POLITICAL
DREAMS
Dr Umar
Azam BA PHD DCL DIP.FJ DIP.IM
MANCHESTER,
UK
MAY 2003
 INTRODUCTION
The
dreams which follow are only a few of the
many political dreams which I have
experienced. Readers of this paper may
gain more undertanding of the political
issues raised by some of these dreams by looking
at newspaper articles of relevant
periods of these dreams.
DREAM
NO 1 TUESDAY
23 APRIL 2003
I
dreamt that the Muslims of India received
unexpected support from unexpected sources
within India. Then I saw a group of Hindu
women. One woman, in particular, the
leader, was particularly pernicious.
Finally, I was given the Message that these
women have been expelled!
CONTEXT
The
year 2002 saw severe communal strife between
Hindus and Muslims, the latter suffering
horrendous atrocities in the state of
Gujarat. This dream foretold that the
Muslim minority position in India would be
strengthened. Some weeks after this
dream occurred A. J. Kalam, 'the father
of India's nucleur missile programme, became
President. Though no more than a
figure-head, his appointment showed the
pressure on India's Hindu-fascist government
from within [e.g. the Congress Party] and
without [e.g. from the British
government] not to encourage
communal massacres.
DREAM
NO 2 THURSDAY
31 JANUARY 2002
The
atmosphere in this dream was
'action-packed'. I saw a globe from
its highest point -the Arctic- and a
destination was projected far towards the
south-east - to Malaysia! I was told
in the dream that the Malaysians are very
sincere and devout Muslims: they are true
fighters for the cause of Islam!
CONTEXT
Whenever
Muslims fall into some trouble anywhere in
the world [Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya,
Iraq, Afghanistan, Guatanamo Bay, Iraq], the
Malaysian government and public always show
concern and give their maximum support.
DREAM
NO 3 SUNDAY
5 APRIL 1998
I
saw the moon revolving around the Earth. On
the occasions of the first quarter, half,
third quarter, full stages of the moon's
visibility, a Hindu girl had partially
covered the surface of the moon with the
flag of India. It was not the
usual, national flag of India but a
flag depicting a sharp symbol, pointed,
similar to a weapon. [1]
At this point [!] in the dream,
I gained the impression that the moon itself
represented Kashmir. In the dream, I
personally had the power to remove this
pointed emblem and actually replace it with
a flag depicting an Islamic symbol: the
crescent and star of Pakistan. [2]
I had helped the Kashmiri people! [3]
CONTEXT
[1] This
weapon-like object probably represents the
oppression and atrocities which have been
endured by the Kashmiris at the hands of the
Hindus.
[2]
This action probably represents my
wilingness to help Kashmir. See my
efforts in the 'Kashmir' section of the
'POLITICAL DOCUMENTS' link on this Site.
[3]
When I woke up from this dream, I could not
believe what I had dreamt: that Allah Most
High had given me the [metaphorical]
capability to actually reach the moon, get
rid of oppressive, Hindu symbols and then to
adorn the moon with the symbols of
Islam!
DREAM
NO 4 SATURDAY
18 APRIL 1992
I
saw a Palestinian prisoner-of-war in a
Jewish military jail. He seemed
to be a very religious Muslim. He had
a well-built, heroic figure and a flowing,
handsome beard. He also seemed to be a
very powerful and capable person. The
Jews had not only subjected him to solitary
confinement, but had also chained him around
his wrists [not tightly, but the chains were
long]. Despite these chains, the
prisoner looked dignified and seemed to
represent a holy cause. In nearby
cells, other Palestinians were being held.
The scene changed to Visiting Time. A
Palestinian wife and her daughter [1]
came to see one of the prisoners.
But the capable Palestinian, who looked like
a leader, had no visitors, nor did any
of the other prisoners! [2]
and [3]
CONTEXT
[1]
This little girl appeared to be my own
sister! The Jewish soldiers were
treating the mother and daughter roughly.
In fact, they were dealing with the little
girl [who could have been no more than eight
or nine years old] as if she were as much of
a threat to their security as an adult man!
[2]
This was a very emotional dream, and I felt
terribly aggrieved for all Palestinians
imprisoned by Jewish forces when I woke up.
These prisoners are, mostly, not even
afforded basic rights such as receiving the
visits of loved ones, with the result that
there is a terrible emotional pining for all
concerned. Any relatives who are allowed
are manhandled and humiliated.
