From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: FYI: Why did the United States invade and destabilize Iraq?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:47:23 +0000


John Foster wrote:

>Anthony, the soul is mortal. The soul is the 'cloth' which drapes the
>spirit. Only the spirit is immortal.
>
>21:311 Every soul shall taste death. We will prove you all with good and
>evil. To Us you shell be recalled.
>
>39:39 Allah takes away men's souls upon their death, and the souls of the
>living during their sleep. Those that are doomed He keeps with Him and
>restores the others for a time ordained. Surely there are signs in this for
>thinking men.

Ok, spirit.

>I am not sure if Bush knows that his soul is mortal. If he did, then he
>would take every precaution possible to protect souls of others. His deific
>mission however to supply cheap oil to the US however suggests that he is
>attempting to protect something else.

The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade 
disagrees.

>Muslims are engaged in resisting aggression. According to the Koran 
>fighting
>is acceptable providing it is within limits. Application of the Koran to 
>the
>US and the UK fighting against Iraq demonstrates that the fighting is
>'unacceptable' since the US and the UK have no practical reason for
>explaining what they are fighting for and against.

The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade 
disagrees.

>Bush is clearly acting immorally and illegally. Even his own administrator,
>Paul Bremer, admits the US is acting illegally. Clearly the Bush
>Administration is acting in a purely genocidal and homicidal
>capacity.....because these actors do not believe the soul is mortal. They
>certainly do not believe their own souls are mortal because they act as
>though they have been given eternal life by God.
>
>U see what error they have made? They are not only increasing suffering in
>the world, they are risking everything possible for cheap oil 
>(materialistic
>gain).

The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade 
disagrees.

>That is why Capitalism, and it's rationalizations, is ultimately an
>expression of immorality (cf. Adam Smith).
>
>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/islamic010914.html
>
>On Jihad or 'Holy War'
>
>"Chapter 2, Verse 190: Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but
>do not transgress limits; for Allah loves not transgressors. This portion 
>of
>the Koran was written in about A.D. 606, when the Prophet Muhammad and his
>followers were under attack in the city of Medina, says Imam Yahya Hendi, a
>Koran scholar who is the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University.
>
>There, they had established their own state. But various coalitions of
>non-Muslim tribes - including Christians, Jews, atheists and animists -
>continued to go to war with them. This portion of the Koran explains their
>reasoning behind striking back.
>
>The passage actually refers to a defensive war, says Hendi: "You fight 
>back.
>You go as far as it takes to stop the aggression but you do not go beyond
>that. So if you have to, you go as far as fighting verbally to get someone
>out of your home - but you don't shoot him after he is out. You don't keep
>going on with it - only if you are attacked, if there is an oppression
>applied to you. The idea is that justice prevails. You don't fight because
>you enjoy fighting, but because there is an oppression.
>
>"It could be military force or [in today's world] it could be media force,
>writing against you. But when the hostilities are over and the enemy offers
>a peace treaty, you should submit. Muslims are obliged to submit to a peace
>treaty offered by the enemy. You don't keep fighting."

Tell Sadaam, not me.

Anthony Crifasi

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