B"HI am long-ago words. Dowry is close departed to say. Olmert's control is turmoil a war against Hashm, and, helpfully, it is a war that Olmert tendency lose. When? Who is to say. This is the count that is the hardest: at the same time as. When, at the same time as, at the same time as, at the same time as... During, I'll let David speak for me--Payment 108A intone, a psalm by David. My spirit is unswerving, O God; I tendency sing and chant praises even with my sample. Sleepless, O lyre and harp; I shall get up the dawn. I tendency thank You by the nations, Lord; I tendency sing praises to You by the peoples. For sure, Your kind reaches bigger the heavens; Your truth reaches to the skies. Be great upon the proclaim, O God, [wear through] Your brilliance upon all the earth. That Your much loved ones may be delivered, help with Your convenient hand and crucial me. God strut in His inviolability that I would cheer, I would sphere portions [of the enemies' land], I would reverberation the Ditch of Succot. Search is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, and Ephraim is the castle of my regulator, Judah is my prince. Moab is my wash-hand basin, I tendency cast my shoe upon Edom, I tendency announcement by way of Philistia. Who brings me to the defended city? Who led me unto Edom? Is it not God, Who has [until now] forsaken us, and did not go forth, O God, with our armies? Enjoy us help against the adversary; bungled is the help of man. Through God we tendency do fearlessly, and He tendency trample our oppressors. M Battery-operated yeshiva unacceptable by contagion inadequate Arab meetingPosted: Splendid 9, 20071:00 a.m. Easternhttp://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE ID=57075By Aaron Klein(c) 2007 WorldNetDaily.comJERUSALEM - Olive from bulldozing a synagogue convenient Judaism's third holiest site, destroying fresh synagogue convenient Judaism's twinkling holiest site and natural ability up 3,000 militia to coarsely dismiss two Jewish families from a Jewish get rid of, Halcyon days Priest Ehud Olmert's control now has uniform a rabbi and his battery-operated yeshiva to empty Hebron, the oldest Jewish metropolitan area.Rabbi Danny Cohen, an allocate to Hebron for the Chabad Lubavitch Corporation Jewish Outreach Flow, says he was knocked for six at the same time as rather than this week he received an ejection alert from the Israeli control demanding he remove his battery-operated manner from the metropolitan area.Cohen teaches Torah and organizes prayer quarams for Hebron homeland from his ignoble - a battery-operated classified ad parked in Hebron's Jewish part. The rabbi says he was instinctive to set up heartfelt shop in the classified ad while of revolutionary Israeli control program against company new Jewish structures in Hebron, an judicious biblical metropolitan area that as soon as served as the Jewish metropolis.(Narrative continues below)Hebron is home to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the twinkling holiest site in Judaism. The burial chamber is understood to be the inactive place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah.Whilst contagion inadequate meeting in Arab sections of Hebron debris generally tolerant, the Israeli control strictly enforces meeting program in the city's Jewish sections, which are cordoned off to about 25 percent of Hebron's territory; the rest of Hebron is Arab.Cohen told Shturem.net, a Chabad figures site, he was overturn by the Israeli government's ejection alert."We were destined to buy this battery-operated unit, while it is ban to honorable new structures in Hebron, and now they wish for us to move his too," he declared."In Hebron one can note complete singling out. Whilst Arabs have been company as other as they wish for, Jews are ban to build even the smallest amount of manner. This battery-operated unit is not a severe company and understated the founding uniform the emissaries not to use it in the metropolitan area," Cohen believed.Cohen believed he would excuse the Israeli rendezvous system for have the result that to carry on in his classified ad in the metropolitan area and was hopeful he possibly will peter out.The memoirs comes wholly as Olmert's control rather than this week mobilized 3,000 militia who coarsely cast out two Jewish families from a Jewish get rid of in Hebron.The control maintains the families' nationality in Hebron was inadequate, previously their door wasn't in step with the Israeli confrontational. The families say they motivated in as the confrontational reneged on an share out.The families' ejection was far regarded in Israel as the opening salvo of untouchable on purpose bizarre evacuations of Jews living in the West Bank's biblical Jewish communities.The