Crescent Observation Predictions For Shawwal 1433 AH (2012 AD)

Long time, no see! I have just returned from the moon with some great news. Read on.

Another Eid al-Fitr is around the corner and so is lunar confusion. But need one confuse things given the very clear scientific data below? Beware: no amount of science can cover the flaws of human observation, cloudy weather or extreme geographical locations.

I have provided the crescent visibility curves and data for Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Peshawar (Pakistan) which seems to blindly follow the distant Saudi horizon to falsely report crescent sightings, Karachi, then Lahore and finally those of London. You can easily see from the coloured legend (bottom right hand side) if your country falls within one of the visibility curves on a given date.

Shawwal 1433 AH crescent at sunset on 19 August, 2012 (bright curve shows DAY)

Finally, I have provided realistic representations of where the sun and the moon will be on 17, 18 and the 19 August, 2012 (Shawwal, 1433 Hijrah). The horizontal line, with compass degrees marked on it, represents the horizon.

The lunar calendar will always remain a necessity for determining occasions such as Ramadan, Hajj (pilgrimage at Makkah) and the two Eid festivals. At this time, we need not dive into an oily kingdom’s preference for unsettled crescent observation criteria. The onus of responsibility clearly falls on those who falsely report crescent sightings or support outright liars. This institutional wrong means that Muslims could end up starting the holy month of Ramadan (fasting) and celebrating Eid on the wrong dates.

The idea behind writing about lunar astronomy is to help one look with precision at the sky. Astronomy must be studied by each Muslim, as was done during the zenith of Muslim rule, to appreciate the inner workings of God's System. Observation matters need not be left to the experts; even novices can enjoy watching the sky in order to fulfil God’s Will and the sunnah (practices of Prophet Muhammad, peace on him).

A simultaneous global sighting of the crescent is an astronomical impossibility due to the moon’s eccentric rotation and orbital behaviour. Hence, celebrating Eid on a single day across a huge land mass (USA, China, India) is not a religious requirement but rather a new age idea propounded by the religious globalists. It has now become a fitna (trial, tribulation), frequently leading to disagreements and discord; please ignore this effort designed to divide Muslims further on non-issues.

A few important points need to be borne in mind this time:

1. The birth of the new moon (conjunction) will take place on 17 August 2012 at 15:54 UTC (20:54 Pakistan Standard Time).
2. Moonset will occur 00:27 minutes before sunset.
3. The Shawwal crescent will be born 02:35 hours after sunset (at 15:54 UTC). Hence, it will be invisible on some parts of the globe until maybe the next evening (18 August).
4. A 'fat' crescent will be clearly seen on the evening of 19 August. Therefore, in Pakistan Eid al-Fitr will fall on Monday, 20 August 2012—unless the Riyals will it otherwise.

I thank Allah and remain indebted to my astronomer friends whose accurate predictive software programmes and research have lit up my path of lunar astronomy.

I welcome your questions and comments on this important subject, and hope that you will attempt to not only understand what I have provided here but also help others understand matters for their own good.

Once you wish to be guided by taking a few essential steps in the direction, Allah's Promise will come true: you will be protected and guided.

They will ask thee about the new moons. Say: "They indicate the periods for [various doings of] mankind, including the pilgrimage." (Qur’an 2:189)

Have a lovely Eid al-Fitr!

 

Jeddah, SAUDI ARABIA (Saturday 18 August, 2012)

Sunset:  18:51 LT

Moonset: 19:13 LT

Moon Age:   +23H 57M

Moon Lag Time: +00H 22M

Moon Altitude: +05°:04':23"

Moon Azimuth: +271°:59':17"

Distance: 378,126.87 Km

Crescent Visibility: Visible with optical aid only (hence, Eid on 19 August)

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Peshawar, PAKISTAN (Saturday 18 August 2012)

Sunset: 19:01 LT

Moonset: 19:08 LT

Moon Age: +22H 06M

Moon Lag Time: +00H 08M

Moon Altitude: 00°:58':11"

Moon Azimuth: +274°:15':58"

Distance: 378,388.95 Km

Crescent Visibility: Not visible even with optical aid (but then who knows!)

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Karachi, Pakistan (18 August, 2012)

Sunset: 19:03 LT

Moonset: 19:19 LT

Moon Age: +22H 09M

Moon Lag Time: +00H 16M

Moon Altitude: +03°:44':30"

Moon Azimuth: +272°:45':21"

Distance: 378,383.59 Km

Crescent Visibility: The Crescent Visibility is: Not Visible Even With Optical Aid.

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Lahore, PAKISTAN (Friday 17 August 2012)

Sunset:  18:46 LT

Moonset: 18:19 LT

Moon Age:  -02H 08M

Moon Lag Time: -00H 27M

Moon Altitude: -05°:55':22"

Moon Azimuth: +284°:11':07"

Distance: 382,142.78 Km

Crescent Visibility: Not visible even with optical aid (because the moon sets before the sun, and the conjunction occurs after sunset).

Lahore, PAKISTAN (Saturday 18 August, 2012)

Sunset: 18:45 LT             

Moonset: 18:55 LT

Moon Age: +21H 51M

Moon Lag Time: +00H 10M

Moon Altitude: +01°:40':25"

Moon Azimuth: +273°:49':20"

Distance: 378,426.83 Km

Crescent Visibility: Not Visible Even With Optical Aid.

