Who is Using Whom? Mostafa Avini

Opinion, September 2003, www.aljazeerah.info

Who is Using Whom?

Mostafa Avini

Al-Jazeerah, 9/29/03

It is strange that the book of Revelation, the last chapter of the New Testament, has been influencing the politics in America almost as much as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the past century. What does religion have to do with making government policy in the land of the free and despite the constitutional claim of the separation of church and state? I found the answer in a piece by Dr. Paul Sonnack. The author of this very insightful piece, after discussing the historical milieu in which the constitution was framed, arrives at the conclusion that the clause about the separation of church and state was only put in the constitution as an experiment and that the experiment is, perhaps, failing. He proposes that the framers of the American constitution, not having observed first-hand the logical consequences of such innovative idea, could not have predicted the course it would take in the long haul.

The experiment is indeed failing, if not having done so uncountably many times already, and the most egregious instance of its demise can be witnessed in the "unholy marriage" of the Christian Zionism movement and the far right Zionism of Likud party as wedded by the Neo-con priests of the New American Century. And this is where a strange mixture of prophetic zeal and political might opens the gates of hell and unleashes the forces of darkness upon the unwary human beings who happen to be the extras in this apocalyptic drama. The Palestinian man, woman and child have not the least idea that through their daily suffering they are acting on behalf the Christian Zionists who would be “raptured” into heaven along with a small number of the Jewish people who somehow convert to Christianity in the heat of the battle of Armageddon (or before it). The bare-foot Iraqi or Afghani peasant child, running through the dirt of the back alleys and depleted-Uranium bombed abodes of God’s forsaken people, has no idea of the honor bestowed upon him by the Christian Zionist who sacrifices her, as a lamb on the sacrificial altar, for the price of a ticket to God.

On the other side of the ocean, the extremist Jews, the Jewish Zionists, clamor to populate Ersatz Israel, because after all God has promised that the children of Israel, his chosen people, will return to this place, a place that is revered by three religious faiths that arose on its sacred grounds. Somehow the Zionist’s salvation is dependent on being on this patch of earth and no other alternative exists. The innocents of Israel, blown up by the disenfranchised and the dispossessed of Palestine have no earthly idea that their sacrifice is a necessary price to pay for a one-way ticket to God by the Zionist elite.

Muslims have no honored place in this psycho-drama of apocalyptic proportions. No Muslim will be salvaged from the soil of the holy land or any other land on the face of the planet, let alone being whisked into the heavens on the wings of an angel. Muslims will serve as cannon fodder for God’s chosen of Israel and more so for the Christians who are preparing for ascendance into ecstasy of being one with God.

The strange alliance between the Jewish and Christian Zionists is of course a matter of convenience. Fundamentalist Christianity has been anti-Semitic more often than not, but when the aims of two often hostile groups coalesce, their political and financial resources become one in the interests of salvation. And in this new American century, these groups have the governments of the U.S. of A. and Israel at their disposal to bring the Biblical prophecy to fruition. Even though the kingdom of God will only be possible after the destruction of Israel by the “Anti-Christ”, this bothers neither the extremist Jews nor their Christian counterparts. Their common denominator is the return of all God’s chosen people to the holy land. It is only then that the drama will reach its climax. And the oddest of all is that no matter who the winner of this apocalyptic tournament will be, the Neo-con puppet masters, twirling the strings in the darkness, plan to come out victorious in their dominion over the political, financial and natural resources of "The Late Planet Earth". The neo-cons have no fondness for either the Christian or the Jewish Zionists, and they hate Muslims. Their only game is power and I can clearly see their evil smirks in the shadows as this cosmic drama unfolds.

Who is using whom? And what should we do, the ones who are not chosen and do not wear the mark of the Beast. That is the question we must soon answer, for the blurring of fact and fiction will soon muddy the clarity of the distinction between the humanity’s concepts of justice and truth, and the ravings of the self-inflated chosen of God.

Mostafa Avini Austin, Texas, USA

References and Related Links:

http://www.pietisten.org/winter02/reliberty.html

http://www.muhajabah.com/christianzion.htm

http://www.muhajabah.com/fundamentalism.htm http://www.counterpunch.org/sunderland0510.html http://www.lib.duke.edu/forum/terrorism/religion.htm http://www.memphilter.com/blog/archives/000220.html

http://www.ladah.org/article08.htm

http://www.afsc.org/newengland/pesp/arogpwr.htm

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/010201/0101071.html

http://www.harpers.org/online/jesus_plus_nothing/jesus_plus_nothing.php3?pg=1

http://www.4religious-right.info/introduction.html#War

Earth, a planet hungry for peace

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).