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| Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋ u |
2002.06.03 – Journalists, and soon scholars who have been cowering behind, are noticing that all three of the major monotheistic religions are experiencing a crisis.
The New York Times published an article (Laurie Goldstein, 2002.06.02) noting that Catholics are under the gun over pedophilic priests, Muslims are seen as terrorists behind the gun, and Jews are where they’ve been for a couple of thousand years now, stuck in a Dark Ages quagmire staring down the barrels of both displacement theology guns as the world seethes and boils over with miso-Judaism, ostensibly caused by the Israeli-‘Palestinian’ conflict.
Neither journalists nor scholars yet see the common thread that binds the apparently different causes together; nor how this thread is inextricably intertwined in a global War on Terror.
Pedophilia among Catholic priests isn’t a new phenomenon. Cases under scrutiny go back decades and these certainly cannot be assumed to be the first of their kind. What is new is the critical attitude of Christians toward the traditionally sacrosanct Christian institutions. Understanding current trends requires investigating the causes of this change of attitude among the lay Christian masses.
Islam has become existentially desperate. Islam runs on the fuel of beliefs that Judaism and Christianity are both lies. For example, Arafat declared his genuine belief, and the sincere belief of most Muslims, to Pres. Clinton that the Jews never had a Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. For its own validity, Islam depends upon the invalidation of both Christianity and Judaism before it. Like Ultra-Orthodox Jews, the worst enemies of Islam are education and knowledge. These enemies are still being held at bay by forcible suppression. But Muslims realize that suppressing information will prove in the end a losing battle. Hence, existential desperation to obliterate the two predecessor religions that threaten the validity of Islam – the "kuph•ârꞋ."
Combined with the dream of returning to the "Goldern Era" of Islamic world rule, carefully nurtured by national leaders avoiding responsibility for poor government, existential desperation breeds all of the zealous Islamic Fi•da•yinꞋ terrorist Shu•had•âꞋ bombers one can outfit with explosive belts. Fi•da•yinꞋ-Shu•had•âꞋ bombers come from all walks of life, every strata of Muslim society and every income class of the Muslim world. There is only one thing they have in common: Fi•da•yinꞋ-Shu•had•âꞋ existential desperation for Islam / Ji•hâdꞋ and a zealousness to return to the "Golden Era" of the Islamic world rule of a Khilâf•ahꞋ. (See also my paper "War on Terror: Pakistani-Indian Theater")
Examining the plight of miso-Judaism stemming ostensibly from the Israeli-Arab conflict reveals that while the crises in Christianity and Islam both derive internally, the plight of Jews remains externally imposed – as has always been the case.
For 2,000 years, Jews have suffered the kind of hatred that Islam now directs at both Jews and Christians. Ironically, the cause is the same: displacement theology.
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