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John Lemandri The following in support of Donald Trump, was sent to FOX, action Megyn Kelly Megyn Kelly, I served with our Diplomatic Corps as a Communication Officer in Iraq and can tell you the reason George Bush Jr. invaded Iraq was not because of weapons o Read more ... f mass destruction, which was a cover since Saddam Hussein vaguely hinted he had WMD, but that Saddam Hussein ordered the assassination of George Bush Sr. when he went to Kuwait to receive an award for liberating that country. President George Bush Jr. a Texan, wanted to avenge his father and thus ordered the invasion. He was wrong and Donald Trump was right, there was no reason to go to war. Yet you continue to slam Donald Trump each night while saying George Bush had good reason to go to war when in fact he did not. I was once a Bush supporter but he began that war to revenge an assassination attempt on his father, and as a result billions of dollars were needlessly spent, thousands of lives lost on both sides and many families destroyed. Bush Jr. acted as a COWBOY yet you refuse to admit the truth, that there was no WMD and no reason to go to war. Even Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was not told the truth after he appeared in front of the UN to support the call to war. Wake up Megyn Kelly, or are you just as corrupt as most of the other journalists who purport to serve the American people but in fact are more interested in preserving your own image. How disgusting. John Lemandri Williamsburg, Va. Following is a Washington Post story about the plot. There are other accounts by equally accredited media. U.S. Strikes Iraq for Plot to Kill Bush By David Von Drehle and R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, June 27, 1993; Page A01 U.S. Navy ships launched 23 Tomahawk missiles against the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service yesterday in what President Clinton said was a "firm and commensurate" response to Iraq's plan to assassinate former president George Bush in mid-April. The attack was meant to strike at the building where Iraqi officials had plotted against Bush, organized other unspecified terrorist actions and directed repressive internal security measures, senior U.S. officials said. Clinton, speaking in a televised address to the nation at 7:40 last night, said he ordered the attack to send three messages to the Iraqi leadership: "We will combat terrorism. We will deter aggression. We will protect our people." Clinton said he ordered the attack after receiving "compelling evidence" from U.S. intelligence officials that Bush had been the target of an assassination plot and that the plot was "directed and pursued by the Iraqi Intelligence Service." "It was an elaborate plan devised by the Iraqi government and directed against a former president of the United States because of actions he took as president," Clinton said. Bush led the coalition that drove Iraq from Kuwait in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. "As such, the Iraqi attack against President Bush was an attack against our country and against all Americans," Clinton said. After two months of investigation and mounting evidence, Clinton became convinced during two "exhaustive and exhausting" meetings last week that Iraq was indeed behind a foiled car-bomb plot to kill Bush during his visit to Kuwait April 14-16, a senior administration official said. Aides met with Clinton Wednesday in the White House residence to present a summary of the evidence gathered by FBI and intelligence sources, the official said. On Thursday, Attorney General Janet Reno and CIA Director R. James Woolsey presented the president with their formal reports. Clinton ordered the attack Friday, but the raid was delayed a day so it would not fall on the Muslim sabbath, the official said. "About a dozen" U.S. allies and "friends in the region" were told in advance that the attack was coming; the reaction, according to the official, was mostly favorable. British Prime Minister John Major issued a statement last night supporting Clinton's action. The missiles struck late at night -- between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Baghdad time -- because Clinton wished to minimize possible deaths of innocent civilians. But Iraq, which has consistently denied involvement in any assassination plot against Bush, said there were "many civilian casualties" as a result of the Tomahawk attack, the Reuter news service reported. It quoted Iraqi civil defense officials as saying three people were killed and four rescued. