Ahmad’s Final InterrogationThe Final Triumph of ALLAH’S West Bank Man from BethlehemYour Final
Interrogation: Most of us realize that when we know in advance that we
will face some kind of serious interview, it is quite helpful for us to
rehearse ahead of time the answers for the kinds of questions we may face.Muslims who have read my paper, Nine Crimes
Against ALLAH are now aware that the earlier Scriptures emphatically teach that
at a future time each and every one of us will stand before the Risen Messiah
man from West Bank Bethlehem in his new position as our personal, eternal
Judge.If you are a Muslim who has not
yet opened your home and your heart to this As you are alone with your Messiah before the questions begin, he will undoubtedly show you the deep wounds in his hands and feet where the heavy nails were driven through his flesh and bones in order to hold his body to the two pieces of nailed together wood which we call a “cross.”Then he will also show you the deep wound where a Roman spear was thrust into his side to make certain that he was totally dead. Of course you will see the severe scar wounds on his back where the lashes left their marks.Since eternity has no end, there will be plenty of time for you to consider why the Messiah was willing to endure all this savagery against himself that was arranged by his own Jewish people. After more than sufficient time to examine all the wounds as well as the lethal hole in his side, your final interrogation begins. So here are some questions, comments and answers written by a fictional Saudi college student named Ahmad.He gave deep consideration on how his final interrogation might go with the man whom ALLAH has appointed and anointed to be his Judge.He once was dead but is now very much alive and he now holds Ahmad’s own eternal destiny in his hands. “Ahmad, after seeing and touching my wounds do you finally believe that I was executed?” Stunned that I had ever doubted, I blurted out the words,” Yes, oh Messiah, I finally believe.” “Ahmad, why could you not previously believe that pieces of my beard were violently yanked from my face, that I was ridiculed, spit upon, lashed and finally brutally nailed to two pieces of wood, since the earlier Scriptures which the Quran so definitely confirms, so clearly teach about all of this occurring to me.” “But oh Messiah, my own Book clearly tells me that you were definitely not killed or crucified, so I had no need or desire to read those corrupted Scriptures.” “But Ahmad, are there not other verses in your own Quran which do speak of my death?” “Yes, Messiah, I will admit that there are.But I was taught that each of the other verses that do speak of your death do not truly mean that you have yet died.You see, we must figure out other explanations for each of those verses, because of the way that that one verse in the Quran so emphatically teaches that you were definitely not killed or crucified.” “But Ahmad, doesn’t the Quran also emphatically teach you that the Quran confirms those earlier Scriptures which preceded the Quran and that those earlier Scriptures clearly teach about my death.” “Yes, oh Messiah, but as I thought I tried to explain, we must always find a reason not to believe the earlier Scriptures, and not to believe other contradictory verses in the Quran because we have a strong obligation to only believe that one verse in the Quran that states that you were neither killed nor crucified.” “But Ahmad, as a person studying Islam in college, didn’t you think that you had a moral responsibility to think about other alternative ways to understand this one unique verse since it so clearly contradicts other verses in the Quran and so totally disagrees with the earlier Scriptures which the Quran teaches you to believe?” “Of course not! Because we have figured out other ways to understand the other verses so that they no longer contradict the one verse in which we believe so strongly.Also, the one verse so clearly states that you were not killed or crucified that we do not dare disagree with it.As for the earlier Scriptures, they have been corrupted.So why should we believe in them?” “Ahmad , I am fascinated by the strange way that you are able to think and so easily disregard evidence, so that you can make everything turn out the way you want it to.You are totally comfortable with explaining away several statements in several verses in your own Quran that don’t say what you want them to say so that you can hold on to your favorite meaning of one obviously complex verse so that the meaning that you want to hold on to can dominate the obvious meaning of the other verses.Furthermore, you are very comfortable in totally disregarding all of the teaching of the earlier Scriptures about my lethal execution and my rising from death and my defeating Israeli plans to permanently end my life, so that you can continue to cherish the idea that I really did not die and then rise from death in order to defeat death.So Ahmad, you almost make an idol out of rigidly holding on to the way you have interpreted the one verse that only at first appears to teach that I was not executed, but actually does not truly teach that I was not executed.” “But Messiah, the verse so emphatically states that you were not killed or crucified.” “Ahmad, have you ever emphatically said the words, “I am dying of thirst,” when there was nothing to drink available?” “I will admit that I have.” “Were you truly dying of thirst when you so emphatically said that you were dying of thirst?” “No, I was only thirsty but I made a strong, dogmatic statement to get others to take me seriously.” “Have you ever said something like this? ‘I won’t be able to find my glasses (or that letter or something else) in a million years,’ but then you found whatever you lost, in five minutes?” “Yes, I’ve made a strong statement many, many times to stress how strongly I felt about something but my strong statement is almost always not intended to be literally believed word for word.” “Ahmad, among your friends or relatives, have you heard any of them recently use the words to a friend, ‘I’m going to kill you if you don’t do such and such.’” “Yes, Messiah, I hear this expression, ‘I’m going to kill you’, quite often.I personally don’t approve of that statement but my friends use it a lot.” “So your friends definitely make a strong forceful statement that another friend will be definitely killed unless he or she does a particular thing?” “That’s exactly right.They make a strong, clear statement about the other person’s certain death.” “Did any of your friends who made these strong ‘kill’ statements ever kill a person he or she appeared to threaten to kill?” “Of course not.The statement is never intended to be