In Paris, The Bells of Notre Dame Cathedral Have Tolled - Their Ring Has Ushered In a Just War

November 13 should signal the start of a revolution. A new type with a global perspective. Against global terrorism which, as it sputters, murders the innocent in its wake.

Liberty, equality, Fraternity!! All of these should be reborn. Out of the martyrdom of more than 120 human beings. They died in Paris. But shall be reborn in our world action that strikes without mercy, without a holiday.

To call this despicable tragedy "jihadism" is to elevate the humanly abnormal to the level of normalcy. If terrorism knows no boundary, so should be the global pre-emptive response. No boundary; no mercy; no shedding of crocodile tears by the so-called "human rights" organizations, reminding us of due process.

France has, in the immediate aftermath, closed its borders. Like in Sinai, there cannot be freedom of movement to allow the assassins the freedom of butchery. (How laughable to hear Hamas leaders calling the Rafah Crossing the Gaza lungs. Resuscitating the Gaza lungs is in the hands of Hamas, not in the hands of Egypt).

From France, the land of "The Social Contract" should emerge a new version of "Le contract social:"

• A new global World War Council to coordinate the global moves against all and every terror outfit;
• A new system of intelligence sharing to help that "World Defense Council" to strike pre-emptively. Not to await reactively;
• A global "Situation Room" that oversees the 24/7 pounding of the nests of evil. Regardless of what they call themselves;
• A massive world information system to inform the world citizenry of the progress of that "War Without Borders;"
• To the maximum extent possible, a protective shield against "collateral damage," whereby the innocent perishes as the wicked is attacked;
• A constant interpretation of the terrorist chatter across the globe to be fed to those who, in the War on Terror, are flying planes, staffing war ships, parachuting on the dens of evil, or rescuing hostages;
• Screening by modern technology the attendance at mass events whether sportive or artistic;
• Replacing the international and civil codes of civil and political rights, such as those of the 1960s of the moribund UN; and
• Assisting those who are fighting for securing a viable life of independence in geographic areas which they can call "a homeland," such as in the Middle East.

From the Russian plane crashing in Sinai, to the murdering of innocent civilians by hooded criminals in El-Arish (Egypt), to the bombing of Syrian civilians by a murderous Assad regime, to the attacks in Kenya, and Somalia against hotels, to the stoning of women for alleged adultery, to the kidnappings by Boko Haram, to the assistance extended to the Muslim Brotherhood, to the claims that the New Egypt is smothering dissent...!!

All of the above are various symptoms of the new Ebola of global terror. That world terror:

• Has no faith;
• Knows no mercy;
• Has no plans for an orderly society;
• Bears no resemblance to the ordinary human being;
• Respects no charter, no reconciliation, no orderly progression to integration within global society;
• Uses open borders and freedom of movement as means for reaching nameless and non-suspecting victims;
• Hides behind veils of secrecy and shields of trumped up interpretations of faith to satisfy its appetite for human chaos.

It needs war stratagems, globally coordinated, with each nation doing its part. Especially the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

For after November 13, 2015, our world has become one. A unity for survival. No more need for empty denunciations a la Ban Ky Moon. The U.N. Sermonizing General," instead of "The U.N. Secretary-General." Who from the 38th floor of his glass house on the East River in New York City, does not see his real world beyond Long Island across that River.

Time for action for whatever time it takes on all fronts, and by all means.

For those who gloated over their social media that "Paris is burning," should be made to count their days. That cry of satisfaction at mass slaughter should now be heard through a globalized war command and control.

Evil is the same. Even when it uses "God" as a part of its odious name!! ISIS (The Insane Satan In Iraq and Syria) pompously declares "responsibility" for killing in cold blood. Killing 129, and injuring multiples of that number in Paris. "Responsibility?"

This is a word denoting high morality. "Responsibility" refers to values which Al-Baghdadi, the thug from Anbar, has never known.

President Hollande of France got it right. "An Act of War," he described the dastardly attacks of November 13, in the City of Light - Paris. So did Hillary Clinton, who is expected to be the first female President of the U.S. as of January 2017. She said: "ISIS should not only be contained. It should be defeated."

