Becoming
Humane - Being Humane Evolution of the
Humane - Globalisation of Peace - World in
Balance COMMON
SENSE A Story
from the East and its Inherent Liberating Message to the
World Oriental
Lesson: Al Qaeda and the Wise Judges Compiled by Wolfgang
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‚If you can
convince us that your ideas are justified by the Koran, then
we will join you in your struggle,' Judge Hamoud al-Hitar
from Yemen told the imprisoned Al Qaeda militants. 'But if
we succeed in convincing you of our ideas, then you must
agree to renounce violence.' The prisoners eagerly agreed.
Western anti-terrorism experts warned that this high-stakes
gamble would end in disaster. Now, two years later, not only
have those prisoners been released, but a relative peace
reigns in Yemen. And the same Western experts who doubted
this experiment are courting Hitar, eager to hear how his
'theological dialogues' with captured Islamic militants have
helped pacify this wild and mountainous country, previously
seen by the US as a failed state, like Iraq and Afghanistan.
US diplomats have approached the cleric to see if his
methods can be applied in Iraq, says Hitar. 'Before the
dialogues began, there was only one way to fight terrorism,
and that was through force,' he says. 'Now there is another
way: dialogue.' - read the whole story: Koranic
Duels Ease Terror
, By
James Brandon The story
„KORANIC DUELS EASE TERROR" told by James Brandon in
The Christian Science Monitor inspired to contributions
to the online , discussion group
„Religiously Motivated Violence"
at the Global Network of the Council for a
Parliament of the World's Religions
[http://cpwrglobal.net] Dialogue: It is
fine to talk. To share what is inner-most important.
Resonance emerges between partners in dialogue who
acknowledge each other as human beings. As people with
identical and completely natural needs. Needs which
beyond the separating prejudice of diverse religions and
world-views are of equal validity for mankind. Consonance
empowers. Resonance helps to let go dearly held but all
the same superficial identifications for the benefit of
the identity of humanity. By doing so mind gets liberated
from prejudice and fears which in history settled in or
have been implanted for various reasons. Heads gets clear
and hearts liberate. Common sense and sound sympathy
emerge and create prerequisites for thinking and acting
to really satisfy one's own needs without neglecting the
needs of others. Contents The story from the
East is a message to the world of today and tomorrow. The
story proofs that virtues of respect, dialogue and
understanding are capable of solving even severe problems
such as religiously motivated violence, including murder and
mass-murder. Despite to the gravity of the crime there is
no coercion between judges and delinquents, on the
contrary, the prisoners are accepted as humans with the
potentiality to learn. Initially, of course, they were
captured. But then the strategy changes from coercion and
imprisonment to equitable dialogue and chances are opened
towards becoming humane, towards emancipation from false
beliefs to being humane. The Islamic scholars know:
Emancipation to the humane is the prerequisite for
peace, not ever growing military power which is based on
social and ecological destruction for the benefit of global
players only. They provide a clear chance to the
delinquents: either they convince the judges or they are
being convinced by the judges. The judges are able to
facilitate this process of re-integration by meeting the
prisoners on the common ground of their reverence for the
Koran. That's a great way to approach the problem. The
lawful criterion is the Koran, something highly estimated by
both sides. Both sides related to common ground. Sanai,
1131 AC, in ‚The Imprisoned Garden of Truth' When
Reality is upside down - Normality turns into
madness Hazrat
Inayat Khan, 1882-1927 If we really want to
overcome the world's ‚plagues and pests' we have
to join the forces of greatness. If we want to find their
sources, we have to dig deep down to the roots. We
have to go back in history more than 5000 years. We have to
find common ground with the principles of life. The Sufi
poets distinguished between reality and appearances and they
offer a way out of the net in which we are caught. They talk
about dismantling the net on a global basis in order to
reach common ground. Seems impossible? The self woven
net of imprisonment only exists where mental frameworks
represent upside down concepts of reality. People or
societies who preserved their Common Sense do not
know such nets, such limitations to life. They do not
need any emancipation. Emancipation from
what? From false beliefs in force or domination. And from
the lack of belief in understanding or learning. Just
recall the above mentioned story: the judge, the common
ground, the dialogue - we only need genuineness!
