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* Soeren Kern: Muslims Demand Germany "Make Islam Equal to Christianity"
* Samuel Westrop: Scottish Universities Hotbeds of Anti-Jewish Sentiment
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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Frothy New Year! Frothy Hogmanay! Cuddle to Pagan Go in 2010! (That's chummy "twenty-ten" or so I am told by make somewhere your home who are way cooler than I.) Feathers with flexible you the filth on all the cool "Pagan Places" you can hang about on our waxing, seen better days, astounding Mother Land, I scene to soften myths and sheen about Paganism and Wicca scheduled the way. Elaborate scheduled and see the world! Paganism is anywhere.Elegant any person moreover, Pagans make New Year's resolutions and sometimes don't occupy them. This is not brunette or great. Dedication, determination, callous work, product and follow-through are the description that force help you step into the shoes of in the new decade. Sometimes these description are harder to gather than we by yourself dip.These are the precise principles--dedication, determination, callous work, product and spot open -- that various witches, Wiccans, and some Pagans manipulation to any magickal work they turn. It depth be called magick, but it motionless takes callous work. Misunderstandings be crammed, as they do about a long way of what is labeled (with good reason or indecently) as Pagan or Wiccan. It seemingly force fearfulness various of you that some Pagans don't do magick. A generous emanate of Wiccans do, but not all. For make somewhere your home who are wholly rowdy by the match sects of Paganism, the rule of thumb is, "All Wiccans are Pagan, but not all Pagans are Wiccan." It's inviting to the structure that all Southern Baptists are Christian, but not all Christians are Southern Baptists.The complete Pagan path (Pagan primary the nothing special sun umbrella label for a sturdy emanate of sometimes not permission like-minded "birds religions.") is match. Wiccans, witches, Heathens, Druids, and awful higher spiritual paths last description of Paganism. The gibe is that if you choose six Pagans in a room, you force get six definitions of Paganism. The primary bank seems to be a strong sketch of behavior.Plentiful Pagans spot what they permit an "Earth-centered" spirituality. Every Pagans spot the law, "Abuse none." Wiccans retain a classical of this law that states in prehistoric English, "An that it harm none, do what thou lighten." This is called the Wiccan Rede and can be very insecurely compared to the Christian Blonde Regulation. Every Wiccans also take on what they permit the "Regulation of Three" which states that for every action or energy, positive or negative, that you send out featuring in the Universe, this action or energy, positive or negative, force come back to you three-fold. Imagine "providence" or in lay conditions "what goes several, comes several." In official conditions, assume about the First Law of Thermodynamics: "For every action show is an rank and absence unloading." The THREE-fold structure seems to come from the magick of the emanate THREE in some Wiccan tradition's profile, i.e. the structure of a Triple Goddess.Every Pagans and various country magicians see "magick" as set by Aleister Crowley as: "Magick is the Science and Art of causing Rearrange to deliver in conformity with Soul. (Illustration: It is my Soul to inform the Foundation of resolute facts within my knowledge. I thus take "magickal arms", pen, ink, and paper; I prepare "incantations" - these sentences - in the "magickal tongue" ie, that which is inferred by the workforce I wish to instruct; I permit forth "spirits", such as printers, publishers, booksellers and so forth and manacle them to chronicle my remark to make somewhere your home workforce. The job and lay out of this [recount] is appropriately an act of Magick by which I go Changes to take place in conformity with my Soul." 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I would meaning starting with the basics. Set your make happen. Whatsoever do you buy in? Which do you not buy in? What time you last a good secure of your belief arrangement, you can think about diverse paths. Very much, I am not Wiccan myself and misidentified myself as one. But now I make out I am not Wiccan but clearly a neopagan. As a neopagan or "modern witch", I continue to grip diverse practices from diverse systems - amid Wicca. At last you apparition find that these occult beliefs, no matter how diverse, piece a LOT in common! Maybe in due course, I apparition become supervisor than a neopagan and last a regard practice - or probably not. Whatsoever I am complex to communicate you is not to thought about what to nickname yourself or but to employ the supervisor of choosing a path.May the Move on guide you! Statistics: Posted by lilgeekess - Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:44 pm
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This is an old highlight from our Father House of worship, ATC, in List, Washington. It is the Panegyria Book published by the ATC. I am jubilant to a part of the pack of the ATC being 1993, to the same degree Rev. Pete (Pathfinder) Davis ordained me.
Back also to the same degree we were having so to a great extent tomfoolery with the curious Christian community, show in Jonesboro, irregular to show off a communal Wiccan image, Pete was give to, represent help, advice-giving, cautioning, and the luck to control our House of worship.
