*Alicia Keys made a heartfelt post via her website for those who are going through the civil unrest in Egypt, the North African country in which she named her son after.
She wrote:
“When people find themselves caught in a place where their dreams, hopes and ideas have nowhere to breathe or fly, something happens. Something that is so natural and powerful, like the water we seek when thirsty, or the food we need when hungry takes over.”
“This energy to change, to move in a different direction produces a voice – a voice loud and strong enough to vibrate and shake the wall that attempts to oppress the will of the masses and the fight for the future. From that first small voice that dared to speak, to resist, to protest – a small, but important insult has now grown into a voice of millions that cannot and will not be silenced.”
“I have visited Egypt and, as I traveled through along the streets of Cairo, the back streets of Alexandria and the villages along the Nile, it was easy to see that a small, quiet vibration was growing, building, reaching to a pitch that is now heard by the ears of the world.”
“There have been many who have attempted to deny the force of change as if trying to prevent a flower from its blossom or a mother from giving birth. In every case this deeply rooted will to express what cannot be denied, rises up and forces all of us to recognize and respect this voice that produced the sound of freedom playing long and strong throughout Egypt.”
“Now as the light of the sun and the sand gust winds from the Sahara blow without permission and cover the streets and pyramids, let’s remember that this undeniable spirit to speak – even to shout from the heart, should never be denied and never, ever be ignored.”
“Now when I look at my son, I realize more than ever that his name represents more than the will to be free – it stands for the fight for change, and the courage to shout! We can hear the voice… and it is ours.”
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Miss Alicia answer this, who are the people saying peace and safety be honest. It’s the same ones who say Christ will come as a thief in the night 1st Thessalonians 5:3 sudden destruction will happen. The world is screaming peace and safety, and telling us to be proud. The number 1 abomination is pride. God resists the proud, God loves meek and lowly. Free will gives you all the things you want, but not God’s grace in humility. Where do little children get pride from? Would you say it’s been brain washed into us.
If she knows no history in relation to Egypt as a country, or their government, or Egypt’s historical role in the bible, she might need to sit down and shut up. You don’t speak on emotion when you don’t know the history. So what you went there on a vacay! Kev you hit it on the head. Pride and boastfulness are in the same category as being sin.
It’s time Black Americans wake up. We have no dog in that fight. We have no kinship with Egypt, the slave trade was on the other side of the continent.
Egyptians could care less about Blacks! They discriminate against them all the time!
She should study the History of Kush and how they built the dam and it destroyed the country where the true Blacks lived and Egyptians have ancestors from Turkey and not Africa.
Shut Alicia, go sing something, what do you know about Egypt?
I hope she reads that article on theroot.com about Egyptian treatment of subSaharan African looking people. Sorry but I cannot unite with Arabs knowing how vile they are towards their darker kin even if they share the same religion.
Been doing that since the beginning of time!!
After praising, and thanking God, he said: “O People, listen well to my words, for I do not know whether, after this year, I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying to you very carefully and TAKE THESE WORDS TO THOSE WHO COULD NOT BE PRESENT HERE TODAY.
O People, just as you regard this month, this day, this city as Sacred, so regard the life and property of every Muslim as a sacred trust. Return the goods entrusted to you to their rightful owners. Treat others justly so that no one would be unjust to you. Remember that you will indeed meet your LORD, and that HE will indeed reckon your deeds. God has forbidden you to take usury (riba), therefore all riba obligation shall henceforth be waived. Your capital , however, is yours to keep. You will neither inflict nor suffer inequity. God has judged that there shall be no riba and that all the riba due to `Abbas ibn `Abd al Muttalib shall henceforth be waived.
Every right arising out of homicide in pre-Islamic days is henceforth waived and the first such right that I waive is that arising from the murder of Rabi`ah ibn al Harith ibn `Abd al Muttalib.
O Men, the Unbelievers indulge in tampering with the calendar in order to make permissible that which God forbade, and to forbid that which God has made permissible. With God the months are twelve in number. Four of them are sacred, three of these are successive and one occurs singly between the months of Jumada and Sha`ban. Beware of the devil, for the safety of your religion. He has lost all hope that he will ever be able to lead you astray in big things, so beware of following him in small things.
O People, it is true that you have certain rights over your women, but they also have rights over you. Remember that you have taken them as your wives only under God’s trust and with His permission. If they abide by your right then to them belongs the right to be fed and clothed in kindness. Treat your women well and be kind to them, for they are your partners and committed helpers. It is your right and they do not make friends with anyone of whom you do not approve, as well as never to be unchaste…
O People, listen to me in earnest, worship God (The One Creator of the Universe), perform your five daily prayers (Salah), fast during the month of Ramadan, and give your financial obligation (zakah) of your wealth. Perform Hajj if you can afford to.
All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.
