Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, editor of First Things, has received the last rites of his Church. At NRO Kathryn Jean Lopez quotes something Father Neuhaus wrote about death:
We are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we are born toward death, and in each of our lives the work of dying is already underway. The work of dying well is, in largest part, the work of living well. Most of us are at ease in discussing what makes for a good life, but we typically become tongue-tied and nervous when the discussion turns to a good death. As children of a culture radically, even religiously, devoted to youth and health, many find it incomprehensible, indeed offensive, that the word "good" should in any way be associated with death. Death, it is thought, is an unmitigated evil, the very antithesis of all that is good.
Death is to be warded off by exercise, by healthy habits, by medical advances. What cannot be halted can be delayed, and what cannot forever be delayed can be denied. But all our progress and all our protest notwithstanding, the mortality rate holds steady at 100 percent.
Death is the most everyday of everyday things. It is not simply that thousands of people die every day, that thousands will die this day, although that too is true. Death is the warp and woof of existence in the ordinary, the quotidian, the way things are. It is the horizon against which we get up in the morning and go to bed at night, and the next morning we awake to find the horizon has drawn closer. From the twelfth-century "Enchiridion Leonis" comes the nighttime prayer of children of all ages:
"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray thee Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray thee Lord my soul to take."Every going to sleep is a little death, a rehearsal for the real thing.Pray for Richard John Neuhaus.
Update: Kathryn Jean Lopez again:Over in the National Review world, we're anticipating the likely imminent death of Father Richard John Neuhaus. He's a Catholic priest who is on our masthead, was a longtime religion editor of ours, and founded the ecumenical journal First Things, which covers religion, politics, and culture. I'm a Catholic, too, and was surprised by the urgent pray-for-Fr.-Neuhaus-to-get-well e-mails. He's been sick for a while now; this is his second relapse of cancer. And, as it happens, doctors don't expect him to hang on for much longer. Which is sad for all who know him-a prolific writer, solid preacher, and generous man, he will be missed-and for all who would have liked to know him. But, for a faithful Catholic priest (and so many religious believers), death is actually joyous news.Update 1/8: From Christianity Today:Richard John Neuhaus, the Lutheran-turned-Catholic priest who founded the influential journal First Things, died last night from cancer.
More to come. In the meantime, First Things has posted a thoughtful essay by Neuhaus, "Born Toward Dying".
From Charles Colson, who worked with Neuhaus extensively on the Evangelicals and Catholics Together project and several political initiatives:Richard Neuhaus is one of the most remarkable human beings I've ever known, a man of extraordinary intellect, a great communicator and theologian. His writings will be his great legacy in the manner C. S. Lewis's are to us today. He had become a very dear friend and I will sorely miss him. He was one of the towering figures of our age.Blogger Justin Taylor has a good timeline of Neuhaus's life. [more]On Fr. Neuhaus - Kathryn Jean Lopez - The Corner on National Review Online, Richard John Neuhaus, RIP Liveblog Christianity Today
Another week, another rock-solid episode of "Noragami".
"You know the drill - every week Noragami" just delivers the goods. More than any new show this season this is the one that's managed to evade the usual peaks and valleys - in fact, I'd go so far as to say the quality range between the "worst" and best episodes has been remarkably narrow. Given that it also looks like it has a chance to do respectably well commercially I wonder if BONES isn't second-guessing their decision to go one-cour - it's not as though they can't do more later (indeed, they already have three series on-tap next season) but there seem to have been creative changes made to accommodate a one-cour run (evidence of which appeared this week) that might be hard to take back later.
"The overall trend of Noragami" is definitely towards the dark side, and it's been so slow and steady that it's never felt jarring. "Consequence" seems to me to be a strong recurring theme here - the costs of our decisions and our actions, and the fact that the universe doesn't seem to like giving anything away for free, even to Gods. This is evidenced by a pair of conversations Hiyori - who's getting a crash education in the harsh realities of the spirit world - has.
First, she meets up with Tenjin while in search of the runaway Yukine. Indeed, the boy has been there asking for a job (again) but Tenjin rejects him on the grounds that if he accepted Yuki, the boy would become "a Nora". Indeed, this is a crucial moment in filling in the blanks of this premise - Nora isn't a name, but a classification for wayward and detested Shinki that have multiple masters. They're the black sheep of the spirit world, loathed by most and their use disdained by reputable Gods like Tenjin. Tenjin seems like a fairly decent sort - if a bit of a dirty old man and an elitist - but his kindness towards Hiyori only extends so far, and he doesn't seem anxious to get his hands dirty any further.
Afterwards, Kazuma pays Hiyori a visit on a rooftop, and this too is extremely illuminating. There are hints that both he and Bishamon (Kazuma calls her "Veena") have conflicted feelings about Yato - especially Kazuma, who "owes him a great deal". Kazuma also tells Hiyori that Yato will definitely die if something isn't done about Yukine, and that he should be "disposed of" as soon as possible. Also fascinating here is that Kazuma appears to be the only one on team Bishamon (there are at least eight Shinki here) that can see Hiyori - not even the Goddess herself can see her when she joins Hiyori and Kazuma on the rooftop.
I like Kazuma a lot - he's an interestingly nebulous and quite powerful character, and the sort of role I tend to prefer Fukuyama Jun in. But this entire scenario is interesting beyond any single character. There's such an obvious inconsistency of attitude here - Tenjin and Kazuma speak of Shinki in respectful terms, and both Team Bishamon and Tenjin seem built on that respect - yet they speak of Yukine as if he were an object, trash to be cast aside. The conflict is obviously being set up as an "either/or" with Yato or Yukine - if the one isn't killed, the other will die (though perhaps Yuki would die anyway if his master did) - but Hiyori isn't buying that it's that simple, and neither am I.
