Holy Communion

- read: Lucifer's Banquet

Written early December 2014 - (188 lines)

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Holy Communion?
Satan's Reunion!

At Lucifer's Banquet the evening's host
Enraptured raises a bloody toast
To those they praise and worship most
As the latest victim is tied to the post
Like those before to slowly roast:
"To the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost!"

In that very moment Lucifer woke
His chains miraculously broke!
Is this the most cruel joke?
My God - if only we could revoke
The words that the false prophet spoke
And so free his followers from the yoke
But eager disciples continue to stoke
And another life goes up in smoke...

Christianity is taking its toll
Tonight another head will roll
Crusaders on a grisly stroll
Around the Tabernacle pole
Avoiding deftly the glowing coal
Laughing at the life they stole
Call it a lamb, a kid, a foal
Any means to reach the goal
Reserving for themselves the role
Of harvesting another soul
For Christ the King as they extol
His many virtues from a scroll
Penned with blood from a ritual bowl
Believing the Saviour will console...
Blind and deaf to the fact that the sole
Purpose being mind control
Of those mad enough to enroll
For the thought-police will patrol
To make sure they stay in the hole -
Oh the folly! Surely the whole
Performance would win any poll
For depravity - condole, CONDOLE!

For Moloch, Yahweh, Elohim
Read Lucifer, Satan, the Devil - they seem
To find a truly perverse delight
In setting holy names alight
But that is what we do expect
From those who claim to be the Elect
And so it comes as no surprise
To those of us who realise
That it is all part of the ancient plan
Of a tiny megalomanic clan
First to conquer the world by stealth
Then to rule it by force and wealth

Perhaps the greatest recorded scam
Is the one who said: "I AM!"
For as the inverted pentagram
Reveals the sacrificial lamb
Now at last all can clearly see
What some have long claimed it to be
Not a God-man in a fur coat
NO! It really is a goat!
Speechless Christians clutch their throat -
Time for some of us to gloat!

A false prophet is neither the way
Nor the truth nor the life, ...........
[John.14:6 - Jesus answered:
I am the way, the truth, and the life.
The only way to the Father is through me.]
.................................... so stay
A safe distance if at all you can
From such a deranged and dangerous man

Free advice you can take or leave
But Christians continue to believe
That Jesus is God personified
So lives forever and never died
And many Bible verses state
It all clearly - end of debate!

As this does not make any sense
Look at it through a different lens
And, assuming that you dare
Here is a thought for you to share:

Maybe in truth "I AM" never was?
We are entitled to doubt because
No irrefutable reference
Or archaeological evidence
Has come to light in two thousand years -
The time for proof is well in arrears!

At Lucifer's Banquet meanwhile
In the original savage style
The gruesome orgy of blood and flesh
Is played out again, forever fresh
From darkest vaults of twisted minds
Sick fantasies of many kinds
Are conjured up and brought to life
Then terminated with the knife
Gleefully and then consumed -
The skulls and bones of exhumed
Former victims are carried in
Every single conceivable sin
Is revered and on display
As the assembled chant and pray
Pledging loyalty once more
To destruction, death and war
To provide the hands and tools
Wherever The Prince of Darkness rules

And using every wicked way
His realm is growing every day
Threats and bribery and deceit
Taking over another street
Coming all too soon to YOU
And when it does, what will you do?

City dwellers will be lost
So do get out at any cost:
NO to lies from official lips
NO to implanted microchips
NO to thought-controlling pills
NOW take to the woods and hills!

Listen - for those who hesitate
This advice may come too late...

Sadly it cannot be presumed
That normal service will be resumed
Anytime soon, so must we wait
Staring impatiently at the gate
Hoping the promised Messiah will come
Just in time to save us from
Those with unrepentant brow
Who all crave salvation NOW
In their sorry demented state
As they fervently celebrate
The object of their hideous feast -
Or must we learn to live with the Beast?

And where will he come from, if he does?
That is a very good question because:

If indeed he ever comes forth
Will he decide to arrive in the north?

Or will it be known by word of mouth
That he was first seen in the south?

Or will he, disguised as a pedophile priest
Manifest slowly in the east?

One thing more certain than all the rest:
He will NOT appear in the west!

Not the bringer of peace and love
So do not expect him to come from above!

A fitting climax to the show
Would be for him to appear from below!

The Last Supper is almost done
Nothing useful has been won
And still no sign of the wayward Son -
"Will he return?" wonders everyone...

Maybe - but probably not tonight
So no quick respite from your plight

More free advice: do not hold your breath
For your reward would surely be death!

And maybe THAT would break the spell?
For those with no more lies to tell
And no more principles to sell
Only death is alive and well...

Hardly possible to believe
But this is what they did achieve:

More gullible newcomers seduced
Another innocent victim reduced
To an empty skull and a few bones
As the last few menacing tones
Slowly emerge from the ram's horns
And another enslaved soul adorns
The altar's bloody trophy wall
Forever at Satan's beck and call...

