Iran taunts Israel by testing missile named after medieval Jewish defeat

Iran has unveiled a terrifying new missile and give it a chilling name to taunt Israel. Images showing the long-range rocket being tested were broadcast on state television earlier this week. The weapon has a range of 900 miles, according to Iran, meaning it can hit US bases in the region and reach Israel. The missile has been dubbed the ‘Khaibar-buster’ by Tehran military chiefs, a reference to a medieval Jewish castle.

In 628CE, early Muslim warriors led by Muhammad overran the fortress and won a decisive military battle, cementing the reputation of the religion’s founder. With relations between Tel Aviv and Tehran at a low ebb after decades of hostilities, the provocative move will add to tensions in the region. Iranian media claimed the missile has high accuracy, is manufactured entirely on domestic soil and can evade defence systems.

It is interesting that Iran has named their new missile the Khaibar buster. Jews lived in Khaibar which was an oasis in modern day Saudi Arabia. A war was fought against them by muslims headed up by Mohammed which history says they won. Many muslims see this war as a foretaste of what will become of Israel. However, according to Jewish legend, the Jews of Khaybar remained in their territory and lived there as a nation of mighty warriors free from Muslim rule. Their fantastic survival in the desert attracted the attention of adventurers and travellers to the Orient from the twelfth century to modern times. Whatever the truth of that is we know with Bible in hand that the Jews will survive and Iran will never destroy Israel. In fact we are told that the pricking briers around Israel will be completely removed. All nations will one day worship at Jerusalem….

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you. (Zechariah 8:23)

Andy Walton

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Israel featured twice on list of potential 2022 conflicts

Iran nuclear talks on brink of collapse, diplomats warn

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Additional reading

1. Coming weeks are decisive for Iran nuclear deal, Merkel says
2. Israel ready for war
3. First joint naval exercise by Israel and Gulf states signals Iran worries
4. Israeli prime minister makes historic UAE visit, stressing ‘new reality’ for region
5. Iran’s days of setting Middle East on fire are over
6. Trilateral naval drills between China, Russia and Iran started on Friday
7. Iran could build nuclear bomb ‘within months’
8. Iranian nuclear programme geared towards creating a bomb
9. Iran shows off rocket launch to raise pressure in nuclear deal talks
10. Iranian mouthpiece threatens Israel with map of targets
11. The world on the very brink of conflict
12. A Brief Look at NATO and Russia’s Push to Reform the Old Soviet Union
13. A war in Ukraine could have global consequences

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Do You Want to Believe?

The “WEIRD-people” from the Weird world may have very weird ideas loving to belong to the Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic world but seem often to be blinded by their politicians, like the present presidents of the U.S.A., Turkey and Russia, who are of the same breed and love the tyranny of a dictatorship where they must play the lead, over a a group of people who are caught up in human doctrines of one of their religions, be it a very conservative form in Christendom, or in Islam, or in Russian Orthodoxy mixed with Stalinism.

We may be asked to calm down, but what happened to our family members, our teachers and friends in the 1930ies and 1940ies is clearly printed in our heads and  here in Europe we see history repeating itself.

In Christendom there is also once again a growing hate to those of Christianity. The ones believing in a Trinity got their agricultural fork out again, trying to get down who believe in the Only One True God of Israel, (Jews, Jeshuaists, Non-Trinitarian Christians and Muslims). Those who say they are Christian often do not take on the attitude of Christ, who should be their rebbe and show how they prefer to live without a God Who has given mankind His commandments. They want others to believe we do not have to keep those commandments any more, and do live accordingly a life full of indecent and immoral actions and foul language.

Our best hope should not be on that sort of community but should direct with open eyes for a better world where people of all sorts of culture, colour or race can live together in a global community of loving and sharing people.

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To remember

• We all have friends who believe things that seem crazy, but we don’t think our friends are crazy.
• People adopt beliefs based on several factors. If those factors are different, then the people tend to adopt different beliefs.
• Differences in factors as: region, economic class, ethnicity, social circles, information sources, + life experiences lead people to different beliefs.
• differences show up mainly in emotion + intuition, which influence our political + moral judgments.
• perhaps half of Americans accept utilitarian + universalist ideas, but also value loyalty, respect for authority, respect for the sacred, individual liberty, + support for the common good.
• disagreements exist + also a few genuine crazies + haters: in a population of over 300 million, that’s inevitable.

Don’t let a tiny minority of crazies and haters blind you to the fact that most people want to be good and to do the right thing – even if their idea of “the right thing” sometimes clashes with ours.

• Screaming at people, calling them names, and dismissing their concerns as unworthy of consideration => on-going conflict + social disintegration.

The Thousand-Year View

My latest blog post for The Jewish Journal:

After a bitterly divisive election season, there’s one question on everyone’s mind:

“How can people possibly believe that?”

What “that” is depends on who’s doing the talking. It means one thing to Trump supporters, something else to Clinton supporters, and who knows what to third-party supporters.

We all have friends who believe things that seem crazy, but we don’t think our friends are crazy. So we’re completely baffled. Are the people who disagree with us ignorant? Stupid? Hyper-emotional? Or – this seems to be the favorite – are they just plain evil?

It’s usually none of those things. The true answer is simpler and more innocent.

People adopt beliefs based on several factors. If those factors are different, then the people tend to adopt different beliefs.

In 2016 America, those factors differ a lot – by region, economic class, ethnicity, social…

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Act of Faith held on February 6, 1481

Religious fanaticism and fundamentalism of all times

In the United States of America lots of people cry “murder and fire” and say Muslims are killing so many Christians in the hope to exterminate the Christian Faith. Their fear is ungrounded. Those Americans do forget it are not “The Muslims” but just fanatical Islamic terrorists, like the world also knows of such Christian fundamentalists. They also overlook that Daesh/ISIS/ISIL kills more Muslims than it kills Christians, so they do much more damage to the Islamic faith than to Christian faith.

Lots of Christians have forgotten what the crusaders and soldiers of the inquisition have done of damage to many people cross Europe and Asia. They where of the same breed as Al-qaeda, Daesh, Boko Haram, and contemporary fundamentalist Muslims and fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist Buddhists.

In the thirteenth century Pope Innocent III and Pope Gregory IX established the dreaded institution to combat heretical groups and gave an easy instrument or weapon in the hands of rivals so that they could kill the ones standing in competition and to get their treasures, enabling them to enrich their own convent or cleric group.

Those in charge of the inquisition were so violently we can not imagine how lots of innocent people had to suffer greatly. The severity of both the questioning and the punishment is not so far off from the techniques used today in Africa and the Middle East. Like today those charged had no rights granted and those who came in the defence of the accused made them selves vulnerable and next prey of the inquisitors. Those who “snitched” on them could do so secretly. A victim was not permitted to challenge the witnesses against him or her.

In the country where for 7 centuries people of Jewish-, Christian- and Muslim- faith could live in peace and wealth under Muslim rulership,beautiful constructions where made and science developed magically. The Muslim Empire extended from North Africa to the Chinese border and in all the regions the people where allowed to have their own religion and where appreciated for their own craftsmanship.  Thanks to the Moors we also got citrus, avocado and other exotic crops which quickly spread across Europe. The Moors also introduced universal literacy and whilst the Greek philosophers were not wanted or allowed by the Papists in Spain they could be freely read.

During the 12^th century, scholars from all over Europe flocked to the great libraries at Toledo to translate (into Latin) classical Greek and Arabic texts. These scholars would introduce a new approach to knowledge, based on rational inquiry, that would inspire the founding of prestigious universities at Oxford, Paris and elsewhere.

The wealth of the south was a thorn in the eye and Christian armies from northern Spain managed slowly to retake Moorish cities from their Muslim rules. By 1250, only Grenada at the southern tip of Spain remained under Muslim rule.

Isabella I Queen of Castile wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon

Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada

When the Queen of Castille, Isabella married the king of Aragon (her second cousin Ferdinand) their armies  succeeded to seize Grenada so that Spain could be unified in 1479. But they where not so at ease and were almost paranoid with fear of revolt. This made them highly susceptible to the whispers of the queen’s confessor, the Dominican Tomas de Torquemada. Of Jewish origin himself, he told her that Christianized Jews were secretly practising their Hebrew faith and corrupting good Christians. Isabella horrified and frightened asked the pope for permission to establish the inquisition in Spain, which was granted.

In his capacity as grand inquisitor, Torquemada reorganized the Spanish Inquisition, which had been set up in Castile in 1478, establishing tribunals at Sevilla (Seville), Jaén, Córdoba, Ciudad Real, and, later, Zaragoza. For him all sorts of ‘other behaviour’ where good to make some one suspicious and to torture people. Not only so called crimes of heresy and apostasy but also sorcery, sodomy, polygamy, blasphemy, usury, and other offences where punished hard. Our Christian brothers who like Jews and Muslims only believed in the One True God became now also persecuted in the south of Europe.

Torquemada’s implacable hostility to the Jews probably exercised an influence on the decision of Ferdinand and Isabella to expel from their dominions all Jews who had not embraced Christianity. Under the edict of March 31, 1492, more than 40,000 Jews left Spain.

In all cases of doubt torture was authorized in order to obtain evidence and under continuous sadistic torture, suspects incriminated other people. These in turn accused almost anyone they could think of just to please their captors and win a reprieve from their torment. Every confession added to the alarm of the Catholic king and queen, suggesting widespread corruption of the Christian faith.

The first Spanish “Auto da fe” (meaning “Act of Fait.)” was held on this day February 6, 1481, when six men and six women, who refused to repent of alleged backsliding, were burned at the stake. They were but the first. 13,000 “heretics” were tried in the first twelve years of the Spanish Inquisition. The number of burnings of so called “heretics” at the stake during Torquemada’s tenure has been estimated at about 2,000. Dressed in a penitent’s gown, they were marched in processionals to the stake and urged to repent even as they were bound for the ordeal. Those who confessed were strangled before the fire was lit. Those who refused to admit wrongdoing, or who defiantly clung to their “heresies” were burned alive.

The Spanish Inquisition ran for 327 years and was not abolished until 1808, during the brief reign of Joseph Bonaparte. In those three centuries, close to 32,000 people perished in the flames. About 300,000 others were forced to make some kind of reconciliation with the church. Even the 1808 “end” to the Spanish Inquisition wasn’t really the end. Incredible as it may seem, King Ferdinand VII re-established the dreadful apparatus in 1814! Six years later, revolution swept it away, but that did not mean all hostility against other believers than Roman Catholics had gone.

