SPECIALS
Lenin
In Meltdown or bells from hell
July 29th, 2008

Soon you won’t be able to remember the Sixties even if you were there.
Deputies of the city council of Lutsk, Ukraine, have decided to remelt its
Lenin monument into church bells, the council press-service reports.
Since he was dismantled in 1991, Lenin has been stored by the local council.
But now he will be transferred to Novovolynsk Foundry for smelting.
Apparently, ‘Bells from Lenin’ will go to Holy Spirit Cathedral and
Ascension Church, the parishes of which have already submitted the required
applications.
The funny part is, of course, that religion, ‘the opium of the people’,
should become the beneficiary of bolshevism. Or is this what they call
‘divine retribution’ ?
This particular Lenin monument in Lutsk was erected amid cheering,
flag-waving pioneers, in honour of the 50th Anniversary of the October
Revolution.
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a lesson on religious tolerance
Miss
Carnivorous
I received a lesson on
religious tolerance from a Hindu liquor
store owner. On Sunday I walked around the corner to the store to buy soda.
The store owner asked me if I had been to church.
"No," I said. "I am not
religious, I don't believe in God."
"You don't believe in
God?" he asked disbelievingly. "So you are an athiest!"
"Pretty much," I
replied.
"Did your mother never
read you the bible?" he asked.
"Sure she did, but I
thought it was silly." "Don't you think that Noah's ark stuff is silly?" I
blabbered, running off at the mouth as usual "I mean, Adam and Eve and all
that mumbo jumbo, it's just silly!"
He ducked his head and
blushed. "I don't know if it's silly," he said shyly. Clearly he did not
think it was at all silly. Looking very uncomfortable he asked "Would you
like to come to temple with my wife and daughter and me?"
"No thank you, " I said
and went home, feeling very foolish and yes, silly. I guess I thought he
would agree with me about the bible, he being a Hindu. Instead I felt I had
been very rude to denigrate the bible in his presence.
Yesterday I processed a
book on Hinduism, it stated that Hindus have a profound respect for other
religions and believe in one supreme God. They believe that everyone should
follow their own path to God, even if that means practicing a religion other
than Hinduism.
Of course the Hindus kill
a hell of a lot of Muslims, but then Muslims can be very provoking!
Miss
Carnivorous
LIAR
Yesterday I went to the liquor store across the street
and pointed to the Danish ham in the refrigerator case and told the Muslim
clerk to "Give me the infidel swine please."
He choked out a laugh and took out the ham. The he looked at it and
said,"It's no good."
"Liar," I said. "You just don't want me to have it. Ok, give me the turkey
then."
Tuesday 12/06/2007
Attack on St Mary’s Church, Dakhlia
Neferteeti
Two children entered St Mary’s church in Dakhlia during a church meeting and
started to throw rocks at the congregation. Shortly after, there were calls
from the surrounding mosques urging Muslims to act. A number of Muslims
armed with rocks, knives and small weapons as well as bottles filled with
acid, congregated around the church and threw the rocks and bottles at the
church building.
Security forces have intervened and have cordoned off the area around El
Geish street, Dakhlia. The clashes continue with some Muslims threatening
police with the acid filled bottles from the balconies of some buildings in
the area.
Reports from some residents of the area in question confirm there have been
injuries resulting from the attack. Furthermore, it is reported that some
Muslims are roaming the surrounding streets armed with acid filled bottles,
calling out to Coptic residents to come down to the street!
Neferteeti
06 JUNE 2007
An American in Southeast Asia Lao
Silence as Indonesian Churches
Attacked

Just imagine for a moment the outrage in the United States and the Western
media if a mosque in a Western country was attacked and stormed by Christian
extremists during a religious service. I think it goes without mention that
every news reporting agency in the United States would be on the story
covering it from every possible angle.
Now imagine for a moment what would happen if a Christian church in a Muslim
majority country was attacked and stormed by Muslim extremists during a
religious service.
**crickets chirp**
That's just what happened this past Sunday in Indonesia.
In the most recent attack, dozens of unidentified people Sunday broke into
Sidang Jemaat Allah church at Gading Tutuka complex in Soreang, Bandung
forcing church-goers, including 15 children, to stop their religious
activities, which they have conducted weekly since 2000.
The attackers allegedly forced their way into the church at 9.30am Sunday, hit
the Reverend's wife over the head with a bible and forced the children's
Sunday School activity to stop.
Reverend Robby Elisa, who heads the church, said around 100 hardliners
attacked while Sunday school was in session. He said his wife was beaten and
that at least four stained glass depictions of Jesus were smashed.
"The men forced a teenage student to spit on the Bible and deny Christ. But
when he refused they kicked him in the gut... They sent the kids outside
screaming and crying."
In the end, not one newpaper or television station has reported on the story.
Kind of makes you wonder now doesn't it?
An American Expat in Southeast
Asia
Lao
March 10, 2007
Egyptian Blogger Abdel Karim Suleiman Did Not Blow Himself Up in a Train
Station

