Françoise Thelamon seeks an explanation for what she
calls «the impossibility of rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem»: the
earthquake «may have caused an explosion of gas that had accumulated in
an underground chamber, followed by a fire which would have destroyed
materials and cost lives». Three hundred
years later, – and indeed today as well! – the Arabs invade Jerusalem
and construct their mosques on the esplanade... with fear and trembling,
wondering whether fire will again spring forth from the “foundations”,
’al-qawâ cida! Indeed, the author of
the Koran considers that «fire» is continually present in the «pit». But
on this occasion it spared the children of Ismael, the Arabs, thanks to a
«kindness» on God’s part: «Just when you had reached the edge of a pit [full] of fire,
He spared you.» (Sura 3, verse 103; cf. our
Translation and Systematic Commentary on the Koran, vol. II, p. 97-98;
185-186) The Koran is an imprescriptible witness to this...
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Inside the Dome, under the cupola, can be seen the limestone block
which served as a foundation for both the Holy of Holies and the
Altar of Holocausts in the Jewish Temple: ’al-qawâ
cida mina l-bayti.
The rock was rehewn by the Templars during the Crusades, so
that an altar could be erected for the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass. Four doors provide access to two concentric ambulatories,
separated by colonnades, which surround a central area where the rock
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Thus, the Arabs, the «children of Ismael», would succeed in
«restoring the foundations (’al-qawâ cida) of the Temple» (3, 127),
where the Jews, the «children of Israel», had failed (ibid, vol. I, p.
136 and 309). Today, the octagonal building called the “Dome of the
Rock”, which goes back to the time of Abd el-Malik (685-705), dominates
Jerusalem, and the gigantic esplanade built by Herod has become the
sanctuary of Islam. As for the Jews, they can but weep... at the
“Wailing Wall” down below. And as for Christians, all they can do is
«take flight», following not only Our Lord’s counsel (Mt 24.16), but
also and far more seriously His example when He returned «to the far
side of the Jordan, to the place where John had first baptised, and
stayed there» (Jn 10.40).
Thus the quarrel between the «children of Ismael» and the «children
of Israel» has continued for thirteen centuries, ever since a
«large-tented Himyarite» conceived the idea of restoring «the House of
Abraham» on its «foundations» (’al-qawâ cida), as is clearly spelled out in
verse 127 of Sura 2, which we explained nearly fifteen years ago, well
before the creation of Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network! The attempt to
restore a Hebrew State in 1948 could only escalate this millenary quarrel
to fever pitch, which is what we are witnessing today.
« A LARGE-TENTED HIMYARITE
»
Bin Laden was not in the caves of Tora Bora conquered by the
anti-Taliban forces. «The hunt goes on», Tony Blair simply remarked,
believing that the Al-Qaeda leader was still in Afghanistan. This is not
the opinion of General Tommy Franks, Commander of the American military
operations in Afghanistan. He even envisaged that Osama bin Laden
had left the country.
«If bin Laden is intelligent, he will have already crossed the border
into Pakistan, considers Éric Dénécé, editor-in-chief of the French
review Renseignement et Opérations spéciales. There are networks
everywhere which are ready to help him», he assures us (La Croix, 18 Dec). We
ourselves, and for some time now, have had our own idea.
That bin Laden is «intelligent» is indubitable: it can be seen on his
face. The name of his organisation alone is proof of a superior
intelligence...! To have chosen the keyword which, in the Koran,
expresses the millenary ambition of the Arabs, Abraham’s children by Ismael,
can only be classed as a veritable inspiration.
Inspired, bin Laden? Yes, undoubtedly. By what Spirit? To discern
this, we must go back to the beginnings. The stroke of genius of the
author of the Koran is to have stolen from Saint Paul all the power of his
theological argumentation to demonstrate one thing only: the permanence of
God’s covenant with Abraham and ISMAEL – Ismael, not Israel
– the
eponymous ancestor of the Arabs.
