The Dark Unemployment Cloud

All Roads Lead To Al Quran

Not being able to find meaningful employment is a pervasive discouragement for many men in the Middle East of all ages. So there is possibly not a greater motivator than no jobs with little hope for the future, to turn a person to the false hopes provided by Al Qaeda. The fact that Al Qaeda also has a brilliant sometimes cave man to lead its public relations department also provides it with a tactical advantage. In gambling terms this temporary cave man has more aces up his sleeve than Bush's boss, Dick Cheney. Plus, he is far more of a genius than the man who was until recently Bush's other boss, Carl Rove. Though he is now retired he was an exceptional destructive mud slinger.

The compelling public relations message that attracts so many to Al Qaeda is "Join us in order to cripple the western economy so the west will no longer be able to damage and dominate the world." This message that contains partial truth has enough resonance to the mind and heart of a resentful Middle Eastern male that it provides attractive bait to hook especially unemployed men into what is deceptively portrayed as ALLAH and Islam's noble cause.

The reality that the state of Israel has done billions of dollars of damage to especially the economy of the Palestinians and therefore has eliminated thousands of potential jobs has planted smoldering rage deep in the hearts of multitudes of male Arabs. So they would like to have the opportunity to pay back those nations who have so deeply injured Arab nations by so unconditionally aiding the "above the law" nation of Israel.

Thus, it cannot be denied that the pervasive syndrome of poor economies that offer so few jobs and offer so little hope, provides a powerful recruiting tool for Al Qaeda. This is in addition to the powerful motivation provided by Bush's initiated steady flow of bright crimson blood flowing in the streets of Iraq which is even offensive to the eyes of a blind man.

Thus, in addition to the awful crime being perpetrated in Iraq in the name of Bush's Christianity, in the name of Bush's freedom and in the name of Bush's democracy, there is the bottom line that battered and bruised Arab economies provide neither jobs nor hope for Middle Eastern males. But it does offer compelling motivation for the unemployed and dispossessed to go the terrorist route.

So into this milieu of hopelessness and often despair comes the Osama man, a man with what appears to be deep and genuine sincerity. He thinks that ALLAH and Islam has provided him with the insight and unique ability to provide inspiration, direction, training, resources, imagination, example and leadership for multitudes of recruits. Both he and George Bush recruit for Al Qaeda so effectively that news of its vision and bloodstained accomplishments are virtually everywhere by means of T.V. coverage, the internet, the telephone, by conversations in coffee shops, in restaurants, in bus stations, training locations, language schools, air ports and in the streets of Iraq. So direction, inspiration, money, training and meaning are all available through Al Qaeda and its many off shoots.

I personally wish that I had  an easy suggestion to help solve the serious dilemma that joblessness, hopelessness, plus the evil attempts at manipulation and exploitation by a Super Power, have brought which have created such a fertile soil in which terrorism by individuals and terrorism by a superpower in the name of a War Against Terrorism, is growing like well watered weeds. So terrorism by individuals and small groups lead to a grander scale of terrorism by a Super Power, which leads to more terrorism by individuals and small groups which lead to more terrorism by the Super Power which leads to" and on and on goes terrorism which has developed a life of its own. For many neo-cons the growth of terrorism is cause for celebration for the war against terrorism pumps new life and growth into the giant Military Industrial Complex. Also, all this wanton bloodshed provides multitudes of jobs for security firms like Black Water and new meaning and purpose for the rapidly multiplying new crop of want-to-be terrorists. So the terrorists and the U.S. military feed off each other to stabilize the vast Military Industrial Complex which provides continuing lucrative employment for many retired military officers.

Potential For A Turn-Around

Despite the tremendous momentum that Bush has created for continued destruction, death, hopelessness and joblessness in especially the Middle East, I am convinced that my own study of the Quran which began in 1977 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia can provide a surprising major platform for progress toward solutions to the negative spiral in the Middle East. My proposals will be mainly related to two key verses in the Holy Quran, which I believe that my own unique insights from these two profound verses deserve serious consideration. For I feel strongly that these insights reveal how the universal and ubiquitous misunderstanding of these two verses true intended meaning has laid the foundation for much of the deprivation of constructive opportunity that the Middle East has experienced. It is a given that joblessness creates hope-lessness and hopelessness leads to bitterness, then hatred, then murder, then revenge. Then despair, and more hopelessness, and more death and more fear, and then rivers of blood and mountains of despair.

