POWER IN WORLD POLITICS IS LINKED TO OIL

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FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE READ ON THE OTHER THREAD!!!!


Power in world politics is linked to Oil
By Minister Louis Farrakhan

[Editor’s note: The following text is excerpted from a lecture, "Healing the Wounds to Bring About a Universal Family," that was delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on February 17, 2002 in Los Angeles, California.]

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.


The prophets of Allah (God) spoke truth to power. I do not believe any religious leader is worthy of Allah (God) if we are afraid to say to government, kings and rulers, "Thus sayeth the Lord." If we are too weak or cowardly to say to power, "This is what Allah (God) said in the Book, Bible and Qur’an, and you (kings, rulers, governments) have deviated from this," then, we are spiritual cowards.

Allah (God) does not like cowards. He loves those who are patient and steadfast under trial. He is very clear in the Bible and Qur’an, "Me and Me alone should you fear." If we are afraid to speak truth to President George Bush, then we’ve set up a god beside Allah (God) and are unworthy of Allah’s (God’s) favor. We must strive to fear no one but God.

"Minister Farrakhan, are you rallying people to be disrespectful to the President of the United States?" No! The Holy Qur’an and Bible teaches us, "Respect those in authority whether they are of your faith or not, or whether they respect you or not, you should respect those in authority." That’s how we maintain order in the society. However, there is a way to make our disapproval known; not by picking up a gun, nor by fashioning bombs, killing innocent people. The biggest gun or weapon that we have is Truth and the unity of people behind Truth.

I wrote to the President that America could have access to whatever it needed of raw materials from the nations of the world. The nations would share their resources with joy, if America would be fair with them and allow them to receive a decent price for their goods and raw materials, so that they could improve the quality of life for their people.

Secretary of State Colin Powell said that to win the war against terrorism we must fight against poverty and disease, because poverty and disease breeds terrorists. This is a half-truth. Certainly, we must fight against poverty and disease, but it’s not just poverty and disease that breeds terrorists. It is the policies of a nation that allows other nations to be poor, while America rises to richness at the expense of the poor of the world. This is not right.

Politics is controlled by money. So, the people’s vote does not mean much when the lobbyists get to Washington and start passing money around.

We must understand that power is linked in world politics to oil. As the greatest industrial nation on the earth, America has an insatiable appetite and desire for oil. When coal was the number one energy in the world, Great Britain ruled the world because she had the greatest deposits of coal. When the power to move engines moved from coal to oil, then England and America began vying for control of the places on this earth that produce oil. Who are these rogue states that America says she does not like and how is oil connected to America’s displeasure?Libya. Libya is one of the three countries in the world with the sweetest crude oil. What was America and England doing in Libya? Did these people bother these two great powers? No, Libya has oil. Both America and Great Britain had military bases there. Libya had a king called Idris and Muammar Gadhafi, as a young man, a colonel in the Libyan military in a bloodless coup, overthrew the king, then pushed the British and the Americans out and nationalized the oil. Then, He was able to raise the standard of living of all Libyans and, with money left, he aided the liberation struggle of people all over the world. America and its administrations were upset with that.

Iraq. Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world. Next door to Iraq is Iran, and they have a tremendous supply of oil. There was a man by the name of Muhammad Mossadeq. He nationalized the oil. Therefore, he was looked upon as an evil man to the interests of the oil companies and the governments of America and Great Britain. Why was he evil? Because he wanted to use the vast oil deposits in Iran to raise the standard of living of the Iranian people. What’s wrong with that? Nothing is wrong with that in the eyes of fair-minded people, but something was wrong with that in the eyes of the rich and the powerful oil companies and governments of the U.S. and Great Britain. So, a coup was organized to overthrow Muhammad Mossadeq and place a man on the throne in Iraq that was sympathetic to the interests of America and Great Britain. That man was the Shah of Iran.

He was given weapons and modern aircraft. He was a Muslim, but under his rule, the religion of Islam and those who wanted the purity of their religion sufferred. Those who wanted to return to the pristine purity of Islam started organizing. The leader of that movement was Imam Khomeni. The shah was overthrown and Imam Khomeni, a deeply devoted spiritual leader, whom some would say was a religious fanatic, came to power in Iran. But he was exceedingly angry with America for her policies toward that nation.

