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THE CREATOR’S RIGHTS PARTY STRATEGY By NealHorsley
(Christian Gallery News Service, June 13, 2004) Everybody not on life support systems knows Muslims are killing Americans and Americans are returning fire. This action goes by the name War on Terrorism. Any person who is not profiting enormously from the present carnage and especially any person who wants to stay off life support systems should be willing to read about a strategy that claims to have the power to put an end to the War on Terrorism because the War on Terrorism threatens to move inexorably into something much more lethal than it is today, something so lethal in fact that none of us wants to think about it. Don't expect this strategy to be easy to understand. But I promise if you'll think about what is written here, you will see the strategy. You might not agree with it, you might not believe it, but you will see it. Start with Islam. Islam is a mind-bogglingly complex socio-cultural-theological entity. Thousands of books and millions of words have been written pointing to all the complexities surrounding any attempt to reason coherently about Islam. But Islam is not alone in being a fragmented and complex entity; the same thing can be said of all “the people of the book.” Who are “the people of the book?” The
Harvard University Press published “People of the
Book” by Moshe
Halbertal,
who teaches Jewish thought and philosophy at
Before you think The Creator’s Rights Party is relying on Jewish scholars to create our strategy, understand that it is the subject of the book, not that fact that he is Jewish, that is important because understanding about "the people of the book" is the key to understanding the way to win the War on Terrorism. The People Of The Book begins, “In the beginning was the text…While Scripture is at the center of many religions, among them Islam and Christianity, this book inquires into the function, development, and implications of the centrality of text… and the text-centered community.” “…the text-centered community.” That’s the idea that we need to focus on if we’re going to begin to understand the strategy that can win the war on terrorism. That “text-centered community” is important because it is the concept that describes the one thing, out of the infinitely myriad differences among Muslims, Jews and Christians, that they actually have in common. It is the “text-centered community” that perfectly describes those Christians, Jews and Muslims throughout the world who believe that there is One God and that the One God uttered words that were written down on paper and are now available as the rule and guide to THE way of life to those who will hear and obey them. While the books of the “people of the book” differ--Muslims have the Koran, Jews have the Torah and the Talmud, and Christians have the Old and New Testaments—the fact that they are all “text-based communities” is a material fact that opens the door to a point of contact that can lead to a working coalition capable of winning the War on Terrorism. Here’s how. All that complexity and the seemingly irreconcilable differences that separate the “people of the book” can be burnt away like the sun burns away the mist over an early morning river when it is seen that all the books of “the people of the book” agree on a certain number of criminal laws. In spite of the fact that the books differ in many—if not most---details, there is an amazing agreement among the books on which actions should be called crimes. ( That is not to say that the books agree on the punishment people who break those particular laws should receive. The point is there are certain actions that all people of the book agree should be called illegal and those who commit those crimes should be punished.) It is by focusing on the broad basis of agreement on what constitutes criminal behavior that we can see the basis for the formation of a coalition that possesses the power to put an end to the War on Terrorism.
Here is the central fact that must be seen:
Terrorism is being unleashed on the governments of the world that
have made it a policy to legalize the
very actions that the books of the people of the book have decreed to be
illegal. All that is required to win the
war on terrorism is to forge a coalition from people of the books who are willing to
make the governments of the world, beginning with the government of the
There is one major problem for American citizens. The
government of the
What crimes am I talking
about? On the surface, two
actions will suffice to prove my point. Abortion and
homosexuality are actions that
all the Holy Texts of the people of the
book agree are crimes—capital
crimes for
the most part. The
willingness of the government of the So there you have the overview of the present political reality that has spawned the War on Terrorism that threatens us all.
How do we win this War?
The strategy can be defined in one sentence: Organize the people of
the book into a political
coalition with the power to restore the
crimes defined in the Holy Books to their
rightful definition as crimes in the government of the
Beneath this ever growing
catalog of actions that the
For those of you who think there is no hope of establishing the working coalition described here, read this article about a recent rally joining members of The Creator's Rights Party and Muslim activists in California.
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