Norooz greetings to all Mankind and particularly to those who celebrate this great Day. Norooz is the celebration of life and fertility. Its origin fades into history. This is the oldest festivity alive and it will live as long as this planet lives. Ten thousand years from now, the world will be a different place. All races will merge and become indistinguishable.
Nationality would make no sense. Long after religions are thrown in the dustbin of history along with their festivities, the Mother Earth will keep celebrating Norooz in the vernal equinox as she has been doing for billions of years. Trees will blossom, deserts will bloom and life will burst with its glory and beauty.
Happy Norooz!
Bas-relief in Persepolis – a symbol Zoroastrian Nowruz – in day of a spring equinox power of eternally fighting bull (personifying the Earth), and a lion (personifying the Sun), are equal
Due to its antiquity, there exist various foundation myths for Nowruz in Iranian mythology. In the Zoroastrian tradition, the seven most important Zoroastrian festivals are the six Gahambars and Nowruz which occurs at the spring equinox.
It seems a reasonable surmise that Nowruz, the holiest of them all, with deep doctrinal significance, was founded by Zoroaster himself. Between sunset of the day of the 6th Gahanbar and sunrise of Nowruz was celebrated Hamaspathmaedaya (later known, in its extended form, as Frawardinegan). This and the Gahanbar are the only festivals named in the surviving text of the Avesta.
The Shahnameh, dates Nowruz as far back to the reign of Jamshid, who in Zoroastrian texts saved mankind from a killer winter that was destined to kill every living creature The mythical Persian King Jamshid (Yima or Yama of the Indo-Iranian lore) perhaps symbolizes the transition of the Indo-Iranians from animal hunting to animal husbandry and a more settled life in human history.
In the Shahnameh and Iranian mythology, he is credited with the foundation of Nowruz. In the Shahnama, Jamshid constructed a throne studded with gems. He had demons raise him above the earth into the heavens; there he sat on his throne like the sun shining in the sky. The world’s creatures gathered in wonder about him and scattered jewels aound him, and called this day the New Day or No/Now-Ruz. This was the first day of the month of Farvardin (the first month of the Persian calendar).
The Persian scholar Abu Rayhan Biruni of the 10th century A.D., in his Persian work “Kitab al-Tafhim li Awa’il Sina’at al-Tanjim” provides a description of the calendar of various nations. Besides the Persian calendar, various festivals of Arabs, Jews, Sabians, Greeks and other nations are mentioned in this book. In the section on the Persian calendar(تقویم پارسیان), he mentions Nowruz, Sadeh, Tiregan, Mehregan, the six Gahanbar, Parvardegaan, Bahmanja, Isfandarmazh and several other festivals. According to him: It is the belief of the Persians that Nowruz marks the first day when the universe started its motion.
March 20, 2009: Tokyo, Japan The Tokyo District Court has rejected a plea for a retrial lodged by a family member of AUM Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara, who is on death row, reaching the decision in four months, sources familiar with the case said Wednesday.
On the morning of 20 March 1995, Aum members released sarin in a co-ordinated attack on five trains in the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 commuters, seriously injuring 54 and affecting 980 more. Some estimates claim as many as 5,000 people were injured by the sarin. It is difficult to obtain exact numbers since many victims are reluctant to come forward. Prosecutors allege that Asahara was tipped off about planned police raids on cult facilities by an insider, and ordered an attack in central Tokyo to divert attention away from the group.
The plan evidently backfired, and the police conducted huge simultaneous raids on cult compounds across the country. Over the next week, the full scale of Aum’s activities was revealed for the first time.
At the cult’s headquarters in Kamikuishiki on the foot of Mount Fuji, police found explosives, chemical weapons and biological warfare agents, such as anthrax and Ebola cultures, and a Russian MIL Mi-17 military helicopter. The Ebola virus was delivered from Zaire in 1994. There were stockpiles of chemicals that could be used for producing enough sarin to kill four million people.
Police also found laboratories to manufacture drugs such as LSD, methamphetamine, and a crude form of truth serum, a safe containing millions of dollars worth in cash and gold, and cells, many still containing prisoners.
During the raids, Aum issued statements claiming that the chemicals were for fertilizers. Over the next six weeks, over 150 cult members were arrested for a variety of offenses.
On 30 March 1995, Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency, was shot four times near his house in Tokyo, seriously wounding him. Many suspect Aum involvement in the shooting and Hiroshi Nakamura is suspected of the crime, according to Sankei Shimbun, but nobody has been charged.