Lahore, PAKISTAN (Sunday 19 August, 2012)

Sunset: 18:44 LT

Moonset: 19:31 LT

Moon Age: +45H 49M

Moon Lag Time: +00H 47M

Moon Altitude: +09°:20':35"

Moon Azimuth: +263°:10':20"

Distance: 375,307.79 Km

Crescent Visibility: Easily visible by naked eye.

London, United kingdom (Sunday 19 August, 2012)

Sunset: 20:16 LT

Moonset: 20:29 LT

Moon Age:  +51H 21M

Moon Lag Time: +00H 14M

Moon Altitude: +02°:00':56"

Moon Azimuth: +264°:11':57"

Distance: 374,685.52 Km

Crescent Visibility: Visible with optical aid (could be seen by naked eye).

©Tahir Gul Hasan, 2012

Speechless Freedom Of Speech

I like the industrious Japanese because I grew up owning most things ‘Made in Japan’, and now in this ‘Land of the Pure’ we are beginning to copy the copycats by proudly inscribing on local products ‘Made AS Japan’. This is great progress.

If you recall reading Kiss Of The Unveiled Spider-Woman which was about the Japanese invention of a Kiss Machine, you will discover in this piece how the blind Pied Piper of science is leading all the racing rats into a bottomless pit.

A still tongue makes a wise head

Out of pure love for freedom of speech, two Japanese men have developed a strange portable gun (‘SpeechJammer’) that can painlessly silence people more than thirty meters away.

‘Fear the tongue more than you would the sword’, so they say. Considering that the plethora of television channels, endless chatter of mobile phones, and Draconian revisions to the constitution are weapons known to weaken human resolve, the inhuman elites now have one more gun in their common arsenal with which to shoot down a citizen’s ability to launch verbal attacks.

At the heart of this show-stopping invention is the Japanese wish to have people ‘obey rules for proper turn-taking when speaking’. Although what they call ‘proper’ is debatable, perhaps they want Japanese citizens to become wise by suddenly having shorter tongues, if not long ears and big eyes.

Culture ‘Made in Japan’

Let us now examine a few Japanese traditions. Not so long ago, Japanese society encouraged people to hide their true feelings by not smiling. One may wonder how they lived both in public and in private. The serious attitude has only begun to change recently.

Aristocratic women would shave off their real eyebrows and paint new ones very high on their forehead. Hence, when they raised their natural eyebrows, the painted ones remained in place and nobody was able to tell if one was surprised. Japan made tremendous progress once the citizens learnt to raise eyebrows and discarded the cover of makeup.

Heian-era beauty's preparations consisted of piling on the silk robes in a style called ‘twelve layers’. Some upper class women wore as many as forty layers of unlined silk. How the men reacted to this body armour in bedrooms made from rice paper is anybody’s guess. Since Japanese monks devised scores of meticulous steps for preparing and serving traditional tea (Chanoyu), forty layers of dress meant no trouble at all for the less religious.

Showing one’s white teeth was thought to be like showing the white of the bones. Heian women also painted their teeth black because they appeared more attractive than yellow ones and matched the very long black hair women grew. Black teeth magnified the brightness of their powder-white complexions. Thought to preserve the teeth, the Meiji era brought the practise of blackening to an end to appease foreign visitors and to gain acceptance as a Westernized and ‘equal’ nation.

Hence, in a feudal culture ruled by the Ninja (men in black), Samurai warriors (covert assassins), feudal lords and shoguns (military dictators), and where plants were trimmed to eventually become midget Bonsais, the above-mentioned idiosyncrasies were considered virtues and assets.

Teacher, leave my speech alone!

The inventors of SpeechJammers noted that ‘some people tend to lengthen their turns or deliberately interrupt others when it is their turn in order to establish their presence rather than achieve more fruitful discussions, and also tend to jeer at speakers to invalidate their speech’. The Japanese traditionally treat small painted lips as beautiful, and if big loudmouths are bad, only SpeechJammers can make lips smaller and silent.

By the above definitions of polite conversations and agreeable debates, we need thousands of SpeechJammer guns in a world in which TV talk show hosts are unable to silence guests who begin to deliver speeches instead of concise answers to simple questions. Then there are the hosts who hijack discussions. Citizens need SpeechJammers to silence war-mongering politicians, the covert agencies need them to keep dissidents and their own men more silent, and the courts need them to keep top dogs in civilian clothes and the top cats in camouflaged battle fatigues quiet. The list goes on and on.

How does SpeechJammer work?

The SpeechJammer targets one’s speech through a direction-sensitive microphone and then fires the words back at with a 0.2-second delay. This in turn affects the brain's cognitive processes and causes a speaker to stutter before silencing completely.

SpeechJammers give back one a taste of his or her own medicine. The inventors claim that the ‘effect can disturb people without any physical discomfort, and disappears immediately by stopping speaking’. Nevertheless, this is what they claim; the effects will become known much later or never at all.

The inventors also found that the device works better on people who were reading aloud than engaged in spontaneous speech and it cannot stop people making meaningless sounds, such as 'ahhh,' that are uttered over a long time.

Good news for authoritarian governments

Japanese culture places utmost importance on ‘being on time’ and expects people to jump off tall buildings if they lose face, and this is why a 0.2-second delay is used. By sharp contrast, in our land where VIPs arrive hours late and where traffic comes to a grinding halt because of the toing and froing of such giants in black limousines, 0.2-seconds means nothing. Here, we do not need to reconsider what we have just said—hallmark of true freedom of speech. In fact, we do not need any limits on our national behaviour. The only time our esteemed official consider staying silent or begin to stammer is when the Americans and the IMF speak—or rather dictate policy.