As over simplistic as my out of the box analysis will seem to most everyone but myself, I am convinced that similar to how they said in the ancient world that "all roads lead to Rome," that today any solution to finding solutions for the main problems of the predominantly Muslim Middle East is that, "All roads to a solution lead to the Holy Quran." More specifically, all roads lead to a new radical understanding of the true purpose of two profound verses in the Holy Quran. These most significant key verses are An Nisa 4:157 and An Nisa 4:158.

The first verse concerns whether ALLAH's Messiah did not endure a crucifixion before he was raised up alive by ALLAH's Wisdom and Might. The second verse emphatically, joyfully and triumphantly reveal that he was definitely raised up alive by the Might and Wisdom of ALLAH. Quite regrettably, all Muslims have been taught to understand the first verse of this wonderful pair of verses as being very simple and straight forward in its meaning. In fact, its meaning is considered to be so supposedly obvious that the person reading it does not even need to engage his or her mind when reading the verse to know what its main message is. And therein lies the crucial problem. This profound and complex verse is a verse for a thinking person and not a verse for a Bush like person whose attitude is, "Don't confuse me with facts because my mind is made up."

I will not go into detail about the meaning of this verse because I have done so in several other papers on this website. But I will make two main points beginning with a simple illustration. If you wear glasses, have you ever put on someone else's glasses by mistake and you could not see at all clearly through someone else's glasses? So my first point is that in several verses before 4:157 which itself first appears to deny the execution of GOD's Messiah and even in the first part of the verse containing the apparent denial of the crucifixion, the Quran has mentioned a whole series of crimes that the Jews have done such as 1. breaking treaties or covenants, 2. killing ALLAH's prophets, 3. slandering the Messiah's precious virgin mother by implying that she had slept with other men before she supposedly gave birth to the Messiah as a virgin. Then as a final crown to their series of crimes, instead of begging forgiveness for their ancestors' crime of murdering ALLAH's Messiah, they had 4. arrogantly bragged and boasted about having killed him and showed absolutely no shame or remorse for committing this murder.

So the Quran has carefully prepared the reader to be wearing a certain type of glasses which have a special prescription to enable them to read the statements about the Messiah not being crucified and understand what the statements actually mean. The reader is supposed to see through the special prescription that the Quran has carefully prepared for his eyes. He is supposed to see that ALLAH at the cross event, overwhelmingly triumphed over the Jews for not only their series of crimes which the Quran lists, not only for their ugly slander of the Virgin Mary, not only for their bragging and boasting about murdering ALLAH's Messiah, but also to once and for all show all Jews and all of us something quite amazing and unsuspected. That when Jewish leaders did manipulate the Romans to murder the Messiah, that was NOT the end of the matter as far as ALLAH was concerned. In ALLAH's bigger picture and the amazing way the Quran cancels the murder, must not be dwelled on at all because the execution was not a true execution because it totally did not count; it was like it had been cancelled because it did not accomplish what a true execution always accomplishes. Why was it not a true execution? This verse does not tell us why it was definitely not a true execution. So our totally engaged minds must totally tune in to the next verse to find out why it had only appeared to the Jews (shubbiihalahum) that it was a true execution because the execution was really as though it did not happen.

So when we tune in to the next verse and keep our reality oriented glasses on, we now see ALLAH humiliating and exposing the Jews for what they thought that they had done but had totally failed to accomplish. Their intended purpose had been to add to their previous series of crimes and to permanently get rid of the Messiah by permanently ending his life. So with our new prescription glasses still on, we are now enabled to see that ALLAH and His Messiah are the total winners while Bush and his henchmen are the big time losers, Excuse me, I meant to say that the Jewish high Priest and his henchmen were the big time losers. They lost because it was as though he had not died because GOD took his Messiah up alive. So we are prepared to enjoy the magnificent, immeasurable triumph of this verse which totally, completely and forever wipes off the map and removes from our memory bank the historical murder of ALLAH' Own Messiah. Because it is definitely this verse's intended purpose not to undermine the main belief of Christianity which is the resurrection because in all of the verses it is the Jews not the Christians who are being exposed and strongly criticized and there is absolutely nothing about the Christians or about their beliefs that are being even remotely criticized or even mentioned. It is the Jews who the Quran is aggressively going after. So the intent of the two verses together, is clear. There is absolutely no intention for these verses to undermine Christian teaching about the Messiah's death and resurrection. But the Quran's decisive message to Jews is, "Listen here all you Jews. Don't mess with ALLAH's anointed Messiah because when you do, you lose and I will humiliate you for attempting to destroy My Messiah."