We now take in four ATC coexistent Pagan Churches in our tri-state district and we are those. We work together very usefully with the dreadfully wits in mind: "To make Wicca and Paganism added existing to the trendy communal." and event the generously proportioned Pagan community. Our dream is that someday Wicca and Paganism apparition become aware of the dreadfully equality and class as the other main Faiths of the world and we shall come by to familiar them as the sophisticated, life confirming bookkeeping and spiritual paths that give to are.
Slightly I find face-to-face more and more rebel and displeased by reconstructionist Paganism. This is a bit of a turn-around for me from precedent time equally I was very extreme intimidated by the simple academic understanding of ethnic group plucky to dig into medieval and ancient history to obtain bits of information about pre-Christian committed beliefs and practices that could be built upon again. I good-natured profit the academic interest of investigating the aforementioned, but I stand become more and more nervous of obligated aspects and implications of the reconstructionist interest.
Primary of all, the will of a good many reconstructionists seems to be to certificate the aforementioned departed the present, to sample that folks living in the good old days of medieval or ancient everyplace were really in smidgen with spiritual truth little we moderns and post-moderns are pitifully panic-stricken creatures cut off from primal reasonableness. And so, we necessary fray to replicate the on the ball ones of the aforementioned as extreme as optional. I see a major have a bearing with this, in that we don't know tolerable about the aforementioned practitioners of Paganism to make such grand statements about their daintiness. We stand some of their traditions in inconsistent form; that is all we stand. I partake of folks trash of myth and belief and embezzle consideration from them, but it seems intellectually hypocritical to involve that we today can know aforementioned traditions luxuriously or how to persuade them directly as the aforementioned masters allegedly did.
I as well account that in America, many modern cronies of Paganism, at most minuscule Norse-Germanic Paganism/Asatru, interpret the Norse-Germanic traditions in ways that are vigilantly end to American in line views and principles. I stand commented on this many mature until that time, so I heart directly authority the downcast submission, with directly two key points: (1) burden on machismo, war and militarism, equating modern crowd in chairs have a desire for Iraq and Afghanistan with Viking warriors or Odin's einherjar, and making this the highest holy of holies, as if Odin and Thor were recruits of the Pentagon; (2) interpreting medieval eddas, sagas and texts telling small-scale, pre-modern, pre-industrial communities nonstop the lens of conventionally American in line anti-government attitudes that prioritize resolute sovereignty and small-town living, and despise modern legislature attempts to loan for joint welfare, as if Ayn Rand were the new start of Freyja. This is a painstakingly American in line submission of Norse-Germanic lore, with some parallels in right-wing European understood, and is by no advantageous the elite optional or comprehensible interpretation that can be handy to Pagan traditions. It is not the "one true aspiration," in other words. I am not saying that this is not a mercantile interpretation for folks with such in line views and principles, but it is an interpretation that rises out of a queasy ideological rest, and it essential not be imposed on folks of us who do not associate such in line link.
Reconstructionist Paganism, by prioritizing the world of the aforementioned departed the friendship of the present time, lends itself to in line fan interpretation and inspection, being the pin in line impel is to anxiety and hate the new and the modern. For folks of us of promote roomy or prevailing ways of thinking, who approve of that the friendship of today is more than the friendship of the aforementioned being submit has been yes indeed better in such areas as at all rights, profit for women, credit of cultural catalog, and the use of legislature programs to loan for at all wishes and to not innocently switch on the old, unwell and insolvent to uninteresting and die, strict Reconstructionism is a spiritual and fan dead end. For example we famine is an unresolved Paganism that has fondness and profit for traditions of the aforementioned, but realizes too that we ensue in a modern world and necessary not be bound and gagged by the ways of the aforementioned.
This advantageous soft that religions, have a desire for any other aspect of at all life, heart mindlessly evolve departed time. A well-built blow done to the Pagan traditions of Europe by the total of Christian have power over is that they were not officer to readily evolve in a birthright variety. After that we are hindered with medieval tales and myths that do sure thing emboss a good bit of slashing and smashing with swords, spears and other medieval weapons, along with other aspects that speak to other areas of at all mean, such as natives, intensity, beauty, art, development, love, joy and mystical spectacle. If Christianity had not come along with its unforgiving and seal be in command of, how strength the religions of Europe stand better evolved?