Should ever the Son come back once more
Maybe through a secret trap door
Concealed cleverly in the floor
And known only to the inner core
They will greet with a rapturous roar
The Son, riding not as before
On a donkey, but now on the back of a boar
With sacks of new vices to explore -
Then we will stand ready to settle the score:
Christ has a lot to answer for!

So far no sign of the primitive
That arrogant wandering fugitive
The one who refuses to forgive
Yet wants to teach us how to live!

No printable comments! Time to close
Another chapter about those
Who claim that only they know it all -
High to fly, far to fall!

And when they all drop from the Golden Calf
We shall try our best not to laugh!

We sense that another deadline nears -
Will it be days, weeks, months or years?
For those with open eyes and ears
The mist of deception slowly clears
And despite the persistent smears
To more observers now appears
What every good and wise man fears:
This would always end in tears...

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Copyright © 2014 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

Christian Zionists

- are a special breed

Written late September 2014 - (242 lines)

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You Christian Zionists are indeed
A special and problematic breed
Insisting that military might
Is simply expressing a God-given right
Which must be supported by one and all
So long as the next barbaric brawl
Serves the savage purpose well:
To implement Greater Israel

Your sacred book is demonstrably
Frequently self-contradictory
And not just on trivial matters, no
Also on fundamentals, so
Only the recklessly gullible
Could believe it is the infallible
Literal word of the living God
Or that of his so-called Son who trod
This earth like other mortals do
Just one more megalomanic Jew
A highly dangerous demagogue
Who chose arrogant monologue
Instead of civilised dialogue
And preached it from Satan's synagogue

Your holy book is a terrible mess
But, thank God, it did go to press
And anybody who wants to can see
And check all the facts pointed out by me
Now do the right thing, open your eyes
And soon you, too, will realise
That to call it divine is untenable -
Accept that it is unreliable
Corrupted beyond belief and repair
Christian Zionists, weep and despair!

All the time the critic took
Reviewing your fatally flawed book
In a sincere attempt to show
How much you believe and how little you know
And why you should be ashamed and appalled
Resulted in a fine effort called
ENOUGH! Islamophobia
And, just for you, Hallelujah
You can download it here, yes, it is free
A gift to the whole wide world from me
To every soul in humanity
My contribution to sanity

Read it and some may see the light
Reluctantly agree I am right
But YOU will continue as before
Clinging to the book you adore
Spellbound as if deep in a trance
Where not only angels but devils dance
Eagerly savouring chapter and verse
Praising the Saviour as you curse
Anyone daring to reject HIM
Though prospects of success are dim
You absorb it all, page after page
Believing it written by God, not a sage
Fervently hoping you soon can wage
The next war for Israel to enrage
Muslims around the world still more
Than all provocations tried before
Rewarding you then with Heaven's door -
What are the Holy Gospels for?

A very good question! - But anyhow
Ever helpful we tell you now
Your incoherent pack of lies
Paraded in a poor disguise
As the guide book for the wise
Will never lead you to Paradise!

Those whose mission it is to deceive
Are using all means to make us believe
That the second coming is close at hand
And THEIR one-way trip to the Holy Land
Is about to begin, and soon they will feast
Seated a safe distance from the Beast
With the Messiah, or at the least
Closer than others to the High Priest

Somewhere in eternal Jerusalem
At a banquet prepared just for THEM
Enraptured, as mere mortals roast
In Hell, THEY shall raise a toast
Of the innocent blood that they love most
To the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost

Most would find it unthinkable
That blood could indeed be drinkable
But rather than stop and fear a curse
These folks do what is even worse

Revulsion would wake any normal head
But not here, no, not at all, instead
The flesh of the "resurrected" dead
Miraculously becomes Heaven's bread
Prayers providing the special spice 
And this evidence will surely suffice
All guilty of the ultimate vice
Eating a human sacrifice!

Mad men and women eagerly chew
The corpse of that ancient hapless Jew
Today a bland cookie substitute
Contains his every attribute
Or so at least every Christian thinks
The whole perverse performance stinks
All the way to high Heaven above
Forget what they preach about peace and love
For it is nothing but downright lies
In truth only when somebody dies
Do those terrible monsters thrive
Nourished by death they come alive
Feeding on human blood and flesh
Needing both to start afresh

What a strange way to behave
But that is what they truly crave
And nothing they do from now on can stave
Off their eternally haunted grave

Loathsome and indescribably foul
Small wonder devils cheer and howl

Suitable only for Halloween!
Why does nobody between
The Pope and lay people intervene?
Could anything be more obscene?

Cannibalism! How horrible!
Revolting and abominable!
To them not only desirable
But absolutely essential
As well as deeply spiritual...
NO, it is diabolical
And such a Satanic ritual
Truly belongs in Israel!

MOLOCH lives! Hip-hip hooray!
Still leading a beautiful world astray
But we will defeat you, come what may
So listen to what we have to say:

You who worship the Goddess of War
Clients of that hideous whore
Of Zion (not of Babylon!)
Go home, yes, right back to square one
Stay there to repent all that you have done -
And the war you pursue will NEVER be won!