Today in several countries we see again some people who call themselves ‘Christian’ to stand up and demanding to fight against those who belief differently than them. Mainly from North America are messages or text spread with false messages, trying to have others believe that Europe is totally invade by Muslims who molest or attack European women.

The apparatus of the inquisition which was not restricted to Europe got exported it to the new world by Spain, where Mexican and Peruvian authorities burned men and women to death, starting in the sixteenth century. Portuguese priests also operated an inquisition in South America, Goa, India. and today there are fundamentalist preachers and neo-Nazis who cry for a new religious war against those who do not have the same faith as they.

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Additional reading

1. Inquisition also bad for Jews
2. A dialogue about the earth moving and spinning around the sun
3. Not true or True Catholicism and True Islam
4. Built on or Belonging to Jewish tradition #1 Christian Reform
5. Anti-church movements and Humanism
6. Propaganda war and ISIS
7. Is the practice of religious freedom in danger in the United States of America
8. Mean voices on the Internet and free speech

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11. Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition…
12. The Weekly History Thread
13. The Gospel is the answer. There is no other.
14. Tomás de Torquemada: Grand Inquisitor During the Spanish Inquisition
15. The Spanish inquisition had its roots in 1250s – ended in 1834 – almost 500 years timeline

Objective views and not closing eyes for certain sayings

The reblog A Progressive Call to Arms caused several very different reactions. Pity some people did not want to react straight on the article and choose other, non public, ways.

History of Marxism timeline (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We very much appreciated the reaction of “camden41” a retired public school administrator and retired history professor, who took the time to spend a whole article on the writing and an extra one on our reaction. Though perhaps the impression may be given by that author that we do not know our history or do not want to see the “crux of the matter” or to belief Hitler “considered Marxists, Communists and Jews to be traitors.” We are aware of that fact, but that is just what makes us so weary about the president elect. In what way does he want to look at Marxists, Leninist, Communists, Jews, Muslims, refugees, Mexicans, homo’s, transgender and other people?

We also are aware of specific groups who would love abolishing the ever-enlarging systems of hierarchy, control, and environmental destruction necessary to sustain the growth of capital.

We also saw how certain people in the past made use of blackening others to get their goal coming into power. We also are aware that in the past many made use of the chaos and fear to bring others in discredit and to get people on their hand, promising that everything would change by them in power. And once in power they made sure that they could have the highest power for some time, getting rid of those who were standing in their way.

Should we not know when precious experiences in a person his life can make a very dangerous person of him or her, make sure that we look at the previous history of a person and come to look at him or her seriously, not making a joke of him or of his remarks. And Trump made remarks which should make us to think about it.

Should we not be aware where hate can come into existence and how it can grow fast like a virus? Should we not have our eyes opened seeing that people do want to shut out others and that marginalisation has become a favoured thing? Should we not be aware that some might think that marginalisation may be a strategy of protection, so that defence and obstruction cannot wait for the inauguration of an autocrat? Should we do not know what a certain person his sanctuary cities may be and how others may react on it?

Should we also not wonder how long people are going to take it that there may be political domination over them, having the capitalists squeezing workers’ pay packets, keeping individual wages for all blue-workers pretty much flat since a long time, having only a raise for higher level salaries?

These capitalists and their apologists hid the double squeeze behind their effective rhetorical use of issues such as civil rights and affirmative action to invoke in the late 1960s and after the “wages of whiteness”–which any attentive person should have figured wouldn’t pay any better than they did at the close of Reconstruction a hundred years earlier. {W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (1935; repr., New York: Atheneum, 1992); David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness (New York: Verso, 1991). }

Should we not worry when the president elect, though he might show to be calmed down, still continues in his line of thinking when he announced that Bannon, the controversial executive chairman of Breitbart News, would be his chief strategist, though he denied holding “ethno-nationalist” views?

Does oppression in all of its forms: microaggressions, street harassment, slut shaming, resource hoarding, not feels like hate? And is it not easy to generalise and should politicians not warn people to generalise, instead of generalising themselves?

Conflating oppression and hate is fraught with many more problems than such a seemingly small semantic shift would suggest, and if we are to effectively combat domination it’s imperative that we learn to avoid discussing oppression in terms of hate. {Why We Must Stop Speaking of Oppression as “Hate”}

When looking at our society we should not close our eyes for certain situations. There may be many Christadelphians who think we should not be active in politics, but they forget that does not mean we should close our eyes for what happens in the world or should not comment on it.

Even when we give our opinion we do want to have our readers to make up their mind for themselves and want them to give the opportunity to hear different opinions. Only by being open to other opinions people can come to a better insight and also can come to understand why and how others think differently. That way also people can come to see who can be going on dangerous paths of thinking and as such even can become a danger for the society. Only by exposing such ways of thinking the society can be protected.

It is not by closing our eyes for the things we do not want to hear nor see, that they will not exist. That is what our and our parents generation have clearly felt in the previous century. What happened in the Third Reich could only come so far because so many people did not want to know and did not want to see, because most often they were too much concerned about their own ego and their own well-being.

Today we should learn form the lessons of the past and should be weary of what is possible to come.

In the United States of America during this past year, anti-Semitic imagery proliferated on social media, Jewish journalists were targeted and longstanding anti-Jewish conspiracy theories got a fresh airing. Much of the bias originated with the alt-right, or alternative right, a loose group espousing a provocative and reactionary strain of conservatism. It’s often associated with far right efforts to preserve “white identity,” oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values.”

There are too many Americans who close their eyes for the reports of anti-Semitic vandalism and other attacks which have risen. As the presidential race intensified, Jews started seeing their names bracketed with a series of parentheses in harassing tweets, signalling that the person had been identified as a Jew. The image became known as the Jewish cowbell and its source was traced to neo-Nazis and white nationalists.

During his run for president, Mr. Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to curb terrorism, claimed Mexican “rapists” were pouring into the country, making that Mexican immigrants also were looked at as perverts and criminals. For the African Americans Trump expressed he has no good eye for those who have “no education” and are “monkeys”. After Donald Trump won the presidential election, handouts where presented in many colleges with texts like “He’s much more likely to abuse you” and “Your kids probably won’t be smart.” Several universities made it clear that those flyer’s hateful propaganda and did not belong at a university.

At several places speeches where given against the Muslims.

LeftOfCenter writes

One of the techniques favored by Right-wingers like Kobach are to demonize strongholds of the Democratic Party. They call these big metropolitan areas, a.k.a. America’s biggest cities, Sanctuary Cities, which is code for ethnically diverse areas that want to relieve tensions between its residents, documented and undocumented. They have vowed to only enforce local laws and won’t do the bidding of Federal immigration agents. Kobach wants to change all that and we know he will do everything he can, likely with the help of the other Kansas notorious K word, the Kochs. So many K’s…KKKoincidence? {Kris Kobach Rumored To Be Attorney General Pick, Would Oversee Deportation Policy}

On television we in Europe could see Americans bringing the fascist greeting, holding out their arms in a Nazi salute, shouting, “Heil the people! Heil victory.”

We also could see several letters mosques had received. In those hate letters the Muslims are called “Children of Satan” and “vile and filthy”.

Clearly the writers of those letters do not know much about Islam and Who they worship, because  they wrote

“You are evil. You worship the devil. But, your day of reckoning has arrived.”

It also called on Muslims to

“pack your bags and get out”.

Authorities were first alerted by the San Jose mosque, which received the letter on Thursday November 24. The other letters were received by the Long Beach and Pomona mosques a few days later and in the latter weeks of November other mosques all over the country were targetted.

Law enforcement agencies across the US have reported 257 anti-Muslim incidents last year, which represents a nearly 67% increase from 2014. The CAIR has said that more than 100 such incidents have taken place since Trump won the country’s presidential elections, Reuters reported. Trump, who campaigned on an anti-immigrant platform, had also pledged to ban the entry of all Muslims into the country for an unspecified period of time if he were voted into power.{Trump will do to Muslims what ‘Hitler did to the Jews’, letters to California mosques say}

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-LA’s executive director Hussam Ayloush said the “irresponsible, hateful rhetoric” of the Trump campaign has fueled

“a level of vulgarity, vile hatred and anger among many self-proclaimed Trump supporters.”

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1. A Progressive Anti-Trump View Point With My Rebuttal
2. To SteppingToes, Read History More
3. A Time for Treason
4. Waking Up in Trump’s America, Part 1
5. Why We Must Stop Speaking of Oppression as “Hate”
6. U.S. Jews grapple with eruption of anti-Semitism in election year
7. Racist Flyers on ‘Why White Women Shouldn’t Date Black Men’ Found at Texas University
8. Kris Kobach Rumored To Be Attorney General Pick, Would Oversee Deportation Policy
9. Holocaust Museum ‘Deeply Alarmed’ by Nazi Rhetoric at White Nationalist Conference
10. Trump will do to Muslims what ‘Hitler did to the Jews’, letters to California mosques say
11. Donald Trump Courts Fury by Bringing Stephen Bannon to the White House
12. Many Jewish Groups Are Staying Quiet on Stephen Bannon

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A Progressive Call to Arms

Added commentary to the posting A Progressive Call to Arms

 

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Additional reading

1. The twist of politics and expression
2. Migrants to the West #1
3. Migrants to the West #2
4. Migrants to the West #7 Religions
5. Democratic downfall
6. Classes of people and Cronyism
7. Capitalism
8. Capitalism and Inequality
9. Capitalism downfall
10. Collision course of socialist and capitalist worlds
11. Blow to legitimacy of the capitalist system
12. Increasing wealth gap of immense proportions in the Capitalist World
13. Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #12 Conclusion
14. The killing of capitalism
15. Intellectual servility a curse of mankind
16. What comes after neoliberalism?
17. Misleading world, stress, technique, superficiality, past, future and positivism
18. Still Hope though Power generating long train of abuses
19. The Scensual World – Mission & Vision
20. Are Christianity and Capitalism Compatible?
21. The Truth About the Illuminati: Escaping Slavery
22. Time to consider how to care for our common home
23. Do we have to be an anarchist to react
24. Right to be in the surroundings
25. Capitalism and economic policy and Christian survey

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Further reading

1. Whatever Happened To The Human Race?
2. “Please show us that you see us. Please do all you can to stop this.”
3. Mapping Trump’s Coming War on Immigrant Sanctuary Cities
4. This is not a guide: Is the Alt-Right white supremacist?
5. Bernie Sanders: Carrier Took Trump ‘Hostage and Won’
6. A Call to Action: Women, We Need You
7. Tribes Redux
8. In Wake of Electoral Disaster, Democrats Announce Plans to Stick With Status Quo
9. Why Donald Trump may not be able to close sanctuary cities
10. Wanted: Presidential ‘Leadership’ In North Dakota (#NODAPL)
11. Learning Diversity from the U.S. Government
12. The Triumph of Diversity
13. The Trump Pinata Preserving the False Obama Messiah
14. Donald Trump racist? Quit it! He’s not the problem
15. Majority of fatal attacks on U.S. soil carried out by white supremacists, not terrorists
16. AP Rules on Writing About the ‘alt-right’
17. Richard Spencer Says America Was ‘Designed’ for White People, Shouts ‘Hail Trump!’
18. Jesus’ Great Commission to Our Islamic Siblings
19. Avenues of Sameness

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A Progressive Call to Arms

The United States of America having shaken Europe as well with an unexpected outcome, should waken up all those who have been dormant or did not speak up yet, to protect those around them who are in the minority, or who are poor, or who are sick or who have an other colour of skin, or who think differently ….

