| Ramadan: The month of fasting, prayer, and murdering Jewsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 23 Mar 04:45 AM It's Ramadan, and we all know what that mean | | It's Ramadan, and we all know what that means: it is a month that we have come to expect jihadists to violently attack their enemies. And, when the infidels and dhimmis respond, the Islamists instantly change from brave warrior to babies, crying about how immoral it is for others to attack them on their holy month. (And so do their useful idiots.)
It is a dynamic that everyone expects, yet hardly any Western media outlet dares point out the hypocrisy.
One exception was a Christian Science Monitor article from 2003 that noted and explained the phenomenon: For Islamic militants, Ramadan allows them not only to reaffirm their religious observance but to strengthen their political ideological convictions as well. "Ramadan is a month of commitment and renewal to their faith and also to their cause, whether by military or nonmilitary jihad," says Prof. Nizar Hamzeh, a specialist on political Islam at the American University of Beirut. "It is a month of martyrdom and commitment to one's Islamic ideology." Throughout Islamic history, Ramadan has been seen as a time of victory for Muslim armies - and a period when those who are martyred have a greater assurance of a place in paradise. You can't say that nowadays. It is true, of course, but journalists are too afraid of being accused of Islamophobia to report on what everyone...Read More |
From Ian: Democrats vs. the Jews For those who want to look away: Imagine what our grandparents and great-grandparents—staunch Democrats from the moment they hit Ellis Island—would think about this. Imagine what John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King Jr.—both ardent Zionists—would say. As a lifelong independent, I don't understand how any Jew can remain in the Democratic Party after this. I don't buy the "we will work from within" excuse, because look how well that turned out. To those of us who believe that this version of the Democratic Party needs to die—that it will never return to classical liberalism—this poll just confirms the obvious. But the fact is that if every Jew and those who claim to not be antisemitic left the party over this, the party would die. Three-quarters of American Jews—5.7 million—identify as Democrats. We're seeing the damage caused by a pro-terrorist Democratic Party on a near-hourly basis. From House Democrats voting to block funding of Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system in 2021 to the multitude of missteps by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the continued funding of Islamist terrorism in Judea and Samaria, what more do the Democrats need to do to show where their loyalty lies? Yes, disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced he is launching an organization called "Progressives for Israel." But talk to anyone who lived through Cuomo's vicious and self...Read More |
Can "The Whole World" Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihadis a book that makes you shake your head a lot. You just can't believe how stupid people are. The stupid things they say and do to make themselves feel better about themselves; the stupid things and the lies they say that allow them to hate Jews and look the other way at the jihadists who target the liars, their loved ones, and their way of life. It's hard to watch—you want to look away from this slow, global, own-goal suicide. But the author, Professor Richard Landes, has made this work so compelling, you have no choice but to continue reading, even when, as a sane person, it leaves you, the reader, feeling rather queasy. Richard Landes The book takes its title from the words of two men on the subject of blood libels, issued a century apart. There are the mocking words of writer Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginsburg), who in 1897, echoing the oft-expressed sentiment by European non-Jews when confronted with proof that, no. Jews don't use the blood of Christian babies in the manufacture of matzah: "Is it possible the whole world is wrong and the Jews are right?" Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginsburg) In 2002, A little more than 100 years later, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, referring to Israeli denials of a massacre in Jenin that never occurred, said, "I don't think the whole world, including the friends of the Israeli people...Read More |
I was browsing Google Books looking for the use of the term "Palestinian Talmud"when I came across an 1883 work, "The Mishnah on which the Palestinian Talmud Rests; Edited for the Syndics of the University Press from the Unique Manuscript Preserved in the University Library of Cambridge, Add. 470. 1" by William Henry Lowe, a Hebrew lecturer at Christ's College. This edition of the Mishna has little to do with the Jerusalem ("Palestinian") Talmud. It is a transcription of a 15th century manuscript of the Mishnah at Cambridge, one of the earliest complete such manuscripts.
Lowe chose to write the entire work using "Rashi" script, rather than the usual Hebrew scripts. But that isn't the weirdest part.