A new Dark Age for nothing has changed
You Christian Zionists are deranged
Unmasked we see what you really are
The worst of humanity by far!
Clearly the most fanatical
Obsessed and ultra radical
Extremists and fundamentalists
Are YOU, the Christian Zionists!

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One innocent question before we go
If YOU have the answer please let us know
For we are more than a little vexed
Indeed we are seriously perplexed
And after many sleepless nights
Considering the wrongs and rights
Decided to get it off our chest
For this matter must be laid to rest

We simply cannot comprehend
Why ANY Christian would defend
Or fund, support, sustain, protect
Or use their time or intellect
In any way to help the Jews
Or have you forgotten the big Bad News
That they brought YOU all those years ago?
May this now disturb your smug warm glow

When the crowd as with one voice
Decided on the offered choice
Namely: Jesus or Barabbas
The instant answer came back thus:
"Give us Jesus!" - do YOU now see
Despite your ridiculous ecstasy
That without even pausing for breath
The Jews condemned YOUR Prophet to death...

The game is up, and this is how
We really and truly have got you now:

However fervently you pray
You cannot wish those verses away
For they have stood the test of time
And nothing will ever erase the crime
The Jews committed there and then -
And YOU are still willing to help them again?

The tragic answer: YES YOU ARE
You follow with hope the sinister Star
Of David like sheep no matter how far
Strange indeed, no, absurd and bizarre

Nothing THEY do shall fully atone
The guilt is theirs and theirs alone
For "The Chosen Ones" rejected Him
As the Messiah, yet chances are slim
Although the Jews were caught in the act
That you Christian Zionists will react
Appropriately, for we see the fact
That your fantasy remains intact

To bring you out of your rosy dream
And hopefully silence the foul stream
Of unholy words as you blaspheme:
Nothing YOU do will EVER redeem
The part you knowingly play in the team
Promoting Zion's evil scheme
That ancient megalomanic theme
Grotesque and offensive in the extreme
Now known as The New World Order regime
Where Yahweh's darlings shall rule supreme

But you will continue your silly song:
"Israel is NEVER wrong"
OH YES IT IS! The list is long
The proofs are many and sound and strong

And nothing and nobody is immune
From natural justice so change your tune
While you still can for the verdict will soon
Like an unstoppable raging typhoon
Making its landfall during full moon
Blast right through your cosy lagoon
To uproot or at least severely prune
Your Tree of Life as its leaves are strewn
Like countless grains of sand in a dune
Bits of your shattered faith shall festoon
You all as in disbelief you swoon
And that inexplicable triune
Nonsense, fit only for a cartoon
Will vanish like a hot air balloon

Your debilitating handicap
Is sleepwalking into every trap
Dug for all Christians by the chap
Wearing the Bar Mitzvah skullcap

Announced by a single thunderclap
The storm might arrive while you take a nap
So step into nothing as you miss the gap
And as you desperately flail and flap
With the world's patience about to snap
Inshallah your next little mishap
Might finally wipe Israel off the map!
Christian Zionists, enough of your crap!

Wake up right now and open your eyes
Look around you in surprise
And maybe horror and naked fear
The Good News you are about to hear
Will stop your ridiculous pretense
For deep down you know that this makes sense:

Why do you not simply refuse
To do the bidding of the Jews?
In truth what could you possibly lose?
Or have you got any valid excuse?
Why not try it? Time to use
Your own free will, remove the noose
And realise that you really CAN choose
Now THAT would finally be Good News!

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Copyright © 2014 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

Cross-Eyed

- a message to all Christians

Written mid January 2010 - (133 lines)

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You folks focus on your chosen man
Repeat the hocus-pocus preached by the clan
As you have done ever since it all began
Most of it directed from the Vatican

You limit yourselves in what you can do
For in your narrow angle of view
All you can see is you-know-who
That ancient radical extremist Jew
As you hope and pray that in the not too
Distant future he will be due
To drop in again to make a few
More prophesies miraculously come true -
Now have your eyes tested every one of you

Parallax error is the technical term
But could also fairly be described as the worm
In the apple of your eye that will wriggle and squirm
So its presence is very easy to confirm

But mention correction and you do not wish to know
Or think the optician is the proper place to go
Yet truth will out and in time will surely show
It is capable of dealing a mighty blow
To those of you who, searching high and low
For answers in holy books, row after row
Still carry on as before and, doing so
Those well-documented suspicions grow
That you cannot distinguish between friend and foe

Are you sitting comfortably? And can you see all
The letters in the writing on the wall?
The large, the medium and the very small?
And afterwards can you maybe recall
The entire sequence and manage to scrawl
It down without letting the fat worm crawl
Out of your now nearly empty eyeball?

If you cover one eye, you might see straight
It will not take long, so patiently wait
And use the time sensibly to contemplate
The course of events that led to the state
You are in today, consider your fate
But the Good News is: it is never too late

Now if you cover both, you might go to sleep
So whatever you do, always keep
One eye uncovered for the occasional peep
And the learning curve should not be too steep
But ignore this advice and soon you may be deep
In trouble and stumble and collapse in a heap
Leaving you there in the dark to weep
Like an irretrievably lost little sheep

Try not to blink as we swiftly compile
The test results and create your profile
One moment please, and meanwhile
Do have a look around, walk the extra mile
To find a pair of glasses to truly beguile
Everyone you meet with your Christian smile
Or try contact lenses if glasses cramp your style -
Nothing that you like at all? Consider exile...

