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The Sunday Papers "Fatwa Edition"
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Thursday July 21, 2005 00:53 by iosaf .:. the ipisphi ·.· barcelona
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{i am an ally of civilisation...}
Today @ "time" / writing is
2005 the seventh month
MMV July
Jumaada Awal 1426
5765 Tamuz between the feast of Rosh Chodesh and the fast after full moon.
Lúnasa
![Click on image to see full-sized version does it matter what day it is?](../attachments/jul2005/tn_250pxmoongalileocolor.jpg) does it matter what day it is? Dear readers of the respected news service and indymedia collective of Ireland, Eire, somewhere in Europe, Tara, on holidays, toiling away, mass and micro archive user.
Happy Lúnasa.
There will be fatwahs today, there have been easier for us to understand papal indeed soon to be saintly statements on T-H-E W-A-R before but somehow these are felt to discourage the recent upsurge of interest in evangelical fundamentalist islam which has been particularly succesful in the pluricultural and ethnic modern Britain. Its about supply and demand. You want a T-shirt. You'll get a T-shirt. You want a hell & brimstone preacher, thou shallt have one. You want a pop concert to end poverty, just say the word. You want a job, you're asking a lot. You want recognition and even that terribly red militant tendancy swp hijacked word "respect". You're on a waiting list. You want a future without these new forms of head-fucking terror, You're too late.
lúnasa shona duibh.
Lúnasa = Jumaada Awal = Tamuz
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a little James Joyce
"What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?
Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible."
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"When Al-Bara' was asked, "Was the face of the Prophet (as bright) as a sword?" he answered, "No, but (as bright) as a moon” (Bukhari).
When the Prophet was asked about those entering paradise, he responded, "The first batch (of people) who will enter Paradise will be (glittering) like a full moon..."
The Islamic calendar, based purely on lunar cycles, was first introduced in 638 C.E. by the close companion of the Prophet (SAW) and the second Caliph, Umar ibn Al-Khattab, who lived from 592 to 644 C.E. (RAA) in an attempt to reconcile the various, at times conflicting, systems being used for dating during his time."
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the year in the Islamic calendar is about 11 days shorter than the year in the Christian calendar, the Islamic years are slowly gaining in on the Christian years. But it will be many years before the two coincide. The 1st day of the 5th month of C.E. 20874 in the Gregorian calendar will also be (approximately) the 1st day of the 5th month of AH 20874 of the Islamic calendar.
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Today @ "time" / writing is
2005 the seventh month
MMV July
Jumaada Awal 1426
5765 Tamuz between the feast of Rosh Chodesh and the fast after full moon.
Lúnasa
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for various reasons the full text of the last Sunday Papers was moved as comments to a previous Sunday Papers.
The last was "the dark side of the moon"
If you want to read them in order, b4 they go hide in the blog ;-) go here-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70614
"the dark side of the moon"
and after the 10º comment on 7/7/05 go here
"your choice always was" for comments 1 and 2.
which would have been and are in many ways comments 11 and 12 to the Sunday Papers that came after "the geneology edition" which like today's Sunday Papers wasn't published on a Sunday, [ collectors items indeed. ]
and "we are all galicians" edition which keen readers of the copyleft creative commons you laugh we're in charge cyberspace literature will recall saw us, you and me, him and her, depose Fraga.
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