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In this situation, pulling plug on Lailat al-Kader would have been a ploy to ensure that policies, goals, ideology, and commitment to Arafat's cause is further entrenched and carried out. Such a ploy would have taken advantage of Muslim thought and desire on this day, and basically forcing what many call "the new Islam" down everyone's throat, as refusal to honor a prophet brings harsh discipline.

Burial complete with mosque and monument will very likely do same thing in minds of moslem people, as not only will they come to mourn, but also come to worship.

2) Arafat will receive burial fitting for a prophet, and many will come merely to mourn his passing, but no elevation to prophet status will occur.

This is less likely to happen, as in order to have his death be symbolic on night of Lailat al-Kader, moslems would have to admit that Arafat was spoken to by allah himself, and that his death is a sign that his words are to be whole-heartedly honored and obeyed.

It's bad enough that IDF is bracing for riots and increased violence in PA-controlled areas following news of Arafat's death. But to have millions of moslems suddenly claim Arafat as a prophet will make matters worse for Jews, and Christians around world. It's already bad enough that a BBC reporter cried over his release to a Paris hospital. The added sympathy, honor, mourning, and allegiance to his teachings will only congeal supporters world-wide as well.

I see therefore, a potential polarization of East versus West, of People of Book versus Islam in coming days. Saudi Arabia is already treating war in Iraq as a holy war. PA-bred terrorists are already in Iraq killing Americans and other national groups same way they've been killing Jews in Israel for years.

Arafat is not another Louie Riel(http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=J1ARTJ0006837), to be decried, then enshrined, then decried, then a statue built, repeatedly going from hero to villain and back again. Arafat, plain and simple, is a villain on a massive scale. He will be a hero to strain of Islam he revived and its sympathizers, and a villain to those who don't adhere or sympathize with his ways and teachings.

I say be watchful in coming days. Whether intended by PA leadership or not, Islam may have just turned a corner. Jews and Christians beware.