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Carol Lee Smith wrote:
 
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27255-2001Oct20.html
> Inescapable
> Either You Are a Believer or an Infidel
> By Michael Skube
> Sunday, October 21, 2001; Page B01

A nice piece of jingoism.

Try something original for a change :

http://www.muslimamerica.net/guide.htm

Guide to Events 
                
Processing the Information Overload

Dawud Ahmad al-Amriki
�1993 Muslim America


      First, do not imagine the press and media -- any press and media
-- to be anything other
than a party among the parties of contention.  The press are as
agenda-driven as anyone
else with an agenda.  They are not event-driven:  atrocities committed
by favored parties are
media non-events, a characteristic that cuts across all political,
religious and ideological
boundaries. 

      Second, do not imagine error or ineptitude, especially where it is
the main apparent
characteristic of an event.  Error and ineptitude pave the way to
scape-goating, an easy way
to conceal the strategic decision that led to the event.  Look instead
at the effect of an event
to see its cause:  the likely cause is intent to produce that effect. 

      Third, do not imagine motives to be beyond what you yourself can
conceive and
understand, but do not imagine that events proceed from values and
motives like your own: 
such has not been the case.  Parties have all the motives of princes
with none of their
restraints:  look for a political or strategic purpose behind the
personal desires or defects
advanced to mask it. 

      Fourth, before asking why a regime acts savagely, ask first why it
does not.  The nature of
police power in any party is to prevent, paralyze, and penalize
savagery: savagery exists only
when government fails in this purpose, which requires government to be
ready to meet
savagery on its own terms.  Why, then, does a capable force not do so? 
Behind this is the
answer to why it acts with savagery when and where it does. 

      Fifth, do not imagine that you receive real answers when you ask
questions:  ask
questions to assess the answerer's capacity to perceive truth and
integrity in telling it.  Seek
answers in your own observations and in your own assessments based on
your own
judgment of what you are offered as "facts;" and reconsider the entirety
whenever a new fact
becomes available to you.  While truth is often apparent, "answers"
seldom arise from it but
from rather less; sometimes from ignorance, but always where the parties
hold an advantage
based on concealing the truth, which is most often. 

      Sixth, do not imagine that you are actually threatened:  see that
you are, why, how, and by
whom, and continue to assess until you do.  Otherwise, until you have
the facts, the most
dangerous threat is your own imagination: your enemies capitalize on
this precise fact. 

      Seventh, Jews and Christians are warned to prepare for Armageddon
by beating their
swords into plowshares, Muslims for The Hour by becoming like the better
son of Adam: 
instead, Jews, Christians and Muslims -- many and few -- are actively
promoting Apocalypse. 
Avoid Messianic Apocalyptic Dementia, or believing that you (or those of
your communion) are
uniquely and divinely anointed and appointed to save the world, or a
remnant, or to usher in a
new world or a new message for the faithful, while this world falls away
into the Fire.  This
all-time favorite tool of deception is today a main event in media
circuses and more often fatal.



was-salaam,
iman@merr.com