Why Eid Al-Adha Was The Islamic World's Biggest Missed Opportunity

Eid al-Adha, or the Feast Of The Sacrifice. one of Islam's holiest days in the Islamic calendar, is religiously observed worldwide in commemoration of Abraham's obedience to God who commanded him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, but who substituted the object of sacrifice with a ram at the last minute.

Wonderful, but what's this about it being a missed opportunity?

Ah, had the early Moslems been wise enough to have accepted other aspects of Abraham's relationship with God instead of only this particular one involving animal sacrifice which benefits everyone as it involves the consumption or mass distribution of beef or mutton which not everyone can afford to eat everyday by the way, the Arabs of today, being descendants of Ishmael, would be entitled to the same land rights claimed by their eternal foes, the Israelites, as God gave the land of Canaan not only to the Israelites who were led out from Egyptian bondage by Moses but also to the Ishmaelites.

I. Genesis 12:1-9

The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

2 “I will make you into a great nation,

    and I will bless you;

I will make your name great,

    and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,

    and whoever curses you I will curse;

and all peoples on earth

    will be blessed through you.”

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.


II. Genesis 13:12-18

12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.

14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.

III. Genesis 17:8

The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”


There it is, the Moslem World's biggest missed opportunity.

Had the early Moslems accepted what God said to Abraham about the land of Canaan and whom he was giving it to, the Arabs of today would have the same legitimate claims as their eternal foes the Israelites to a land they would not be fighting for with the bow and the sword which they have been doing for the last thirteen hundred years since the old days of the caliphates until this very day.

Ishmael was Abraham's firstborn, meaning Ishmael's descendants, the Arabs, enjoyed firstborn inheritance rights, and in the case of land inheritance rights, that would mean, had the descendants of Ishmael, the Arabs, laid claim to other aspects of Abraham's relationship with God and not just the one where Isaac was almost sacrificed on an altar as an offering to God which God did not instruct the Israelites to commemorate in any manner in any case, they, the descendants of Ishmael, the Arabs, would have a firstborn's right to say who gets which part of the inheritance and how large that portion would be and who gets the leftovers, if any, and how large or insignificant that portion would be.

A missed opportunity, wouldn't you agree?

Catholic Bullsh*t - An Example

Were you born and raised a Catholic, this is what they teach you in catechism class as a child. 

Who made you?

God made me.

Why did God make you?

God made me because he loves me.

Good. He loves me. Did you see the monstrous, cold-blooded, heartless, merciless way he treated my cat, snuffing its life out breath by breath, day by day, until all that was left to be buried was a skeletal frame covered by skin?

He could have killed it off with one slash of the sword, one thrust of the spear, but no, no point killing off a cat if one couldn't derive pleasure from torturing it first, was there?

He could have made its heart stop with a blood clot-sized bullet to the brain or suffocated it with an invisible plastic bag over its head but nope, no fun in that.

I could go on and on but what's the use, the God who made us because he loves us all treats us all like sh*t when it's time to die, cat, dog or human.

You want a nice clean, quick death? Do it yourself. The God who made you because he loves you prefers the slow death, the painful or excruciatingly painful death, the horrible death.

Wanna know how he justifies himself?

Oh, so-and-so was a bad or wicked cat, dog or human in a previous life, so his/her/its slow/painful/horrible death was justified.

Or so-and-so was a child/house pet of the devil's, so nothing to be sorry about there.

Whatever the justification, no one can say anything. He has the best lawyers in town. He OWNS the judiciary, the courts, the judges, the jury, the public prosecutor, even the cops including the police chief.

Didn't you know? Weren't you told?

He's the mafia boss of all mafia bosses. Untouchable.

Everything else you were taught in catechism class? Catholic bullsh*t. 

The King's Favorite Courtesan

Once upon a time, there was a kingdom called the Blue Mountain Kingdom whose king had a courtesan whose job it was to sing for the king. 

Not only was she beautiful, she was also his favorite and was thus forbidden from having a love relationship with anyone for as long as she served the king.

One day, she suffered a tragic death in her family and, just like that, she stopped singing. It was as if her world had come to an end and she no longer had any reason to go on living.

The king was most understanding, of course, as was expected of one as noble as he, but when it went on, this silence of hers, for longer than he could bear, he ordered an investigation into the cause of her distress.

When it was learnt that his favorite courtesan was pining for the love of her life whose death brought about this song-silent behavior of hers, as if her heart had been broken beyond repair and she was in mourning forever, the king flew into a rage and, out of blind jealousy, ordered her to be thrown off the cliffs to her death.

When it was learnt afterwards, although it was too late for the unfortunate courtesan by then, that the love of her life was a cat, not whom he mistakenly thought was one of his subjects, the king ordered three days of mourning to be observed throughout the kingdom in honor of a wrongly-condemned courtesan who died a wrongful death on account of a stupid cat.

This is a true account and may be found in The Annals Of The Blue Mountain Kingdom, Volume One, among other ancient texts found in the Quingjing Dynasty Collection found in the Royal Archives of the Blue Mountain Palace rumored to be somewhere beyond the shores of the furthest ocean where wars and conflicts were unheard of.

Observations # 32

This might be the reason Al Jazeera has been banned in Israel:

Because every Palestinian in Gaza, man, woman, boy, girl, militant, non-militant with a camera phone was potentially a field reporter/correspondent reporting on the ground for Al Jazeera with videos and photos of the carnage on the ground which would not be good for Israel's image as allegedly the most moral army on the planet.