The martyrs (Shaheeds) of Paris are not the eight stealth killers who perished to hell wrapped in their explosive belts. The martyrs (Shaheeds) are those who perished as they watched a soccer game, a concert, or sat peacefully for a pleasant dinner. This is what Islamic Law calls them!! Shaeeds.

Yes, Al-Baghdadi. It was a Friday. The Muslim day of prayers, reflection, and constructive interaction with all other human beings. Thus calling you a "Muslim" is like calling a poisonous snake a "bird of paradise." May you and your gangs perish in hell. Wrapped in your black turbans and your other garments whose blackness points directly to the true color of your heart.

Paris shall always be full of light. Al-Raqqa, in Syria, now under daily bombardment by the French air force, shall, in time, become the mass grave for the worst perpetrators of criminality against Islam.

The global menace of ISIS has an ideological sideon which it feeds. ISIS is enabled, though unwittingly, by Islamophobes. You can find them especially among those who speak or write about that faith without ever having studied it. Or even understood it.

A prime example of such ISIS-enablers can be found in a book recently published by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A Somali young woman with terrible tribal experiences. Genital mutilation and a forced arranged marriage. Issues whose only link to Islam is that they were visited upon Hirsi Ali in a country which, though Islamic, yet socially dysfunctional. The capital country of the murderous Al-Shabab.

Ayaan's ignorance of Islam, a faith which she has renounced, became to her a substantial source of undeserved fame, and an ill-gotten fortune. In both Europe, particularly in the Netherlands where she was made a parliamentarian, and now in the U.S., a guest so-called scholar at Harvard and in Washington, D.C.

Ayaan, out of deep ignorance, has previously in an article, called for "the rewriting of the Quran." As if the Quran is another terrorism manifesto, not, as per Islamic dogma, the word of God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. Her recent book is entitled: "Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now." Published by Harper, she boldly declares in the introduction: "To make many people - not only Muslims but also Western apologists for Islam - uncomfortable."

Her conclusion is that "Islam is not a religion of peace." With such a conclusion, repeated also in her three previous books, ISIS draws the oxygen of its barbarity under the pretext that Islam was under attack. Under attack, not only by you, Ayaan. But by the West whose circles are providing you with encouragement. An encouragement to propagate hate and contempt for the faith of 1.5 billion Muslims. So when "Paris" happens, you and your entourage of hate-mongers find justification for the lies which gush constantly from the deep well of your ignorance.

In essence, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, you and ISIS feed on one another. You need ISIS criminality to sell your books of Islamophobia. And Al-Baghdadi, the thug from Anbar, needs you as an un-witting enabler/recruit to bolster his nihilistic ideology.

It was your tribe, Ayaan, that attacked you. Islam did not. When you opted out of Islam, that faith looked the other way. Under its humane principle of "In matters of faith, there is no compulsion." 

Perceiving yourself as a scholar, especially in matters of Islam, has been devastatingly rebutted by Max Rodenbeck, the Middle East Bureau Chief of the Economist. In his review of your book "Heretic"  in The New York Review of Books dated December 3, 2015, he posed a central question on the cover of this forthcoming issue: "Can Ayaan Hirsi Ali Change Islam?" 

His resounding response was a big "No!!" Here is a quote from his review, covering from page 35 to page 37:

"But there are several problems with her approach. These include such troubling aspects as her use of unsound terminology, a surprisingly shaky grasp of how Muslims actually practice their faith, and a questionable understanding of the history and political background not only of Islam, but of the world at large."

So Ayaan, go find a respectable way to make your living. Your barrage of rantings against Islam have the effects of a big horned ram repeatedly attacking a mountain. That mountain shall not move. But the ram shall soon lose its attacking horns!!

One of the tragic aspects of the Paris massacres is that similar outrageous calamities in southern Beirut do not get the same world attention. Call it "citizen's fatigue," or "differentiated treatment." It is both. When we have a quarter million Syrians killed over 4 years of civil war, overall numbness takes over. Paris, by comparison, is expected to be safe. Safe enough for one million migrants aspiring to head toward it.

