[WashingtonPost] Washington National Cathedral, known for presidential funerals and other major spiritual services, will host a Moslem prayer service for the first time Friday.
The cathedral, part of the Episcopal Church, has long held high-profile interfaith events, and some mosques hold services in synagogues or churches if they need overflow space. But organizers said Monday that they are seeking to make a statement by having Moslem leaders come and hold their midday service in such a visible Christian house of worship.
"We want the world to see the Christian community is partnering with us and is supporting our religious freedom in the same way we are calling for religious freedom for all minorities in Moslem countries," said Rizwan Jaka, a front man with the prominent ADAMS mosque in Sterling, Va.,
You are? How is it that we have never noticed, when we look for examples of moderate Muslims to trumpet?
one of the co-sponsors of Friday's service. "Let this be a lesson to the world."
But deeper in the article we are informed as follows:
The event is being co-sponsored by the cathedral, Rasool and several Moslem spiritual and advocacy groups: ADAMS -- whose full name is the All Dulles Area Moslem Society -- the Council on American Islamic Relations,
...who no doubt see this as another act of soft jihad...
the Islamic Society of North America,
...CAIR with a false nose and fake mustache...
Moslem Public Affairs Council
I wonder if a quick google with the right words would reveal they are also connected to CAIR?
and Masjid Muhammad mosque in Northwest Washington.
Jaka noted that three of ADAMS's 22 weekly services are held at two synagogues and a church ADAMS is hosting a fundraiser for Christian religious freedom in Pakistain,
...a pointless, if well-intentioned endeavour..
. and it regularly hosts non-Moslem speakers.
Very open minded and moderate of them, especially compared to the company they keep.
The the article makes no mention of any non-muslim service held at any Mosque. This 'exchange program' seems to be one sided.
What specifically are they funding when they talk about 'Christian religious freedom in Pakistain?'
Does the 'freedom' they talk about include anything that goes beyond Dhimmitude?
"About 100 people will be at the service, which will be spoken and chanted without music, Campbell said."
Coincidentally the absence of music will make this palatable to the most extreme islamofascistic Sunnis.
“This is the place where we bury our presidents, where we bury our national heroes,” she said.
Yes, something is dead and being buried.
Suppose there's a Russian, Chinese, Iranian etc government expert on the US who's tasked to write up a psychological profile of the US. Something that might help his leaders anticipate the US's reaction to a crisis, a challenge a stand-off.
What conclusion will this person draw from this little news item and many others like it?
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Well if the Park Service pulls the church pews, do you think they will put them back? Or will this become a mosque that can occasionally be used for other services?
And will it be the right muslims?
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Wonder what they would think about having a Christian service ar their big ass rock?
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This may be an opportunity to off-load my cache of Kalashnikov prayer rugs. I have a couple of silk ones which are very presidential. Ms. Besoeker will be so pleased.
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Feets gotta be washed, the facilities are gonna be a mess. I have attended a fair number of Episcopal churches and none of them (as far as I know) have proper nose cleaning apparatus, so it could get ugly.
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Well, in Turkey they have the Hagia Sophia mosque. Used to be one of the biggest churches in Christendom. Maybe someday the National Cathedral will become the National Mosque.
It will serve those dhimmis right.
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and this gesture will be reciprocated in the Washington National Mosque when?.....
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And the second this happens the mooselimbs will consider it a mosque and declare it the 54,556,342 most holy place in Islam and declare jihads to recover it since the filthy infidels are desecrating it.
#12
The Washington National Cathedral's ambiguous standing is an ongoing offense to the establishment clause. Someone should use this incident to completely remove any congressional or government sanction to the building, its use, and the Episcopal Conference in general.
And I say this as someone who isn't normally a church/state separation fanatic, but the WNC just offends my sense of propriety. It's a neo-Federalist stack of High Church horseshit.
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It's a neo-Federalist stack of High Church horseshit.
