"Et tu, Brute?"

    Post September 11 the backlash against Muslims in general, the popular (& trendy) upsurge against Islam, promoted and added on by the western (DEMOCRATIC-as in uncontrolled?) media has fanned hatred, fear & at the least apprehension & suspicion generally against aliens, & particularly against Muslims. People should realize the agenda through which these efforts are trying to achieve. 

   Isn't it laughable that an Edward Snowden has to flee his own birth country to seek asylum in Russia before the citizens of the greatest nation on earth would wake up and be aware their leaders are not really working for their general welfare and does not at all give a tadpoles fart for most of anything the people of the great nation care about or aspire to?

   Similar attempts insinuate against China plus others nations which are not so oriented or 'yes-men' of the mighty democracies. (Is democracy the right word or would "opportunists' be more apt?)

  No one disagrees, at least those of right set minds & most would condemn, what happened in NY on 9/11 as evil, uncalled for taking of non-combatants' lives, unfair, uncivilized, barbaric in its conception of bringing of whatever issues these militants had to an innocent public via such murderous means. 

It back-fired severely & achieved more against than for their cause. And though the declared "War on Terror" with its subsequent tightening and loss of many freedoms of a civil society;  its now directed at Islamics might be in a way be considered 'serves you right"; in all fairness, do not civilized Man know better than an eye for another? 

And Christians in particular, should not we be more aware of this than any other faith-followers? 

Someone said it is not those of any religion who are promoting and doing evil acts against humanity IT IS THE EXTREME FUNDAMENTALISTS.  May it be also mentioned that extreme FUNDAMENTALISTS are in EVERY religious groups and is NOT CONFINED to Islam. Neither are extreme fundamentalists to be found only in religious groups. They are everywhere where unfair discrimination is practiced and promoted. They are everywhere where another man's rights are being trampled & denied because of differences in color, convictions, beliefs or ethnicities. Unfairness whenever practiced, & injustice due to whatever considerations be they religious (most justifiable since GOD said so?), political, racial, economical or just plain nastiness; that's where such destabilizers of good-will,  that's where extreme fundamentalists would be found - growing, thriving and FESTERING, promoting an agenda of xenophobic disenchantment.

God is REAL and He is NOT IN this.

Read on, make up your own mind to not be manipulated by a colored bigoted version of your godly belief.

Bias did not come from God! Definitely God would not condone the messages we see and read for or against any religious groupings. Battling evil acts & countering malevolent intents does not equate to blind injustice, unfairness, nor justifications for discriminatory actions against the entire nation or group of people from which the perps came. If this were correct by Him Germany, Japan and most other nations which ever lost any wars should deservedly be destroyed & completely be made extinct. 

The guy who said "Those who are not for us are against us" and should thus be destroyed or in the least disabled from doing us harm; need to go for rehab!

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  On reading the content of this forward, it was scarey! Noticed after 9/11 there generally is such a SAD SAD SAD backlash to the Muslim community in general, & a trendy shift to intolerance and ill-will towards believers of most other non-Caucasian faiths even remotely linked to Islam. This ill-will, intolerance is now re-ignited more & more & perhaps the fanning of such has stirred anti-others' ill-will in many other heretofore benevolent faiths; resulting in an upsurge of dissention & with many such so-far 'docile' religious groupings resorting to open hostility, violence! 

    Are humans (generally) and Christ centered folks (particularly) who supposedly knowing better, & specifically 'commanded' to 'love thy neighbor as thyself' such vengeful-unforgiving-score-settling soldiers of the Cross?  Is there WAR  in the realm of an all-loving god's created creatures ?

      Given human nature to be what it is, that reactive anger and hatred for those responsible for an uncalled for ghastly murderous event on 9/11, is rather warranted and generally understandable; it would take an exceptional individual to NOT fall into that downward spiral of blind faithlessness of unreasonable un-LOVE. 

Being no sympathiser of any particular religious group, it is pathetic though to note some present day Christians, (perhaps trying to appear trendy or "patriotic" or to keep up with other Christian Joneses) on one hand declaring unstinting, caring LOVE, Charity & Concern for the downtrodden, sacrificing hearth & home going to all corners of the world to set prisoners free, console the sick and clothe the naked etc etc AND then without drawing breath pass such incendiary fwds with the same zeal that must also have fired the cloistered un-illuminated minds of the ancient Crusaders. Is every adherent of a faith to be tarred with the same brush when deviant believers do evil? Were there no evil done by those of a supposedly accepted faith group? Thus following what He did teach about those who being sinless to cast the first stone of condemnation, should it thus not be extrapolated that equally sinful, & equally evil we all are? 