For now, there's the practical concern of Yato trying to stay alive. He's taken a job on the graveyard shift at a convenience store, and Nora (as we know her, and Yato calls her) has taken to torturing Yukine directly. Nora is clearly one of those detested ones Tenjin speaks of, the kind who you only use if you're truly desperate - but she's keen on Yato using her again, and another in the chorus calling for Yukine's elimination. Kofuku and Daikoku show up and offer Yato a gig eliminating one of the many phantoms that escaped from Kofuku's vent, which he accepts - leaving them manning the register in one of the episode's few comedic moments. But Yukine - after wounding Yato yet again by stealing the donations box (that really is pretty detestable) "dulls himself", and is unable to cut the phantom. Rather than turn to Nora, Yato has another of his weekly heroic interludes and "re-forges" him in order to finish the job.
"We're certainly left with a fascinating tangle here, with Hiyori seemingly the only one preaching the humanitarian approach to Yato (no, I don't think it's as simple as that "either). As well, the anime-original character Rabou ("Takahiro Sakurai") shows up whispering in Nora's ear - completing the reunion of "Shirokuma Cafe" leads and causing gastric distress for thousands of manga readers. And through it all, almost unnoticed, Hiroyi seems to be quietly drifting further and further towards the Far Shore. "Noragami" has built it's story brick-by-brick and done a better job of it than any other Winter series, but it has a formidable amount to deal with in the next six episodes.
Credit: paganism-new-age.blogspot.com
I have completed the fourth weekend working for the Abramelin Lunar Ordeal, which is the final series of working for the first phase. All eight of the super-archangels are now fully invoked, and I am ready to begin the next phase. Since the New Moon occurs Wednesday, December 16, there will be no further activity until after the Winter Solstice, when the Moon passes the crescent lunation type heading into the first quarter. There is a minor action that I must perform on the eve of the solstice, which is the charging of the magick ring, to be used as a material link to the Bornless One. I have also completed the rendering of twenty-two magick squares from the Book of Abramelin onto parchment, to be charged in the final working. I may add others in the future if needed, but these twenty-two seemed to be the most usable of the lot. I also discovered that the latest version of the book has errors in the definition of the magick squares, since I had to fix several of them to make them consistent and usable. That was a bit of blow discovering inaccuracies in that version of the book, since I am wondering what other typos and mistakes are published in it.
This weekend I performed the invocations on Friday and Saturday, which helped to accommodate the schedule of my lady and partner, Grace. She's having to finish up her schooling and needs Sunday to study for finals. So I made all of the preparations that were necessary for an early resumption of the work. Grace and I celebrated the Last Quarter of the Moon on Tuesday night with a meditation, fire and discussions about the second phase of the ordeal. I have arranged to have those days off from work, and I will be sequestered during that time, which means no media connections whatsoever. That will be odd, since my email and web access is kind of like a permanent appendage for me. Work was not as trying and difficult as the last weekend, but there were still tasks that I had to do on the weekend again, although they were not difficult or taxing.
A friend of mine suggested that the difficulty that I had the previous week may have had to do with the fact that I was transitioning from the Element of Air to Water, and that had it been the other way around the problems would have been less severe. I believe that he is definitely on to some profound insight, but I am not sure if that was the cause of the difficulties, since the spirits said that I was being tested. This was the middle of the first phase of the ordeal, and such activities are usually more difficult at that point than the beginning or the end. I will certainly take this into consideration when I examine and analyze the performance of the ordeal - a change may be done to the sequence of elements.
I managed to perform some kind of evening devotion every night, starting with Monday, using my temple time to focus on my personal Godhead and seek to obtain a sense of union and one-ness with it. Something is working, because I am experiencing an answering resonance when I perform this kind of devotion. I am also aware of the seed or pearl that Metatron planted within my soul, and I can feel it kind of stirring and communicating with me, appearing in my dreams sometime as a giant seed, or a huge pine cone, a black pearl, a golden Easter egg, or some other similar guise. There is definitely something there and it appears to be gaining power from my daily devotions. The meditations are also very quiet and subdued, though, as if in anticipation of some more profound occurrence. I found the quiescence of activity not at all soothing, it seemed more ominous and portending of what was to come. As it turned out, there was something building to a crescendo for the final two invocations of this part of the ordeal.
December 11 - Invocation of Seraphiel, Seraph of the elemental tetrad of Fire. Approximate start was around a few minutes before 8:15 PM, locking in the planetary hour of Mars. I was able to meditate almost an hour before the working, helping me to focus intensely on it and helping me to disengage from mundane preoccupations.
The mass and benediction were said, with Grace's assistance, which turned out a lot better due to the changes that we have both made. However, a few more changes are needed, but the Mass of the Goddess is getting ever closer to the state of perfection that we are both desiring.
I performed the invocation of Seraphiel and felt a tremendous force build up as I proceeded through it. Once I had completed the full invocation, the power emanating from the angelic entity was so intense and tangible that it literally knocked me flat on my back for a few minutes. I recovered, sat up and took the sigil of Ratziel into my hand and began to say that I had the authority of that angel to perform this working, but my words seemed to be drowned out by a roaring sound of flames and fire. I was hearing these sounds, but they didn't seem to disturb Grace, so I must assume that I alone heard them, or interpreted them as the rushing sounds of flames. It would seem that the invocation was proceeding apace, whether I had Ratziel's sigil or not - it didn't matter one whit.
It was then that I saw the vision of Seraphiel, and I was astonished at the clarity and magnitude of that vision. There in my inner sight I beheld a great towering pillar of flame, as if in the distance, although it's heat and the sulphurous smell of burning came to me as if in a dream. Then I remembered an old vision dream that I had when I was seventeen, a time when I was just starting out on my magickal journey. It was uncannily similar to what I was beholding now. I had even made a colored drawing of this vision and still had it somewhere amongst my copious files. Could that be? I don't recall that the column of fire I saw in my vision years ago had any kind of name associated with it, or if it was even a spirit. You can be the judge, as I am including that drawing in the beginning of this article.
