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19/10/2005

By Nadir Martello

Introduction 

Recently, Joe had a hot exchange with Ruth, a new acquaintance.  At the end though, their exchange seemed to produce nothing.  Then I thought later, ‘this is typical of when two people try to communicate, but irremediably fail, because they are so different from each other and nothing can make them change their mind, or way of thinking, except maybe a rebirth.  

The following is the verbatim report of the exchange. 

Chapter one 

Ruth: Joe, why is that you circulate this dangerous idea, among your friends and aquaintainces, which says: “There is no such thing as Arabic/Muslim Terrorism”?  

I don't agree with this, it is typical of the unreasonable conspiracy theories.  I don't think you should circulate this material.

Joe: Sorry, but that was stated by the former president of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid on television just the other day. It is now out in the open.  Read it for yourself.  The publication is in "The Australian". 

Ruth: I am really sorry to see you sponsor that.  I think it is a really dangerous view because we can't deal with terrorism if people promote these conspiracy theories. 

Joe: Do not be sorry for me but for yourself.  I say this because I see that you believe - as the majority of people today - everything the media circus tells you.  Of course, you believe the corporate controlled media, because you want to.  For my part I chose not to, because I do not buy their lies. Consequently, as you see, you and I are having different point of view regarding this big 9/11 issue, because I chose not to be part of this on-going establishment of a One World Government [by the Bushes and his neocons], that is anti-Christian.   

Ruth: I am not arguing about the involvement of  the Indonesian military who have been angry with Australia ever since we liberated E. Timor, but I object to the inference that agencies of the US and British government were involved in Sept. 11, 200l etc. 

Joe: Sorry again, but I know otherwise.  According to my sources the US and Israel are involved in the 9/11. 

Ruth: Of course I do not believe everything in the media because I am well aware of their pro-abortion bias, to mention just one issue.  However, we are able to by-pass the liberal media to great extent through the internet, email, websites etc.  None of the info I get from my pro-life colleagues in the US or Britain substantiates your theories on 9/11. Also, I have lived among Muslims and in what is now Pakistan.  I know where the real terrorism is coming from - their radical madrassas funded from Saudi Arabia, not Israel, the UK or the USA. 

Joe: I am not sure that this writing exercise between us will lead anywhere.  Nonetheless, here are some extracts from a newsletter I just received from a correspondent, which might put some light on the 9/11 issue……..    

Ruth: I agree that we will have to disagree.  I am not defending Bush's policy in getting rid of Saddam, simply saying it is outrageous to believe that the US, Britain or Israel were involved in 9/11.  They may have incurred Muslim hatred, but they did not fly those planes into the World Trade Centre. 

You forget I lived in India during partition - Muslim fundamentalists could not accept democracy as envisioned in India and wanted a theocratic Muslim state, hence the creation of Pakistan, although India has more Muslims (moderate ones) than Pakistan and they flourish.  Meanwhile Pakistan continued on its fundamentalist journey and first lost Bangladesh (also Muslim) and continues to fight India in Kashmir. 

You list only some countries that have been attacked by terrorists, and do not mention that Muslims are slaughtering Christians in the Sudan, are fighting the democratic government of the Philippines,  also in Thailand and Chechnya. Wherever there is a war or terrorism today, it is Muslims who are involved.  

You also forget the US came to the rescue of Muslim Kosova when they were being persecuted by Serb, with the result that we now have democracy, more or less, over the whole of Yugoslavia.  The first Bush also rescued Kuwait from Saddam  -  and now women have the vote in Kuwait. 

Joe: As I said before, I do not submit myself to the media circus and their double and ambiguous speech, which is nothing but a tool for the New World Order.  You use similar language, such as “conspiracy theory”, “dangerous view”, “bringing democracy”, etc.  You do this maybe because you are a journalist yourself and writing for some papers.  