The Seven Heads & Ten Horns Of The Beast - A Thesis

Assuming the Beast in the book of Revelation is Radical Islam for or on account of its ability to 'force people to have a mark on their foreheads or hands without which they wouldn't be able to buy or sell', something even the most powerful military in the world with all its sophisticated weapons and nuclear arsenals would be powerless to bring about let alone enforce, here's a sneak peek at its 7 heads and 10 horns, in accordance with what's been 'revealed' to me regarding it although, like in the case of Muhammad, Islam's prophet, I have no witnesses to testify that this 'revelation' was given to me by, say, an angel sent by God, the one named Gabriel, for example, as in Muhammad's case, or spoken by a voice from a burning bush as in the case of Moses, or a voice spoken from the clouds as in the case of Jesus, and Moses too, which happened in the presence of all the Israelites gathered before him, who implored him to go up further on the mountain, Mount Sinai, to hear what God had to say as they feared they would all die as no one lived who heard the voice of God spoken from out of a cloud as they believed.

It would help if I could walk on water or turn water into wine or straighten out the bent and twisted limbs of a polio-stricken child just by commanding it as in the case of Jesus so as to strengthen my case were I to say such and such a revelation was revealed to me by an angel from God, but what can I say except I have no witnesses as in Muhammad's case whose followers didn't care in any case or even dare to question the legitimacy of such unwitnessed revelations lest they be beheaded surely or whatever the punishment for questioning the legitimacy of the revelations given to Islam's prophet in modern times was.

Okay.

First, let's see what the book of Revelation says about the beast from the sea.

Book of Revelation 13:16-17

It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

[see picture below for visual interpretation of the above]

Book of Revelation 13 (whole chapter)

The Beast out of the Sea 

13 The dragon  stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. 4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.

10 “If anyone is to go into captivity,

    into captivity they will go.

If anyone is to be killed with the sword,

    with the sword they will be killed.”

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.

The Beast out of the Earth

11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 

Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.

Linking Radical Islam To The Beast Mentioned In The Book Of Revelation [title of study]

1. Assuming the beast in the book of Revelation has been established as being Radical Islam, an attempt to establish by virtue of radical Islamic association the identity of the 7 heads and 10 horns the beast was described as having shall now be made.

1.1. The 7 Heads Of The Biblical Beast From The Sea 

1. Iran
2. Afghanistan
3. Saudi Arabia
4. Yemen
5. Mauritania
6. Sudan
7. Aceh (Indonesia)

1.2. The 10 Horns Of The Biblical Beast From The Sea 

I. Taliban
2. Al Qaeda
3. ISIL/ISIS
4. Abu Sayyaf
5. Boko Haram
6. Islamic Jihad
7. Hezbollah
8. Islamic Council (Iran)
9. Hamas
10. Al Shabab

1.3. Revealing The Nature Of The Fatal Wound Of The Biblical Beast - A Bonus Revelation 

Verse 3, Chapter 13, of the book of Revelation mentions a fatal wound sustained by the beast that had been healed.

"One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed."

That fatal wound was the defeat of ISIL/ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The day ISIL/ISIS inevitably makes a major comeback is when that fatal wound is healed.

And if that was true, then one of the seven (7) heads up there would either be Iraq or Syria or an Iraq/Syria combination of both.

1.4. Demystifying And Revealing The Hypothetical Name Of The Biblical Beast

666 = Vav Vav Vav = V V V = Verses Versus Verses

Observations # 31

The Jews shouldn't think too highly of themselves. They were not chosen to be God's specially-chosen people. They were chosen as an instrument God uses to make himself known to the other nations and peoples of the world, so that by coming to know of a God and his laws and decrees and obeying them, they too might be saved.

That is all the Jews were to God, an instrument, an implement, like a gardening tool one uses for some specific purpose, nothing more.

What's so special about them anyway, these Jews? Did they not lie, cheat, murder, rape, fornicate, desecrate Sabbaths and other days holy to the Lord, covert their neighbors' wives and indulge in every sin as did the gentiles? How then were they different, these accursed Jews?

They were used, these Jews who think so highly of themselves they even believe every street in every town in every country in the world should be named after them, by God as an example of what would happen to people who, especially after being called to be a chosen people who walked in the ways of God, turn their backs on him in favor of following the godless ways of a pagan world.

Persecuted, exiled, slaughtered by the millions in the gas chambers and concentration camps of WW2 and still they refuse to heed the lessons of the past and the folly of their ways.

Let us hope the Gentiles, who have now come to know of a God and his laws and decrees and requirements for salvation as a result of the existence of these Jews, do not repeat the same mistakes as them.

The world would never be a peaceful, serene, untroubled, paradisiacal place otherwise. 

Observations # 30

 If America had held back out of concern for civilian casualties in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan might have won the war.

If Vladimir Putin had concerns about civilian casualties, he would never have invaded Ukraine in the first place, and if he starts having doubts now, he would recall his troops and the war would be over.

If Israel does not do what needs to be done, civilian casualties notwithstanding,  October 7 will be repeated again and again and again until Palestine is finally free from the river from the sea. 

Hamas has vowed to never stop until all of Israel has been reduced to rubble, upon which an Islamic caliphate would be established.

If this is what the Biden administration wishes to see happen, withhold all the military aid shipments you want.

Not only that.

Recall all your carrier groups and overseas military detachments and dismantle your war machine.

This way all your civilian casualty concerns would no longer be a concern in the event of hostilities involving your troops and whoever the hostiles might be in whichever part of the world it was.

America The Pussy. Sounds better than America The Civilian Casualty Count Perpetrator. Doesn't it?