India can be proud of its brave defenders of freedom and democracy.
The Jihadi gangs may seem to win some battles, but not the war.
The world's largest democracy, India, which unites so many faiths and cultures, is a beacon to the rest of the world.
3 of the 14 brave Indian police murdered by fanatical Jihadi gangsters in Mumbai on Wednesday, 11-26-08.
Along with over 150 other victims, including 5 Jewish people singled out in the Chabad Lubavitch Center and Synagogue, in South Mumbai - which shows the consistent anti-semitic ideology of such JIhadi gangs.
The infant son of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, was saved.
We can see which Muslims really stand for humanity and freedom by their reaction to this atrocity.
Those who confront Jihadi ideology and atrocities, where-ever they occur, are true allies of the rest of humanity.
Those who deny that any Muslims commit atrocities, or that Muslims have any responsibility to repudiate and resist such gangs in their midst, even tho' such Jihadis claim to act in the name of Islam, are also our common enemy.
It is that simple.
The first victims of Jihadi gangs are often fellow Muslims, as in the Casablance and Bali bombings, the Amman Hotel massacre, the murders of President Anwar Sadat and Benazir Bhutto.
We have a COMMON enemy and all those who choose to deny that reality thereby make themselves allies of the Jihadis, and also enemies.
The Jihadi Sharks always need a tolerant Sea in which to prey on their innocent victims.
The time for denial or ambiguity or excuses is over.
Sarah Louise Palin, 44, Governor of Alaska, and the Commander-in-Chief of
[a] the Alaskan Air National Guard,
[b] the Alaskan Army National Guard, and
[c] the ASDF - the Alaskan State Defence Force.
And mother of Private Track Palin, 1Stryker Bde, 25 Infantry Division, now deploying to Iraq.
**The hope of two thousand years
To be a free nation in our land**
And why should only the speakers of Hebrew be denied either -
that basic and universal hope ?
Or their re-birth as a vibrant and creative people in their one and only historic homeland ?
Or its enjoyment in peace and security ?
Or within secure and recognized boundaries ?
After 6 years on Hoa Loa Prison, he can handle 4 in the White House.
The real ex-USN Capt John S. McCain, and the POW who refused early release from his North Vietnamese Communist torturers unless all those captured after him were also released. A bit different from having Rev Jeremiah **God Damn America** as your self-confessed friend, pastor and counsellor. There may be a lot more than skin-color, or years, that separates John and Obama. What price character and courage ? And who does Hamas or Hizb-ALLAH prefer ?
Niko,
Tzipi was not only a Lt in the IDF but then served 4 years in Mossad. She might like to try out her Krav Maga in a spot of un-armed combat, so do be careful. Be very very careful. I know you like taller women, but this one wont come armed with only a guitar.
Hope so - but no guarantee when.
But, as WW I Chaplain **Woodbine Willy** put it -
**The grey clouds are lies. They cannot last. The blue sky is the truth**.
And 2 questions cannot, of themselves, make an answer. There remain questions to which no soul-mate can ever be a substitute for a personal answer, and some where mystery never disappears.
Daphna Edwards Ziman is an Israeli-born, LA producer [ Edwards Entertainment Intl ], philanthropist and founder and volunteer Chair of CUN [ Children Uniting Nations ] which recruits caring adults as mentors for inner-city children-at-risk. She found that the virulent anti-semitic diatribe is not confined to Obama's pastor and close friend of 2 decades, Rev Jeremiah **God damn America** Wright, in Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Another African-American clergyman, Rev Eric P. Lee, who also just happens to be Greater LA CEO/President of SCLC [ Southern Christian Leadership Conference - founded in 1957 by Rev Dr. Martin Luther King ], delivered another such bigoted and racist attack - as keynote speaker at an awards ceremony [by Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity ] which honored Daphna for her work for African-American children. Lee, instead of taking responsibility for reducing the serious crime rates within his own constituency, blamed yes the Jews [the eternal scapegoats ] for the bad image of his own community - **as rapists and murderers**. And blamed Jews for exploiting them - **economically enslaving them** - in the music business.