[3] The
Palestinian cause is a just cause. The
Palestinians are not terrorists: they are
fighters on behalf of their mothers,
sisters, wives and daughters, who are
refugees in their own land! Justice
must be done! The world must
acknowledge that injustice has been done to
the Palestinians. Britain and America
must have more compassion for the
Palestinians and must help to help them.
DREAM
NO 5
FEBRUARY
1993
I
dreamt of the intense sufering of Bosnian
Muslims at the hands of the Serbs. [1]
I personally experienced some of the
excruciating pain of a Bosnian whose legs
had been cut off at the knees by the Serbs.
[2]
CONTEXT
[1]
After the dream, I felt more vividly how the
Bosnian Muslims were being maimed and
tortured on a large scale in Bosnia-Herzogovina.
My eelings were of grief and helplessness
and I wished that I could somehow stop their
suffering myself.
[2]
Obviously, I experienced this dream during
the terrible civil war in the former
Yugoslavia. To be fair, I did
have other dreams which made it clear to me
that this civil war was more complex than
made out by the Media in Britain; the
Serbs did acquire their territorial gains as
a result of war, not nassacre. These dreams
emphasised that Bosnian Muslims, and the
Croats, were also guilty of atrocities, so
this was a three-sided, 'free-for-all' civil
war. However, because the Croats were,
for the most part, allied to the Roman
Catholic Croats against the Eastern Orthodox
Serbs, this civil war was not a simple
Muslim versus non-Muslim conflict. The
Serbs managed to perpetrate the most
offences simply because of their numerical
superiority.
DREAM
NO 6
THURSDAY
8 JANUARY 1998 [THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADHAN]
I
dreamt that two evil Serbs who had committed
atrocities against the Bosnian Muslims in
the Yugoslavian civil war had been caught by
the Musim Army and were in custody. [1]
These prisoners were wearing civilian
clothing, now that the war was over and
looked very dangerous. To celebrate
their capture, a friend and I bought ladoos
[traditional Asian sweetmeets eaten
especially on celebratory occasions] and a
paper bag-full of large, lime-green, juicy
champagne grapes! [2]
CONTEXT
[1] War
Crimes trials of Serbs [and Croats] were
eventually held in Holland by NATO.
[2]
I was advised in the dream to use my
education and knowledge to write influential
letters to the Embassies of powerful
countries such as Britain, France and
America so as to benefit the Bosnian
Muslims.
DREAM
NO 7
MARCH
1993 [THE LAST JUMAH OF THE HOLY
MONTH OF RAMADHAN]]
In
my dream, I saw a translucent, glittering,
resplendent block of
Arabic lettering in the form of the
First Kalimah:
Transliteration:
LA
ILAHA ILLALA
Translation:
THERE IS NO GOD EXCEPT ALLAH
This
holy phrase was violently broken in
half by the ruthless Indian-Hindu security
forces, and each half of this sacred block
fell to the ground. This incident took
place in Kashmir.
DREAM
N0 8 c.
1994
I
dreamt that I was in South Africa and Nelson
Mandela, the President, asked me to make a
speech to celebrate the ending of apartheid.
President Mandela recognised that my
documents were both political and valuable,
so I was a worthy person to bid good
riddance to the evil and injustice of
apartheid.
DREAM
NO 9 4
0CTOBER 1997
A
lady was going to announce something on a
microphone. I gave her a hint.
I said, 'The Presi.......' Then she
announced, 'The President of America - your
work!' I then noticed the exclusive
fittings for a luxurious house on sale on
some kind of high platform. In the
same dream, I saw the innumerable towns and
villages of England, each marked as a star
on a map. These stars were positioned
around central England and then I had a
message that each town has its own council,
or something similar. I also saw lofty
mountains which a person would need to
conquer to get from one village to another.
CONTEXT
SEE
CONTEXT AFTER DREAM NO 10 BELOW
DREAM
NO 10 c.
OCTOBER 1997
The
President of America was driving a car
slowly and he turned into Campbell Road in
Manchester. The British Media were
very interested in all the former lats he
had lived in before becoming famous.
Reporters visited addresses and talked bout
them, as in an oral biography of the
President.
CONTEXT
TO DREAMS NOS 9/ 10
At
the time of the above two dreams, I
had just finished writing out most of the
manuscript 'PERSONAL ISLAMIC DREAMS' and was
writing to publishers in the hope of getting
my work published 'officially' [rather than
sel-published]. I also required
someone to type out the Research. I
was unsure of the quality of my work, but
the above two dreams were very encouraging
because they are giving news of my future
fame [I've use some of the dreams in
'PERSONAL ISLAMIC DREAMS' for this very
paper].