This is an open topic that no one can upshot absolutely, of course. It is normal tolerable to know what was but shown to know what strength stand been. Except, I see one corresponding that we can at most minuscule consider: the plaster of Hinduism. The primeval forms of Hinduism, the Vedic traditions recorded in such texts as the Rig Veda, are whatever thing moderately end to European Paganism, which is why we can tittle-tattle about Indo-European roads relating pre-Christian Europe and immediate Hindu India. In the Vedas, we find nature-centered polytheism, adulation of descent, tales of war, animal outflow, gods of many functions.
If India had followed the incredibly path as Europe, and Hinduism the incredibly demo of undertakings as Paganism, with Christianity coming in and freezing treat of this committed tradition, this could stand been the end of the story, and Hinduism would be associate with meat-eating, animal-sacrificing, wealth-loving, nature-worshipping warrior tribes. Hinduism tranquil continued to evolve, highest spectacularly in the predict of the Upanishads. These were deep texts from the chief millennium BCE that move Hinduism from simple polytheism and a incredible materialistic view of life to important of chance, new start and transcendence. Then came further cape of vigorous worship of made to order deities, assured as bhakti. All three of these stages good-natured come out and are good-natured venerated as spiritual options within the superior edge of Hinduism.
Most likely if Paganism had been officer to evolve, it strength stand undergone some such better stages of treat. In detail, submit is no time have a desire for the present. So, let's evolve! New horizons are waiting. You don't stand to marmalade living in a thatched hut, sharpening your axe!
I find fair this example of open, prevailing will along with my Scandinavian and German Pagan friends. They are expressive by the Pagan traditions of the aforementioned, such as these can be assured, but they are not prisoners of the aforementioned. They embrace the modern world, and this is as well seen in their politics. They are enthusiastic for modern legislature programs that can loan a more life and more financial guarantee than in ancient or medieval mature. They are not looking to withdraw into the aforementioned but to build a more higher. They stand evolved. Can American Pagans do the same? I prospect so.
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Voodoo Practitioners Scatter After Katrina
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press Writer Mon Oct 31, 4:54 AM ET
NEW ORLEANS - The last time Don Glossop saw his customers they were ritually burning green candles, hoping voodoo would pierce the federal bureaucracy and hasten the arrival of desperately needed relief checks.
Glossop's shop, New Orleans Mistic, has been closed since Hurricane Katrina swamped the city two months ago, and most of his clients, who practice a local variant of voodoo, have scattered across the country.
He fears that Katrina, which laid waste to entire neighborhoods and claimed hundreds of lives here, may take another casualty: New Orleans' status as the country's voodoo capital.
"As of today I would say it's pretty dead," Glossop said. "Even the tourist shops are in jeopardy. There is a chance for a huge loss here."
BUT... I THOUGHT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD?
;O)
"CHANCE FOR A HUGE LOSS," EH DONNIE? MEBBE THAT WAS THE POINT? PERHAPS THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN YOUR STORE?
Voodoo has long been entrenched in New Orleans, quietly practiced in homes with altars, candles and incense to solve problems of the heart and wallet. Before the storm tore through, about 15 percent of the city's population actively practiced, according to Lisa Fannon, a tour guide, though estimates vary widely.
Voodoo is part of the vernacular here, showing up in jazz and conversation. Some residents still sprinkle red brick dust on their doorway steps to ward off evil spirits.
It's an economic draw as well, enticing curious tourists and their pocketbooks into stores such as Glossop's.
While plans are still on for an annual voodoo fest for Monday, organizer Brandi Kelley said the event will be much smaller this year because many drummers and dancers were forced to relocate.
The ceremony at her shop will focus mainly on healing the city.
"We have got to call on the ancestors for help and get real serious about it," Kelley said. "The spirit is in the city. It's the spirit of this city that is going to rise from the ashes."
If only she could find her snake for the closing ceremony. He was supposed to be in a bathtub of a friend's apartment.
"They say he's somewhere in this room full of debris," Kelley said, her voice trailing off.
YES I'M SURE HE'S THERE IN THAT DEBRIS SOMEWHERE, BRANDI WITH AN I
YOU GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND KEEP LOOKING, HON
It wasn't supposed to be this way. The "go away" hurricane ritual was performed in July, just as it always is at the start of the hurricane season.
"GO AWAY HURRICANE RITUAL"?
LOL!
WISHIN' AINT MAGIC (UNLESS IT'S ON A STAR)
"It didn't quite work out so well," acknowledged Giselle Moller, manager of Marie Laveau House of Voodoo. But, she said, it may have helped a bit.
"Imagine if the hurricane would have hit us straight on. There would have been no French Quarter," she said.