Lowe wrote the Hebrew title page, and the Hebrew introduction, in the style of Jewish works of scholarship, to the extent that he refers to the decidedly non-Jewish Christ's College becomes "The Beit Medrash for the Group of the Messiah."
Here are the English and Hebrew title pages: Lowe even lists the (Hebrew) publication year (5)643 by using the gematria of a Hebrew Biblical phrase the way Jewish scholars do, using a verse from Psalms 102:14 which happens to be quite Zionist: "You will surely arise and take pity on Zion, for it is time to be gracious to her; the appointed time has come."
His dedication page and introduction are likewise in the style of Jewish scholars...Read More |
From Ian: Academics miraculously criticize the 'Golden Age' myth of Muslim empire "If you are looking for a Golden Age, talk to the people that have the gold. For the rest of the people, it's probably not that golden," said University of Colorado-Boulder religious studies professor Brian Aivars Catlos. Along with other panelists, Catlos' discussion of medieval Muslim society in the Mediterranean during a recent webinar offered some remarkably serious critique—along with the usual platitudes—which was much in contrast to the usual glorification of alleged Islamic tolerance and pluralism. With his coauthors, Catlos discussed his new book The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650. The host for "Integrating European and Islamic History in the Medieval Mediterranean" was Georgetown University's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU). This Saudi-sponsored entity, along with its director, John L. Esposito, who moderated, usually engages in incessant Islamist apologetics. "Two things you won't find in our book are moralizing and nostalgia. We tried to present things, warts and all. No one gets a free pass. This isn't a book that looks back to some Golden Age of intercommunal harmony," Catlos said in a refreshing change from ACMCU's usual pablum. "There is a constant background of violence to all history," he added, and...Read More |
Raja Abdulrahim wrote an article in today's New York Times that is ostensibly about how difficult Israel is making it for Muslim artisans to repair damage from clashes on the Temple Mount. From start to finish, the article is a very sophisticated piece of anti-Israel propaganda.
The propaganda begins in the headline: According to the headline, the "Al Aqsa Mosque" and the "Temple Mount" are two names for the same thing. While the article itself says "Al Aqsa Mosque compound" this is part of a relatively new campaign by Muslims to rename the entire Mount as "Al Aqsa Mosque," the third holiest site in Islam, a holy place for Muslims, and not just the mosque itself which is now referred to as the "Al Qibli Mosque." Up until recent years, the Waqf called the building the Al Aqsa Mosque and the compound the Haram al-Sharif. At a workshop on the edge of the Aqsa Mosque compound, Muhammad Rowidy spends hours hunched over panes of stained glass, painstakingly carving through white plaster to reveal geometric designs. While he works, there is a thought he can't shake. "You see this," he said, pausing and leaning back, "this takes months to finish, and in one minute, in one kick, all this hard work goes." The "one kick" is a clear reference to Israeli security as being the source of damage to the stained...Read More |
Kotel, circa 1920
According to Palestinian media, the League of Arab States declared that the 1930 international commission that declared that Muslims had legal ownership of the Western Wall is still true, and the Western Wall - as well as the plaza in front of it - is all Muslim Waqf land where Jews have no legal rights.
While US and European leaders have fallen over themselves to condemn Bezalel Smotrich for saying that the Palestinian people are a recent invention, saying that statements like that are inflammatory, there is silence in both diplomatic circles and the media about the Arabs denying any rights of Jews to the very place that they have prayed towards for thousands of years.
Selective outrage is the norm, of course. Arabs are expected to say inflammatory, inciting and false statements - they do this every day - but only Jews are expected to speak in measured tones and not to plainly state the truth if it might upset the touchy Arabs.
But there is a very interesting angle to the newfound Palestinian love of the 1930 Western Wall Commission report. (They made it clear at the time that they do not accept that the Commission has any legal right to rule on the issue.) If you look closer at the specific Muslim claims in 1930 quoted in the Commission report, you find out that according to their logic at the time, Israel is the legal owner today not...Read More |
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