DREAM
NO 11
TUESDAY
1 MAY 2002
I
dreamt that Israel was starving 1,300,000
Palestinians. I saw a few corpses in
fields, corpses which had the physical look
of the faces of people traditionally
accustomed to starve from famine-ravaged
countries such as Ethiopia, Somalia and
Sudan. Other, barely living,
Palestinians were frail, shrivelled by
starvation, close to death. But the
spirit of these persecuted Palestinians was not
broken. They had the knowledge
that their severe predicament was a test
from God and that they would be
granted Eternal Joy for their pains in this
worldly life.
CONTEXT
At
the time of this dream, Jewish forces had
invaded Palestinian towns and villages in
the West Bank, such as Hebron and Jenin, and
their destructive, indiscriminate attacks
entailed great suffering for Palestinian
civilians. Jewish tanks and
soldiers had also laid seige to the Church
of Nativity, entrapping 250 Palestinian
freedom-fighter refugees, and Church
clerics, inside for several weeks.
DREAM
NO 12
THURSDAY
2 MAY 2002
I dreamt
that Greece is a single, minor Island. I
saw gigantic, ocean waves [some of these
waves were much larger than the Island
itself!] in close proximity to the
Island. It almost seemed likely that
one such wave would swallow up the Island.
CONTEXT
A
family of Britons, innocently
'plane-spotting' at a Greek airport, had
been arrested on accusations of espionage. Moreover,
each year, many thousands of foreign
women holiday-makers, including British
women. are raped by natives while on
holiday to Greece. This dream implies
that the Greeks are a culpable and unfair
peoples who may become the target of Divine
Wrath in the future.
DREAM
NO 13
21 FEBRUARY
2003
I
saw several, very tall, modern
buildings like skyscrapers, standing
besides one another. Then I was given
the message that certain Islamic
countries have become the vassels of
America.
CONTEXT
That
very day, I noticed an article in The
Times entitled, 'United States must
dig deep to pay the price of
loyalty'; this article alleged that
Muslim countries such as Turkey [given $26bn
in direct aid and loans], Jordan [$1bn] and
Egypt [$1bn] were happy to receive 'blood
money' from America in return for
support for the American [and British]
invasion of Iraq and the consequent loss of
Iraqi civilian lives!
DREAM NO 14 c.
SUNDAY 2 MARCH 2003
This
was a very sad dream about Iraq.
It divulged that the new regime in Iraq,
which will be set up after Gulf War II, was
totally subservient to America: [to such an
extent that] the Iraqi people had no
free will and there was a tragic
feeling of helplessness.
CONTEXT
The
Newsnight [BBC2] programme of 26
March 2003 alleged that America planned
to make Iraq its colony after Gulf
War II by appointing US Army personnel in
key 'Administrator' positions! After
disagreement with Britain over this issue,
American politicians denied any such plans
and affirmed that America intended that the
Iraqis themselves should run Iraq.
This dream is saying that the Iraqi
leadership will naturally be as if
American colonian leadership in practice.
My dream was true, as subsequent, relevant media
reports suggest; the following is only one
of a number of similar messages I have
received on the Internet:
| From: |
"Aeisha
Muhammad" AEISHA786@msn.com
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| Date: |
Fri,
2 May 2003 11:03:12 -0400 |
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[weloveallah]
Fw: Iraqi TV news run by
Right Wing Christians! |
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Tuesday,
April 29, 2003 10:17 PM
Subject:
Iraqi TV news run by Right Wing
Christians!
This
article is posted at:
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2003/000150.html
This
report on how the US govt's new satellite
TV news station for Iraq is being run
by a right wing Christian fundamentalist
media company provides another window
on the extreme fundamentalist nature of
our own administration.
Grace News
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
The U.S. government this week launched its
Arabic language satellite TV news station
for Muslim Iraq.
It is being produced in a studio -- Grace
Digital Media -- controlled by
fundamentalist Christians who are rabidly
pro-Israel.
That's Grace as in "by the Grace of
God."
Grace Digital Media is controlled by a
fundamentalist Christian millionaire,
Cheryl Reagan, who last year wrested
control of Federal News Service, a
transcription news service, from its
former owner, Cortes
Randell.
Randell says he met Reagan at a prayer
meeting, brought her in as an investor in
Federal News Service, and then she forced
him out of his own company.
Grace Digital Media and Federal News
Service are housed in a downtown
Washington, D.C. office building, along
with Grace News Network.
When you call the number for Grace News
Network, you get a person answering
"Grace Digital Media/Federal News
Service."
