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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has pleaded to Indonesia to stop the execution of prisoners on death row for drug crimes. AFP PHOTO

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The pope wrote that the principle of legitimate personal defense isn’t adequate justification to execute someone. Photograph: Zuma/Rex

Obama becomes first president to visit US prison (US Justice Systems / Human Rights)

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US President Barack Obama speaks as he tours the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma, July 16, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

US Death Penalty (Justice Systems / Human Rights)

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Woman who spent 23 years on US death row cleared (Photo: dpa)



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"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …

Sunday, November 4, 2007

New sects "screwing up" Islam teachings

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The existence of new Islamic "misguided" sects would be tolerated by Indonesian Muslims, but only if "they do not attribute their names or teachings with Islam or any other religions", said Muslim leaders in Indonesia on Saturday.

Director of the Institute for Research and Study on Islam (LPPI) Amin Djamaludin said of one new Islamic sect in Indonesia, "Al Qiyadah al Islamiyah is using, distorting and screwing up the teachings of Islam, and that's the problem".

"It is a misguided (Islamic) sect," he said at a discussion about the emergence of new sects in Indonesia here Saturday.

"It would be different if they (Al Qiyadah leaders and followers) declared themselves belonging to a religion other than Islam or any other existing religions."

National Awakening Party executive Muslim Abdurachman said "misguided" sects had long existed in the country and had frequently caused social unrest.

"Rapid changes in social systems have led people to (become confused) in finding out which norms are better for them to adapt with the world," Muslim said.

"And mainstream Islamic organizations like Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah can no longer provide people with (the truth) they need, so many have looked for other (sects to provide) the answer."

LPPI's Amin said misguided sects usually offered potential followers the promise they would be able to fulfill their desires quickly.

But Muslim said the establishment of such sects was usually based on a search for truth, "the norms of which were adapted from religions recognized by the state".

"We have to respect such faiths as their existence is regulated in the Constitution," Muslim said.

"As long as their teachings and actions are not against the law, such as persuading their followers to commit mass suicide or disrupt public order."

Al Qiyadah al Islamiyah was founded by Abdussalam, also known as Ahmad Moshaddeq, in 2000, in Gunung Sari, Bogor.

He declared himself as a new prophet, replacing Prophet Muhammad, on July 23 this year.

In addition, Ahmad also changed several core creeds of Islam, such as the acknowledgment of Prophet Muhammad as the final prophet and the obligation to pray five times daily.

As many as 41,000 people across nine major cities in Indonesia are believed to be members of the sect. Ahmad surrendered himself to Jakarta Police headquarters on Monday.

This case has increased awareness of other sects claiming Islamic foundations.

Al Quran Suci sect in Bandung, West Java, has questioned the compilation of the Prophet Muhammad's sayings and actions.

And Al Haq sect in Pekanbaru, Riau, allows its followers to pray once instead of five times daily.

The Indonesian Ulemas Council's secretary general, Ichwansyam, said there was "a factory producing such misleading faiths".

"I'm afraid that there might be an intelligence operation, either from Indonesia or other countries, which aims at disturbing the country's order by using Islam," Ichwan said.

Ichwan said he had called for an integrative effort to combat such an operation.

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