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ruling Revolution Command Council denounced the raid as "cowardly aggression" and said Washington's reason for launching it was "fabricated by the vile Kuwaiti rulers in coordination with agencies in the U.S. administration." An Iraqi Ministry of Information spokesman said the missiles hit a residential area, where Reuter reported that three houses were destroyed. From Baghdad, Reuter reported smoke and what appeared to be a huge blaze could be seen rising from the site, about two miles from the center of the city in a residential district. But reporters were not immediately given access to the site. Clinton was persuaded to act by three kinds of evidence, a senior intelligence official said last night. First, key suspects in the plot confessed to FBI agents in Kuwait. Second, FBI bomb experts painstakingly linked the captured car bomb to previous explosives made in Iraq. Third, unspecified intelligence assessments concluded that Saddam meant seriously the threats he has made against Bush. Other classified intelligence sources supported this analysis, the official said. The combination made the CIA "highly confident that the Iraqi government, at the highest levels, directed its intelligence service to assassinate former president Bush," said the intelligence official. Clinton had harsh words for Saddam -- Bush's arch-nemesis during the Persian Gulf War -- in his Oval Office address. After listing the Iraqi leader's offenses against the world and his own people, Clinton said: "This attempt at revenge by a tyrant against the leader of the world coalition that defeated him in war is particularly loathsome and cowardly." Indeed, the tone of the whole speech was notably forceful and stern, coming from the often avuncular Clinton. He saved his kind words for the men and women involved in the investigation and the military strike: "You have my gratitude, and the gratitude of all Americans," he said. The action was the second major U.S. military operation conducted during Clinton's presidency, coming just two weeks after U.S. forces participated in a multinational strike against forces in Somalia allied with warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed. Unlike that operation, the raid against Iraq was taken unilaterally, entirely apart from the U.N. sanctions still in place against the Iraqi regime. "This crime was committed against the United States, and we elected to respond and to exercise our right of self defense" under Article 51 of the U.N. charter, Defense Secretary Les Aspin said. "Tonight's unilateral action in no way diminishes U.S. support for coalition action or for the authority of the United Nations." Bush -- at his home in Kennebunkport, Maine -- was terse when reached by the Associated Press. "I'm not in the interview business, but thank you very much for calling," he said. Administration sources said Bush's friend and former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft was kept apprised of the investigation, and Clinton called Bush minutes after the attack was launched to give him the news. Secretary of State Warren Christopher flew to Kennebunkport yesterday to brief the former president. Clinton relied heavily on evidence found by FBI bomb experts linking the Iraqi Intelligence Service to a 175-pound car bomb found April 14 in Kuwait City. According to senior intelligence and law enforcement officials, key pieces of the bomb -- including the remote-control detonator, the plastic explosives, the electronic circuitry and the wiring -- bore an overwhelming resemblance to components of bombs previously recovered from the Iraqis. The White House press office distributed photographs of circuit boards and detonators taken from earlier Iraqi bombs, alongside photos of the same elements from the bomb meant for Bush. Even to the untrained eye, there were clear similarities. "Certain aspects of these devices have been found only in devices linked to Iraq," an intelligence official said. Clinton also had the confessions of the two alleged leaders of the 16 suspects arrested by Kuwait when the plot was uncovered. Both are Iraqi nationals. Ra'ad Asadi and Wali Abdelhadi Ghazali told FBI investigators detailed to Kuwait that they met in Basra, Iraq, on April 12 with "individuals they believed to be associated with the Iraqi Intelligence Service," according to a senior U.S. intelligence official. They were given a vehicle loaded with hidden explosives. Ghazali told the FBI he was recruited specifically to kill Bush. Asadi also told the FBI he was to guide the car bomb, driven by his partner, to Kuwait University, where Bush was to be honored by the Emir of Kuwait for his leadership in the gulf war. Administration officials said the suspects told the FBI that the bomb was to be parked near the motorcade route. From a vantage point 300 to 500 yards away, Ghazali would set off the bomb using a remote control. FBI bomb specialists estimated the bomb would have been lethal for nearly a quarter-mile. FBI agents were told if the remote control device failed, the bomb was to be detonated by a timing device on a street in Kuwait City named for Bush. They were also told that Ghazali had a "bomb belt" he would use if all else failed; he was to wear it, approach Bush and blow them both up. There have been reports that the suspects held in Kuwait have been tortured by Kuwaiti officials, but a senior