These plans will come to nothing if we truly learn from our grieving and our prayers during the 3 weeks of mourning and on Tisha B’Av. Ahavas Chinam will defeat sinas chinam, and our enemies will not be able to gain a toehold into our Land. HKB”H will see our unity and our love for one another, which is based on our love for Him and on our emunah, and He will honor our prayers, even if all of us have not yet “arrived” at our final destination within Yiddishkeit. No one will be able to put a wedge between any of us….even if a thousand careful analyses and plans are created to do just that.
During the first segment of this insightful radio show, Yehudah HaKohen interviews Zev Golan. Discussed are the roles played by the Jewish underground, the Irgun (Etzel) and Lechi (Stern Group), both of whom fought the British Empire in order to create the modern State of Israel. The standard line we read in most history books is that these were “terrorist” groups. However, the existential threats posed by the British, even their cooperation with the Nazis, is rarely discussed.
It is incorrect to claim that the State of Israel was “created by the U.N.” or G-d forbid, brought about as the result of the murder of over 6 million Jews by the Nazis. We were well on our way to establishing our nation once again. Serious efforts had begun in the mid and late 1800’s, and we had never let go of our longing for our homeland, as evidenced by our prayers claiming Jerusalem and Zion as our own at least 3 times a day for nearly 2,000 years prior to this beginning of our redemption. I believe the Nazi murders were a failed attempt by forces, human and otherwise, to abort our rebirth.
Do we give Pharoah any credit for our redemption from Mitzraim? No. Our prayers give credit where credit is due…HKB”H brought us out with a strong arm.
Do we claim that a King Cyrus brought about our regathering from Babylon? He was a willing instrument of HKB”H.
We recognize that HKB”H was the One in charge during those returns to Eretz Yisrael. How much more of a miracle is this third return…how much more should it be obvious to us, that He is still in charge??
B”H, we won back our land, stolen from us so long ago.
Recommended reading: Free Jerusalem by Zev Golan. Mordechai Taub provides political analysis at the 24.55 mark. It’s all good though.
No, I’m not recommending jumping a jihadi. Seems they have the corner on that market. I was jumping around from one jihadi story to the next today…it’s just amazing what a bunch of trouble these folks are stirring up and how wimpy Western democracies are in response. I think we’re stymied because we are under the impression that what we are confronting are religious fanatics, and whatever we do, we don’t want to stifle freedom of religion.
Get that out of your heads as fast as you can. Islam is not primarily a religion. It is an all-encompassing, all-controlling political system with an inseparable religious component to it. An article by Spengler at the Asia Times gives us some perspective on Islam, defining it as both a religion and a political ideology. Spengler cautions us that it is this combination which makes Islam dangerous.
Another way to view Islam can be found at Jihad Watch, in “Islam 101″ by Gregory M. Davis. In his words, it has been “transformed Islam from a relatively benign form of monotheism into an expansionary, military-political ideology that persists to this day.” It is easy to observe, in most cases, that Islam as it is interpreted and practiced today, can’t seem to live alongside or tolerate democratic, representative governments. These elements together make Islam in our day positively toxic.
This does not mean I hate Muslims. The system is the problem. Had I been alive when slavery was an accepted insitution, I would have been an abolitionist. Does that mean I would have hated people of African descent? If this is a comparison that seems a non-sequitur to you, just check this site out, and then watch some videos by Dr. Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, or Walid Shoebat. I have some here, or you can peruse the stock at Youtube, or Google Video, or get yourself some good books by any of them.
Islam, as it is packaged and sold by the jihadis, is not the ultimate society, in spite of it’s more fanatical adherents insistence. It is the ultimate fascism.
While last night had higher profile anti-Zionists and anti-Semites, what with Naomi Klein and Sid Ryan, tonight had greater righteous indignation of the “oppressed Fakestinians”.
Notably, with Jews visible in the audience, the audience was repeatedly told from the dias that no photography or recording of any type was allowed by anyone without “media clearance”.
On a number of occasions organizers tried to force me to depart with my camera, though I had not taken even one shot. i told them that when everyone with a cell-phone leaves or gives up their phone i will give up my camera too.
