Happy Birthday Free Iraq!

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Happy Birthday Free Iraq!
March 16th, 2006

by Anwaar Hussain

The 18th of March, 2006 will be the 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation by American forces and also the 3rd birthday of ‘free Iraq’.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, we will mourn the mangled corpse of the Iraqi nationhood that America continues to drag around the vast deserts of that country, with fangs bared and claws out, in an unjustified, illegal and bloody occupation.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, we will note the fact that America threatens to lay waste to the nations next door on daily basis and considers it immoral if those countries even think of arming themselves to prevent the same fate.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, we will derive a very simple lesson from America’s Iraq jaunt that if a country wants to avoid a U.S. led invasion, they had better arm themselves to the gills and with nuclear weapons too if possible. Quite plainly, it is a matter of life and death for such countries.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, we will remember that not only is America the only user of the nuclear weapon on human race in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she is also known to have contemplated using them in almost every major military conflict ever since e.g. against the people of Korea, Cuba and Vietnam.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, we will remind ourselves that as the fight for resources and markets sharpens among the various capitalist powers, the likelihood of nuclear conflicts breaking out grows exponentially and that, unless the global citizenry wakes up, all the treaties and assurances in the world will not stop this brazen display of capitalism in decay.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, we must note with irony that while the American administration is lowering the bar for going nuclear and makes ‘bomb size holes’ in the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty by signing the Indo-US nuclear deal, it continues to preach nuclear abstinence to the rest of the world and threatens to visit pre-emptive attacks upon those thought to be in non-compliance of the same treaty.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, as we listen to President George W. Bush lecturing the world on the threat from Iran and on the virtues of nuclear non-proliferation, we will remind ourselves that his position on nuclear weapons smacks of rampant hypocrisy and is laced with double standards. He is the commander-in-chief of a military force that not only possesses and maintains nearly 10,000 nuclear weapons but also boasts an array of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological arsenals.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, as the American military juggernaut continues to slam into innocent humanity and prepares itself for yet another bout of binge killing in Iran; the American citizens continue to vacillate on what to do with the criminal cabal that kills in their name. Having yo-yoed between conviction and impeachment with a lot of bombast, they finally fizzle down for a rap on the knuckle by attempting, please note, to ‘censure’ the lead criminal for breaking the law, trashing the US Constitution and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, as America’s State Department decries the Human Rights abuses by various countries, let us remember that America herself has become the biggest patron of dark dungeons and the sessions of pain therein. Other than Abu Ghuraib and Guantánamo Bay, where detainees have included children as young as 11-years-old and where some detainees have now been held for over four years without charge or trial, America’s torture trail at the present weaves across the globe from Thailand and the Philippines through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan to Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Cyprus, Diego Garcia, some Gulf States and an unspecified number of South Pacific island nations.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, despite President George Bush’s sickeningly repetitious rhetoric of “freedom on the march” and “terrorists on the run”, let us be informed that the National Counterterrorism Center (NCC), a US government funded agency of the Department of Homeland Security, tells us that “between 2001 and 2005, worldwide terrorist incidents increased by an astounding 159 percent, going from 1,733 attacks in 2001 to 4,483 last year.” And that, “of the 13,403 global terror incidents that have taken place since 2001, one-third of those total took place in 2005 alone.”

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, let us also acquaint ourselves with the bungling incompetence of the current US administration’s economic policies that directly affect the common Americans. The numbers are out and they tell a sordid tale. “The U.S. trade deficit has soared to an all-time high of $725.8 billion in 2005, up by 17.5 percent from the previous record of $617.6 billion set in 2004. The deficit with China hit an all-time high as did America’s deficits with Japan, Europe, OPEC, Canada, Mexico and South and Central America. It marked the fourth straight year in a row that America’s trade deficit has set a record.”

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, let us recall the orchestrated 9/11, the gargantuan lies that this administration told to the American public in its aftermath and the hundreds of thousands of innocent dead and maimed souls that those lies resulted in.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, as we brace ourselves for more nuclear hypocrisy from the mightiest of the nations, we will recall that this nation continues to use depleted uranium weapons on Iraqis taking a ghastly toll not just on the existing ones but also on successive future Iraqi generations who will suffer for eons to come.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, as American citizens tuck their well fed children into warm beds after affectionate hugs, we will recall that the rate of birth defects, leukemia and cancer among Iraqi children under the age of 15 in those districts where the use of DU had been the most concentrated is increasing horrendously and, if not checked soon enough, a generation of beautiful babies are going to turn into one of hideous cripples.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, with hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, thousands of dead Americans, a beat-up American image around the globe and a war tab exceeding half-a-trillion dollars, we must finally allow the reality of the repugnant rhetoric of global domination and the disgusting truth of its actual failure to finally sink in to our collective conscience.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, as the American nation dillies and dallies while their government kills people abroad with impunity and plans to start yet another anniversary series for yet another nation, one comes to a sad sad conclusion. And that is that the American nation seems to have willingly boarded itself up on a train, remote controlled by their criminal leaders, with the train careering fast towards the Cassandra Crossing. The Americans now watch their own selves in a hushed awe.

This 3rd anniversary of Iraq’s occupation, let us try to understand for whom was the following said in the “Book of Isaiah” in The Bible?

“YOUR HANDS ARE STAINED WITH BLOOD, YOUR FINGERS WITH GUILT, YOUR LIPS SPEAK FALSEHOOD AND YOUR TONGUE UTTERS DECEIT”

Happy birthday free Iraq!

Copyrights : Anwaar Hussain
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1 Anwaar Hussain
Mar 16th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
And this just in from Jang newspaper;

US terms Iran as biggest threat

(Updated at 1200 PST)

WASHINGTON: The United States warned states like North Korea and especially Iran on Thursday that it would take preemptive military action if necessary to protect itself.

“We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran,” the White House said in a blueprint called the “National Security Strategy” of the United States, a foreign news agency reported.

North Korea “presents a long and bleak record of duplicity and bad-faith negotiations” the document said, warning: “We will continue to take all necessary measures to protect our national and economic security against the adverse effects of their bad conduct.

The document made clear that Washington does not view the failure to find the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) at the core of the public case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a blow against its strategy of preventive war.

The document branded North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Belarus, Burma and Zimbabwe as tyrannies, but warned that tyrannies that seek weapons of mass destruction “threaten our immediate security interests.”

2 the olive ream
Mar 16th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
An impeccable piece! … very precise and extremely relevant.

Now the drums of war beat for Iran as they did for Iraq. History repeats itself once more..(sigh)

3 Michelle L. Zewe
Mar 16th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Thank you for writing this piece, Anwaar. You have given a concise synopsis of how the American government, hand in hand with corporate greed, is killing our world. History has never seen such depravity. The use of DU is particularly frightening. Because of its use, all of us on the planet are contaminated with it. It boggles my mind to see such voraciousness for profit without a care to the effects of such an appetite. Truly, the world has gone berserk; especially those Americans who continue to support the administration.

