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2100: The Museum of Past Doctrines Preamble It's the dawn of the 22nd century, 50 years after the religious holocaust, and peace has taken hold. Eziqa is five years old and visiting the Museum of Past Doctrines in Putrajaya with her grandma. The New World Order is in flux, driven strictly by secular values. Malaysia, a former Sharia-based nation, is 'comfortably numbed' in the matrix. It has flowered into a 'developed status' morally and economically. While it has matured into a vibrant financial centre, it is the region's most 'introverted' nation. Quiet, yet powerful. Indoctrination of religion from birth is discouraged, but from the age of sixteen, teenagers schooled in moral studies, creationism, and science are allowed to make informed decisions to subscribe to the religions of their choice. Given the day's flavour, little Iqa has developed an effervescent mind, and her questions to granny are equally challenging. She observes the artefacts with...

Which term, Tuhan or Allah, would an evolved Christian in Malaysia adopt?  Despite the convergence and historical application of the latter, it is not the job description of a peaceful Christian to clamour, at the risk of social unrest, for his 'lost' vocabulary, just as it would compromise the Hindu sentiment of 'peace' and 'detachment' should the world's oldest religion lay claim to The Kaaba, that was in existence during the period the Arabian peninsula was part of Vikramaditya's Hindu empire, but that is another story. As a Hindu, an evolved Christian is a 'condition' rather than a 'force.' He has no business, let alone capacity, to confront a threat. His ability is limited to reason, common sense, and, perhaps, points of law.  Over time, the term 'Allah' has lost its biblical meaning in contemporary Christianity, just as the universal term 'God' had gained prominence over 'Gott,' its original expres...

Preamble:- The House of Saud, which prides itself as the Rolls of the Middle East, is keenly aware that there is no Step 3 when you face the Twelfth Imam in the public domain.  Debating the merits and demerits of the cabal's house-negro is as awkward as it is irrelevant, but it is not a waste of time, given that it provokes the Django debate.  It is not Washington that 'made the region tremble' but an elite group that holds the violin, that drew lines in the sand, that defined not only the plethora of caged psyches we call The Middle East but resurrected their doctrinal antithesis in the form of a refreshing tech-driven 4000-year-old flicker to flame, tasked with dragging minions, misogynists and dictators of all stripes out of their dark caves, into modernity . On the chessboard, the grandmaster's protected one is Israel. It is a 'prized flame' while the one who trembles in its jubbah is the House of Saud, the DHL of the triangle and the necessary hypocrit...

"I became minister of defence due to the military's will and not yours, and you know this very well. Moreover, you can't remove me; that's it, you no longer have any legitimacy" - General al-Sisi, responding to President Morsi's threat to dismiss him.  On July 5, 2013, El Watan, an Egyptian daily,  published the dialogue  (in Arabic) between General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and President Dr Muhammad Morsi that took place on Tuesday, July 2, 2013, a few hours before Morsi's final speech to the nation and after that his detention. A reporter was allowed to witness and transcribe their conversation from a TV screen (translated by Raymond Ibrahim): -  Morsi: What's the military's position concerning what's going on? Is it just going to stand by watching? Shouldn't it protect the legitimacy? Sisi: What legitimacy? According to documented reports, the entire army is with the people's will, and most people don't want y...