Later, during questions, organizers, ” security”, surrounded the area where visible Jews were seated. A Jew asked a question: “Is Hamas’s charter racist “? That question then become the focus of vitriole, the “security” closed in around the Jews, security then started to push the Jews, then the dias demanded that the Jew leave the room. The Jew replied out loud that he would not depart unless told to do so by the Police. They came in from the lobby, and that ensued.
While this went on, I pulled out my camera and started to shoot. All manner of people closed in around me, and tried to obscure my lens. I got a few shots, and left for the lobby to catch the newly-evicted Jews’ fate. Organizers were demanding my photos, and my name. They got neither, though it will be next to impossible to be anonymous tomorrow.
For my efforts, a Police Sergeant came up to me and pushed me out the front doors using his chest and flack-jacket against my chest. I asked him why i was being pushed out the doors and he said that. “you know why”. Why? Because I look Jewish? Because I was photographing the altercation started by the islamo-fascists? OR, because he is brown ? Oh, but I can’t make that silly, facetious, suggestion, all while being profiled myself ……….
Because they’re asking “allah” for a horrific destruction of 6 million Jewish souls, I suppose we’re not to construe this as Muslims threatening Israel. Hm. I wonder who they think “allah” would be using to carry out his will. Anybody with ideas…please comment.
You’ll hear that line of reasoning towards the bottom of this post, also found at Wikipedia’s article on the Islamic Thinkers Society. Glenn Beck interviews a guy named Jesse.
I.T.S. threatens jihad against America.
Muslim Day Parade, 2007. This doesn't look very friendly to me...
“May Allah rip out his spine from his back and split his brains in two, and then put them both back, and then do it over and over again. May He put this friend of shaytaan in the worst part of jahannum. Ameen.”
So, most of us have probably told someone to go to hell, and that is harsh. But I wouldn’t pursue legal action against someone who hopes I go to hell and says so. Hell, I might even laugh at him, slap him on the back. Hard.
Spencer might want to consider it on this one. Isn’t the above threat a bit over the top? I thought death threats weren’t protected speech? Or does the fact that these men pray out loud that their god will do these heinous acts protect them? Do they actually get to hide behind that, when their descriptions are so gruesome??
I was perusing Jihad Watch…and found some links hacked. Same with WorldNetDaily. I notified them, because I actually do believe in freedom of speech. I’m sure those sites are kept busy by the religion of peace. One of the links that was hacked was to a video of the man who called a woman he disagreed with a whore at an I.T.S. demonstration. I have embedded that video below. He is a Jewish convert to Islam. Sad. So very sad.
Meanwhile, broadcast news continues reporting mostly local soft news, love triangles and such, along with a few bank robberies, and murders. Okay. Some of that is important. I wish the love triangles could remain private matters. If I want to know about that sort of thing, I’ll watch Access Hollywood or read The Globe. But that’s just me…
Here’s a video on this that will really curl (or straighten, whatever you need) your hair.
These events aren’t newsworthy??
During the course of my reading today, I ran across another organization that keeps tabs on jihadist activities – Militant Islam Monitor.org. Very worthy of our attention.
We’re all watching each other these days aren’t we? Something’s gone haywire. Oh. Yeah. Our constitution isn’t being implemented. The one that the jihadists now openly tell Americans needs replacing with sharia (Islamic law) under a khalifate. That constitution. The constitution that our government officials take an oath to defend, along with “all enemies, both foreign and domestic”. Don’t these people, who call for our deaths, for the end of our chosen method of government –sound like enemies to you???
Below is a video and a photo one of the guy’s from I.T.S. calling a woman a whore. It can be clearly heard at the beginning of the video. In response, the woman tosses coffee on him. One of his buddies begins asking in a demanding tone, repeatedly, “Will you arrest her?” Several witnesses kept insisting that the man called the woman a whore.
This is so typical of Islamic behavior. They start the fight, the victim defends himself, herself, or in the case of groups, nations etc. they then go complaining about the response!! How about let’s not go picking fights guys??
The guy is a Jewish convert to Islam, a member of Islamic Thinker's Society, expressing his thoughts. He calls a woman he is arguing with a whore. Later, in the video, you'll here him call women who are speaking up on the first woman's behalf "children" and "filthy", and claiming they don't know how to have a discussion.
I leave you with a quote from my religion. “Pray for the welfare of the non-Jewish government, since were it not for the fear of it men would swallow each other alive.” (Avot 3:2 and Rashi’s commentary.)