Your suggestion about the Americans who refuse to see what is going on was correct. As long as they are able to maintain their lifestyle, they will not raise their heads to look, see, or listen. This is particularly disheartening to those such as myself. Sometimes I just want to smack them into reality.

I am curious as to how much anger the participants in the upcoming demonstrations will display. I believe that the American public will have take to the streets for more than an occasional weekend march to remove the current administration. How does one harness and mobilize the anger of all its citizens in a land as vast as ours?

4 H.
Mar 16th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Dear Anwaar,

Eloquent, thoughtful, profound and humane, as always.

h.

5 from pakistan
Mar 16th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Dear Anwaar

For the past some time, I have not been able to establish link to your blog. It seems to have been blocked by the ISP / Someone else.

I urge you to publish a replica of your blog from an alternate URL address, or else we remain deprived of your work.

From Pakistan

6 JP
Mar 16th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Dear Anwaar,

I do not doubt that the USA, a nation I no longer
in my heart identify with, is and will continue to
sink beneath the weight of its own avariciousness and
power lust, it is only that - tragically - it has and
will continue to take so many innocent people with it.

As for Bush and the east coast elite who would
control the world -well, I was going to say they can
all burn in hell, but I now realize that they are
hell!

JP

7 David
Mar 16th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Hi Anwaar,

Great stuff.

All of the predictions of the anti-war “mob” have been proven correct. And who has the guts to say it?

Not too many.

David

8 Anonymous
Mar 16th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Now Canada has joined the forces in Afghanistan, not as peacekeepers but as an active military machine.

Any comments Anwaar? I think ur a canadian citizen and the reality should hit home as well.

9 Anwaar Hussain
Mar 16th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
It does anonymous, and with a sickening thud.

10 Anonymous
Mar 17th, 2006 at 1:40 am
Iran poses no threat to the United States. Israel,on the other hand, is another matter. So why do we suppose the United States would go so far as to threaten pre-emptive military action against Iran in defense of the Edomites? What a surprise!

11 Downtrodden1
Mar 17th, 2006 at 1:43 am
Anwaar,my friend;
I don’t know what frightens me more-The demented imbicile and his handlers who have siezed my country,or the apathy of the American people.
Were it not for the heroic efforts of people like you,who refuse to be silenced,I would be completely without hope.
Although it occurs to me that I sound like a broken record with all my”Bush-bashing”,
I feel that until the Bush problem is resolved(peacefully and legally,it is to be hoped),no other issue will matter.
Simply put,they are KILLING US ALL with their insane,destructive policies.
My thanks for another superb article,and for your courage.
Yours in the struggle;
Chris

12 Anonymous
Mar 17th, 2006 at 2:53 am
It is truly sad as most Republican drones who follow the Bush admin without question control most of America. The good people did not vote for this man, as the elections in 2000 and 2004 were skewed, if not rigged. This corrupt group has put American forces in peril for profit, not peace. A substantial percentage of Americans desire impeachment and change, but are powerless short of rioting or anarchy. As long as the American people can watch their favorite TV, sports, et al, and drive Hummers, nothing will be done as you are correct about our apathy. America’s business plan is greed and world market domination and control. The poorer people in the US are not part of the problem, nor are they part of the solution. The US will probably invade Iran shortly, since WAR is our most profitable business. Signed, a saddened American soon-to-be Ex-Patriot.

13 Rachel
Mar 17th, 2006 at 4:12 am
Dear Anwar,

Thank you for such an emotional, outstanding piece. I am forwarding this to every single person I know in the hopes that somehow, someway, we can all come together and rally for the rights of humans everywhere against this hideous scarlet beast. If only every person could understand as you understand, how much more we could do….

14 John Jones
Mar 17th, 2006 at 4:41 am
America is a very evil country. America sells weapons all around the world. America is destroying the whole world just to satisfy its lust for energy. America makes the whole world dangerous. The biggest terrorist of all is the US Government and George W. Bush. Any thoughts? Email me [e-mail]

thanks,
John Jones
Plano Texas

15 Anonymous
Mar 17th, 2006 at 6:46 am
America is evil. America Is terrible. But God Damn! The rest of the world must be worse, because MILLIONs a year are pouring into America from their countries. Millions of immigrants every year moving into Saudi Arabia? I don’t think so! Millions of immigrants flooding into Sudan, Zimbabwe, Syria, North Korea, etc., etc.–hardly. America is NOT your Socialist Utopia; that would have been the “Oops, Stalin killed 20 million” former Soviet Union. America is not perfect, far from it. But comparing America to every other country and then concluding it is the “Worst” is simply not borne out by the facts. People vote with their feet, and they are treading a path to the US. Your feverishly imagined “Greatest Evil in the World America” does not match reality.

16 Anwaar Hussain
Mar 17th, 2006 at 10:12 am
It so deeply saddens me when certain Americans take solace by comparing the once shining beacon on the hill, America, to one of the worst tyrannies in the world and conclude that they are not yet the evil the world citizenry has started to call them.

If that is to be the moral compass, and if it is any solace, then yes, America is far better at the moment. It may be hurtling that way, though.

17 Anonymous
Mar 17th, 2006 at 10:14 am
Dear Anwaar,

An excellent dissection of Bush’s fatal insticts of past, present and future. All your earlier predictions were damn right. Any sane mind would again think that what are taking regarding Iran. But you have proved right every time.

TP

18 Rabbitvoz
Mar 17th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Very Poignant.

By my understanding she is the Great Whore of Babylon.

19 Anonymous
Mar 17th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Anonymous said…
America is evil. America Is terrible. But God Damn! The rest of the world must be worse, because MILLIONs a year are pouring into America from their countries.

Maybe they want to be on the “winning” side.
I choose the other.
-AA

20 Anonymous
Mar 17th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
It’s not the american people. They have been severely brain washed. It’s the government few, using violence out of lust for greed. It’s time to remove the liars.

21 Anwaar Hussain
Mar 17th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Here are Alan Shore’s closing argument from Boston Legal.

Alan Shore: When the weapons of mass destruction thing turned out to be not true, I expected the American people to rise up. Ha! They didn’t.

Then, when the Abu Ghraib torture thing surfaced and it was revealed that our government participated in rendition, a practice where we kidnap people and turn them over to regimes who specialize in torture, I was sure then the American people would be heard from. We stood mute.

Then came the news that we jailed thousands of so-called terrorists suspects, locked them up without the right to a trial or even the right to confront their accusers. Certainly, we would never stand for that. We did.

And now, it’s been discovered the executive branch has been conducting massive, illegal, domestic surveillance on its own citizens. You and me. And I at least consoled myself that finally, finally the American people will have had enough. Evidentially, we haven’t.

In fact, if the people of this country have spoken, the message is we’re okay with it all. Torture, warrantless search and seizure, illegal wiretappings, prison without a fair trial - or any trial, war on false pretenses. We, as a citizenry, are apparently not offended.

There are no demonstrations on college campuses. In fact, there’s no clear indication that young people seem to notice.