It looks just like a European Catholic church, so yes. Chock full of traditional craftsmanship, and the acoustics are amazing. When I was in high school our baroque orchestra played Mozart there, and the building echoed it perfectly. They had to wait longer than usual between movements just to the let the building finish its part.
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The Greeks had many gods, and now so do the heathen in DC. See, they are now praying to the barbaric false god allah, they symbol of the religion of death.
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One more thing, Cathedrals were once "Christian Sanctuaries". In the Christian faith, praying to anything or anyone other than the Trinity was considered idolatry. So this place now is really no longer a Cathedral by definition.
[Libya Herald] All but two of more than a dozen monkeys released from Benghazi Zoo yesterday have been returned to their enclosures but not before they baffled residents and posed for pictures, roaming the near deserted city.
After months of bitter festivities in and around Benghazi and four weeks of fierce fighting in the city centre, residents take things as they come. However the sight of a 100-pound baboon sunning itself on a water tower has given even the most hardened local cause to raise an eyebrow.
It appears the monkeys were released from the zoo in Ras Al-Beida not far from Al-Jalaa Hospital. One resident living nearby told the Libya Herald that in the absence of any real security at the zoo, young boys often went there. He said it was widely known now in the area that a group often seen at the zoo had released them.
The monkeys, mostly baboons, were spotted as far away as the Salmani district. Two were killed in attempts to recapture them. "Certainly in this they were not experts" the Ras Al-Baida resident said of the good-willed efforts of local people to return the monkeys and adding that as far as he knew two sill remained on the lam.
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Maybe they wanna' get a little of that ISIS (ISIL? EIEIO?) action. Certainly have the looks.
AFP yarn doesn't say if the nurse was IN Mali when she died.
Bamako (AFP) - Mali has suffered a new case of Ebola infection -- separate from its only other one detected last month -- with the death of a nurse who treated a patient from Guinea, medical sources said late Tuesday.
"The nurse, who had been in contact with a Guinean national who died of the illness, died in turn," the head of the Pasteur Clinic in the capital Bamako told AFP, adding that tests had confirmed the Ebola virus.
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Was he a good grand imam or a bad grand imam? If he was bad imam it might provide a net benefit to the human species if he infected a few degrees of separation - assuming it could be stopped at that point.
Where the clinics are being built now are the places where Ebola is burning out; where they aren't is where they're needed, and much smaller than the current plan. Can the planners and builders keep up with a disease that pops up, burns out, then pops up somewhere else? Dear Reader, the Washington Post journalist presents us with Whack-A-Mole, Ebola version.
[DailyMail] 'Every one of these children is a ticking Ebola timebomb': Brutal truth of epidemic in Liberian slum where footballer George Weah grew up as number of orphans 'hits 12,000'
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Moroccan teen forced into marrying her alleged rapist last year has been attacked with a razor blade and beaten by him for seeking a divorce, media reported Tuesday.
The 17-year-old only identified as Khaoula was attacked in Marrakech on Saturday after filing for divorce, the Tel Quel weekly said, citing the AMDH independent rights group.
She suffered multiple cuts which "disfigured" parts of her body and required about 40 stitches, the French-language weekly reported.
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The Constitutional Court of Russia (Russian Supreme Court) ruled Tuesday that the circumstances of the deaths of Russian paratroopers must be disclosed to relatives, but also held that officials with "state secrets" can decide what information can be disclosed, according to Russian language news sources.
The case stems from the death of 12 paratroopers, relatives say were killed while in Ukraina this past summer. All 12 men were assigned to the Russian 76th Guards Airborne Division, for which its recruiting area is Pskov in northern Russia.
Last September Ukrainian media began to report about a Russian paratrooper who survived a massive Ukrainian artillery attack in Lugansk oblast (province) in Ukraina in mid August. According to reports, a total of 80 Russian soldiers died in that attack. All the dead were interred secretly in locations through Russia.