We are assuming that you really want to see
The world as it is and was meant to be
For surely that is the all-important key
And if upon reflection you do agree
You will not object to the reasonable fee
For by any definition your world view is not free
From distortions, aberrations, and strange imagery
Not just seeing double, you CROSS-eyed claim that He
God-Allah-Creator, is not one or two but three!
That is indisputably the highest degree
Of blasphemy, idolatry, apostasy
And we politely advice you to flee -
There is light at the end of the tunnel, follow me

In your case it is probably all in the mind
Dreaming up phantoms of every kind
Such as, incredibly, the Almighty confined
To a human body, for a time assigned
To menial tasks as later defined
By scribes who most likely themselves designed
The entire project and then quickly resigned

For you who decided to follow behind
It leaves your souls in a serious bind
For a worse predicament is difficult to find
Maybe not quite a case of blind leading blind
But something here is badly misaligned
And easy solutions cannot be divined

With ONEness and Creator inextricably entwined
The CROSS-eyed case is fatally undermined

And just for the avoidance of doubt we remind
You all that no Muslim will ever feel inclined
To believe the same as you: offer declined

Should your vision remain hazy and blurred
Despite the considerable expenses incurred
Are you sure that no nagging doubts ever stirred
Maybe deep inside your soul preferred
The whole truth instead of one miserable third
Chances are high that you either misheard
Or what you took for Gospel was some absurd
Corrupted version of the original Word

Everything in its proper time and place
Prepare today for a major disgrace
That will blow counter-arguments into space
So keep your New Testament handy just in case
If it has not already disappeared without trace
And if so, abandon any futile chase
For the answer is staring you CROSS-eyed in the face:
Let go of that fairytale bitter-sweet embrace

There is no evidence that he was Crucified
We do not even know if he really died
Or for that matter if the person who was tried
And condemned was ever properly identified

Throughout history some people have lied
And, honest to Allah, it cannot be denied
That in truth nothing here has been verified
In ways where the most stringent standards were applied

Yet Jesus is idolised and deified
Much has been predicted and prophesied
Rivers and oceans of tears have been cried
As his followers remain to this day CROSS-eyed

Of course it is possible to restore your sight
Indeed it can be done without any big fight
And we Muslims herewith cordially invite
Unfortunate CROSS-eyed Christians to recite
From dawn to dusk and sometimes through the night
Verses of the noble Quran in the light -

Of the beautiful ascending crescent moon
Recite, and your night vision will seem like noon
For in truth nobody is naturally immune
From the message of Allah, so if you tune
Your spiritual self to the cosmic commune
In time you will emerge from your homespun cocoon
Like a bright butterfly sipping nectar in June
Forgetting in the process the whole triune-
Triad-trio-troika nonsense as the harpoon
Of reason rips the over-inflated balloon
Of Christianity held by every CROSS-eyed loon
(We resisted the temptation to use the word baboon) -
May your eyesight be corrected and, inshallah, SOON...

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Copyright © 2010 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

Quantum Leap

- for mankind!

Written late October 2008 - (201 lines)

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NOTE:

The formula "E is equal to M C square" mentioned
is of course Einstein's famous special theory of relativity
published in 1905, since proven correct many times, where
E is the energy, M is the mass and C is the speed of light.

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Islam is a fact
Of life so act
Accordingly
With decency
Do not neglect
To show respect
Use common sense
For through the lens
Of time we see
Humanity
Trying to find
The most suitable kind
Of general rules
For masters and fools
A complete set
Of laws to get
Us safely through
This life and do
Some good on the way
Before we must say
Goodbye and go
With the flow
Of the winding course
Back to the source
From where we came -
If it has a name
Which really does fit
CREATOR is it

Religions have come
And gone but some
Are here to stay
And will not go away
Whatever is done
In anger or fun
To put them down
By the wisest clown
Or the cleverest fool
From the highest school
Of philosophical thought -
Some faiths were bought
And some were sold
For silver and gold
Expensive or cheap
Traded like sheep
Cattle or grain
Much to the pain
Of the faithful few
Who remained true
To the central call
To one and all:
Seek in humility
The spirituality
Which is not just
Our sacred trust
But the destiny
Of humanity

The best came last
And spread very fast
Expanding still
Soon it will
Become the norm
Take the world by storm
Be the best received
Most widely believed
Faith of all
So follow the call
Of Islam today
And start to pray

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Christians, please do take heed:
Should I ever feel the need
To say the words: "Get thee hence"
My reason shall be my defense
The Trinity does NOT make sense
And therefore has no relevance
To my degree of recompense
Or whether I will be saved or not -
To me it sounds like a sinister plot
By kings and other mortal men
Changing the texts again and again
Corrupting the Gospel for their own game
Of geopolitics and, sharing the shame
Carried out by unprincipled scribes
Who loved the world so much they took bribes
To desecrate scriptures entrusted in their care -
Same sad story almost everywhere!