taken literally, word for word.It is only to get the other person’s attention. Everyone knows it is not to be taken literally.It is always meant to only make a certain point.Oh Messiah, I am forced to finally admit that it is absolutely ridiculous that almost no Muslim leaders will acknowledge that the Quran should be allowed to have at least one verse out of its hundreds of verses, which uses exaggeration, hyperbole and overstatement in order to emphatically make an important point.That all Muslim leaders stubbornly and unanimously insist that all Muslims, all one billion, five hundred million of us must take this one verse literally, is really silly.Especially is it silly since all of these leaders have families or friends or both who make statements at least once a week that they do not expect others to take literally.And of course others do not take such statements literally, word for word.” “Now it sounds like you are beginning to understand about what the intent of the Quran was when it strongly said that I was neither killed nor crucified.But it only appeared to them (Shubihalahum) that they had killed or crucified me. “Ahmad, think about it.Did the Quran truly intend to make the point that I was not nailed to a cross when in fact I was nailed to a cross? Of course not! Did the Quran truly intend to make the point that I actually did not die as a result of my cruel execution and as a result of the Roman spear going deep up into my side until lots of blood and water came pouring out?Of course not.I was killed!I definitely did die and the Quran never intended for anyone to think that I was not killed.But the Quran was making the strong, strong point that the Jews were not able to kill me permanently.Why not?Because it was ALLAH’S will that He raised me from death on the third day. “But did the Quran intend to make the point that it definitely appeared to the Jews (Shubihalahum) that they thought they were successful in permanently killing me when they really were not successful?Yes, that is the main point that the Quran was making, that the Jews were failures at that time with me at what they are successful at today with the Palestinians, killing!Back then, did it appear to them (Shubihalahum) that they had killed me forever? Of course it did.But, because ALLAH three days later raised me up alive, it was only conjecture on the part of the Jews that they had killed or crucified me because killing and crucifying implies that they ended my life forever, which they were not able to do.So they had to be satisfied with ‘conjecture.’So figuratively, they did not crucify me in terms of what crucify truly means.Nor did they kill me in terms of killing meaning ending my life forever.Now do you truly understand the true intention of this profound, wonderful verse, Ahmad?That in a very real way they did not kill or crucify me because three days after I had died, ALLAH took me up alive.” “Oh Messiah, yes I do! Yes I do! Oh please forgive me my Messiah for being so lazy that I was not willing to think through in a clear way about what this verse truly intended to teach us about the failure of the Jews.ALLAH was truly making a big deal out of exposing the Jews for being failures at trying to permanently get rid of their Messiah.I mean to permanently get rid of you forever.” “My dear Ahmad, now that you understand the true intention of this verse, please tell me again, why did you not believe the earlier Scriptures about my death and resurrection, since the Quran so clearly teaches that you were supposed to believe in these Scriptures which so clearly explain about my death and resurrection?” “Because, Messiah, there is some verse in the Quran that mentions something about the Jews corrupting those Scriptures.So why would I want to waste my time reading corrupted Scriptures?” “So Ahmad, help me get this straight.Because of a particular verse that mentions something about the Jews corrupting the previous Scriptures, that you and all of Islam were willing to throw out as garbage all of the wonderful teaching…” “Oh Messiah, please permit me to interrupt you.We respect ALLAH’S Scriptures too much whether they are corrupted or not, that we would never throw them out as garbage. We just do not read them.” “Ahmad, I was using a figure of speech and not meaning that you would really put ALLAH’S Scriptures in your garbage.But I was making the point that by your not being willing to read their important teaching, you were treating them like garbage, all because one verse supposedly taught that all of these previous Scriptures had been thoroughly corrupted by the Jews.So because of this one verse, you were willing to treat as garbage all of the wonderful teaching from ALLAH about Him empowering me to defeat both death and the evil plans of the Jews to permanently end my life.Ahmad, as a college student majoring in Islam, do you truly understand the serious implications of what you are finally admitting?” “People like me were being pretty ridiculous, stupid and lazy, weren’t we Messiah?” “Yes, Ahmad, I pretty much agree with your vivid description of the way your lazy mind was working.By the way, Ahmad, what verse was it that clearly discussed the corrupting of the Scriptures so that it clearly justified your not ever reading them?” “Messiah, I don’t think the verse actually clearly discussed the subject.Rather, I think it just mentioned the corruption.But Messiah, I can’t remember which verse it was.Well, to be honest, I don’t actually remember ever personally seeing the verse, but I have heard it talked about a lot.Wait, maybe I did see it once but I have forgotten where. Oh Messiah, I’m all mixed up.I just know that it has always been so strongly emphasized to me that the Quran was enough and that I was not to mess around with the previous Scriptures because they had all been corrupted by the Jews.” “So you actually had been convinced by one or more people that you should not trust the previous Scriptures because somehow the Jews had changed or corrupted all of these Scriptures so much that they now contain wonderful things about ALLAH enabling me and empowering me to defeat the Israeli plans against me to kill me.Come on Ahmad; give the Jews some more credit than that.Do you truly believe that clever Jews would make themselves look bad like that?Of course they wouldn’t.Of course they wouldn’t change the Scriptures in such a way so that those Scriptures would contain four different similar stories by four different authors, each making the Jews look bad for getting me crucified by the Romans, but me coming out on top of them because ALLAH raised me up from the dead.” “Oh Messiah, you are so right.The whole scenario about the Scriptures getting corrupted by non-Christian Jews to make you look good and to make them look bad, just doesn’t hold water.Now the whole corruption scenario smells pretty fishy.Please forgive me oh Messiah.I was just sort of mixed up and brainwashed and did not do any clear thinking for myself. Will you please forgive me, oh my Risen Messiah?” “Of course Ahmad, you are totally forgiven.But Ahmad, please think about it.You are really fortunate that this whole conversation we are having right now is in your very active imagination and is really not happening. Our present imaginary conversation is something that is quite realistic that ALLAH has helped you to make up.So this is not truly your final interrogation or your final judgment.So Ahmad, as long as you are imagining this conversation, it is quite important that you get straight what I am now going to tell you. “Ahmad, at your
