Cempaka Belanda: Young Muslims start critical website

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Young Muslims start critical website

RNW, Published on : 24 July 2010 - 2:37pm | By Michel Hoebink

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Critical voices within the Dutch Islamic community are too seldom heard. At least, that’s the view of the group of young Muslims behind the website nieuwemoskee.nl - 'new mosque'.

“Islam expects Muslims to have their own points of view and to make their own choices,” says theology student Arnold Yasin Mol, “not blindly to accept everything passed down from past generations. Early Muslims were critical too.”

Mr Mol, who converted to Islam seven years ago, heads the Deen Research Centre, a think tank on modern Islamic thought, and sits on the board of the Dutch Muslim Party. He’s long held the view that not enough was being heard from critical voices within the Muslim community in the Netherlands. Together with a small group of like-minded people, he has set up the Dutch-language nieuwemoskee.nl website.

Treachery

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Muslims have been viewed with suspicion and, within their community, self-criticism has tended to be seen as treachery. Mr Mol thinks this attitude is mistaken:

“If something is wrong with certain Muslim customs, we think it should be a matter for open discussion. The separation of men and women in mosques for instance is highly controversial within Islam. Muslims should be willing to take far stronger positions on such issues.”

Stimulate debate

The website is also intended to stimulate the public debate on Islam’s position in Dutch society. Mr Mol thinks this has become deadlocked, partly because Muslims have been slow to join in the discussion. This was one of the reasons to call the website ‘new mosque’. “At the dawn of Islam, the mosque was the place for challenging discussion, not just among Muslims themselves, but also with followers of other religions.”

Articles on celebrated reformers such as Syria’s Mohammed Shahrur and Egypt’s late Nasr Abu Zayd have a prominent place on the website. Mr Mol confirms that the site editors are very interested in these modernistic thinkers. However, he doesn’t want the site to be identified with their ideas.

Salafists

“Our intention is broader. We want to provide a platform for critical voices from all schools of thought, whether they be reformist, conservative or fundamentalist. Fundamentalist Salafists can also be very self-critical.”

The Dutch government has long complained that the internet is dominated by Salafists, and that young Dutch Muslims looking for information about Islam on the internet can only find fundamentalist websites. The government hopes that by supporting moderate websites like islamwijzer.nl (Islam guide) it can help break this monopoly.

Independent

Arnold Yasin Mol stresses that nieuwemoskee.nl doesn’t receive any government funding. “It’s entirely our own initiative. We do understand what the Dutch government is doing, but we want to remain fully independent.”

Mr Mol says the new website meets a demand among young Dutch Muslims.

“At home they have a traditional upbringing and at school they’re exposed to the Dutch approach to the world. Their attempts to reconcile these two worlds starts them thinking. In fact this automatically makes them critical. All we’re doing is creating a space for a voice that already exists.”

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