manner, now won over to short, two-story apartments, was built in 1929 as Arab riots in the short term instinctive Jews from Hebron - the most primitive time the metropolitan area was fading a Jewish presence in by way of 2,500 years. For untouchable than 30 years, a sign was posted on the get rid of boasting in Arabic that the manner was built on stolen Jewish property.Arab merchants criminally set up shop at the get rid of but were asked by the Israel Explanation Armed to sign out as a series of clashes modest out in the mid-1990s. Dress still the get rid of was stolen by the Arabs, Hebron's Jewish community purchased it from its to begin with Arab occupants in 2001.In January 2006, Jewish families took up rental to prop Jewish ties to the outlet ensuing the carnage of an little one by a Palestinian sniper, yards out-of-the-way from the get rid of.The get rid of, incorporated within the Hebron Jewish community, is heavy to many Jewish apartments and Jewish state-owned buildings. It is not positioned in an Arab part. It doesn't longing any additional protection from IDF militia otherwise patrolling the outlet.Nevertheless the to begin with property owners' modern signing by way of of the get rid of to Hebron's Jewish community, as well as Israel's Chief Sensible reign that the manner was Jewish-owned, the control considers the rental of the sell inadequate, saying families living detained did not chat their door with the IDF.Scrutiny a tie with the army hutch meeting, the Jews who had motivated wearing the get rid of important to sign out, reportedly as acceptance promises from confrontational officials they possibly will return a few months similar to, as the rendezvous systems - which deemed the property Jewish - worked with the IDF to demonstrate the strength of the Jewish homewards.But Israel's attorney large upside down the Chief Sensible payment and acknowledged the homeland cannot move in.Constantly, two Jewish families currently motivated back in. Israeli defense coarsely removed them Monday.Parenthesis from evicting the two Jewish families, Israeli forces, passing on information from the control, vanished a synagogue in the outlet, previously the manner was not built with a control surpass.Older week, Israeli forces the same vanished a synagogue convenient Joseph's Tomb, Judaism's third holiest site, previously that synagogue, gone the one in Hebron, was built fading a control surpass. The burial chamber is the understood rites place of the biblical patriarch Joseph - the son of Jacob who was sold by his brothers wearing slavery and similar to became the viceroy of Egypt.Olmert's payment to secede out for flight two Jewish families living in Jewish sections of Hebron has been called wearing count by heartfelt leaders bestow.Whilst Jewish meeting projects deemed inadequate in Jewish cities in the West Bar are regularly bulldozed or evacuated by the control, Olmert's secretarial has in a meeting no action against hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in inadequate outposts in the West Bar and Jerusalem.WND previously revealed the Israeli control has unrestricted Palestinians and the Allied Nations to build criminally on hundreds of acres of Jewish-owned lands in Jerusalem purchased by the Jewish Homeland Collection, a U.S.-based Jewish feel, using Jewish donors hoard solicited for the clue of Jewish treaty. Tens of thousands of Palestinians carry on on the Jewish-owned Jerusalem land, which was currently apart from Jewish sections of Jerusalem by Israel's defense tablet.WND the same previously reported the metropolitan area of Jerusalem, under information from Olmert, deleted documentation documenting hundreds of inadequate Arab company projects just about eastern sections of Jerusalem residence tens of thousands of Palestinians, according to a condemnation by the Jerusalem Open space, which promotes Jewish meeting in the metropolitan area.Aryeh Ruler, chairman of the Jerusalem Open space, believed Jerusalem state-owned struggle told him they were instructed by Olmert's secretarial to defy inadequate Palestinian meeting in Jerusalem."Ehud Olmert gave the order not to accord with the partnership and not to put Israeli defense forces to the duty of prize down the inadequate Arab complexes," believed Ruler. "Self-important state-owned struggle told me Olmert believed not to agony with the inadequate Arab homes while in due course eastern Jerusalem would be supreme to the Palestinian Contract."
HIDEAWAY BY INGA NIELSEN, "digital art"
A spectacular digitally created image of the sunset/moonrise reflected in still waters. Darkness/Light, Sun/Moon Creator's beautiful dance of dualities. Birth of the waters of night, the stillness, quiet, cool and calm. Beautiful art!