While on the run, Asahara issued statements, one claiming that the Tokyo attacks were a ploy by the US military to implicate the cult, and another threatening a disaster that “would make the Kobe Earthquake seem as minor as a fly landing on one’s cheek.” to occur on 15 April.
The authorities took the threat seriously, declaring a state of emergency, stocking up hospitals with antidotes to nerve gas while chemical warfare specialists of the Self-Defence Force were put on standby. However, the day came and went with no incident.
On 23 April, Murai Hideo, the head of Aum’s Ministry of Science, was stabbed to death outside the cult’s Tokyo headquarters amidst a crowd of about 100 reporters, in front of cameras. The man responsible, a Korean member of Yamaguchi-gumi, was arrested and eventually convicted of the murder.
On the evening of 5 May, a burning paper bag was discovered in a toilet in Shinjuku station in Tokyo, the busiest station in the world. Upon examination it was revealed that it was a hydrogen cyanide device which, had it not been extinguished in time, would have released enough gas into the ventilation system to potentially kill 20,000 commuters. Several undetonated cyanide devices were found at other locations in the Tokyo subway.
Chizuo Matsumoto was the son of a tatami (mat) maker. He was born partially blind at birth. As an adult he tried to get into Tokyo University, the most prestigious University in Japan, but was rejected numerous times. After his failure to get into college he became an acupuncturist, married his classmate Tomoko, and they opened a pharmacy. At this pharmacy he was fined for selling an herbal medicine known as the Almighty Medicine which was not medically proven to work.
Two years later he and his wife began teaching yoga with elements of Buddhist, Hindu and Christian beliefs. He traveled to the Himalayas and became the only Japanese person to ever receive enlightenment, or so he claimed. At this time he changed his sect’s name from “Aum Association of Mountain Wizards” to “Aum Shinri Kyo.” While changing the group title Chizuo decided to change his name to Shoko Asahara. The group became an official religion in 1989.
The members of Aum Shinri Kyo would wear clothing in order of rank. Any members of the lowest rank would be treated harshly and confined to their own area. Children in the group were allowed little food and if they disobeyed they were placed in a seperate area and disciplined cruelly. The members of the group were only allowed to drink Shoko Asahara’s used bathwater. If they paid a price they could also drink his blood or semen. His semen sold for $10,000 per member. March 20, 2009: Sydney, Australia. The head imam at the Lakemba mosque, who caused outrage in 2006 by comparing scantily clad women to uncovered meat, was shown on a CCTV security tape kicking open the door just minutes before reporting the incident
“There is a trick in this camera. There is a trick in this film,”But in a letter sent by Sheik Hilali’s lawyers to ACA yesterday, he admitted kicking the door, saying the damage had already been done to the door before he kicked it. “What he did do was to kick open a door to the mosque that had already been damaged by others in order to gain entry to it,” the letter said. Lebanese Muslim Association president Shawky Kassir said they had called the police “for a little problem, but we have fixed (it) and everything is under control”. The footage shows four young men locking the door behind them at 10.28pm. Nine minutes later, Sheik Hilali checks the lock and pushes on the top of the door, bending it on its hinges. After checking the corridor, he disappears from view before rushing towards it and kicking it open at 10.46pm.
March 20, 2009: London, Britain. One of the UK’s most influential Islamic leaders, who has helped counter extremism in the country’s mosques, is accused of advocating attacks on the Royal Navy if it tries to stop arms for Hamas being smuggled into Gaza.
Dr Daud Abdullah, deputy director-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, is facing calls for his resignation, after it emerged that he is one of 90 Muslim leaders from around the world who have signed a public declaration in support of Hamas and military action.
Abdullah, who led the MCB’s boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day, was a member of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, the body endorsed by the government that trains imams and was set up to curtail the activities of extremist clerics. In January, he briefed the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, and communities secretary Hazel Blears on the situation in Gaza and its likely impact on social cohesion in the UK.On This Day Since 9/11
March 20, 2008: It is just a few days until Easter, the most important date in the Christian calendar. But for 700 Muslims who have gathered in a rural caravan park, this week has a different religious significance And to some of their neighbours, the thrice-daily calls to prayer are proving a strain on a harmonious relationship.
The Iranian Muslims have converged on the Trevelgue Holiday Park in Porth, Cornwall, to celebrate Persian New Year.
Every day at sunrise, noon and sunset they broadcast their prayers, known as Adhan, on a loudspeaker system. But some residents are complaining that the noise is shattering the idyll of the quiet village near Newquay.