In this regard, the ISIS Satan has proved capable, at least for now, to force us to think differently about the same human tragedies. A global focus on Paris, as it should be. Less attention to southern Beirut, as it should not be. Beirut is thus entitled to feel, by comparison, forgotten.

Summing up the moral depravity of the eight suicide bombers who attacked Paris, I would say to their ISIS masters:

• Your ideology is nihilistic - the burning wish to die;
• Your desire to kill and your desire to die are the clearest indication of your futile search for clarity;
• Your search for violence as an end in itself is foredoomed as dead-end;
• Your program, if one may charitably call it that, is based on a faulty premise: divide our world between Muslims and non-Muslims; between Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shiis, and between Muslim Sunnis who submit to your enslavement and Muslim Sunnis who are yearning to leave your hell hole;
• Your riding the migration wave which you have caused is sure to close that escape hatch. But will surely serve the ranks of those who want you dead;
• Your genocidal ideology shall boomerang and justifiably turn it into a sword for your eventual annihilation.

Your targeting the Bataclan arena, where a soccer match between France and Germany, and which was attended by President Hollande, had a response of defiance: a piano with its player, moving his fingers deftly and sounding music about peace.

That song is by John Lennon of the Beatles. It begins by "Imagine All the People!!" An apt response of resilience in the face of barbarity. Within an unshakable refrain: Vive La France!!

The Arab and Muslim star is composed of eight angles. Angles of light, referring to all kinds of learning. The savage executioners in Paris were eight. Each angle pointing to all kinds of evil for which they, and their so-called Emirs, stand clothed in infamy.

Now here is another clear indicator of the gulf in values between the wicked (the Paris terrorists), and the good (the innocent Parisians). The mastermind of the Paris attacks of Nov. 13, Abaaoud, gloated about how easy it was for him to get from Syria to Paris to plan that massacre. That was before he perished a few days later north of Paris at the hands of the French police.

Scum like Abaaoud shall never know that their ease at inflicting harm on humanity is rooted in a higher value. The openness of borders, the freedom of movement, and the trust in the decency of other humans not to use these universal values for subversion and criminality.

A real gulf in values which can only now be bridged by a globalized effort, led perhaps by boots on the ground, through the creation of an Arab/Muslim NATO to erase the so-called Islamic Caliphate from the face of the earth.

They do not belong with other humans as sharers of this planet. Because they have come from Hell, to which they are surely returning. Their presumed express passports, through imagined martyrdom, to paradise have, especially since 9/11, been stamped "CANCELLED."

  

Idiotic Claims on the Giza Pyramids By the Most Ignorant of Today's Stupids!!

The claimants cover the three Ibrahamic faiths: Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The democratization of insane ignorance.

Some Jews claim that they built those pyramids. A Christian running for the U.S. presidency, Ben Carson, claims that the pyramids were used by biblical Joseph to store grains. And the Muslim Brotherhood saw in the Giza pyramids idolic symbols that should be destroyed.

All idiotic claims by the most ignorant of today's stupids; the crazy revisionists of world history. Under the guise of giving themselves a leg up on the ladder of legitimacy. And the evidence is clear through the following facts. Facts that are stubborn enough to make those claimants the world's laughing stock!!

As students in Egypt, our curriculum included "Ancient Egypt." At both the primary and secondary levels. And all history majors at the university level are required to pass that course before graduation. I was one of them. This is the DNA of Egyptian education. It has a basic pedagogical reason: The modern Egyptian is thought of as an amalgam of ancient Egyptians and Arabs.

That genealogical link is the back bone of never-ceasing Egyptian nationalism. It has served Egypt well. No foreign occupation of Egypt went unpunished. From the days of the Hyksos to the days of the Zionists.

Now to the historical facts about the Giza pyramids. And down with the myth information maintained by some of the Jews; by an Afro-American Christian brain surgeon who should get his own brain operated on; and the un-Islamic Muslim Brotherhood whose leader one day said: "To Hell With Egypt." (Toz Fi Massr)!!