Well, Melissa Hughes noticed. Now, you might think, instead of withholding her taxes, she could have protested the old fashioned way. Made a placard and demonstrated at a Presidential or Vice-Presidential appearance, but we’ve lost the right to that as well. The Secret Service can now declare free speech zones to contain, control and, in effect, criminalize protest.

Stop for a second and try to fathom that.

At a presidential rally, parade or appearance, if you have on a supportive t-shirt, you can be there. If you are wearing or carrying something in protest, you can be removed.

This, in the United States of America. This in the United States of America. Is Melissa Hughes the only one embarrassed?

*Alan sits down abruptly in the witness chair next to the judge*

Judge Robert Sanders: Mr. Shore. That’s a chair for witnesses only.

Really long speeches make me so tired sometimes.

Judge Sanders: Please get out of the chair.

Alan: Actually, I’m sick and tired.

Judge Sanders: Get out of the chair!

Alan: And what I’m most sick and tired of is how every time somebody disagrees with how the government is running things, he or she is labeled unAmerican.

U.S. Attorney Jonathan Shapiro: Evidentally, it’s speech time.

Alan: And speech in this country is free, you hack! Free for me, free for you. Free for Melissa Hughes to stand up to her government and say “Stick it”!

U.S. Attorney Jonathan Shapiro: Objection!

Alan: I object to government abusing its power to squash the constitutional freedoms of its citizenry. And, God forbid, anybody challenge it. They’re smeared as being a heretic. Melissa Hughes is an American. Melissa Hughes is an American. Melissa Hughes is an American!

Judge Sanders: Mr. Shore. Unless you have anything new and fresh to say, please sit down. You’ve breached the decorum of my courtroom with all this hooting.

Alan: Last night, I went to bed with a book. Not as much fun as a 29 year old, but the book contained a speech by Adlai Stevenson. The year was 1952. He said, “The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live and fear breeds repression. Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-Communism.”

Today, it’s the cloak of anti-terrorism. Stevenson also remarked, “It’s far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.”

I know we are all afraid, but the Bill of Rights - we have to live up to that. We simply must. That’s all Melissa Hughes was trying to say. She was speaking for you. I would ask you now to go back to that room and speak for her.

Down load the episode at;

www.boston-legal.org/19-stickit/ep19-stickit.shtml#dialogue

Continued....

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22 TL
Mar 18th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Anwaar,

Yet another wonderfully written composition, and I so understand. I live saddened by the circumstances of Iraq. I have written often about the things you speak of,(even early on) only to deaf ears..

Form a country that really cares about it’s people and their lives, and you will be nothing like the USA has become. Vested in greed and self interest…It makes me very sad indeed.

The many losses of sons, daughters, families…….why? Hope……Please don’t loose hope in a better tomorrow…

I will celebrate the day (along with many), when Iraq is at peace … without any afflictions created from external forces.

Your work is so justifiably jaded with truth…yet never loose the hope of a brighter tomorrow.

Until Then
Keep writing.
TL

23 Anonymous
Mar 18th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Saddam is out of power.

There hasn’t been an attack on America since 9-11.

So, yes Happy Birthday Iraq.

24 isadora dialogue
Mar 18th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Mr. Hussain tells Iraq “Happy Birthday…,” in a way we can all readily see that he does not really wish them well…

In Europe, Australia and Japan they come out to the streets and demonstrate against the war and the U.S.

Condoleeza Rice was heckled for having “blood on her hands.”

Blood on HER hands? Was there no Saddam Hussein? Does the room with floor to ceiling boxes filled with the names of his victims not exist?

There is just one word for you who write with such compliments for this article. There is just one world for its writer.

DOUBLE STANDARD.

Sorry. That’s two words. Doesn’t much matter. I think I can even manage one more.

HYPOCRITE…

Carollane

25 Anwaar Hussain
Mar 18th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
My answer for this commentator is contained within my article.

Would any one else please like to take this one on?

26 Anonymous
Mar 19th, 2006 at 12:46 am
I love America and I will die to protect Her.

But more importantly for you I will KILL for Her.

You didn’t think we had the staying power did you?

27 Anonymous
Mar 19th, 2006 at 12:58 am
We aren’t as ruthless as you Muslims are — Yet.

But we are learning.

No, we are in this war for the long term. We aren’t going to run away. We aren’t going to stop.

For we know that if we do we are dead. You have our backs to the wall. And, if you think we are ruthless now, we haven’t even gotten started.

I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

28 Anonymous
Mar 19th, 2006 at 12:59 am
I am thankful to be an American,
To live in the greatest land of all.
In a nation blessed, it’s the very best,
I can stand with my head up tall.
I am thankful to be an American,
To be born in a land that’s free.
I am thankful to God for allowing me to be,
An American.

29 Anwaar Hussain
Mar 19th, 2006 at 1:03 am
For the posters above, I will let my friend Michael Caddell speak.

Anonymous Racism

By Anwaar Hussain, Anonymous Hater and Michael Caddell

I believe any wanton loss of life should make us cringe, let alone the one visited upon a defenseless people by the most awesome military machine on earth. I believe that when we mourn, we should make no distinction on the basis of race, color or creed as no one’s blood is redder than that of the next man’s. I believe that even as we wallow in our collective grief, each day as the sun sets in Iraq it sets not just on its landscape…it also sets on hundreds of innocent lives, cut down in a brutal war that was neither of their making nor of their choice. I believe that while we all continue to express our powerless sorrow, the bloodbath in Iraq surges ahead unchecked and unrestrained.

In the aftermath of my article “The United Vegetative States of America”, I received hundreds of emails/comments from readers the world over. Most of these were from Americans. They spoke to me in one voice. They wanted to have nothing to do with this evil war that is wrought upon an already aggrieved nation by the corporate businessmen, bankers and oilmen. They had seen through the holy façade, the blatant lies and the sinister cover-ups. They understood…they shared the pain…they condemned the atrocities…they were sorry.

A very tiny fraction of these emails/comments were from people who hitherto lived in some dark, unlit places devoid of sunshine and fresh air. Having been recently released from those murky dungeons of their souls by their new crop of leaders, they breathe the prevalent putrid air and thrive on it like never before. They have a newfound confidence to write what one of them did write to me.

Following are comments from one such Anonymous creature, my response to him and a resounding rejoinder from my inimitable friend Michael Caddell.(All available in the comments section at the foot of the subject article)

Anonymous’s Comment

The reason that people were obsessed about the Schiavo case is … wrap your little rag-head pea brain around this …

THE UNDERLYING DEEP, PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES.

You see, wee boy, EVERYONE IS AGAINST TSUNAMIS. We are all sad it happened and many thousands died. Once the tragedy is mentioned, there is nothing left to discuss, because I reiterate, we all agree that tsunamis are a bad, bad thing.

On the other hand, Schiavo’s case brought up deep, dividing issues such as … what is life … what is the meaning of an individual life … what makes us conscious … what makes a life valuable…. who is to judge the worth of a human life? And this is just scratching the surface.