So in verse 148 in the Quran, in a wonderful, triumphant and exuberate way the Quran uses words to reveal that he is rubbing into their evil, murderous faces that they lost and ALLAH won. Yes, it appeared for a while that they had the Messiah dead but that was only their conjecture. ALLAH had totally won and they had totally lost. So it was unapologetically rubbed in their face that they were total losers when they thought that they were winners. But it was ALLAH and His Risen Messiah who were the total winners. In the Quran's marvelous words of celebration and triumph.

"But ALLAH raised him up unto Himself. ALLAH is ever Mighty, Wise." 4:148

It wasn't stated in so many words but the two words, Mighty and Wise were most likely contrast to the Jews coming off as Weak and Stupid to think they could defeat ALLAH. So in the narrative of the Quran, in the Jews unsuccessful attempt to permanently end the Messiah's life by crucifying him it was the weak and stupid Jewish leaders against the Wise and Mighty ALLAH. And the Weak and Stupid will lose every time to the Mighty and Wise.

This wonderful, magnificent verse of joyful celebration brings me to my second important and final point about this. Would there have been a next verse of such joyful exuberant celebration if ALLAH had been heavily involved in a CIA like deception of changing another person's identity and using his own magnificent Wisdom and Might to do it? Don't be silly. If a cheap mossad like deception is what the former verse was referring to this next wonderful verse 158, would nor be a joyous celebration. Instead it would be apologizing for ALLAH and for the Quran and for the Messiah, for each being a vital part of a cheap fake deception. But instead this dynamic, enthusiastic, unapologetic verse pulls out all stops to celebrate. In fact, it is rather like a friend joyfully celebrating when he has found out that his dear friend that appeared to have been killed had only been knocked temporarily unconscious and was now totally okay.

Ladies and gentlemen of the all just and wise Islamic jury, I rest my case. Please ask GOD for His help in making a wise and just decision based on the evidence and not on other people's bias. Please keep in mind that you have the very positive reputation of our merciful ALLAH in your hands who is not a deceptive member of the CIA. Please also keep in mind that you have the valuable reputation of a great religion in your hands that is even now being partly tarnished by selfish men who only care about their own evil agenda. You also have the credibility of a Holy Book in your hands which is revered by millions upon millions. So please consider carefully the evidence that has been presented as you attempt to please ALLAH with your just verdict about whether the Messiah and ALLAH were complicit together in execution avoidance or whether ALLAH used His Wisdom and Might to empower His Messiah to defeat the vicious, illegal execution. Please remember that it is no small thing to find your revered book, your noble religion and our exalted God, guilty of complicity in making dramatic changes in the facts of what actually did occur at a public execution. Also remember that this execution was witnessed by numerous reliable and credible eye witnesses who were nearby and closely observe everything that was both said by the Messiah what was done to him.

I respectfully repeat, please do not allow your biases you have heard from others or even the fear that may come from threats on your lives to affect your verdict. Thank you and may ALLAH truly be with you and bless you.

One In Six Billion

It is a reality that there are about six billion people in this world and I expect about three billion of them are much more intelligent than I am. And there are about one billion five hundred million Muslims in our world and probably about one billion of those Muslim know much more about the Quran than I do. Furthermore, as far as I am able to determine, I am the only one out of six billion people who has come to similar conclusion, that I have about all roads for a solution to the major problems in the leading to these two verses in the Quran whose complex meaning I have discussed again and again in the pages of this website.

But because of my being possibly the only person in this world who sees the situation the way I see it, you have the right to think that I am not only strange but possibly crazy. Nevertheless, from my perspective I am in the majority. Why do I see myself as being in the majority on these key issues? Because I firmly believe that GOD/ALLAH and one are the majority and I am convinced that it is GOD who has convinced me that especially in the correct understanding of these two verses in the Quran lies the key to solving the Mid East's main problems even including the Palestinian/Israeli situation. I am embarrassed to admit it, but at this point it appears to be GOD and myself who are the only ones who are convinced that these two wonderful verses in the Holly Quran holds the main key to unlock the power of Islam for the Middle East and for the world.