law enforcement official said last night that FBI agents "believe they were not." Nevertheless, the official said, confessions are often unreliable, which is why the investigators placed "an especially great emphasis" on the conclusions of the bomb experts. The CIA recalled that, after the gulf war, Saddam was heard on official Iraq media promising to hunt down and punish Bush, even after he left office. A senior intelligence official said the CIA also had classified evidence proving that the car bomb was meant for Bush, from Saddam. "We could not and have not let such action against our nation go unanswered," Clinton said in his televised address. "From the first days of our revolution, America's security has depended on the clarity of this message: Don't tread on us." Clinton had criticized the Iraqi regime on Friday for failing to allow continuous monitoring of its missile test sites by the United Nations. The monitoring was accepted by Baghdad at the end of the 1991 gulf war, as part of a series of agreements meant to strip Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. But U.S. officials did not cite that dispute in explaining the action last night, and U.S. warplanes involved in policing U.N. sanctions against Iraq did not take part. Congressional leaders from both parties supported Clinton's action. Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) called the president from Charleston, W.Va., to give a thumbs-up. "I think it was a good thing. I support it. If I can help, let me know," Dole told Clinton, according to a CNN interview. The U.S. attack was initiated at 4:22 p.m. (EDT), when two ships -- the destroyer USS Peterson in the Red Sea and the cruiser USS Chancellorsville in the Persian Gulf -- began firing a total of 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Iraqi Intelligence Service headquarters complex in downtown Baghdad. The missiles, which each cost an estimated $1.1 million, typically fly 50 to 100 feet above the ground and navigate by radar according to detailed maps stored in onboard computers. Each missile was capable of carrying up to 1,000 pounds of conventional explosives on their flight to Baghdad of up to two hours. Officials said the number of missiles was set after detailed analysis of what would be needed to ruin the complex. Navy officials programmed most of the missiles to hit specific aim-points at a building near the center, which Aspin called the "hub of . . . operational planning, interrogations, communication, and computer operations" for the Iraqi Intelligence Service. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin L. Powell told reporters at the Pentagon last night that a detailed assessment of the damage was not immediately available. But Powell said he had "preliminary information that a large number of them impacted where they were supposed to." Officials made clear that no further military action was planned and warned Iraq not to retaliate. Powell said the Navy had moved several ships closer to Iraq so the United States could respond to any Iraqi retaliation. An aerial picture of the principal targeted building, shown to reporters at the Pentagon last night, showed a large, six-story structure with three wings located off the central corridors. Four satellite dishes sat atop the building's roof. Nearby were various buildings labeled as administrative, housing and support offices or vehicle storage sheds, and the entire complex -- roughly a football field in length -- was surrounded by a wall. U.S. officials cited the complex's isolation and the fact that the attack was timed to occur during Baghdad's nighttime as factors that would reduce the number of innocent casualties. Powell and Aspin declined to say how many people were expected to be in the complex but said a portion of it functioned around the clock. The attack was not expected to "take down the entire complex," Powell said, but to ruin Iraq's ability to continue using it. He noted that the complex was attacked and damaged once before by the United States, during the 1991 Operation Desert Storm bombing campaign aimed at pressuring Iraq to withdraw its forces from Kuwait. But Iraq had since rebuilt the headquarters. Aspin said the Iraqi Intelligence Service is the country's largest such agency and was responsible for providing security for Saddam's regime, repressing internal opposition, collecting foreign intelligence and conducting terrorist operations abroad, including the planned assassination attempt. Asked to explain why the United States picked that target and did not go after Saddam himself, Aspin said, "It's very difficult to target a single individual. It's very difficult to capture a single individual. Dropping bombs on the hope that you're going to get a single individual is a very, very demanding task." Aspin said, "What we're doing is sending a message against the people who were responsible for planning this operation. . . . {If} anybody asks the same people to do it again, they will remember this message."