This case focused the considerable brainpower of western critical thinkers on important issues that many believe will change our country, and perhaps destroy it. These types of hard issues are important because they inevitably change the very direction of something that you know nothing about …. civilization. Western Civilization is built on concepts that you low IQ rag-heads cannot apprehend currently and in fact can never understand. Still, you manage to insinuate yourself into the fringes and enjoy the many benefits. But that’s another story.

Boo freaking hoo.

If you cannot discern when the world’s greatest civilization is changing course, with potentially horrible consequences, if you cannot withstand intense deductive and inductive reasoning, if parsing logically deep concepts disturbs you, LEAVE.

Go back home and strap some C4 and shrapnel on yourself and make a difference the only way you moon god worshipping assholes apparently know how.

KABOOM. Behold … another 72 virgins and a slurpee to go … Allahahahahahahahahahaha !

RH

My Response

Dear abusive, foaming at the mouth, anonymous commentator of the post above mine,

I will disregard your disgusting racist comments with the disdain that these merit. Someone else may take you up on that.

I could have deleted your post but I will let it hang in there for the world to see where you come from and form a judgment about your pedigree. Do not get used to this generosity, however.

You probably shot off without ever reading the article. The ARTICLE is NOT about why Americans were obsessed with Schiavo and deeply involved in the (your words) - THE UNDERLYING DEEP, PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES.

What the article is asking is why the Americans are not showing the same obsession about THE UNDERLYING DEEP, PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES regarding Iraqis right to their lives.

It is asking why the American media does not bring up the DEEP, DIVIDING ISSUES SUCH AS … WHAT IS LIFE … WHAT IS THE MEANING OF AN INDIVIDUAL LIFE … WHAT MAKES US CONSCIOUS … WHAT MAKES LIFE VALUABLE…. WHO IS TO JUDGE THE WORTH OF HUMAN LIFE? - in Iraqis’ case?

Go mull this one over and come back with a lucid, coherent response free of the hate that exudes out of your above post.

Michael Caddell’s Response

Dear ‘Anonymous’,

I learned a long time ago while running a few country weekly newspapers in Kansas that the occasional ‘Anonymous’ letter to the editor has several socially redemptive characteristics. The confusing series of hidebound remarks posted above on Hussain’s blog by ‘Anonymous’ reminds me of the intellectual pitfalls and plateaus encountered when an editor allows another lesser writer to poison his pages. It is a dangerous, but sometime fortuitous editorial technique. As one old timer, who died recently, once told me “variety and risk is the spice of life.”

Anwaar, thank you for allowing me the first redoubt to this neo–con maniac, now excuse me, I must begin to slice this reactionary lizard while his words are still alive.

I can boil this down to one sentence, and you don’t have to read any further after these words. ‘Anonymous’ you have fallen into our trap, you inarticulate bum of an American, and now you must suffer reading the delightful consequences we are dishing out to the whole world about your crazy nut case brand of America.

‘Anonymous’ should move to Kansas

While I am guilty more than ‘Anonymous’ of subjective rants (see my essay “To conservative readers and Kansas legislators” elsewhere on this site) at least the subjective vitriol was my own and signed as such. According to others, aside from some small grammatical errors, the essay was an honest American critique about the equally honestly hoodwinked and foolhardy body of Podunks inhabiting my native Kansas, U.S.A.

Alas, ‘Anonymous’ (let us for form profile ‘Anonymous’ as the average angry white American male) ranks below the political food pyramid, even beneath my fellow Kansas Podunks, below in rank of even the notorious Christian Troglodytes in what Kurt Nimmo aptly described as the “Deliverance States.”

‘Anonymous’ by my ciphering ranks lower than a snake’s belly sunning on a Kansas slab of limestone. He represents, by content and style, one of the squiggly albino insects that live quite well, under the rock that the “pro–life” snake is sunning on.

‘Anonymous’ actually is lower than the well–meaning grandmother quietly rolling and kissing her rosaries at the local abortion clinic. I know firsthand because after a three-year murderous run at publishing said country weeklies took on the job of guarding several doctors and clinics in Kansas where the abortion procedure was available with other personal sexual hygiene issues. I created intelligence dossiers on individuals engaging in illegal activities for consultation with law enforcement agencies in various levels of jurisdictions. I assisted in the apprehension and conviction of over a half dozen individuals who were involved in violations of federal and state laws – many of which would now qualify under the moribund and unnecessary Patriot Act–as domestic terrorists, or illegal combatants, make your label.

‘Anonymous’ fits that violent bill of particulars, as a domestic terrorist.

Men like ‘Anonymous’ have haunted the self-styled “pro–life” Christian anti–abortion movement for years and most who were violent were not apprehended. Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols were stridently “pro – life” for white women, much like Hitler was for Aryan women. Racialists advocate summary executions for ‘their’ women who deviate from proscribed sexual norms, and as their ideological crisis ensues, advocate the systematic ‘extermination’ through forced labor exploitation and eugenic ‘birth control’ of the non–Aryan people. Hitler signed in the early periods of his regime several execution warrants for Aryan women who had abortions, while later he industrialized the systematic exploitation and extermination of millions of dissidents of all political and religious stripes. Yet, Hitler remained a Christian (catholic) until he blew his brains out in the Berlin bunker.

‘Anonymous’ not only didn’t think long enough to work on punctuation and basic grammar (which admittedly all writers, including myself suffer from) but surely did a profound disservice to his own American religious cause. It is from no fault of his own; tens of millions indoctrinated in this murderous duality within the American Empire go about their daily lives, and never think about social issues unless told to do so. One may safely assume that without the Terry Schiavo and Pope funeral incidents flooding American corporate media the wiggling maggot representing the American ‘Anonymous’ on Anwaar’s site would have shriveled and dried to a nice piece of protein for secular consumption.

‘Anonymous’ lost … again to an Arab.

‘Anonymous’ reacting and writing as much as another typical inarticulate lush from the Rush “lint-brain” Limbaugh hate radio circuit was stumbling along and pounding his fists in fascist outrage at losing … yes, dear readers, losing to an Arab.

Overlooked by many a ‘Anonymous’ American writers and even those with “the considerable brainpower of western critical thinkers” [which ‘Anonymous’ does not rank with] are the historic mathematical and architectural treasures of the Arabic and Persian people. Algorithmic logic and geometry did not come from “Judeo–Christian” American constitutionalists as much as they would bastardize scientific thought “debunking” evolutionary scientific reasoning in today’s class rooms.

Unlike Christianity, Islamic religious laws have a pronounced elaborate scriptural service to the poor and the education of their children. While Christianity offers a few footnotes from their one communist prophet, Jesus Christ, about the sins of avarice and slavery; Islam offers many anecdotal scriptures against greed and slavery, including the mistreatments of women and the penalties for engaging in such.

I as an American know this, unfortunately ‘Anonymous’ represents the most despicable of Know–Nothing Idiots from Boob Tube Land.

And one thing I have learned about the snake logic of these American writers supporting a reactionary and antiquated moribund ideology–they are cowards.

