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What Darkness Looms Ahead for Israel?

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In this past few years there has been a live, global, debate over the Iranian nuclear program and its potential meaning Israel, however this, as we all discover, is not the biggest threat to this country – but its own ignorant and anti democratic government and ministers.

The German celebrated author Gunter Grass had published a song that implies that Israel is the real threat to Iran and not the other way around, his song might suggest that Israel, with its vast nuclear arsenal of weapons is more a danger to Iran than Iran is to Israel. This is not the first time that a writer causes a minor disturbance by voicing a somewhat nothing to do with reality concern (since it is exclusively Iran that consistently calls for the destruction of Israel and promises its demise), but here this guy gets some special treatment for Israel’s interior minister, Eli Yishai.

Eli Yishai is Israel’s interior minister, he is the head of a movement which prides itself as a Sfaradi Jewish traditionalists, and of which a few prominent figures have spent, or are currently spending, some time in Israel penitentiaries as penalties for corrupt behavior. There is little doubt that Yishai is learned in the rules and laws of the Jewish religion, however he seems to have not taken any of this democratic ideas to heart.

And Mr. Yishai has decided that since Mr. Grass had published his legitimate opinion over Israel, in a poem that he wrote, that he will not be allowed to visit Israel and will be considered a persona non grata. In a move that is outrageously ignorant and unimaginably dangerous the (no less than) minister of interior of the state of Israel is banning someone because of his opinion, oh the dark future that looms over Israel if this man continues to dictate his totalitarian bolshevism and bars important voices from singing out in Israel.

What Is More Dangerous For Israel- Iranian Nukes or Eli Yishai

Easter & Passover Are All Just Food for Atheism

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Easter Eggs Reverse Atheism?

Religious holidays, that is one time in the year that people who feel and think that religion is, at best, silly and not helpful in the progress of the human race, where atheists might find themselves in trouble. On the one hand there are many nice and fun traditions that are tied into the religious meaning of the holiday, and on the other following those traditions might suggest that the atheist is not so much against religion.

Lets try and make this easy. Atheism in its core is the rejection of the existence of gods, directly following that it is a contemporary objection to organized religion and those who profit from making other believe or follow a certain religion. This blog is trying to point out the many current day injustices and problems caused by all religions, however it does not go after the believers and followers, and this we do not do simply because everyone has a right to believe whatever they want, and they are also free to worship and practice, just as long as they do not force anyone to do so, or hurt anyone in the process.

Traditions are not exclusive to religions, some people have their own Monday night Football tradition which they follow much more strictly than they do Christmas. There is absolutely nothing wrong with an atheist hiding Easter eggs in the garden for his children to look for, especially if the egg hunt is a part of their persons culture and childhood memories. This is the moment where one keeps traditions for his or hers own sake and abandons the symbolic religious meaning that comes with it.

Many might be surprised to find out that even though it seems that many of the traditions we follow have been practiced the same way for (at least) hundreds of years, most of the religious traditions are new and modern, lasting for 200-300 years at best. So there should be no fear of “breaking” the chain, or changing things, simply because our forefathers have done the same, over and over again.

Have a fun weekend, enjoy your family and friends, eat a big Mazza Ball and delicious chocolate Easter eggs, and remember to tell everyone you meet that you love the tradition but reject the hold religion has on it.

Passover Brings You Closer to the Men Made God?

Viking Massacred a 1,000 Years Ago Tell Us Something

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Vikings were also victims of group hate

One can easily find the random mention of barbaric behavior in todays papers around the world, most of it directed towards the distant past, religious persecutions, witch hunts and the ordinary wars between different clans and countries. It is important to remind ourself that in evolutionary terms, only a few hundred years ago humans were very busy with burning and massacring each other for a very wide verity of reasons.

The obvious and notorious reasons are religion and territory but there are plenty of other crimes that were carried out, in a kind of mundane every day life sort of way, that a person living in modern times does not think about, but happily for us we have archeology to remind us of things that happened, and exploring those events shows us just how brutal the human animal can be.

St. Brice’s Day Massacre was an organized killing of Vikings (Danish people mostly) in England at around the year 1,001, the king had thought he had found a plot to kill him and so he ordered his loyal subjects to murder and “exterminate” any viking they could find, and they did so with great pleasure.

This did happen a thousand years ago (as the story in the link goes) and it clearly shows that any type of “other” group in any country was vulnerable to these kinds of attacks and under the constant threat of extermination for one reason or the other, it was not only the Catholics, or the Protestants or the Jews or Muslims, black yellow or white toned skins people who suffered but alsmot anyone who was not in the standard of his location.

Lets hope that we have progressed as we should have in the last millennia to distance ourself from such actions and thoughts.

 

Not All Burqas Are Equal

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This video speaks so loud for itself that it seems that there is no need to add words here, however – for the sake of making this perfectly clear… lets say a few things.

Notice how enraged the non burqa wearing man gets, only for assuming that the person under that black curtain is not a woman and maybe not even be Muslim. This fine group of Australian people have come up with a brilliant way of exposing some of what people in the Muslim community actually think – and that it is only permissible to wear a burqa if you are of the Muslim faith, and that if you are a Muslim woman no one is allowed to even question that right, however if you are not Muslim and not a woman you are not allowed to wear this clothing.

Also note how the angry young man is saying to one of the guys in the burqa “don’t tell us what to do” while no one is telling him how to act or what to do, he is the one that, for some reason, thinks that just because he does not like a non muslim australian man to wear a black piece of cloth and walk around the city that his forefathers built anyone would be forced to comply.

This is a sad testimony to how far things have developed in many counties around the world where many muslims believe that it is the duty of western society to please them and comply with any of their stone age wishes, too bad for them that some people are smart enough to expose that.