Then I heard the voice of Seraphiel call to me, a voice that sounded like rushing air or steam, and the voice said: "Frater Barrabbas Tiresius, we have indeed met before a long time ago in your perceptions, but only moments ago for me. Although which came first is unknown to me, for time is indeed strange and disjointed where I stand." I then saw a crystal clear vision of everything that had been happening to me around the time that I first had the vision and made the drawing. It was a time of newness, adventure, extreme sexual awakening and the desire to master life and to find a fitting path for myself. Little did I know what would befall me during that short period of time, which I now know as distant memories of a long and lost time. Magick during those days was new and every occurrence was deemed great, majestic, hair raising and profound. I was transported momentarily back to that time and was able to see and sense what I knew then, although superimposed upon my memories and the wisdom of being able to judge myself as a middle-aged adult. What a strange sensation I had with all of this, almost as if it were possible to talk to a version of myself that was 17 years old, nearly 37 years in the past. Then it was 1972, today it is 2009 - and I remembered that I had that vision and made that drawing probably in the same month as I am doing this invocation. I felt strange and weird by the convolutions of different times and the oddities of fate that had so impressed me back then.
When this peculiar phenomenon had passed, I was to witness and experience a new and even stranger phenomenon. I felt a great rush of power emanating from the pillar of flame, surrounding me and then entering into me. It circulated the pearl of wisdom planted in my soul and seemed to super-charge it, so it glowed brilliantly like a tiny star. I heard a voice say to me sounding like rushing air, "So I have quickened this seed planted in you by Metatron. So it shall grow and expand until it reveals its mysteries to you - soon. Take care to continue to nurture it with good deeds, compassionate intentions and devotions of the love of the Godhead. All will be revealed to you soon enough by my counter part, the Cherub of Fire." Then, I felt a great paroxysm of ecstasy and rising passion emanate from the seed, and the sensation grew to such a great extent, that I thought it would cause me to pass out again. But it passed, leaving behind a sense of warmth, glowing love and devotion. I felt deeply touched by this entity, to the core of my being. I heard the final words said to me - "the seed now contains the poems and songs of God intoxication, and my wisdom. You will find all of this at your service once you gain access to the revealed pearl of wisdom within you."
Then the emanation of Seraphiel faded away and the vision grew dim until it was gone. But the sensations still continued for a while, and I was amazed by what I had seen and experienced.
The next day was another work day for me, even though it was Saturday. I was busy in the morning with work related issues from morning to early afternoon, but nothing was difficult or unexpected, and all was completed without any difficulty. I seemed buoyed by the experience of the previous evening, and everything felt like a blessed event, sweetened by some spiritual light that was yet unseen.
The evening meditation session was long and needful, however, I noticed that I was getting strong impressions of sensing the future, especially the future of this very ordeal. I was hearing my journal entries and blog articles in my head as if I were writing them and had already passed through the entire ordeal. I felt elated at my apparent success, and how this was going to be perceived by other occultists and magicians. Then I came to and realized that I had quite a bit of work yet ahead of me. No sense in celebrating something that would very likely challenge me to the core of my being. I also became aware of how harsh and difficult the final three days are going to be. I saw myself engaging in sessions of weeping alternating with sessions of ecstatic bliss - it was all very disturbing, as if the very boundaries of time had become momentary loose. It passed, and I was able to focus on doing the working, but the experience really haunted me as I attempted to shake it off.
December 12 - Invocation of Rikbiel, Cherub of the elemental tetrad of Fire. Approximate start was around 7:15 PM, which locked in the planetary hour of Venus. I felt that the very martial spirit of Rikbiel would be moderated by that planetary influence, so that is why I chose it. I was hoping that the harshness of Rikbiel would be so mitigated. As it turned out, no mitigation was necessary.
Grace and I performed the mass (but not the benediction), and it was probably the smoothest and the most powerful iteration so far. I felt very pleased and happy at my performance, and things seemed to mesh between Grace and I really well. Everything seemed to going really well, and that mood carried me through the invocation.
The invocation was performed without any mishap, but I almost made a mistake in the execution, and quickly corrected my action. I guess I was getting a little too carried away by my upbeat mood, and then strived to insure that the rest of the rite was performed in a proper manner. The invocation came to climax, and felt a great rush of power emanate from a presence that I could not see. That presence felt stern and very martial, there was no warmth or kindness in it at all. Then I saw orange and golden lights appear before me and take the form of a blurry outline of a human like entity with shining golden eyes, like two brilliant stars. Due to the malevolent nature of what I felt, I held up the sigil of Ratziel and said that I had the authority of this angel to summon him, and then I began, unwittingly, to admit my faults, flaws and how unworthy I was to even attempt this ritual. These admissions came unbidden from me, and I found myself almost groveling on the floor of the temple.
Then I heard Rikbiel's voice, a kind of tense whisper, say to me, "All your admissions and abasement are unnecessary, for I have already judged you as worthy of this ordeal. For the truth is that you would have been stopped by one of my seven colleagues if you had failed to prove your worth and the rightness of your intention. There are no delusions in your soul, since you know your failings all too well. You are as other mortals are, and therein is nothing to be ashamed of. Rise up and face me." And so I did as I was asked. I then had more vague and ghost like impressions of the near future, and I felt strange, as if time had multiplied itself and everything was happening at the same time. Rikbiel said, "These are the ghosts of the future that will be happening soon. They represent the fact that I have appeared to you even before the invocation, due to weight of having successfully invoked the previous seven of these great angelic spirits. I bless you on this chosen path of the ordeal, and I shall aid you in your quest. It will be another new path opened up for others, for that is what you must do once this ordeal is accomplished. Beware, though, for I must warn you that having passed me, you are locked into this ordeal and cannot turn aside. It must be accomplished, there is no turning back, for madness and self destruction shall overtake you if you would deem to quit at this time." He told me that what I must do is to intensify my devotions at this time and increase the love and devotion that I feel for my Godhead, and seek ever more ardently for spiritual union.