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To remember

It could well be that we can see in states that one comes for those who are not in line, like

First they came for the Socialists,

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and for the Jews, and then for others until it was the turn to come for you

Martin Friedrich Gustav Emil Niemöller

and than it will be too late to remember the words of the German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, founder of the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) and a president of the World Council of Churches.

After it became known Donald Trump was to be the president-elect, voices of fear where heard not only in Europe, but outside the U.S.A. anxious voices reached the world from inside a nation which so much and so loudly cried out to be the Land of the free.

Not only coloured people expressed their fear. People who were born in a body they did not felt the right body and had gone on the trajectory difficult path to change their looks now felt pushed in a bizarre corner.

Some felt

“it will become open season on people like me.”

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Indiana, a state which is anything but safe for people who are different > birthplace of the KKK.

In Europe we have seen the vitriol and hate spreading of Donald Trump and how he created division. as such we cna udnerstand people over there now are afraid of violence under a Trump presidency.

seen the rallies + heard the hate-speech.

Mike Pence as governor passed laws making it legal for businesses to discriminate against members of the LBGT- community +  passed laws discriminating against woman’s right to choose.

We worked tirelessly to get a Pathway to Citizenship referendum passed, but our representatives would hide in their offices and refuse to meet with us.

Donald Trump not limited his hate-speech to members of just one community >made hateful comments + threats to members of Hispanic community, Blacks, Jews, women, Muslims + differently-abled.

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• bigots of all varieties feel emboldened by his ignorance + subsequent rise to power.
• school-yard bullies + cowards of all stripes feel that hate = acceptable + rewarded.

 

It is our job to speak out when and where we see discrimination.

> compassion + activism.

>  help cause of equality => make world better place

signing in comments below + sharing this article

 

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Islamophobia Must be Fought and Defeated

Stand Up

God Isn’t a Republican

American Christianity no longer resembles its Founder

 

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Additional articles

1. 150 Years after the 13th Amendment
2. Walls,colours, multiculturalism, money to flow, Carson, Trump and consorts
3. Scepticals of the Bible
4. Refugee crisis, terrorist attacks and created fear
5. Coming closer to the end of 2015 and the end for Donald Trump as presidential candidate
6. Looking at an American nightmare
7. Fearmongering succeeded and got the bugaboo a victory
8. Blinded crying blue murder having being made afraid by a bugaboo
9. Some quotes Americans should remember when going to the ballot office
10. When so desperate to hold onto power
11. The clean sweeper of the whole caboodle
12. A strong and wise fighter who keeps believing in America
13. Brexit No. 2 Blow-up
14. Voted against their system
15. Nigel Farage called Donald Trump’s victory ‘bigger than Brexit’
16. Stand Up

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4. Protesters Take Anti-Trump Message to His Doorstep, and Plan Next Move
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6. Op-ed: The supposed ‘party of family values’ is overlooking major flaws in its candidate
7. Death and Taxes: A Road Trip, A Funeral, and Election Results
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11. Transgenderism is a ‘Superstitious Belief’ says Princeton Professor
12. “Playing Russian Roulette With The History Of The Country…” *Open Thread*
13. A WTF At The BBQ
14. Reflections from the Wrong Side of History
15. What’s the real danger?
16. “Another Terri Schiavo Moment”: Are Republicans Falling Into A Democratic Trap On Transgender Bathrooms?
17. Gender Neutral Bathrooms: not a safety concern
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19. ICE to Open Special Transgender Housing Facility in Texas
20. Transgenders rights? Just say no! Protect the rights of straight people to their privacy.
21. New words for gender confusion. A Limerick.
22. The Left’s Latest “War on Women” *Open Thread*
23. Taboo Subjects vs Society?
24. Transgenders
25. School adopts gender-neutral homecoming court, so there might be no ‘king’ or ‘queen’ – The Washington Post
26. Leave Gays and Trans People Alone
27. Transgender Issues Reach Toy Store Shelves
28. Department of “Justice” has used YOUR Tax Money to Develop this Video on how Law Enforcement Should Interact with Cross Dressers…
29. US Department of Defense Ends Ban On Transgenders In Military
30. Transgender Numbers
31. Longing For Human Company 
32. Dear Donald
33. Judgment
34. Trans Awareness : Importance
35. The Re-Education of Their America
36. Dear White Privileged
37. How this affects me
38. 10 tips for the media on how to be a better Trans ally
39. Fleeing To Canada
40. Caring for Yourself as You Parent After a Trump Election
41. There is Light in the Dark: #TransLawHelp Connects Lawyers With Trans Individuals
42. A Reference of Trump & Pence’s Statements on LGBTQ+ Issues
43. The Ideology of the Anti-Gay Movement Is an Ideology of Inconsistency and Hypocrisy
44. Donald Trump is President!!
45. Today I learned that my fellow Americans hate me, my body, and my friends
46. Make America a great Horror again!
47. 2016 Post Election Prayer
48. How the Gender Binary Affects So Much of Catholic Thinking
49. Trumpland: white women, why, and where to now
50. What the hell did we just do?
51. Why America?
52. Post Election: Daring to Hope?
53. Is Trump bad for trans people?
54. Day 1 of President of hate.
55. Jordan Peterson: The right to be politically incorrect

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First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

-Martin Niemoller

A friend of mine stopped by my house recently.

She was scared.

My friend was born male, but now identifies as female.

She said…

“I’ve only recently began to be able to walk down the street. I fear that if Donald Trump becomes president, then it will become open season on people like me.”

Our house is a safe haven in the middle of Indiana, a state which is anything but safe for people who are different.

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American Christianity no longer resembles its Founder

In the United States of America the last few months we could see that there is much division in the country, with lots of people who call themselves Christian took on not only a racist attitude, but also used many awful words against the different peoples living in their state and against those who show that they do not agree with their favoured politician and presidential candidate.

In the 16th century there was a time many who fled to the New World carried a Dutch crescent-shaped Geuzen medal at the time of the anti-Spanish Dutch Revolt, with the slogan “Liever Turks dan Paaps” (“Rather Turkish than Papist“), 1570, indicating to be better a Muslim than to be a Roman Catholic.

An American writer who considers himself reformed in his thinking and faith, considers himself a follower of Jesus and believing all  Scriptures, though he looks like a papist (not in an offensive way) and does not seem to believe all words of Jesus and not to accept that God is only One, but that is not the issue in this writing.  Today we want to look at what he wrote already in 2012.

In his article The Best Argument Against Christianity he looked at “Some Disturbing Statistics” and wrote

David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group (a research organization focusing on religious trends and information), asserts that the primary issue that today’s culture has with Christianity is that it no longer resembles its Founder. {David Kinnaman, Unchristian, 2007, pg. 25. + The Best Argument Against Christianity}

In his book Unchristian, Kinnaman studied the Mosaic (born between 1984 and 2002) and Busters (born between 1965 and 1983) generations of the United States, which currently comprise approximately 77% of America’s population. With respect to Christianity, Kinnaman notes a growing tide of hostility and resentment, a statistic which is trending downward from a positive study that was done by his Barna group only one decade before. {The Best Argument Against Christianity}

Barna also describes the Mosaic Generation as “comfortable with contradiction”, “post-modern” and exhibiting “non-linear” thinking. All the contradiction going on in the New World many wanting to screw back into the past, makes it very chaotic.

The criteria for human value, to the world at large, has shifted from that of someone who champions high ethical standards at work, has personal integrity in his dealings, and who is committed to doing the right thing no matter what, to someone who, at work, is willing to do whatever can ensure the greatest commercial viability and his own personal security, and get away with whatever s/he can in their personal dealings. The more noble qualities of human nature are unwittingly being sacrificed on the altar of commerce. Most do not realize the cost: ending up as two-dimensional beings, mere cogs in the wheel of commerce without a heart capable of compassion.{Millennials: Escape the Credit/Debt Matrix}

For the blogger “evangelical” relates to Christianity, though we do not hope he wants to give the impression to his readers that ‘Evangelism‘ are the norm and does not use ‘Christianity’ in the same way as it is often used in Belgium when they speak of Christianity or of Christendom they mean ‘Roman Catholicism‘.

Most important to notice is the reflection of the spirit of the age. We have come in a time where atheists speak publicly more often about God than their in God believing counterparts. By the majority of the population there is a bad co-notation to the word ‘Christian’. In 2012 nearly half had a bad impression, and four year later we may say nearly three quarter of the population has a bad idea by the word ‘Christian’ and lots of them do find religion the cause of all the problems and all the wars.

Many non-religious people in the States and in Europe look at the works of ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda and see the similarities with the crusaders.  All those groups went killing and conquering territory, terrorising lots of people. Many non-religious people also hear the vile language of many who say they are Christian or are saying they are defending the Christian values. The 2016 American presidential election has been the example how the Christian manners shown to the world are not those of the master teacher, rabbi Jeshua, known in the States and many other countries as Jesus Christ.

In 2012 also

There were two things that Kinnaman’s study uncovered, and neither had anything to do with the theological teachings or doctrinal standards of the Church. First, unbelievers responded negatively to what they termed the Christian “swagger” – how Christians’ lives don’t match up to Christ’s, and the bark and bite that unbelievers say they see in Christians’ demeanor and action. {The Best Argument Against Christianity}

The immoral way of life by Christians, outsiders can see, is the most chocking to non-religious and other religious people. Muslims in particular are very disgruntled by the way Christian behave. Put out over their way of life no wonder several Muslim groups try to get Christians to their faith, trying to have them understand such a way of living is totally against the Will of God.

Lots of non-religious and non-Christian religious groups see as many respondents said that the charity and compassion of Jesus’ teaching in the Gospels have been dismissed by Christians in favour of their selfish gain, combative and judgemental actions against what they believe to be threats against their moral positions.