When slavery was abolished in the USA, and for many decades afterwards, the ancestors of most Amercian Jews were still suffering savage pogroms in many parts of the Tzarist Russian Empire. Their good fortune in the USA today is the result of hard work and talent - over many generations. And the life of Daphna Ziman is one more example of how the Jewish people have never lost their burning sense of social concern and activism. In the USA they do not even vote their pocket- they still vote Democrat to the order of perhaps 80% or more. That social commitment has also been global - with Jewish voices among the loudest in defending the non-Arab people of Darfur in SW Sudan as they face ongoing genocide - perhaps 200,000 massacred todate - and was also expressed in the crucial role of Jewish activists in Trade Unions, and in so many movements for political and social reform. Even if such racist stereotyping were not totally unjustifiable, and also an incitement to hatred, the last category against whom global charges of exploitation could conceivably be levelled would be the Jewish people.
Could Lee's motivation in his attack have been at all colored by his own endorsement of Obama [on the night Lee thanked Jesus for Obama who was going to be the leader of the world, as well as referring to **white supremacy**, and lauding Malcolm X immediately after mentioning Dr King - as if they were not polar opposites ] ? Daphna happens to be a strong and public supporter of Senator Clinton.
Whatever about any such angle, it is seriously disturbing that figures like Wright and Lee are preaching black racism and anti-semitism, as well as spewing hatred for their own country [ Lee, echoing Wright, demeaned being granted freedom in a country which **kills women and children** ]. But perhaps not so surprising when you recall Wright's admiration for the anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan, or Lee's invocation of Malcolm X. It is even more concerning that people with this mentality regard Obama as so worthy of their enthusiastic support - but then he sat silently for 20 years in Wright's church, and never objected to any of the outlandish and indeed outrageous sermons.
No wonder so many Democrats already state they will vote for Senator John S. McCain if faced with Obama as the Democratic nominee this year.
Can anyone seriously doubt that Dr. King would have abandoned his principles and embraced a racist **black power** ideology which is in essence opposed to his commitment to universal human rights, and substitutes racial identity for human solidarity ? The contrast between the PAC [ Pan-African Congress ] in South Africa, with their vile **one settler, one bullet** slogan, and Nelson Mandela, could not have been greater. In both cases, the issue is about equal rights and equal opportunity, not about separation or identity or power, based on color. The land where Dr. Condi Rice is Secretary of State, and was formerly Princeton Provost, and where her Cabinet predecessor was Gen Colin Powell, and formerly Chair of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff, is no land of **white supremacy**, but as with the tyrant Mugabe in Zimbabwe, scapegoats are often useful.
And casting the Jewish people in that role did not begin or end with Hitler.
As the great Greek poet, Constantine Cavafy [1864-1933] reminded us, in his **Waiting for The Barbarians**,
**And some who have just returned from the border say:
there are no barbarians any longer.
And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians ?
They were, those people, a kind of solution**.
A brave woman of indomitable spirit, abused by uncles as a young girl, and now threatened by Islamicist fanatics, but she willl never surrender. Like Irshad Manji, Wafa Sultan, Ayann Hirsi Ali, and many many more.
But where are all the men ?
Exiled from her native Bangladesh, since 1994, for her **crime** of speaking freely in her writings. This feminist, 45, who describes herself as a secular humanist, is a newspaper, columnist, poet, novelist and autobiographer, as well as a physician and gynocologist.
Taslima who spreads and defends her ideas only with her pen, not with a Jihadi sword or bomb.
Freedom is indivisible , and the latest victim of Jihadi thuggery is Taslima Nasreen, 45, a doctor and writer, several of whose books were banned in her native Bangla Desh and is now forced to leave India due to lack of Government protection from threats. The Communist regime in West Bengal, where she had sought refuge, also banned a work of hers. Her health has suffered and she is now in exile in Europe. Another brave woman, like Benazir Bhutto.
Tempora mutant, et nos mutamur illis.
But how awkward that family photographs do not decay as quickly [ or cannot be as easily dissolved ] as family bonds ..
Not much sign of **diversity** or **inclusiveness** or **pluralism** or **multi-culturalism** or **intur-culturalism** here.
But just as Herr Hitler in 1925-6 openly provided his manifeto, **Mein Kampf** [and Kampf can translate **Jihad** ] , 13 years before he launched World War II, and his genocidal Holocaust, but nonetheless was not recognised as a serious threat at the time, we have been warned. This is about violent conquest, not just voluntary conversion. And decent democratic Muslims, like all other democrats, have to choose. To remain silent is also a choice - it leaves the field to the most ruthless.
Who dares, wins.