Saudi Arabia, up to this time, had the largest known oil reserves in the world. President Roosevelt fashioned a good relationship with the king. The kings of Arabia have lived well and they have done fairly well by their people. But none of these oil rich Arab countries have accepted democracy as a political way of life. America did not care about that as long as these countries kept pumping the oil.

Everyone of us has someone in our family who is a victim of drugs. Drug addicts, unfortunately, become artful liars. They can make up the fanciest stories just to get money so that they can get their drug of choice. If you don’t give them the money, when you turn your back, your fur coat, your rings, watches, or things of value in your home are gone. The drug addict becomes a thief and then ofttimes, they become murderers. America is an oil junkie. She does not care how she gets the oil, she must have it. Therefore, lies, deceit, robbery and murder are part and parcel of America’s foreign policy when it comes to dealing for oil.
I had a discussion with Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia. When Imam Khomeni came into power in Iran, he was also angry with the sheikdoms of Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and the rulers of Saudi Arabia. Imam Khomeni said there’s no king in Islam, only Allah is our King. In our prayers, we say, "Oh Allah, Thou art the King, there is no God but You."

Imam Khomeni, in his extreme devotion, frightened the rulers of Iraq, the Arab Emirates and Kuwait, and he also frightened those rulers who were Muslim but their governments had adopted socialist theory and practice. America appealed to Saddam Hussein offerring to build Iraq as a great power as a bulwark against Iran. Prince Bandar told me that the Saudis gave Saddam Hussein $80 billion to build him into a military power. If Saddam Hussein and Iraq have weapons of mass destruction, where do you think they got them from? He started spending the $80 billion on weapons of war. He spent it with France and France built him an atomic reactor. The day it was finished Israel bombed it. He spent money with Russia, England and America to build this great arsenal of weapons.

Iraq was a friend of America, at that time. Iran and Iraq fought a war for eight years and over a million young Muslims died. After the war was over, Iran’s military was very weak, but Iraq still had a strong military with many so-called weapons of mass destruction.

The little country called Kuwait used to belong to Iraq as its nineteenth province, but the British cut that little piece out. Thus, the country of Kuwait was born. Why did you do that Britain? Whenever Great Britain leaves a country, she leaves it ofttimes in a condition that will produce war through territorial arguments over boundaries.

So, now you have Iraq strong, Iran weak. There was a growing problem between Iraq and Kuwait that Iraq charged Kuwait with stealing from their wells located in the southern part of Iraq. They wanted to go into Kuwait; they spoke to the American ambassador. The American ambassador said, in effect, "we don’t have anything to do with that." So, Iraq marched into Kuwait.

Prime Minister Thatcher of Great Britain came to the U.S. to Colorado and met with President George H. Walker Bush. Then, they told Saddam Hussein that he had to get out of Kuwait. But he refused and then the Gulf War ensued. When his armed forces retreated from Kuwait, the oil fields were set on fire.

The billions of dollars that the United Arab Emirates and the Kuwaitis had in banks in America had to be used to pay American companies to go in and put out the fires. In the Congress of the United States, I read where some Congressperson said this is the first war that we fought where we ended up with profit. All the riches of Kuwait, the Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia were gradually being drained from them. America has put her soldiers in that area and jointly those countries share the cost.

[willihen]

D.X.
Hate to be an ass. But your posts are so long now. I don't bother reading them all anymore.
I think alot of others feel the same.
take care

[Kemosave]

The Farrakhan Factor – July 2004 – Charisma Magazine

When I visited Baltimore recently I met a man who was a member of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam. This man was a nice guy, but he also attended a prominent Christian church in the city. I don’t believe Christianity and the Nation of Islam go together, so I knew we had a problem.

The man wore a Nation of Islam ring, and he bragged about Louis Farrakhan, listened to his teachings and continued to praise Allah. Yet he also went to church on Sunday and praised Jesus. Does anyone else see something wrong with this picture?

The Nation of Islam makes its purpose clear. It promotes racism and is against American interests. Members advocate being a separate nation within the United States. I understand that they need to evangelized, but it cannot be done with compromise.