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John Lemandri The following in support of Donald Trump, was sent to FOX, action Megyn Kelly Megyn Kelly, I served with our Diplomatic Corps as a Communication Officer in Iraq and can tell you the reason George Bush Jr. invaded Iraq was not because of weapons o Read more ... f mass destruction, which was a cover since Saddam Hussein vaguely hinted he had WMD, but that Saddam Hussein ordered the assassination of George Bush Sr. when he went to Kuwait to receive an award for liberating that country. President George Bush Jr. a Texan, wanted to avenge his father and thus ordered the invasion. He was wrong and Donald Trump was right, there was no reason to go to war. Yet you continue to slam Donald Trump each night while saying George Bush had good reason to go to war when in fact he did not. I was once a Bush supporter but he began that war to revenge an assassination attempt on his father, and as a result billions of dollars were needlessly spent, thousands of lives lost on both sides and many families destroyed. Bush Jr. acted as a COWBOY yet you refuse to admit the truth, that there was no WMD and no reason to go to war. Even Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was not told the truth after he appeared in front of the UN to support the call to war. Wake up Megyn Kelly, or are you just as corrupt as most of the other journalists who purport to serve the American people but in fact are more interested in preserving your own image. How disgusting. John Lemandri Williamsburg, Va. Following is a Washington Post story about the plot. There are other accounts by equally accredited media. U.S. Strikes Iraq for Plot to Kill Bush By David Von Drehle and R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, June 27, 1993; Page A01 U.S. Navy ships launched 23 Tomahawk missiles against the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service yesterday in what President Clinton said was a "firm and commensurate" response to Iraq's plan to assassinate former president George Bush in mid-April. The attack was meant to strike at the building where Iraqi officials had plotted against Bush, organized other unspecified terrorist actions and directed repressive internal security measures, senior U.S. officials said. Clinton, speaking in a televised address to the nation at 7:40 last night, said he ordered the attack to send three messages to the Iraqi leadership: "We will combat terrorism. We will deter aggression. We will protect our people." Clinton said he ordered the attack after receiving "compelling evidence" from U.S. intelligence officials that Bush had been the target of an assassination plot and that the plot was "directed and pursued by the Iraqi Intelligence Service." "It was an elaborate plan devised by the Iraqi government and directed against a former president of the United States because of actions he took as president," Clinton said. Bush led the coalition that drove Iraq from Kuwait in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. "As such, the Iraqi attack against President Bush was an attack against our country and against all Americans," Clinton said. After two months of investigation and mounting evidence, Clinton became convinced during two "exhaustive and exhausting" meetings last week that Iraq was indeed behind a foiled car-bomb plot to kill Bush during his visit to Kuwait April 14-16, a senior administration official said. Aides met with Clinton Wednesday in the White House residence to present a summary of the evidence gathered by FBI and intelligence sources, the official said. On Thursday, Attorney General Janet Reno and CIA Director R. James Woolsey presented the president with their formal reports. Clinton ordered the attack Friday, but the raid was delayed a day so it would not fall on the Muslim sabbath, the official said. "About a dozen" U.S. allies and "friends in the region" were told in advance that the attack was coming; the reaction, according to the official, was mostly favorable. British Prime Minister John Major issued a statement last night supporting Clinton's action. The missiles struck late at night -- between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Baghdad time -- because Clinton wished to minimize possible deaths of innocent civilians. But Iraq, which has consistently denied involvement in any assassination plot against Bush, said there were "many civilian casualties" as a result of the Tomahawk attack, the Reuter news service reported. It quoted Iraqi civil defense officials as saying three people were killed and four rescued. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ruling Revolution Command Council denounced the raid as "cowardly aggression" and said Washington's reason for launching it was "fabricated by the vile Kuwaiti rulers in coordination with agencies in the U.S. administration." An Iraqi Ministry of Information spokesman said the missiles hit a residential area, where Reuter reported that three houses were destroyed. From Baghdad, Reuter reported smoke and what appeared to be a huge blaze could be seen rising from the site, about two miles from the center of the city in a residential district. But reporters were not immediately given access to the site. Clinton was persuaded to act by three kinds of evidence, a senior intelligence official said last night. First, key suspects in the plot confessed to FBI agents in Kuwait. Second, FBI bomb experts painstakingly linked the captured car bomb to previous explosives made in Iraq. Third, unspecified intelligence assessments concluded that Saddam meant seriously the threats he has made against Bush. Other classified intelligence sources supported this analysis, the official said. The combination made the CIA "highly confident that the Iraqi government, at the highest levels, directed its intelligence service to assassinate former president Bush," said the intelligence official. Clinton had harsh words for Saddam -- Bush's arch-nemesis during the Persian Gulf War -- in his Oval Office address. After listing the Iraqi leader's offenses against the world and his own people, Clinton said: "This attempt at revenge by a tyrant against the leader of the world coalition that defeated him in war is particularly loathsome and cowardly." Indeed, the tone of the whole speech was notably forceful and stern, coming from the often avuncular Clinton. He saved his kind words for the men and women involved in the investigation and the military strike: "You have my gratitude, and the gratitude of all Americans," he said. The action was the second major U.S. military operation conducted during Clinton's presidency, coming just two weeks after U.S. forces participated in a multinational strike against forces in Somalia allied with warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed. Unlike that operation, the raid against Iraq was taken unilaterally, entirely apart from the U.N. sanctions still in place against the Iraqi regime. "This crime was committed against the United States, and we elected to respond and to exercise our right of self defense" under Article 51 of the U.N. charter, Defense Secretary Les Aspin said. "Tonight's unilateral action in no way diminishes U.S. support for coalition action or for the authority of the United Nations." Bush -- at his home in Kennebunkport, Maine -- was terse when reached by the Associated Press. "I'm not in the interview business, but thank you very much for calling," he said. Administration sources said Bush's friend and former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft was kept apprised of the investigation, and Clinton called Bush minutes after the attack was launched to give him the news. Secretary of State Warren Christopher flew to Kennebunkport yesterday to brief the former president. Clinton relied heavily on evidence found by FBI bomb experts linking the Iraqi Intelligence Service to a 175-pound car bomb found April 14 in Kuwait City. According to senior intelligence and law enforcement officials, key pieces of the bomb -- including the remote-control detonator, the plastic explosives, the electronic circuitry and the wiring -- bore an overwhelming resemblance to components of bombs previously recovered from the Iraqis. The White House press office distributed photographs of circuit boards and detonators taken from earlier Iraqi bombs, alongside photos of the same elements from the bomb meant for Bush. Even to the untrained eye, there were clear similarities. "Certain aspects of these devices have been found only in devices linked to Iraq," an intelligence official said. Clinton also had the confessions of the two alleged leaders of the 16 suspects arrested by Kuwait when the plot was uncovered. Both are Iraqi nationals. Ra'ad Asadi and Wali Abdelhadi Ghazali told FBI investigators detailed to Kuwait that they met in Basra, Iraq, on April 12 with "individuals they believed to be associated with the Iraqi Intelligence Service," according to a senior U.S. intelligence official. They were given a vehicle loaded with hidden explosives. Ghazali told the FBI he was recruited specifically to kill Bush. Asadi also told the FBI he was to guide the car bomb, driven by his partner, to Kuwait University, where Bush was to be honored by the Emir of Kuwait for his leadership in the gulf war. Administration officials said the suspects told the FBI that the bomb was to be parked near the motorcade route. From a vantage point 300 to 500 yards away, Ghazali would set off the bomb using a remote