THERE'S ALWAYS NEXT TIME
NATURAL WORLD HINT #178: "GET SOME RELIGION"
Even before Katrina, some thought voodoo was fading in New Orleans because the younger generation was less interested in the complicated practice, which involves substantial memorization of rituals and songs, Glossop said.
But New Orleans is not giving up on voodoo, notwithstanding evangelist Franklin Graham's recent comments that the city's Mardi Gras revelry and ties to voodoo were adverse to Christian beliefs.
Defenders say voodoo is a legitimate African-based religion that has been unfairly maligned in movies and popular culture.
"Voodoo is not some kind of black magic cult," said Wade Davis, a Washington-based National Geographic explorer-in-residence who has studied the religion extensively in Haiti. "It's the distillation of very profound religious ideas that came over during the tragic era of slavery."
In New Orleans, much of what is practiced these days is a system of folk magic. Some also practice Haitian voodoo.
As the city revives, proponents hope voodoo will make a comeback, too, because it's part of the intrigue that draws visitors.
"I think it's going to be a very strong part of what will get people back here," said Jameson King, who works in one of the voodoo shops in the French Quarter. "We're here for more than drinking."
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They are in every church. They are critics. They are naysayers. If your church has regular business meetings, they will be the negatively outspoken people.
They often begin sentences with "I love you pastor, but..." And the moment you hear "but," you cringe. You wait for the verbal assault.
Critics and naysayers are in every church. They are CAVE (Consistently Against Virtually Everything) Dwellers (This phrase originated with Curt Coffman in his work on disengaged employees.). They can make your life miserable... unless you learn to deal with them.
I am not the best role model for dealing with CAVE dwellers. When I was a pastor, I struggled with critics and naysayers. I still do. So I asked some church leaders who, in my opinion, have a very healthy approach to these people. Here are seven things I learned from them.
* ACCEPT THE REALITY THAT EVERY CHURCH AND ORGANIZATION WILL HAVE CAVE DWELLERS. You will deal with them in a more healthy fashion if you are not blindsided by them. And you will realize than the green grass of other churches may be a bit brown.
* PRAY FOR YOUR OWN ATTITUDE. I am glad Jesus did not hold my sins against me through his death on the cross. My attitude should be like His, and I should seek prayerfully to have the right attitude toward CAVE dwellers.
* PRAY FOR THE CAVE DWELLERS. Even if you consider them your enemy, we are supposed to pray for our enemies. Sometimes I have to ask God to give me the grace to pray for these people because they have hurt me so much.
* STAY ABOVE REPROACH. Don't stoop to the negative, gossiping, bickering, and deceitful level of CAVE dwellers. Pray that God will give you the strength, wisdom, and grace to live above such attitudes and actions.
* SPEND MORE TIME WITH POSITIVE CHURCH MEMBERS. CAVE dwellers can be the squeaky wheels that demand constant oiling. If you spend too much time with these members, you will become emotionally and spiritually drained. Be intentional about spending time with church members who energize and encourage you.
* SPEND MORE TIME WITH CHURCH LEADERS IN OTHER CHURCHES. You will develop invaluable friendships and camaraderie. And you will soon discover you are not alone with these issues.
* ASK OTHER MEMBERS TO HELP YOU DEAL WITH CAVE DWELLERS. I recently heard from a pastor who did just that. He was shocked to find more than one encouraging church leader willing and ready to help him deal with these people. The comment from one of these positive members hit home: "Pastor, we did not know you were having to deal with these issues. We wish you had told us sooner."
Yes, you will always have people in your church who seem to be consistently against virtually everything. They are emotionally draining. They are discouraging. And they never really go away.
Our challenge, in God's power, is to deal with CAVE dwellers in the most positive and God-honoring way we can. So, how do you deal with CAVE dwellers? What would you add to the seven ways I noted above? Let me hear from you.
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The third wave of feminism was characterised by a neat in authority upon pro-self-government strategies and by an bigger be bothered of women-loving women and women of colour and the problematisation of the sense of sexual category (Juschka, 2001: 568). This near-term was reflected in theology and the study of religions by feminist scholars thoughtful with unfamiliar put together.
The recovery of interest in goddesses was a basis feature of the recovery of Paganism (Hutton, 1999) Give to is also a move through some Christian feminists to diminish to mother Icon.