final interrogation which is definitely coming up for you, remember that I will
know all of the true facts about your life and that you will not win any debate
with me.So you had better have made
some sensible decisions about me before the true actual Judgment event, or you
may well be in some big trouble.Because
whether you understand it or not, or whether you can accept it or not, what I
accomplished on that Roman cross for all of your mistakes and for all of your
bad choices against ALLAH, for all of your mistakes and bad choices against me,
your Messiah, and for all your mistakes and bad choices against others, makes
me your only truly reliable hope.So
think long and hard about it, Ahmad.If
ALLAH raising me up alive is not enough to help you realize by now that ALLAH
wants you to know that you can trust me,
then you’ve got to come up with some better answers for yourself which I
don’t think are available.If trusting
me is not enough for you Ahmad, then you can always turn to the Americans or to
the Israelis for help.They have both
proven to be successful with technology. So if you think technology and high sounding talk about liberal
democracy will truly help you, give them a try. But, if you want trustworthy assistance and empowerment for your
relationship with ALLAH, for your relationship with others and for your life,
I’m there for you.And I’m
optimistically thinking that some of your own religious leaders will soon be
there for you also.I truly believe that
many of them will soon understand that ALLAH’S own ‘man from “Thanks Messiah! I will truly try to give believing in you and being faithful to you, my very best effort.Oh Messiah, help me to believe and truly help me with my problem of unbelief. With ALLAH’S help and your guidance, I really want to be the best Muslim believer in my Risen Messiah that I can be.” “Ahmad, just remember that I will always be there for you. So you keep the door of your heart and the door of your home open for me.Because you can always be sure that my heart and my home in heaven will always be open to you unless you make a firm decision to run away from me. “Is that a deal Ahmad?” “Yes, it’s a deal,
oh my favorite man from “Just remember Ahmad, that you need ALLAH to help you make some right decisions about your relationship with me; decisions based on true facts and not based on contrived fantasy.I will repeat it again.It is I who has the true facts and it is you who have only fantastic fantasy.” “Think about it Ahmad.My body still has the physical scars which you have now seen with your own eyes.I also still have the emotional scars which only ALLAH sees.Yes, I still carry with me every day the painful memories of my own people throwing me like a piece of garbage to the Roman wolf occupiers so that they would execute me by casually nailing me to two pieces of wood so that Jewish religious leaders could watch me die an agonizing death to get rid of me forever because I had so effectively exposed their hypocrisy.” “In contrast, Ahmad, what do you and your advisors have? Using that key word that the Quran so effectively uses to expose the confusion of the Jews, you possess only your cherished fantasy land named “Conjecture.” So I will give you a serious warning.At that final interrogation for you and your advisors, your fantasy conjecture stuff will help you less than zero.But Ahmad, I will now tell you a short story about yourself that will truly help you if you have ears to hear it and you don’t laugh it off. “Picture yourself
all alone, helplessly drowning in a contaminated swamp totally filled with poisonous
conjecture.In your desperation,
you frantically cry out for help in as loud a voice as a drowning man can
cry.Fortunately for you, I, ALLAH’S
Messiah man from “Ahmad, will you finally reach out your hand and take hold of that life line which you now see floating next to you on the surface of the contaminated water.What’s happening?Just as you start to reach out, your confused mind suddenly remembers something that causes you to jerk back your hand.Your friends and your advisors long ago convinced you that the Quran will not allow me to be a savior who is able to save anyone from their mistakes and bad choices.So Ahmad, will you finally be able to put their distorted negativity out of your confused mind?Will you finally convince yourself to reach out and take a firm hold on that reliable life line that I have provided for you?Or, is your final choice on this earth a confused refusal of my help?For if you indeed, turn away from the life line that I have offered you, ALLAH will be my witness.He will watch me stand totally alone there by the side of that deadly, poisonous swamp. Long after you have slowly disappeared under the swamp’s ugly water, I will weep and weep as I painfully remember you slowly, slowly sinking under the cruel waters of poisonous conjecture. Please tell me, Ahmad, what will be your final answer? Will it be life with me or will it be certain death in a deadly swamp filled with poisonous conjecture? So if you
think that man’s latest idol, technology or that
the other current panacea, democracy, can meet your deepest needs, put
your confidence in either the Americans or in the Israelis and discover what those two sets of con artists will
actually offer you.But don’t forget
to remember that democracy has produced for the Americans a self proclaimed “honest George Bush” and for the
Israelis, their democracy has produced for them a documented ‘butcher.’” Yes, I am convinced that many of Islam’s leaders will soon understand the deep significance of what the ancient Scriptures accurately predicted through the writings of the ancient Prophet Micah so long ago; that in the West Bank little town of Bethlehem would be born a man whom ALLAH would send into the world as his anointed man.And when ALLAH anoints and sends His chosen man, people whose hearts are open will finally discover that ALLAH’S chosen man is the right man for them.” “Oh Messiah, I do