Due to my taking these situations so seriously, and praying about them so much, that though I had limited finances, through ALLAH's help we managed to get our family of seven to Saudi Arabia after over two years of employment as a school counselor in Beirut Lebanon. (Our family included four teenagers and one sub teenager in addition to my very supportive and capable wife and myself who was much less capable than my wife and my children.)

My reasons for going to Saudi Arabia were two fold although I did not see the issues so clearly then as I do now. First, I wanted to understand first hand how the death and resurrection of ALLAH's Risen Messiah fit into Islam as Islam is understood and practiced in Saudi Arabia. Secondly, I wanted to understand how ALLAH Himself wants the death and resurrection of His Risen Messiah to be understood in all of Islam but especially in Middle Eastern, Arab Islam.

While living in the Saudi Kingdom for three years, in addition to professional employment as an orientation coordinator in a hospital, a counselor in the Riyadh International school and as a personnel man with a company providing special food for male students in Riyadh Taif and Jeddah, in my off hours I was able to concentrate on daily conversation with ALLAH through prayer. In addition to taking long walks in vacant areas I would also read the Quran and think especially about the implications of verses that referred in one way or another to the death or resurrection of ALLAH's Messiah. Also I concentrated on reading about world conditions in the English language Saudi newspapers and enjoyed greatly the Christian churches we attended in Riyadh. Taif and in Jeddah (I was invited to speak in both the Taif and Jeddah churches that at that time we were allowed to have.) Then, shortly before leaving the Kingdom ideas began to formulate in my mind about both Islam and world conditions that became the foundation of the book I self published in Seattle which was entitled, "Sound the Alarm From Saudi Arabia." Amazingly, for a short time while living in Riyadh, in answer to very specific prayer to be able to discuss some of the Bible and the Quran with Saudi generals for about two hours a day, for one day a week for 5 to 6 weeks, I had the privilege of listening to five or six Saudi Generals discuss the true meaning and implications of these two verses. So after 30 (thirty) years of praying and thinking about these ideas and verses and reading thousands of Middle Eastern newspaper articles and editorials etc. and asking many questions of many Arab Muslim and Arab Christian people, I have come to the aforementioned conclusion. But I must add that in my nine months each year in the U.S. I have also spent hours, upon hours, upon hours listening to authorities on CNN, MSNBC, some Fox News, CBS, NBC, ABC MSNBC, PBS, and reading Time, News Week, U.S. News and World Report, Foreign Affairs Journal, Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, The Week, The Nation, Foreign Policy Journal, The Seattle Times, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, The Wall Street Journal in addition to the Bible and the Quran.

The main thing that I learned from all these many various U.S. resources, except for the last two is what I did not learn.

Now I can understand that all of these predominantly secular resources have compelling reasons that they don't factor GOD/ALLAH into their conclusions. Nevertheless, so many of us believe that since, GOD is omnipresent (present everywhere at once) not factoring him into our considerations, is somewhat like people in a particular home becoming mysteriously ill and yet no one is willing to stop to consider what negative element might be in the air that they are breathing. They seem to think that since air is invisible, thus it cannot be relevant to the people being ill. Similarly, the reasoning must follow that since GOD is invisible, He must not be relevant to a solution in the Middle East.

So immersing myself in all of these many resources, two phenomenon became exceedingly clear. The first is that though all of these expert specialists and analysts  danced around every conceivable topic you could think of and found problems that most of us never knew existed, they did not present viable solutions for any root problems in the Middle East.

The second phenomena that stood out was what was missing. Except for the considerations by the generals in 1977 in Saudi Arabia, that because the Almighty Creator of the Universe is invisible, that must mean that His existence is not truly relevant. That's similar to concluding that because we can not see radio waves or the invisible T.V. signals or the invisible messages which reach our cell phones, that their existence is not truly relevant.

So the thing that I consistently noticed was that through the majority of those who are involved in the three monotheistic religions confess to believe that GOD is everywhere at once, there appeared to be no recognition of the involvement of the One Transcendent GOD, in anything that any of these resources were considering, as potential problems or potential solutions for the Middle East.

Briefly, we will consider an exceptionally significant reality that is pivotal to all life on earth but receives virtually no consideration.