Shooting his chariot down in flames
According to the Bible, Jesus claims
On many occasions that he really is
The Son of God - but surely this
Is incompatible with the call
To prophethood, for they were all
Humble and unassuming men
So what do we believe when
The cold light of logic says
You simply cannot have it both ways?
Please could you make up your mind:
Which is it to be - maybe some kind
Of magic reserved for the truly wise
Vendors of tickets to Paradise?

The road to that place may well be paved
With bricks of gold for those who behaved
For the rest, good intentions will not do
So there will be no rewards for you
Unless you see the light and repent
And grasp this truly heaven-sent
Opportunity with eager hands
And an open heart before it lands
Where it will never be retrieved
At the feet of someone who never believed
But spent his life trying to convince
All of us that ever since
The Big Bang, from nothing before
That single event opened the door
To things like time and matter and space
So to rational members of the human race
The material world is all that exists -
The narrow view of most scientists!

Fellow believers, do not hide
For science itself is on our side!
And almost with the speed of light
I hasten to put matters right:
E is equal to M C square
Everyone agreed? So there!

It follows that matter and energy
Are interchangeable, so you see
All matter can indeed be reduced
To energy if cleverly seduced
To do so, obeying certain laws
And, as the Creator draws
Another bucket of water from
The well of life, we are some
Who feel and dimly understand
Like invited guests in wonderland
The entire physical universe
All forms and shapes, however diverse
From atoms to galaxies and all in between
Your body and mine, all that is seen
And weighed and measured, however hard
Like steel, granite, and the trump card
Diamond, all conforms to this rule:
As drops in the Almighty's sacred pool
They are in truth only energy -
All we need do is to set it free!

Everything constantly oscillates
Between the two opposing states
Of matter and energy - which came first
Into being when with a burst
Of pure and awesome creativity
The Almighty uttered the simple word: "BE!"
Is a good question, but if you ask me
Surely the first was energy

Now you see it, now you don't
Try to trap it but you won't
Succeed without humility
And what is the probability
That we lack the ability
To distinguish between utility
And, you guessed it, futility?
Is it really there at all?
If so, draw it on the wall!
Are illusions all we see?
And confusion our destiny?

Like a felt but unseen ghost in the room
The ever-present quantum vaccuum
Whispers like Satan to your soul:
"Only I can make you whole!"
Maybe it is true, maybe it is not
Will we ever grasp the plot?
Or is this the missing dot
Which will make the picture clear
Once we place that dot without fear
Of activating an ancient curse
And so implode the universe?

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Muhammad came to show the way
To those who had knowingly gone astray
And everyone else, the seeing and blind
For, sent as a mercy to all mankind
His brief was simply to restore
The pure faith which existed before
And this he did without compromise
As a man who was humble, shrewd and wise
His progress was sure though sometimes slow
But thanks to him we know where to go
Today and tomorrow and after, and so
The flow of adherents continues to grow

Muhammad cut out the middle man
So every one of us now can
Address our Creator directly
And so pray more effectively

And in doing so much more was won
For props and substitutes are gone
The smoke and mirrors thrown away
And so it remains to this very day

The restored spirituality
Was a quantum leap in quality
Austerity and sincerity
Simplicity and purity

And if only in a fleeting dream
We could see the flashing gleam
Of joy on the face of Ibraheem
As we follow as-Sirat al-Mustaqeem!
[the straight path]

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Copyright © 2008 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

The Holy Trinity

- Judaism-Christianity-Islam

Written early May 2008 - (130 lines)

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NOTE: (added December 2011)
This poem reflected my state of knowledge at the time,
which, as far as Judaism goes, was in line with the commonly
held perceptions. I have since learnt a lot through further
study and now realise that the entire basis for the poem,
and therefore the title, is quite simply wrong.
However, I have decided to leave the poem on my website,
and unchanged, as a step on my road of personal progress.

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Judaism, Christianity
And Islam are known as the three
Abrahamic religions, and teach
In many ways the same, though each
Conveys the message in its own
Way, but all three have grown
Indisputably from common roots
As one tree with different fruits -
A magnificent spiritual feast
In the harsh and dry Middle East

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Now what is that title all about?
Before anyone starts to shout
Maybe time for a little doubt -
Can you spot the odd one out?

Should you find it hard, this may
Serve to help you on your way:

Two out of the above three
Reject outright the Trinity!

Two out of the above three
Reject outright the divinity
Of Jesus, the Palestinian Jew
Isa in Arabic, Yeshua in Hebrew

Two out of the above three
Reject categorically
Any kind of personality cult
Sure in the knowledge it will result
In deviation from the true
Religion that we should pursue

Two out of the above three
Do not believe in clemency
An Eye for an Eye is what they seek
As opposed to turning the other cheek

In the examples listed here
One thing quickly becomes clear:
The two are the same in every case!
How interesting, that surely must raise
Legitimate questions about the third -
The lines are quite deliberately blurred
So we believe any explanation heard
Or confused, so we do not understand a word

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Judaism was the first
Christianity then burst
Upon the scene, and then came
Islam, carrying the same
Message with a purer flame

In terms of followers the figures read:
Christianity is still in the lead
But how much longer can it keep it up?
For Islam is rapidly closing the gap
And will soon overtake it to storm ahead
Through natural growth, but also fed
By many converts, so continues to spread!