• The age of the pyramid builders began with "The Old Kingdom." It lasted for 500 years. A united regime with a firm throne, occupied by a great pharaoh worshiped as God or God's representation by a pious population.
• The entire history of "The Old Kingdom" was characterized by self reliance and self sufficiency. Through those Egyptian masses which believed in the sanctity of the Pharaonic system. Underpinned, not by the small group of Israelites, Moses adherents. But by an indigenous faith. Hard work by these masses was a subsidiary religion.
• The age of the pyramid builders separated between those residents who were outside the faith of Ancient Egypt, and those who were immersed in it. The ruler was a God; the public was his congregation; and his plans to build the pyramids was to concretize the stability of the State. In this grand endeavor, the public, as pyramid builders, during 3 months annually (the Nile flood period), was engaged in a second mission. No outsider was to lift a stone in that nationwide Egyptian declaration of greatness. The sacred had no place for those who looked for  God outside the official faith of the State.
• That huge sacred endeavors stretched west of the Nile from near Luxor in the south, to Memphis, the great capital near which the 3 great pyramids arose.
• The overseers were engineers; the advisors were the priests of "The Old Kingdom;" the peasants, now in the employ of the Pharoah, moved tons of stones; the boats moved the granite over flowing Nile waters from south to north; and the peasants, turned laborers, sang as they slid the stones in place. No mortar. But air suction to keep the stones tightly in place.
• The stepped pyramid of Saqqarah was considered an old model. Now the pyramids have to rise up with one solid face to remind the whole world that the stability, faith, economic prosperity, and mighty armed forces, are the four corners of Ancient Egypt.
• The gravitas of Egypt, its capital, moved from the south to the north, at where the great Nile split in two branches. Pouring its waters rich with silt, into the Mediterranean. From the first Nubian cataract south of Aswan to where Alexandria stands today.
• The great engineering genius of the Giza Pyramids was Imhotep, Pharao's priest, his prime minister, and his great architect. Imhotep was a northerner; was later regarded by the Greeks as "the genius of stone engineering." A graduate of the ancient Egyptian schools of science, religion, and politics. Faith was in the Sun (Raa). Not beyond. Heliopolis became, at that dawn of history, the Mecca of ancient Egypt.
• That was five thousand years ago. Faith and governance were one. The Giza pyramids were to be the burial places of the pharaohs. Their greatness lies in their being the first stone structures in the world: durable; perfect angels; standing aloft at the edge of the desert; peering over the temples and the burial places of personalities lesser than the mighty Pharaohs.
• Khyops, Khafraa and Mankaraa, were the respective occupants of the Big Pyramid, the Middle Pyramid, and the Small Pyramid.

Case closed. History speaks louder than the Jewish myth of taking part in pyramid building. In that regard, those false claimants are akin to saying that non-Muslims could participate in the washing of the Kaabah.

So is Ben Carson who believes in the apocalypse and the end of time. If he had been to the pyramids only once, he would have seen that the pyramids are no silos for grain storage.

So is the crazy Brotherhood that regards the pyramids as idols which should be destroyed. Why? Diversion from the Muslim faith of the oneness of God, and the exclusion of statues and images as distraction from Muslim worship. Real idiocy!!

Sorry, fellows!! You can go home now. See whether you had something to dream about the leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy). Or the Arch of Triumph of Paris (France). Or the Statue of Liberty in New York. Do yourselves a favor and leave the Giza Pyramids alone. Your claims are as bogus as those who try to sell the Brooklyn Bridge to the fool.

And if you have free time, see the comic Egyptian film starring Muhammad Al-Heneidy, who stars in "Hamam In Amsterdam." See the depth of his spontaneous revulsion at something "an Israeli" starring in the film told him. "The pyramids are ours!!" Prompting Hamam not to shake hands with that offending usurper. Usurper of basic historical facts. Repeating to himself in amazement, "Can you imagine him saying: 'The Pyramids are ours'?!!"

The basic context of the pyramids project of Ancient Egypt is this: It was the first equivalent in human history of the State taking care of the needs of its citizens. Especially at times of agricultural paralysis due to the Nile floods. Citizens were defined by faith. Worshippers of the sun (Raa) were the only recognized faithful. Everyone else, including the Israelites, were mere residents.