Neighbour Emma Brewer, 35, said “the novelty soon wore off” after the group arrived at the camp last weekend.
She said: “It lasts about 20 to 30 minutes and it is rather loud. I’m a bit naffed off by it, to be honest.”
Another resident added: “We are going to have to put up with this all week. It’s going off in the morning, at 5am.”
A neighbour from nearby St Columb Minor says he was offended because he could hear the chanting as he made his way back from church.
He said: “Why was this broadcast at such a high level of volume so as to be heard miles away?
REMEMBER
“Miss Hairyarmpitsbad”, “Miss Slackistan”, “Miss Notbadinbedabad” and “Miss Reallyamanistan”
Calling themselves the “Page Three Beauties from the Ramalama Ding-Dong Times”, the 17 men and women carried placards with made-up names such as “Miss Hairyarmpitsbad”, “Miss Slackistan”, “Miss Notbadinbedabad” and “Miss Reallyamanistan”.
This group caused outrage when they paraded through the streets of Cornwall dressed in Burkas. They also used fake compasses to face Mecca when ‘praying’.As they walked the one-mile parade route, the group knelt down in mock prayer and used fake compasses to try to find Mecca.Their routine impressed carnival judges – a mayor, two district councillors and a parish councillor – and they were shortlisted for the “best entry” prize.But before any awards were handed out, police told the group to leave after complaints about racism.
Yesterday, as one member of the team apologised, the organisers of the annual carnival through the winding streets of St Columb Major, near Newquay, Cornwall, insisted their inclusion was not offensive.
Nina Brenton said: “We were approached by about six students from out of the area and they thought it was disgusting and offensive to Muslims.
“They asked how we could allow it in our carnival, but it’s not up to us to dictate what’s offensive. We did advise the group in question what had happened and gave them the choice of whether to carry on in the procession, and they did.
“Everybody was having fun, but in the end the police got involved and moved them on. It was a fun day and no one was offended.”
YOU BET NO-ONE WAS OFFENDED
THATS WHY THEY CAME BACK IN FORCE
Now the question is? who could have complained to the police, seeing that every one was enjoying them selves except the six students from out of the area
Now what have we here
The event, organised by the Islamic Students Association, is a six-day celebration of Persian and Islamic culture.
Thats right students from out of the area..
And as for the pretense of celebrating Persian and Islamic culture, one must remember that islam has more or less wiped out Persian culture.
One to make the point, Persia no longer exists, Persia is now named by the more Islamic name of Iran
This event stinks of islamic pay back by the six students that where offended. So they came back to celebrate that dates back thousands of years before islam, Nowruz
March 20, 2008: Wana, Pakistan. A Shahid detonates himself in a car bomb attack, killing five local soldiers.
March 20, 2008: Gawari, India. Two children are killed when Lashkar-e-Toiba lob a grenade into the yard of a house.
March 20, 2008: Pattani, Thailand. Muslim radicals gun down a local Imam.
March 20, 2008: Mosul, Iraq. Two civilians are killed in a Mujahideen bombing attack in a neighborhood.
March 20, 2008: Mogadishu, Somalia. A 7-year-old child is among seven people killed when Islamic terrorists attack a government base.
March 20, 2007: Mogadishu, Somalia. Four Somali and two Ethiopian soldiers are killed by Islamists, who drag the bodies of several through the streets March 20, 2007: Baghdad, Iraq. Forty-three victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace lose their lives in at least three separate attacks.
March 20, 2007: Mogadishu, Somalia. Three civilians are killed when Islamic militias mortar a neighborhood.
March 20, 2007: Narathiwat, Thailand. Muslim radicals murder a Thai soldier and injure two others in a shooting attack.
March 20, 2007: Zabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan driver’s decapitated body is found a week after he was killed by the Taliban.
March 20, 2007: al-Touz, Iraq. Two brothers are killed by Muslim terrorists.
March 20, 2007: Mosul, Iraq. A suicide bomber is one of two Sunni extremists who kill innocent people in separate attacks.
March 20, 2007
Former Iraq vice-president hanged
Ramadan was originally jailed for life over the Dujail killings, Former Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan has been hanged on the fourth anniversary of the US-led invasion which overthrew Saddam Hussein.
The execution happened before dawn at a prison in northern Baghdad. An Iraqi official said it had gone smoothly.
One of Saddam Hussein’s co-defendants, he was sentenced to life for his role in killing Shias in the 1980s, but his punishment was increased at an appeal.