Even if no person belonging to our (approved) religion did any megalomaniacal genocide or committed murder most foul; should we so-called creatures of a loving God, we who proclaim a great love for all, exclude and withhold that self same love from these who supposedly through no active wrongdoing were lumped together & condemned through 9/11? Thus it is not wrong to condemn an entire race or religion or an entire family or community and with one brush tar and brand ALL as evil doers to be annihilated because some or many of their kind did evil to others of ours?  
   This should be shouted from the top of Altars, the steeples and broadcasted as some 'patriotic Christian call to arms'? And we are all about God's Love?

Any better were we then from the snakes, the robbers, brigands & all other malcontents, who loved their own and who too similarly with held that love and consideration from others?

A dose of good sense and simple human-ness, from perhaps a modern day Moses (or Muhammad as the Muslims are not entirely sitting quietly, in the face of Islamophobia) or even a respected, respectable person of god, maybe a sage from some colorless race (more neutral?) might maybe restore mindful balance and divert the head-on-collision of antagonistic religious animosities.

BUT this is not to be, especially when religious exclusivity & spiritual arrogance rear its combined (PTL, ALLAHUAHKBAR, ALLELUIA, LOVING) heads  :( 

It is trendy too to bash others indiscriminately!

Do it to feel that thrill you've never felt before! 

The link below may cast some light on this particular article making the rounds  many years back & now being rehash to perhaps fan racial, religious, fears & promote unreasonable bias, discrimination etc. for an obviously anti-Islam agenda though guised as an appeal for assertion of civil rights, liberties, & the benefits even of our children's future well-being. 

This is only one of a concerted multitude of well orchestrated generation of propaganda by whomever for very obvious reasons to discredit cast fears & impart promote xenophobia..  

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://freedomsfreefall.blogspot.com/2013/05/muslims-attempt-dry-run-on-airtran.html

This website wasn't accessible, if you check the blogger's profile it would impress on you the nature of the guy who initially posted this.

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You all travel a lot. One of these days, they will request you give up  your seat to enable them to pray in the aircraft. 

Cancelled Flight       

THIS IS VERY INTERESTING HOW THE MUSLIM WORLD IS TAKING OVER SLOWLY BY THEIR TERRORISM IF U DONT PASS THIS ON IT WILL CONTINUE SO HOPEFULLY IT REACHES SOME POINT WHERE THE AUTHORITY IS ALERTED 

Cancelled Flight - Please Read!!

What would you have done?

Lets all start standing up for our rights! 

Please read entire story, we should be very, very scared about this!!!! 

THE PEOPLE THAT DELETE THIS TYPE OF EMAIL, REFUSE TO PASS IT ON, OR SIMPLY  DON'T CARE IS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT PEOPLE THAT DO CARE CAN'T MAKE ANY  HEADWAY.. THE THREATS ARE REAL, I WON'T BE HERE TO SEE THE END OF THIS  TURMOIL BUT THE DO NOTHING GROUP WILL RUE THE DAY THEY LET THIS HAPPEN TO  THEIR CHILDREN. 

 And to think that Fox News was the only channel that reported this. They 

 may be "politically incorrect", but at least they had the guts to report 

 it. 

 In my opinion, the Muslims are all getting very brave now. Read Tedd 

 Petruna's story below. Can you imagine, our own news media now are so 

 politically correct that they are afraid to report that these were all 

 Muslims? 

 Tedd Petruna is a diver at the NBL (Neutral Buoyancy Lab) facility at NASA 

  Houston . Tedd happened to be on the AirTran Flight 297, from Atlanta to 

  Houston . Here's his report: 

 "One week ago, I went to Ohio on business and to see my father. On 

 Tuesday, the 17th, I returned home. If you read the papers the 18th you 

 may have seen a blurb about where an Air Tran flight was canceled from 

  Atlanta to Houston due to a man who refused to get off of his cell phone 

 before take- off.. The story was only on Fox News. That was NOT what 

 really happened. 