According to its web site, Grace News
Network is "dedicated to transmitting
the evidence of God's presence in the
world today."
"Grace News Network will be reporting
the current secular news, along with
aggressive proclamations that will 'change
the news' to reflect the Kingdom of God
and its purposes," GNN proclaims.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),
the U.S. government agency producing the
television news broadcasts for Iraq, likes
to say it is the BBC of the USA.
BBG runs Radio Free Europe, Voice of
America, and Radio Sawa -- Arabic language
radio for the Middle East.
"Our mission is clear," BBG's
Joan Mower told us. "To broadcast
accurate and objective news about the
United States and the world. We don't do
propaganda, leafleting -- we are like the
BBC in that respect."
Well, then why hook up with Grace?
BBG's Joan Mower said that Grace Digital
Media is a mainstream production house
used by all kinds of mainstream news
organizations.
"Grace will have nothing to do with
the editorial side of the news
broadcast," she said. "They are
renting us equipment, space, studio. The
Grace personnel we use include
technicians, production people but no
editorial people."
But Mower said she couldn't get us a copy
of the contract between BBG and Grace
Digital media. Nor could she say how Grace
Digital was chosen as the production
studio.
Grace News Network proclaims that it will
be a "unique tool in the Lord's
ministry plan for the world."
"Grace News Network provides
networking links and portals to various
ministries and news services that will be
of benefit to every Christian believer and
seeker of truth," according to the
company's mission
statement.
The CEO of Grace News Network is Thorne
Auchter.
The same Thorne Auchter who began the
dismantling of the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) under
Presidents Reagan and George Bush I.
Auchter did not return our calls seeking
comment for this story.
While it's unclear whether Grace News
Network actually produces any news, it has
produced a documentary movie titled
"Israel: Divine Destiny" which
it showed at the National Press Club in
September 2002.
The film is about "Israel's destiny
and the United States' role in that
destiny," according to Grace News
Network.
Grace News said that it could not make a
copy of the film available to us at this
time, since it is now undergoing
post-production editing. Nor could it
provide a transcript.
The mainstream media has documented strong
and growing ties between right-wing
Republican Christian fundamentalists and
right-wing Sharonist Israeli
expansionists.
This alliance is personified in Ralph
Reed's Stand Up for Israel, a group formed
to "mobilize Christians and other
people of faith to support the State of
Israel."
President Bush has very strong ties to
fundamentalist Christians, most notably
Franklin Graham, the son of Rev. Billy
Graham.
Last week, Franklin Graham delivered a
Good Friday message at the Pentagon,
despite an uproar over his previous
slander of Islam as "a very evil and
wicked religion."
Don Wagner, a professor of religion and
director of the Center for Middle Eastern
Studies at North Park University, an
evangelical Christian college in Chicago,
has written extensively about what he
calls Christian Zionism, whose leaders he
identifies as, among others, Ralph Reed,
Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Gary Bauer,
and Franklin Graham.
"Christian Zionists have historically
pointed to Genesis 12:3 - I will bless
those who bless you. And the one who
curses you, I will curse," Dr. Wagner
said. "They have interpreted this to
mean that individuals and nations who
support the state of Israel will be
blessed by God. It has come to mean
political, economic, and moral support,
often uncritically rendered to the state
of Israel."
Grace News Network seems to fit the mold.
Joan Mower says that BBG is currently
producing and transmitting six hours of
news into Iraq including a dubbed version
of the daily evening news from ABC, CBS,
NBC, Fox and PBS, plus three hours of
original news programming from BBG.
BBG says it sees no problem in having
Grace produce the evening news broadcast
for Iraq.
Given the brewing anti-American revolt
through all sectors of Iraqi society,
maybe it should reconsider.
We called Grace Digital Media to speak
with Cheryl Reagan.
Her secretary told us that she has been
away in extended vacation for more than a
month -- in Israel.
When will she back? we asked.
No one knows, the secretary said.
Russell Mokhiber is editor of the
Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime
Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the
Washington, D.C.-based Multinational
Monitor, http://www.multinationalmonitor.org.
They are co-authors of Corporate
Predators: The Hunt for MegaProfits and
the Attack on Democracy (Monroe, Maine:
Common Courage Press; http://www.corporatepredators.org).
(c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
_______________________________________________
"A time comes when silence is
betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands
of inner truth, men do not easily assume
the task of opposing their government's
policy, especially in time of war. Nor
does the human spirit move without great
difficulty against all the apathy of
conformist thought, within one's own bosom
and in the surrounding world."