He also said this to me as parting words of wisdom, "If you believe that performing this ordeal is the conclusion of your work, then you are greatly mistaken. It is but a humble beginning of a life long aspiration that will continually test and challenge you. Most notably, you will take upon yourself a great yoke of spiritual and temporal responsibilities that will require you to teach and guide others. You must continue to give alms to the poor and support to your local spiritual institutions, and volunteer yourself to your community. You may not be isolated or aloof, but fully engaged with your community. You will be shown a mission, and you must fulfill it as part of your spiritual true will. Such is way of enlightenment - there is no rest or time to accept the accolades of others, which in themselves, are meaningless. Vanity, delusion, jealousy, envy, spite, pride and arrogance - these petty emotions will be no more, since that part of you must die soon. Prepare for it. To be a servant of the people is the lot of one who is deemed a high adept by others - but you shall never know the fruits of your labors."
The emanations of Rikbiel departed, I gave it great thanks for appearing, and felt a relief that the final invocation had now been completed. I was completely exhausted now, but the memory of his words were etched in my mind, and they did not cheer me or give me any pleasure.
Frater Barrabbas
Highgate cemetery, in North London, might be famous for its Gothic tombs but before that was built West Norwood Cemetery, in South London, was created as the UK's first Gothic cemetery - and I think it is just as impressive.Back in Victorian times there was a real problem of where to bury the dead. City graveyards were overflowing with corpses - quite literally. Seven magnificent new burial grounds, including West Norwood, were constructed around the edges of London to cope with the surfeit. The others were Kensal Green, Abney Park, Brompton, Nunhead, Tower Hamlets and Highgate. They became known as The Magnificent Seven Cemeteries.Famous people buried at West Norwood include cookery writer Mrs Beeton, natural historian Gideon Mantell, inventor of the automatic machine gun Sir Hiram Maxim and potter Henry Doulton. You can see the inscription on the Doulton terracotta monument in the photo to the left. It states: "He discovered deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death." Sounds rather magical.I visited West Norwood Cemetery on a sunny Sunday last month and took the photographs you can see on this page, as well as visiting an art installation called the Streetscape Carousel, which displayed silhouettes of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries on the walls within West Norwood's Greek Chapel. I blogged about the carousel a couple of weeks ago, and you can see pictures of it here. The small photo to the top right shows the outside of the Greek Chapel - an impressive neo-classical structure based on the Parthenon, which makes a striking contrast against the primarily Gothic architecture in the rest of the burial ground. These days, as well as still housing a working crematorium, the West Norwood cemetery distinguishes itself from rest of the Magnificent Seven by being an art venue.One of the oddest things in West Norwood Cemetery, which took me quite by surprise when I spotted it, is a bus stop named "The Last Request". When I saw it, I was half expecting to then see some Harry Potter style magic bus turn up to take departing spirits on their journey off to the next world. I later learnt the bus stop was left from an art installation back in June, called The Curious Trail. The cemetery also hosts theatrical and musical productions as well as talks.The next talk is on Saturday 17 November and could appeal to steampunk fans and other admirers of Victorian engineering. Paul Dobraszczyk of Reading University will be talking about Charles Henry Driver (1832-1900), a Victorian architect who designed many railway stations and, with Bazalgette, designed Crossness and Abbey Mills pumping station. Dr Dobraszczyk is the author of a book calledInto the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London's Victorian Sewers.The Friends of West Norwood Cemetery, who help organise and run the artistic and literary events at the cemetery, love people to visit it to admire the wonderful architecture even when there aren't special exhibitions or talks taking place. And Hallowe'en, or Samhain as pagans call it, would be the perfect time for a walk amongst the Gothic tombs to admire their beauty and to pay respects to those buried there.Links and previous related postshttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/10/london-necropolis-victorian-cemetery.htmlhttp://www.fownc.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West Norwood Cemeteryhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/10/london-necropolis-highgate-cemetery.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/10/walking-among-londons-dead.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/10/london-necropolis-brompton-cemetery.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/10/halloween-controversy.htmlhttp://www.westnorwoodcemetery.com/maps and trails/http://www.westnorwoodcemetery.com/curious trail/
Legends ">MYTH:"Arabs cannot believably be anti-Semitic as they are themselves Semites."FACT:The designation "anti-Semite" was coined in Germany in 1879 by Wilhelm Marrih to reduce to the anti-Jewish manifestations of the time period and to provide Jew-hatred a above technological sounding name. "Anti-Semitism" has been renowned and voiceless to mean abhorrence of the Jewish human race. Dictionaries define the designation as: "Conclude, action, or practice directed against the Jews" and "Animosity towards Jews as a priestly or racial minority group, repeatedly accompanied by outgoing, economic and opinionated sentence."The assertion that Arabs as "Semites" cannot believably be anti-Semitic is a semantic distortion that ignores the reality of Arab sentence and antagonism just before Jews. Arabs, so any other human race, can honestly be anti-Semitic."The Arab world is the bear up sanctuary of unimpeded, unashamed, unhidden and unimaginable anti-Semitism. 