 I was seated in 1st class coming home. Eleven Muslim men got on the plane 

 in full Muslim attire. Two of them sat in 1st class and the rest seated 

 themselves throughout the plane, in coach class, all the way to the back. 

 As the plane taxied out to the runway, the stewardesses gave the safety 

 spiel that we are all so familiar with. 

 At that time, one of the men, in 1st class, got on his cell and called one 

 of his companions back in coach. He proceeded to talk on the phone in 

 Arabic very loudly and very, very aggressively. This activity took the 1st 

 stewardess out of action for she repeatedly told the man that cell phones 

 were not permitted at that time. He ignored her as if she were not there. 

 The man, who answered the phone back in the coach section, did the same 

 and this took out the 2nd stewardess. Further back in the plane, at the 

 same time, two younger Muslims, one in the back on the aisle, and one 

 sitting in front of him by the window, began to show footage of a porno 

 video they had taped the night before. They were very loud about it. 

 The 3rd stewardess informed the two men that they were not to have any 

 electronic devices on at this time. One of the men said "shut up infidel 

 dog!" 

 The stewardess attempted to take the camcorder and the Muslim began to 

 scream in her face in Arabic. At that exact moment, all eleven of the men 

 got up and started to walk throughout the cabin. I guess that because of 

 the noise, the flight crew must have decided that there was something 

 amiss and changed the plane's directions to head back to the terminal. 

 The commotion and noise was reaching a feverish pitch, and at this point I 

 had had enough! I got up and started towards the back of 1st class, when I 

 heard a voice behind me, from another Texan twice my size, say "I got your 

 back." Then I grabbed the man, who had been on the cell phone, by the arm 

 and said "You WILL sit down in your seat or you WILL be thrown from this 

 plane!" As I "led" him around me to take his seat, the fellow Texan 

 grabbed him by the back of his neck and his waist and headed him back to 

 his seat. I then grabbed the 2nd man and said, "You WILL do the same!" 

 He protested loudly, but my adrenaline was flowing now and he was going to 

 go also. Just as I escorted him forward, the plane stopped, the doors 

 opened and three TSA agents and four police officers entered the cabin. 

 Myself and my new Texas friend were told to cease and desist for they had 

 the situation under control. 

 I was quite happy to oblige actually. There was still some sort of 

 commotion in the back, but within moments, all eleven Muslim men were 

 escorted off the plane. The TSA agents then had their luggage unloaded. We 

 talked about the occurrence and were in disbelief that it had happened. 

 Then suddenly, the door opened again and in walked all eleven Muslim men! 

 Stone faced, eyes front and robotic, (the only way I can describe 

 It) they were reseated. The stewardess from the back had been in tears and 

 when she saw the men, she was having NONE of it! Since I was up front, I 

 heard and saw the whole ordeal. She told the TSA agents that there was NO 

 WAY she was staying on the plane with the Muslim men. The agent told her 

 that they had searched the men and were going through their luggage with a 

 fine tooth comb. However, nothing had been found and that the men were 

 allowed to proceed on to Houston . 

 The captain and co-captain came out of the cockpit and told the agent, "We 

 and our crew will not fly this plane!" After a word or two, the entire 

 crew, luggage in tow, left the plane. Five minutes later, the cabin door 

 opened again and a whole new crew walked on. Again, this was where I had 

 had enough! I got up and asked the TSA agent, "What the hell is going on? 

 I was told to take my seat. The airlines and TSA were sorry for the delay 

 and we would be home shortly. I said "I'm getting off this plane". The 

 stewardess sternly told me that she could not allow me to get off. Now I'm 

 really mad! I said "I am a grown man who bought this ticket, who's time is 

 mine with a family at home and I am going through that door, or I'm going 

 through that door with you under my arm, but I AM going through that 

 door!" 

 And then I heard a voice behind me say "So am I!" Then everyone behind us 

 started to get up and say the same thing. Within two minutes, I was 

 walking off that plane where I was met by more TSA agents who asked me to 

 write a statement about the incident. I had five hours to kill at this 

 point waiting for the next flight to Houston , so why the hell not give 

 them my statement. Due to the amount of people who got off that flight, it 

 was canceled. I was supposed to be in Houston at 6 PM, but I finally got 

 there at 12:30 AM. If you don't believe this, look up the date and then 

 Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston . 