Life is life and death is death. Except for some cases of very temporary death when the heart that has stopped and is soon revived or some similar very temporary phenomenon, when death has truly occurred, it is irreversible except when GOD Himself chooses to reverse the process by giving new life. So when God chooses to give new life it is a very big deal. Yet, the fact that the whole emphasis in the New Testament is that GOD infused new life into the Messiah after he was murdered and the whole religion of Islam demands that each of the one billion five hundred million Muslims believe that he was not murdered and did not die and was not given new life by GOD is no big deal. Ladies and gentlemen it is a very big deal and it is ALLAH's Will that an issue so relevant no longer remain under the rug and comes out into the open for very serious discussion.

In this paper I will not go into all the details that support my assertions that a much, much stronger case can be made from the Quran that An Nisa 4:157 and 158 actually teach that the Messiah was given new life though he was actually and definitely executed. However, a superficial reading of this profound, complex verse can leave the appearance that the Messiah did not experience an execution. If that were truly so, it would have robbed ALLAH of the opportunity to reveal His Might and Wisdom by infusing His Messiah with the new life that only He has the authority and the power to give.

But what is the potential connection of the one verse that all of Islam's leaders demand to be understood to teach that he was not killed, and the next verse that teaches that the Messiah was raised up by the Wisdom and Might of ALLAH, alive, with predominantly Muslim nations having poor economies and few jobs for young men?

Before we answer this important question, we will briefly consider Arab nations who do have strong economies because of oil that ALLAH has placed under their nation's ground. Yes, ALLAH, in his magnificent grace has allowed black gold to form underground lakes of income for certain now wealthy Middle Eastern nations. Wisely, a few responsible Arab leaders have made certain that the oil income has aided many of the nation's citizens to have employment opportunities. But too often, due to wide spread corruption and much money going first to extended royal families, the considerable oil incomes have not benefited the common person to the extent that this much money should have. So many, many young men do not have access to the resources that are adequate to support the raising of families.

But here is the connection between the misinterpretation of those two profound verses plus the compulsory demand by all Muslim leaders that every last Muslim unquestioningly must accept the compulsory demand to not believe that ALLAH used His Wisdom and Might to raise His Messiah up alive after the Romans had been manipulated by Jewish leaders to execute him.

Unbelievably, virtually all Muslims have believed the unbelievable. They have fallen for the unbelievable Cheney type myth that ALLAH wasted both His Wisdom and His Might (See An Nisa 4:158) to perform a CIA or a Mossad type deceptive stunt. In this supposed stunt it was the glorious ALLAH's responsibility to disguise someone so that they took on the Messiahs identity so that this new fake Messiah was brutally crucified while the Majestic Almighty snuck the true Messiah off to Heaven to still be alive there today. That all of Islam would fall for such a ridiculous lie that would portray such an important Messiah as being the totally opposite of courageous, while maligning ALLAH and even bringing disgrace on the Holy Quran. This occurs when Muslim leaders claim that it is this one verse in the Quran which tells them that ALLAH and His Messiah cooperated together to have a Messiah look alike deceive all the Roman and Jewish authorities so that they were tricked into crucifying the Look-a-like Messiah instead of crucifying the escaped Messiah. So these leaders have managed to create a muddled mess that soils the honor of three (3) extremely important entities; ALLAH, His courageous, non escaped Messiah and the revered Holy Quran.

First, the reputation of ALLAH is seriously degraded when he is portrayed as planning and taking part in such blatant, amateur deception; Second, ALLAH's Messiah is seriously degraded by willingly taking part in blatant deception that portrays him as a coward; Third, the Quran is seriously degraded when Muslims believe that the Quran actually teaches a blatant lie that insults ALLAH, insults His Risen Messiah and insults itself by being interpreted as teaching something so bizarre that it is if it has been invented by Ahmed Chalabi, that notorious bank swindler who callously stole money from the bank accounts of elderly widows and retired grandfathers.