Genuineness, honesty are the tools we need to make use of,
definitely not force, not domination. Ancient traditions of
Native Americans e.g. already made guilt understandable to
the sinner. They knew: respect to the violator as a
human being produces the chance to re-integrate him or her
back into society - nothing else is being needed for
this. Understanding
is healing - We have to understand or we will
fail Retributive justice
co-exists with love. Only at first glance it is hard to
understand. It became difficult to understand because of the
many falsities and cravings humankind superimposed on Truth,
and by doing so Truth lies buried to the masses. For them it
becomes difficult to get out of the multiple nets of
reasoning and falsities which mankind produced during its
patriarchal history. Under patriarchal, dominating and
violent conditions that have ensued due to the mainstream
thinking, it is understandable that individuals and society
tend to be aggressive and defensive in their actions. This
perverted perspective has made possible crime against common
good common within
the predominant patriarchal mental framework. We are
confronted with the severe problem of violence and defence
and their devastating consequences only within this mental
framework which stands upside down in relation to true
reality . Not only that we have different systems to relate
on but even within one and the same system of Christian
values. For example, we on the one hand relate on laws of
state and on the other on laws of religion. That's a hoax
with divisive effects and it was implemented by purpose. It
was the idea of Emperor Constantine the Great: 'divide et
impera!' = take apart and rule, destroy and
dominate! Needless to say: We
have to dig deeper and beyond the mental worlds of Koran or
Bible, far deeper - down to the common ground of life - or
we definitely will fail. Facing
the dichotomy of Matriarchy and Patriarchy
(1) We have to dig to the
source of life. The problem is, most people have forgotten
about that source. Although everybody is born out of this
source we commonly do not estimate our origin and mother any
longer, some even sell their identity and life, heading for
illusions and by doing so they exchange reality for
illusions. They produce illusions as they need a replacement
for reality. Substituted reality results in delusion.
Delusion starts with illusions like greed for money and
craving for power. What a poor reality. Why is that so? Why
do people behave like that? Come on, don't come forward now
with the supposed excuse of the ‚original
sin'! That is another hoax.
It is a trap, it is kind of switch which came into existence
by neurological development of free intention. Natural
learning processes on the basis of general responsibility
overcome that trap and lead to autonomy. Patriarchal
societies, however, make use of that trap and manipulate
people. If this happens by intention for the sake of
secondary interests we have to deal with the conspiracy
against life. Being kept from natural learning by doing we
produce multiplying challenges that finally become threats
to life. Since we produce the mess we cannot escape from it.
We learn fast and authoritativly only if we are genuinely
allowed to learn unhindered by dogmas which are to tell us
what is supposed to be right or wrong. If we do not free
ourselves from dogmas we fail inevitably. The
concept of ‚fallen nature or original sin' is a
dominant religious illusion There is no fallen
nature. And there is nothing above nature. The idea of
improving nature is the original blasphemy. There only is
nature and its replacement, its substitute. There is
nature, being with nature, or - being against nature,
fighting against nature, war against life. We have to get
the original sin clear of our minds. The concept of a
fallen nature represents a patriarchal invention
which is supposed to be normal or natural - no chance to
be overcome - ever. Such a concept perpetuates
destruction, war and hatred - because it teaches that evil
is supposed to be a natural part of human existence.
Within this picture we can try to be better, but we never
will be good, because we are essentially fallen. We can
realize now the dichotomy of matriarchal path and
patriarchal path with its religious tradition of ‚the
original fall by birth' which needs to be fought life long.
Matriarchal Path serves Life. Patriarchal Path serves
Replacement. You cannot serve both at the same time. It
becomes obvious that patriarchal systems cannot be improved.