Maybe this is a redemptive characteristic overlooked by many of us Americans who monitor the extreme form of religious fascism practiced by the American “pro–life” movement that ‘Anonymous’ creeps around with his dishonest use of the phrase “UNDERLYING DEEP PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES”. He is, through the courteous allowance of Anwaar Hussain, using the cloak of anonymity and thereby honestly revealing his innermost homicidally racialist and nationalist sentiments.

He is a typical not–so–quiet American.

Old country doctors used a device called a poultice to draw out the infectious pus or poison to the surface in a crude but honest attempt to cure. The poultice was usually composed of some odd concoction of ingredients; various plants or even raw pieces of various livestock animals wandering around the barnyard.

Maybe, my dear friend Anwaar, has allowed us to look at ourselves through a different looking glass. A looking glass that will make this summer and the possible American bombing of Iran a time to resist and fight back against these maggots and albino bugs destroying our country.

Our editor and publisher, Anwaar Hussain, has given Americans a mirror to reflect upon as we redefine and remake, revolt and recast the mold that America will be for our children and our children’s children.

Michael Caddell

30 Anonymous
Mar 19th, 2006 at 1:52 am
Sure America has more than its share of traitors like Michael Caddell. Michael Savage talks about them all the time on his radio program (broadcast over the internet at www.kernradio.com ).

But what America has much more of, and I know it doesn’t get the press that the traitors do, is silent patriots). Good hardworking people who don’t make a lot of noise but who rise up when America is in need of their service and then when the crisis passes go back to their lives saying without fanfare “we just did what needed to be done”.

Our enemies found that out during WWII, ordinary farmers, construction workers, factory workers arose from America’s heartland and saved the world. Heck we were sorely prepared for what we were going to face. Right before the war we didn’t even have enough guns. Our troops had to practice with sticks. But that soon changed to the surprise of Hitler’s Master Race and the Japs too.

Lots of in America can sense that it’s going to happen this year. We don’t know exactly where it is going to be, we don’t know exactly when it is going to be, and we don’t know exactly what it is going to be. But it is going to happen. Some terrorist attack so massive that it is going to dwarf the destruction 9-11 and Katrina combined. We feel it. We have an overwhelming foreboding sense of it. You can see it in people’s eyes. You can hear it in the pounding of their hearts.

But when It does inevitably come and go out that day dancing in the streets chanting Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar remember this, yes we have been dreading this day for there can be no joy in any patriot’s heard for deaths of so many of his countrymen but we have been waiting for this day as well. Anticipating for this day. And on that they the Michael Caddells of our country, our politicians, even Jesus Christ himself will not be able to withstand the force of the calls of revenge that will come from America, not only against the Muslim Terrorists but the traitors within as well.

On that day our fury will be swift. Our wraith total and unrestrained. We will set the wind on fire. And we will not stop until we totally annihilate those who would harm us. And I am not only talking about our foriegn enemies but our domestic ones as well.

So when I read the propeganda of traitors such as Michael Caddell I just think, well your days are numbered pal. And from what I can feel, very short indeed. What you write now will be remembered when It comes. And when It comes people are going to have a whole different view of how to deal with you.

31 Anonymous
Mar 19th, 2006 at 1:58 am
But when It does inevitably come and you go out that day dancing in the streets chanting Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar remember this, Anwaar.

This is all part of God’s Plan. God has made America the instrument of His Wraith against the Muslims as as well as upon those in America like Michael Caddell who delight in vice.

What will be unleased that day will be nothing like the world has ever seen. We will set the wind on fire. And we will not stop until we totally annihilate those who would harm us.

So, laugh it up now Michael and Anwaar, but the day is coming and from what I can sense, it is coming sooner than you can imagine when your day of reckoning will be at hand.

32 Michelle L. Zewe
Mar 19th, 2006 at 3:38 am
Dear Anonymous:

In words similar to Henry David Thoreau’s I ask you, “What demon possesses you that you that you behave so well for the state?!” Do you not see that American capitalism has turned you into one of its most strongest advocates? Do you not understand how corporate capitalism betrays Christ’s own ethical vision and your economic well-being? All wars fought by the United States, except, MAYBE, the Revolutionary War, were fought for profit and economical advantage; not yours, however. Somehow you have been convinced that use of our destructive military force is ethical and part of our heritage of “protecting freedom,” regardless of how obscene it is.

Your reasoning is hostile to the spiritual teachings of Jesus Christ. Your institutional Christian thinking is deeply antihuman, anti-GOD. The war in Iraq, preached by your bible-thumping administration is in opposition to Christ’s teachings and is costing the Iraqi people, US citizens, and all peoples worldwide their existence. How long do you think it will take for depleted uranium contamination to show up in all of us as cancer and birth deformities? Is this what you wish for our planet and its people? US soldier’s children are already being born with huge popping fish eyes, tops of their heads missing, no fingers and limbs; grotesque human forms!!! And GOD HELP US, the children being born in Iraq and Bosnia!!!

Do you not feel betrayal, knowing this is being done in your name?! When did Christ ever ask you to kill in his name or any nation’s?! When did Christ tell you to allow others to poison and kill our earth, God’s jewel of creation?

You have been born into a radically evil world and you see it as good. How did this happen to you, Anonymous? How did you become this low and primitive creature? God did not make you this way. What were you like as a child? Did you want to hurt people, kill people? I think not. I believe you were sweet and innocent once; you loved being outdoors, having the sun shine on you, you loved your family, neighbors, and ALL God’s peoples. How did you so readily come to accept a culture of death, rather than one of life and love? How did you abandon your private and God-given intelligence for public stupidity and patriotism in order to learn that killing other human beings is OK? Do you not understand, as Simone Weil put it, “Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even as a duty?”

Anonymous, it is my honest desire, my prayer for you, that you turn your face away from the world as they tell us to see it, as they tell us to participate in it, and return to the child within you.

Love to You and the
Deep Peace that the
Christ Promises
If You Will
Only Hear
His Words,
Michelle

33 Anonymous
Mar 19th, 2006 at 7:05 am
Michelle, as much as you want to deny it Christians (including Jesus Christ Himself) follow the Old Testament as well as the New.

Otherwise we would have just kept the Old Testament out of the Christian Bible.

And yeah, in the Old Testament there were many times when God told to kill in his name.

If you don’t think this is the case why don’t you just ask a Amalekite or a Canaanite about it.

34 Anonymous
Mar 19th, 2006 at 7:08 am
Joshua 11:19-20 “There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle. For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.”

35 Anonymous
Mar 19th, 2006 at 7:22 am
Michelle, you are probably one of those types who go around singing kumbaya.

www.peterpaulandmary.com/music/20-13.htm

Well, have you heard of the Byrds?

One of their songs is actually plagerized from the Bible.

Ecclesiastes 3

Ecclesiastes 3
A Time for Everything
1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

The Bible even says that there is a time to hate and a time to kill and a time for war!

And after 9-11 that time is NOW. And it will be especially true after IT happens, and we can all sense it, we can all feel it in the air that IT is going to happen soon.

36 Anonymous
Mar 19th, 2006 at 7:33 am
Michelle,

You have just wasted a profound prayer and a very rational comment on a mad hater.