Islam has persistently and unwisely rejected what definitely did occur on His Messiah's last day on this earth before he became a resurrected man. It was that last day when his illegal execution was manipulated by hateful Jewish leaders that was the most significant culmination of that which ALLAH had sent his courageous Messiah to our world to accomplish. Totally denying that this horrible but foundational execution occurred is an exceptionally significant crime for unwise Muslim leaders to perpetrate. But the illegal, cruel execution definitely did occur on that dark day in Jerusalem and to deny its occurrence is also to deliberately take away glory, honor and majesty from ALLAH. Tragically, to deny the death also erases the glorious resurrection that ALLAH's own awesome Might and unfathomable Wisdom accomplished three days later. Consequently, the extreme belligerence exhibited by the united, unanimous rejection of these two historical events cannot and must not be minimized, marginalized, underestimated or ignored. The total rejection of those culminating events completed by ALLAH amazingly raising His Messiah up to new life, cannot escape being considered as a serious major crime by ALLAH which merits major punishment. It has definitely put Islam in the position of choosing to be in disfavor with ALLAH which must influence the amount of blessing that Muslim nation's receive. Consequently, there are both serious and less serious consequences for all Muslims who are complicit in this rejection of these two historical occurrences, the Messiah's death and his glorious resurrection.

Therefore, there can be no serious argument that Islam's regrettable consensus decision to demand that 100% of Muslims unite against the truth of what ALLAH's Messiah accomplished for ALLAH and for us on both that dark day and on that bright sunny day three days later when he was raised by ALLAH inside of a rich man's borrowed tomb, from death to life, must finally receive from Islam the recognition these two events deserve.

The conscious choice by Islam's leaders to insist upon living with all of the negative consequences that are a result of their resolve to tenaciously reject what ALLAH accomplished through their Risen Messiah is painfully reminiscent of all the negative consequences preferred by a certain famous Egyptian leader. When Gamal Abdul Nasser was confronted with a wise choice or a foolish choice, he foolishly chose the foolish choice. He chose to throw wisdom into the sewer and to live with all the negative consequences of losing a disastrous 1967 Six Day War to Israel. A wise decision by him could have easily prevented all the dreadful and prolonged consequences that followed his unwise decision. If he had made different rather obvious choices, who occupies which land would be much more in the favor of Arabs than it is today. But this usually sincere leader allowed his temporary arrogance to be his rudder to guide him to make lousy decisions. As a consequence the whole Arab world and especially the Palestinians are still living with all of the negative consequences of Gamal Abdul Nasser's ego driven and unreality oriented decisions he made in 1967.

So ALLAH recognizes a terrible stain resting on all of Islam that both Muslims and Christians do not choose to see or to publicly comment upon. But this stain that negatively affects all of Islam has two distinct dimensions. Or you could say that it has a double thickness. The first level is the fact that Muslim leaders would so blatantly distort what the Quran actually teaches so that they would actually believe that the Quran teaches such a mess of false teaching about ALLAH, about His Messiah and about the Holy Quran. The second dimension is that for Islam to be willing to unitedly so blatantly disrespect ALLAH by being unwilling to even objectively consider whether ALLAH gave His Messiah new life is serious callousness and leaves a great stain of shame.

Blessings Denied

Despite the fact that there are some people who benefit greatly from the wealth that ALLAH has placed under Arab ground, I am convinced of one regrettable reality. That is, that all of Islam's de facto agreement to nullify, disrespect and reject ALLAH's own plans for what He determined that His own Messiah would accomplish for the benefit of all mankind, has prevented ALLAH from bringing the showers of blessings to His Muslim people that he had intended for them to receive. He is being restrained from blessing them in the way that he could have and would have if they were living in a positive state of cooperation with His deepest purposes regarding His now Risen Messiah. But instead of this state of cooperation, Muslim leaders demand that 100% of Muslims disobediently agree to live in a state of rebellion against GOD's Will. They callously reject the glorious victory that He gave His own faithful Messiah over death. They unwisely reject the victory that ALLAH also enabled him to accomplish over sin and rebellion. They even reject the victory ALLAH gave him over the wicked plans of the Jewish leaders to permanently end his life, when ALLAH through His Might and Wisdom, raised him up alive.

Is it fair to say with 100% certainty that one billion, five hundred million Muslims all agreeing to band together to unitedly oppose ALLAH has been a serious blow to the cause of Islam? Has it not hurt all of Islam that it has been so unanimous in rejecting the most important gift of love that ALLAH has ever presented to His people? This regrettable rejection must have brought serious injury to all of Islam. Significantly, I am convinced that it has adversely affected many Muslim nation's economies and has most probably decreased the number of jobs available for young men? But I cannot definitely say that this pervasive rejection has directly contributed to some of the corruption that exists in Arab governments. No, I cannot definitely establish these causal relationships with 100% certainty. Nor can I deny that awful corruption that exists in the U.S. where the leaders who publicly advocate murderous and corrupt policies also publicly claim to be followers of the Risen Messiah.