control. FBI bomb specialists estimated the bomb would have been lethal for nearly a quarter-mile. FBI agents were told if the remote control device failed, the bomb was to be detonated by a timing device on a street in Kuwait City named for Bush. They were also told that Ghazali had a "bomb belt" he would use if all else failed; he was to wear it, approach Bush and blow them both up. There have been reports that the suspects held in Kuwait have been tortured by Kuwaiti officials, but a senior law enforcement official said last night that FBI agents "believe they were not." Nevertheless, the official said, confessions are often unreliable, which is why the investigators placed "an especially great emphasis" on the conclusions of the bomb experts. The CIA recalled that, after the gulf war, Saddam was heard on official Iraq media promising to hunt down and punish Bush, even after he left office. A senior intelligence official said the CIA also had classified evidence proving that the car bomb was meant for Bush, from Saddam. "We could not and have not let such action against our nation go unanswered," Clinton said in his televised address. "From the first days of our revolution, America's security has depended on the clarity of this message: Don't tread on us." Clinton had criticized the Iraqi regime on Friday for failing to allow continuous monitoring of its missile test sites by the United Nations. The monitoring was accepted by Baghdad at the end of the 1991 gulf war, as part of a series of agreements meant to strip Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. But U.S. officials did not cite that dispute in explaining the action last night, and U.S. warplanes involved in policing U.N. sanctions against Iraq did not take part. Congressional leaders from both parties supported Clinton's action. Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) called the president from Charleston, W.Va., to give a thumbs-up. "I think it was a good thing. I support it. If I can help, let me know," Dole told Clinton, according to a CNN interview. The U.S. attack was initiated at 4:22 p.m. (EDT), when two ships -- the destroyer USS Peterson in the Red Sea and the cruiser USS Chancellorsville in the Persian Gulf -- began firing a total of 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Iraqi Intelligence Service headquarters complex in downtown Baghdad. The missiles, which each cost an estimated $1.1 million, typically fly 50 to 100 feet above the ground and navigate by radar according to detailed maps stored in onboard computers. Each missile was capable of carrying up to 1,000 pounds of conventional explosives on their flight to Baghdad of up to two hours. Officials said the number of missiles was set after detailed analysis of what would be needed to ruin the complex. Navy officials programmed most of the missiles to hit specific aim-points at a building near the center, which Aspin called the "hub of . . . operational planning, interrogations, communication, and computer operations" for the Iraqi Intelligence Service. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin L. Powell told reporters at the Pentagon last night that a detailed assessment of the damage was not immediately available. But Powell said he had "preliminary information that a large number of them impacted where they were supposed to." Officials made clear that no further military action was planned and warned Iraq not to retaliate. Powell said the Navy had moved several ships closer to Iraq so the United States could respond to any Iraqi retaliation. An aerial picture of the principal targeted building, shown to reporters at the Pentagon last night, showed a large, six-story structure with three wings located off the central corridors. Four satellite dishes sat atop the building's roof. Nearby were various buildings labeled as administrative, housing and support offices or vehicle storage sheds, and the entire complex -- roughly a football field in length -- was surrounded by a wall. U.S. officials cited the complex's isolation and the fact that the attack was timed to occur during Baghdad's nighttime as factors that would reduce the number of innocent casualties. Powell and Aspin declined to say how many people were expected to be in the complex but said a portion of it functioned around the clock. The attack was not expected to "take down the entire complex," Powell said, but to ruin Iraq's ability to continue using it. He noted that the complex was attacked and damaged once before by the United States, during the 1991 Operation Desert Storm bombing campaign aimed at pressuring Iraq to withdraw its forces from Kuwait. But Iraq had since rebuilt the headquarters. Aspin said the Iraqi Intelligence Service is the country's largest such