Remember, one day you will appear before God (The Creator) and you will answer for your deeds. So beware, do not stray from the path of righteousness after I am gone.
O People, NO PROPHET OR MESSENGER WILL COME AFTER ME AND NO NEW FAITH WILL BE BORN. Reason well, therefore, O People, and understand words which I convey to you. I am leaving you with the Book of God (the QUR’AN*) and my SUNNAH (the life style and the behavioral mode of the Prophet), if you follow them you will never go astray.
All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly. Be my witness O God, that I have conveyed your message to your people.
History of the jews (Muslims and Christians- Read carefully how they screwed the whole world & learn from the past)
Pharoah was a tyrant and an oppressor seeing the jews getting more numerous and of alien origin he oppressed them and persecuted them severely. The Most High out of His vast mercy that encompasses everything decided to give them a chance. The Holy Verses of the Quran say:
Pharoah had grown high and mighty in the land and divided its people into factions, finding some weak he killed their sons and kept their women, he was of those who corrupt . We desired to be munificent to those who were downtrodden in the land and to make them leaders in religion and to let them be the heirs, and enable them dominion in the land and let Pharaoh and Haman and their soldiers suffer from them what they had feared. S28 V 4-6
Now these were people who had gone very far from the worship of their forefathers Ibrahim, Jacob and Isaac and worshipped the devil. In order to wean them back from this horrible worship and enable them to possess land where they can worship, land that He had promised, they had to have two things, a very great prophet and teacher who could understand their nature and also tribulations that show them that their deity set (satan) cannot protect them. They needed God or Elohim and no deity apart from Him. To make them trust him and understand how great his might is, to make them realise that He was indeed the Creator of all the universe, He made one miracle for them after the other that broke the laws of matter and changed the nature of things. The Most High had cleft the sea for them and destroyed Pharaoh and his soldiers. As soon as they felt safe they found people worshipping Idol and asked Moses to give them an Idol to worship like these. Moses preached to them and explained that the worship of idols is mere superstition and that their deity is allah, but in vain as soon as Moses went to the mountain to speak to his Lord they made a calf of the gold they had stolen from the Egyptians and began to worship it. Elohim out of His infinite mercy forgave them then led them to the village they were to enter but instead of just going in they shied back saying its people were very big and mighty. They still didn’t trust in their Lord after all He had done for them. They needed purification , so they had to remain in the desert for forty years. During that time Moses was able to convert some of the tribes of Sinai to Judaism. After forty years were over and Moses had joined his forefathers they were led by Joshua to the land they were to enter. They were given certain rules for fighting as the muslims were after them but disregarding the teaching of Moses and all the rules they were given they began to put all the inhabitants to the sword. The Torah says :
When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword and all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai. Joshua 8. 24,25
This is what they describe in the Torah, the Talmudic teaching is even more explicit. It is that killing non-jews is one of the deeds considered a good deed by their deity and if the Jew is unable to kill them, it is his duty to see that they perish at any time and by any means. As we notice in the Quranic verses above they were to be leaders in religion and to teach their religion to the tribes they meet, as the Christians have done and were able to transmit their religion to the whole roman empire, and as the Muslims did after them and were able to form a Muslim empire greater than the Roman empire at its zenith. Instead they began to slaughter people and keep the religion they were entrusted to teach a monopoly. It is on of the unalterable laws of heaven that any ability if misused is withdrawn. Very soon they were given into the hands of their enemies; very often they were the slaves of the Philistines (present day Palestinians) they remained a small tribe, fighting other small tribes, inside a small country. During the reign of Solomon and David (1000BC – 930 BC) for a short period of seventy years they dominated a large part of Palestine but even during the reign of Solomon, which marks the apex of Jewish power, Solomon sought the aid of the Egyptian Pharaoh to subdue for him a stronghold of the Philistines inside his own realm. After Solomon they disintegrated into two small states inside Palestine and when they became exceedingly wicked the Assyrians were sent to destroy them completely and pull down the temple of Solomon. In 538 BC they began to return from the Babylonian exile but all they could accomplish now by the aid of the Persian Chosroes was a small inland state. Many of them had returned to Egypt as early as the time of Moses and when the power of Ancient Egypt began to wane and The Persians began to form an empire it was they who showed the Persians an easy route to the heart of the country and it was they who helped the invaders rule. The Egyptians made three revolutions against Persian rule and every time the Jewish temples were burned and some Jews killed. It is characteristic of the Jews throughout the ages that they never have any feeling for the country they live in no matter for how long, they had been in Egypt for over two thousand years, but at the crucial moment, they managed to betray. The small state Israel relied completely on the good will of its much bigger neighbours and on the ruling power at the time. They went very far from the teaching of Moses again so one prophet after the other was sent to warn and one after the other was killed. Finally they were destroyed for the last time and forbidden to return to Palestine in 66 to 70 A.D.