At that dawn of history, the State launched the equivalent of the first Social Security scheme in world's history. If you are a citizen, not a mere resident, you were entitled to be covered by that scheme. That is when you could not farm.

So you get on "the food stamp scheme" of that time. Build the pyramids, and get your ration of wheat, maize, and oil to feed your family. On top of that you get the heavenly stamp of indulgence after death. That stamp, in essence, might have read "A Participant In Pyramid Building." No one else got it. If you were a mere resident unacknowledging the pledge of allegiance to Pharaoh.

You see, knowledge is light. And information is power. No amount of hallucination about "the Giza Pyramids" is of any use. Because you are merely whistling in the wind. The wind of the Western Desert which hugs the Pyramids from every angle. With the Sphinx keeping close watch as a royal guardsman. A heritage for all mankind!!

I love Sadat. Yet I have been critical of his allowing Menachem Begin to get away with saying at the Pyramids: "We built these. But we are not going to claim them." Instead of a well-deserved retort, Sadat laughed. For diplomatic reasons.

But one should always keep in mind that diplomacy cannot trump history. History must always trump diplomacy.

ISIS Kicking Sand In the Eyes of the Truth - Losers!!

Even in catastrophic tragedies, ISIS hurries to reap the wind of evil. The Russian airbus plummets from 31,000 feet down to the Sinai mountainous floor. More than 200 hundred Russian and Ukrainian tourists and crew head to a fiery death. Instead of heading home with lungs refreshed from the iconic resort of Sharm El-Sheik. The alternative capital of Egypt during Mubarak days.

So the world grieves for the human loss. Egyptian groups gather before the Russian Embassy in Cairo with flowers, candles and songs of condolences. Putin declares a national day of mourning. Egyptian-led teams of investigators descend upon the floor of tragedy seeking the inner secrets of the black box to reveal the actual cause of the tragedy. A hundred Egyptian ambulances carry the body bags to awaiting Russian planes to fly the victims home.

Everyone on the face of the earth bow their heads in a prayerful gesture of accepting the fate of that airbus and its occupants.

Except for ISIS!! Evil celebrates evil. In a transparent attempt to grab the headlines for publicity of a false victory. Even before the investigations by Egyptian, Russian, French and American reveal the real cause of that enormous human tragedy. ISIS celebrates: "We did it. Victory for our Sinai campaign." Yet no such celebration and "high five" are in order. The fact belies the ISIS premature claims of victory of evil over good. For at 31,000 feet high up over the Sinai sky, no ground to air missile is known to climb more than 20,000 feet. An airbus in flight at that altitude is not akin to a low flying helicopter, easily reached by a powerful and well aimed Kalashnikov.

These are facts. Not a barrage of lies spread by ISIS and its affiliates in the Sinai/Hamas regions. That is where the combined strength of the mighty Egyptian Second and Third Armies, concentrated by El-Sisi in the hands of one brilliant and battle-tested commander, is pummeling that evil. Gradually out of viable existence whatever time it takes.

Thus to ISIS and its so-called Caliphate at Raqqa, Syria, the Holy Quran, in Chapter VIII, seems to address itself to the anti-Islamic "Islamic State." Verse 37 is on point: "So that God may distinguish the corrupt from the Good, and pile the corrupt one upon another. And so heap them up together, and throw them into Hell. Those are the losers."

The losers keep on kicking sand in the eyes of the truth. The truth is that ISIS moves where there is no opposing movement on the ground. Moves into empty spaces; into where loyalties are split by the fiction of a Sunni Islam and a Shii Islam; into the void of authority; into the void of jobs taken away from half a million mighty Iraqi army, officered mainly by Sunnis during the reign of Saddam terror. That was a void created by an American lunatic called Bremmer at the outset of the great American war debacle of the Bush/Cheney war on Iraq.

We are still in an age of several voids exploited by the phantom Caliphate of an Anbar thug called Al-Baghdadi. Let us have a recitation of these voids on the US side, enabling ISIS to temporarily prosper on the oxygen of these voids which have to be likened to the underground tunnels. Previously dug by Hamsawis in an attempted underground invasion by the renegade Gaza enclave of mighty Egypt.