They only want to kill and what better, if that can be done in the name of God.

Continued....

[michelle]

....continued 51 Responses to “Happy Birthday Free Iraq!”
Transfered from: www.globaltruths.net/?p=395

37 Ahnold
Mar 19th, 2006 at 8:02 am
GEntlemen,
It is so easy to stereotype groups. All Germans were not Nazis, and all Americans are not Bush followers. In fact, whatever the approval rating is, 36-44% would be considered Bush supporters. That means the majority of America is appalled at his leadership and want peace and tolerance of other nationalities and beliefs. Do not condemn all Americans, lest you rally us all together. Divide and conquer. America is forming its own civil war again - Red states versus Blue states -extreme conservative police-state versus liberal free-thinking democracy. Please specify your groups when name calling so as not to alienate us from being shareholders in a solution.

38 Anonymous
Mar 19th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Ahnold the reason Bush’s ratings are down is because we are appalled that he isn’t being tougher in Iraq.

And then you had the whole Ports thing and Katrina.

The majority of people support the war. It’s just a few kooks (around 20 percent) who don’t.

39 Michelle L. Zewe
Mar 19th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Anonymous:

I weep for you. I have not seen where you display or mouth any of the words of Jesus Christ. You recite from the Old Testament, only. Did not Jesus say that he came to bring a new covenant with God? And, after the death of Jesus, many of his apostles and disciples wrote gospels. Later, they were thrown on the cutting room floor. What was left was chosen by men, not Christ or the Father.

Your relative consciousness has been formed through readings, encounters, and the thoughts of others. There is another consciousness that arises directly from knowledge of ourselves, of the Living One within us. It was towards this consciousness that Jesus invited us, not to become ‘good Christians,’ but to become christs [if you understand the meaning of that word], in other words, ‘awakened human beings.’ It is only through a quiet mind along with a passionate commitment to independent thought that you will truly find the Light within you. It is from the ground of inner silence, not mental agitation, that the words of Jesus can bear their fruit of Light. The proper work of the mind is to function at two levels, the level of silence and the level of expression. And it is expression that is secondary. To the extend that we render our religious or moral teachings only in words, no matter how beautiful or systematic, we are bound to become prey to dogmatism or fanaticism. Our modern world has suffered from the runaway ideology that you display, agitated attachment to ideas that are the playthings of demonic energies. This is the great danger of all ideologies whether political, religious, or academic.

The New testament, as it stands, what is left of it officially, contains very few words spoken by Jesus. In the Gospel of St. Thomas there are 114 quotes from Jesus. I give you some of these words; silence your mind and hear:

2. Yeshua said: Whoever searches must continue to search until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed; and being disturbed, they will marvel and will reign over ALL.

6. His disciples questioned him: “Should we fast? How should we pray? How should we give alms? What rules of diet should we follow?
Yeshua said: Stop lying. Do not do that which is against your love. You are naked before heaven. What you hide will be revealed, whatever is veiled will be unveiled.

21. Mary asked Yeshua: “What are your disciples like?”
He answered: They are like little children who have gone into the field that does not belong to them.

24. His disciples asked: “Teach us about the place where you dwell, for we must seek it.”
He told them: Those who have ears, let them hear! There is a light within people of the light, and they shine it upon the whole world. If they do not shine it, what darkness!

25. Yeshua said: Love your brother and sister as your soul; protect them as you do the pupil of your eye.

34. Yeshua said: When a blind person leads another blind person, they both fall into the pit.

39. Yeshua said: The Pharisees and the scribes have received the keys of knowledge and hidden them. They did not go within, and those who wanted to go there were prevented by them.

45. Yeshua said: Grapes are not picked from thornbushes nor figs from thistles, for they do not give fruit. The good offer goodness from the secret of their heart. The perverse offer perversity from the secret of their heart. That which is expressed is what overflows from the heart.

50. Yeshua said: If they ask you were you came from, say: We were born of the Light, where Light is born of Light. It holds true and is revealed within their image. If they ask who you are, say: We are its children, the beloved of the Father, the Living One. If they ask you what is the sign of the Father in you, say: It is movement and it is repose.

52. His disciples said to him: “Twenty-four prophets have spoken in Israel, and they all spoke of you.”
He said to them: You have disregarded the Living One who is in your presence, and you have spoken of the dead.

72. A man said to him: “Speak to my brothers, that they share with me my father’s property.”
Yeshua answered him: Who made me into the divider? Turning to his disciples, he said: Who am I to divide?

40 Anonymous
Mar 20th, 2006 at 12:10 am
Some right wing asshole said:

“This is all part of God’s Plan. God has made America the instrument of His Wraith against the Muslims as as well as upon those in America like Michael Caddell who delight in vice.

What will be unleased that day will be nothing like the world has ever seen. We will set the wind on fire. And we will not stop until we totally annihilate those who would harm us.”

You can’t be serious, right?

Fuck you and fuck your kind. You call yourselves Christians but you act like utter barbarians. No wonder the world is weary of America.

41 Anonymous
Mar 20th, 2006 at 12:26 am
Matthew 5:17 (New International Version)

17″Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

42 Anonymous
Mar 20th, 2006 at 12:28 am
Point is Jesus said that the Old Testament still has relevance.

43 Anonymous
Mar 20th, 2006 at 12:41 am
The Gospel of St. Thomas isn’t part of the Bible.

44 Anonymous
Mar 20th, 2006 at 1:18 am
For all you so called patriots and pro war maniacs, why don’t you enlist and go to iraq. It’s easy for you cowards to support this war when your on your leather couches and lap tops. Better yet send your kids to fight if you really believe in this war or should i say waste. GWB and Dick Cheney both draft dodgers should be over their with there kids , if they really support this massacre. It’s time these poloticians grow some balls and go against this 21st century version of Hitler.

45 Anonymous
Mar 20th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Most Americans support the war. They just don’t support they way it is being fought. They think it should be fought MORE aggressively.

And don’t take polls for being more than they are. First it is easy to write a misleading poll to get the answer the one conducting the poll wants.

Second, America is a Constitutional Republic with a tradition that says it is ok to speak out against our leaders. We won’t be beheaded for doing so.

So, yes, we can be against a certain President but still get behind him when need be such as if we are attacked by outside forces. The fact that a particular President may be unpopular doesn’t mean we won’t rally behind him when things get tough.

46 Anonymous
Mar 20th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
This Right Wingnut is sick beyond belief and needs urgent treatment.

For if not done, the man is soon going to strangle himself with his own entrails.

47 Anonymous
Mar 20th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
There are so many of american who are against the Bush adminstration and wish to accept that Iraq was a mistake.

Compare that to how many muslims come out in protest against maniacs like ahmednijad, against rioting and killing we saw in protests of some dumb cartoons, against mindless terrorism of Osama bin laden.

The latest news from the world of islam is that a guy is being prosecuted in Afganistan allegedly for converting to christianity. The punishment for the crime is death in afghan law. only way he can save is live his to revert to islam. say what now guy ?

a good idea for anwar husain will be to leave islam and come in the refuge of christianty, buddhism or hinduism. that is the only way he can relieve himself all the hatred that allah has filled him with.