-- Dr. M.L. King Jr.
DREAM
NO 15
SUNDAY 26 JANUARY 2003
I saw
a fighter for the cause of Islam lying down,
gagged and blindfolded, with his hands
bound behind him in a very painful
position. But he was so capable that,
instead of his own trouble, he had other
matters on his mind! He was
thinking worriedly about the plight of
somebody else [e.g. a girl blinded by
American bombing]. I had the chance to
help him but I didn't untie him because I
was too scared of the kafirs
[infidels] who had bound him. There
was a disconcerting background atmosphere of
great political manipulation by the kafirs.
CONTEXT
I
felt sheepish when I woke up. This
dream is telling me that I am not exerting
maximum effort in the cause of oppressed
Muslims in, for example, Palestine, Kashmir,
Afghanistan and Iraq. I have resolved
to do so when I am able to do so.
DREAM
NO 16 SATURDAY
29 MARCH 2003
I
had a wonderful, action-packed dream of
snatching a microphone from a student [1] in
a large hall and dramatically announcing twice
that Palestine needed support.[2] The
first time that I interrupted the student, I
began with words such as, 'Please excuse my
snatching this microphone, but this is
urgent! Palestine needs your support!'
[3] But the student didn't mind being
interrupted! The hall was reasonably
filled with students. After my second
announcement, a beautiful, English girl
student [my unknown wife] fell in love with
me! She looked at me with a very
caring and romantic gaze.
CONTEXT
[1]
Students' societies of colleges and
Universities throughout the United
Kingdom do good work supporting the victims
of injustice in numerous, various political
campaigns.
[2]
I had produced my article PALESTINE and then
arranged for it to be a section on my Site.
[3]
There were other events in this
dream but I couldn't recall them. The heroic
atmosphere of this dream is difficult
to explain in the right words. This
dream has been recounted in a very basic
form and doesn't capture events fully
because they are not so easy to explain with
precision!
DREAM
NO 17 MONDAY
20 JANUARY 2003
I
dreamt that a Jew named 'Newman' was a refuse
collector!
CONTEXT
I
had mentally started respecting Jews as a
very capable peoples, perhaps thinking
favourably of them as descendents of the
great Prophets such as Ibrahim, Noah, Musa [PBUT].
However, this dream informed me that their
character now is the opposite of noble!
When one considers how they lack mercy when
dealing with the Palestinians, such lack of
graciousness is obvious!
DREAM
NO 18 TUESDAY
3 DECEMBER 2002
I
dreamt that 'Bollywood' -India's famous film
industry- would in future be making films
with odious, anti-Muslim content. The
fascist and Muslim-hating Indian government
would be using the movies as a propaganda
tool against its minority Muslims. I
saw an actress playing a flirtatious,
sex-symbol role and then I heard her
declare that she was going to participate in
an openly-pernicious scene which would serve
the purpose of mobilising the Hindu masses'
enmity towards Muslims. The scene did
materialise!
INTERPRETATION
This
is a 'warning' dream, informing me that the
'artistic' character of the Hindi films
-which I so admire and enjoy at the moment-
will be a thing of the past. In
the future, they wll be odious o the Muslims
of India and a danger to the religion of
Islam! They will no longer be a
liberal symbol but a means of repression in
a Nazi county.
DREAM
NO 19 MONDAY
9 DECEMBER 2002
I
dreamt that America had made ready for
launch a small, fashionable rocket or
space-shuttle which was extremely
technologically-advanced. However, a
very intelligent and capable Muslim group
managed to [had the know-how to] fly it away
secretly [in an act of war against America].
DREAM
NO 20 c.
WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2002
I
had a pleasant dream about my personal,
forthcoming international honour and
status: a consequence of my
Islamic work. I actually met the King
of a certain country! There were at
least two other spectacular,
honorary engagements foretold by the dream;
I was unable to remember these when I woke
up!
CONCLUSION
Especially
since 1979 [the beginning of the 14th
century in the Muslim calendar, Muslims in
countries throughout the world have
been plagued by severe political problems.
This is not surprising per se.
Muslims are aware that the time for Qiyamah
[the end of the world] is drawing
nearer and nearer. Allah Most
High will test those who
believe more and more intensively by
means of previously-unsurpassed trials
and tribulations. Let what
happens happen without complaining: it
is destined. Pray that Allah lighten
the burden of believers and, if it is not
lightened for some reason that Allah Knows,
then pray that we may have the resolve
and capability to secure victory in the long
term! Ameen!
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