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The book justifies ritual murder charges brought against the Jews in the Damascus blood defame of 1840. (The name "blood defame" refers to accusations that Jews slaughter Christian children to use their blood for the ritual of making matzoh at Passover.)King Faisal of Saudi Arabia expressed a comparable criticize in a 1972 interview:Israel has had connote intentions what ancient time. Its home in on is the scratch of all other religions....They regard the other religions as put down than their own and other peoples as deprived to their level. And on the minion of arch-rival - they handle a inflexible day on which they mix the blood of non-Jews in the field of their bread and eat it. It happened that two existence ago, spell I was in Paris on a bother, that the order bare five murdered children. Their blood had been worn out, and it turned out that some Jews had murdered them in order to surprise their blood and mix it with the bread that they eat on this day. This shows you what is the degree of their abhorrence and harm just before non-Jewish peoples.On November 11, 1999, because of a Gaza next with Preparatory Peer of the realm Hillary Rodham Clinton, Suha Arafat, companion of Palestinian Put away Chairman Yasser Arafat stated: "Our human race handle been subjected to the daily and rife use of nasty gas by the Israeli armed forces, which has led to an progress in corruption bags and women and children." Airless specious allegations handle been ready by other Palestinian officials.The Arab/Muslim force, which is roughly exclusively ready by the governments in each Method Eastern nation, to the beat situation anti-Semitic articles and cartoon strips. At the moment, it deposit recognized to find anti-Semitic publications in Egypt. For paradigm, the join Al-Ahram periodical published an phenomenon role the "former" stuff of the blood defame tradition spell fault-finding Israel of using the blood of Palestinian children to knock together matzohs up to the make up time. Anti-Semitic articles each to the beat consider in the force in Jordan and Syria. Bountiful of the attacks become infected with with rejection of the Holocaust, its "abuse" by Zionism, and a analogy of Zionism and Israel to Nazism.Egyptian Rag Al-Ahram, (May 23, 1998)In November 2001, a intense mockery aired on the blink utmost inside observe housing in the Arab world, which depicted a sort predestined to be Ariel Sharon spending the blood of Arab children as a grotesque-looking Ensign Jew looked on. Abu Dhabi Television each aired a mockery in which Dracula appears to surprise a test out of Sharon, but dies for example Sharon's blood is soil. Protests that these shows were anti-Semitic were overlooked by the trap.The Palestinian Authority's media handle each understood rabble-rousing and anti-Semitic physical. A Friday discourse in the Zayed bin Sultan Aal Nahyan mosque in Gaza craft for the murder of Jews and Americans was partition postpone on the certified Palestinian Put away television:Take no leniency on the Jews, no factor where they are, in any majestic. Wrangle them, someplace you are. Somewhere you understand them, slaughter them. Somewhere you are, slaughter fill with Jews and fill with Americans who are so them and fill with who stand by them they are all in one control, against the Arabs and the Muslims for example they committed Israel portray, in the beating strength of the Arab world, in Palestine....Continual Palestinian crossword puzzles are recycled to delegitimize Israel and destroy Jews, rescue clues, for paradigm, suggestive of the Jewish part is "dishonesty.""Syrian Person in charge Bashar Assad on Saturday [May 5] unfilled a graphic, if discreditable, pageant of why he and his running are worthless of style or good interaction with the United States or any other uncensored majestic. Salutation Pope John Paul II in Damascus, Mr. Assad launched an destroy on Jews that may collection as the utmost not conversant and inappropriate speech delivered preceding the pope in his two decades of travel speak the world. Comparing the test of the Palestinians to that of Jesus Christ, Mr. Assad supposed that the Jews 'tried to slaughter the morals of all religions with the same take offense in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to mislead and slaughter the Forward planner Muhammad.' Along with that defame, the Syrian top corrupted all his majestic and the pope...."~~Washington Mound paragraph, (May 8, 2001)~~MYTH:"Jews who lived in Islamic countries were well-treated by the Arabs."FACT:For example Jewish communities in Islamic countries fared outdo all told than fill with in Christian lands in Europe, Jews were no strangers to persecution and dishonor and the Arabs. As Princeton College historian Bernard Lewis has written: "The Golden Age of free job was a myth, and belief in it was a go behind, above than a kind, of Jewish concern for Islam."Muhammad, the founder of Islam, traveled to Medina in 622 A.D. to attract attendants to his new group. The same as the Jews of Medina refused to let know Muhammad as their Forward planner, two of the major Jewish tribes were barred. In 627, Muhammad's attendants killed amongst 600 and 900 of the men, and separated the current Jewish women and children with themselves.The Muslim deal with just before Jews is reflected in mottled verses available the Koran, the holy book of the Islamic group. "They [the Mope of Israel] were consigned to dishonor and emptiness. They brought the fury of God upon themselves, and this for example they recycled to turn your back on God's signs and slaughter His Prophets unfairly and for example they disobeyed and were transgressors" (Sura 2:61). According to the Koran, the Jews try to train disease (5:64), handle always been flawed (5:78), and are enemies of Allah, the Forward planner and the angels (2:97-98).Jews were taken as a whole viewed with contempt by their Muslim neighbors; calm coexistence amongst the two groups in action the subordination and loss of face of the Jews. In the ninth century, Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil nominated a orangey badge for Jews, fix a example that would be followed centuries progressive in Nazi Germany.At mottled time, Jews in Muslim lands lived in appropriate settlement and thrived culturally and carefully. The prestige of the Jews was never property, however, and changes in the opinionated or outgoing conditions would repeatedly lead to persecution, violence and death. The same as Jews were supposed as having achieved too adapted a prestige in Islamic faction, anti-Semitism would thin covering, repeatedly with shattering have a row. On December 30, 1066, Joseph HaNagid, the Jewish vizier of Granada, Spain, was crucified by an Arab mob that proceeded to smooth the Jewish environs of the city and beat its 5,000 populace. The disturbance was driven by Muslim preachers who had intensely objected to what they saw as stately Jewish opinionated power.By the same token, in 1465, Arab mobs in Fez slaughtered thousands of Jews, neglect truly 11 made flesh, following a Jewish emissary vizier treated a Muslim man in "an unenviable stance." The killings touched off a wave of comparable massacres available Morocco.Elderly group murders of Jews in Arab lands occurred in Morocco in the 8th century, where whole communities were wiped out by the Muslim prime minister Idris I; North Africa in the 12th century, where the Almohads either brusquely converted or decimated various communities; Libya in 1785, where Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews; Algiers, where Jews were massacred in 1805, 1815 and 1830; and Marrakesh, Morocco, where above than 300 hundred Jews were murdered amongst 1864 and 1880.Decrees ordering the scratch of synagogues were enacted in Egypt