In other words, as Christians, we have become famous for what we oppose and stand against rather than for what we are in favor of and champion. {The Best Argument Against Christianity}

But what are those American Christians are in favour for? What are their aims and what is their willingness to follow Jesus’ teachings and to have that same attitude as that master teacher? How peaceful do they want to be? In most instances we can see those American ‘Christians’ only considering their church or nomination to be allowed to have the label Christian. Very often they feel other denominations of Christendom are the false groups and consider that most of those people will land up in hell (for them a place of eternal torture). The exclusion of other people is the most problematic element the American population now encounters.

Many youngsters, particular the Millennials who had first difficulties in paying their studies and now have problems paying off the loan and need a place to live (besides with their parents), clothes on their back, food to eat and resources to care for their children, do not see any surplus a church or religion may give them. For them their focus is not at all on something which we cannot see or not fully understand. They are focussing on the material which might be in their reach if certain groups would not stand in their way. They want to have time and money for travel, doing fun things, but nobody standing in their way or confronting them with how they have to live or behave. At the moment they also have become very disappointed with the political system they are living in and want change. It is that carving for change what made many also to chose for Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States, which have become very divided now.

The neo-Nazis and the weapon lobby gladly backed Donald Trump, because in him they saw the man to clean up the country and to enable enough income by the promotion of weapons to determinate ‘the vermin’. Strangely enough lots of evangelist Americans and other so called Christians in those states do promote the carriage and use of weapons and do not seem to mind to shoot at an other creature of God.

When we do hear how those gun-lovers talk about them having to prepare against ‘the enemy’ and how they have to train their kids in shooting and defending themselves, we clearly can form a good idea how far away they have gone from the teaching of Christ. It has gone even so far that there are churches in America where in the service there are tombola’s for or weapons given to their members. There exist even crusader rifles of which so called Christians are very proud to have such gun, which has a cross engraved on it.

That is where the Americans have left the real faith and have also gone far away from the idea of defending and living in a free state.
Lots of American Christians have come to think their freedom is to limit the freedom of others and to oppress their way of thinking to others. For them all have to take on their ‘belief’ and their ‘faith’ and all people in the United States of America do have to live according to their religious rules. For sure that was not something the founding fathers of the New World had in mind. They just had escaped the tyrannising position of the churches in Europe. Today lots of Americans are trying to create that what the founding fathers of the United States of America had fled for and have no idea of their sayings.

It is getting time American Christian get back to reading the Bible and to listen what is written in it. They have to get back on track, finding the inner moral compass to resist unethical business practices, to show others they have a moral and ethical attitude according Judeo Christian values.

Once back on track they can give a good example how a Christian should live together with all sorts of people from all sorts of place and religions. than they can start to rebuild the shattered state they are living in now.

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Preceding articles

Scepticals of the Bible

Islamophobia Must be Fought and Defeated

God Isn’t a Republican

 

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Additional articles

1. American Founding Fathers Sayings
2. 2014 Religion
3. Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church
4. The 17th annual White Privilege Conference a militantly Christophobic conference held in Philadelphia
5. Iranian preacher creating more hatred between religious groups
6. Hamas the modern Philistines
7. Refugee crisis, terrorist attacks and created fear
8. Silence, devotion, Salafists, quietists, weaponry, bombings, books, writers and terrorists
9. What Jesus Did – Misleading around the Messiah and the final assessment
10. Running the battle
11. Living in faith
12. If You want to start winning the war
13. Blinded crying blue murder having being made afraid by a bugaboo
14. The clean sweeper of the whole caboodle
15. Separation of church and state
16. Demonizing families in poverty and misleading actions
17. Right to be in the surroundings
18. Which back voters in the US wants to see
19. Christian values and voting not just a game
20. Faith related boycotts
21. Roman Catholic Church in the United States of America at war
22. Ron Paul blames Neocons
23. Jews the next scapegoat for Donald Trump
24. The American clouds of Anti-Semitism
25. Trump brand of migrant demonization #1
26. Peppered Speeches at Republican National Convention
27. Bumpy road to success
28. Reluctance to act in Syrian civil war
29. Al Qaeda regaining foothold in Middle East bubonic plague for American elections
30. ISIL will find no safe haven
31. The Crusader Rifle
32. Conservative and Communist Climate Change Scam
33. Bridge builder Obama
34. Obama made in a cult
35. Second term for Obama
36. Children of Men
37. Preparing for an important election
38. Coming closer to the end of 2015 and the end for Donald Trump as presidential candidate
39. Walls,colours, multiculturalism, money to flow, Carson, Trump and consorts
40. When so desperate to hold onto power
41. Are United States of America citizens going to show their senses
42. Brexit No. 2 Blow-up
43. Nigel Farage called Donald Trump’s victory ‘bigger than Brexit’
44. Trump et al.— The Global Storm
45. A strong and wise fighter who keeps believing in America
46. Victims and Seekers of Peace
47. Declaration of war against Islam and Christianity
48. Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life

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Further reading

1. Millennials: Escape the Credit/Debt Matrix
2. Fully Satisfied
3.  Election 2016
4. Election 2016 Afterthoughts
5. On voting
6. This American Life
7. How America got Trumped
8. they tried to bury us. they didn’t know that we were seeds.
9. How the Hated Donald Trump Came to Power
10. What Great Leaders Stay Focused #Leadership #SMB
11. “love keeps us safe, not fear”
12. … Focus on the Task at Hand , ObamaCraps [#Islamic Terrorism]…
13. Lesson From Election 2016
14. The Need to Focus and Not Be Scattered
15. Blog 2016 046. 11/11/16 Evangelize like Jesus did! Ask questions to get to their motives.
16. Racism in America or Amerikkka( as some might call it)
17. Andrew Young: ‘This is our country. And it does not depend on the president to make it great’
18. The ‘Theoretical’ Significance Of This Election
19. Cacophony of lawsuits to follow Trump into White House
20. How a major hate-watch group is preparing for President Donald Trump’s America and the alt-right
21. The Power of Apathy
22. Division: An open letter to my sons 
23. Donald Trump Is an Icon
24. Clinton Wounded the Party, Now Howard Dean Wants to Kill It
25. Southeast schools take the streets of South Gate
26. Trump Denounces Protesters In Tweet, Praises Them In Another
27. Man Describes Brutal Attack; Crowd Yelled ‘That’s A White Boy Trump Supporter’
28. The Transition
29. Donal Trump, The New Miracle
30. Millions Of Concerned Citizens Are Signing A Petition That Asks The Electoral College To Vote For Hillary Clinton
31. PFW: Blowing the Rust off of Hillary’s America
32. Rowan Blanchard Marches In ‘Not My President’ Protest With Powerful Sign — See Pic
33. The media’s sanctimonious self-righteousness contributed to Trump’s victory
34. Rural vs Urban: the Greatest Divide in Modern America
35. Trumped up
36. The traumatized Democrats
37. Rainier Beach High Students Walkout to Find Hope, Optimism After Election
38. Well, That Didn’t Take Long
39. Call to ‘Lock Her Up’ Puts Trump in a Bind Over His Threat to Prosecute Clinton
40. White Christians Who Voted for Donald Trump: Fix This. Now. | John Pavlovitz
41. The TRUMPet Has Been Blown
42. We Will Rise Above
43. Post-Election 2016, cont.
44. How Donald Trump Pulled It Off
45. Confession of a watcher
46. Things I’m Verbing: “We Reject the President-Elect” and a WPA for Journalism
47. The Era of the Post-Truth Politician?
48. The Ku Klux Klan has a Voice and a Leader in Washington
49. Where Were They?
50. Oh, Really? Omarosa Says Black People Should Educate Whites After Trump Victory
51. Oh, Really? Omarosa Says Black People Should Educate Whites After Trump Victory
52. Immigrants in U.S. gripped by deportation fears with Donald Trump election win
53. Between Friends
54. Hitlery’s terrorist youth demand a government overthrow
55. The Other Side We Failed to See – 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
56. Blanketing Fantasy With A Hint of Reality
57. Here’s how to sleep with Donald Trump
58. Voices: Reacting to Trump | ‘I will fight for my right to speak’
59. Women Warned To Get IUDs Before Trump Becomes President
60. November 11, 2016
61. Trump commends protesters’ ‘passion’ after new night of rallies
62. How Will a Trump Presidency Impact Your Health?
63. The tweet of a narcissist 
64. Episode 43: Welcome to Trumpdome
65. Republican Age Of Austerity – ‘And Here We Go’
66. The Wall
67. Popped and Cultured: The Results Are In
68. It’s time for a few hard truths.
69. Usually liberals would have same opinions & views as the media & liberal social networking groups… really sad…
70. The pitfalls of underestimation
71. With the possibility of 11th-hour change, here are suggestions for Trump’s ‘national growth and renewal’
72. A Rock and Roll Generation (Post-Election blues)
73. Election Results 2016: Did Voter ID & Voter Suppression Help Elect Trump?
74. Here’s What it Means to “Make America Great Again”
75. Election vitory: Anti-Trump Protest enters day two
76. The way of the world

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Islamophobia Must be Fought and Defeated

Today after lots of mud throwing in a heated and polarizing campaign — widely regarded as the ugliest in recent history— Americans shall have to make up their mind which way their country shall go and stand in the international global universe. Their choice for the 45th president of the United States between the two main candidates, the political experienced Democrat Hillary Clinton and the business man and bugaboo Republican Donald Trump.
American citizens either to bring the first woman to serve in the Oval Office or give the world the oldest person — at age 70 — elected to the office.

Donald Trump in February 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Though they should best think very well before voting. Considering if that person who raised his voice so much and gesticulated a lot whilst saying not much about economy, politics or social improvement, would be the man to lead their international important nation.
The businessman and former reality-TV star capitalized on a strong anti-establishment mood within the party. His often inflammatory remarks — such as proposing a ban on Muslims — seemed to inspire supporters, who rallied around his political in-correctness and outsider status. Though not only Muslims were in the picture. Often enough he accused the Jews also of being cause of problems. And all the people who tried to come to his land of honey which will not welcome those looking for a better life. For sure he want all foreigners and those who do not fit in the system out of the country, best behind walls, making it nearly impossible to enter the country of white Caucasians.

After easily capturing his party’s nomination, what nobody in Europe thought for possible, Trump faced off against the opponent he has taken to calling “crooked Hillary.”

His followers stayed blind for his changing moods and changing ideas, plus could never believe or did not want to know about the many worse scandals around their ‘god’, including a series of negative comments about women. Notably, in October a hot-mic video from 2005 surfaced in which he told an entertainment reporter that “when you’re a star…you can do anything,” including grabbing women by the genitals.
As November 8 neared, Trump repeatedly alleged that the election was rigged and the media were particularly biased against him.