agency and was responsible for providing security for Saddam's regime, repressing internal opposition, collecting foreign intelligence and conducting terrorist operations abroad, including the planned assassination attempt. Asked to explain why the United States picked that target and did not go after Saddam himself, Aspin said, "It's very difficult to target a single individual. It's very difficult to capture a single individual. Dropping bombs on the hope that you're going to get a single individual is a very, very demanding task." Aspin said, "What we're doing is sending a message against the people who were responsible for planning this operation. . . . {If} anybody asks the same people to do it again, they will remember this message."
121 months ago
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Kultus dan Pemberhalaan Para penyembah berhala selalu memiiki dalih yang sama. Mengapa mereka menuhankan sesuatu yang tidak patut dipertuhankan? Menjatuhkan diri pada belenggu. Mereka berujar, "Wajadna min abaina, kami temukan semua ini dari nenek Read more ... moyang kami." Sebuah jawaban khas kaum Paganist yang dungu dan berkepala batu. Berhala adalah simbol segala ketergantungan dan pembelengguan hidup manusia pada sesuatu yang tak semestinya mengerangkeng dirinya. Penyekutu Tuhan itu melakukan penuhanan pada berbagai illah selain Allah. Patung yang dibuat sendiri pun disembah, semisal rezim yang dikeramatkan pendukungnya dengan segala puja-puji. Sungguh betapa sesat jalan anak cucu Adam yang terjangkiti virus pemberhalaan. Berhala itu dikultuskan dan berwajah dasa muka. Kekuasaan, harta, hawa nafsu, isme, dan segala permata dunia yang dicintai melebihi takaran dapat menjelma menjadi berhala-berhala baru. Sejarah daur ulang paganisme seolah niscaya. Pengultusan pun diproduksi menjadi budaya baru yang dimasifkan dan menciptakan atmosfer kolektif sarat pesona simbolis yang memerkosa fitrah kesejatian hidup. Peluruhan kemanusiaan Kultus dan pemberhalaan itu membenamkan manusia pada sikap membudakkan diri. Keduanya melumpuhkan akal sehat. Nalar cerdas menjadi mati suri. Daya kritik pun dianggap negative thinking. Ketika terjadi rentetan kesalahan di ruang publik, terjadi pembenaran dan pembiaran yang sesungguhnya sama dengan menanam benih kehancuran bangsa. Insan berilmu dan figur-figur kritis pun ikut berbelok arah jalan. Para begawan kehilangan kebegawanannya karena turun gunung ke lembah politik partisan. Mereka jadi pembebek yang alim karena harus menopang rezim. Akal sehat sekadar jadi wacana utopis dan komoditas akademik. Sebagian terjangkiti penyakit rabun ayam dalam mencandra kebenaran dan ketakbenaran. Ilmunya kehilangan hikmah hingga tak lagi memercikkan sinar pencerahan. Kebenaran dibuat serba abu- abu, kalah pamor oleh tampilan luar. Nalar publik disilaukan oleh beragam perilaku teatrikal yang indah dipandang sesaat, tetapi sesungguhnya laksana buih. Ibarat warna serbaputih untuk mengesankan pesona bersih dan jernih meski di dalamnya kusam. Panorama masif seperti ini lama-kelamaan akan melahirkan budaya instan yang mematikan proses, kerja keras, dan kebenaran substansi. Kultus dan pemberhalaan yang melemahkan potensi kemanusiaan sejati itu biasanya tumbuh kembang sering bukan karena sistem tirani belaka, tetapi oleh minda atau sistem kognisi yang dikonstruksi salah kaprah. Antonio Gramsci menyebutnya sebagai ideologi Hegemony. Mereka yang terkena penyakit pembudakan diri bukan karena dipaksa rezim, melainkan karena menikmatinya. Nikmat ditindas, ditelikung, dibodohi, dimanipulasi, dan dihegemoni oleh sistem dan budaya yang mampu menciptakan kenyamanan semu. Fir'aun dengan takabur mengklaim diri sebagai Tuhan. Karena kedigdayaan yang dibangun secara hegemoni, banyak rakyat menjadi lemah dan membudakkan diri. Sikap rakyat yang takut, lemah, membebek, dan menaruh kepentingan-kepentingan sesaat sering menggiring mereka pada pemberhalaan dan pengultusan terhadap para penguasa. Akibatnya, para penguasa itu menjadi sewenang-wenang karena dimanjakan oleh elite dan rakyatnya. Kultus dan pemberhalaan dalam bentuk apa pun sesungguhnya musuh utama kaum beriman yang bertauhid. Manusia yang dianugerahi fitrah bertuhan dan akal murni pun dibuat tak berdaya. Jika nikmat Tuhan yang sangat berharga itu tidak digunakan dengan baik dan lumpuh karena manusia terjebak pada penuhanan dan pembudakan sesuatu, manusia menjadi kehilangan kemanusiaan nya yang sejati. Kalbu, pendengaran, penglihatan, dan akal sehat insan beriman mati dan akhirnya terjerembap pada perangai hewani (QS al-'Araf [7]: 179). Peran kaum berilmu Kaum beriman dan bertauhid wajib menggunakan akal yang fitri agar tidak terjebak pada praktik pemberhalaan dan pengultusan yang membelenggu kehidupan. Allah memerintahkan insan beriman agar