The only way to beat the SpeechJammer is to remain vigilant. If one finds ‘something fishy’ pointing at one while asking loud probing questions or presenting shrill undeniable counter-arguments, switch to normal speech and start uttering long ‘ahhh’ sounds. The machine will fail and disappoint its abusers.

Who needs this?

With the GPS (global positioning satellite), the covert agencies can see what places you visit; with the credit cards they can see what you buy and from where; with the internet (browsers, Facebook) they can track what sites you browse and who your friends are; and now with the SpeechJammer they will be able to have a planet full of silent obedient robots.

The huge mass of humanity does not need demonic technology but rather the governments who wish to snoop on citizens in order to monitor what they are doing or thinking. This is indeed a New World Disorder because what the conspiring elites plan and then implement to keep the masses forever ignorant is what begs for research and counterbalance. In a truly New World, citizens should be able to hear and see everything their leaders are up to in secret and it is for the achievement of this ideal that the current waves of protestations and resistance are rising.

 

With anti-constitution laws firmly in place in America and elsewhere, the Japanese stand to gain from exporting SpeechJammers all over the globe. American security agencies will readily flock to purchase special ‘federal’ models of this gun that will enable them to silence the entire disagreeable anti-war world. For instance, New Jersey’s governor (Chris Christie) could use the invention on the likes of a former US Navy SEAL veteran whom he recently called an ‘idiot’ for disagreeing with the state’s proposed plans to reconfigure public universities.

Why is the world suddenly full of dissidents, agitators and rebels with genuine causes? The answer lies in excessive governmental control designed to take away whatever few liberties now exist in the minds of citizens.

The reverse side of the reverse side

Psychiatrists who were once considered as the ‘lowest rung’ of the medical profession, have labelled human anger, happiness and a host of other emotions as ‘diseases’ that ‘require treatment’ with psychotropic drugs. From very young children to senior citizens, all are customers of the troika of doctors, test laboratories and pharmaceutical companies; declaring electronic warfare on the rest of the population fills the leftover cracks.

We do not require suppression through electronics means or through psychotropic drugs. Inventing a machine that will convert one’s discourteous speech into courteous utterances is bad science—courtesy of men in white coats whose scientific inventions are sufficient for centuries to come.

SpeechJammer might become the proverbial Japanese ‘summer heater, winter fan’, that is, something useless. Who would fancy such technology when simply pointing one’s middle finger skywards or uttering only ‘shut up’ will silence almost anybody even beyond a distance of thirty metres?

In a world obsessed with weaponry and wars, there are two weapons at the common person’s disposal: the middle finger and the tongue, both are only three inches long yet able to cause grievous harm to a man six feet tall.

©Tahir Gul Hasan, 2012

Selling Their Mothers By The Pound

Flash back.

“Pakistanis will sell their mothers for a dollar”, remarked an American prosecutor about Pakistani officials who had allegedly played an important role in capturing Aimal Kansi, wanted in the USA for killing two CIA officials outside the Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. God forgives easily, men seldom do. This Johnny later apologized to Pakistanis but his insult was neither forgiven nor forgotten.

Flash forward to 2010.

‘Breast milk ice cream seized in London amid health and safety complaints’, read a recent news headline—it was bust-breaking news for Londoners.

Meet the maker

At the centre of the controversy was an ice-cream salon called The Icecreamists in London’s Covent Garden, which generated news headlines around the world with the debut of its ‘Baby Gaga’ vanilla and lemon-scented dessert mixed with human breast milk. It would be fair to assume that mostly those deprived of mother’s milk during infancy and fed instead with synthetic infant formulae flocked to empty the salon’s freezers within hours of the creamy launch. The makers commanded £14 for its ‘organic, all-natural’ product in a martini glass accompanied by a bottle of breast milk cocktail.

While love-starved motherless consumers insisted that the ice-cream was ‘natural, organic, and free range’, it was feared that important British leaders, with strict mothers at home, might get addicted to the unheard of milky delight and overnight turn into babbling babes to begin speaking in forked tongues in the cradle of civilization: the oily East.

London’s health authorities launched a tit for tat operation and, unable to arrest the milk-selling mothers, promptly tested the ice cream’s fitness for human consumption and then confiscated the entire ‘unsafe’ supply. Matt O'Connor, the founder and owner of The Icecreamists, never gave up clamouring that the product was ‘made using milk from as many as fifteen mothers who donated by responding to online advertisements.’ One wonders what Matt’s own mother has to say on the topic.

Considering that The Icecreamists obtained no guidance from Britain's Food Standards Agency, the Westminster City Council paid serious attention to complaints from the public over whether selling edibles made from other people's body fluids was illegal. Nevertheless, critics of the government reaction pointed out that ‘no law prohibited a business from selling breast milk ice cream’.

One can swallow pride, chew insults and tolerate illegal detention but to issue oneself a license to thrill with human milk is inexcusable. Why must virtues such as good sense, perfect English manners, and righteousness drown in River Thames?

The man behind The Icecreamists insisted, “Our products met the highest and safest of food standards and we welcomed the huge response to our fresh take on the world of ice cream. Baby Gaga ice-cream sold out as soon as it was launched and women who had signed with us were eager to donate more milk’.

The choice of the Baby Gaga name attracted the wrath of popular superstar Lady Gaga’s lawyers who objected to using the singer’s name and look-alike blonde waitress in a tight, sparkling outfit. The lawyers asked the shop’s owner to behave and recall the character-building lectures he received at school.