Although the Jews had massacred more than one tribe to possess the land they were promised, we find that very soon after they begin to desert it and immigrate elsewhere. Some of them returned to Egypt before reaching it and others went to Persia, to Rome, to Greece and to other Asian Cities in search of more lucrative work than Palestine could yield. The reason was that Palestine had limited resources and they did not cherish the peaceful rural life there, but wanted to make money. Now they were forbidden according to their religion to lend jews with interest but they were allowed to lend non Jews with interest and so they travelled wherever business took them in the world a long time before the Romans destroyed Palestine and pulled down the temple.
After that we find them in many different parts of the world. We find them in the Roman empire in the second century AD making much money through usury and the white slave trade (prostitution) In fact most historians agree that one of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was due to the corruption of her economy and morals by the Jews.
We meet them next in Al Yemen in the 6th century AD where they convinced the king to enter into Judaism and exterminate Christians.
We meet them again during the early part of the seventh century in the Arab Peninsula. At first they tried to delude the Muslims setting them back to Idol worship. When this was not possible they tried to assassinate Muhammad (PBUH), May God bless him, when this also failed they stirred all the idol-worshipping tribes of the peninsula in a great conspiracy to go exterminate the Muslims. Had it not been for the direct intervention of heaven there would have been no Muslims today. Inspite of that Muhammad (PBUH) taught the Muslims tolerance and freedom of thought, speech and worship. They were taught to be good to non Muslims particularly Jews and Christians. As a result the Jews were never persecuted in Muslim countries but were given all the rights and freedom other citizens were given. Since Islam forbids usury the Jews became the money lenders of Muslim world, they followed the Muslim armies wherever they went and made vast wealth in the process. They lived among the Muslims in peace, security and plenty for fourteen hundred years until the birth of Israel.
Then we meet then in the countries of Europe. The pattern of their history in all the countries they go to in Europe is the same. At first they are accepted, then their behaviour forces the authorities to drive them out, then they sneak in again in a different guise after breaking up the country from the inside. They were driven out from England in Edward’s reign but they made Cromwell in the name of the rights of man allow them back after he received handsome present. Their movements were restricted by the Catholic church in France but they financed the French revolution and came back in the name of equality, liberty, fraternity. Interestingly the property of the French nobles was destroyed and ruined, the property of Jews was untouched during the revolution.
In Russia the well meaning tsar Alexander II wanted to incorporate them inside the Russian state but he was murdered. After they murdered him they had to flee the country because of the wrath of the Russian people. Then they conspired to make the Russian revolution and returned to wreck vengeance on the Russian people. The supreme Soviet was mostly made of Jews. The members of the communist assembly were 547 members, 447 of them were Jews and the central committee had 438 members, 337 of them were Jews. During this upheaval hundreds of thousands of Christians were killed, two whole tribes of Muslims were exterminated and Islam and Christianity were forbidden in the name of the enlightenment, freedom and social justice.
Interestingly Judaism was not forbidden. Lenin said the Jews were a minority and they would be assimilated in the general fabric of the country if their religion is forbidden. ( see Talmudic Plans by A. Gindi 1977, and inside Russia today by John Gunther)
They next went to the sultan Abd Al Hamid of the Ottoman empire and asked him to let them return to Palestine trying to bribe him with much gold and very profitable projects for his country. The Sultan refused saying that Palestine was not his to give away. It belonged to the whole Muslim nation. Then trouble began for him. They caused misunderstanding between the Arab and the Turkish branches of the empire then unrest in the Turkish army. Finally he was deposed in the name of enlightenment, freedom and democracy. The man who handed him the decision od the army to depose him was a Jew and the man who came after him Kemal Ataturk was also of Jewish extraction of those who had immigrated to Salonika after they were persecuted in Spain.
Sultan Abd Al Hamid was given ill-fame by those who control the media as the red Sultan, the absolute dictator. Whatever the faults of the man, at least he had a sense of justice and he was a man of honour. He who came after him was far more autocratic. He did everything possible to break all ties between Turkey and the Islamic world and to turn her into an atheistic state, in the name of enlightenment as they had done in France and in Russia, He drove out of the country one and a half-million Greeks, but the press has nothing but praise for him.
The ottoman empire was broken and the Arabs helped Great Britain in her war with Germany after attaining a solemn promise that all Arab land would be free after the war. After the war they were shocked to find the British had given a promise to the Jews to give them a dear and Holy part of their land. This land was a sacred trust in the hands of the British according to the Mandate system it was not theirs to dispose of as they please, worse still the British had the largest military base in the Middle East at Suez right on the spot and they saw to it that the promise would be actualized, and so the worse breach of faith in the history of these old civilizations was complete ( The British were virtually in control of this part of the world) before the Arabs could realize what had been conspired against them. British Arab relations deteriorated very quickly after that and the British lost their empire in this part of the world.