 If this wasn't a terrorism dry run, I don't know what one is. The 

 terrorists wanted to see how TSA would handle it, how the crew would 

 handle it, and how the passengers would handle it. I'm telling this to you 

 because I want you to know. The threat IS real. I saw it with my own 

 eyes."   Suggest you keep this going until this incident reaches the email of all POLITICIANS and the news media! 

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"Despite its enormous potential for good, some of the degrading and damaging ways in which the Internet can be used are already obvious to all, and public authorities surely have a responsibility to guarantee that this marvellous instrument serves the common good and does not become a source of harm." 

Pope John Paul ll. (only a man like you & me so who is he to talk huh?)

Suggest you keep this going until this blogpost reaches the email of all right thinking people; if Peace and Goodwill to Man can ever hope to be realized! 

Is this the END? - CRANKY OLD GUY

"What do you see nurses? . . .. . .What do you see?

What are you thinking .. . when you're looking at me?

A cranky old man, . . . . . .not very wise,

Uncertain of habit .. . . . . . . .. with faraway eyes?

Who dribbles his food .. . ... . . and makes no reply.

When you say in a loud voice . .'I do wish you'd try!'

Who seems not to notice . . .the things that you do.

And forever is losing . . . . . .. . . A sock or shoe?

Who, resisting or not . . . ... lets you do as you will,

With bathing and feeding . . . .The long day to fill?

Is that what you're thinking?. .Is that what you see?

Then open your eyes, nurse .you're not looking at me.

I'll tell you who I am . . . . .. As I sit here so still,

As I do at your bidding, .. . . . as I eat at your will.

I'm a small child of Ten . .with a father and mother,

Brothers and sisters .. . . .. . who love one another

A young boy of Sixteen . . . .. with wings on his feet

Dreaming that soon now . . .. . . a lover he'll meet.

A groom soon at Twenty . . . ..my heart gives a leap.

Remembering, the vows .. .. .that I promised to keep.

At Twenty-Five, now . . . . .I have young of my own.

Who need me to guide . . . And a secure happy home.

A man of Thirty . .. . . . . My young now grown fast,

Bound to each other . . .. With ties that should last.

At Forty, my young sons .. .have grown and are gone,

But my woman is beside me . . to see I don't mourn.

At Fifty, once more, .. ...Babies play 'round my knee,

Again, we know children . . . . My loved one and me.

Dark days are upon me . . . . My wife is now dead.

I look at the future ... . . . . I shudder with dread.

For my young are all rearing .. . . young of their own.

And I think of the years . . . And the love that I've known.

I'm now an old man . . . . . . .. and nature is cruel.

It's jest to make old age . . . . . . . look like a fool.

The body, it crumbles .. .. . grace and vigour, depart.

There is now a stone . . . where I once had a heart.

But inside this old carcass . A young man still dwells,

And now and again . . . . . my battered heart swells

I remember the joys . . . . .. . I remember the pain.

And I'm loving and living . . . . . . . life over again.

I think of the years, all too few . . .. gone too fast.

And accept the stark fact . . . that nothing can last.

So open your eyes, people .. . . . .. . . open and see.

Not a cranky old man .

Look closer . . . . see .. .. . .. .... . ME!!"

An Old Man's Poem

Crabbit_Old_Woman

From here hence; where to?

    "There is another ... not anything like a 'place', not an existence or a limbo; a holding/cleansing area, to prepare for an even further place afield. No, no!
  BUT there is somewhere 'ANOTHER', been known, retold in the tales of fairies, foretold, repeated in the stories of gospel, in the books of wisdom, shared at fire-sides with wide-eyed expectance

And the promise has been repeated, held forth, is reaffirmed, from time when Man could form thoughts. All spoke of such a "place"

If after all the wonders we have seen, the love, ecstasies, joys, fears, wonders & pain felt, the heart-piercing disappointments we've gone through; the tears we wept, the losses mourned, the anger ranted & raved against, the curses we swore, the roaring exuberances, the kisses we've blown;

 after all these & much more; you'd think, surely the One capable of

 all of these we've lived through, would He be less than He is, to tug the rug from beneath all of us & just say "the End"?

I don't really have proof BUT I don't believe He would !