Mama Mummia, here we go again

Spare me some moments to read directly from history about cannibalism. As far back as 1000 AD, the crusading Europeans had Egyptian mummies burned, ground up, and turned into powder in order to eat it to cure bruises, coughs, epilepsy, migraines, ulcers, and cases of poison. Up until 1900, the dead remains of black people were considered magical potions and the adepts in churches were regularly given mummy powder (‘mummia’) as medicine. The English King Charles II (1630-1685) rubbed mummy powder on his skin, thinking he would turn into a ‘Pharaoh’. Many wanted terrorists, such as Bush and Blair, since then have rubbed viler things on themselves without ever turning into Pharaohs.

Tutankhamun

There was a time when the chaplain to Queen Catherine de Medici of France specially travelled to Egypt in 1549 and, with physicians from Italy by her side, broke into numerous tombs to hunt down the dead. The queen’s father-in-law, King Francis I of France, always carried an emergency supply of powdered mummy in a pouch around his waist.

Without doubt, such unkind consumption of dead Pharaohs in powder form permanently damaged the brains of the colonialists (British, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and now American) because they sailed to the four corners of the globe expecting the natives to jump into their beds of broken promises and treacherous enslavement through economic subjugation and cultural destruction.

Serious research about mummia consuming colonialists’ descendants will reveal that they are alive and kicking in the shape of present-day ruling families who dream of mummified masses. It does not make a rusted Penny’s worth of a difference to the ex-colonies if the current Queen of England remains on the throne for sixty more years; with Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak removed from office, she just might be sitting on a mountain of mummia.

Ramses 

One might feel quite bowled over by the obsession of the enlightened Europeans with all things Egyptian—down to the pyramid on the American one dollar bill and the tyrannical Pharaoh-like form most governments have taken under the umbrella of a certain global organization. It also explains why it is only possible to shake off ‘tyrants’ if they are Muslims who attempt to break the yoke of usurious global finance.

The ‘Arab Spring’ might be more about the European supply of mummia running out than spread of demon-crazy. The European acts of cannibalism now have a new face: extraction of ice cream from desperately willing mothers. With a near-zero population growth rate, in future what else will the European Union export to the world except for mothers’ milk? Moreover, de-population in Africa still goes on through manufactured famines and viruses created in secret laboratories and called ‘elimination of poverty’ in clandestine gatherings.

Unholy acts in the holy land in the name of Christ

In 1098 AD, with mummia consumption at its peak, during the first crusade the Knights Templar laid siege to a town called Ma’arrat al-Numan where they killed 20,000 inhabitants, and then roasted to consume the remains of Saracens, Turks and their dogs. Historians Rudolph of Caen, Albert of Aix and Fulcher of Chartres minutely noted the deviltry of the hungry crusaders. As terror gripped the entire region, people wondered how Christian knights who had come to accompany pilgrims to the holy land misunderstood The Bible’s chapter John 6 (verses 52 through 56) as a license to cannibalize.

Crusaders throw down heads

Now, if the medieval Europeans did not spare the dead Africans and the inhabitants of Ma’arrat al-Numan, those alive today need not expect mercy. When George W. Bush used the word ‘crusade’ during one of his abominable speeches on G-WOE (global war of error), he knew and the Muslims knew better what that meant. What remains a fact is that historic atrocities have left deep scars in the region’s collective Muslim consciousness.

Elsewhere on the globe

Although nobody is out stealing mummies from the pyramids these days, ice cream salons in the ‘civilized world’ are coercing children’s mummies into selling their excess produce. We live in times when Muslim inmates in Iraqi jails are paraded naked and have their photographs taken by female American soldiers, dead Afghan fighters have their thumbs cut off by NATO warriors as souvenirs for ‘the folks back home’ and then urinated upon as ultimate revenge. These days, dead men do tell tales through YouTube videos.

The London Olympics of 2012 are just around the corner and the last thing Londoners would desire is derision of their strange eating habits, which seem to have strayed far from plain old fish and chips. Recent history proves it is not the first time restaurateurs have insulted mothers by using their milk as a major ingredient in food. Chef Daniel Angerer of Klee Brasserie in New York also used his wife's milk to make cheese for his restaurant. The cheese appeared on a canapé with figs and Hungarian pepper. This was shortly before September 2001, and because a few Arab infants wanted that motherly cheese too, 9/11 happened.

Israel’s wildest wet dream came true when a few ‘Arab’ infants smitten with love for Hollywood’s waywardness, and craving for demon-crazy instead of benevolent dictatorships were stricken blind with free-dumb of ex-pression. The American commander-in-chief, George W. Bush, received miraculous flashes of events as they unfolded. He continued to read a story to school children while the ‘Arabs’ brought down the Twin Breasts, stole a Global Hawk spy plane which caused a missile to chase it into the unzipped fly of the Pants-are-Gone Building scheduled for renovation, and took the passengers riding the fourth missile some place other than Disneyland.

They allowed Pearl Harbour to happen in order to perform the death experiment of atomic radiation on the yellow man instead of white Christian Hitler. As millions on this side of the fence continue to be ritually sacrificed by the Satanists ruling this world, the American people are slowly beginning to wake up to the fact that the truth is now destined to free everyone—unless some buy the world view sold by Langley, Virginia.

Seriously peaceful view

In the east, we take our mothers most seriously and do not stoop to Hollywood lows by producing films with titles like Throw Momma From The Train. Such is the importance, sanctity and bond of mother’s milk in Islam that anyone who drinks a woman’s milk, when less than two years of age, is considered her son or daughter. A sister is often called humsheera (hum: companion of, sheera: milk). Moreover, mothers often threaten erring sons with a rebuke, which translates, ‘I will not allow you to be blessed with my milk on resurrection day’ (meaning, ‘I will disown you and not plead before my Lord for your forgiveness’).