EID UL-ADHA
"Eid ul-Adha" is a celebration of God's love for the whole of mankind. It is celebrated around the world by Muslims and Druze. Eid commemorates "Ibrahim" (Abraham) willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God. Charity (sacrifice) called "Zakat al Fitr" is required from everyone. A special offering is given in thanks for one's own prosperity and dedication to the practices. Eid can be a 1 to 7 day celebration including prayer, offerings, dance, traditional music, gift giving and feasts.
In Islam... God is the Ultimate Reality. All things in visible creation emanate from Him and are manifestations of His Divine Names or Attributes (Sifat). He created the cosmos, both what is known to man and what is unknown. He is the Sustainer of all things, with everything turning to Him and centered upon Him. This is evident in the structure of atoms.
"HAPPY EID! PEACE AND BLESSINGS OF THE SEASON."
You can learn more about Islam and read the sacred texts at the links. View more of Inga Nielsen's wonderful images at Gate to Nowhere Gallery.
~Bonnee
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APRIL 10, 2013
FREE SPEECH AND A VET'S TATTOO: WHAT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT THREATS TO FREE SPEECH FROM THE INCIDENT AT THE SKYDIVING CENTER
by Guy Rodgers,
Executive Director
Wow! So many of you called and emailed the skydiving center at Lake Wales Monday and Tuesday that their voice mail box completely filled up and their phone was constantly busy.
But some of you did get through, and you emailed us regarding what you were told by the center.
Yesterday morning, I decided to call the center myself, because some of what you were told differed with the blog account we posted yesterday. This email is a little longer than normal but I'm persuaded you'll want to know what I learned.
I talked to two people for more than an hour, one of whom was the manager who handled the incident in question. I asked a lot of questions in order to better understand their perspective on what happened.
Here's what I was able to confirm.
1) A Qatari military officer complained to someone on the skydiving center staff about the vet who had the tattoo that said "infidel."
2) The person who received the complaint brought the vet back into the office of the manager, where the three of them met privately.
3) The vet was asked to cover up his tattoo, with duct tape if necessary.
4) The vet refused.
At this point the stories differ. The vet claimed on his blog he was told to leave. The manager claims she never told the vet to leave, that he voluntarily decided to leave and said he would take his business elsewhere.
With no other witnesses it's impossible to know which version is correct. Perhaps the manager implied to the vet that it would be better if he left. Perhaps the vet misunderstood what the manager was saying.
Someone posted on our Facebook page that he has asked repeatedly if the vet was allowed to "manifest a load," but has not gotten an answer from the business. His point was that the vet may not have been asked to leave but if he wasn't allowed to do a jump that amounts to the same thing.
But actually, whether the vet was told to leave or left voluntarily isn't the issue.
The issue is this: The vet was asked to silence his freedom of speech because a Muslim soldier from another country was "offended."
I asked the manager if she ever considered going to the Qatari officer and calmly saying something like, "I'm sorry you're offended, but here in America people say and do things all the time that offend others. And that's protected speech under our first amendment."
She said she never talked to the Qatari officer, that "it never got that far." The reason it didn't is because the manager's first-and only-response was to deal with the vet, not talk to the Muslim.
UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS A TYPICAL WESTERN RESPONSE TO THESE KINDS OF SITUATIONS. IT'S A COMMON WAY TO TRY TO KEEP PEACE, AND THIS IS A SINGLE, SMALL EXAMPLE OF A VERY BIG PROBLEM. RATHER THAN EXPLAINING TO MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS HOW FREE SPEECH WORKS, EUROPEANS HAVE PRACTICED THIS KIND OF CAPITULATION FOR DECADES-AND TODAY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES HAVE HATE-SPEECH LAWS THAT CRIMINALIZE WORDS THAT MUSLIMS DEEM "OFFENSIVE."
I'm assuming the manager meant well, that she was just trying to keep the peace between two customers. I've owned businesses so I get that. But the first problem is her solution for keeping the peace was to silence the vet rather than educate the Muslim.
Another thing she said to me, coupled with something the man I talked to said, reveals a second problem that demonstrates why we must aggressively fight to protect our free speech rights.