And Judaism? I nearly forgot!
The barely visible last one of the lot...

Now, unity should get the nod
As all three do believe in God
Using different names to please
They know the Creator as one of these
Yahweh - God - Allah, we see
The striking similarity
For viewed fundamentally
All three faiths do agree:
Regardless of the chosen name
THE GOD THEY WORSHIP IS THE SAME

Many prophets came and went
And every one the Creator sent
Is honoured and revered today
By Muslims everywhere who say
May peace be upon them all
From Adam way back at the fall
To the last of the chosen few
Muhammad, the captain of the crew

Now this may well surprise you:
The Torah the old, the Gospel the new
The Quran the last, and lasting, law
And surely the proverbial straw
Which breaks the twin-humped camel's back
By showing the others were on the wrong track
Blundering erratically to and fro
When the straight path is where we should boldly go!

Take the time to examine all three
Dispassionately, and we can all see
Despite the differences which are there
The overwhelming fact that they share
The vital and vibrant central core
Which had been present long before
The first of the Trinity was revealed
For its fountain's origin was never sealed

The first two tried in their ways to bring
New interpretations of the existing
Framework for how we should worship and live
And each undoubtedly had something to give
But corruption and errors saw them go astray
From the direct path and the original way

Muhammad, peace be upon him, then came
And the world will never be the same
For although he did neither invent nor found
A new religion, he turned it around
Along a straight path led us back to the source
To worship only that almighty force
Of life and creation at work everywhere
Inviting us all to willingly share
His own new-found yet ancient belief
Having dawned upon him as a huge relief
Back to basics where the rest went wrong
It was pure and noble, simple and strong
Like the others, yet quite unlike them -
The faith of good old Abraham!

That moment the great revival began
And it has spread ever since to span
The globe in a call for unity
Justice and equality
One worldwide fraternity
Embracing all humanity

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Two against one is never fair
But how can it be that everywhere
You look, Muslims are increasingly
Treated badly and suspiciously
In all they do, will do and have done
By Jews and Christians acting as one?

Hopefully the above has shown
It is Christianity out on its own:

The cousin that does not really fit in
A half-brother to a pair of twins

The one of the trio that plays out of tune
Maybe the key will be revealed soon?

The obvious anomaly
The black sheep of the family

Proven beyond any reasonable doubt:
Christianity is the odd one out!

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Copyright © 2008 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

Cruci-Fiction

- was Jesus crucified?

Written mid August 2007 - (151 lines)

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Jesus! Excuse me! One moment please
Of your precious time so I can ease
My troubled mind - may I have a word!
Are all the stories we have heard
And all the pages we have read
About what you did and what you said
When and where and to whom and why
And so on, do not be shy
Hand on your heart now, I am asking you -
Is it all false or is it true?

Believe me brother, I am not a spy
My regard for you is generally high
But did you really return to the sky?
Is that where you came from in the first place?
Were you sent to guide the human race?
Who is your father, if you do not mind
And where is he now? Still trying to find
Out what happened way back then?
Still intervening now and again
In the petty affairs of men
And women here on planet Earth
So many years after your birth?
Was that not the job for you?
Is it all false or is it true?

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Have you heard of Adam, the very first man?
No father, no mother, so some power can
Create life from a handful of soil -
It did make the snake of Eden recoil
With envy and think of ways to spoil
The party of harmony, peace and bliss
And what it cleverly did was this:
By slowly exploiting man's little flaws
The snake pulled him closer like a candle draws
The moth to destruction, until the laws
Of the garden were broken - but all because
That power said "BE!" and life there was!
They say that had nothing to do with you -
Is it all false or is it true?

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Please excuse the awkward subject
But you are so far the only suspect
In maybe the greatest mystery
Known in recorded history
It is not easy to dismiss
And, you guessed it, the question is this:

The Christians say you were crucified
But those old rumours have been denied
Many times and in different ways
Now I do not care what the gospel says
So would like the answer straight from you -
Is it all false or is it true?

Or as suggested persistently
A case of mistaken identity?
So who was the third one if not you
Crucified between the other two?
Agreed, the question is not really fair
For how would you know if you were not there?

Or did you watch lost in the crowd?
Evading your captors made you feel proud?
Or just relieved that your life was saved
In exchange for another whose blood was craved
By the angry mob whose verdict was sought
As to who would go free and who be brought
To justice for crimes against the state
And asking no court to deliberate
The Jews condemned their fellow Jew -
Is it all false or is it true?

