” America will respond ” rutabaga ….rutabaga
call any vegetable, call it by name…..
and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you
“There are no barbarians any longer.
Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?”
Those people were a kind of solution.”.
“The Joint List contains religious fundamentalists and supporters of a greater butcher, Assad. This leaves me with no party I can willingly vote for”
oh there are still barbarians? or you don’t get cavafy “religious fundamentalists”…?
“Now what?”
well precisely what you are aiming for…. Mr. Gurvitz is excused, sometimes the world is just not good enough for the most forward looking and progressive Israeli in the history of that world, especially those vomit inducing Palestinians and no doubt sundry as yet poorly specified other oppressed and struggling folk, yuk, you shouldn’t have to sully yourself …
Mr Gurvitz is indisposed….crises will just have to proceed for we the revolting folks without his intervention.
is there a Hebrew phrase for what a total cop out, if so now’s the time to count off a few on those subhas
“Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion?” just as cavafy is implying hidebound by cowardice, the habit of denigrating your victims and self delusion what is one to do?
Socrates another one who had to drink up the cup, and so let us leave this topic with Aramaic in Jerusalem chanted by a copt who seems possessed by that allah ar-ruh al quds that they have along with the other two abi and ibni.
“They do have to leave paradise, but if they live a good life then at the Last Judgment they will ascend to the heavenly garden”
But in Islam Adam is a Prophet and Eve, never mentioned by name , Hawa from other sources, but they both stumble by eating the fruit no blame it seems kind of inevitable ” and lose their erstwhile state” how you gonna know Absolute Reality when you all self-conscious and stuff, it’s in 2:30-39, it’s a kind of “get out but call anytime darling” sort of ‘fall’ according to the Qurans that I have seen.
It’s funny that the Quran can at once be sighted as an authority that grants Palestine to the Jews and at the same time be a Pagan tract, it makes sense Zionistically I suppose.
It is a contraction so God is fine as a translation. The definite article is used quite promiscuously in Arabic and flung around with gay abandon by one and all, that’s what I hear on the bush telegraph, damned unsettling business.
As to English speaking Muslims varies I always used God when it came up it seemed best when I was speaking English, Allah is not a name, it is not a being or an entity of any kind but with 99 names and It does in fairness warn you about Its ineffable imminence.
“silently reciting the 99 names of Allah. . ”
That has got to be one of the funniest lazy internet search transcriptions, 99 beads often divided into 3rds, with two little flat things I wonder if that’s significant, I’ve never known anyone to use them to recite the names, you could of course you can count whatever you want but it is not what people generally do and I very much doubt that that is what this lady is doing, perhaps it was too risky to beard a Muslim and ask them, dodgy fuckers that they are or perhaps they don’t know any, why would you.
Isn’t Allah a moon god? blood soaked fiend that it is, just read the Koran or the Ahadith…etc ad infinitum
Thank you. I liked Issa Amros piece, et al send their felicitations as well, of course.
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” It’s an affront to the United States”
and yet the “United States” respects no one, pisses on the Taliban they kill in the Talibans own country, pose with smiles and thumbs up with bodies of those they have tortured to death in iraq..
and you know obviously i am now going to offer America Abdul Basit Abdul Samad Surah al Balad translation not great but the qari is peerless ignore the brackets they detract.
“I remember the 70’s. It was the winter of our discotheque.”
You had the same thing in the States? boy we had the winter of discontent ’78-’79, and then i grew up, wow the world is rough rough place but i have always kind of enjoyed and loved it,
I a primitive and simple thing and have an absolute right to be so and anyway happy to take the consequences of all this “western (White) rage”, what does God say, you could just ease up and relax, tell me does Christ look tense up on the cross?
From : Partition Poems: In Kashmir writing under occupation
“i returned home to broken gutters
spilling onto doorsteps,
bullet-casings, old bones
she had kept the roses
from the garden gutted by grenades,
winter had razed the rest
she never bid him goodbye,
her eyes red from the teargas,
in Kashmir
lovers are suspected of seeking Azadi”
Ather Zia