To date the only information about the attack and subsequent deaths of the soldiers were provided by the unidentified Russian soldier. Pro Russian military journalists have pointed out that it is rare that a single artillery attack can kill such a large body of trained soldiers, and that so far no documentary evidence has emerged as to the identities of the dead soldiers.
Russian human rights groups have been asking the Russian ministry of defense for information on where the soldiers were killed. Russia's official position in the Donbas war in southeastern Ukraina, where the 80 soldiers were killed, is that only individual volunteers have crossed the border to help the Donbas rebels. In other words, no Russian military units have crossed into Russia to help the Donbas rebels.
It is unclear in the current reporting -- inasmuch as it was clear two months ago -- that the Russian ministry of defense had refused to disclose even the locations of where the dead soldiers were interred. Apparently, going on Russian language reports, none of the paratroopers killed were interred in Pskov, where the Russian 76 Guards Airborne Division draws its recruits.
The ruling doesn't change that, but instead leaves what information the ministry of defense can disclose with the ministry of defense.
For their part, human rights groups' concerns over the place and time of death of the soldiers are in some part, political. According to Russian law, no Russian official at any level can order troops into a foreign land without first approval from the Russian parliament, the Duma. Such an action is prosecutable under current Russian law.
Disclosure of orders that presumably sent Russian soldiers to Lugansk would force prosecutors to begin an investigation of all those those involved, including officials inside the Russian ministry of defense, including military commanders.
The Russian Constitutional Court ruling essentially ends the possibility of any investigation as to whether Russian officials ordered whole military units into Ukraina.
According to the Russian news outlet Vedomosti, the court said that disclosing information surrounding the suspicious death of a loved one is "...not subject to classification of information on violations of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, as well as violations of laws by bodies of state power... Refusal to provide such information can not be explained by the presence of state secrets in the operational-search activity. At the same time, the court does not question the need to protect certain information - for example, about operatives embedded in gangs. On this basis, the investigative and operational entities should carefully approach their work to classified information did not fall in publicly available materials of the case..."
A Constitutional Court representative also added that disclosing sensitive material from relatives should be limited to information prosecutors need to make a criminal case. That interpretation puts the onus on providing requested information squarely on the ministry of defense. However, the court also said only the ministry of defense can decide what information to disclose if it involves "state secrets".
A spokesman for the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, Valentina Melnikova, said that the ruling could be expanded to include cases outside of criminal cases, but she did not elaborate on how the ruling could be expanded.
Deputies of the Duma were not as optimistic in the reading of the court's decision.
Deputy Leo Schlosberg from Pskov, said that while the court could play a role in what information can be disclosed, the means of doing so is unmentioned in the ruling.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[AnNahar] Unsure whether they could find halal food in Japan, a group of Moslem school teachers from Malaysia went so far as to prepare their own breakfast before departing.
By the end of the first day, they were more at ease. School principal Rahanim Adb Rahim and her group from Kuala Lumpur enjoyed a traditional Japanese lunch of seafood tempura with rice before joining the crowds at Senso-ji, a popular temple in Tokyo.
"It is not as difficult as we thought it would be," Rahanim said later at the Tokyo Skytree, a soaring tower that is one of the city's newest attractions.
That's welcome news for Japanese tourism officials, who are counting on a still small but growing market of Moslem tourists as Japan looks to diversify its tourism industry, long dependent on visitors from China, Taiwan and South Korea.
Looking ahead to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to boost tourism as part of his "Abenomics" growth revitalization plan. The government hopes to increase the annual number of tourists to 20 million by then.
Tourism dropped significantly dropped after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and territorial disputes between China and Japan also reduced the number of Chinese visitors for a time.
But foreign tourism has rebounded. According to the government's Japan National Tourism Organization, a record 9.7 million people visited from January to September this year, a 26 percent increase from the same period the year before.