tafakur, ta'aqul, ta'abbur, tazakkur, dan tadabur. Pelakunya disebut uli-nuha, ulil- abshar, ulil-albab, al-alim, ulama, dan yang semakna dengannya. Tuhan meninggikan derajat kaum berilmu bersama orang beriman yang menggunakan akal dan kalbunya dengan segala kegiatan berpikir atas segala kekuasaan dan hasil ciptaan-Nya. Rasulullah bersabda, "Berpikir sesaat lebih baik dari ibadah setahun." Pada hadis lain, Nabi bersabda, "Tiga waktu bagi orang berakal. Pertama, untuk bermunajat kepada Tuhannya. Kedua, untuk menghisab dirinya. Ketiga, untuk memikirkan ciptaan Allah SWT." Rasulullah bersabda, "Seseorang tidak akan memperoleh sesuatu yang sebaik akal. Akal membimbing pemiliknya kepada petunjuk dan menghindarkannya dari kesesatan." (Muttafaq`alaih). Ketaknalaran dan hilangnya akal kritis disamakan dengan kebutaan. Allah SWT berfirman, "Perbandingan antara dua golongan (orang kafir dan orang beriman) seperti keadaan orang yang buta dan pekak dengan orang yang melihat dan mendengar, adakah sama kedua-duanya? Adakah kamu tidak mengambil pengajaran?"(QS Hud [11]: 24). Tuhan menisbahkan orang yang tak menggunakan akalnya sebagai hewan melata di muka bumi untuk menunjukkan betapa rendahnya manusia jika mati akal sehatnya atas kebenaran. Kaum berilmu lagi beriman yang hadir di muka bumi untuk membebaskan umat manusia dari segala bentuk pemberhalaan dan pengultusan yang merusak tauhid, mereka disebut para pewaris Nabi karena membawa obor pencerahan. Mereka bermisi membebaskan, memberdayakan, dan memajukan umat manusia dari segala bentuk pembelengguan, penindasan menuju kehidupan yang bercahaya lahir dan batin. Karena itu, siapa pun yang berilmu hendaklah dalam dirinya melekat jiwa pencerahan yang bebas dari segala belenggu dunia demi kebenaran dan kebaikan. Betapa berat, tetapi mulia tugas ulama, intelektual, intelegensia, dan kaum berilmu dalam kehidupan di muka bumi ini. Lebih-lebih ketika orang-orang berilmu itu menjadi pemimpin dan begawan bangsa. Mereka dengan ilmunya harus menyinari alam pikiran rakyat dan para elitenya. Mereka harus menjadi penyebar nilai-nilai kebenaran meski harus berhadapan dengan penguasa yang didukungnya. Apalagi, jika penguasa itu bertindak zalim dan bertentangan dengan kebenaran. Para pemilik ilmu itu bahkan harus berani meluruskan kesalahan rakyatnya dengan risiko dijauhi dan dimusuhi. Sungguh akan menjadi ben cana manakala kaum berilmu justru bertaklid buta dan hanya menjadi stempel pembenar para penguasa ataupun rakyatnya. Jika hal itu terjadi, selain meluruhkan keberadaan dirinya selaku pembawa obor pencerahan, akibatnya pun sangat fatal. Para penguasa akan semakin sewenang-wenang, rakyatnya pun akan kehilangan arah kehidupan. Mungkinkah kaum berilmu salah jalan? Banyak bukti menunjukkan kaum berilmu menempuh jalan bengkok yang oleh Imam al-Ghazali disebut ulama asy-syuu alias ulama buruk. Meminjam nalar Julien Benda, ketika insan berilmu bersekutu dengan penguasa yang salah jalan, itulah ben tuk pelacuran kaum intelektual. Sumber: http://www.republika.co.id/berita/koran/halaman-1/15/01/25/nipx0p-kultus-dan-pemberhalaan
130 months ago
The Economist To his critics, the Islamic philosopher al-Ghazali was an enemy of reason and progress; admirers call him one of the greatest minds which the Abrahamic religions have produced. People should at least read him before they dismiss him http://econ.st/1J Read more ... CoHHK
A millennium-old argument
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A THOUSAND years ago, Baghdad presented a extraordinary scene: a city of a million people, the centre of a Muslim realm which stretched from Spain to Central Asia,...
131 months ago
The Economist To his critics, the Islamic philosopher al-Ghazali was an enemy of reason and progress; admirers call him one of the greatest minds which the Abrahamic religions have produced. People should at least read him before they dismiss him http://econ.st/1I Read more ... HttUc
A millennium-old argument
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A THOUSAND years ago, Baghdad presented a extraordinary scene: a city of a million people, the centre of a Muslim realm which stretched from Spain to Central Asia,...
131 months ago
The Wall Street Journal A WSJ reporter visits the compound of Ghazali Jaafar, the No. 2 leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and finds high-powered Barrett sniper rifles stashed among folded piles of laundry.
Philippine Army Targets Splinter Faction in Bid to Salvage Peace Deal
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The Philippine military is rooting out members of a splinter rebel movement that is threatening a fragile peace process between Manila and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
132 months ago
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