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They say you will return some day -
Can you reveal how long a delay
We mere mortals must endure
Keeping our motivation pure
And expectations high before
One of the major prophets or
A minor one chooses to defect
And tries to help us reconnect
With the cosmic energy
Present in all including me
And what will be your future role
In matters of life and death and the soul?
When exactly are you due?
Is it all false or is it true?

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Christians pray and beat the drum
I guess there is always hope for some
Unless a Crusader-Zionist bomb
Blows us all to kingdom come!
Or is that precisely the hope?
So, greeted by a smiling pope
In Paradise will soon be found
Enraptured faces all around
And it could happen at any time
By accident or a planned crime
By that Axis of Evil and its schemes
To implement its nightmare-dreams

Should the sands of time run out - Alas!
When the last grains in the hourglass
Reluctantly shift and fall and pass
The point of no return, the mass
Of the universe might revert
Through opposing forces which exert
Their power then, to a single point
In space and time, prepare to anoint
The one and only saviour then
The trouble is we do not know when
But at that time a camel might fly
Slip easily through the needle-eye
More or less as was prophesied
And greet you on the other side
With salaamualaikum and woe betide
Those who foolishly applied
Too late, or on time but shamelessly lied
Or in some way arrogantly replied
That their expectance of admission relied
On rumours which have long since died -
Their passage will surely be denied
And rightly so for they defied
The power which always will preside
Over proceedings and decide
Who may enter and reside
In that abode to glow with pride
That they made it safely to the other side -

Children of God, do come inside
Get ready for the ultimate joyride
Get your heavenly horses into their stride
Your chariots of glory may spin and slide
Occasionally run dangerously wide
Close to the edge of the great divide
But they will never ever collide -
When you are dizzy and your horses untied
Surfing on the cosmic tide
Should definitely also be tried
Watch it roll in and then subside
With a bit of practice you too can glide -

Any problems you have, do confide
In the supervisor who will provide
The best advice that can be supplied
The warranty is of course implied
And no-one here has anything to hide

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My fellow-travellers are well aware
We all have our cross to bear
It is not easy to compare
One with another, but we share
The situation as we stare
Into the future and we dare
To dream that problems everywhere
Else will bypass us, but do prepare
For the day of joy or despair -

For when time gives up the holy ghost
We all shall know what we need most
Many will turn to you-know-who
Yes that ancient legendary Jew...

Oh Jesus! Still here! So I ask YOU -
Is it all false or is it true?

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Copyright © 2007 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

Jesus Crisis

- thoughts on Jesus

Written early August 2007 - (206 lines)

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NOTE:
This poem, which is harshly critical of Christianity but
not of Jesus the man, was not written to upset anyone.
Until I became interested in Islam I could not make any
sense of either Jesus or Christianity.
In Islam, Jesus is simply one human prophet out of many
in a very long line, starting with Adam and finishing with
Muhammad - and may peace be upon them all.
Stripped of all the impossible characteristics attributed
to him in the Bible, Islam makes Jesus much more real
and likeable! Equally, of course, if Islam's version of Jesus
is correct, it means that Christianity has grossly distorted
the man and his deeds, and done so quite deliberately.

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Ever since I was very young
I confess I have been among
Those who do not know what to do
With Jesus, maybe surprising but true!
I cannot remember how it began
But was never a practising Christian
As I always felt instinctively
That this was not the way for me...

Let us go straight to the central point:
Something is critically out of joint
The Holy Trinity is a logical mess
Undoubtedly fatally flawed, no less
Why still in use is anybody's guess
Retained maybe to confuse or impress?

The official version is outlined below
And it probably deals the death-blow
To the endlessly repeated claim
That Jesus, the only Son of God, came
To save the entire human race -
An expression of God's infinite grace:

The Father is NOT the same as the Son
Nor the same as the Holy Spirit - well done!
So far so good, we can all follow that
But by quickly adding the caveat
That the Father is God and so is the Son
And so is the Spirit, the logic is gone...
They have lost me already, how about you?
My brain needs to rest for a minute or two!

Maybe hoping to get out of the jam
They produce a very nice diagram
To show us all how simple it is
But instead of inducing the desired bliss
It does not make any sense at all
And on this Christianity stands or falls!

More interesting still but not taught in schools
On two occasions they changed the rules!
Oh yes, and all part of the mystery
How One became Two and Two became THREE!

In the beginning (!) there was only ONE
AD-three-two-five they added the Son
At the Nicaean Council, so One became Two
However there still was some work left to do -

And in Constantinople AD-three-eight-one
The Spirit was added and from then on
It was most dangerous heresy
To say One, or Two in One - get it right: THREE!

(Pondering this the idea came to me
That crossing yourself with two or with three
Fingers may have its origins here -
Is the evidence not reasonably clear?)

In short: the astonishing fact remains
No scholar on Earth can fully explain
The central dogma of the Christian creed!
In that case there is no particular need
To take it seriously, that is my view -
What you do is of course up to you!

Peace to the world! Shalom! Salam!
There is no such confusion in Islam!

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And I want you to know although it is hard
To believe but the Catholics do regard
Virtuous Mary as the Mother of God -
Improbability gets the nod

Peace to the world! Shalom! Salam!
There is no such nonsense in Islam!