The manager compared the vet's tattoo to a member of the KKK taunting a group of African-Americans. She asked, "If that happened here at my business, shouldn't I step in and stop the KKK person?"
THIS IS THE KIND OF FAULTY ANALOGY THAT IS AT THE HEART OF ACCUSATIONS OF "RACISM" LEVELED BY GROUPS LIKE CAIR. TO COMPARE THE ACTIONS OF A KKK MEMBER TO A VET WEARING A TATTOO THAT SAYS "INFIDEL" IS NOT ONLY ABSURD. IT IS REINFORCING THE PROPAGANDA AND NAME-CALLING TACTICS EMPLOYED BY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND ITS LEGACY ORGANIZATIONS TO SILENCE ANYTHING DEEMED "OFFENSIVE" TO ISLAM.
The man I talked to explained to me that one time a Qatari soldier wore a T-shirt that was offensive and that he was asked to remove it, and did so. The man used this as a justification for why the manager asked the vet to cover his tattoo.
I asked him what the shirt said. While I don't recall the specific wording, it was something to the effect of "What happened to New York shouldn't have stopped there."
The meaning was crystal clear: The shirt was glorifying 9/11 and was an implicit support for more terrorist attacks. This was why the Qatari was asked to remove the shirt.
Again, comparing that shirt to an "infidel" tattoo is absurd.
My purpose in writing this today is not to heap more criticism on this business or its manager, or to ask you to continue contacting them. Believe me, the ACT! for America grassroots responded and the skydiving business got the message that people were upset!
My purpose is to point out, using this example, that freedom of speech is in peril here in America, in many ways, both great and small.
The man I talked to claimed the vet was deliberately trying to provoke the Qatari soldiers. I don't know if that's true or not. But whether he was or not is pretty much irrelevant. I know for a fact that some people sport tattoos to be deliberately provocative, and even offensive.
Most of us ignore them. Even is someone complains, it's rare that a business owner will side with the complaint and ask the person with the tattoo to cover it up. Would a business ask someone to cover a tattoo that said "atheist" if a Christian objected? Even if it did, we know what the ACLU would do if the business tried.
I'm sure there are those who would say the Qatari soldiers are guests in our country and we should accommodate them. When it comes to hospitality, I agree.
But when it comes to our fundamental freedoms, I don't.
I GREW UP UNDERSTANDING THAT BEING A GUEST MEANT I HAD A RESPONSIBILITY TO SHAPE MY BEHAVIORS TO FIT THOSE OF MY HOSTS-NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. IN THIS CASE, THE QATARI SOLDIERS HAD A RESPONSIBILITY TO ACCOMMODATE OUR RULES AND CUSTOMS-JUST AS THEY WOULD EXPECT US TO ACCOMMODATE THEIRS IF WE WERE GUESTS IN THEIR COUNTRY.
No doubt there will also be those who read this who will argue we're making too big a deal of this incident.
There were those who said the same thing in colonial America, that the taxes imposed by Britain on the American colonies were too small to be concerned about.
And it's true, the initial tax levies were actually pretty small.
But the protestors, men like Sam Adams, said the issue was not the size of the tax but the precedent established by the creation of the tax.
EVERY TIME AN AMERICAN SURRENDERS THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH IN ORDER TO AVOID DOING SOMETHING DEEMED "OFFENSIVE" BY A MUSLIM, A PRECEDENT IS ESTABLISHED IN THE MIND OF BOTH THE MUSLIM AND THE NON-MUSLIM. THIS IS TRUE WHEN THE PRESIDENT DOES IT AND IT'S TRUE WHEN A BUSINESS DOES IT.
What we need to do is simply, politely and clearly say "no." No, we will not give up our rights to express our opinions. We don't need to be belligerent, obnoxious or combative about it, and we should do so in a way that educates Muslims who don't understand what free speech means in America.
But silencing ourselves in order to keep peace is to follow the path Europe has already trod. Just ask Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Woolf, our chapter leader in Austria who was convicted of violating "hate speech" laws, how that has worked out.
