I need a lover.
Right now.
Is there anybody there who could serve the office of
pure love and dedication and faithfulness and care,
men or women that they are?
--- sevanthi ragunathan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue
> relating to poetry and
> > poetics <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Letter to a leftist friend/the real
> mystics/innocents
> >Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:15:04 -0600
> >
> > >Doug Barbour wrote:
> > >
> > >> Those passages from the Koran, Candice:
> > >>>
> > >>> 008.025 And guard yourselves against a
> chastisement which cannot fall
> > >>> exclusively on those of you who are
> wrong-doers, and know that Allah
> >is
> > >>> severe in punishment.
> > >>>
> > >>> 008.057 If thou comest on them in the war,
> deal with them so as to
> >strike
> > >>> fear in those who are behind them, that haply
> they may remember.
> > >>>
> > >> chill me too.
> > >>
> > >> But Jehovah has some to match them in the OT.
> > >
> > > Can you post some of them, Doug? I'd be very
> interested to see those
> > >matches. Thanks--Candice
> >
> >Ah, i just meant the tone, & maybe what Robin &
> others pointed to, that
> >anger at anyone not 'onside'.
> >
> >I'll shut up now
>
>
> Who now remembers the Midianites? <smile>
>
> The correct reference in reply would be a citation
> of Israel Shahak's work,
> but a quick google search brought me to this:
>
> ---
>
> Page after page recounts Jewish destruction and
> extermination of peoples
> standing in the way of God's chosen: in chapter 3 of
> Deuteronomy "And we
> utterly destroying the men, women, and children of
> every city." My favorite,
> however, is in chapter 31 of Numbers, where at the
> Lords instruction to beat
> up the Midianites, they did this, "and they slew all
> the males...burnt all
> the cities," and brought back the women and
> children. But the payoff is that
> Moses was angry with the leader of the military
> expedition for having spared
> the women and children and said "Now therefore kill
> every male among the
> little ones, and kill every woman that hath known
> man by lying with him. But
> all the women children, that have not known a man by
> lying with him, keep
> alive for yourselves." This tradition in treating
> enemies, starting with
> Moses, is well preserved in the Gush Emunim, Shamir,
> Netanyahu, and Rabin
> (who several years ago as Defense Minister
> authorized the Isaeli forces to
> enter Palestinian homes and "break bones.")
>
>
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>
> http://www.zmag.org/ParEcon/amtisemforum.htm
>
> also see http://www.cactus48.com/jewishlaw.html
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