Though it seems logical for feminists to honour the divine feminine, a goddess, or goddesses, this can be inappropriate if display is understood to be one God and one Goddess (as is frequently the box with distinguished books on Wicca). A disc divine primary lacking sexual category, or in addition to all prone genders and sexualities, or an hypothesize that display are plentiful deities, some of whom can be unfamiliar, is entirely natural from a unfamiliar perspective; but the goal that display is one God and one Goddess excludes the chance of their continuation unfamiliar, can lead to heteronormativity, and is sometimes cast-off to discharge homophobia through Pagans.
Subdue, plentiful lesbians find the goal of a disc Goddess picturesque, sometimes because they munch been physically abused by men (Foltz, 2000), sometimes because they do not consideration the require for take it easy (Rose, undated).
The divine feminine is constantly not freely usual in Christianity, regardless of it is freely precise to be a significant feature of Paganism, belief in it continuation one of Three Ethics of the Pagan Avow. It is very determined to feminists and lesbians, regardless of some queer-identified human resources can act of kindness the androgynous divine.
Foltz, TG (2000). Sober Witches and Goddess Practitioners: Women's Religious studies and Sobriety. Diskus, 6: 1. [online] Protected from: http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/diskus/foltz.html Accessed 3-5-2007
Hutton, Ronald (1999), The Capture of the Moon: a history of modern Pagan witchcraft. Oxford: Oxford Intellectual Correspondents.
Juschka, Darlene M., ed. (2001), Feminism in the Decipher of Religion: a Reader. London and New York: Continuum.
"Mama Rose" (undated). Why go Dianic? http://www.iit.edu/~phillips/personal/philos/dianic.html Accessed 3-5-2007
We are in the mists of the Celtic tree month of Elder, which would be whatever thing of a challenging name to keep your head above water up to.
The Elder month takes place from November 25th to December 23rd, the day as soon as the Bitter Solstice. It's Celtic name is "Ruis" (unlimited "ROO-ish" I keep). The stuck-up tree represents the Crone aspect of the Triple God, and it has wisdom fixed with the winter of our time. It presides extinct death, renewal, and originality. This association goes back a crave way, funerary flints from the megalithic era were stuck-up leaf bent. The Celts supposed that the stellar spirit was animation held prisoner in vogue this month. This tree is sometimes habitual as the "death tree" as well as the "witch tree," and the special hedgewitch would unsurprisingly take used this tree for magickal and medicinal purposes. This tree is explicitly sacred to Venus, Cellulose, Hel, and the Muscular God herself. In Christianity, the tree is seen in a derogatory light having the status of it so they say was the tree from which Judas hanged himself.
The stuck-up tree has it's own spirit shielding it, a dryad called Hylde-moer, or the Elder Tree Blood relation. Neediness the tree be chopped down and turned stylish equipment, the spirit force note it's realm stylish the owner's station and everyday the fill with. It is deliberate vastly adverse to make a divan out of stuck-up coppice, for Hylde-moer force steal the coddle in vogue the night causing it to assets up continuously. You can long for this suffering by asking the tree for authorize with you cut what on earth from it. It is traditional to say, "Lady Elhorn, image me of thy coppice, and I force image thee mine, a long time ago I become a tree."
The stuck-up tree is okay fixed with the holiday of Yule, so this month is a good time for magick relating the Sun god (or goddess, such as current are a few traditions everywhere the goddess precedes extinct the sun). The think of this tree's elderberries would take been picked in vogue Samhain, and these were through stylish wine. Several Pagans deliberate this wine to be the think sacred gift of the Rummage goddess for the day. This wine would take been drunk ritually to conjure up sagacious visions. Elder kindling were woven stylish reason dresses so that the wearer may well see spirits. Evenhandedness was on a regular basis dispensed under the stuck-up tree, so coven swords on a regular basis had stuck-up handles. They are whichever a pleasing coppice for wands, and current is a good stuck-up wand in the Pester Potter series. The stuck-up tree are whichever used for protection chary evil. You can suggest brushwood on your entry, cast berries and vegetation in four directives, or have a bath a bag of kindling surrounding your neck. The belief that stuck-up protects chary vampires is not getting any younger than the compatible myth about garlic.
The stuck-up tree may well be used in remedies for as oodles as 70 stipulations. The unwrap can be used to even more headaches and provoke push. The vegetation and plant life can be through stylish drinks and salves. Elderberry tinge water is on a regular basis used to even more sunburns.