Matt and the waitress

In conclusion, selling ice cream made out of mothers’ milk is an affront to motherhood, milk terrorism, enslavement of free-for-babies breasts, starvation of deserving infants, and oppression of women in the west. This must stop.

Last call for ice cream

‘Civilized societies’ may have their sperm donors who fight legal battles over claims of motherhood or fatherhood, and they may also have their fully grown persons act like infants and bother donor mothers for human milk consumption long after the need to have it has ceased. We—if this is the standard of civility—are better off uncivilized.

With our judiciary’s impotency almost cured, we might hear a Pakistani Attorney General stand erect to remark ‘the British milk their mothers to sell ice-cream by the Pound to the general public’. Of course, he too like the American Johnny will quickly apologize once they burn in protest—as part of the 2012 Olympics’ opening event—our beloved President’s effigy on London Bridge before it falls down with the sound of an entrapped Muslim singing a famous nursery rhyme.

Endnote

It appears that all traces of one, John Ashcroft, who uttered the ‘anti-Pakistani’ insult have been surgically removed by those who control the internet.

©Tahir Gul Hasan, 2012

Fruits, Vegetables And Untruths

TMy rebuttal is about an article titled 'Islamic cleric bans women from touching cucumbers, bananas for sexual resemblance’, and whose excerpts are as follows:

“An Islamic cleric residing in Europe said that women should not be close to bananas or cucumbers, in order to avoid any ‘sexual thoughts’. The unnamed sheikh, said that ‘if women wish to eat these food items, a third party, preferably a male related to them such as their a father or husband, should cut the items into small pieces and serve.’

He said that ‘these fruits and vegetables resemble the male penis and hence could arouse women or make them think of sex’ and added carrots and zucchini to the list of ‘forbidden foods for women’. When asked how to control women when they are out shopping for groceries and if holding these items at the market would be bad for them, the cleric answered saying ‘this matter is between them and God.’

Answering another question about what to do if women in the family like these foods, the sheikh advised the interviewer to ‘take the food and cut it for them in a hidden place so they cannot see it.’"

Who is behind it?

People these days will believe anything and everything that the mass media prints or beams at them. Most people did not find the time to research or ponder over a matter that came to light recently on the internet and which concerned Muslim identity. Thus ran an article’s headline: Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas, cucumbers for sexual resemblance.

First, the cleric in question is neither a cleric nor a Muslim. Second, some female relative within his own unbelieving family might have ‘touched’ the said items in ways that one need not mention in this article. Third, believing Muslim women need not be compared with unbelieving women who, without the fear of God in their hearts, will readily revel in such perversions if the right price is paid.

Red faced Muslim women, who use circular bits of cucumbers only over their eyes to rid themselves of dark circles, were quick to condemn this bogus insinuation but the ones always lying in wait to malign Muslims found another reason to laugh out aloud.

Since God and the Prophets never forbade believers from touching fruits such as cucumbers and bananas or odd looking vegetables, who is this unheard of ‘Islamic cleric’ to prevent one from doing so? Is this the same kind of mind at work that launched the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad or wrote books such as ‘The Satanic Verses’? If one reads the headline under scrutiny (‘Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas, cucumbers for sexual resemblance’) it is plain to see the kind of mind that was able to spin such news.

Programmers of mass ‘controlled’ media

The global media is controlled by a half a dozen conglomerates whose sole job is to mow down true public opinion and replace it with perversion and untruths. Journalists, the channels, websites, the talk-show hosts, all need that elusive ‘something’ to rocket their ratings skywards, and they will devour any lie, spin any fabric and do whatever it takes to serve the media moguls. Every little useless bit is featured as ‘headline’ or ‘breaking news’, trivia triggers worthless debates, and panels of covert spin-doctors work overtime to do the bidding of their invisible pay-masters who know how to ‘programme’ our thought patterns. One only has to stop and think: who is against Muslims in this global war of error (G-WOE)?

The answer is painfully obvious but even more painful is the fact that, leave alone Christians, even decent Muslims fall into deceptive Zionist traps. The root cause of instability in the world is the political climate of the middle east, in the middle east exists Israel which is a nuclear power fully financed by America, America is controlled by Zionists, and many from this ‘chosen race’ are bent upon forcing down our throats nothing but ‘peace’ (war) and ‘democracy’ (anarchy through instability). It is this group that supports pro-Zionists and Communists, and punishes anti-Zionists through the arm twisting tactics of public opinion. Through deception, they keep the public’s mind focussed on non-events and non-issues, and which helps keep all dissent and rebellion against the prevalent exploitive global financial system quite ineffective.

Freaks of Nature?

If one were to type the words ‘Muslim women, cucumbers’ into any decent search engine, what would one get? Loads of links referring to the same article, what else? Who, if not the destroyers of entire countries, the plunderers of Muslim wealth, the conspirators against Islam, are behind all of this?

But what, one may ask, is the reason for creating such sensationalism? The reason is the same that Satan uses against a God-ordained system: corruption of all that is good and wholesome. Because this media onslaught is directed against core human values of modesty, shame and other desireable virtues, it will remain largely unchecked if one only consoled oneself by asking ‘but what can I do?’
 
Apology

Many Muslim women today want more hijab (modest head-scarf), not more skin exposure. They want the exploitation of women to come to an end which the opposing camp helps perpetuate through child pornography rackets in central Europe and sex slave trade linking east European countries with Israel.