As an Egyptian fellow blogger I stand with Karim, because I will never side
with processes meant to terrorize innocent citizens who are exercising their
innate right to freedom of expression and because I will never be part of a
tribunal of inquisition in the 21st century. Those tribunals judged
arbitrarily and without appeal like the current Emergency Laws and military
courts applied in Egypt.
During the Middle Ages between the 5th and the 15th centuries, the Catholic
Church was not only a religious institution, but also an immensely rich
financial establishment that interferes and influences politics in the West.
The largest Sunni religious institution in Egypt and the Middle East, Al-Azahr,
has the right to give its say in politics and referring people accused of
heresy to courts and prisons. If the measure cannot be damaging enough to send
people to prisons like Egyptian blogger Abdel Karim, an irreversible Fatwa
(religious opinion) can lead an Islamic fanatic or extremist to put an end to
a person exercising his freedom of expression by spilling his blood. The
Cairo-based religious institution is financed by the government and their
employees are civil servants.
It is worth mentioning that during the Middle Ages the more economic and
political power and influence of the Church have increased, the more its
genuine religious and spiritual strength has weakened. It is clear that Egypt
is showing less tolerance and spirituality over the dominance of more support
to terrorist ideology that does not believe in supporting basic human rights
like freedom of expression. Back in the eleventh century, the Catholic Church
made the gradual change from the spiritual to worldly matters with institution
of tribunal of Inquisition. Religion had to be imposed and enforced with the
appointment of unqualified and misappropriate men of the holy orders which
became a matter of inheritance that led to the degeneration of the spiritual
life. Many of them did not know how to read and had forgotten how to say a
mass. In Egypt today, informal mosques became a job for the unempolyed
uneducated people to release fatwas and earn a living through people’s “Zakat”
and donations. These tax-free informal mosques attract unemployed Egyptians
and non-Egyptians. Any male, who volunteers to stay from dawn to sun set and
call for prayers, is qualified to release fatwas and be a politician, if
needed, to decide on terrorizing Egyptians before non-Egyptians and judging
the level of their faith and spirituality.
Egyptian blogger Abdel Karim did not wear a suicidal belt around his waist or
threaten to blow up himself in malls or metro stations. Abdel Karim was like
any normal person in any free country, he worked out his mind to think about
issues in life as any young budding youth. He put his ideas on his blog. In
the civilized world, ideas can be always argued or refuted but never killed.
Needless to say that human are in continuous process of evolution at the
intellectual, emotional and psychological levels and that interrupting these
processes is totally against the laws of nature. Abdel Karim was made a
criminal and terrorist by his Al-Azhar University in collaboration with the
government and state security agencies. He was made a terrorist in the eyes of
the society by Al-Azahr Institution. By sentencing Abdel Karim to 4 years, he
is denied the right to grow and develop. It is worth mentioning here that
Al-Azhar fails to make straight forward condemnation for the real terrorists
who blow up themselves, killing innocent people but it succeeds to bring a
four year sentence to a 22-year old innocent student to trial.
This Monday, on March 12 in Alexandria, Egypt, will be the first session of
appeal for Egyptian blogger Abdel Karim. The world is watching one of the
tribunals of Inquisition happening in Egypt in the 21st century. Karim was
sentenced to four years in prison for insulting the religion and the President
of Egypt.
Freedom For
Egyptians
Egyptian Person
Mohammed Al-Badrashin
2000 Egyptian citizens (it seems they all happen
to be men) who in the past have traveled to work in Israel and over there they
also got married to Israeli women, then at some point they returned to Egypt
with their Israeli wives and,for some reason , most of them chose to live in one
neighborhood in Alexandria, the "Monasra" neighborhood.
So what is the problem?
Mohammed Al-Badrashin, who is a candidate in the
current parliamentary elections and also a current member of the parliament, and
who happens to be a Nasserist (a follower of Nasser legacy), is running in the
electoral circuit that the Monasra neighborhood follows. He presented a request
for the Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif, to remove the names of those 2000 Egyptians
from the voters list (i.e. making them ineligible to vote), and stated that
their votes would be "invalid" simply because they lived in Israel for some time
and because they are married to Israeli women.
By the way, the Israeli women in question are
from the "1948 Arabs", in other words they are Palestinians who chose to remain
within Israeli territory and receive the Israeli nationality after Israel was
established in 1948. This means they are probably not Jewish, but if they were,
that would have made things in Egypt even worse for them and their husbands.
Not only that, but Al-Badrashin went as far as
stating that since it is possible those men have acquired the Israeli
citizenship, then Egypt has to renounce “such people", in other words he is
saying Egypt need to revoke their citizenship, even though the laws of Egypt
allows multinationalities for an individual.
I haven't seen any news about what happened with
Al-Badrashin's request, but this shows how this parliament member thinks of his
fellow citizens who are excercising their rights, and who chose to live and get
married in a country that has a peace treaty with Egypt that was signed 26 years
ago. It is not surprising though, probably most people in Egypt will agree with
Al-Badrashin's request.
Egyptian Person