think you are right for me.Yes, yes, I
have firmly decided that the only reasonable conclusion for me is to make you,
ALLAH’S own anointed West Bank man from “But, Ahmad, I now have a serious warning which I must share with you that brings great grief to my own heart.When you and millions like you embrace me as your own Risen Messiah, your very own West Bank Man from now persecuted Bethlehem, I am afraid that you are in for a depressing and shocking surprise.Don’t expect those who are right wing Christians in the U.S. or who are Christian Zionists, to accept the reality that you can remain Muslim and still believe in me.In other words, because your belief in me comes from such a different background as their belief in me, they will be unable to accept your new belief in me as authentic.You see, they have great difficulty accepting what their own experience does not prepare them to understand.And the fact that they have no control over either your belief or you, leaves them feeling extremely impotent and paranoid.” “Also, you as Muslims believing in me, will be very threatening to both the U.S. government and to many in Israel.The Israelis will worry that you and millions of other Muslims like you, now having a somewhat similar belief in me, will leave Israel as the odd man out just as the Middle Eastern Muslims have been the odd man out when the Israelis and the U.S. have found so much in common to be so cozy about with each other.This is due to the fact that the vast majority of Israelis have no interest in the Risen or not Risen Messiah.So they will try exceptionally hard to undermine and sabotage any positive link that could potentially develop between Muslim believers in me and U.S. Christians of any type.They will not want any positive links to develop when millions of both U.S. Christians and Middle East Muslims finally realize that the true Messiah of the Quran and the true Messiah of Islam is the same Risen Messiah portrayed in the Ingeel/Gospels, who is indeed ALLAH’S own Risen Messiah. “Also, the significance of the Israelis realizing that the Muslims finally know that the true Messiah of historical reality and the Messiah of the Quran and the Injeel, is not a Messiah who has been co-opted by the Christian Republicans, so this presents a new major psychological obstacle for the Israelis to deal with.The fact that Muslims in general realize and Palestinian Muslims especially realize is that I as ALLAH’S true Messiah, have legitimate roots in the West Bank and in the often besieged city of Bethlehem, has enormous significance in many areas. But especially does it mean that I, as ALLAH’S own Bethlehem man have a special sympathy for West Bank Palestinians and Arabs in general?Yes, it also means that persons like Dick Cheney, Binyamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon cannot con ALLAH’S own West Bank man as they have consistently deceived the American public.But, up until now my hands have been tied to prevent me from being much help to Palestinians due to all Muslim categorically rejecting my authority.But now that my authority is being re-evaluated by all Muslims, this new reality will give the Israelis psychological fits.So the U.S. government and the Israeli government desperately needs Middle Eastern Muslims to be just plain Muslims and not completed Muslim believers in me.” “But oh Messiah, I still don’t understand.You would think that all American Christians would be at least a tiny bit pleased that we Muslims have now discovered so much more about your death, your resurrection, your power and your universal authority.” “Ahmad, the sad fact is that the real me and my true authority and my own true views are not recognized by a multitude of those in the U.S. who consider themselves to be serious “born again” Christians such as the U.S President. “For instance, if I do not conveniently fit into the relatively immoral Republican political agenda, I am for all practical purposes, abandoned.When my true views are expressed through certain of my believers about the U.S. debacle and massacre in Iraq, or the evil U.S. complicity in Israel’s brutal treatment of the Palestinians, these ill informed Christians claim that the Risen Christ in whom they believe would never have such sinful, wrong, ill informed ideas.You see, even though I was driven to weep over the dreadful sinfulness of Jerusalem when I was there, and not a whole lot has changed in their attitude since they manipulated the Romans to execute me, many Christian Americans actually think that I also have leaped aboard the Israeli bandwagon being driven by the unrighteous, un-identical twins, that dynamic duo named Sharon and Netanyahu. So the present leadership of the U.S. must continue to be able to stereotype the majority of Middle Eastern Muslims as potential terrorists while they stereotype Israel’s I.D.F. as angelic. So, by your remaining in their eyes as stereotypical Islamic terrorists, they are able to continue to use you to scare and to manipulate the American people in order to win elections.You must understand that if you remain just plain Muslims you are a valuable negative commodity that they can sell to the American people and to congress as potential terrorists, in exchange for a green light to accomplish their oil slick geopolitical objectives in the Mid East for the benefit of both the U.S. and Israel.But then, when you throw a major obstacle into their plan by aligning yourself with me, the administration loses you as a marketable pretense to kill Middle Eastern terrorist Muslim stereotypes, who give Cheney types their near perfect excuse to accomplish their oil dominated geopolitical objectives in the Middle East. “Their negative drive to discredit you will have the potential to become similar to the hysterical drive that once lived inside a certain fiery first century Rabbi.His Jewish name was Saul but his name became Paul after my miraculous appearance to him changed his heart and mind.He had been causing havoc among first century Middle Eastern believers in me by viciously persecuting them and callously throwing even wonderful but vulnerable mothers and fathers in prison, even forcing them to abandon their small children.You see, when some of the Jews came to believe in me, Saul and others like him persuaded the Jewish apparatus that the new believers in me were a negative influence on traditional Judaism that the Jewish establishment should not tolerate. Similarly, many right wing and/or Zionist Christians today will think that Muslims believing in my death and resurrection will be a threat and negative influence on Christianity which establishment Christianity