While investigating the recent accusation against Muslim women, I came across an apologetic editorial, whose excerpts are as follows:

“As a young news organization (www.bikyamasr.com) we are concerned over the manner of both our reporting on this issue and the way our article was used by a number of global organizations to promote their own partisan agendas.

It was my own editorial oversight that failed in allowing this story to be published. It was my duty to not publish this story before we could gather independent verification about the details behind the original Arabic article from www.assawsana.com.

The “Islamic cleric bans women from touching cucumbers, bananas for sexual resemblance,” article should not have run when it did; it should not have been run at all. We should not have published about an ‘unnamed sheikh’ in an unnamed European country unless we were able to garner more information on the issue, both on the sheikh himself and the news website the information was gathered from, independently.

We have an increased responsibility to not only verify our own material at the highest levels, but further investigate the quotes and articles of other news organizations before referencing their work. This is our error. We apologize for the poor judgment on the matter.

We recognize our pitfalls and their repercussions . . . error in judgment can have serious, detrimental effects. We apologize to our readers for the inadequate editorial judgment. We should not have sourced a piece published by a small website based on such limited, unverifiable information. We accept responsibility for doing so and are working to correct the aspects of our organizational culture which allowed this mistake to occur.

Reporting in a fair and accurate manner on Islam is a difficult process, and one that www.bikyamasr.com takes very seriously. We will continue to push for more information on this story in order to interrogate the accuracy of their original article. If we cannot uncover more information, then we take it as our duty to make this clear and do everything in our power to spread that revelation to those who have sourced and quoted it.

We apologize to our readers for letting them down, and will strive to assure them with our future work that we are making fundamental, institutional changes to assure that mistakes like this do not happen again.”

©Tahir Gul Hasan, 2011

References
English article: www.bikyamasr.com
Original Arabic article at http://www.assawsana.com/portal/newsshow.aspx?id=58893
http://bikyamasr.com/50403/islamic-cleric-bans-women-from-touching-bananas-cucumbers-for-sexual-resemblance/

Kiss Of The Unveiled Spider-Woman

Who, if not the inventive miniaturization-loving Japanese, could have thought of sending kisses across cyberspace using one’s tongue? Welcome to the digital age in which everything must be digitized, stored, altered, sent, received, recycled in a bin and finally emptied to make more room for more trash.

But first, some kiss history. The word came from Old English cyssan ‘to kiss’, which in turn came from coss ‘a kiss’. Kissing is recent development in western culture and is rarely mentioned in Greek literature. It only recently became a social gesture, a sign of refinement of the higher classes. In the east, the same refinement was once seen writ large on the faces of the men who frequented the rooftop dens of ultra-refined dancing girls of affluent Lucknow.

It is believed kissing was quite rare among the lower and semi-civilized races but was firmly established as instinctive in the advanced societies—whatever the word ‘advanced’ means. The kiss seems to have been unknown to the ancient Egyptians, which makes one wonder about the hold of Cleopatra on Marcus Antonius. However, the kiss was well-established in early Greece, Assyria, and India.

Today, science has convinced us by showing us brain scans of people involved in lovely relationships and found that after that first magical meeting, a complex system in the brain is activated which mimics what a person experiences when under the influence of cocaine. In studies of affection between paramours, when the human guinea pigs viewed images of their partners, the reward and motivation systems (in the ventral tegmental area) was found flooded with dopamine, an internal chemical that is released when one undertakes something exciting.

Kissing requires tremendous muscular coordination of 34 facial and 112 postural muscles, the most important one being the kissing muscle (orbicularis oris) which is used to wrinkle the lips. Lips have numerous nerve endings which make them sensitive to touch and bite. And in the case of the French kiss, the tongue plays an important role.

Affection does reduce stress. When kissing was studied in experiments, it was found that an increase in the frequency of kissing in marital and cohabiting relationships resulted in a reduction of perceived stress, an increase in relationship satisfaction, and a lowering of cholesterol levels. One can now better understand why they convinced the masses to consume fewer eggs instead of promoting marathon kissing sessions.

Kissing causes the adrenal glands to release adrenaline and norepinephrine into the blood, which brings on an adrenaline rush that benefits the cardiovascular system. When the heart pumps faster during a passionate kiss, one may burn up to three calories per minute—not that lovers carry with them calorie counters.

Of course, most Christians overemphasize the ‘Jesus is love’ bit and neglect his struggle against sodomy in the God’s temples and usurious practices of the rabbis and derive greater inspiration from the second verse of the song of Solomon 1:2 from the Old Testament:

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth

For thy love is better than wine

Medicinal properties and religious inclinations aside, kisses could become the next big business with servers across the world dedicated to nothing but storing the lip-prints and audio signatures of millions of cyber-kissers. When thieves begin to steal famous kisses and the Wall Street bankers sell them to vulnerable investors, the police will appear with not fingerprint experts but rather with kiss-and-tell specialists. And whether its Osama or Obama, everyone kisses, therefore, terrorists at-large and those on Washington’s Capitol Hill will all be caught using only their kiss signatures.

This conspiracy of inventing a contraption capable of ‘getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other’ in cyberspace was hatched in Tokyo's Kajimoto Laboratory. The device allows French kissing over the Internet by flapping the tongue on a plastic straw to make another plastic straw flap remotely on someone else's tongue.

