Sinister plot to immortalize Arafat's teachings and leadership, or sentimental goodbye among those who live for death?

Written by Marilynn Dawson


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In this situation, pullingrepparttar 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 dorepparttar 126710 same thing inrepparttar 126711 minds ofrepparttar 126712 moslem people, as not only will they come to mourn, but also come to worship.

2) Arafat will receiverepparttar 126713 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 onrepparttar 126714 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 thatrepparttar 126715 IDF is bracing for riots and increased violence in PA-controlled areas followingrepparttar 126716 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 aroundrepparttar 126717 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 ofrepparttar 126718 Book versus Islam inrepparttar 126719 coming days. Saudi Arabia is already treatingrepparttar 126720 war in Iraq as a holy war. PA-bred terrorists are already in Iraq killing Americans and other national groupsrepparttar 126721 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 torepparttar 126722 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 byrepparttar 126723 PA leadership or not, Islam may have just turned a corner. Jews and Christians beware.

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Hasten to fast???

Written by Dony Peter


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It is as thoughrepparttar fast justifies our actions henceforth, otherwise how else do you explain people who end up worse than before when they completely abstained fromrepparttar 126709 so called vices.

As inrepparttar 126710 case ofrepparttar 126711 Rio de Janeiro carnival that is held 3 days prior torepparttar 126712 Roman Catholic Lenten season, it is actually a one last ditch at indulging oneself beforerepparttar 126713 fast begins.

Aren’t fasts supposed to purify us, such that our lives become holier? But today, most of us are taking these rituals as some kind of a short-term break that gives us some leeway for a longer period of indulgence. Its your religious passport to one more (technically 11 months) of hassle-free indulgence.

Fasts are good, provided they are adhered to in its spirit. They must not be seen as a means to an end, but instead be enjoyed as another opportunity to better oneself as a continuing process. Otherwise these very fasts may actually become more deadly vices than we can imagine.

To fast or to fast inrepparttar 126714 spirit, that’s a question?

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