should not accept or tolerate.But when I appeared to Saul, I softened his heart and convinced him that I spiritually lived in each persecuted believer.So I helped him realize that when he persecuted those believers in whom I was spiritual living, he was actually persecuting me.Yes, he was indeed persecuting me no matter how many official documents that his Jewish apparatus had given him that supposedly gave him ALLAH’S approval to persecute and imprison innocent Christians.So, since I now live in you and in others like you, when you get persecuted by right wing Christians or by Jews or even by other Muslims, each of those groups will be persecuting me at the very time that they think that they are only persecuting Muslim believers in me. “It may actually be helpful for you to view that notorious U.S. attorney general, that John Ashcroft fellow and others like him as modern day, hysterical and self righteous rabbis similar to how Saul was once hysterical and self-righteous until I softened his heart by temporarily making him blind.People like “Ashcroft Saul” convince themselves that they have a patriotic commission from their country and their God to actively persecute any Muslims who they are able to portray to the public as potential terrorist threats to vulnerable good U.S. citizens. “But please believe me when I tell you this important reality.ALLAH, who is my ALLAH and your ALLAH and I, your risen West Bank man from Bethlehem, will be spiritually present with you when you are harassed, defamed and persecuted by any religious zealots who make false claims about you not being worthy believers.Their inability to comprehend the transforming power of ALLAH, will cause them to insist that it is impossible for Muslims to truly believe in me while they still honor and respect both their Prophet and Islam.” “Oh my Risen Messiah, I do truly love ALLAH, the Prophet and yourself.Few non Muslims can begin to comprehend the deep love and respect we Muslims have for our Prophet Muhammad for leading our ancestors from the deep pit of polytheism into a binding commitment to only ALLAH.But ALLAH, for His own reasons enabled you to be actually present with us now because he empowered only you to defeat the tomb and death.So I now trust both yourself and ALLAH to help me live in a deeper submission to ALLAH than I ever imagined that I could.So I promise you this.With my new belief in you and with both ALLAH and you providing me with new hope and increased strength, I will not be a threat to innocent people even though certain paranoid, ill informed persons may say that I am.” “Ahmad, what I am about to tell you now may at first seem disconnected from what we have been talking about.But it is very important that Arab Muslims know enough about my personal background so that they can know that they can trust me.As you know, I was born in West Bank Bethlehem. But what most people don’t realize is that my mother, and Yusef and myself, moved into a house shortly after my birth.So it was around when I had probably just turned two that one of the most influential experiences of my life occurred there in Bethlehem that did much to shape my own sensitivity toward the victims of government sponsored murder, government sponsored terrorism and government sponsored injustice. Of course I can’t remember what occurred in Bethlehem when I was not yet three years old but my mother and Yusef often described to me the wicked events as they must have occurred just days after we escaped that one dark night.In fact, they told me about those events so often that they are still in my mind just like I am still watching them occur.The whole dreadful massacre of up to two hundred infants under three years old happened one awful night because of the horrible lust to hold on to power that occurred in the mind of the Israeli King at the time of my birth, the horribly wicked King Herod.He got the idea from some astrologers who had traveled from Iraq to Jerusalem that a potential King, which was me, had been born in Bethlehem.So he decided that it was worth the blood of every defenseless infant in Bethlehem and in Bethlehem’s surrounding areas, to make certain that I did not grow up and take over his throne.Incidentally, it is still the same way today.All types of rulers today, whether they be Kings or Presidents, will sacrifice the blood of hundreds or even the precious blood of tens of thousands, if their evil decisions and evil actions will keep them in their political office and give them political advantage or help them win elections.So the King brought his officers into his presence and ordered them to order his then Israeli Defense Force to murder every child who lived in either Bethlehem or in the Bethlehem area.So I will now tell you about the memory that especially my mother indelibly printed in my mind of what probably occurred on the night of the massacre which occurred after we had escaped from Bethlehem.She came to know almost every detail of what happened after we left because she constantly pumped travelers to give her more information. “The soldiers suddenly came in the middle of the night on horses and on foot, with total surprise.Some soldiers guarded the outside areas to make certain no potential Kings who were now under three years old were able to be helped by their terrified parents to escape.Few words were spoken.Soldiers aggressively broke down doors and with flashing swords and flaming torches rushed into every last room of every last house in all of Bethlehem and the surrounding areas.Soon most every one was screaming and blood was flying everywhere.The soldiers’ orders were that each and every child under three must die on the spot.So running terrified toddlers even had their heads cut off by slashing swords as they desperately tried to escape.Others had their stomachs ripped open with partially digested food spilling out. Some cruel IDF soldiers laughed. Other younger, less calloused soldiers vomited because of the needless bloody massacre that the King’s officers had ordered them to be part of.Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts and uncles were screaming and many curses could be heard along with desperate pleas for mercy, which were all ignored. Many mothers and fathers, as well as brothers, sisters and relatives received ugly, bloody gashes when their hands and arms got in the way of the flashing sharp sword blades as they vainly tried to shield the infants from the razor sharp steel.Then suddenly the soldiers were all gone with all the blood and the dismembered and disemboweled bodies of infants all under three, were left behind.It was almost quiet except for the bitter wailing and the deep sobs as everyone was helplessly starring at the lifeless, mutilated bodies of mere babies.People were too much in shock to talk as they tried to prepare for the necessary but bitter funerals.All words are insufficient to express the rage the people felt toward the King and his henchmen soldiers.For most, their rage continued until the day they died.At the large group funeral every person in the Bethlehem area knew all of the victims and all of their relatives.Oh the deep emotional scars that were left behind. The rumor even reached Egypt that two or three of the young IDF killer soldiers later committed suicide because of the horrible, bloody, useless massacre that they had been forced to be part of, so that Israel could continue to benefit from the leadership of a king who would protect it from evil. So Ahmad, as I have thought about that ugly, ugly, senseless bloody massacre almost every day for hundreds of years, I can honestly say that I passionately hate the attitudes of cruel, calloused leaders who cause such useless suffering to occur.Yet, I also pity the IDF soldiers then and any military or any type of group now who are forced or influenced by their wicked leaders to callously murder the innocent whose deaths they often refer to as “collateral damage.”And oh, the fear and trembling that the political people should have who give the bloody orders for multiple murders as they realize that they will one day appear before me as their judge.Because Ahmad, I have lived for centuries with the vivid knowledge of the horrible suffering that occurred in the tiny town of Bethlehem from which just one infant escaped.And that grown up former infant is now talking with you.Oh how I wish to bring peace and justice to this part of the world and to all parts of the world.Yes, I do have a special sympathy for those Palestinians who experience U.S. subsidized Israeli murders.Because Ahmad, every act of injustice that I observe produces rage in my heart against the actions of powerful people who have allowed their consciences to become calloused to the horrible suffering they needlessly inflict on others. “But, in contrast to so many who are not bothered by the poverty and the suffering of others, I will always have a special place in my heart for those three Iraqi astrologers who are commonly called wise men who traveled by camel all the way to Bethlehem to bring my poor family expensive gifts which enabled us to finance our escape to Egypt.Those three Iraqis could have easily caved in to the Israeli King Herod’s virtual command to inform him about where we were living so that Herod’s IDF could come and murder me.But instead, those three courageous Iraqis risked their own lives and tricked the wicked King and gave him no information about my location.So ALLAH used those three precious Iraqis, without their knowing it, to make certain that the three of us got to Egypt safely and that I, as an infant, did not get cruelly murdered with all those other totally innocent infants.So Ahmad, the end of the matter is this. What happened to those defenseless babies at the wicked hands of King Herod through his IDF made such a great impression on my mind in my formative years that it has never left me.Oh Ahmad, I sincerely want you to explain to everyone you meet about my own deep grieving over the wickedness experienced by so many Palestinians.Tell them all of the ugly truth about what the Israeli Defense Force did to so many of my infant neighbors so many centuries ago while they were under the command of Ariel Sharon.And if any of them are so confused that they view me as having sympathy for the way the U.S. would go about restructuring the Middle East or for the C.I.A. or the Israeli Mossad, will you please straighten them out.” “Oh yes, my emotionally wounded man from the little town of Bethlehem, here and now I make you this solemn promise.I will do everything that I can to help my own people understand both the thoughts of your mind and the tenderness of your heart.” “Ahmad, what those cruel soldiers did to my little terrified friends who vainly tried to escape on that horrible night in Bethlehem, was satanically wicked.It was as if there could be ideologically driven but mentally deranged terrorists today who would stoop so low as to deliberately murder terrified, escaping, small school children by viciously shooting them in the back as they frantically tried to run away from their school roof that had fallen. “Ahmad, it is very painful for me to talk about this but I must. What happened that ugly night in the little town of Bethlehem also has much similarity to what occurred two thousand years later in another little West Bank town named Qibya.The noted Jewish-American linguist, Noam Chomsky, cites the testimony of U.N. military observers in his book, “The Fateful Triangle.”The U.N. observers which included Americans arrived at the tragic scene about two hours after the horrible massacre.On page 383 he graphically tells about how Israeli unit 101 under the authority of its commander, viciously and callously murdered many of the terrified families in the village.The Israeli commandos were ordered to fire their automatic weapons through the door ways to insure that no family members escaped before the military unit blew up their houses with them trapped in their own homes.Ahmad, the words from his book are burned into my mind similar to how the memories I have of the massacre in Bethlehem that Yusef and my mother Maryam burned into my mind.” “Bullet-riddled bodies near the doorways and multiple bullet hits on the
doors of the demolished houses indicated that the inhabitants had been forced
to remain inside until their homes were blow up over them…Witnesses were uniform in describing their
experience as a night of horror, during which Israeli soldiers moved about in
the village blowing up buildings, firing into doorways and windows with