To the Jews who prided themselves on the Law, Saint Paul opposed the
promises made to Abraham 430 years before the Law was promulgated (Ga
3.17). In the same way, the author of the Koran maintains that before
the covenant with the children of Israel which degenerated into
«schism» setting the «Jews» against the «Nazoreans» as he calls the
Christians, there existed the faith of the sons of Abraham, particularly
those in slavery, the Ismaelites, the ancestors of the Arabs. Therefore, let
the «House» (bayt), the «Place of Abraham» (maqâm ’ibrâhim),
once again shine forth, according to the promise audaciously placed by
the author
in the mouth of God who foresaw the apostasy of the Jews and the Nazoreans! «Then,
Abraham will re-establish the foundations (’al-qawâ
cida) of the Temple
with Ismael.» And the world will finally know peace.
If this claim were a pure fabrication without any biblical
foundation, it would have sunk into ridicule, and would certainly not have
succeeded in imposing itself as a divine revelation on a billion human
beings. But it must be recognised that there is some truth in it, since the
sign of the covenant was circumcision. Now, Ismael was circumcised
before Isaac (Gn 17.23-26). Moreover, did not Saint Paul himself write
that the first covenant was attached to Sinai and that «it was Hagar,
since Sinai is in Arabia» (Ga 4.24-25)?
The first covenant is Hagar, mother of Ismael, the ancestor of the
Arabs... Such is the central, fundamental and deeply
anti-Christian assertion of the Koran. To the benefit of Ismael and his
race, it nullifies the exclusive election, the singular privilege of
Isaac, by claiming that the bitter division which arose between the
Jewish and Christian religions represents a «posterior schism» to the
first covenant of a God who does not change.
It was not the author’s intention, therefore, to found a third
religion, but to abolish the other two by restoring what he regarded as
the one true Abrahamic tradition.
In a postface to the first volume of our
translation of the Koran, the Abbé de Nantes advanced the following
hypothesis: «A large-tented Himyarite – permit
me to run ahead of you and thus imagine his ethnic and moral identity –,
a man of letters, a monk, educated at the best schools, both Jewish and
Christian, felt an inspiration, a call, a compulsion to manipulate Saint
Paul’s demonstration and turn it to the advantage of Ismael. He believed
this would greatly aid fraternal peace in which he foresaw the accomplishment, this time realisable and imminent,
of God’s plan.» (p. 338-339)
«Himyar», the Raydan of the titulature of Šamir Yuhariš (280 AD; cf.
our vol. I, p. 285 sq.), is the name of «the Happy Arabia» of old, which
gradually supplanted and annexed the rival kingdoms of «Sheba, Hadramout
and Yemenat» to the south of the Arabian peninsula, achieving the
political unity «of these Arabs in both mountain and plain».
Converted to Christianity in the fourth century of our era by a Roman
mission, this rich region, a refined civilization which went back to the
time of the Queen of Sheba, was the theatre of a fierce rivalry between
Roman colonisers, who were already Christian, and secular Jewish influence.
Osama bin Laden, the «Saudi billionaire» of the twenty-first century
followed the same path as the original «large-tented Himyarite»: «Bin
Laden’s economic and financial empire was created at the beginning of
the century by the patriarch, Mohammed Awad, who was born at Hadramaut in Yemen
and
who in 1928 would settle in Saudi Arabia. Very early on the family was
closely involved with the emergence and formation of the Wahhabite
kingdom by King Abd al-Aziz.» (Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume
Dasquié, “Ben Laden, la vérité interdite”, Denoël, 2001, p. 149)
Thirteen centuries after the first push which saw the Bedouins of
Arabia setting out to conquer Jerusalem in order to «re-establish the
foundations (’al-qawâ cida)
of the Temple with Ismael», the name of bin
Laden’s networks, ’al-qaeda, once again proclaims the same intention,
founded on the superiority of the race of the children of Ismael. At a
time when Judaism and its successor Christianity, both characterised by
degeneracy, are in the process of disappearing, Islam, roused by Osama bin Laden, has
again set out to conquer Jerusalem and there to «restore the foundations
of the Temple».
