-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/10/31/232023.txt Houri of Terrorism Hugh Sprunt Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2000 "According to the landlord of the apartment, who gave his name as Yahya, both men spoke a heavily accented Arabic suggesting that they came from Hadhramaut, a remote province of eastern Yemen whose arid deserts and rocky mountains are a known haven for Islamic terrorist groups, and which is famous for its small fiberglass boats called houris that are used for fishing in the Arabian Sea." The word "houri" as used above in John Burns' New York Times article ["Ship Attack Suspects Seemed Out of Place," Aden, Yemen, Oct. 30] to refer to a type of fishing boat used in Yemen's Hadhramaut Province is a slang term, though an eminently appropriate one for the type of craft selected by the two terrorists who attacked the USS Cole on Oct. 12. The word houri has Persian origins ("huri") and originally referred to a white-skinned black-eyed woman (recall that the terrorists' small fiberglass attack boat has been officially described as white in color). The equivalent word in Arabic is "hawra." The black eyes of houri are often compared to those of a gazelle (indeed, the word was originally derived from "hawira," meaning "black-eyed like a gazelle"). However, in Muslim religious terms, an houri is a nymph of the Mohammedan paradise, supposedly created from musk oil and certain spices, and endowed with perpetually virgin and perfect youthful beauty. Thus, an "houri" (the attackers' white fishing boat) bore the two terrorists to "Mohammedan paradise." Indeed, one of the rewards of paradise for devout (presumably male) Muslims is to be greeted by houris upon arrival in Paradise. It is no conflict that the physical form of the houri was itself destroyed in the attack on the U.S. "destroyer" Cole, for true houris remain young and pure forever, ministering to Muslims who have earned the right to enter paradise. The reporter for the NYT and his editor were possibly ignorant of the metaphoric aspects of the use of a white "houri" fishing boat by the terrorists in their attack on the Cole or, conceivably, chose not to share this information with readers of the Times in a straight news piece. The terrorists could, of course, have used a metaphorically less appropriate craft, one that could have carried an even larger explosive charge sufficient to easily have sunk the Cole (a small garbage scow, for example), but may have chosen the "houri" fishing craft as symbolic both of their ancestral province of Hadhramaut (I daresay, there were wooden houri fishing boats long before fiberglass became available) and as a craft particularly suitable for bearing them to paradise. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