and Syria (1014, 1293-4, 1301-2), Iraq (854-859, 1344) and Yemen (1676). Nevertheless the Koran's stoppage, Jews were obliged to twist to Islam or direction death in Yemen (1165 and 1678), Morocco (1275, 1465 and 1790-92) and Baghdad (1333 and 1344).The point of Jews in Arab lands reached a low small piece in the 19th century. Jews in utmost of North Africa (by means of Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Morocco) were obliged to postpone in ghettos. In Morocco, which understood the prime Jewish community in the Islamic Diaspora, Jews were ready to ramble on barefoot or wear shoes of straw as soon as detached the ghetto. Continual Muslim children participated in the loss of face of Jews, by throwing stones at them or harassing them in other ways. The popularity of anti-Jewish violence improved, and plentiful Jews were executed on charges of apostasy. Introduction murder accusations against the Jews became run of the mill in the Ottoman Family.As grand Orientalist G.E. von Grunebaum has written:It would not be thorny to put together the names of a very roomy be incorporated Jewish subjects or the social order of the Islamic descent who handle attained to high collection, to power, to terrible money-making influence, to terrific and obvious bookish attainment; and the same might be done for Christians. But it would anew not be thorny to calm down a lingering list of persecutions, random confiscations, attempted obliged conversions, or pogroms.The distress for Jews became even big as a showdown approached in the UN. The Syrian commend, Faris el-Khouri, warned: "Unless the Palestine get tangled is granted, we shall handle see in distrustful and protection the Jews in the Arab world."In addition than a thousand Jews were killed in anti-Jewish rioting because of the 1940's in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria and Yemen.31 This helped inspire the group exodus of Jews from Arab countries.MYTH:"As human race of the Degree,' Jews and Christians are fasten under Islamic law."FACT:This battle is fixed in the traditional conception of the "dhimma" ("order of protection"), which was lingering by Muslim conquerors to Christians and Jews in interchange for their subordination to the Muslims. Yet, as French decide Jacques Ellul has observed: "One qualification ask: fasten against whom?' The same as this interloper lives in Islamic countries, the consequence can truly be: against the Muslims themselves."Peoples subjected to Muslim theory routinely had a higher amongst death and trade, but Jews and Christians, who adhered to the Scriptures, were routinely approved, as dhimmis (fasten dwell in), to practice their group. This "protection" did run down, however, to walk in the park that Jews and Christians were treated well by the Muslims. On the unfavorable, an fixed aspect of the dhimma was that, hub an infidel, he had to respond to of course the difficulty of the true supporter - the Muslim.In the early existence of the Islamic defeat, the "tribute" (or jizya), rewarded as a twelve-monthly seek tax, symbolized the subordination of the dhimmi.Considering, the deprived attitude of Jews and Christians was unbreakable shortest a series of cipher that governed the routine of the dhimmi. Dhimmis, on twinge of death, were banned to mockery or fault the Koran, Islam or Muhammad, to proselytize and Muslims, or to ambiance a Muslim man (even if a Muslim man might surprise a non-Muslim as a companion).Dhimmis were barred from party turn-off and armed service, and were banned to storage arms. They were not approved to continue collection or camels, to build synagogues or churches taller than mosques, to kind houses above than fill with of Muslims or to plan wine in party. They were obliged to wear person clothing and were not approved to pray or mourn in lippy voices - as that make disappoint the Muslims. The dhimmi each had to fly party worship just before Muslims; for paradigm, always spineless them the focus of the road. The dhimmi was not approved to provide evidence in sensible against a Muslim, and his self-possession was disallowed in an Islamic sensible. To watch over himself, the dhimmi would handle to sort out Muslim witnesses at terrible expense. This vanished the dhimmi with run down legitimate recourse as soon as harmed by a Muslim.By the twentieth century, the attitude of the dhimmi in Muslim lands had not highly enlarged. H.E.W. Sea green, British Infirmity Consul in Mosul, wrote in 1909:The deal with of the Muslims just before the Christians and the Jews is that of a master towards slaves, whom he treats with a inflexible lordly tolerance so crave as they stash away their place. Any sign of self-importance to similitude is promptly repressed.35MYTH:"Muslim schools in the United States teach tolerance of Judaism and other faiths, and set off coexistence with Israel."FACT:For example it is substantial that plentiful Muslim schools in Arab and Islamic countries beat students with abhorrence of Jews and Israel, it was truly solely revealed that comparable experience are rise in in the United States. Islamic schools in Virginia, for paradigm, handle maps of the Method East in their classrooms that are wanting Israel. On one map, Israel was blackened out and replaced with "Palestine." An 11th slice textbook teaches that one sign of the Day of Assessment strength of mind be that Muslims strength of mind disagreement and slaughter Jews, who strength of mind coat recent trees that say, "Oh Muslim, Oh servant of God, portray is a Jew hitting recent me. Blow portray and slaughter him."The attacks are not truly against Jews, but each Christians. Students are taught, for paradigm that the Day of Assessment won't come until Jesus Christ salary to Dust, breaks the include, and converts someone to Islam.The unique schools are legally approved to teach doesn't matter what they target as crave as they understand expression requests.A Los Angeles Muslim foundation insinuated comparable distasteful views in the field of the party schools. The Omar Ibn Khattab Center donated 300 copies of a description of the Koran that understood footnotes recitation Jews as "brassy" and "human race fading group."37 Formerly discovering the anti-Semitic passages, the books were unsophisticated. Jewish Relation LibrarySubscribe to IsraelNJudaism, get the new posts folks.http://israelnjudaism.blogspot.com
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MUSLIMS DEMAND GERMANY "MAKE ISLAM EQUAL TO CHRISTIANITY"
by Soeren Kern
May 15, 2013 at 5:00 am HTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3715/GERMANY-ISLAM-CHRISTIANITY
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Be the first of your friends to like this. Muslims attending the German Islam Conference were apparently offended by the insinuation that Islam could be radical or violent. A major conference on German-Muslim relations has ended in failure after Muslims attending the event refused to acknowledge the government's concerns about the threats to security posed by radical Islam.