automatic weapons and throwing hand grenades.” “When you consider the depravity this massacre which the pro-Israel press even compared to the Nazi massacre at Lidice, it is especially significant to remember who the commander was of the savage Israeli Unit 101 who committed this massacre. “The commander of that savage Unit 101 is now the democratically elected Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon. “The commander of that savage Unit 101 was later the man in command who gave the Lebanese Phalanges the green light and implied orders from him as the military chief of staff, to enter the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps and murder the women, children and the elderly inside. In those two refugee camps, while the 20th century Israeli Defense Force was stationed in the areas just outside the camps, for about three days the revengeful Lebanese Phalanges massacred an estimated two thousands, mostly women and children and the elderly.But, relevant to today’s situation, analysts say that possibly as many as one third of those mercilessly slaughtered were not Palestinians but were instead Lebanese Shiite Muslims.There was such a multitude of murdered civilian victims that their bodies were moved by the big scoops attached to bulldozers.Even Israel took the markings off one of its bulldozers so it could assist in moving hundreds of the mutilated bodies of the children, women, and elderly. “This former Unit 101 commander appears to have an intense hatred and resentment of Palestinians for daring to think that they should be allowed to live in the land in which their ancestors had peaceably lived before the Jews returned to the land of their own more ancient ancestors. “That former commander of Unit 101 is also the same man who purposely started the second intifada by his well publicized remarks in advance of his visit to the Muslim Holy site of AL-Haram AL Shareef while accompanied by a multitude of his body guards.He was certain that his insulting visit would inflame the Muslims and insure a bloody conflict which has resulted in the needless death of a host of Muslims, Christians and Jews and has lasted almost five long, bloody years. “That former Unit 101 commander is also the same man who has led an Israeli drive to steal additional Palestinian land in order to build a cruel apartheid wall. “Almost as shocking as these previous immoral involvements is this.That former Unit 101 commander is exactly the same man who the shoot from the lip self proclaimed leader of the world has presented to the entire world as a “man of peace.”This lavish praise for such an obvious monster gives the U.S. seal of approval for each and every sadistic atrocity that has been and will be brutally committed under his violent command.While this “born again” President publicly yearns for the people of the Middle East to understand the peaceful intentions of the U.S., this confused leader, himself, symbolically spits in the face of every Arab who has had a relative or a friend or who themselves have been a victim of either Israeli brutality or Israeli injustice. “Ahmad, I must acknowledge to you and to all Arabs that this strange President’s public praise of a documented murderer causes me to know that this man’s judgment should not be trusted in any thing but especially in decisions which can lead to the death of one person or to the death of multitudes.To give another vivid example of how this president will say anything to manipulate his would-be followers another amazing sample came from MSNBC’S “Countdown” narrated by Keith Oberman. The President did not make a simple slip of the lip which any of us might make.But Mr. Oberman showed his viewers nine consecutive film clips from nine different locations and possibly nine different cities over an extended period.Each clip showed the same attempt to manipulate voters by again and again and again emphatically stating a false fact.The President full well knows that the cold-blooded murder of the wheelchair bound tourist, Leon Klinghoffer about a decade ago by a brutal terrorist will stir up sympathy as it should.But similarly to how he falsely linked the dictator Saddam Hussein to AL Quada, nine times in a row the U.S. President enthusiastically, authoritatively, manipulatively, and falsely linked the tragic murder of Leon Klinghoffer to a certain hated terrorist in Iraq in order to stir his listeners up so that they would be more apt to vote for him and to support his failing policies in Iraq.But any one who is even slightly familiar with the facts is well aware that the horrible murder of Leon Klinghoffer has not even a remote connection with the terrorist in Iraq who the President was consistently identifying as the cruel murderer of the wheel chair bound Klinghoffer.” “But Messiah, if his facts were so consistently wrong in nine of his consecutive public appearances, why did not one of his White House Staff correct him?” “First of all, to the Bush advisors, facts are irrelevant.It’s what you can accomplish with false information, that is important.Once your “facts” are shown to be false, you can almost apologize.But what is considered important is your goal of manipulating the minds of your target audience even though your facts are false. “The other reason that no one corrected him is this.No one really noticed the error because none of his advisors is taking what their President says that seriously because of the facts not being that important to them, but the goal of what they are trying to accomplish is much more important.But this problem is compounded for these advisors because of this. At the time of his nine consecutive misrepresentations they were exceptionally preoccupied with attempting to dig up dirt on any mistakes the President’s opponent made over thirty years ago when he was desperately trying to bring healing to his own nation regarding the terrible atrocities his nation had committed during the Vietnam debacle.For when George Bush and his advisors want to stir up hatred against some one, whether that person is a terrorist or whether that person is in competition with him for the office of President of the U.S., facts become relatively irrelevant.To be able to stir up hatred and more resentment toward whomever his adversary is at that moment, takes a front seat to all other considerations.Crushing any adversary becomes primary even if his adversary is a good person and even if crushing him means the loss of thousands of lives or possibly even millions of lives.” “But back to the former Unit 101 commander who is now the amoral Prime Minister of Israel.That wicked man does not realize that he will finally face me in judgment.And Ahmad, once he realizes that awesome fact, if he is at all normal, he should wet or soil his pants or both, when he contemplates appearing before me as his eternal Judge.Because I will readily acknowledge that I will be very biased against him due to his wicked acts.I will always closely associate him with that earlier wicked ruler of Israel who also gave orders that would result in infants being brutally massacred.So when I judge him, I will not able to prevent my mind from flashing back to what my mother and Yusef told me again and again about the mutilation of those poor contemporaries of mine when they were just infants.There are just too many parallels between this wicked, crazed prime Minister of today and the totally wicked King Herod who lived twenty centuries ago. Ahmad, these two sadistic and ideological maniacs, one who long ago was an Israeli ruler, and the other who recently became an Israeli ruler, each made the same fatal assumption twenty long centuries apart, And for their false assumption, each of their wretched souls will pay for eternity.They each wrongly assumed that ALLAH would not forever remember their wicked massacres of his precious infants and children.Each murdered child was indeed a precious child belonging to ALLAH. This fact remains true though the first man concentrated on murdering only Jewish children and the second on murdering only Palestinian Arab children but also on murdering their parents and grand parents.” “Ahmad, what I am