As far as ‘democracy’ is concerned I do not believe in it.  Democracy is a much abused word.  Consider the Democratic Republic of China, Germany, Korea etc.  That is one name of media double speech.  What the present establishment is promoting is One World Republic, or Government, under the appearance of “democracy”.  This is done by the corporate controlled media and through the United Nations, which is nothing but a Masonic/Talmudist/Marxist nest sponsored by types like Rothschild, the Rockefellers and their affiliates or agencies: the CFR, Bilderbergs, Club of Rome, Trilateral Commission, the Round Table, the IMF and the World Bank. 

You have traveled extensively and seen the world.  I may not have been in places where you have been, but I lived in Italy [I am an Italian], in France, in England, in Sweden, in Africa [1965-66; 1978], and in Madagascar [1968-77], as well as in Yugoslavia three times, 1978, 1996, and 2002.  So I was not born yesterday and suddenly discovered the world through the Internet, so to speak.  

In conclusion, on the matter of how we perceive world affairs, I might add that it is not just ‘on which side of the fence we are on’, but also how secular [anti-Christian] we have become, although we claim to be Christians.  I have written an article on the subject: Secularism versus Christianity. 

Thus all depends on which fence you are sitting.  Obliviously, you and I are sitting on opposite sides. 

The question of Muslims persecuting Christians is beside the point in the issue 9/11.  However, if there is persecution, one reason is that “Christians” are supporting Israel in its unjust treatment of Palestinians and encroachment onto other nations around it (Greater Israel).  This is what we get in return. 

Robert Royal wrote “The Catholic Martyrs Of The Twentieth Century”.  It is good reading.  Yet Robert Royal does not go as far as to give reasons why persecution of Christians by Muslims occurs at the present time.  I discovered later that Robert Royal, as many others like him [EWTN, News Weekly, the Vatican, etc.], support Israel and the establishment, of course [read the One World Government]. 

Ruth: Communist countries used the prefix "Democratic Republic of ....."  to cover up the fact that theirs was a dictatorship (of the proletariat, they claimed, but really the people had no say).  I used "Democratic Republic of ..." ironically as in "Democratic Republic of Massa- chussetts" to denote a very left-liberal state government.  Journalists are well aware that communist countries are dictatorships.  

I see where your hostility is coming from - you object to the establishment of Israel, and here I disagree with you and we will have to leave it at that. 

However, just in terms of Christian justice, I find it incredible that you think the slaughter of Christians in the Sudan by Muslims, is justified in anyway by the West's policies towards Israel.  Most of the Sudanese Christians have had nothing to do with such policies, may not even know where or what Israel is.  They would have been converts from animism or Islam - but Muslims imagine they have a God-given duty to slaughter "infidels".  Study the Koran. 

And what about Kashmir?  For a long time India did not even  diplomatically recognise  Israel - partly to keep the peace with its large Muslim population.  Yet the Muslims conducted the most horrendous massacres of Hindus in Pakistan at the time of partition, and even of their fellow-Muslims in Bangladesh. 

Even Pakistan has now recognized Israel - probably realising that the Palestinians are more interested in fighting Israel, the West and even among themselves - Hamas vs. the PLA - rather than establishing a stable state.    

You would really need to live in a Muslim-majority country to understand how they cannot tolerate rights for women or minorities. 

Joe: I see that you got off the target not once but twice.  What has the 9/11 issue got to do with the slaughter of Christians in Sudan and elsewhere? 

Second, I did not write that the persecution of Christians is justified.  You read me wrongly.  I will never say that.  What I said is, until Christian support of the Zionist-Israel policy (within the White House and without) of the genocide of Palestinians [and murders of many other people throughout the globe - by its Mossad or B’nai B’rith - because they are not pleased with what they have to say against them] persecution won’t stop but probably increase. 

I have been in Muslim countries.  I see you did not listen to what I said to you before.  I have been in Sudan, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Congo [Zaire], Egypt, Rhodesia, South Africa, Madagascar, twice in Indonesia and in Singapore.  I received much kindness among Muslim people.   

Third, regarding my hostility to Israel, as you called, it’s not hostility but love for truth.  Finally, I do not need to study the Koran as you advised me to do.  Actually, I believe the Talmud to be far worse. 