The Dujail Massacre followed an unsuccessful assassination attempt against then Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, on July 8, 1982, in small Shiite town of Dujail. The town was a stronghold of the Shiite Dawa Party, a group strongly opposed to Saddam Hussein and his war with Iran. Saddam Hussein was visiting the town to make a speech praising those who had served Iraq in the fight against Iran. While driving through the village center, his motorcade was attacked by one or more members of the Dawa Party. The president was unharmed in the three-hour firefight which ensued.
Saddam Hussein ordered his special security and military forces to carry out a reprisal attack against the town, which resulted in a total of 148 of the town’s men being killed in the attack or executed later, some as young as 13 years of age.
1,500 people were also incarcerated and tortured, while other residents, many of them women and children, were sent to desert camps. Saddam’s regime destroyed the town and then rebuilt it shortly after. In addition to these punishments, 1,000 square kilometres (250,000 acres) of farmland was destroyed; replanting was only permitted 10 years laterMarch 20, 2006: Baghdad. Iraq. Four separate attacks by Muslim radicals leave nine dead, including a woman and a university lecturer
March 20, 2006: Baghdad. Iraq. Muslims kill three people in a coffee shop by skillfully hiding a bomb in a bag. Twenty-three people are injured, many seriously.
March 20, 2006: Baghdad, Iraq. Passengers on a minibus are the targets of Islamic terrorists who kill at least three with a bomb
March 20, 2006: Musa Qala, Afghanistan. Religious extremists stage a vicious attack on a police vehicle in a remote area, killing all four occupants.
March 20, 2006: Rajour, India. A civilian is murdered by the Mujahideen.March 20, 2005: Khost, Afghanistan. Two civilians are murdered in a Taliban attack.
March 20, 2005: Yala, Thailand. One civilian is killed, and thirteen other people injured by two bombs placed by Islamic separatists, one near a river pavilion.
March 20, 2005: Mosul, Iraq. A suicide bomber walks into a government building and kills three others. Jihadists then open fire on the subsequent funeral, killing two others
March 20, 2005:: Fatehpur. Pakistan. Radical Sunni suicide bomber blows up a Shia religious festival near a Pakistani shrine, killing about three dozen and injuring many more.
March 20, 2005: Fallujah. Iraq. Militants invade a home and kill a man while injuring his wife.March 20, 2003: Khanyar, India. Terrorists throw grenade into a group of security personnel, killing one and injuring four.
March 20, 2003: Srinagar, India. A grenade tossed into a street by a militant kills two civilians and injures two more.
March 20, 2003: Buldon, Philippines. Moro Islamic Liberations Front attacks a post and kills three civilians, wounds two others.
March 20, 2003: Sidon, Lebanon. Bomb kills one and leaves thirteen others injured in southern Lebanon.
USA RAISES THE STAKES IN THE PERPETUAL WAR
OF COURSE THE CANDY BRAINED WANKERS HAD SOMETHING TO SAY
March 20, 2004: Manasbal, India. Two soldiers were killed by a remote-controlled bomb. Thirty-eight others, along with two civilians were injured in the terrorist attack.March 20, 2002: Dogripora, India. Two children are killed by a Mujahideen IED blast
7 killed /30 wounded
Seven passengers are killed when a Fedayeen suicide bomber blows up a passenger bus. Thirty others are injured in the blast.
March 20, 2001: An Israeli was shot and injured by Palestinian gunfire near Aley Zahav in the West Bank. Later in the day, Palestinians ramped up their anger, firing two mortars from Khan Yanus which landed near the Morag settlement. The military wing of HAMAS, the al-Qassem Brigades claimed the attack. Settlers shot and injured a Palestinian near the village of Luban al-Sharqiyah as a result.March 20, 2001: An Israeli was shot and injured by Palestinian gunfire near Aley Zahav in the West Bank. Later in the day, Palestinians ramped up their anger, firing two mortars from Khan Yanus which landed near the Morag settlement. The military wing of HAMAS, the al-Qassem Brigades claimed the attack. Settlers shot and injured a Palestinian near the village of Luban al-Sharqiyah as a result.March 20, 2000: In the Philippines, Muslim militants, acting like Chechen rebels, raided two schools on Basilan Island, holding 43 hostage. Even the name is hauntingly similar to the site of the Islamic massacre in Beslan.