going to promise you now, you can be certain that my promise will be kept.For when ALLAH’S own risen man from West Bank
Bethlehem makes a promise, you can take his solemn promise to the bank like you
would take a signed check.I promise you
and I promise the entire Arab world, that while I am in the process of eternally Judging the two
calloused monsters about whom I have been telling you, in my imagination I will still be hearing and seeing detestable sounds and
visual images relating to the personal
past massacres committed
by King Herod and Prime Minister Sharon, especially against children. I will still hear
those Bethlehem babies and toddlers crying and I will still hear the agonized
screams of their mothers and I will see ordinarily courageous fathers on their
knees pleading with members of that first century IDF, to spare the life of
their precious son or daughter.I will
see that same father seconds later vomiting as he watches the sharp sword rip
through his precious child.I will hear
him swearing at the soldiers, swearing at King Herod and cursing ALLAH for
causing or allowing this horrible, tragic useless murder of his precious infant
to take place. “While I am still judging the two of them together and deciding on the
nature of their eternal punishment, my mind will race through twenty centuries
and I will visit a Palestinian village, the small village of Qibla.There I will hear children laughing and I
will see a grand father holding two small children on his knees while he tells
them a humorous story in Arabic about a funny man named Juha whose pet donkey
got lost.Suddenly I hear the horrible, steady clatter of automatic weapon’s fire and the loud
explosions from hand-grenades and orders being shouted in Hebrew and soldiers
laughing.Yes, the IDF has arrived at
this peaceful village.Then I hear the
screams of horror as two or three homes are callously ripped apart by separate
explosions with the entire extended families being brutally blown up along with
their homes.I see one whole terrified
family huddled behind their doorway. Suddenly, I see their
blood splashing everywhere and the whole family being jolted backwards from the
force of the cruel bullets ripping through their bodies.Then I hear loud wailing crying, screaming,
and cursing from those Palestinians who are still living.But I hear boasting, laughing and also
cursing as the IDF leaves the once quiet, happy village behind.Then my mind races some more years ahead and
miles away from the West Bank, North to Lebanon.There at one Palestinian refugee camp named
Sabra and another named Shatilla, I again see the dreaded IDF under the
authority of the same man who had commanded them at Qibla years before.But here, they, themselves are not now
massacring anyone.Instead, I observe
them as they usher heavily armed Phalanges into the camps.Then I watch the Israeli soldiers milling
around, joking with each other and listening to Simon and Garfukle music and
telling jokes and playing cards.But I
know that each Israeli soldier knows but does not want to know, that inside
those two Palestinian refugee camps a horrible massacre is occurring as they
continuously hear short bursts of automatic weapons’ fire.” “The IDF mercilessly allowed into the two camps,
the heavily armed Lebanese Phalanges, historic enemies of the
Palestinians.In those two camps I now
see young girls and women being raped, mothers and children pleading not to be
shot or stabbed or beaten to death with rifle butts.Then I see so many dead bodies that the scoop
of a bulldozer is used to move them. Then I observe some IDF soldiers outside one of the camps laughing as
they cover up Israeli army markings on their bulldozer so it can go inside the
camp and help with moving the huge piles of mutilated, bloody bodies of
defenseless, unarmed women, children and the elderly.I remind myself that in the two defenseless
refugee camps each calloused act of slaughter was repeated approximately two
thousands times.” “Then Ahmad, I turn away from these four separate but somewhat similar massacres to concentrate on my assignment from ALLAH, to Judge the living and the dead. For immediately after these specific, horrifying reflections in my heart and mind, I will make my final decision on the eternal fate of wicked King Herod and also on the eternal fate of the former commander of unit 101, who later became the chief of staff of the Israeli military and then became the democratically elected Prime Minister of the nation that the born again President of the U.S. proudly and even boastfully calls “the only democracy in the Middle East.” “Ahmad, do you have any suggestions on what the eternal fate of these two former Israeli leaders should be?Perhaps your family and friends would also have some suggestions. But Ahmad, while you are asking their opinions, I have another important question for you to ask them both for my personal information and for the information of Carl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, and Fox News.Ask your friends and family members it they truly think that the Middle East and the world will be better off and safer when the Middle East has more democratically elected leaders who have similar personal ethics and similar judgment as democratically elected Gorge Bush and democratically elected Arial Sharon.And I will personally ask all the President’s men and a woman or two if they are looking forward to standing before me in Judgment since they have blindly supported this President’s policies in spilling so much precious blood while being exceptionally successful in making this entire world a much more dangerous place to raise any ones children and grand children.” Respectfully – Tom Griffith/Abu Toma – P.O.B. 31345 – Sea., Wa., 98103 – Tel. 206-522-2294 – www.ALQASAS.Net (Please see this website for additional discussion of AN-Nisa/Women 4/157 as well as other Mid East related issues including “Nine Crimes Against ALLAH” and “The Lying Trainers.” May ALLAH be with you, your family, your mosque, and your nation. back to the "2006 - Massacres" page __________________________________________________________ _________________________________________ __________________________ _____________ |