In case you haven’t noticed, many people who represent other belief systems are infiltrating our churches today. Some believers are excited that Farrakhan is talking about Jesus more. That good, but I’ll get excited when renounces Allah and his racist ideology. Meanwhile we must remain wary.

If Farrakhan believes Allah is Lord, then he should serve him. If he does not, then he should make Jesus Lord. What we believe makes us who we are. This is why it is impossible to please God without total faith in Jesus.

The Nation of Islam is a religious sect. It endorses sections of the gospel but rejects other parts. Some sects take a portion of the Word of God and attempt to seat Christ next to idols. But God is a jealous God, and He demands that we take all of Him or none.

To be jealous means to be intolerant of rivalry. God will not compete with other gods. Plagues came upon the Philistines when they tried to put an idol of Dagon next to the ark of God. The same holds true today.

Second Corinthians 6:15 asks the questions: What does Christ have in common with Belial? What part has believer with an infidel? Muslims often refer to Christians as infidels, but the Bible declares that they are!

The word ‘infidel’ in the Greek is apistos, and it describes one who is not a believer in Christ as Lord. It also denotes one who cannot be trusted. This brings a question to my mind: How can thousands of Christians trust an unbeliever such as Louis Farrahkan so much that they would support him by attending the Million Man March in Washington D.C. in 1995?

Please understand me, I am praying for Farrakhan’s salvation, but until he embraces faith in Christ he is still an unbeliever. Praying for him is one thing, but following him is another.

Romans 8:19 says that all creation waits for the manifestation of the true sons of God. Nature was surely confused on the day of the Million Man March. Christians were following an infidel!

Jesus said in Matthew 12:30: ‘He who is not with Me [definitely on my side] is against Me, and he who does not [definitely] gather with Me and for My side scatters’ (The Amplified Bible).

On the day Louis Farrahkan gathered those men he scattered them spiritually. The Greek word for ‘scatter’ is skorpizo, and it is related to the word ‘scorpion’. It means to put to flight or to waste.

When those men gathered in the nation’s capital, Farrakhan gave glory to Allah. He poisoned their minds with the powerful sting of a scorpion. And what a waste it was! Everyone left more bound than when they came because only Jesus makes us free.

The Nation of Islam is a spiritual stronghold, and we cannot win souls trapped in it unless we bind the strongman. We cannot bind what we agree with. To bind is to come up against. Farrakhan may have gathered more than 400,000 men for his huge event, but that number is nothing compared with the millions of deceived souls who are sucked into hell from his teachings.

If you have bought into Farrakhan’s teachings, now is the time to cross the line. Separate yourself from the deception. There is only one name by which we are saved, and that name is Jesus.

[Panik]

hey DX, Farrakhan sounds like he is advocating communism now. This has been tried and has failed, maybe he misssed the last 100 years of history.

[mangler]

Farrakhan knows how to paint the BIG PICTURE. He is a genuis with words.

In this post, i cant find any lies....can you?

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Farrakhan knows how to paint the BIG PICTURE. He is a genuis with words.

In this post, i cant find any lies....can you?

A these cats ain't ready for truth, NOTICE HOW NOONE DISPUTED NOTHING HE SAID HERE!!!! TRUTH IS TRUTH NO MATTER WHO IT COMES FROM!!!! LIKE I SAY, WHEN THE NAMES AND SILLY THREATS START BEING THROWN AROUND, THEN I KNOW TRUTH IS BEING TOLD!!!! THIS IS THE RESULTS OF THAT TRUTH HURTING THESE CATS AND THEY WHOLE THOUGHT PROCESS IS BEING CHALLENGED WITH SOMETHING THEY NEVER HEARD BEFORE FROM A RIGHTEOUS BLACK MAN. THEY NOT USED TO THIER LIES BEING EXPOSED!!!! OH AND NOTICE THE PROPAGANDA SOME OF THESE DUDES ON HERE TRYING TO POST ABOUT THE NOI. THEY RESORTING TO ANYTHING NOW.

[Anonymous20]

^^that was a good read, thanks

[Kemosave]

Farrakhan knows how to paint the BIG PICTURE. He is a genuis with words.

In this post, i cant find any lies....can you?

Farrakhan fancies himselfs many things and likes to wear many hats. Here he's wearing his economist hat. Only he's not an economist. His assertion that America is responsible for the poverty of the world and has the ability to solve the world's poverty is incorrect.