If we want to survive, we have to let them fall or re-write
their programmes completely. Acknowledging
patriarchal aberration from matriarchal path offers a clear
secular chance to make a decision to serve the common good
instead of serving egocentric cravings. Such a way of
life is completely natural and physical - and is divine all
the same; its learning process is always open to everybody,
never exclusive and by nature it leads to social
responsibility via individual autonomy - it leads to a
global community in the service of Life. Let us courageously
turn over traditional world views! It is our spiritual
worlds we have to clean up! Who else would be able to do so
if not those who still believe in power of spirituality? We
have to be clear and sound. We respect everybody on the
path. We are compassionate. This is why we question the
contents of certain beliefs, of mental concepts, of world
views. From experience we do know how difficult, how really
threatening it can be to give up dearly held beliefs even if
their unreality is rationally and mentally clear and
obvious. The tight grip of tradition can be deadly if we do
not wake up from wrong mental settings which are nothing but
mass media controlled mass hypnosis. Let us terminate
with the daily being conditioned to become compliant slaves
of this system who are addicted to consumption and
subservience! For the sake of their mental growth and
autonomy let us definitely stop to hypnotize our children by
alienating customs, concepts and
imaginations! Oriental
Wisdom Re-organizing
our minds For the sacred
understanding of human existence we have to face human
history as it was and as it is - and we have to make up our
minds. We have to set our minds, to re-evaluate our
mindsets. A global reformation of the given mental
frameworks has to be accomplished by courageous and loving
people. There is no other way: «The lion, the man of
the path, breaks up his cage» in order to stay on
the common ground, in order to stay within the matrix of
love. Who does not want to be there? What keeps us from
re-integrating into that matrix? Only false or deficient
mindsets and their destructive products which we placed on
earth do not desire that. Nothing else. If we want to overcome
violence - independently from where we come or what we
believe, religiously or culturally - we just have to return
to original, ancient and life-saving traditions of
individually, socially and jointly experienced truth. This
can be achieved by just letting go unreal metaphysics and
stopping to feed it with our life's energy. Existential analysis
fails unless it digs down deep enough in history to reach
and understand the fundamental dichotomy of different
quality in social development. This dichotomy is the setting
of the course. It is decisive. It decides on life or
substitute. Are not
Metaphysics and Mysticism the same Magic
Nonsense? Mysticism is regarded
to be the realization of perennial and natural truth beyond
current abilities and beyond current understanding. It is
the perception of reality beyond what we already learned to
understand. It is the awareness to accept a natural reality
beyond what we momentarily understand and already know. It
is acknowledging a matrix of cosmic law and order beyond
understanding - which we call love: Interconnectedness of
being, lawful and real - divine. By nature we tend to
satisfy love and divine life and never a
substitute. Metaphysics is
something quite different, although the difference is not
yet aware to many people. Metaphysics says nothing else but
‚beyond' physics, beyond physical law, beyond nature.
But what is ‚beyond' material, energetic, informational
and spiritual physics, beyond the Law of Nature, what is to
be found there? Beyond physics and natural law there is
nothing but delusion, unreality - the counter-part to
reality: Walking man on water, water turning into wine, wine
into blood, virgins in a land of milk and honey, or a god,
who is supposed to love certain people exklusively - are
beyond the divine. Although in the centre of some religion
those examples at the same time are in the centre of
unreality, insanity, delusion. We do not want to hurt, but
still, we have to focus as we want to touch, we are
straight. As we want to see the source we have to fight the
fogs. We have to be clear and sound. By ignoring natural and
physical law metaphysical laws are being invented. Known as
dogma they are created and pressed upon people, without
alternative. Laws which do not exist in reality need to
be imagined and then to be forced upon reality. This way
delusion nearly suffocates truth. Such kind of systems are
counter-projects to the matrix of love and emergence. By
their nature they tend to violence and destruction.
Quantum physics, however, proofs since long that human
responsibility is nothing but real physics. Neither is it
magic nor is it incomprehensible. It is just natural.