The Abu Sayyaf group, made up of Muslim fundamentalisits, took the hostages, from the Claret school, and then threatened to execute them if their demands were not met. Later that day, three hostages were released, including a pregnant teacher and two of her students. The Islamic kidnappers demanded that a negotiating team be formed, made up of Robin Padilla, a movie star, Representative Abdulgani Salapuddin, a Muslim militant, and a former Congressman Candu Muarip. The terrorists said they would gradually release children as the government met their demands, including those for food.
On March 24, several relatives of Abu Sayyaf’s founder, Janjalani, were captured by men who said that they would release them in exchange for the release of their children. On March 26, at least eighteen more hostages were freed. However, negotiations stalled. Abu Sayyaf terrorists reiterated their threat to kill the remaining children if their leader’s family members were not freed, claiming that the government was behind their abduction.
On March 29, The Manila Times reported that a representative of Abu Sayyaf had contacted a government official with four conditions for the continuation of peace talks. They stated that they would only release their hostages to the Islamic Governor, Wahad Akbar. The Philippine government capitulated to the demands and resumed negotiations.
Abu Sayyaf, whose members had aided and abetted the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building and the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center, demanded the release of three of their Muslim brothers jailed in the United States and three Muslim terrorists jailed in Basilan Jail. Next, they demanded the prohibition and arrest of all foreign ships passing through Basilan waters. The third demand required the passage of a law that would allow Muslim children to practice Islam in schools.
These demands were rejected and in response, Abu Sayyaf leaders said they would behead to hostages. On May 3rd, the Islamic savages murdered four of the hostages. Among those killed was a Christian priest. By May 31st, a Philippine television station reported that only eight Filipino hostages remained in captivity. The Abu Sayyaf Group said that they would free these hostages if they were allowed to keep other hostages and if they were pardoned from all criminal punishments. The government agreed so those eight hostages were released on June 2nd. As a further concession, Filipino President Estrada approved the ASG demand that fishing in the Sulu region be controlled.
February 20, 1996: Two Iranian dissidents who were affiliated with Mujahideen-e Khalq, were executed in Istanbul, Turkey. Islamic militants in the group claimed that Iranian diplomats had ordered the assassinations.March 20, 1995: While the preponderance of terrorist incidents worldwide at this time were caused by Islam, not all were the legacy of Muhammad and his demonic religion. Or said another way, while not all Muslims are terrorists, most terrorists are Muslims.
March 20, 1995: A truck loaded with 400 pounds of explosives was found in southern Israel. It had been driven north from Gaza with the intent of murdering Jewish civilians in Beersheba. Six Hamas members were arrested in connection with the failed terror attempt.
March 20, 1994: The chairman of the Cyprus Committee of Solidarity with Kurdistan was shot in Nicosia, Cyprus by two men on a motorcycle. He had direct links with the Kurdish Islamic terrorist group PKK and had received numerous death threats. The Turkish National Intelligence Organization was responsible for the assassination.March 20, 1989: A bomb exploded in front of the United Arab Emirates airline office in Istanbul, Turkey.March 20, 1986: Shiite Iranian Islamic terrorists in France bombed another Paris shopping center. This time the Muslim students killed two of their own and wounded 28 innocent French civilians.
The Champs Elysees attack occurred as the new Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac, was addressing the nation for the first time.The explosive device apparently malfunctioned, as the Hizballah students got caught in their own trap. The bomb went off just as it was being planted.
The Committee of Solidarity with the Arab and Middle East Political Prisoners (CSPPA) claimed responsibility. However, it was just a front for Hizballah which was in turn a front for the religious Iranian government.That same day, a bomb was defused in a crowded commuter train in Paris. A passenger noticed the unattended bag and alerted police. The Committee of Solidarity with the Arab and Middle East Political Prisoners claimed credit for this uncivil act as well.
March 20, 1986: One person was killed and three more were wounded when a second car bomb in as many days exploded in Jerusalem. This time the PLO claimed responsibility.March 20, 1977: Yet another attack on a USIS building; this one in Addis Adaba, Ethiopa. Like the other attacks, it was a drive-by bombing. The bombs this time were Molotov cocktails. However, it appears that although Ethiopia has many good Muslims, they don’t have good arms like the rock-throwers in the Middle East. Two of the Molotov cocktails didn’t even make it to the building, and one hit a window and didn’t break it nor the bottle. March 20, 1971: In Pakistan, three Molotov cocktails were thrown into the U.S. Consulate in Dacca.March 20, 1970: In Ethiopia, five members of a National Geographic film crew, including an American producer, were taken hostage by members of the Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement. They held the five hostages for 17 days.
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Merry Mo,s Murderous Mob
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