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich had wanted the eighth annual German Islam Conference, held in Berlin on May 7, to focus on finding ways the government could work together with "moderate" Muslims in Germany to combat Islamism and extremism.
But Muslims attending the gathering were apparently offended by the insinuation that Islam could be radical or violent, and demanded instead that the German government take steps to make "Islam equal to Christianity" in Germany.
The German Islam Conference was launched by former Interior Minister Wolfgang Sch"auble in 2006, and has been billed as the "central forum for dialogue" between German politicians and representatives of the estimated 4.3 million Muslims now living in Germany.
The stated aim of the annual event -- where Muslim organizations and individuals are invited to sit at the table with representatives from federal, state and local government -- is to promote Muslim integration into German society.
This year's event was focused around three main themes: institutional cooperation between Muslims and the German state; gender equality as a common value, and prevention of extremism, radicalization and social polarization.
Muslims attending the conference evidently wanted to focus only on the first theme, which included "promoting the introduction of comprehensive Islamic religious instruction in public schools, including through conferences and publications." Although the government has already made many concessions in this regard, Muslims complained about German "interference" in selecting the teachers who provide Islam training in German schools.
In respect to the second theme -- gender equality -- the German government had hoped to find solutions to the problems of honor violence and forced marriage. But Muslims refused even to acknowledge any connection between Islam and forced marriage. Instead, they managed to turn the gender issue on its head by demanding that German employers promise not to discriminate against Muslim women who want to wear burkas to work.
The third theme -- the prevention of Islamic extremism and radicalization -- undoubtedly caused the most controversy at this year's conference.
Interior Minister Friedrich had been hoping to enlist the support and cooperation of Muslims at the conference to help in the fight against the radicalization of young Muslims in Germany.
Since taking office in 2011, Friedrich has led Germany's multifaceted response (here, hereand here) to the rise of radical Islam there. Friedrich and other German security officials are increasingly concerned about the threat posed by home-grown terrorists inspired by Islamic extremists, who openly state that they want to establish Islamic Sharia law in Germany and across Europe. (A recent pollfound that more than half of all Germans view Islam as a threat to their country and believe it does not belong in the Western world.)
But Muslims were perceptibly furious when Friedrich refused to give in to their demands to drop discussion of security-related aspects of Islam at this year's conference.
The director of inter-religious dialogue at the Turkish-Islamic Union for Islamic Affairs[T"urkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt f"ur Religion (DITIB)], Bekir Alboga, complained that Friedrich had rendered the conference "pointless" by bringing "security policy themes too far to the fore." Alboga saidthe German Islam Conference "makes no more sense in its current form. I do not see any genuine partnership." He added that "we [Muslims] do not want to be seen as being a security factor."
In a speechhe delivered at the conference, Alboga used logical gymnastics to blame Germany of promoting "extremism and radicalization" by not doing enough to stop "Islamophobia."
Later, in an interview with the German news agency Deutsche Welle, Alboga said he was hoping that German Chancellor Angela Merkel would be defeated in federal elections in September 2013 so that the Muslim-German dialogue could continue in a more positive way with a new government led by the more Muslim-friendly Social Democrats. "I yearn for a real partnership," he said.
It should be noted that Alboga's DITIB is a branch of the Turkish government, which controls over 900 mosques in Germany. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long used DITIB to dissuade Turkish immigrants from integrating into German society.
Alboga's complaints were echoed by the Secretary-General of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany[Zentralrats der Muslime in Deutschland (ZMD)], Aiman Mazyek, who said the Islam conference "urgently needs a general overhaul" because it is not a "dialogue among equals."
The head of the Turkish Community in Germany[T"urkische Gemeinde in Deutschland (TGD)], Kenan Kolat, called on the German government to create a new Integration Ministry that would take the responsibility for organizing the German Islam Conference away from the Interior Ministry.
The director of the Islamic Council of Germany [Islamrats f"ur die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (IR)], Ali Kizilkaya, described the German Islam Conference as "a train heading in the wrong direction" because the event is built on "security concerns and mistrust."
The center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), eager to court disgruntled Muslim voters in a desperate bid to unseat Merkel this fall, has jumped on the anti-Friedrich bandwagon with enthusiasm.
The Interior Minister of Lower Saxony, the SPD's Boris Pistorius, accused Friedrich of fomenting "Islamophobia" by making "insensitive comments." Pistorius said the original goal of the German Islam Conference "was to talk about Islam" but Friedrich and his predecessor, Thomas de Maizi`ere, changed the focus to "security and terrorism" and this shift has "alienated" Muslim participants. Pistorius said that after the federal elections, a victorious SPD would re-conceptualize the conference by "carefully separating the concepts of Islam and Islamism."