The concept of a patriarchal god, however, who punishes
those who are not obedient, is a metaphysical imagination,
is an illusion, is a delusion which threatens global
survival. Do we
realize the difference by now? What is natural and what is
artificial? People who at this
stage of discussion feel obliged to point at nature's
supposed cruelties should be aware that violence and defence
in the animal kingdom never serve motivations like greed or
even addiction. Every days needs are natural, cravings are
artificially created. Face it: Wasps
that paralyse their victims, leaving internal organs
functioning, laying eggs on them, and with the young
devouring them alive, eating in a pattern that saves the
vital organs for last. Sounds a lot like capitalistic
exploitation doesn't it? Yes it does! Capitalistic
exploitation obviously is part of nature as the actors are
part of nature. But, shall that example be an excuse for
such an alienated behaviour of people? Can you see the
difference now? Those wasps behave the way they do because
of ‚their' nature. Who, for him- or herself wants to
claim the wasp's right, which is related to f their
neurological and spiritual level in natural evolution? Are
we human beings not supposed to use the mental tools
‚we' are given? Don't you think we have a different
kind of responsibility? A different kind of consciousness
and awareness? The consciousness and
awareness we are talking about always existed and for ever
will exist - we only need to let it develop within our
brains by the learning processes of life. Actually, we have
to eat the fruits from the tree of knowledge. We are to
understand and to live in an understanding and responsible
way. In order to
communicate this vision of reality we articulate a
rationally compelling and emotionally inspiring truth, we
make this truth accessible, being seen and being highly
regarded as to be our warming, nourishing, comforting home,
which humanity maintains. 6 billion people are companions on
that path. Instant correction of the rack toward th abyss is
possible, however, not yet very likely. This is why we need
to make joint use of all our abilities and possibilities:
visions of peace, love, abundance, solidarity, of our
global family and natural community. We need to
integrate the study of comparative religion and philosophy
into our public schools. Not as a way of proselytising for a
particular faith, but as a way of emphasising our need, both
individually and collectively, for a sacred understanding of
human existence. Can a
majority of human beings be expected to walk the path of
empathy and love? Many people already
walk on that path, never leave that path. However,
civilisation displaced billions of people. Limited their
mental horizon, replaced understanding by dogma, love
finally by political and/or religious correctness. The path
is original life. Information different to that is nothing
but false. Every child, without
exception will be brought up within this world-view and will
flourish within their particular community. If there are
conflicts, the individual will naturally submit to the
consensus of the community, which in turn, will always be
sensitive to the changing needs of each and every
individual. This can be
accomplished if the required consensus on sacred values and
universal teaching of those values is learned. That is not
at all magic. Optimising the possibility of individuals
coming into a right relationship with self, others, nature,
and our common source or ground is the easy key to
peace. However, the god
habitual religions are referring to cannot do nothing at all
if we do not support our hands, our hearts, our brains. To
continue in this language: it is we who represent divine
spirit, it is up to us to decide: divine or delusion, common
sense or madness. It is up to us to react to the threats and
challenges we created, it is up to us to re-integrate, to
build bridges, to compensate, to heal - only if we do so
there will be reconciliation. Neither realistically nor
morally can we wait for someone to help us out. As long as
there is suffering due to human misbehaviour there is no
excuse at all for not at least trying to hurry up in
improving performance. The
essence Originally there is no
difference between mental world and spiritual world. The
world of our ideas and visions lives in our brains and we
live in that world, we live that world, we create it. It is
the very ideas and visions which make the difference. If the
world within our brains is authentic the result will be a
behaviour of caring empathy. If the inner world is
differently focussed the results will be different
too. Spirituality seen from
this perspective is nothing but the mental capacity to
achieve awareness of interconnectedness of all being. Within
this context religion is the expression of our continuous
attempt to realize life from its origin. It is the human
attempt to understand life within its overall relations and
it is the attempt to give life a perspective. Religion is
part of our continuous attempt to identify ourselves within
overall existence. Religion
is part of our human nature - everywhere, all over the
world, without exception - and: it is political
too. As we are born to ask
questions we rely on authentic answers. During our
up-bringing part of the answers we do learn by trial and
error, by pain and joy. Those answers by nature are true.
They are authentic. And normally this kind of natural
learning does not hurt much. Just enough to keep us on the
right track. We can
understand: The key to the solution of the problems of
the world is the quality of the answers we deal with.