Against this background, more than 120 million Americans are expected to head to the ballot booth, with the presidential winner needing to claim 270 electoral votes.

We can only hope the American shall be wise enough to vote for some one who is sane and stable enough to lead the country and to have enough diplomacy to co-operate and discuss with other states all over the world, whatever their political or religious background may be, and keeping peace between all sort of peoples living now in the United states of America.

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To remember

an Iraqi-American > came to the U.S. as a boy after President George H.W. Bush’s call to the Shia to revolt against Saddam in the aftermath of Desert Storm, which was ruthlessly suppressed by Saddam as Bush and company did nothing.

served as interpreter attached to 101st Airborne in Iraq in 2004

Ben Carson made anti-Muslim comments back in September of 2015 during presidential primary season > Islamophobia

many Muslim-Americans served the U.S.A. with distinction

nationalistic bigotry – Islamophobia – threatens the heart of nation

forgetting enemy within America = ignorance, hatred, fear, aggression

spreading fear + bigotry = way to national insanity.

Islamophobia, like all other irrational fears, must be fought + defeated.

 

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Find also to read:

Coming closer to the end of 2015 and the end for Donald Trump as presidential candidate

Walls,colours, multiculturalism, money to flow, Carson, Trump and consorts

Are United States of America citizens going to show their senses

When so desperate to hold onto power

Some quotes Americans should remember when going to the ballot office

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Bracing Views

W.J. Astore

When I was a lieutenant colonel on active duty, I supervised an officer in the U.S. Air Force who was (and is) an Iraqi-American. He came to the U.S. as a boy after President George H.W. Bush’s call to the Shia to revolt against Saddam in the aftermath of Desert Storm, which was ruthlessly suppressed by Saddam as Bush and company did nothing.

As an Iraqi-American in uniform, he served as an interpreter attached to the 101st Airborne in Iraq in 2004, if memory serves–dangerous times indeed for U.S. troops in Iraq.

He wrote to me, rightly outraged, after Ben Carson made his anti-Muslim comments back in September of 2015 during the presidential primary season. It made him so sad, so angry, as a U.S. Air Force veteran and as a Muslim-American to hear such ignorance, such bias, such Islamophobia. And it made me angry as well.

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Infinite payment of sin by the son of God

Jesus, the only way to God

Jeanie Shepard says she has dedicated her life to serving God, and being an example of the love of Christ. As a passionate Bible teacher, committed to inspiring and encouraging people to live their best lives now, to face their fears, and to grow stronger in the holy things of God, she believes that no other religion teaches the depth or seriousness of sin and its consequences.

We are afraid we can not agree with that, because in this world of many religious groups we can find more than one religion where the followers look at good and evil. After man came to get knowledge of good and evil that knowledge went from one to an other generation and even non-religious people thought about people going bad, what in Christendom is called sinning.

she also writes

No other religion offers the infinite payment of sin that only Christ could provide. {The Only Way}

Sculpture – head of Jesus Christ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

When she means “Christ” the Kristos or Messiah delivering people she is again missing the promise to and the believe of the Jews, and in some aspect also the Muslims. Jews and Muslims look also to the Messiah. In the Islam it is also taught that Ishi/Jesus will come back and that at his return he shall come to judge the living and the dead. For the Jews, they too wait for their Messiah to come, though for them, we do agree, they look (perhaps) for an other person than we and Jeanie Shepard are looking for. Many of them shall be surprised to find out that rabbi Jeshua is really that promised one from God.

With the writer of JSM Grow in God’s Word we too believe we should look to that Christ, though her idea of that Christ is not the biblical view nor our view. She considers that Christ to be God having come to the earth and having done as if he died, because God can not die and is an eternal Spirit. Though she says to

believe we are saved by God’s grace through faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ. {The Only Way}

she contradict in a certain way what she says, because she does not seem to accept the personality Jesus Christ. This is a general problem with a lot of people who call themselves Christian. Instead of accepting the words of Jesus Christ and the Words of his heavenly Father they prefer to believe the human doctrines and to make Jesus into their god.
Such idea undermines the position of Jesus Christ, the man who is called by the Word of God to be the son of man and the son of God.

We all should know that God is bigger than anything that we go through; but that He is also greater than Jesus. Rabbi Jeshua knew very well his position and never claimed to be God, but made it very clear where he was standing, not able to do anything without God.

Christians should take those words of Jesus at heart. They should believe that Jesus, the sent one from God, his heavenly Father works in him and still works today. Christians should understand Jesus his position, being under God, even not able to do anything of himself. Jesus like all the people who saw the miracles could see what God the Father did. It is this God of Abraham Who authorised rabbi Jeshua, Christ Jesus, to do all these things. For all that Jesus does is done by the Power of God.

Because of God having given the authority to speak and act in His Name, this son does together with the Elohim Hashem Jehovah out of love for mankind.  Everything Jesus did was out of love for God Whose Will he wanted to do, and not his own will (which he would have done when he is God). First Jesus was lower than angels, but after his ransom offering he was made higher, though God always stays the Most High.

This Most High Eternal God is the Father Who loves His only begotten beloved Son and shows him all the things that He does, and He will show him greater works than these that we may marvel. For as the Father raises up the dead and gives them life; even so God His son gives life unto whom he will. Therefore we should take heed and look at this sent one from God who may judge the living and the dead and is at the moment seated at the right hand of God (and not on God‘s throne) to be a mediator between God and man.  For the Father judges no man but has committed all judgement unto the son that everyone should honour the son, even as they honour the Father.

We should take the Words of God, given in the Holy Scriptures very serious. In the New Testament we are warned that he that does not honour the son does not honour the Father Who has sent him, plus that believe in him is important for man’s salvation.

Jesus also warns the people around him that those who hear his words and believes Him (Jehovah God) that sent him (Jesus Christ, the Messiah) has eternal life and shall not come into judgement but has passed from death unto life. But you could also read this as an implication that the ones who do not want to believe God and Jesus their words shall not pass from death to life and shall not be able to enter the small gate of the Kingdom of God.

First of all we should have to look up to the One Who sent Jesus, secondly we should look at the one sent by God.  For as the Father has life in Himself, so has He given to the son to have life in himself and has also given him power and authority to execute judgement because Jeshua (Jesus Christ) is Son of man and the son of God in whom we should put our hope.

“17  But Jesus answered them, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
18 Therefor the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, “Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do; for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. 20 For the Father loveth the Son and showeth Him all things that He Himself doeth; and He will show Him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. 21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom He will. 22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son, 23 that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father who hath sent Him.

24 Verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth My Word and believeth in Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. 25 “Verily, verily I say unto you, the hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself, 27 and hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. 28 Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice 29 and shall come forth—they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. 30 “I can of Mine own self do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I seek not Mine own will, but the will of the Father who hath sent Me.

31  If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. 32 There is Another that beareth witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesseth of Me is true. 33 “Ye sent unto John, and he bore witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man, but these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light, and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works which the Father hath given Me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of Me that the Father hath sent Me.” (John 5:17-36 KJ21)

We may not let our mind being filled with false human thoughts, but should listen to the Word God has given us. We may also not let our heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid, by wondering what others might think if we do not follow the mainstream or do not take part in the many human traditions.

The Bible teaches that there is no other way to salvation, but through Christ. Jesus is the way to God and the path to eternal salvation for those who believe in him. No one comes to the Father except through the son, and Jesus is the only begotten son of the Father. He is the only acceptable sacrifice by which man’s sins are forgiven.

“”For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16 KJ21)

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23 KJ21)

All people should come to hear what Jesus has taught. He left the earth but he shall come again unto us. Those who accepted Jesus for what or who he is and love him, there can be rejoicement because they know and believe that Jesus went unto the Father, and not to himself or to take back his place as God; for his Father is greater than himself (Jesus Christ). Christians also should tell others about this son of man who is the son of God, and not a god-son, that the world may know that Jesus does not love himself but loves the Father; and as the Father gave him commandment, even so does Jeshua (Jesus Christ).

 “27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

28  Ye have heard how I said unto you, ‘I go away and come again unto you.’ If ye loved Me, ye would rejoice because I said, ‘I go unto the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe. 30 “Hereafter I will not talk much with you, for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in Me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, as the Father gave Me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.” (John 14:27-31 KJ21)

When you believe those things, then you should be able to accept and believe that

Through Jesus everyone who believes is set free from every sin; (Acts 13:38-39; 1st John 2:12). Sin has a penalty that must be paid, if not through the shed blood of Jesus finish work on the cross,

not that

the only other option is the eternal torment in hell’s unquenchable fire. {The Only Way}

because by dying all payment is given for the sins done. God does not want any other payment and tells us that when we die it is finished.

Though we may not forget that

To receive the free gift of eternal salvation, we must look to Jesus alone. We must place our trust in the finished work of the cross as our payment for sin and in his resurrection.

Salvation is available only through faith in Jesus Christ. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved; (Acts 4:12).

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Preceding articles

Irminsul, dies natalis solis invicti, birthday of light, Christmas and Saturnalia

Entrance of a king to question our position #2 Who do we want to see and to be

Marriage of Jesus 2 Standard writings about Jesus

Marriage of Jesus 8 Wife of Yahweh

Marriage of Jesus 10 Old and New Covenant

Jerusalem and a son’s kingdom

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Additional reading:

1. Do you believe in One god
2. Sinning because being a sinner
3. God of gods
4. Attributes to God
5. Jehovah God Almighty greater than all gods
6. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
7. Jesus begotten Son of God #6 Anointed Son of God, Adam and Abraham
8. Jesus begotten Son of God #9 Two millennia ago conceived or begotten
9. Jesus begotten Son of God #10 Coming down spirit or flesh seed of Eve
10. Jesus begotten Son of God #11 Existence and Genesis Raising up
11. Jesus begotten Son of God #12 Son of God
12. Jesus begotten Son of God #13 Pre-existence excluding virginal birth of the Only One Transposed
13. Jesus begotten Son of God #15 Son of God Originating in Mary
14. Jesus begotten Son of God #16 Prophet to be heard
15. Jesus begotten Son of God #17 Adam, Eve, Mary and Christianity’s central figure
16. Jesus begotten Son of God #19 Compromising fact
17. Jesus begotten Son of God #20 Before and After
18. Nazarene Commentary Matthew 3:13-17 – Jesus Declared God’s Son at His Baptism
19. The meek one riding on an ass
20. For the Will of Him who is greater than Jesus
21. In the death of Christ, the son of God, is glorification
22. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 4
23. God has not destined us for wrath
24. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #18 Fulfilment
25. Believing what Jesus says
26. Follower of Jesus part of a cult or a Christian
27. Preparing for the Kingdom
28. Blindness in the Christian world
29. If we, in our prosperity, neglect religious instruction and authority
30. For those who believe Jesus is God
31. For Getting to know Jesus
32. That everyone may honour the Son and sent one from God
33. Blinkered minds
34. Philippians 1 – 2
35. After darkness a moment of life renewal
36. As Christ’s slaves doing the Will of God in gratitude

