Saying No to the Culture of Death

I have so many news articles on the antics of the members of that death cult known as the RoP that it is hard to know where to begin. I do feel that comments about Islamists are best kept to an alternative blog, and that I keep this blog to cover other aspects of the Culture of Death. However, there are a few recent developments that need comment here. 

First, once again in Great Britain we see how this peaceful religion, known as Islam, has once again spawned people who were plotting to abduct and murder a British Muslim soldier. They were intending to behead the soldier and telecast the beheading over the Internet. What a charming bunch of people, and such model citizens - NOT!!

I can barely contain my sarcasm on this subject because these Pakistanis do not belong in Great Britain. They should be sent back to Pakistan. They have been fomenting trouble for the past few years, and to my mind it is not legitimate to blame the Afghanistan and Iraq wars for this situation. The comment that these people are increasingly angry because of British involvement in these countries is a total crock. The notion that Islam is being unfairly attacked is totally absurd. This kind of thinking is just an excuse as far as I am concerned for these radical elements to try and force the west to accept Islam and to live under Sharia law.

Second, and this story involves both Iraq and Iran, the Iraqi army has been successful in acting against a cult who believed that their leader was the Mahdi. They planned to kill the Ayatollah al-Sistani(a moderate leader) and other imams in Iraq. 

"The cult believed its plan to seize the Shiite holy city and assassinate top Shiite clerics would bring about the coming of the Mehdi, a Muslim messiah, the official said.

Col. Ali Jraiwi said the insurgents detained after Sunday's fighting told Najaf police they are members of a group called "Soldiers of Heaven" and are a mix of Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

Iraqi officials said the insurgents planned to seize control of Najaf and the surrounding province and kill top Shiite religious figures, including al-Sistani, Iraq's most revered Shiite leader. (Map)

Jraiwi said they also planned to attack the Imam Ali Shrine at the heart of the city and Shiite pilgrims observing the annual Ashura holy period.

An Iraqi military commander in charge of the Najaf area told The Associated Press that the leader of the group, whom he identified as Ahmed Hassan al-Yamani, was among those killed.

f the insurgents had carried out their plan to assassinate al-Sistani, the effect on Iraq and the rest of the region would have been devastating, according to Vali Nasr, who studies Shiite influence in the Middle East.

His possible death "would really plunge Iraq and the possibly the rest of the region into a bloodbath," said Nasr, a professor at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and author of "The Shia Revival," a recent book on the rise of the sect.

"Ayatollah Sistani is the most revered and the most followed Shia spiritual leader," Nasr said.

"He is like the Shia pope. Shias follow him across the Middle East in religious affairs, and his death at the hands of the insurgents would be of enormous symbolic value."

Al-Sistani pushed for early elections after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 and urged his followers in the majority-Shiite country to turn out and vote. During the years of attacks by Sunni Arab insurgents, he has urged his followers to avoid bloodshed in reprisals."

 

 So it would seem that this cult was going to Najaf in order to kill the religious leaders. If they had succeeded then there would have been chaos in the Middle East and a signal to Ahmanutjob that now is the time to strike in the Middle East and in the west. There is suspicion that the cult had ties to Iran and there is proof that they follow the lunatic idea that the 12th imam is about to jump out of the well. The purpose of the assassination plot was to bring on the events that would lead to the Islamic version of Armageddon.

 

 

Last week was a sad week because I learned about the deaths of two people from my parish. The first lady, Cathy, was one of the first to welcome me into the parish when we arrived 10 years ago. It was a friendship that spanned 10 years. Cathy was diagnosed with kidney cancer. This is a very hard cancer to treat and sadly the prognosis for this cancer always remains not good. She put up a brave fight, and like Frank she rarely complained about the pain of her cancer. Cathy was a proud mother of 5 children plus grandmother to 6 grandchildren. She was a remarkable woman, and even if she had a strong personality, she loved those grandchildren so much that one cannot forget to time that she gave to each of them.

 

After hearing the news about Cathy who lost her battle with cancer on the previous Friday, I learned of the death of Angela, who was the wife of a man that I have grown to know over the years of attending daily Mass. On the Monday morning I got to the church and Brian was very upset. He spoke to another person and gave her the news, for Brian wanted to tell his friends before the presider for the Mass mentioned that Angela had died very suddenly. Angela had suffered from mental illness, but was mostly depressed. In fact I had a recent conversation with her about how she felt depressed because she needed someone to help her to get dressed and to have her hair washed because of a sore shoulder. Despite her illness Angela was a wonderful woman and so very gentle. Her death from a heart attack was very sudden and there was no real opportunity to revive her, because she was "gone" by the time she hit the floor. The ambulance officers were called and at least 6 ended up at the scene, but they had to call it as a death. One of the officers, a Catholic, called the local parish priest (this happened outside of our parish) and he was there within a very short time. He blessed the body and gave Angela the last rites, for there was nothing more that could be done.

So I have to say good-bye to two stalwarts of our little community. Both are at peace.