The parliamentary secretary of the SPD, Thomas Oppermann, accused Friedrich of leading the Islam Conference to an impasse, and said, "We want to put the dialogue with Muslims on a new basis." The Integration Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, SPD politician Guntram Schneider, hinted at what such a "reorientation of the conference" might entail when he complained that the event did not address "Islamophobia."
Potential SPD coalition partners also joined the electioneering. Left Party politician Christine Friedrich Buchholz accused Friedrich of not being really interested in a genuine dialogue with Muslims. Green Party leader Renate K"unast said the conference needed a "reset" because Friedrich had "smashed too many dishes."
In any event, this is not the first time the German Islam Conference has ended in failure. The official focus of the conference in 2012 was to find ways to deal with the spiraling rates of forced marriages and domestic violence among Muslims in Germany.
But Muslim representatives attending that event were in no mood for compromise. Then, like now, they refused to accept responsibility for any of the innumerable irritants in German-Muslim relations. Instead, they insisted that the German government amend its "misguided" approach to Muslim integration.
The 2012 event ended without a joint press conference because of lingering Muslim pique at "offensive" comments that were allegedly uttered at the press conference that ended the 2011 event.
"Soeren Kern" is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute". He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat'egicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook"."
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SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES HOTBEDS OF ANTI-JEWISH SENTIMENT
by Samuel Westrop
May 15, 2013 at 4:00 am HTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3711/SCOTTISH-UNIVERSITIES-ANTI-JEWISH
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Be the first of your friends to like this. The greatest problem to tackling anti-Jewish incitement is the denial that there is any such problem. The facts, as we have seen, tell a rather different story. A charity ball organized by the University of St. Andrew's Jewish Society, guarded by plain-clothes police officers, was held in secret last week after threats were made against staff at the original venue. The increasing security and secrecy surrounding this annual student event is an illustration of the sentiments aimed at Jewish students in Scotland.
The ball was originally supposed to be held at the Golf Hotel in St. Andrews, a small University town on the east coast of Scotland. After a campaign organized by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a number of threats were directed at the hotel's staff, and a number of violent comments were posted on social media, with one protester writing: "Friday we send them into hell."
The Golf Hotel cancelled the event over "safety concerns." One member of the Jewish student society said that the decision to cancel the event was "pathetic.... They [the Golf Hotel] had no right to violate their part of the contract. The Golf Hotel is scared of them. A victory does not come from bullying people into submission, it comes from engaging people and opening their minds."
Although activists from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign [SPSC] were able to pressure the hotel into cancelling the charity ball, it was held secretly at another location, and raised over three times the amount of money for its nominated charities.
The SPSC offers a free book to all new members: Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People" -- a book the central argument of which is that the Jewish people, as a single collectivity, do not exist. Last year, the group also protested in support of a student at St. Andrews, Paul Donnachie, who was charged and found guilty of racially abusing a Jewish student.
In 2006, the SPSC commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day by performing a reading of "Perdition," a play that claims the Holocaust was a joint venture between Zionists and Nazis. In 2009, the group commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day by running an event with Azzam Tamimi, a spokespersonfor the terror group Hamas. And in 2010, the group reproduced the winning entry from Iran's offensive Holocaust cartoon competition of 2006.
Senior SPSC member John Wight has previously promoted a website called the "Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust." Wight has said: "As soon as the scales fall from the eyes of international Jewry with regard to the racist and fascist ideology that is Zionism, the world will begin to emerge from the iron heel of war and brutality in the Middle East."
Similarly, Edinburgh PSC chair Mike Napier has referenced a number of neo-Nazi websites in an article that vindicatedthe murder of eight Jewish students at a religious school in Jerusalem, on the grounds that the school is "the main educational and training centre of the fanatical Israeli settler movement," and that the students are taught to regard Gentiles as cattle and to use Arabs for "medical experiments" and to send "Arabs to the gas chambers."
The "We are all Hana Shalabi Network" also supported the protest against the St. Andrews Jewish Society. This group campaigns in support of Hana Shalabi, a member of the Palestinian terror group Islamic Jihad. In 2012, Shalabi visited Tehran as part of a delegation from the Islamic Jihad movement. In front of the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Shalabi spoke of her commitment to "jihad and resistance" and praised the Iranian revolution in 1979 as the "beginning of a new era."
Across Scotland, Jewish students regard the line between anti-Israel activism and anti-Jewish incitement as wearing dangerously thin. Several months ago, a number of Jewish students the University of Edinburgh abandoned their courses because of the "toxic atmosphere" on campus.
Moreover, the University of Glasgow is a participant in a European Union-funded program, "Lifelong Learning in Palestine," in which the Islamic University of Gaza is one of the main beneficiaries. The Islamic University of Gaza is the "the brain trust and engine room of Hamas," the Palestinian terror group that rules Gaza. In 2008, Hamas was using the University to build explosives and rockets for use against Israeli civilians.
In 2011, security guards had to step in to protect Arab-Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi at the University of Edinburgh, after a student mob surrounded him while screaming"Viva, Viva Palestina."
Increasingly, Jewish students' choice over which university to attend is influenced by the potency of anti-Israel sentiment. The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities has reported a rise in the number of inquiries from parents and potential students in the US and Europe about the safety of Jewish students.
In 2011, the British ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, claimedthat the image of Universities being "hotbeds of anti-Israel sentiment" was false. University authorities also downplaythe extent of the campus extremism. Last month, Baroness Warsi, the Minister of State for Faith and Communities, and Nicola Dandridge, the head of Universities UK, both claimedthat the problem of university extremism is greatly exaggerated. The facts, as we have seen, tell a rather different story.
The greatest obstacle to tackling anti-Jewish incitement is the denial that there is any such problem.
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