And everything else is nothing but literature.
The American magazine Time had
announced its intention to designate
Osama bin Laden «man of the year», a long way out in front of New
York’s Mayor Giuliani. Osama bin Laden, emblematic figure of 2001...
Might he be the Antichrist?
Finally, Time magazine retreated before the risk of losing so many
subscribers... But it should be recognised that its first impulse was
not unfounded...
THE CONFLAGRATION OF THE WORLD
And who will defend us against this terrifying danger of a new
Hegira veritably arisen from hell? Who?
Certainly not the Americans, despite the terrible effectiveness of their
new war machine forged during the Eighties, while the USSR was burning
itself out
in the arms race.
At that time they supported Afghan terrorism against Russia... Today,
the terrorism of bin Laden and his network Al-Qaeda has turned against
them and holds them in check! Not only have the “boys” failed to return for
Christmas, but George Bush has been robbed of his victory by the escape
of Osama bin Laden and his senior officers, despite the capture of Tora
Bora, his last known refuge. To top this misfortune, after Paul Wolfovitz, the
Under Secretary for Defence, had announced that the leader of Al-Qaeda
«had perhaps died in the bombing of Tora Bora», the latter resurfaced in
a video recording broadcast on 26 December by the Al Jazeera channel. And
as confirmation of Osama bin Laden’s resurrection, an Afghan dignitary
announced on the 27th that he had taken refuge in Pakistan with a
fundamentalist leader, a recent ally of the Taliban!
Every day the Americans prove their inability to act as peacemakers
among those groups dedicated to self-destruction. Take for example the
other day: on
Christmas Eve a convoy of sixty tribal leaders took a minor road on
their way to Kabul to attend the appointment of the head of the temporary
government, the Pashtun Hamid Karzai. The convoy was attacked by the
US Air Force on the strength of information indicating that
Taliban leaders, including bin Laden himself, were in the convoy.
Apparently several tribal leaders opposed to Karzai deliberately misled
the Americans and tricked the convoy into turning off the main road.
However, let us take care not to limit our accusations
to the Americans alone. More
than ever, even after the collapse of the USSR, these lines by the Abbé
de Nantes clarify the present situation:
«Yesterday, Russia appeared to us to be an essentially satanic
people, the scourge of mankind and we, the democratic West, although
abandoned, enslaved to every one of our passions and willingly subjected
to the powers of freemasonry and its atheistic capitalo-socialism,
flattered ourselves on being the Free World, nations blessed by God,
assured of His protection against every assault of the Enemy.» (Russia
before and after 1983, English CRC no 153, December 1982, p. 21).
Considered in the light of Fatima, «Russia appears to us under a very
different light, continues the Abbé de Nantes, as a people possessed by
Satan. I deliberately say possessed because possession is the
capture and oppression of a creature by the demon despite itself. This terrible state is not
in itself in any way blameworthy, but is often on the contrary a
meritorious and mystical martyrdom. And it depends on God alone whether
this state should last or disappear in an instant. Whereas we, the West,
the free Roman Church, Pope, bishops, people, rebels to God’s commands
and to the requests of our Mother, revolutionaries and reformers, proud
of our faith in Man, corrupt and apostate, we are in reality the
willingly blind subjects of a diabolic infestation, that is to say of
a diabolical presence and power that is desired, maintained and
cherished by the creature who voluptuously abandons himself to Satan for
the satisfaction of his cupidity, his ambition and his monstrous pride.»
The results are there for all to see: a world torn by conflict, from Paris
to Sydney, passing through Belfast and Buenos Aires. If Blessed Pius IX could
describe the communards of 1871 as «demons straight from hell», what
would he say today of the arson attacks spreading through the towns
of France? In Nantes, on the night of 2 to 3 January, eighteen
cars were set on fire in the popular city of Bellevue. In 2001, five hundred
vehicles were set alight in this town of six hundred thousand
inhabitants, and the figure grows year on year because such crimes go
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