Nevertheless, I can say with 99.9% certainty that Muslim teachers who teach all of Islam to unitedly be 100% opposed to the reality that the Almighty ALLAH miraculously infused His lifeless, courageous Messiah with new life on the third day subsequent to his illegal execution are doing a serious disservice to ALLAH and to those they teach. Though perhaps unintentionally but highly regrettably they definitely rob Muslims of great blessing by their false teaching. This is so because certain special blessing from ALLAH of new life only accompanies receiving the gift of the New Risen life that the Messiah offers. For if Islam denies that the Messiah does not have any new life or new blessing to offer to either a person or to a religion then no new life or new blessing is available. So unbelief and denial has rendered both this new life and blessing inaccessible. For individuals and for a unified religion, Islam cannot receive as a blessing that which Islam denies that it even exists. So the blessing that accompanies response and the absence of rebellious denial has undeniably erected unintended barriers which have directly and indirectly prevented Islam from achieving its intended potential. Most certainly this potential would be more accessible if Muslims were welcoming ALLAH's Messiah rather than denying him entrance to their hearts, to their homes, to their mosques and to their governments.

Therefore, if I were either a younger or even an older Arab Muslim I would be extremely disillusioned about the apparent lack of integrity among leaders who have secretly conducted a Cheney like conspiracy of silence. These leaders never even acknowledge the strong evidence which reveals the opposite side of the story about whether the Quran truly does support the emphatic teaching of the earlier Scripture which it states that it confirms; that the Messiah was indeed executed but was later victoriously raised from death by ALLAH's own Wisdom and Might. So all Muslims, but especially all of those who have been most hurt by the weak economy should demand that Muslim leaders, both Sunni and Shiite, cease immediately from further offending ALLAH and damaging Islam. By blatantly mocking the ALMIGHTY by consistently teaching that the Messiah did not endure an illegal execution and experience a triumphant resurrection, is to abuse ALLAH's patience.

ALLAH has sincerely tried without resorting to coercion, to provide all Muslims with a wonderful gift that they steadfastly, rebelliously, foolishly, unanimously and counterproductively, refuse to receive. This type of aggressively mocking of the goodness and generosity of ALLAH is not an insignificant simple mistake. Rather, it is a case of serious sustained rebellion against ALLAH. For those who reject my conclusion that Islam's rejection of the Messiahs victory over death by ALLAH providing him with new life is a serious crime, I sincerely suggest that you ask ALLAH through prayer for His perspective on this most serious matter. For His answer is exceptionally important for you as an individual and is also important for all of Islam as a collective community.

But it is an entirely different level of rejection for a non monotheistic religion such as Buddhism or Hinduism to reject the historical reality that ALLAH raised His Messiah from death. For those religions openly do not agree with the whole concept of there being one GOD. So it would not be consistent for them to believe that there would be one GOD who would raise His Messiah from death in order to confirm by the amazing miracle of providing new life to His publicly executed Messiah, that this new life is ALLAH's proof that this uniquely Risen Man would later be the ALMIGHTY's appointed Judge to Judge all persons. (Please see the New Testament Book of Acts chapter 17:16-33, regarding the former brilliant Rabbi Saul's explanation to Greek philosophers in Athens about one main purpose of GOD raising Isa/Jesus from death and how his resurrection was GOD's confirmation that His Risen Messiah would be all men's future Judge.)

In contrast to the rejection by Buddhism and Hinduism of the Messiah's death and resurrection, when an established Monotheistic religion such as Islam distorts and rejects the teaching of verses in its own holy Book, the Holy Quran, about that the Messiah's historical death and resurrection, that rejection becomes a serious crime against ALLAH. For that historical, political execution did not take place in secret. Rather it was a very public execution which took place under the close supervision of the world's most authoritative government of the time, Rome. It happened in real time (approximately 2 B.C.) And in real space (near the city limits of Jerusalem). Additionally, this public execution was closely observed by the professional military of the Roman Empire as well as by official Jewish priests and close friends of Jesus which included his own mother.