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Further reading

1. Trying to explain Sin
2. Sins are destructive.
3. Sinning less will not save you from hell
4. Sinning has consequences!
5. Commentary for Nitzavim
6. You Have Eternal Life
7. Failing as a Christian
8. “Looking For Jesus” – “Dead Works”
9. (Part 2) Can A Christian Lose Their Salvation?
10. When salvation comes: context
11. October 24 – Jesus And Me
12. 31st Sunday of the Year – The Lord comes to seek and save what was lost
13. Daily Bread – Take Heed
14. Don’t Wait!
15. Sermon Recording- We’re Off to See the Wizard (Psalm 115; Exodus 20)
16. Justified!
17. Instantly Healed, Saved and Baptized
18. Professing But Not Born Again
19. Reblog: Professing But not Born Again
20. To Be A True Christian Will Cost You
21. 5 Dangers For Young Men
22. A New Life of Righteousness
23. The Power to Change
24. A Psalm of Praise . . . .
25. Grace
26. saved to serve
27. Finding Strength
28. Truth; a Treasure to share…
29. Lighthouse
30. Let a man receive the truths of the doctrines of the Grace of God and he will say, “God has saved me”
31. Time…
32. Oct 22, 2016 Stay at the Ready, Soon you’ll see Him coming in the clouds, I will shake the Heavens and the Earth, Many are still stubborn and proud to ask Jesus to forgive them, They will find out the hard way but it will be TOO LATE, Repent while you’re still on Planet Earth
33. Breathe in, out!
34. Not Sure
35. The Reckoning
36. October 21, 2016 – cannot enter
37. God, the Word of God, and humanity. Also, iPhones. (Reading Athanasius)
38. Knowing and Understanding the Times!
39. It’s All About Him!
40. Salvation – He [Jesus] entered Jericho and was passing through it
41. Day 294 Covered By The Robe Of Righteousness 
42. Blind trust in rumors will cause you to lose God’s salvation of the last days
43. He’s Calling Out
44. From Lost to Found
45. Day 12: Are you ready?
46. How Vulnerability Can Bring Us Beyond Ourselves
47. The Wheels are Turning
48. Meditations on TULIP, Part three
49. Who I Am, Alone
50. Heaven’s Delight
51. The Deification of Man
52. Prosperity or Poverty–God’s Opinion

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Related articles

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• Stop agreeing with the lies of the Enemy
• Christendom & Human Sacrifice
• The believer’s authority
• Our life depending on faith

Does Banning Face Veils Help Us Fight Terrorism?

It is totally wrong to generalise and to say that

“Muslims who have been living in Europe for decades refuse to be integrated and remain fairly isolated within their religious and ethnic communities.”

Many Muslims have a proper job and talk about the same general matters as other believers and go to the same super and hypermarkets like other civilians in that country.

It is also wrong to suppose women cannot make up their own mind and would not be able to choose their own religion and would not be able to decide themselves how they want to cloth themselves. Like atheist, Christian or Protestant women can choose themselves what they want to believe and to which religion or denomination they want to adhere, Muslim women also can be smart enough to decide themselves to which denomination in the Islamic religion they want to be apart of and in which way they want to follow the rules of that denomination.

The burkini, also known as a halal swimsuit, modestly covers all but the face, hands and feet, consisting of a top and a bottom. It resembles a wet suit with a head covering.

It has become popular with pious Muslim women, those women (like British cooking celebrity Nigella Lawson) who wear it to avoid a tan, and pious Jews have adopted a variant garment.

Lots of people do forget with a burkini the face is not covered and the clothing clearly shows the women contours and no weapons can be hidden under that clothing whilst under a male’s loose t-shirt a bomb-belt can be worn as well under the coats of people on the street weapons can be carried.

On television we saw a man saying the burkini had to be banned because weapons could be hidden, but he himself was wearing a loose T-shirt where much more could be hidden than by that Muslim woman. So normally he also should have been asked to undress.

When the French are afraid women would hide weapons under their burkini than they also should have going to forbid males and females to be dressed with covering clothes on the streets and in the shops in Summer time and Wintertime.
Can you imagine it: all having to run on European streets in a bikini or monokini whilst it is freezing cold?

The burkini poses no danger to public security. Unlike the burqa or niqab, it leaves the face uncovered. Relatively tight-fitting, it leaves no place to hide weapons.

If a woman wishes to dress modestly on the beach, that is her business, and not the state’s.

The Islamist threat to the West is very real, recognises Daniel Pipes the president of the Middle East Forum, who writes

Issues concerning Islam are arguably Europe’s No. 1 concern, ahead even of the European Union and the financial crisis. They need to be dealt with by confronting real problems, not by focusing on symbolic irrelevancies such as burkinis, halal shops and minarets. Burqas and niqabs must be banned (as the German government may soon do); freedom of speech about Islam and Muslims must be reconfirmed, Saudi and Iranian funding for religious purposes must be cut and a single legal code must apply to all.

The French better concentrate onto the real issue and should demand their state to take care of all citizens, whatever belief they may have, that they can live in a free country not having to fear Islamic or other fundamentalist terrorists and let Muslims and others wear what they wish to the beach.

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Preceding article: French showing to the whole world their fear and weaknesses

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Additional reading

1. Is Europe going to become a dictatorial bastion
2. On French beach French police forces woman to undress in public
3. Women in France running with naked bosom all right but with covered bosom penalised
4. France and the Burkini
5. Not limiting others but sharing peace with all

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Further reading

1. Burkini
2. The Burkini
3. From Bikini To Burkini, Or Why Lebanon’s Tripoli Is Awesome
4. You may find this offensive 
5. Burkini Ban: Not Everything has to be Legislated On, You Dimwits
6. Just Say “Non” to Burkini Bathing Beauties?
7. Post Burkini law, France needs to reform
8. The Burkini: Muslim women and swimming
9. Haiku, Dress Code
10. Much Ado About Nothing: Thoughts on the ‘BurkiniGate’ (EN)
11. Why I am against the Burkini Ban in France –
12. Ban the Burqa, Allow the Burkini
13. You are what you wear
14. This Burkini on the beach business is making me feel uneasy. 
15. Binding divides
16. An end to the burkini hullabaloo?
17. Stop. Trying. To. Strip. Me.
18. Fashion and the re-inscription of Muslim identity – a female only space
19. Deciding what to wear in another culture
20. Why do you care what we wear?
21. Ce Saint Que Je Ne Saurais Voir: Réflexions sur le «BurkiniGate» (FR)

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• Paris restaurant ‘refuses to serve Muslim women’
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• French Burkini Ban Puzzles, Upsets Muslim Fashion Designers
• The surprising Australian origin story of the burkini
• The surprising Australian origin story of the burkini
• The surprising Australian origin story of the burkini
• Muslim Fashion Industry Reacts to France’s Burkini Ban
• Burkini gets popular among non-Muslims since French ban

French showing to the whole world their fear and weakness

Terrorist beginnings

The previous year France and Belgium had to face very serious attacks to the integrity of their nation.

In the mid-1980s Belgium had already an experience of terrorist actions. Primarily engaged in bombings within Belgium’s borders the CCC or Cellules Communistes Combattantes (Communist Combatant Cells) attacked perceived enemies of communism, specifically NATO, US and other international businesses and the Federation of Belgian Enterprises. Today many may have forgotten those Cellules Communistes Combattantes their attacks which led to several injuries and only two deaths, whilst the Bende van Nijvel or Nivelles Gang, also known as the Brabant killers managed to kill 28 people and got 40 seriously injured between 1982 and 1985, but are also left in the past.

This present day also after the bombings at the airport and metro of Brussels, and the several terrorist attacks by Islamic terrorists all over the country, made the Belgium a little bit more alert They had tears for the victims (Christians, atheists, but also Muslims) but also very sensitive to continue to live on, not giving in to the Islamic terrorists, fearing everything about Muslims.

Taken by fear and covering clothes

The French seem to be taken so much by fear they start panicking as soon as they see a Muslim man or Muslim woman. Even worse, when they notice a Muslim woman in covering clothes or in a swimsuit they get in a terrible state and start using bad words and doing abusive degrading, humiliating actions. Do they really think such devout person, covering her body parts, would be a threat for their life?

Several majors of French cities and several politicians tried to limit the way women can chose their dress. On Thursday, the council of state, France’s highest administrative court, and judicial and advisory body, examined a request by the French Human Rights League to scrap the burkini bans which were imposed and caused already several disturbing  and very embarrassing terrible humiliating situations.

Women in France facing fines and humiliation for wearing burkinis (Photo AFP/Getty)

Beachwear ban and infringement on basic freedom

The bans – made in the form of mayoral decrees – followed the Bastille Day attack in Nice and the murder of a priest in Normandy. Though they do not explicitly use the word burkini but instead ban

“beachwear which ostentatiously displays religious affiliation”,

citing reasons such as the need to protect public order, hygiene or French laws on secularism, many women wearing too much covering clothes were reprimanded and those with a burkini were forced to take it off and to pay a fine.

At a hearing before the state council on Thursday, lawyers for the rights groups in the Villeneuve-Loubet case argued that the bans were feeding fear and infringe on basic freedom.

Lawyers argued that the short-term decrees are illegal and had good reason to declare such bans to be against human rights of liberty, in a state which had liberty in its ensing, having Liberty, Equality and Fraternity as their three core values.

Burkini ban

The film-temple Cannes was the one to start all the fuss and gave the kick-off for banning the burkini because it

“could risk disrupting public order while France was the target of terrorist attacks”

by which you may wonder how such covering up of the body, still showing it is a woman in the dress, would disrupt public order. When the way of dress would create others to react negatively, the state should react on those who take on a racist attitude and not on the one who wears ordinary clothes. The second reason of imposing the restriction should ring strange bells in our ears: It is said those town imposed this law because burkinis ‘are’

“not respectful of [the] good morals and secularism”

of France. Where we do have to question which those good morals are, when you see all that body exploitation, commercial nudity, fornication, a.o.. Against the secularisation we can understand, noticing that the state wants to exclude any from of religion, Judaism, real Christianity, though not objecting the pagan Roman Catholic Church because those Catholics do not do much with their religion and for those few priests and nuns who are in such minority, why should the state bother, because most people do not take them serious.