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The focus of the Christian marketing machine -
The obsession with suffering - is simply obscene
Deeply offensive and so overused
That on that ground alone I would have refused
To join if I had felt the urge:
There are millions of hideous idols to purge!
Wherever you go, wherever you look
The central character of their holy book
Is shown hanging there half-naked on the cross -
To celebrate that is indecent and gross!
They worship their prophet dying and dead!
Why not resurrection and life instead?
But he suffered and died for us they swear -
A necrophiliac tendency there...

Peace to the world! Shalom! Salam!
There is no such obsession in Islam!

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Some things they do are no doubt perverse
Enough to earn them a lasting curse:
Drinking his blood, eating his flesh!
Keeping the memory of slaughter fresh!
Ritual cannibalism that will not repent!
Institutionalised murder of an innocent!
Civilised behaviour dragged through the mud
As Christian soldiers proudly plod
Onwards in their quest for fame
For more and still more of the same -
May their reward be eternal shame
Kept warm by the infernal flame!

Some concepts survive the ravages of time
Without primitive thoughts becoming sublime
Stone-age man is alive and well!
A toast to Jesus! Welcome to hell!

Peace to the world! Shalom! Salam!
There is no such ritual in Islam!

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In their various efforts to harvest more souls
They promise before the newcomer enrolls
To be saved all you need to do is BELIEVE
Halleluja - Paradise is easy to achieve!
Come on, surely there is more to it
In order to be considered fit
To join that most exclusive crowd:
Clean living, good works and having bowed
Before your Creator to sincerely pray
Several times every single day!
But no, apparenty to BELIEVE is all
You have to do to receive the call!

Peace to the world! Shalom! Salam!
There is no such concession in Islam!

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We are told that Jesus had no father - so what?
Does that make him special? Maybe you forgot
That Adam had no parents at all, so there!
The Creator's signs are everywhere!
To make things materialise all that He
Needs to do is pronounce the word: "BE!"
And it will be as planned and designed
Expertly crafted and exquisitely refined
ALL human ingenuity combined
Could not replicate the miracles enshrined
In one humble majestic living cell -
The mounting evidence must surely compel
The doubters to finally give up the fight!
One day inshallah they will see the light!

And they tell us that Jesus rose from the dead
But persistent rumours claim that instead
He was not killed but simply disappeared
Like Enoch and Elijah before him he steered
His steps to be in place on the appointed day
And when the hour came "God took him away"

Peace to the world! Shalom! Salam!
There is no such uncertainty in Islam!

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Straight to the next item on my list:
Jesus was an ignorant eco-terrorist!
No I did not say that just for fun -
Read Mark eleven, twelve to twentyone:
Jesus sees a fig tree but when he gets near
It has no figs at all - wrong time of year!
So he promptly curses the innocent tree
For some of his followers to hear and see
And the very next morning it is withered and dead!
Why did he not bless it to bear fruit instead?
If truly the Son of Almighty God
Is it not exceedingly odd
That he knew so little and he got so mad
For no real reason? Very sad!

Peace to the world! Shalom! Salam!
There is no such contradiction in Islam!

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Was that all the bad news? No, there is more!
What follows is Matthew ten thirtyfour:
"Do not think that I came to bring peace
on Earth. I did not come to bring peace
but a sword" (and here ends the quote)
And if these are words that Matthew really wrote
And if these are words that Jesus really said
Then the image of the prince of peace is dead!

I have the following picture sketched:
There he stands with arms outstretched
But not to embrace us, no, to block our way!
From a safe distance you can hear him say:
"The only way to the Father is through ME!"
What happened to humility?
Not prophet-like at all and too late to take back -
Sounds like a megalomaniac!

Peace to the world! Shalom! Salam!
There is no such obstacle in Islam!

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Anyway, if you already knew the plan
It would not be impossible for a mortal man
To monitor events and carefully choose
His words and actions to fit the known clues
Making ordinary folks believe he was the real
Messiah enjoying his last proper meal
Knowing that betrayal would lead to success
The disgrace was crowned with that well-known kiss
Hell-bent on fulfilling the prophecy
To assure his own immortality!

Peace to the world! Shalom! Salam!
There is no such personality in Islam!

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Look at Jesus the man without
The attributes which are in doubt
And the picture will soon appear
That what we are dealing with here
Is a major prophet but only one
Of many who have come and gone
Some with scripture, some with word
All demanding to be heard
For the good of humanity
Some paid for it with their sanity
Some with their lives, but all were good
Sadly frequently misunderstood
Human beings who brought the same
Eternal message in the name
Of the ONE who created all
Asking mankind to heed the call
To freely submit to the programme
Of the ONE who says: "I AM!" -
The messengers all used the greeting: "Salam!"
And all invited us to embrace Islam!
For the word Islam means nothing more
Than submission to the will of the Creator
Of all there is, will be or has been -
Al-Hamdu-Lillah! Rabbi al-Alameen!

Peace to the world! Shalom! Salam!
This is Jesus according to Islam!

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