albawaba, Published January 20th, 2013 - 13:23 GMT via SyndiGate.info
Al-Qaeda-linked militants, who kidnapped hundreds of workers at a gas plant in the Algerian desert, said they were after “crusaders†and not Algerian nationals, one of the released hostages told Al Arabiya in an interview on Saturday.
The freed Algerian hostage also said that Algerians were treated better than foreigners as they were allowed to use their phones and were promised that they will be released shortly.
“We [Algerians] did what we wanted, they did not tell us to switch off our cellphones, or interrogated us. They told us to sit down and that they were not after Algerians but after what they called crusaders,†the former hostage said.
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Or do the Arabs in those fundamental Sunni religious groups refer to all foreigners from the USA, France Britton and Japan as Foreigners always so the uneducated Sunni religious Arabs understand better who they are dealing with?
That word means that the Sunni won those battles over the crusaders, and that they can do it again. Right, however you being on the Educated Shi’a side, I’m not so sure that you are correct in your assumption at all.
What has violence to do with religion? All materialistic socio-political movements deny religion. Religion essentially is based on experience above the external conditions of life .. This enables , as Jung put it ,"the individual to exercise his judgement and his power of decision. It builds up reserve, as it were, against the obvious and inevitable force of circumstances to which everyone is exposed who lives only in the outer world and has no other ground under his feet except the pavement."
Come-on, you quote an "esoteric concept" about what religion is supposed to be all about ... thinking which the "exoterics" can never really understand because they are not spiritual enough ... thus they exercise their thoughts in violent physical ways such as "terrorism" (all sides do it) ... the same old battles of the Christian Crusaders against the Muslim interests (which the North African "enemy" is).
There is a great movement in this very nation where the farther Right-Evangelicals are constantly claiming that the greatest threat in this world is the Muslim religion ... constant propaganda meant to incite fear and hatred towards them, typical indoctrination meant to eventually support a war ...
IMnsHO.
What in the world does human rights, which always means a women’s right to reproductive desirers to use contraception or abortions, have to do with the woman being responsible for that and not the state.
Terms like exoteric and esoteric are human inventions to represent higher knowledge, source of religions. They teach us of a universe consisting of higher worlds and beings of which humanity is one created part - as indicated in the traditional Eastern model of Heaven, Earth and Man, and represented in other ways by all the world religions. The philosopher Kant was right in in saying "time" and "space" were inventions of the human mind .The quantum theorists since 1900 lent support to this and have since demonstrated experimentally the relation of all processes throughout the universe. This conforms to the truth of religions and traditional teachings. Direct experience of higher knowledge can only be represented in words and symbols.
The universe is energy , created through sound and number. There is the music of the spheres and language without words. Human language is derived from higher worlds.
“This Emir Taha told us, we came here to die and to be martyrs,
Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri reportedly lead the hostage-taking operation at the BP oil facility in In Aménas, Algeria (Nigerien jihadist identified as commander of Algerian hostage operation) ... They were all tied with one suicide bomber watching them.â€... the field commander of the Islamist group that attacked the gas plant ... Nigeri joined the hardline Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC)
"Silly stuff. This is one of several gangs ... " and ... "What has violence to do with religion? All materialistic socio-political movements deny religion. Religion essentially is based on experience above the external conditions of life ..." ???
Answer (in part): Religion essentially is based on experience above the external conditions of life ... these essentials being the esoteric basis of religion and generic spirituality ... it being the INTERNAL rather than the external.
The basic point(s) that I have been attempting to highlight ...
IMnsHO
My comments weren't meant to challenge your ideas, which you explained before .
I was pointing out because of various comments by many suggesting religions in the real sense justify violence.
Ghadhafi was a socialist revolutionary like Fidel Castro so his attitude was anti-imperialist and anti-"religious." Revolution was his "ism."
I am a fan of Margaret Attwood's dystopian fiction. She writes of reading George Orwell as a child during WWII: The fate of the farm animals was so grim, the pigs were so mean and mendacious and treacherous, the sheep were so stupid. Children have a keen sense of injustice, and this was the thing that upset me the most: the pigs were so unjust... The whole experience was deeply disturbing, but I am forever grateful to Orwell for alerting me early to the danger flags I've tried to watch out for since. As Orwell taught, it isn't the labels – Christianity, socialism, Islam, democracy, two legs bad, four legs good, the works – that are definitive, but the acts done in their names...
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