In France though most would oppose when a nun was forced to take off her habit on a beach, though lots of French people did find it right to have Muslim women to be forced to take off their (often even less covering) clothes. We even got to see where some police officers ‘helped’ to take off the clothes of a woman who was not quick enough according to their liking. It was really degrading to see such a humiliation in public in a so called Western civilised society.

Sexual objectification

In that French society suddenly fashion designers when designing nice clothes for Muslim women are called to help the people to set up against the governement and against public order.
France’s women’s rights minister, Laurence Rossignol, accused the designers of high-fashion burqinis and hajib headscarve of encouraging the “imprisonment of women’s bodies.” Would she also accuse the high fashion places of France to encourage the Caucasian men to consider women as a sex object and lookism target or making women attractive to be the treasure of man and as such imprison them in Western capitalist society? Why suddenly fashion for Muslim women becomes ‘Sexual objectification‘ when it is not for Caucasian non-religious and Catholic people?

The objectification of women, is an important idea in feminist theory and psychological theories derived from feminism and feminist shall have a new task in coming up for the rights of Muslim women, who are now clearly deprived of their own free choice to cloth them selves in a way they find appropriate according to their faith.

Fear for God searching and  finding people

Mainly males protesting of the covered ladies bodies should have us wonder if those men do not have an other problem. And if they seriously think persons wearing such clothes could impose a danger to the community, they should come to give a better explanation. Lots of them are afraid of islamisation of their country and think that when more people show their devoutness more French people would be put to shame and shall come to consider to change their secular life and perhaps consider to come to look for God again.  For many this is clearly also a problem. Many are very much afraid that people shall start wondering about their faith and about the Truth. Many are really fearing that several people may come to know God better and come to see how the Catholic Church mislead them so much.

Forcing women to go for protection

By forcing the Muslim women to cloth in a different way than they want to do for their faith, the French push them in a corner and shall make certain groups stronger, because they shall support those women and help them. In this way we have already the Algerian businessman and political activist Rachid Nekkaz who previously  founded the organisation “Touche pas à ma constitution” (English: “Don’t touch my constitution”, a play on the slogan of the NGO SOS Racisme: Touche pas à mon pote), which pledged to pay the fine of any women convicted of wearing the burqa in public, now also has created a fund to pay for any fines incurred by women wearing burkinis, and has already helped several women by paying their €38 fine.

But also radical preachers shall get to pull the women to their site, showing how pervert modern society has become, and how much the State does everything to get people away from God. The latest measures forbidding to wear any religious symbol on public adds to the proof of the willing secularisation of the State.

At the same time the governement in France does everything to create more hate between its population and in Allah or God believing people.

Nekkaz called the burqini ban

“symptomatic of the French government’s efforts to eliminate Islam, bit by bit, from the constitution”,

adding that the French government

“wishes to battle against the visibility of Islam in France”. {Meet the man paying off burqini fines in France}

But believers in God should see the Nation wants to go even a step further. Clearly this week they have taken the step to make it very clear that they are prepared to start the battle against the visibility of any God loving group of people, being it Jews, Christians or Muslims.

Public suppression and rejection of religion

La Sophia Lara, who is currently a student reading Latin and Italian at University in Scotland, whilst she is a linguist at heart, her interests and passions also expand to ‘philosophical’ contemplations (used in the slightest of terms), travelling and making YouTube videos on her channel, reacts rightly on her blog

A France which prides itself for liberté, égalité, fraternité, has unfortunately fallen short in recent times, with more social division and socialprejudice arising within the country, due to the public suppression and rejection of religion; the consequent of which has led to violent eruptions. It is also precisely through the social persecution of the wider islamic community in such acts which aim to strip them of their beliefs, that it seems that the French government are validating individuals’ fears, rather than attempting to diffuse them. I personally believe that the government has made very little effort to try to remedy the severance, and have instead trumped the terrorist acts  as a way to divert the attention away from their own failed model of harmony. {France’s banning of the ‘Burqini’ is the rejection of its founding principles}

Suppression of dissent

In France we may notice that because of the fear for terrorist attacks and because of the fear of the unknown (the lack of knowledge of what really Islam is and should be) suppression of dissent has come to demand its place in that nation of liberty and so called freedom.

The non believers in a god or the God form the group which is more powerful than those who believe in the Almighty Divine Creator of heaven and earth, has taken advantage of the present situation to directly censor, persecute and oppress those believers in the God of gods (Allah).

Lots of French do not want to give an ear to the other victims of the terrorist attacks and do not want to know more about Islam and how certain groups are misusing that religion its name to create war and anger. They do not want to take time to consider all facts and to engage with and constructively respond to or accommodate the other party’s arguments or viewpoint.

Sticker art arguing that dissent is necessary for democracy.

For many French people, Muslims are now considered a dissent perceived as a threat, against whom action must be taken, and should be repressed plus considered as “dissidents” to get rid off.

In several blogs we could find such reactions blaming ‘all Muslims’ for the agony which came over France.

Those who do not want to believe a woman can decide herself to wear a burkini deny the right of that woman to decide for herself

In France there are lots of people who do not seem to believe a Muslim woman can be strong enough to decide for herself to wear what she wants. There are even some people, like a Dutch blogger, who want to believe because a female wants to cover her body she is giving a sign that when it would not be covered she is allowed to be raped and should be found guilty of doing so. That is turning it all the way around (wrongly). By not allowing those women to dress as they want, the state gives the signal that it does matter how people are dressed and how female beings give a signal to men if they are ready to be taken as wife or be subject to be used as something else.

Any woman should have the own right to decide what she wants to wear without any man giving a connotation to what she wears.

So called nothing to do with racism but for safety reasons

When the burkini ban has nothing to do with racism and anti Islam religion do we not to question

How can a piece of clothing be a threat?
How can Burkini decrease the level of security?
How can they decide what women should wear to the Beach?
How is this even a topic of discussion?! {Burkini a threat…}

Is the Moroccon, Tetouan, Swedish Sarah not right in posing

they think by forcing us to dress a certain way they are helping us… They are the ones oppressing muslim women by taking away their rights do be who they want to be and dress how they want to dress. {Burkini a threat…}

Why should any person who does not want to walk naked have not the right to cover her body up? Be her or him a Jew, Christian, Muslim, atheist or a pagan believer, who may have the right to decide what she or he has to wear?

The Swedish blogger writes

I’m so tired of the “what should muslim women wear” discussion. If my sisters don’t want to be half naked while swiming, they shouldn’t be forced. If my sisters want to cover up, they should be able to. And if my sisters want to be free, let them be free.

Stop trying to set us free from a decision we freely made!!
Stop trying to label us.
You do you, and we are going to do us and just keep being awesome.🙂{Burkini a threat…}

Madonna, France has a message for you: You can’t swim with us. #youcantsitwithus – Exclusive Madonna Holiday in France

21st century witch hunt

Texan Cartoonist Clay Jones wrote

Western Europe is proving we’re not alone in the United States with our racism, xenophobia, and mass stupidity. I’m still recovering from the hate rally I attended last week.

Human Rights groups asked France’s highest court to strike down the ban, and they agreed. The court ruled that the ban

“seriously, and clearly illegally, breached the fundamental freedoms to come and go, the freedom of beliefs and individual freedom.”

I’ll add to that with “yeah.”

and drew a very good cartoon, which you can find on his site: Claytoonz: burkini.

Maryana Kovalchuk hits the nail on the dot to think of a new witch hunt. She writes

An affront to women. A sign of intolerance towards cultural diversity and integration. A step to prejudice, discrimination, segregation and an insult to everyone who worked hard against them. {Universal concern: not naked enough}

and ads the very confronting nice picture.

Caption from film ‘Rapture’, 1999, Shirin Neshat

We only can hope the French will find a solution to avoid further Islamic terrorist attacks and shall not try any more to take away the attention of the French public, from the real problem France does not seem to be able to manage.

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Please continue  reading:

Does Banning Face Veils Help Us Fight Terrorism?

Islamism Rises from Europe’s Secularism

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Preceding articles

A world with or without religion

Women their education and chances to become a parliamentary

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Find also to read

1. 2014 Religion
2. Social media a destabilisation tool in the Middle East and Syrian conflict
3. 2015 the year of ISIS
4. Summary for the year 2015 #1 Threat and fear
5. Wrong ideas about religious terrorism
6. A world in denial
7. Man’s own fault and the choice to flee from fear
8. Being Charlie 11
9. Tears for Belgium
10. Mountains of information, disinformation and breaking away
11. Funding of ISIS
12. Paris attacks darkning the world
13. Brussels-born Salah Abdeslam key suspect Paris terrorist attacks
14. The Meaning of Paris
15. Children of Men
16. Before you blame All Muslims for the terrorist attack in Paris
17. Humanity Quote for Pax Populi
18. When will it stop
19. French Muslims under attack
20. Syrian but also Belgian connection to French attacks
21. A sleeper cell of militants was said directing attackers sent back to France from Islamic State’s de-facto capital in Raqqa, Syria
22. Massive police operation in northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis
23. Mediterranean bloodshed
24. Nice attack, terror everywhere and coup attempt in Turkey
25. France and the Burkini
26. On French beach French police forces woman to undress in public
27. Women in France running with naked bosom all right but with covered bosom penalised
28. For those Christians who say they are the Victim
29. A Secular Mindset
30. Is Europe going to become a dictatorial bastion
31. About burkinis and where burka’s are banned > Full burqa and niqab ban

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Additional reading

1. A Secular Mindset
2. Social media, sympathy & shocks
3. Blinded crying blue murder having being made afraid by a bugaboo
4. For those Christians who say they are the Victim
5. Signs of the Last Days
6. God Watches
7. Not limiting others but sharing peace with all
8. A Jew and Muslim walking together side by side down USA city streets
9. A darker and stranger place
10. Il terrorismo è l’urlo di un bambino al buio
11. Remain lovingly = No path for softies
12. You Matter
13. How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace

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Further of interest

1. Egalité and Fraternité are great, but we need to ask ourselves some very difficult questions about Liberté
2. Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to freedom of expression when faith is insulted
3. Terror Is A French Word
4. Timeline of European terror attacks
5. Some thoughts on the Paris attacks
6. France Makes Major Shift Toward Fascism in Wake of Paris Terror Attacks
7. The Brussels Attacks: A Paris Perspective
8. Reaction from U.S.A. President Barack Obama
9. Brussels, Europe’s jihadist breeding ground, now itself under attack
10. Misunderstandings of Islam: Violence and Riots Break Out in Molenbeek
11. A Culture Comes Together From Paris Attacks
12. Terror attack in Nice!!!
13. France Attack: More Than 84 Dead As Truck Filled With Bombs Crash Into Crowd.
14. A Celebration ended with terror
15. Nice truck attack leaves France and the world in shock
16. Why we should try to understand violence
17. Explaining Terrorism
18. Hypocrisy Abounds: Free Speech as Cover for Islamophobia
19. Nice Terror- “Keep Eiffel Tower Dark until ISIS conquers France”
20. Updated: Muqtada al-Sadr wears military uniform: Some thoughts on the secularisation of Muqtada al-Sadr
21. A2 Sociology: American devotion to religion is waning, according to new study
22. A2 Secularisation
23. A2 Beliefs: UK one of world’s least religious countries, survey finds
24. A2: Faith, hope and secularity: Ireland on brink of change as church power wanes
25. Studies in Church History 52: the Church and doubt
26. Religion: A Diminishing Prospect?
27. Secularisation 1
28. Secularisation 2
29. 5 Feature Ideas on Religion
30. How God left the Netherlands – or is it the other way around?
31. The War on Nothing
32. Are All Lives Equal?
33. Anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rallies grow in Europe
34. Morality, values and Developing right choices
35. Why Gender Equality Is Not Just About Equal Rights
36. Gender Equality and Equality
37. A dying Western culture is the problem
38. Islamism Rises from Europe’s Secularism
39. Modest Swimwear: The Burkini
40. East Essence: Shop Islamic Clothes For Your Whole Family!
41. Ban The Burka
42. Planned ‘Burqini Day’ irks French far-rights
43. The Burkini Ban and the French Secularist Hypocrisy
44. Third French burqini ban after Corsica clashes
45. France’s banning of the ‘Burqini’ is the rejection of its founding principles.
46. Burkini and French Secularism
47. French Web Round-Up: 5 Things That Made Me Smarter This Week
48. Thoughts on Burqini
49. Breaking News: France requesting to Saudi Arabia’s ‘Morality Police’ for training their police force!
50. Dear white people of France: being forced to undress wasn’t exactly the liberation I was longing for
51. France’s War on the Burqini
52. What women need is security
53. What does it mean to cover?
54. Islam, France, Burkini: A chit chat on FB
55. My Burkini and I
56. France’s highest court suspends burkini ban in test case
57. The Burqini Ban
58. Burkini Ban: How an Innocent Pun Became Another Way to Erase Muslim Women
59. Anti-burkini decrees
60. French mayors dismiss suspended burqini ban
61. Amid Burkini Controversy, European Right-Wing Suggests Restricting Islamic Faith.
62. Meet the man paying off burqini fines in France
63. More prejudices than burkini ban
64. The Big Deal About the Burkini
65. Australian designed Burkini taking the world by storm.(Haute couture)
66. French resorts defiant as top court suspends burkini ban | The Times of Israel
67. French mayors uphold burkini ban to keep beaches ‘sexy, not terroristy’
68. Burkini = Look for the very good cartoon
69. an other cartoon: Battle of the Burkini
70. The Thing with the Burkini…
71. Women’s Freedom to Choose
72. Planned ‘Burqini Day’ irks French far-rights
73. Dear white people of France: being forced to undress wasn’t exactly the liberation I was longing for
74. France’s highest court suspends burkini ban in test case
75. France’s Top Administrative Court Overturns Burkini Ban
76. A Good Court Thing
77. Politicians still playing games after #BurkinBan was deemed ‘definitely illegal’
78. Meet the man paying off burqini fines in France
79. French mayors dismiss suspended burqini ban
80. Dear France
81. Who Wins the War on Terror? Love wins.
82. Love. Above all.
83. 1. 99 Word Blog (#024) Banned Burkinis
    2. Current Events Corner 8/16/2016
    3. “France is at War with its own Citizens” – Yasser Louati on the Cannes “Burkini” Ban
    4. Uproar in France over ‘burkini ban’ at Cannes beaches
    5. #62 French police force Muslim woman to remove her Burkini on Nice beach (photos)
    6. Undress for safety
    7. Nudism/Naturism and burkini madness: Why not ban all clothes at the beach?
    8. Does Banning Face Veils Help Us Fight Terrorism?
    9. Why are the burqa and burkini being banned?
    10. Fashion vs the Government: The Burkini Debate
    11. The scandal of women’s bodies in secular Europe
    12. French burkini ban exposes the myth of neutral secularism
    13. Burkini and French Secularism
    14. Ban of burkini: theresult ofmalechauvinism or secularism
    15. France’s Burkini Ban: Identity politics go to the beach
    16. Forcing a Muslim Woman To Undress is Not Fighting Oppression. That IS Oppression!
    17. Banning The Burqa And Burkini Is Not The Correct Liberal Response To Conservative Islam
    18. The Hypocrisy of the Burkini Ban
    19. A Burqini is not Equivalent to a Burqa
    20. Corsican town becomes third in France to ban the burkini after #Islamics riot
    21. France’s Burkini BigotryBurkinis in the land of Liberté, égalité, fraternité
    22. To Burkini Or Not To Burkini: The Ages Of Men Deciding What Women Should Wear
    23. French Burkini Bans Face Legal Challenge as Tension Mounts
    24. France has for its name, the contrary of Liberty and Fraternity practice.
    25. A cover story
    26. Does France have a problem with racism?
    27. Everyone everywhere wants to tell women what to wear
    28. The Day The News Made My Blood Boil
    29. Beachwear bull
    30. Women protest French burkini ban outside French Embassy in London
    31. Show us your bits..
    32. It’s Always the Cover Up
    33. Thoughts of the Day: Burkini Ban
    34. Doing something for something’s sake is a dangerous strategy
    35. Burkini Ban : French Farce
    36. Burkini beach
    37. Facebook 45 – Suorkini
    38. The burqa-One mermaid’s opinion
    39. burkinis or bikinis?
    40. Burkini vs Bikini
    41. The Burkini
    42. Burquini – How It Happened
    43. Burkini Ban: Nice
    44. Cannes Ban
    45. Why the Burkini ban poses a threat to Muslims and Non-Muslims alike
    46. #Burkiniban – the problem is veiled ideology
    47. 24 August 2016 – All Lives Matter (or Overly Clad Women)
    48. Why the French burkini ban is damaging feminism
    49. Dear French PM, The Burkini Ban Is Abhorrent
    50. Burkini being a threat
    51. The Burkini ban
    52. Liberty, Equality, Bigotry?
    53. From Bloomers to Burkinis: The Same Old Story? by Sarah Ansari
    54. Modern feminism makes no sense at all
    55. Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the Burkini : “C’est une provocation”.
    56. And the Debate about Burkini Ban continues #burkiniban
    57. Can’t we just put all the cards on the table?
    58. The folly of the #Burkiniban
    59. Bitches, Puhleeeeze….
    60. Ban the Burkini.
    61. The Burkini Ban
    62. Everything under the sun
    63. Very simple solution RE: Olympics and Burkini
    64. Next time I go to swim I might wear a good burkini
    65. Saudi Arabia Bans Stripy Fisherman Shirts and Berets
    66. Another Attack on Western Civilization from Muslim Women
    67. The Burkini Ban Is Pointless And Racist
    68. The Burkini Ban is good. Not to let your Country turn into Saudi Arabia – without Oil – in a couple of Decades, we must defend it. The right that our countries remain western.
    69. So! (en) | Islamic veil across Europe
    70. Pope urged to wear swimming trunks
    71. Where’s the Outrage Over Nun Beachwear? – The Daily Beast
    72. the decomposition of logic and democratic values
    73. Freedom of choice. It’s not so simple.
    74. Europe has been awash with racial tension this summer
    75. France’s ‘burkini ban’, one step too far?
    76. In hiding
    77. #BurkiniBan
    78. France has ‘misunderstood’ burkini, Australian designer says
    79. “Burkini” Ban Accomplishes Nothing Positive
    80. The Hijab and MeIslamophobia or nah?Islam and the downfall of European culture
    81. The Islamisation of my Country – 1
    82. So let me get this straight…
    83. At what point does a ban become a chance to publicly humiliate?
    84. New Feminism – via Unapologetics
    85. Ban the Burqa, Allow the Burkini :: Middle East Forum
    86. If you ever had any doubt that Bill O’Reilly of FOX News wasn’t actually a Muslim-sympathizing liberal, this will remove it
    87. Quebec opposition MNAs reopen divisive debate over religious attire with call for ban on burkinis
    88. Salafist fuckin’ la revanche
    89. The best tweets showing the absurdity of the #BurkiniBan on French beaches
    90. Australian burkini designer profits from French ban
    91. Burkini, Bikini. Potato, potarto.
    92. New Feminism
    93. “Burkini”ban in Quebec: Samer Majzoub interview on CJAD by Aaron Rand.
    94. Why an Italian atheist should thank France for the burkini affair
    95. Kini Miney Mot
    96. More French towns spread ban on the burkini
    97. How Western is the Bikini?
    98. Twitter 48 – Burkini
    99. Twitter 49 – Hollande
    100. Twitter 50 – Tormentone
    101. Twitter 51 – Maledette femmine disinvolte
    102. Costume Drama
    103. Patrick Weil : « Qu’on laisse en paix les femmes voilées » | L’Opinion
    104. Port du burkini: un débat futile, selon Trudeau
    105. Parlons… du “burkini”
    106. Quand le maillot faisait polémique
    107. Quasi quasi mi metto un burkini
    108. Le burkini, c’est sexy
    109. Message de Coluche pas sage : “Le burkini sur la plage – Y’a quelqu’un qui pourrait expliquer aux Musulmans dits modérés du Sud que Carnaval, ça se fête une seule fois dans l’année civile en France, le Mardi Gras ? Sinon j’m’ramène une plume au Q sur la plage et j’fais carnaval tous les jours comme eux, moi aussi !” !
    110. Das Burka-Getümmel
    111. Femminismo, Burkini e dichiarazioni delle donne CL – Alle radici del sessismo, o della cazzata mediatica del mese di agosto 2016
    112. Filosofia dell’anima e femminismo – Burkini
    113. La discussione sul burkini in spiaggia è una stronzata apocalittica.
    114. Io, donna ebrea, sto dalla parte del burkini. A una condizione
    115. Di burkini e di diritti
    116. Vamos à la playa
    117. Κάννες: 10 μουσουλμάνες μπήκαν με μπουρκίνι στη θάλασσα, παρά την απαγόρευση
    118. Γιατί οι Κάννες απαγόρευσαν το μαγιό-burka;
84. Fatwa 131471, Burkinis und die Welt

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