The French, before they started imposing fines on veiled Muslim women, were a polite and tolerant people. The reason they clung for so long to ‘preserving the French habit of kissing ladies' hands was that they believed that a man needed to ‘start somewhere.’ Later they invented French kissing (sucking lips, moving tongues) but today the bitter truth is that a French man can ‘drive safely while kissing a pretty girl because he is unable to give the kiss the attention it deserves.’

The Japanese remote kissing device, a motorized box, resembles a police Breathalyzer used for finding out if a driver is or is not drunk. It converts circular movements of one’s tongue through motors into a kiss that can be felt across the seven seas. I would much rather prefer a kiss that can be felt across one’s entire body.

Now let us look at the Kiss Machine. When one manipulates a plastic tube on one device using the tongue, a computer program stores the movements on a computer and transmits them to another device, causing its tube to move in the mouth of a distant loved one. The inventor actually wishes to rescue long distance relationships with this ‘kiss transmission devices’ (KTD) by transmitting the tactile sensation of kissing from one person to another. The information can be saved and replayed repeatedly.

The researchers seem to realize that most people might not exactly find licking a plastic tube a sensational replacement for the real thing because even the worst kiss comes with a sense of taste, breath noises and plenty of moistness produced by interactive tongues. The inventors aim to re-create all of those wonderful feelings. Will be soon have wet mouse-pads, speakers that make wonderful ‘mmm’ sounds or inflatable dummies to do our bidding? Are we being changed to hide behind our computer screens?

Just as there are full-contact Karate competitions, in the near future we might have full-on person-to-person experience over the Internet. The inventor of the Kiss Machine dreams of having popular entertainers use his device to record kisses that could generate global interest and profit. I do not think all our social ills and financial woes will evaporate once we begin to swipe our tongues over plastic straws.

There are more serious issues such as how might one decide if the person on the other side is experiencing kissing for the first time? In 1948, the Ladies Home Journal insisted that ‘it takes a lot of experience for a girl to kiss like a beginner.’

Kisses too, like most other things in life, have been categorized into types such as adolescent, sexual/romantic, non-sexual, affection, religious, peace, respect, friendship, and those shown by the entertainment industry.

Once the Japanese start rolling out from their factories the new clever invention, we will have a new breed of kiss criminals (kissminals), or simple people who get caught in the act by their loved ones. The need of the hour is to start cooking the right excuses immediately, such as: honey I was just improving my tongue’s motor skills; sweetheart I was NOT really kissing another woman but rather just a straw; darling I was going to try this on you once I was finished here; or as Chico Marxsaid, “I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.”

Ladies and gentlemen, in the near future, if you find your spouse innocently tonguing a straw late into the night imagining you might be asleep, consider my simple recipe: don’t argue, don’t destroy the crockery, but firmly plant a kiss on his lips that does not taste like plastic because ‘a kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.’

©Tahir Gul Hasan, 2011

Allama Iqbal: A letter to The Times

Reproduced for your viewing pleasure is Allama Iqbal's letter that he wrote to The Times of London, and which was published on 12 October 1931 on page 8.

Iqbal's poetry may have been full dreams of Islamic revival and all out activism but it does not appear that he ever advocated, let alone dream, of what we are facing today as a result of injecting alien medicines that the body of Pakistan does not require for its cure.

The text

Sir,— Writing in your issue of October 3 last, Dr. E. Thompson has torn the following passage from its context in my presidential address to the All-India Moslem League of last December, in order to serve as evidence of “Pan-Islamic plotting”:

I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind, and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Moslem State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Moslems, at least of North-West India.

May I tell Dr. Thompson that in this passage I do not put forward a “demand” for a Moslem state outside the British Empire, but only a guess at the possible outcome in the dim future of the mighty forces now shaping the destiny of the Indian sub-continent. No Indian Moslem with any pretence to sanity contemplates a Moslem state or series of States in North-West India outside the British commonwealth of Nations as a plan of practical politics.

Although I would oppose the creation of another cockpit of communal strife in the Central Punjab, as suggested by some enthusiasts, I am all for a redistribution of India into provinces with effective majorities of one community or another on lines advocated both by the Nehru and the Simon Reports. Indeed, my suggestion regarding Moslem provinces merely carries forward this idea. A series of contented and well-organized Moslem provinces on the North-West Frontier of India would be the bulwark of India and of the British Empire against the hungry generations of the Asiatic highlands.

Yours faithfully,

Muhammed Iqbal
St. James’s court, S.W.1, Oct. 10.

Scanned image of the letter

12 October 1931

London visits

The following year, 1932, Iqbal again visited London in connection with the Third Round Table Conference held between Indian leaders and the British government. At a reception in his honour on 24 November, attended by members of the British Parliament and diplomats from many countries, Iqbal made a short statement which ended with the words:

“Muslims have courage and have always shown loyalty and affection for Great Britain. I hope the Muslims’ legitimate claims and aspirations would be fully safeguarded in the final settlement.” --(Letters and Writings of Iqbal, page 70)

A similar function was held on 15 December in a room in the Houses of Parliament where foreign diplomats and members of the House of Lords and Commons were invited to meet Iqbal and other members of the Muslim delegation. Iqbal summarised the case for the Muslims of India, and ended his speech as follows:

“I, therefore, respectfully submit that the demands the Muslims of India have placed before you are worth your consideration, because a powerful India will solve for ever the question that is most prominent in politics at the present time, the question of the cooperation of the East and West. India lies between the East and West, and if the Muslims are allowed an opportunity, with the co-operation of England, they can serve the people of Asia and of England.”