The largest number from Moslem countries came from Malaysia and Indonesia. Malaysia had 158,500 visitors in the first nine months of 2014, a 52.3 percent increase, and Indonesia had a 13.4 percent increase to 111,400 visitors. Beginning in 2013, visa exemptions made it easier for Malaysians to visit Japan, and exemptions for Indonesians are due to start Dec. 1.
Rahanim still sees room for improvement in making Japan more Moslem-friendly. Moslems should pray five times a day, and prayer rooms are hard to come by. A former student from her school who was their unofficial guide resorted to praying behind a 7-Eleven parking lot.
Shuichi Kameyama, the executive director of the tourism organization's marketing and promotion department, said the number of prayer rooms is insufficient, but that he believes they will become more common.
Takashimaya, a popular department store in Tokyo, recently opened a prayer room because a growing number of Southeast Asian shoppers asking for one, company front man Mikio Koda said. The prayer room comes equipped with a facility for ritual washing and an arrow pointing in the direction of Mecca.
Local businesses have also become more mindful of Moslem food restrictions. The use of pork and alcohol is prohibited in Islam and meat must also be cut by a Moslem using proper methods.
For Rahanim and the school group, simply having menus in English helped them determine whether foods such as fish were acceptable.
"Halalminds," a smartphone application, tries to make it easier to find halal products and restaurants in Japan. Founder Agung Pambudi, a Moslem originally from Indonesia who lives in Fukuoka, designed the app earlier this year, and it has been downloaded 5,000 times.
"It's really difficult to find halal products, especially in Japan. Why? Because if I buy some products in Japan and I cannot read kanji (Japanese characters), this is impossible for me to understand what kind of ingredients are inside," he said.
Using GPS, the app also helps find nearby halal restaurants, such as Konya, a Turkish restaurant in Tokyo. Konya owner Ali Tada, a naturalized Japanese citizen from Turkey, says he's seen a big improvement over the last decade, but it's still difficult to find halal restaurants.
Speaking comfortably in Japanese, he said, "Lately, the word 'halal' is being used a lot. But the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is approaching, and restaurants where Moslem people can eat at are still few." He said that increasing the number of halal eateries would make Moslem visitors feel safe when visiting Japan.
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Oh, I suspect it won't be as bad as you think guys. See, the Japanese will be happy to take their money, but trying to move in? I suspect the Yakuza might have something to say about that.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two Pakistani brothers were arrested Tuesday for killing their mother and two teenage step-sisters after accusing them of adultery, police said.
The brothers, in their early thirties, were detained after their father reported the incident in the eastern city of Lahore.
âShaban Ahmed, father of the accused, reported the incident to the police saying his sons have killed his wife, Sughra 50 years old, and his daughters Muqadas, 18, and Amina, 16,â local police official Mohammad Ayub told AFP.
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or perhaps the brothers were murderous sociopaths with a deranged sexual disfunction.
My guess, the brothers were buggering each other and one of the girls found out.
CCR "Fortunate Son" lyrics here. The "artists" knew exactly what they were singing.
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Did they follow it up with "Born in the USA"? Who thought Bruce Springsteen was a good choice for this sort of thing? Boy's spent his life on the Gramscian Long March.
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I like the John Fogerty song. However, it was not appropriate on the Veteran's Day playlist.
#6
I believe the alleged "Boss" lost any miniscule remaining street cred when he started buying ponies from the Queen of England for his daughter to play equestrian princess.
Fortunate Son (or Daughter) indeed...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Libya Herald] All but two of more than a dozen monkeys released from Benghazi Zoo yesterday have been returned to their enclosures but not before they baffled residents and posed for pictures, roaming the near deserted city.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Moroccan teen forced into marrying her alleged rapist last year has been attacked with a razor blade and beaten by him for seeking a divorce, media reported Tuesday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two Pakistani brothers were arrested Tuesday for killing their mother and two teenage step-sisters after accusing them of adultery, police said.