[Common Sense]

Farrakhan is living in America and enjoying the benefits of oil right along with the rest of us.

[Panik]

Farrakhan knows how to paint the BIG PICTURE. He is a genuis with words.

In this post, i cant find any lies....can you?

A these cats ain't ready for truth, NOTICE HOW NOONE DISPUTED NOTHING HE SAID HERE!!!! TRUTH IS TRUTH NO MATTER WHO IT COMES FROM!!!! LIKE I SAY, WHEN THE NAMES AND SILLY THREATS START BEING THROWN AROUND, THEN I KNOW TRUTH IS BEING TOLD!!!! THIS IS THE RESULTS OF THAT TRUTH HURTING THESE CATS AND THEY WHOLE THOUGHT PROCESS IS BEING CHALLENGED WITH SOMETHING THEY NEVER HEARD BEFORE FROM A RIGHTEOUS BLACK MAN. THEY NOT USED TO THIER LIES BEING EXPOSED!!!! OH AND NOTICE THE PROPAGANDA SOME OF THESE DUDES ON HERE TRYING TO POST ABOUT THE NOI. THEY RESORTING TO ANYTHING NOW.

actually, I disputed it. What he is talking about is Communism. distributing the wealth opf america to the poorer countries is just communism on a global scale. It has never worked, no matter how many have tried it, and Farakhan is an idiot from even mentioning it. You are supposed to learn from history. Every country that has gone communist has ended up worse than ever. And What is he talkin about? He got plenty money himself. When He starts shoppin at big lots, and giving his own money to poor people, then he can talk about the rest of us. He should give me half his money so we can be equal. That's fair right?

[el tio]

D.X.
Hate to be an ass. But your posts are so long now. I don't bother reading them all anymore.
I think alot of others feel the same.
take care

Word. I just scan down to see who replies..........you can tell a lot about a thread by those participating in it. (damn.....I just gave this thread some validity. lol)

[Kemosave]

For sure CM. Simply follow the money trail surrounding him. Fascinating stuff that.

I saw an article saying he owes $1,500,000 in back taxes but manages to maintain a 77 acre beautiful Michigan estate, Lexus, Rolls Royce, Lincolns.. he's rolling.. all on poor black folk's money. And let's not forget he charged a $11 registration fee and a $3.99 per minute 900 call (average 3 minutes) to participate in the march.

And what is Paul and Jan of TBN doing with 30 houses anyway? Do they NEED 30 houses? I mean 30 wigs maybe but 30 houses?

[Anonymous20]

Farrakhan knows how to paint the BIG PICTURE. He is a genuis with words.

In this post, i cant find any lies....can you?

Farrakhan fancies himselfs many things and likes to wear many hats. Here he's wearing his economist hat. Only he's not an economist. His assertion that America is responsible for the poverty of the world and has the ability to solve the world's poverty is incorrect.

I find it fascinating that the United States of America as a nation has been in existence for only about 226 years, and has been a powerful influence around the globe for about half that time, and all of a sudden America is responsible for problems that have plagued the world for centuries. Terrorism and barbarian acts in the middle east has existed since before the time of Muhammed and Islam. That type of violence and extrmeley cultural and part of the way they handle situations.

[el tio]

Farrakhan knows how to paint the BIG PICTURE. He is a genuis with words.

In this post, i cant find any lies....can you?

Farrakhan fancies himselfs many things and likes to wear many hats. Here he's wearing his economist hat. Only he's not an economist. His assertion that America is responsible for the poverty of the world and has the ability to solve the world's poverty is incorrect.

I find it fascinating that the United States of America as a nation has been in existence for only about 226 years, and has been a powerful influence around the globe for about half that time, and all of a sudden America is responsible for problems that have plagued the world for centuries. Terrorism and barbarian acts in the middle east has existed since before the time of Muhammed and Islam. That type of violence and extrmeley cultural and part of the way they handle situations.

I've said that myself many times Alonso...........people want to hate on the USA and we've just been around for a minute.

[WIP]

Alonso I think its because AMERICA started with exploitation, greed and violence.

[Panik]

Alonso I think its because AMERICA started with exploitation, greed and violence.

what country in history didn't?