"the Realm of The Gods .."

From Thomas L.Friedman's

A Poverty of Dignity and a Wealth of Rage

NewYork Times, July 15, 2005

Also at work is Islam's struggle with modernity. Islam has a long tradition of tolerating other religions, but only on the basis of the supremacy of Islam, not equality with Islam. Islam's self-identity is that it is the authentic and ideal expression of monotheism. Muslims are raised with the view that Islam is God 3.0, Christianity is God 2.0, Judaism is God 1.0, and Hinduism is God 0.0.

Part of what seems to be going on with these young Muslim males is that they are, on the one hand, tempted by Western society, and ashamed of being tempted. On the other hand, they are humiliated by Western society because while Sunni Islamic civilization is supposed to be superior, its decision to ban the reform and reinterpretation of Islam since the 12th century has choked the spirit of innovation out of Muslim lands, and left the Islamic world less powerful, less economically developed, less technically advanced than God 2.0, 1.0 and 0.0.

"Some of these young Muslim men are tempted by a civilization they consider morally inferior, and they are humiliated by the fact that, while having been taught their faith is supreme, other civilizations seem to be doing much better," said Raymond Stock, the Cairo-based biographer and translator of Naguib Mahfouz. "When the inner conflict becomes too great, some are turned by recruiters to seek the sick prestige of 'martyrdom' by fighting the allegedly unjust occupation of Muslim lands and the 'decadence' in our own."

This is not about the poverty of money. This is about the poverty of dignity and the rage it can trigger.

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Xa|man

PREAMBLE

..testing.. testing...hello 1..2..3.. hello 1..2..3 ... is thing on...

(8) zunnnnnnn nnnnnn (8)

...and the sound system shrieks in affirmation....

sanity prevails (witholding its silence).... and the scion of saladin, to the joy of the opppressed, begins:

thought de uno :
Love (or lack thereoff... ) creates randomness....randomness depicting a twisted, fuzyy pattern.....the look of which jolts from within...it encourages inebriation of the soul...intoxication of sanity...restlessnes..... . But ponder if you will and you will become an aficionado of this inconspicuous resltlessness that breeds in and feeds the soul at the same time... It is but a paradox that such thoought exists not at the dispense of love..but at the mere desire of it..

thought de dos:
wit! banter! all these words conspired with Vanity, the Royal Sin....make way to the heart of the incomplacent soul....

thought de tres:
as euphmistic as it may sound..spiritualness is a sham! , a failing act of the retarded.... the footsteps of pragmaticism are etchedon the moon and spirit worship has only but given way to more denail..



thought de quatro ( finale') :
Moi created this excuse-of-a-thing-called-blog sounds swedish to redirect this impetuous surge to unleash this argumentative bitch living somehere inside of me... (oR probably its an excuse for something more bizzare and lacklustre also nurturing itself within me)