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Islam and Spiritualism

Spiritual heritage of Imam Khomeini

Introduction

In the first verses of the second “Surah” of the Quran in describing the condition of the virtuous after explaining the book as guidance, considers their foremost characteristic to be faith in the unseen and spiritualism. “This Book is undoubtedly a book of guidance for the virtuous believers.” Thereafter it states, “Those who believe in the unseen…” it means that this book about whose revelation there is no doubt is a guidance for the virtuous human beings and those that abstain from committing sins and who believe in the unseen world and have made inclination towards spirituality as the basis of their faith. This is a principle whose acceptance and conviction is always essential and necessary for its followers. However, it goes without saying that the consequence of acceptance of faith in the unseen and focus on spirituality does not imply at all disregard for the material world and indifference towards the apparent world and the world of nature. Although in spiritualist doctrines also unfortunately, we come across this idea once in a while so that this inclination is radicalized to such an extent that a human being is deviated and declines to perform his unquestionable duties and responsibilities in this world.

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Islam and the West

CIA Forged Iraq Intelligence, New Book by Ron Suskind Says

The Huffington Post | August 5, 2008 08:14 AM

The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official "that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion."

George Tenet, director of the CIA at the time, responds:

There was no such order from the White House to me nor, to the best of my knowledge, was anyone from CIA ever involved in any such effort.

It is well established that, at my direction, CIA resisted efforts on the part of some in the Administration to paint a picture of Iraqi-Al Qa'ida connections that went beyond the evidence. The notion that I would suddenly reverse our stance and have created and planted false evidence that was contrary to our own beliefs is ridiculous.

There are undoubtedly many other errors in the book - but these are the first ones of which I've been made aware. One would think a serious journalist would have, at a minimum, asked the supposed participants if what he was prepared to write was consistent with the facts. Mr. Suskind never contacted me on anything regarding this book. I suppose he had a story that fell into the category of: "too good to check."

Asked about Tenet's reaction on NBC's "Today," Suskind said it's "part of George's memory issue." Watch:

The White House issued its own denial: deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said, "The notion that the White House directed anyone to forge a letter from Habbush to Saddam Hussein is absurd."

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