AS WE HAVE MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY THE ARABS WERE VERY GOOD TO THE JEWS BECAUSE THEIR RELIGION TEACHES TOLERANCE. IRONICALLY IT IS THE ARABS WHO WERE STABBED IN THE BACK BY THE JEWS NOT THOSE WHO HAD PERSECUTED THEM. WITH THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL THE JEWS DECIDED THAT THEY NO LONGER NEEDED THE ARABS, THEY WANTED THE LAND, YES BUT NOT ITS INHABITANTS, SO BEGAN A VICIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST THOSE WHO HAD BEEN GOOD TO THEM FOR FOURTEEN HUNDRED YEARS.
FIRST A SERIES OF COUP D’ETATS IN THE NAME OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUALITY. DURING THOSE COUP D’ETATS THE NOBLES AND UPPER CLASSES ARE RUINED AND DESTROYED, BUT JEWISH CAPITAL WHICH FORMED 65% IN EGYPT AND 70% IN AL IRAQUE WAS UNTOUCHED. IT WAS QUIETLY SNEAKED OUT OF THE COUNTRY. THEN THE NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM OF THE LAND SEES TO IT THAT IT REMAINS POOR AND NEEDY. IF WE ADD TO THIS THE FACT THAT THE JEWS CONTROL MOST OF THE CAPITAL IN THE WORLD AND PLACE SEVERE ECONOMIC PRESSURE ON ARAB LANDS AND ALSO THAT THESE LANDS HAVE TO SPEND OVER 40% OF THEIR CAPITAL EVERY YEAR TO BUY ARMS TO DEFEND THEIR BORDERS AGAINST ISRAEL, (ISRAEL GETS WEAPONS FOR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY YEAR FROM THE USA FREE) WE WOULD GET AN IDEA OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE EAST . THE COUNTRIES IN THESE PARTS ARE TO BE KEPT FOREVER POOR, FOREVER NEEDY, FOREVER BACKWARD SO THAT THREE AND A HALF MILLION ISRAELIS WOULD HAVE THE UPPER HAND AND DOMINATE 120 MILLION ARABS.
To understand how the Jews managed to bring Al Aws and Al Khazrag the natives of the place to this condition we have only to look at Lebanon today. Before the birth of Israel Lebanon was one of the loveliest countries in the world with charming hospitable people. It had picturesque mountains gushing streams ad quaint little rural ins and rustic villages. Very clean little house with maidens with long braided hair. We called it the Switzerland of the East ( The Lebanese are the ancient Phoenicians, the first people to invent the alphapet).
These days Lebanon is the ruin of her former self. The quaint villages are deserted, the trees are bare, the houses in shambles and the inhabitants have either fled to hide in the mountains or have been massacred and placed in collective graves like the inhabitants of Sabra and Shetila.
It all started with a disagreement about elections, something that could be settled in days, then suddenly we find Muslims and Christians who had been living peacefully together for fourteen hundred years fighting each other, them Muslims fighting Muslims and Christians fighting Christians then everybody fighting everybody else. The country that had been so friendly , so gay and alive turned into a paralyzed disintegrated mass. When her sons tried desperately to come to an agreement to save their country they found Israel had hired military mercenaries who stood in the way of every agreement they tried to achieve and committed criminal appalling massacres in the south of Lebanon where Israel had her eye on lebanon’s water sources. When the poor villagers tried to defend themselves; they were labelled terrorists and rebels by the Zionist controlled media.
Then when the country became very weak and broken Israel began to invade her openly to ensure the safety of Israeli borders.
For the last fifteen years there has been a tragedy called Lebanon where once a prosperous, civilized, hospitable country used to be.
For more on how the Jews make conflicts flare up between her people and how they make Muslims and Christians beat up each other under the threat of Israeli guns to humiliate them see EMPERORS AND PIRATES, International terrorism in the real world by Noam Chomsky. Just before the terrible conflict that rent the country apart Lebanon was doing very well. After Egypt had been economically ruined most of the Arabs placed their money in the Lebanese banks. Lebanon was prospering economically and culturally, then suddenly this sedition sprang upon the people as if from nowhere.
Of, course it is inconvenient for Israel to have a country economically and culturally advanced on its border for several reasons, partly because the Lebanese compared very well with the Jews, in the opinion of many too well, and they are Arabs, then Israel had her eye on the South of Lebanon, on her water sources, A country that is doing well knows her rights and can defend herself. In consequence just before the Israelis began to appear in the South this crazy conflicts began, when they benefit no one at all in Lebanon. ISRAEL ALONE HAS BENEFITED FROM THE DISRUPTION AND CHAOS IN A ONCE HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS LAND