48 Anwaar Hussain
Mar 20th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
Oh no.

A still better idea would be that you read me fully first. Only then could we decide who needs to convert to whose creed my friend.

Start here right on this site;

malakandsky.blogspot.com/2005/02/shariah-laws-in-modern-times.html

malakandsky.blogspot.com/2005/02/naked-truth-of-pakistani-mullahs.html

malakandsky.blogspot.com/2005/02/this-ramadan.html

malakandsky.blogspot.com/2005/02/pitiable-plight-of-pakistani-women.html

malakandsky.blogspot.com/2005/02/silence-of-lambs.html

and above all;

malakandsky.blogspot.com/2005/05/to-change-or-not-to-change.html

malakandsky.blogspot.com/2005/12/pakistani-rosa-parks_113532719375546029.html

And be a man, or a woman, enough to reply back right here.

Adieus.

Anwaar

49 Anonymous
Mar 21st, 2006 at 1:30 am
Anonymous replying :

Hey Anwar,

why waste my time with more links.

you could not respond in few words why muslims don’t seem to take notice of attrocities by fellow muslims. for example Musharraf is using helicopter gunships in balochistan. I beleive the people being killed are muslims, but no riots/protests. probably musharraf is using gunships to preserve territorial integrity of pakistan. Now if russia uses helicopter gunships in checnia, all of muslim world will be in arms against supposedly attack on muslims. no respect for territorial integrity of Russia.

Similiarly Saddam went scot free for all his crimes (in fact all of it against muslims).

I am not a supporter of Iraq war. similiarly I hate the protests, rioting and murder in the name of some dumb cartoons. I hope you are aware of the playcards your co-religionists were carring in London while protesting against cartoons.

take it from me, shariah does not go well with the senstivities of modern day human being.

just a while back I was reading about mathematical anamolies in inheirtance laws in Quran. if you read them with an open mind you will know that “Allah is Not-All-Knowing, Not-All-Wise”. In fact Allah needs some basic guidance in adding fractions.

I will love to see you write an article and create an opinion to protect this hapless man in afghanistan. his only crime is to exercise his free will of choosing his religion. In fact educated Muslims like you should create awareness against severe blasphamy laws in muslims countries and help them repeal.

only the day muslims can be seen to have an option of leaving Islam if they wish, will Islam regain any respect among non-muslims. currently we feel muslims are bound to islam for sake of their lives rather than any respect for islam.

the artcile about anamolies in inheirtance laws in quran is below (pasted as it is).

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One of the most obvious mathematical mistakes of the Quran can be found in the division of the inheritance.

The laws of inheritance are spread out in several Suras. One can find references to them in Al-Baqarah(2), Al-Maidah(5) and Al-Anfal(8). But the details of these laws are spelled out in the Surah Nisa (4).

Q. 4:11
“Allah (thus) directs you as regards your Children’s (Inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females: if only daughters, two or more, their share is two-thirds of the inheritance; if only one, her share is a half. For parents, a sixth share of the inheritance to each, if the deceased left children; if no children, and the parents are the (only) heirs, the mother has a third; if the deceased Left brothers (or sisters) the mother has a sixth. (The distribution in all cases (’s) after the payment of legacies and debts…”

Q. 4: 12
“In what your wives leave, your share is a half, if they leave no child; but if they leave a child, ye get a fourth; after payment of legacies and debts. In what ye leave, their share is a fourth, if ye leave no child; but if ye leave a child, they get an eighth; after payment of legacies and debts…”

Q. 4:176
“If it is a man that dies, leaving a sister but no child, she shall have half the inheritance: If (such a deceased was) a woman, who left no child, Her brother takes her inheritance: If there are two sisters, they shall have two-thirds of the inheritance (between them): if there are brothers and sisters, (they share), the male having twice the share of the female. Thus doth Allah make clear to you (His law), lest ye err. And Allah hath knowledge of all things.”

Despite the fact that it says “Allah made them clear”, these laws are far from clear.

Verse 4:11 says that if a man has only one daughter, she gets half of the inheritance irrespective of other heirs. But since the same verse says that the portion of the male is twice that of the female, her brother is supposed to get all the inheritance. Isn’t this a discrepancy? Certainly there is an error in how this law is written. Yet the problem is aggravated further when the share of other heirs like parents and wives are taken into consideration.

There are cases when the total of the shares assigned to the heirs exceeds the patrimony. Take for example the following.

According to the above verses, if a man dies leaving behind a wife, three daughters and his two parents,

His wife’s share of his inheritance is 1/8. (In what ye leave, their share is a fourth, if ye leave no child; but if ye leave a child, they get an eighth)

His daughters would receive 2/3 (if only daughters, two or more, their share is two-thirds of the inheritance;)

and his parents each will get 1/6 of his inheritance. (For parents, a sixth share of the inheritance to each, if the deceased left children;)

When you add all these fractions the sum is more than the total of inheritance.
Wife1/8 = 3/24
Daughters 2/3 = 16/24
Father 1/6 = 4/24
Mother1/6 = 4/24
Total = 27/24

Now take another example. Say a man is survived by his wife, his mother and his sisters.

The wife receives 1/4 of the inheritance, (In what ye leave, their share is a fourth, if ye leave no child;)

the mother 1/3 (if only one, her share is a half. For parents, a sixth share of the inheritance to each, if the deceased left children; if no children, and the parents are the heirs, the mother has a third;)

and the sisters 2/3. (If there are two sisters, they shall have two-thirds of the inheritance (between them)

When we add up these fractions they too are more than the total.
Wife1/4 = 3/12
Mother 1/3 = 4/12
Sisters 2/3 = 8/12
Total = 15/12

In the above examples, the shares apportioned to the heirs exceed the total of the inheritance. In both cases the total of the inheritance sums to exactly one BEFORE taking into account the wife’s share.

What should be done if a man has two wives, one with children and the other without children? Does the one with children receive 1/8 and the one without children 1/4? And is this justice?

Now suppose a woman dies leaving a husband and a brother:

Husband receives half (In what your wives leave, your share is a half, if they leave no child.)

Brother receives everything (If (such a deceased was) a woman, who left no child, Her brother takes her inheritance.)

Does this mean that the parents, sisters and husband do not get anything? In that case where is the justice and if they do how can the brother get everything?
Husband, (1/2) = 1/2
Brother (everything) = 2/2
Total = 3/2

This verse does not specify that the brother gets everything only when there are no other heirs. It just says when there are no children he gets everything. In the same verse it says that if a man dies leaving a sister, she gets half. What will happen to the other half?

Here is another example: A woman leaves behind a husband, a sister and a mother.
Husband, (1/2) = 3/6
Sister (1/2) = 3/6
Mother (1/3) = 2/6
Total = 8/6

We can conclude that the Quran in matters of inheritance is a very obtuse book. It is so obtuse that Shiites and Sunnis practice this law differently. For example:

If a man leaves a wife and the two parents, the Shiits will give the wife 1/4 and then distribute the remainder as 1/3 for the mother and 2/3 for the father, i.e. they will receive 1/4 and 1/2 of the original estate (see #2741). Sunnis give the wife 1/4, the mother 1/3 and the father as the nearest male relative the rest, i.e. 5/12. As one can witness, the Quran is anything but clear.