Answers are ideas. And we know how powerful they are. And we
know how much those answers depend on education. If the
mental superstructure of societies continues to be rigid and
dogmatic - be it spiritual or secular - the natural
learning process unfortunately cannot take place
smoothly, and therefore cannot provide true answers. Under
conditions of domination, restriction and subordination
answers are provided by elitist others: predominantly
insufficient answers, false answers, strange answers, mostly
for the sake of strange interests. By time and history
the trials of course get more complex, the pain worse, the
errors get fatal - no wonder! Under patriarchal conditions
people grow old without learning their lessons. Obsessively
till the end they confuse readiness to make sacrifices with
love for life. Never the less giving up the force to control
and confidence in autonomous learning processes of life are
on schedule. We should
understand by now that we have not learnt the lesson on
a global scale. That is why today we are confronted with a
growing range of man-made global threats. Nature still is
willing to bring us back on the right track. Responsibility
is ours! We can realize our
job to do: To clean up our mental worlds, our spiritual
settings, our ideal frameworks, our world views and
religious beliefs. We have to clean up the whole mess of
ideas and we have to sort out what is supportive to global
survival and what is not. We have to sort out what is just,
social and ecological and what is not. We have to sort out
what serves the common good and what is to serve strange
cravings. We
depend on trust in the wisdom of our hearts! The heart is
situated in the centre between the two brains of head and
bowels. The heart is able to detect the quality of ideas.
Everybody is free to try out. Outer world represents nothing
but the result of a mainstream media guided imagination of
fear, of threats, of supposed enemies and more intimidating
concepts. The inner world consequently follows the same
patterns and that is why we fail in making a
difference. However, if - under
meditative tranquil conditions - we start to experience
guided imaginations of peace, love, warmth, of pulsing
blood-flow and breath-flow, of being supported by something
overwhelming great-hearted, just, light, caring, loving, we
perceive the difference to what we have been made to believe
first hand. Encouraged and
strengthened by such experiences within caring communities
we can make a decision to quit from what we thought before.
Understanding better, we can leave behind what we held dear
before. We gain anyway. We can emancipate from being ruled
by insufficient ideas towards a satisfying realization of
ideas which serve life and nothing else. Consequently we will
behave responsibly. By purpose we will act always having in
mind common good also. And we will not stop until we
liberated the world from false ideas to an existence in
solidarity and joyful diversity. Srimad
Bhagavatam , Canto 1, 6th chapter, verse 23 No elitist
exclusivity - but integrity, humanity and
nature Likewise to the Al
Qaeda prisoners in Yemen all misled or blinded people,
hypnotized for the sake of false interests, have the chance
to re-integrate to the wisdom of common ground of life. Such
action delivers resonant energy and clears the mind from
false fears and ideas. Common sense is nothing but a result
of nature's schooling. "Conspiracy" of
usurious slave-drivers, avaricious profiteers and 'Economic
Hit Men' (2)
is a result of patriarchal schooling. It is what others call
a "conspiracy of mmaffiacs" - of media, military,
administrative financial, fundamentalist, industrial
strategists of academic complexes - the think tanks of the
corporates. It was US President Dwight D. Eisenhower who in
his fare-well message to his fellow citizens already warned
the public of military-industrial complexes which he
considered to be a major threat to democracy and
freedom. Well, as the
patriarchal aberration has grown up to a global
counter-project against life we have to partly re-programme
ourselves to vitalize a world-wide „counter
conspiracy in the spirit of life" in order to gain
creative momentum. Obviously it is not that simple that we
are just not good enough in being Christians, Moslems, Jews,
Hindus, communists or disciples of any other world-view and
we just would have to "improve our respective
role-behaviour" - not at all: to a large extent we are
just too weak in being humane. As soon as we primarily
concentrate on our common being human in the centre of
nature's abundance, we become immunized against deviant
temptations. Being united in spirit
is far stronger than being united in states or corporations.
United in the spirit of life we are unbeatable, stronger
than any violent and counter-creative "alliances of
replacement strategists". Once we stand on common
ground, there is nothing but identical common sense in love
and wisdom . Common Sense and
sound sympathy are the central clues to peace - the purpose
and destination of human life. Footnotes 1)
Transparency
& Transcendence - Golden Keys to
Peace,
Wolfgang Fischer, 2005
By James
Brandon Contributor
to The Christian Science Monitor (FEB 4,
2005) [http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0204/p01s04-wome.html] SANAA, YEMEN - When
Judge Hamoud al-Hitar announced that he and four other
Islamic scholars would challenge Yemen's Al Qaeda prisoners
to a theological contest, Western antiterrorism experts
warned that this high-stakes gamble would end in
disaster. Nervous as he faced
five captured, yet defiant, Al Qaeda members in a Sanaa
prison, Judge Hitar was inclined to agree. But banishing his
doubts, the youthful cleric threw down the gauntlet, in the
hope of bringing peace to his troubled homeland. 'If you can convince
us that your ideas are justified by the Koran, then we will
join you in your struggle,' Hitar told the militants. 'But
if we succeed in convincing you of our ideas, then you must
agree to renounce violence.' The prisoners eagerly agreed.