• No US coherent policy in regard to US war effort against ISIS;
• The US Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, is wedded to three R's:

Raqqa/Ramadi/Raids. But from the air. An air campaign cannot secure timely victory for on the ground campaign.

• Only 50 US special forces for Syria, and 3500 for Iraq. To do what?: "Advise and Assist!!" What does this mean in regard to ISIS in Syria? It means that the US has no reliable partner on the ground in Syria. But in Iraq, there is the Pesh Merga of Kurdistan, seeking through their collaboration to secure from within Iraq, the State of Kurdistan.
• But would Sunni Arabs of Syria acquiesce to a Kurdish occupation of Raqqa, following the expected defeat of ISIS? Of course no.
• So here we go again: A complicated battlefield. Lines keep on shifting; loyalties are measured only by the day. Your friend of today is your enemy of tomorrow. Thus the concept of "command and control" goes to hell.
• Add to this, the general policy, in fact doctrine of Obama of "no more US involvement in Middle East wars." This is the prevailing doctrine at the very time when ISIS needs a strong response.
• On top of that, add the absence of a legal framework for any robust US involvement. There is no declaration of war by Congress. Because? Against whom? Against the foes of selected bands. But how do you know that that selection endures? Especially when the US has no informants on the ground!!
• Have I just said "the absence of a legal framework for any robust US involvement?" Yes. But attorneys like myself have to be both credible and circumspect. So, OK!! There is one legal framework. It is a Congressional authorization that dates back to the tragedy of 9/11!! Thus it is no good for the age of ISIS. Obsolete. And in law, whatever is obsolete cannot be cited as credible.
• Also bear in mind that "an authorization" cannot be legally equated with "a declaration." You usually authorize another branch of Government, after its action has begun. And you "declare," no ipso facto. You legislate. And your legislation is upon request of either the legislature (Congress) or the Executive (the President in the Oval Office). And you fund what you legislate.
• And your legislation, when unfounded, becomes a dead letter. Unless stopped by a Presidential veto or an executive order. Provided that executive action can survive a Congressional over-ride of a super majority. Complicated? Yes. The story of the American system, especially when it comes to war. This is what we do as legal counsel in US constitutional issues: The process of unscrambling, which drives our students sometimes to mental exhaustion!!
• The pile-up of uncertainties is not yet complete when it comes to the US vs. ISIS. Because?
• There is a lack of attainable goals. The best result is to prevent the occurrence of the worst scenario.
• There are no clear limits of authority between Congress (where the Republicans have a majority in both houses), and the President who is passionately hated by the Republicans -the war party.
• Why not "a no fly zone?!" You must be kidding. No fly zone (NFZ) could protect those on the ground whose loyalties you don't know. NFZ needs to be defended. NFZ infringes sovereignty. Sovereignty which is still claimed by present-day super-killer Bashar. Who is supported by Russian military might, Iranian Al-Quds Revolutionary Guards, and Hezbollah, the only discernible ruler of Lebanon. So instead of Syria occupying Lebanon, we now have Lebanon occupying Syria!!

I still have more bad news, about the efficacy of America's war in Syria: the terms that have wavering meaning, or no consensual meaning whatever. Here are some: "The broader war;" "Boots on the Ground;" "War improvisation;" "Guiding Local Fighters;" "Covert Training and Equipping by the CIA;" "Ideological Spectrum;" and "Downward Slope."

I hope that the reader has not concluded from the above that ISIS shall eventually prevail!! They don't have the long breath, the enduring bond between themselves and their subjects, the mammoth weight of Islam as a faith, and their reliance on incidents of panic-creation not on the Rule of Law -any law. They are the proverbial losers!!

Back to the Quran: "Say, 'The pure and impure are not equal, though the abundance of the impure may allure you much.' So be God fearing, O people who possess minds, that you may be successful."

Thus with the US and Russia or without, ISIS and Al-Nusra and their nominal franchises wherever they may be, shall be proven to be the proverbial losers. For they are like bats, flying at night -the night of present-day Islam. 

Soon there shall be dawn!! Yes, ISIS for now can kick sand in the eyes of the truth. But truth is more durable than sand. Sand that falls apart with a good dose of cleansing water.