Yom Kipur

This one is a case for the religious fanatics detective, because it involves so much religious traditions and behavior its almost painfully clear how much better everyone will be without this. It seems that once again someone had attacked a Muslim institue, however this time its a little “off”.

A cemetery in Jaffa, Israel was desecrated on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kipur, and had the same features as the latest attacks on Mosques in the north of Israel, however it is strange since the day of Yom Kipur is, for religious Jews, a day in which you do nothing but pray in the synagog, meaning that they do not do any physical activity, including driving, eating, getting together and writing anything (the act of writing is prohibited, go figure).

So who was it that desecrated the graves? and why?, we can safely assume it was not religious Jews, however we can not rule out nationalistic Muslim hating non-religious Jews, many of whom are identified with the Israeli-Russian political party of Liberman, however this gets a little more complicated, since some of the writings in the cemetery had “death to the Russians” on them.

In the meanwhile it looks like anyone who is anyone is the Israeli politics is out of their way to show how shocked and upset they are, a strange thing when you realize that grave desecration is something that has been going on a long time before Israel even established itself as a country. The old Jewish cemetery on the Olive Mount in Jerusalem is desecrated on a usually monthly basis, most of the times the vandals are from the Arab villages around the cemetery, and they have been doing it for generations.

The act of desecrating graves is so common in the Arab world (inflicted upon non Muslim graves) that you can find it in almost any Arab country that has non Muslim graves. In Israel many cemeteries are equipped with electronic surveillance systems and guards, its almost crazy that this country needs to spend resources protecting the dead.

The bottom line here? Someone wants to get a religious war going, it can be secular Jews, religious Muslims or anyone in the middle, your guess is as good as mine.

jaffac — Who Wants to Start A Religious War?

Ramadan is one holy month, Muslims pray and fast all day to try and focus on the important things in life – according to Islam and its book.

This traditional partial fasting, very much like the Jewish “Yom Kipur”, is not an original thought but a duplication of an already common practice in the ancient world. By the time Islam was around humanity was better able to provide itself with food and shelter and could start to focus on self inflicted torture in order to please a bunch of gods or just one of them.

This “holy” month is slowly becoming synonymous with bloody violence that floods the Arab world from the beginning of the Ramadan to its end, targeted mainly towards fellow Muslims and for many different reasons. The highlight of this years Ramadan was the Libya events, in which (we are slowly discovering) participated some segments of the local Al-Quida branch who happily executed anyone who does not seem like a proper Muslim to them. The second spot goes to the events in the south of Israel, where it seemed for a minute that the peace agreement with Egypt will collapse as a result of a wide offensive against Israeli civilians from Egyptian territory.

But do not let these confuse you, there is a lot of violence in the Arab world, and its going about its normal business without much attnetion, these final days of Ramadan has seen bomb and suicide attacks in Pakistan, Iraq and Algeria, most of the attacks taking place inside places of worship.

It looks like someone out there thinks that if killing bad Muslims makes Alla happy, but doing that during Ramadan makes the almighty eternally pleased. Maybe it would be a better idea for Muslims to skip this month and not lose thousands of lives due to extra holiness attracting blood thirsty killers.

Israel Jaffa Graves Desecrated on Yom Kipur

This Crazy Month of Ramadan