Furthermore, when the well established religion of Islam today totally rejects ALLAH's own Messiah but simultaneously claims in its own official book, (The Holy Quran) that it both honors and confirms the teachings of the earlier Scriptures (the Old Testament Torah and Zabur and the New Testament Injeel) which teach the death and resurrection, that appears to add hypocrisy to the crime of rejection of ALLAH's own Messiah. For it is not logical to claim that you totally agree with a books teaching and then totally reject what you have claimed in writing that you totally agree with. If that is not bizarre and hypocritical, at the very least it is sort of crazy and blatantly inconsistent. To be both against the historical activity of ALLAH having ever occurred as depicted in the Scriptures and then to claim that you do believe in the very Scriptures which you disclaim, is an outright blatant contradiction that is unworthy to be considered the teaching of a great religion. It is an undeniable stain on a great religion's reputation. Furthermore, that reputation is already being badly tarnished by so many Muslim brothers murdering so many Muslim brothers.

So now the Monotheism of the Patriarch Abraham is suffering shameful triple assaults by its three main members. Judaism is treating the displaced Palestinians with wicked injustice and by and large continues to callously reject ALLAH's own Risen Messiah who they formerly illegally executed.

Christianity, partially represented by the U.S. is governed by a leader who claims that his almighty has led him to use his vast resources to militarily coerce and kill if need be, those Iraqi's who resist his militarily imposed freedom and democracy. Thus, though this U.S. President claims to be a Christian he has influenced a large segment of the Christian population he represents to partially abandon Christianity and replace it with the bloody idols of War and coerced Democracy. This blatant rejection of the true, Risen Messiah by so many in Protestant Christianity is in addition to the Roman Catholic Church hiring many Priests who used the Church as a cover for their opportunity to sexually abuse thousands of vulnerable children in the Church.

Thirdly, Islam is assaulting the values and standards of ALLAH by not only having large groups of brother Muslims killing other large groups of brother Muslims. But Islam is also continuing to turn a blind eye to the fact that 100% of the members of its religion are required to unanimously reject the amazing victory over death which ALLAH gave His own Risen Messiah who Islam's own Holy Book eleven times honors with the title of Messiah which means anointed or in this context means ALLAH's anointed.

It is definitely time that the leaders and followers of Islam rise to the occasion and take world leadership in halting this disrespectful skid away from the One GOD by the three supposedly respected and at least formerly respected Monotheistic religions. Yes, I am convinced this skid will joyfully be brought to a halt and the current losing streak for the three Monotheistic religions will soon be ended. This will occur when enough courageous and wise Muslim leaders and followers in Islam stand up and say ENOUGH!

"We realize that for a number of reasons we have made a serious mistake in under valuing and denying what our Risen Messiah accomplished in our behalf. Consequently, we will now do whatever ALLAH will empower us to do to inform all Muslims of the willingness of our Risen Messiah to be a true abiding presence among us as we spiritually struggle to exalt justice, compassion and truth in this world which now lives in rebellion against the values of both ALLAH and His Risen Messiah."

Note: There is an apparent paradox which I must address in completing this paper. That is, there are millions of Muslims living in most of the world's nations, who have never seriously considered whether the Messiah of the Quran and the Injeel died and rose. Yet, many millions of these Muslims live exemplary, joyful lives and strive to please ALLAH. Many times the whole family loves each other, they are kind to their neighbors, practice justice, and love and serve ALLAH.

But now along comes this foreigner who has concentrated on studying especially two verses of the Holy Quran and he says that Islam has missed a vital point in the Quran; that the Messiah did indeed die and rose from death. Let us further say, that these sincere Muslims have even agreed with the main arguments of this paper possibly and possibly other papers on this website that the Messiah did die and rise. But your main question is: Why would this new information interfere with the stable lives of millions of stable Muslims like themselves?

If you are quite antagonistic to what I have presented, probably nothing I will say now will change your mind. You are convinced that my message is irrelevant to well adjusted Muslims such as yourself. Nevertheless, I will present this perspective. The Messiah, unlike anyone else was given new life by ALLAH to give to others who would invite him to indwell them.

And whether we can admit it or not, all of us have sinned against GOD and against our fellow man so that we need both the forgiveness only his sacrificial death provides and we need the new life that only his resurrected new life provides.

So I will say no more than add the four lines from a thoughtful song that asks a question and then provides answers.

"And was there then no other way for GOD to take? I cannot say. I only praise him day by day who saved me through my Savior.

That he should leaves his home on high and come for sinful man to die, you count it strange, so once did I, before I knew my Savior."