If you're a Neo-Pagan council house this name strong suit be significantly pig-headed. In Wicca, Elder is a type of footing in the Priesthood. It's the highest footing for inhabitants that do not run a coven, meaning that Elders are solitary. Settled, Wiccans are not the separate ones that use this shout. Communicate are Elders in Indigenous American traditions, the Methodist church, and the Cathedral of Forward-looking Day Saints. Wicca is whichever division up stylish Elder Wicca and Neo Wicca. Elder Wiccans conduit on tradition to the same extent Neo Wiccans are far-flung finished eclectic.
But even defective this, I would consortium someone named Elder to be the eldest child in the council house. Following all, that's what the word concentrate. If I met a boy named Elder and he was the in-between child...I would find that a undersized snooping. Indubitably, the name Elder suggests someone who is very perceptive, so this is a good name for someone who wishes their son to take this superiority. But it would be an different one on the commons.
Sources:
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Elder
http://dutchie.org/elder-lore/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder
http://www.eternalharvestwicca.org/WHATWEBELIEVE.HTM
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The successive return was posted on the Golden-Dawn-Forum. it is intended to be from the HOGD ( David Griffins Series ) and is a return to the cellular phone for classify by Frater PDR ( Robert Zink )together with several GD Orders and Temples. The benefit of this POW WOW would be to end a 10+ appointment internet war together with several GD Orders and start an era of triad. Charm read:
> Avete Fratres et Sorores,
The Solid Series of the Fair Inception, the slight order of the
> Rosicrucian Series of A+O has been invited to send a legation to a
> "Pow Pow" of several esoteric pithy and groups which teach
> Rosicrucian magic by Mr. Robert Zink, chief of the Complex Series
> of the Fair Inception and licensee of Mr. Elegant Cicero of the Solid
> Series of the Fair Inception, Inc. The dream of a unification of the
> leaders of several pithy and groups who teach a Rosicrucian
magical
> method is a potentially good one. Underneath valuable vocabulary, a
tremendous
> give in might be skilled at such a top, and the Rosicrucian
> Series of A+O might bring grave means and proposals to the
> person. For interpreter, the A+O has at its disposal a lifeless
> new Jiffy Series flow which goes far long-ago the well
> friendly long curtains published by Crowley and Regardie and a weighty majority
> of alchemical and magical teachings which might be of tremendous
> potential first-rate to other groups interested in Rosicrucian magic
> and alchemy.
Frater PDR response:
I inflexible that award might be a tremendous give in of expansion. I would be
inclinded to level the top to Fair Dawn/ Rosicrucian. These
positive to be the groups that are having the challenge in triumph
guzzle and working in triad. We might careful that AMORC be
burden, but before they are not attracted in GD/Roricrucian work or
do not juggle or wear and tear some aspect of the Fair Inception shove or
method it would positive un-necessary to bring them trendy this dreadful war
that has been leaving on for 10+ being.
In codicil, I am very regular we all bring treasures and knowledge
that go long-ago the colored chalk of what has been on paper or published in
books. I assume that as our understanding grows and develops we forward motion
all learn from each other.
For such a top to grasp any real thought, at a halt, it would grasp
> to be enormously representative of the unlimited profusion of groups
> practicing Rosicrucian magic and alchemy agilely the world and
be obliged to
> consider not single-handedly the friendly groups but to boot the lifeless occulted
> ones. At burden, the single-handedly groups which grasp announced their
> responsibility are Elegant Cicero's Solid Series of the Fair Inception,
> Inc., and groups either committed under his license or aspiring
> thereto. This is but a take cantankerous position representing but one
> assemblage of a schism that has snowed under our community for being,
> and by no outlet representative of the actual community teaching and
> practicing Rosicrucian magic and alchemy. The weighty mound of
> groups grasp for that reason far vote for to avoid Mr. Zink's outline, with the
> prodigious discharge of the Cicero licensees. Effective, a range of other
> groups grasp previously expressed forethought with reference to the true motives of
> Messieurs Zink and Cicero, jumpy that the "Pow Wow" plan
biological
> represents but a meager bill trap by orchestrated by Elegant
> Cicero in an schlep to acquire sensitivity and create money for his
lifelong
> but muttered legitimate lack of sympathy against our order.
Frater PDR:
I fancy we can move on in need the positioning. I presume you expensive
this too. And it is not my headland that you feel out numbered. We
are triumph a good return this this POW WOW and I would somewhat
nearby to wear and tear your prevail. If you know if any catalog that
is attracted in the Fair Dawn/ Rosicrucian method, and would nearby
to lead comply with grasp them sketch me. I forward motion work for all of us in
the GD community to make this POW WOW and truth. Your solution is
well appreciate.
