Richard Stanley
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It has been recorded by others that radical Wahhabi Islam in Saudi Arabia came about in the late 18th century with the arrival of the British there, getting Mr. al (Bert) Wahhab to shill his stripped down version of conventional Sunni Islam. Doing so was a boon to the House of Saud in consolidating control over most of the Arabian Peninsula, which the British put to profit till the Americans took over influence post-WWII.
Similar to the recent spate of books commenting on the Apostle Paul strongly appearing to have been a Roman military counter-intelligence operative against the radical rural Jewish nationalists, whom were also literal interpreters of their holy texts (as opposed to the 'urban elites' of Jerusalem), the following excerpted long article discusses an American from a military family who it now appears to be ISIS's primary propaganda voice. One who made the push for ISIS to declare a caliphate. His main radicalization seems to have taken place in England. Hmmm
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/the-founding-of-christianity-by-roman-counterintelligence.1979/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/new-book-creating-christ.1964/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/not-quite-new-book-operation-messiah.1965/
The article does not make the connection that this person might be acting so, and so here I am reading between the lines.
This person, became extraordinarily adept with classical Arabic and Islamic law, such that he was adept at arguing with Islamic imams, pushing a similarly strict version of literalist, intolerant Islam.
Of course, one finds prescriptions for such bloody intolerance within the Quran, as with the genocidal Judaeo-Christian OT. However, as is pointed out in Wright's book, The Evolution of God, the Quran alternates between quite open tolerance and interfaith dialogue and extreme intolerance depending upon whether Muhammad and his nascent movement are being attacked or not.
Another interesting parallel, to Dave McGowan's work on rock musician's of the 60's, is 'Yahya' / John's youthful counterculture dabbling in drugs which was retained even as Yahya made his conversion. This is like radical Islamic 9/11 terrorists drinking liquor and going to strip clubs.
Yahya's creativeness was able to discover legal workarounds to the Islamic proscriptions against such drug use. The family story is that Yahya (John) was not physically robust enough for the family tradition of military duty. This person's father, who claims to have disowned him, took his supposedly radical wife (and 3 sons) back in after they made an Islamically illegal migration back out of the caliphate to safety. The wife now wears stylish Western clothing and such.
And finally, we see that he has a parallel to Steve Bannon's hate for secularists. Cui bono?
One difference with the Apostle Paul is that Yahya is stoking extremism, but here we must note that the extremism is directed against fellow Islamists, Yahzidis, and secularists.
Similar to the recent spate of books commenting on the Apostle Paul strongly appearing to have been a Roman military counter-intelligence operative against the radical rural Jewish nationalists, whom were also literal interpreters of their holy texts (as opposed to the 'urban elites' of Jerusalem), the following excerpted long article discusses an American from a military family who it now appears to be ISIS's primary propaganda voice. One who made the push for ISIS to declare a caliphate. His main radicalization seems to have taken place in England. Hmmm
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/the-founding-of-christianity-by-roman-counterintelligence.1979/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/new-book-creating-christ.1964/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/not-quite-new-book-operation-messiah.1965/
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His plans were thwarted for a time after the Free Syrian Army captured him. He was eventually released, and silently vowed to return to behead his captors. For a brief while he feigned cooperation with the group. But in mid-2015, he made his way to the caliphate’s capital. His shattered back would have earned him exemption from frontline military duty—but isis’s leadership by then recognized that his talents were best put to use not as a grunt but as a scholar and spokesman.
On December 8, 2015, Yahya’s voice came through clearly on Al Bayan radio—the voice of the Islamic State. He is now the Islamic State’s leading producer of high-end English-language propaganda as a prolific writer for its flagship magazines, Dabiq and Rumiyah. For a while, he tweeted under pseudonyms, but in keeping with a general Islamic State move toward other, better-encrypted media, he stopped and now appears to be limited to official channels. The profile photo for one of his last personal Twitter accounts is a well-worn laptop with a Browning 9-mm semiautomatic handgun resting across the keyboard. ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/the-american-leader-in-the-islamic-state/510872/
His plans were thwarted for a time after the Free Syrian Army captured him. He was eventually released, and silently vowed to return to behead his captors. For a brief while he feigned cooperation with the group. But in mid-2015, he made his way to the caliphate’s capital. His shattered back would have earned him exemption from frontline military duty—but isis’s leadership by then recognized that his talents were best put to use not as a grunt but as a scholar and spokesman.
On December 8, 2015, Yahya’s voice came through clearly on Al Bayan radio—the voice of the Islamic State. He is now the Islamic State’s leading producer of high-end English-language propaganda as a prolific writer for its flagship magazines, Dabiq and Rumiyah. For a while, he tweeted under pseudonyms, but in keeping with a general Islamic State move toward other, better-encrypted media, he stopped and now appears to be limited to official channels. The profile photo for one of his last personal Twitter accounts is a well-worn laptop with a Browning 9-mm semiautomatic handgun resting across the keyboard. ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/the-american-leader-in-the-islamic-state/510872/
The article does not make the connection that this person might be acting so, and so here I am reading between the lines.
This person, became extraordinarily adept with classical Arabic and Islamic law, such that he was adept at arguing with Islamic imams, pushing a similarly strict version of literalist, intolerant Islam.
Of course, one finds prescriptions for such bloody intolerance within the Quran, as with the genocidal Judaeo-Christian OT. However, as is pointed out in Wright's book, The Evolution of God, the Quran alternates between quite open tolerance and interfaith dialogue and extreme intolerance depending upon whether Muhammad and his nascent movement are being attacked or not.
Another interesting parallel, to Dave McGowan's work on rock musician's of the 60's, is 'Yahya' / John's youthful counterculture dabbling in drugs which was retained even as Yahya made his conversion. This is like radical Islamic 9/11 terrorists drinking liquor and going to strip clubs.
Yahya's creativeness was able to discover legal workarounds to the Islamic proscriptions against such drug use. The family story is that Yahya (John) was not physically robust enough for the family tradition of military duty. This person's father, who claims to have disowned him, took his supposedly radical wife (and 3 sons) back in after they made an Islamically illegal migration back out of the caliphate to safety. The wife now wears stylish Western clothing and such.
And finally, we see that he has a parallel to Steve Bannon's hate for secularists. Cui bono?
One difference with the Apostle Paul is that Yahya is stoking extremism, but here we must note that the extremism is directed against fellow Islamists, Yahzidis, and secularists.
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