Ruth: You are a man, with all the freedom that implies while living as a Muslim in a Muslim country.  Try living as a woman in a black head to foot burkha in l00 F degrees heat, unable to go anywhere without a male guardian.  

You don't need to "study" the Koran  - just read it and see what it says in some sections about women and non-Muslims.  I don't need to defend the Talmud, I am not Jewish but if the Talmud has some dubious passages, as does our own Old Testament (requiring interpretation, e.g. Lot offering his daughters to strangers)  that does not justify the endless militancy of Islam to every other faith.  

I have also had much kindness and hospitality from Muslims, read the latest News Weekly about  Muslims in India, but it is no good saying that kindness  justifies the terrorism the extremists inflict all over the world.  If Muslims can live peaceably in India and Malaysia despite the existence of Israel, why can't the Wahhabists?  

People will always have grievances of one kind or another - the IRA and Tamil Tigers are also terrorists, and their genuine grievances do not justify the murder of innocent non-combatants.   

Even if we abandoned Israel, that would not satisfy the extremists  - they regard Spain as part of the Islamic Empire, also E. Timor.  Are we to abandon these also to placate them?  [End of exchange]  

Chapter two 

I have highlighted in red the salient parts, which illustrate not only misunderstanding between Ruth and Joe, but also to show how, most of time, Ruth is off the subject.  

These two people are so far apart, as it is the earth and the moon.  

The question to ask now is: what is it that separates people to the point that communication between them is almost impossible? Could this be due to a mental, intellectual or psychological problem? 

Maybe, all these combined.  However, I think that nothing is purely physical. Ultimately, as with everyone’s problems, these have deep spiritual roots. 

But before we come to the point, allow me first the use of some analogies: the “rainbow” and its “colours”.  

Also going back to our ‘friends’, Joe and Ruth, we will call both by a colour, say, “blue” for Joe and “red” for Ruth. On the visible spectrum below, the colour blue is on the left side and the red is on the right.

Thus we have here two colours - blue and red - but opposite to each other.  Joe and Ruth never came near each other, for they are incompatible. Not only that, but they never belong to any visible colour spectrum, either. Hence, the rainbow is not their home. 

The problem with Joe and Ruth is of “resistent colours”.  In other words, they never match, or combined in anyway - albeit with colour matching we know that we can get a variety of colours, such as pink, brown, maroon, grey, white, beige, and so forth -  not with Joe and Ruth. These two people are like  “unkindred spirits”, who live and exist [one more than the other] uncompromisingly, without sympathy for the other.  

So what do we do with these two different colours [people] that do not want to match and so become part of the rainbow, which is home where there is unity in diversity? 

Chapter three

You have to be born again in order to become a child of God[2].  Each of us has to allow himself to become part of the whole like the colours of the rainbow, which are many, though different, but united as one.  

Rainbow (see note 1)

The rainbow is an atmospheric phenomena, which appears to our eyes before the rain stops or after.  Sometimes we see the rainbow from one side of the sky to the other, like a multicolor bridge hovering over the land, because of the sun shedding its light on it. Without the light of sun we would not be able to see any rainbow in the sky.  

The traditional seven colours [red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet (and cyan[3])] of the rainbow are known since Noah’s time.  

Nonetheless there are many more colours than the seven colours of the rainbow, which are not visible[4]to us. 

In addition, one cannot get, for example, the green colour without matching the blue and the yellow together.  Each individual colour is valuable, per se.  But how much more valuable and indispensable a colour is, when part of the whole, as in a canvas done by a skillful  artist!  Yet, what is a beautiful canvas compared to the rainbow?  

So for each of us there is no unity, if we don’t allow ourselves to be part of the rainbow.  We would be just like Ruth [red] and Joe [blue] divided, unrelated, far apart, and be the resistent “colours”, for ever.  We would not be able to “bridge” the earth to the sky and therefore stop becoming what we were made for: “the heirs of light[5] and the colours of rainbow which is home for many[6].  

Maranatha. 

Contact: nadir@sheddinglight.info

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