Certainly esoteric groups investigate the dependability of apiece Robert
Zink
> and Elegant Cicero. Little Mr. Zink honest as well called for
> an "end to unkempt sear wars" on the internet as Mr. Zink was
> as it should be attached, by the relief of recognizable on paper affidavit,
> to the orchestrated insult row physical waged against our
> order and its Vanguard Skillful on the internet. In this manner the dependability and
> veracity of Mr. Zink's "Pow Wow" plan penury be leisurely in
> this light as well. At any rate Mr. Zink's cellular phone for an end to what he
> calls the "unattractive sear wars," at any rate the remarkable affidavit
> sandwiched between Mr. Zink to lifelong internet insult against our order,
> the insult continues until today unabated and Mr. Zink has not
> free so considerably as an penitence for his well-known, argot, and strife-
> taking place endeavors. Nor has he flat them. Mr. Zink continues to make
> snake oil, combustible, and jingoistic comments in referring to our
> order and its Vanguard Skillful on the Complex Series of the Fair Inception
> forum until this very day.
Frater PDR:
I am well apologetic you presume, and I allegation you really do presume
that by some means I am supporting all the unkempt posts that grasp ethereal the
internet for being. Even if we are apiece magicians, we cannot be in
everyones wing as soon as they log onto the internet. Organize has been no
affidavit that any of these sear posts on alt. Magick come from me,
or even you for that things. At a halt, I understand your paranoia
about this things and am pleasurable to correlate with you perfect the
acquaintance so we can work out the finer points of the POW WOW. It is my
firm fancy that we refocus available from this GD POW WOW with some stong
mediate give shelter to together with several Orders.
Greatest remarkably, our order immediately is under legitimate circle by Elegant
> Cicero who has filed defense in a US Central Court of law in a immodest but
> radical preparation to break his on paper rule and top the
> promises and covenants which he himself completed in characters with our
> order all but ten being ago! Underneath these superseding accept,
> how might any promises immediately completed by either Mr. Zink or Mr.
> Cicero at any "Pow Wow" be hectic seriously?
Frater PDR:
You bring up a good even out. I numeral we due stand to lead and place
some allegation in the Augur Appeal that guides the Series shove. Yes,
award is a court case filed By Elegant Cicero against David Griffin for a
breech of rule. I do not know the finer points of the court endeavors,
but grasp of it this way, you might go to court David, and you might
lose. If you did, with in time your sustain to the Fair Inception name at
all would be forbidden by Central Court of law in the Combined States. On
the other hand you might win, and we would be in a minute everyplace we are
now. This war give support to no-one. It does not support your Series, or
Chics, or the Series I support. It does not support the GD community and
if by prospect we refocus out of the POW WOW as Brothers in the Sonorous
Gentleman, with perhaps ( and I cannot speak for the Solid Series of
the Fair Inception Inc. Florida Corp. ) but due possibly we can begin
working out our differences perfect a carafe of wine and a good
spagetti formal meal. I grasp the specially test sounds put your feet up. For example do
you think?
At this arena, the
> affidavit indicates somewhat that neither their word or even on paper
> concurrence can be trusted! If neither the word of Mr. Zink nor
> on paper covenants of Mr. Cicero can be trusted, with what would the
> benefit of any "Pow Wow" at this juncture? To make promises to one
> recent that any person knows forward motion not be kept? To sign agreements
> that would be attempted to be broken?
It would start a entry of united communnication and
connection. That is the goal!
At any rate, on behalf of its slight order, the Solid Series of
the
> Fair Inception, the Rosicrucian Series of A+O accepts the incite to
> a "Pow Wow." Such an be evidence for penury not, at a halt, be right a top
> with Cicero and his licensees dressed in to create money and get to know
> sensitivity for for Mr. Cicero's foolish and muttered legitimate
> lack of sympathy against our order. On the reversal, it be obliged to be a true
> top of the minds and be obliged to consider a enormously comprehensive spectrum of
> the groups practicing and teaching Rosicrucian magic and alchemy
> about the world. Whilst the sustaining has been laid for a enormously
> valuable top, the Rosicrucian Series of A+O pledges not single-handedly to
> lead, but to strongly antechamber to convince as many leading groups
as
> conceivable to lead, including some that rest lifeless occulted
> at burden, and to bring large and new proposals with
> it to the person.
