothes, no gold or silver head ropes or ornaments.”

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