In order to solve these problems the Islamic doctors of law have devised a complex “science” called “Al-Fara’id”. It contains rules of “Awl” and “Usbah,” and the laws of “Usool” of the Fara’id, the laws of “Hajb wa Hirman,” and many other issues relating to this matter.

The laws of “Awl” (accommodation) deals with cases when the inheritor’s shares exceed or “overshoot” the sum of the total inheritance. In such case the shares are adjusted to accommodate everyone. This is how it works:
Wife1/8 = 3/24 is changed to 3/27
Daughters 2/3 = 16/24 is changed to 16/27
Father 1/6 = 4/24 is changed to 4/27
Mother1/6 = 4/24 is changed to 4/27
Total = 27/24 27/27

and for the second case,
Wife1/4 = 3/12 is changed to 3/15
Mother 1/3 = 4/12 is changed to 4/15
Sisters 2/3 = 8/12 is changed to 8/15
Total = 15/12 15/15

Thus the problem is solved thanks to human ingenuity but the portions are not the same as indicated in the Quran. Each party has to waive part of his or her share in order to make this law work. This is a clear case in which the words of Allah needed human intervention in order to become applicable.

There are yet cases when the shares of the inheritors do not sum to a whole 100% and there is a surplus left.

Take for example a man who dies and leaves his wife and his parents.
Parents 1/3 = 4/12
Wife 1/4 = 3/12
Total = 7/12

Or in following cases::
scenario fund distributed surplus
Only a wife: = 1/4 3/4
Only a mother: = 1/3 2/3
Only a daughter = 1/2 1/2
Two daughters = 2/3 1/3
Only a Sister = 1/2 1/2
A mother and a sister = 1/3 + 1/2 = 5/6 1/6
A wife and a mother = 1/4 + 1/3 = 5/12 7/12
A sister and a wife = 1/2 + 1/4 = 3/4 1/4

In all these cases and many other combinations there is a surplus. What will happen to this surplus? Who will inherit it?

To deal with this problem the law of “Usbah” comes to effect. This law is to regulate the unclaimed shares, which have no corresponding people to receive them. Of course if the Quran was clear with no errors, there would have been no need for all these “sciences” and amendments.

The law of Usbah is based on the following Hadith.

Sahih Bukhari 8. 80. 724
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
The Prophet said, “Give the Fara’id (the shares of the inheritance that are prescribed in the Qur’an) to those who are entitled to receive it. Then whatever remains, should be given to the closest male relative of the deceased.”

According to this law, a man who dies and is survived by only his daughter with no other close male relative except a second cousin, his daughter will receive half of his inheritance and the other half will go to the man’s second cousin. This seems quite unfair to the daughter, but it would be especially unfair if the man had a needy aunt or a female first cousin that would receive nothing because they are of the wrong gender.

Now suppose that a man has no other heir except his wife and a distant male relative. The wife will receive 1/4 and the distant male relative gets the balance, i.e. three times the inheritance that his widowed wife gets. Is this justice?

What if the deceased has no male relative at all? What will happen to the rest of his inheritance? What happens in the reverse case when a wife has no relatives? The husband will receive half of her inheritance; who will get the other half?

Note that in the Quran there is no priority for the distribution of the inheritance. In nowhere it says “first give to these and from what is left, give to those”. Even if we had to reinterpret these laws and prioritize them in the order that they are mentioned, it still does not work because in that case, each subsequent inheritor will have his or her share shrunk. Also in most cases the total inheritance will never be used up.

This is the fallacy in which Mr. Sami Zaatari engages. In an attempt to refute this article Mr. Zaatari wrote: “If A [ the deceased] left a widow or widower, the widow’s or widower’s share would first be calculated as in the first half of verse 4:1″

Mr. Zaatari must show us this instruction in the Quran. There is no provision in the Quran to pay certain inheritors first and divide the rest among other heirs. The fact remains that the Quran in matters of the division of the inheritance is wrong mathematically.

The obtuseness of these laws of inheritance is further emphasized in the following example. Consider the case of a man with only one daughter and 10 sons. According to the Quran, the daughter receives half while all the sons must share among themselves the other half. So each will receive not more than 1/20 of the inheritance. But this would contradict the other ruling that a male is to receive twice the share of the female.

Of course for 1400 years Muslims have practiced Islam and somehow they managed to make these confusing laws work. How they did it? They reinterpreted, adjusted and compromised to make sense of these nonsense laws. They put all the inheritance in a pool and give to each male child twice the share of their female siblings. This solution, though satisfies one of the ruling of the Quran about the inheritance, it contradicts the other.

Despite all these incongruencies and errors the real problem with these laws is not the fact that they do not add up. The difficulty is with the inherent injustice that they embody. A fair minded person cannot avoid but to question, why daughters should receive half of what the sons receive? Why sisters receive less than brothers? And why a widower is entitled to double the share than a widow? Why the Quran states “to the male, a portion equal to that of two females”? (4:11). Think of a man with four wives. All the wives have to share the ¼ of his wealth, if he has no children and 1/8 if he has. In the first case each wife will receive 1/16 of the inheritance and in the second case 1/32. How a woman who may not be young enough to remarry can survive with such meager share in a male dominated society as Islamic countries? On the other hand a man who loses all his four wives will inherit half to ¼ of every wife’s wealth. Isn’t this the formula to enrich the men and impoverish the women? It is easier to forget about the mathematical errors of the Quran than forgive its injustice.

The verse (4:175) claims that “Thus doth Allah make clear to you (His law), lest ye err. And Allah hath knowledge of all things.” As we saw, the above laws are anything but clear. They do not add up, the portions are not clearly defined, and the shares are distributed unfairly. It is up to Muslims to decide whether Allah, does not have the “knowledge of all things”, cannot add simple fractions, is confused and unfair or that the Quran is mistaken, and Muhammad was not a prophet of God. It is one or the other, but it can’t be both.

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50 Anwaar Hussain
Mar 21st, 2006 at 5:13 am
Listen Anon.

Since you refuse to read the articles that contain your answer in great details, you do not deserve a few words answer here.

And stop this ” my God is better than your God ” nonsense.

Fountainhead was never for this purpose.

51 Anwaar Hussain
Mar 21st, 2006 at 2:01 pm
And one more thing Anon.

No more of your religious rhetoric will be allowed on FH here. One more such post and I will erase all your previous posts into oblivion. I have given you ample opportunity to explain your point of view in a cool, lucid manner. All that you do is spew out more religious hatred.

FH does not represent fundos of any strain be they Christian, Muslim or from any other faith. It only talks of the rights of innocent people regardless of there cast, color and creed. Talk of the Darfur tragedy in Sudan, for example, and you may have a sympethatic hearing here.

Let it be a fair warning to you.

Sabe senor?