Now, two years later, not only have those prisoners been
released, but a relative peace reigns in Yemen. And the same
Western experts who doubted this experiment are courting
Hitar, eager to hear how his 'theological dialogues' with
captured Islamic militants have helped pacify this wild and
mountainous country, previously seen by the US as a failed
state, like Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Since December 2002, when
the first round of the dialogues ended, there have been no
terrorist attacks here, even though many people thought that
Yemen would become terror's capital,' says Hitar, eyes
glinting shrewdly from beneath his emerald-green turban.
'Three hundred and sixty-four young men have been released
after going through the dialogues and none of these have
left Yemen to fight anywhere else.' 'Yemen's strategy has
been unconventional certainly, but it has achieved results
that we could never have hoped for,' says one European
diplomat, who did not want to be named. 'Yemen has gone from
being a potential enemy to becoming an indispensable ally in
the war on terror.' To be sure, the
prisoner-release program is not solely responsible for the
absence of attacks in Yemen. The government has undertaken a
range of measures to combat terrorism from closing down
extreme madrassahs, the Islamic schools sometimes accused of
breeding hate, to deporting foreign militants. Eager to spread the
news of his success, Hitar welcomes foreigners into his
home, fussing over them and pouring endless cups of tea. But
beyond the otherwise nondescript house, a sense of menace
lurks. Two military jeeps are parked outside, and soldiers
peer through the gathering dark at passing cars. The evening
wind sweeps through the unpaved streets, lifting clouds of
dust and whipping up men's jackets to expose belts hung with
daggers, pistols, and mobile telephones. Seated amid stacks of
Korans and religious texts, Hitar explains that his system
is simple. He invites militants to use the Koran to justify
attacks on innocent civilians and when they cannot, he shows
them numerous passages commanding Muslims not to attack
civilians, to respect other religions, and fight only in
self-defense. For example, he
quotes: 'Whoever kills a soul, unless for a soul, or for
corruption done in the land - it is as if he had slain all
mankind entirely. And, whoever saves one, it is as if he had
saved mankind entirely.' He uses the passage to bolster his
argument against bombing Western targets in Yemen -attacks
he says defy the Koran. And, he says, the Koran says under
no circumstances should women and children be
killed. If, after weeks of
debate, the prisoners renounce violence they are released
and offered vocational training courses and help to find
jobs. Hitar's belief that hardened militants trained by
Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan could change their stripes
was initially dismissed by US diplomats in Sanaa as
dangerously naive, but the methods of the scholarly cleric
have little in common with the other methods of fighting
extremism. Instead of lecturing or threatening the
battle-hardened militants, he listens to them. 'An important
part of the dialogue is mutual respect,' says Hitar. 'Along
with acknowledging freedom of expression, intellect and
opinion, you must listen and show interest in what the other
party is saying.' Only after winning the
militants' trust does Hitar gradually begin to correct their
beliefs. He says that most militants are ordinary people who
have been led astray. Just as they were taught Al Qaeda's
doctrines, he says, so too can they be taught more- moderate
ideas. 'If you study terrorism in the world, you will see
that it has an intellectual theory behind it,' says Hitar.
'And any kind of intellectual idea can be defeated by
intellect.' The program's success
surprised even Hitar. For years Yemen was synonymous with
violent Islamic extremism. The ancestral homeland of Mr. bin
Laden, it provided two-thirds of recruits for his Afghan
camps, and was notorious for kidnappings of foreigners and
the bombing of the American warship USS Cole in 2000 that
killed 17 sailors. Resisting US pressure, Yemen declined to
meet violence with violence. 'It's only logical to tackle
these people through their brains and heart,' says Faris
Sanabani, a former adviser to President Abdullah Saleh and
editor-in-chief of the Yemen Observer, a weekly English-
language newspaper. 'If you beat these people up they become
more stubborn. If you hit them, they will enjoy the pain and
find something good in it - it is a part of their ideology.