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Now listen to what the Allama's own son, Justice Javaid Iqbal, says about India, Hindus, and the creation of Pakistan:

Added on 22 April 2023:

©Tahir Gul Hasan, 2011

Further reading

Iqbal At Close Range
The Artistic Youth Of Amrita Sher-Gil
The Fantastic Growth Of Amrita
The Dramatic Death Of Amrita Sher-Gil
Iqbal In Love With Emma Wegenast
Allama Iqbals' views were clear on the Hadith literature (compiled 200 years AFTER the revelation of the Holy Qur'an): Spiritual Quicksand Of The Traditions

Crescent Observation Predictions For Shawwal 1432 AH (2011 AD)

They will ask thee about the new moons. Say: "They indicate the periods for [various doings of] mankind, including the pilgrimage." (Qur’an 2:189)

Dear readers, Eid al-Fitr is around the corner. Please use the following data to observe this year’s Shawwal crescent at Lahore.

Consult the visibility curves for 29, 30, 31 August 2011 which will clearly define the geographical locations where the crescent may or may not be visible. Also carefully note the GREEN curves!

By checking things yourself, you will gain confidence in your observation, feel happy observing this ‘sunnah’ action of the last Messenger of Allah, and find out how accurate the Central Rooyat-e-Hilal Committee of Pakistan really is.

Location: Lahore, Pakistan

Expected temperature: 26 Celsius

Expected atmospheric pressure: 1003 hP

Conjunction (birth of new moon): 29 August 2011 at 08:04 LT (03:04 UTC)

Data for 29 August 2011

Best time to observe the crescent: 18:31 LT

Sunset: 18:31 LT

Moonset: 18:24 LT (the moon sets BEFORE the sun sets)

Time lag: (between sunset and moonset): -00:07 minutes

Moon age: 10:27 hours

Moon altitude (height above horizon): -1.2 degrees (note the moon is BELOW the horizon)

Azimuth (direction): 273.7 degrees

Moon’s distance from Earth: 361,991 Km

RESULT: The crescent will NOT be visible

Data for 30 August 2011

Best time to observe the crescent: 18:44 LT

Sunset: 18:29 LT

Moonset: 19:01 LT (the moon sets AFTER the sun sets)

Time lag: (between sunset and moonset): 00:32 minutes

Moon age: 34:40 hours

Moon altitude (height above horizon): 3.9 degrees (above the horizon)

Azimuth (direction): 263.6 degrees

Moon’s distance from Earth: 360,879 Km

RESULT: The crescent will be visible using an optical aid (or MAYBE visible with naked eyes)

Data for 31 August 2011

Best time to observe the crescent: 19:00 LT

Sunset: 18:28 LT

Moonset: 19:40 LT

Time lag (between sunset and moonset): 01:12 hours

Moon age: 58:56 hours

Moon altitude (height above horizon): 8.25 degrees

Azimuth (direction): 253.9 degrees

Moon’s distance from Earth: 361,431 Km

RESULT: The crescent will be EASILY visible

Please click this link to see how THIN a crescent less than 20 hours old really is:
http://www.icoproject.org/album20a.html 
Here is what a crescent that is between 20 and 24 hours old looks like:
http://www.icoproject.org/album20-24a.html 
And now a crescent that is more than 30 hours old (COMPARE all three links):
http://www.icoproject.org/album30a.html

Data for Karachi (30 August 2011):

Best time to observe the crescent: 19:11 LT

Sunset: 18:53 LT

Moonset: 19:33 LT

Time lag: (between sunset and moonset): 00:41 minutes

Moon altitude (height above horizon): 5.1 degrees (above the horizon)

Azimuth (direction): 263.7 degrees

RESULT: The crescent will be EASILY visible 

Data for Peshawar (30 August 2011):

Best time to observe the crescent: 18:44 LT

Sunset: 18:56 LT

Moonset: 19:12 LT

Time lag: (between sunset and moonset): 00:29 minutes

Moon altitude (height above horizon): 3.4 degrees (above the horizon)

Azimuth (direction): 263.5 degrees

Moon’s distance from Earth: 360,879 Km

RESULT: The crescent will be visible using an optical aid (or MAYBE visible with naked eyes)

Analysis
Notice how the latitude of three cities of Pakistan effects the crescent's location above the horizon. Hence, the chances of observation at Karachi is far greater than that at Peshawar:
Peshawar: crescent at 3.4 degrees
Lahore: crescent at 3.9 degrees
Karachi: cresccent at 5.1 degree

LATEST UPDATE
A mosque's imam from Peshwar has announced that 'witnesses have reported seeing the Shawwal crescent on the evening of 29 August 2011'. The Imam claims he 'is not part of the official crescent-sighting committee', has produced no authentic proof (picture, video or sighting data) and is out to create a schism amongst Muslims.

Instead of admitting that he is unnaturally sympathetic towards the Saudi decision and wishes to celebrate Eid on the 30 August, the Imam has lied all the way! May Allah deal with such violators and such fake men of faith.

Data for Peshawar (29 August 2011):

Sunset: 18:44 LT

Moonset: 18:36 LT

Time lag: (between sunset and moonset): -00:08 minutes (the moon sets AFTER the sun sets)

Moon altitude (height above horizon): -1.5 degrees (notice, BELOW the horizon)

Azimuth (direction): 274 degrees

RESULT: The crescent will be NOT be visible

Note:

I gratefully acknowledge the help of Mr Muhammad Odeh (www.icoproject.com/) and Dr Khalid Shaukat (http://www.moonsighting.com/) in learning so many things about the moon. I have used their knowledge and predictive lunar observationarticles relating to lunar observations.

©Tahir Gul Hasan, 2011