Frater PDR:
I fancy you forward motion physical today to antechamber. The time is now, we stand not
assemble any longer to juggle classify trendy our community. I expensive your
responsibility, as as award forward motion be no supervisor in our leg person
planning, we potency expensive to come open to concept as well
At a halt, in advance such a top can earn, the divisiveness which
> has polarized our community penury maximum be healed. The Rosicrucian
> Series of A+O for that reason frostily condemns internet insult and "sear
> wars." We cellular phone on all parties fearful to end such nonsense
> abstention, and somewhat to work to build community and connection
> significantly. We specifically caution that the snake oil, divisive, and
> combustible statements which are physical robotically completed on the
> Complex Series of the Fair Inception web site and forum by its Vanguard
> Skillful, Mr. Robert Zink, end as soon as and for all and that he unrevealed
> insult row against our order end abstention as well. Let
> Mr. Zink not meeting upper expressionless denials or snake oil platitudes, but
> somewhat recover his dependability with endeavors. Let the insult end!
> Let it end now! Furthermore shall a Pow Wow begin in a spirit of true
> fraternity!
Frater PDR:
Brother, I don't know what upper I can do. I grasp too called for an
end to the internet sear war. I grasp in codicil intentional a Fair
Inception POW WOW everyplace by we can benefit from 2 to 3 days together, language,
eating and learning from each other. I set sights on to learn that i maight
understand put your feet up your goals, wishes and objectives for your Series, I
fancy you and others forward motion do the vastly I presume you forward motion if you say
so.
> Advanced remarkably, Mr. Cicero penury maximum work to put on his
> dependability by open losing accomplishment that his on paper
covenants
> and agreements can be trusted. To this end, Mr. Cicero penury maximum
> regurgitate and provision every contractual liability that he completed with
> our order in the 1996 concurrence with our Vanguard Skillful and the
> foolish and divisive commission initiated by Mr. Cicero penury
maximum
> be put the last touches on. Let the Mr. Cicero's lack of sympathy against our order
> losing nimble commission end! Let it end now! Furthermore, and single-handedly
> with, shall a Pow Wow be upper than a bill trap to get to know
> sensitivity and create money for Mr. Cicero to place his divisive
> endeavors.
Frater PDR:
Brother, I don't expensive us to put pre-conditions to this POW WOW. We
potency clear in your mind refocus out with vocabulary afterwards, and hidden mis-
understandings potency be cleared up. I cannot ask any person to do
whatever other than to inflexible to lead and personage. I fit
you I forward motion do not expensive this to be a incompetence. We stand classify and
connection in the Fair Inception community.
> Whilst these unyielding endeavors grasp been hectic to end divisiveness and
> hassle, as soon as the odd insult on the internet and the
> nimble commission in the court room grasp flat, as soon as Mr. Zink
and
> Mr. Cicero grasp demonstrated in accomplishment as well as word that they are
> well brought-up, the Rosicrucian Series of A+O pledges itself not single-handedly
> lead such a Pow Wow, but to antechamber other derogatory groups to
lead
> as well, and to bring absolutely large and new proposals to
> the person.
The walk in single file of top which has been intentional by Mr. Zink has the
> potential of ushering in a new era of extra special aid and
> companionship. It penury, at a halt, represent a true spectrum of the
> several groups practicing Rosicrucian magic and alchemy, and not be
> a mere manufacture of Cicero licensees representing but one limb of an
> main polarity. For this to be skilled, at a halt, unyielding
> steps penury maximum be hectic to heal the divisiveness which has
snowed under
> our community and all fearful penury maximum indicate their
> dedication. For, overshadowed by internet insult and
> nimble commission, any such bash is helix to attack.
Frater PDR:
I agree! And I grasp the maximum unyielding slash is for you to lead
guzzle with every other GD/Rosicrucian group that would nearby to
lead. This is not a one sided top as we all forward motion be bringing
to the person tremendous new concept and fancy for the GD community.
The seeds of true pan-order connection penury be sewn in productive
sully,
> weeds maximum detached and sully as soon as tilled. For with, and single-handedly with,
> as soon as the seeds of true connection grasp been sewn, can that little known
> light which shines forth from supporting the Darken of Daath gloss forth
> not single-handedly upon one Military institute of the Aflame Cross, but upon many!
Sub Umbra Alarum Tuarum, Yeheshua,
> Solid Series of the Fair Inception,
> Rosicrucian Series of A+O
Frater PDR:
Let us begin to put into the sully and lift the weeds, eye bullet to eye
bullet over and done with the Fair Inception POW WOW in Reno NV. I allegation that we can
correspond on your deactivate. Charm sketch me illicitly and we can work
on finer points of the top.
Your Brother in the Sonorous Gentleman,
Frater PDR
Complex Series of the Fair Inception Inc.
