Cempaka Belanda: It’s raining fatwas this summer in Morocco

"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. …”

Saturday, August 7, 2010

It’s raining fatwas this summer in Morocco

RNW, 7 August 2010 - 9:00am | By Greta Riemersma and Martijn van Tol

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A Muslim man can renounce his wife if she does not pray five times a day and he can hit her if she rejects his sexual advances. But he is not allowed to hit her hard, just enough to break her resistance. A recent spate of fatwas has brought embarrassment in Morocco. With Ramadan due to begin next week, it is raining fatwas.

Every day, the conservative newspaper Attajdid prints a new fatwa. Fatwas are nothing more than religious proclamations. Nevertheless, they irritate liberal Muslims because, in their eyes, each fatwa is more absurd than the last. For instance, the Wahhabist mufti Al-Maghraoui claimed, in a different publication, that 9-year-old girls are allowed to marry, because “some girls of nine are better in bed than women of 20 and over”.

Fatwas often contradict one another and there are also foreign fatwas, which find their way into Morocco via the internet and Arabic TV channels.

Not impressed

Sadoua Amezian, who grew up in Morocco, lives in the Netherlands. She is currently on holiday in her country of birth. She is not impressed by the constant flow of fatwas.

”We think it is normal to discuss these things, that various scholars have different opinions. I choose my own path. But people who are not educated depend on them. If you are illiterate like our parents, the fatwas influence you more. Even if there is a fatwa and there are different views about the subject, you think logically what suits you best, but to my parents it is just a matter of: that’s the way things are. A scholar said it, so that’s all there is to it.”

The Moroccan Socialist Party, the PSU, wants to put an end to “ridiculous fatwas which go against common sense, logic and the law”. One fatwa in Attajdid said unemployed people were allowed to pay bribes to get jobs, if all other avenues had been exhausted. That is going too far, says the PSU.

Enough

Ahmed Toufiq, Moroccan Minister of Islamic Affairs has had enough. “It’s ridiculous that everyone can say anything without knowing anything about a matter”. He recently called together the High Council of Oulema, Morocco’s highest Islamic scholars, to do something about the “chaos”. As a result, only fatwas issued by the High Council have to be obeyed.

Is the Moroccan debate also influencing Muslims outside Morocco? Sadoua Amezian does not think so.

“Most Moroccans get their sense of norms and values from home. There are fatwas, but ... it’s something that is close to home, via friends and the internet. I don’t think people will look to what is happening in Morocco. The imam in our mosque does has influence, but not the imams from Morocco. Even if more fatwas are on television, it will not have any influence on my behaviour.”

Disappearing taboos

Mustapha Khalfi director general of Attajdid says his newspaper prints fatwas to stimulate religious reform in Morocco. “We want Islam to be dynamic,” he says. There are also liberal Muslims who agree with him, such as Islamic scholar Abdelbari Zemzemi. He does not agree with most of the fatwas, but: “Everything is discussed and slowly taboos are disappearing.”

In any case, the wave of fatwas has not made Morocco more conservative, thinks Ms Amezian on holiday.

'What I see happening in Morocco, is actually the contrary. It is very modern, it is not the case that fatwas are making people more orthodox. There is actually more freedom than before. We weren’t allowed out in the old days. Now you see men and women walking down the street together. Just enjoying music. And the beach is full, it never used to be like that. And really not everybody is wearing a long dress and headscarf. I think it has become more open, you are allowed to do a lot more now. I was surprised how much has changed.”

Drops in the ocean

Will the fatwas awaken the old Morocco? The modern, educated generation of Muslims isn’t likely to let itself be bossed around. To them the rain of fatwas are drops in the ocean during a hot Moroccan summer.

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