Instead, what we must do is erase what they have been taught
and explain to them that terrorism will only harm Yemenis'
jobs and prospects. Once they understand this they become
fighters for freedom and democracy, and fighters for the
true Islam,' he says. Some freed militants
were so transformed that they led the army to hidden weapons
caches and offered the Yemeni security services advice on
tackling Islamic militancy. A spectacular success came in
2002 when Abu Ali al Harithi, Al Qaeda's top commander in
Yemen, was assassinated by a US air-strike following a
tip-off from one of Hitar's reformed militants. Yet despite
the apparent success in Yemen, some US diplomats have
criticized it for apparently letting Islamic militants off
the hook with little guarantee that they won't revert to
their old ways once released from prison. Yemen, however,
argues that holding and punishing all militants would create
only further discontent, pointing out that the actual
perpetrators of attacks have all been prosecuted, with the
bombers of the USS Cole and the French oil tanker, the SS
Limburg. All received death sentences. 'Yemeni goals are
long-term political aims whereas the American agenda focuses
on short-term prosecution of military or law enforcement
objectives,' wrote Charles Schmitz, a specialist in Yemeni
affairs, in 2004 report for the Jamestown Foundation, an
influential US think tank. 'These goals are not necessarily
contradictory, with each government recognizing that
compromises and accommodations must be made, but their
ambiguities create tense moments.' Some members of the
Yemeni government also hanker for a more iron- fisted
approach, and Yemen remains on high alert for further
attacks. Fighter planes regularly swoop low over the ancient
mud- brick city of Sanaa to send a clear message to any
would-be militants. An additional cause of friction with the
US is that while Yemen successfully discourages attacks
within its borders on the grounds that tourism and trade
will suffer, it has done little to tackle anti-Western
sentiment or the corruption, poverty, and lack of
opportunity that fuels Islamic militancy. 'Yemen still faces
serious challenges, but despite the odd hiccup, we sometimes
have to admit that Yemenis know Yemen best,' says the
European diplomat. 'And if their system works, who are we to
complain?' As the relative success of Yemen's unusual
approach becomes apparent, Hitar has been invited to speak
to antiterrorism specialists at London's New Scotland Yard,
as well as to French and German police, hoping to defuse
growing militancy among Muslim immigrants. US diplomats have also
approached the cleric to see if his methods can be applied
in Iraq, says Hitar. 'Before the dialogues began, there was
only one way to fight terrorism, and that was through
force,' he says. 'Now there is another way: dialogue.'
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GROWS FROM RESONANCE
ON COMMON GROUND
- When
Reality is upside down - Normality turns into madness
- Understanding is healing - We have to understand or we
will fail
- Facing the dichotomy of Matriarchy and Patriarchy
- The concept of ‚fallen nature or of original sin'
is a dominant religious illusion
- Re-organizing our minds
- Are not Metaphysics and Mysticism the same Magic
Nonsense?
- Do we realize the difference by now? What is natural
and what is artificial?
- Can a majority of human beings be expected to walk the
path of empathy and love?
- The Essence
- Religion is part of our human nature - everywhere, all
over the world, without exception - and: it is political
too
- No exclusivity - but integrity, humanity and nature
«Mankind
sleeps. It deals with futility, it lives in a false
world. If you believe you can distinguish yourself with
something in this world, it only is custom or habit -
never religion. If you meet people walking on the path of
insight, don't talk, eat up your ego. If you are related
to reality upside down, then your understanding and your
religion also are upside down. Man captures himself in
his net. The lion, the man of the path, breaks up his
cage.»
Sufi master Sanai from Afghanistan was a paragon for the
great Persian poet Mewlana Djalal-ud-din Rumi,
1207-1273. «Mind
is an Illusion of Truth»
«All
children on Earth are born under the same Light.
Only their parents guide them towards the Darkness of
Illusion.»«When
a devotee serves eternal Truth - be it only for a few
days - all his intelligence will focus on me. He proceeds
on that path and, after giving up present miserable
material worlds, he will be my companion in a
transcendental world.»
2) Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man,
John Perkins, Berret-Koehler Publ. Inc. 2004 
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