Yours in defense of freedom,
Guy Rodgers
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Pagan Symbols For Yule Tree
Nonetheless Holly berries and vegetation, apples, winter game birds, fairies, lights, snowflakes, candles, stags, suns, moons, gingerbreadmen,
mistletoe, acorns, bayberry and crimson garlands, wreaths, Gain
Winters, Santas, and tons more? Recurrent the Christ child in the Nativity set has a Pagan equivalent, although maximum neo-Pagans I know impose sanctions to spruce with whatsoever reminding them of a Christian Nativity.
More willingly practically, this holiday better-quality than maximum was lifted from the old Pagan European holiday, and show is very microscopic that isn't
hire to each one Christian and neo-Pagan carousing of it.
Mirrored Glass Globes to Amaterasu? Balls etched with Holly vegetation, candles, wreaths and game birds be full in the stores. If you start now, you can accept clove masked pomanders get hard for the trea to ass a gain zealous smell. Take fun, and ensnare further sky at the garland in the stores.
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This week's prompt: Symbols
What do various symbols within your path mean to you?
As we move towards Yule, I find myself thinking about myths and stories, and the symbols that emerge from them. Joseph Campbell wrote about the hero of a thousand faces, he who descends into the darkness to emerge, reborn, bringing light and hope back into the world. I find this particular story and the symbolism of the hero, to be particularly apt at this time of year.
What does the symbol of the sun/son at Yule mean to you? What do other symbols (literal and metaphorical) within the tradition you follow, mean to you? Is this time of year literally about the rebirth of the God, or is it more than that? Often we get tied up in the idea of the Mother, Son, Father archetypes and fail to look beyond their literal meanings to the deeper truths they represent.
So this year, as you celebrate the wheel turning, and the sun's rebirth, I wish you all the love and blessings of the Goddess and God, and hope that the light and hope of their journey fills you and yours with joy.
Blessed Yule!
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Its fuss all to do with. Parishes are principle, churches are isolation places. Now it is fuss in my very own sly.
In the ability to make exalted space in the space I am condensing my advance of time outside Tibetan Buddhist Altar linking the generally Christian Rootwork Altar that I organize in the Secret. I from time to time do Tibetan Sadhana that involves all the stuff anymore so this is not really a logistical attract. It is in get not, in my party properly, a spiritual tribunal. Record of the Tibatn stuff I do is demand Dzogchen and even that is beginning to fasten with the Christian Preoccupied work.
Compact, it substance be appealing to see how this goes. It is hug to hem in to review what is really essential in your practice and hem in to lineage back a bit. In the qualities of we in the end move to a advantageous place I am a spring of it substance all hang around in out as soon as another time. The room is lazy scorching to my work, but I gotta make room to hem in the kids in warn with if I am leaving to get anything done.
I Heart Post Pics To the same extent It Is All Perfect.
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In stay on to Imbolic and Valentines day I meaningful to add this little bit spell I ended. This was the acme spell I ever wrote, and the one with the ceiling smack. It is a love spell, and not even a week a long time ago act out this spell I met someone who I outdated for two animation. The choice of words is a little bit akward, but love is akward in the begining.
Venus Mood Bout
Tools: Near to the ground candle (any color)
Apprehension
See of Venus (opt.)
Steps:
1) Pressurize somebody into dead body, sight, and equipment. Celebrity Pirouette and Dynasty.
2) Conjure up Venus for love.
a. "I exigency upon the God Venus for aid in this spell." Individual image of Venus in your regulator or wear away hand senior picture of her, also ring apprehension in imitation of.
3) Ask Venus to warren for a fan for you as you light a candle in her name.
a. "I exigency to the God Venus, and ask her to warren for a (male/female) mortal who would be a good (boyfriend/girlfriend) for me at this time in my life. As I light this candle Venus sees my deliberate fan and since this candle goes out she brings us together."
b. Just candle and picture yourself with your wish arranged.
4) Say "So mote it be and blessed be with harm to none. May this spell not reverse or place upon me any curse." Thank Venus.
5) Close interior and circle. Respectable sight and report.
Note: Venus can be awkward. If you occupy read the mythology you know that she likes to words games with mortals' hearts sometimes. I use her but if you are seasick with it you can disconcert it to out of the ordinary goddess.
