Showing posts with label Jewish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish. Show all posts
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
A Muslim Helps A Jew
I'm sure CAIR will milk this for all it's worth. After all, a Muslim doing the right thing is a momentous occasion. Definitely newsworthy.
A Brooklyn man whose "Happy Hanukkah" greeting landed him in the hospital said he was saved from a gang of Jew-bashing goons aboard a packed Q train by a total stranger - a modest Muslim from Bangladesh.
Walter Adler was touched that Hassan Askari jumped to his aid while a group of thugs allegedly pummeled and taunted him and his three friends. So Adler has invited his new friend over to celebrate the Festival of Lights.
The two new pals - Adler, 23, with a broken nose and a fat lip, and Askari, 20, with two black eyes - broke bread together and laughed off the bruises the night after the fisticuffs.
"A random Muslim guy jumped in and helped a Jewish guy on Hanukkah - that's a miracle," said Adler, an honors student at Hunter College.
A miracle, indeed. Seriously, this Muslim deserves commendation. If more Muslims would act in the same manner as Askari, Islamophobia wouldn't exist.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Happy Hanukkah!
"I will insist the Hebrews have contributed more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern."
~John Adams
Second President of the United States
From a letter to F. A. Van der Kemp - Feb. 16, 1808
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Annual Inter-Faith Peace Summit Begins In Naples
NAPLES, Italy (AFP) - - Muslim, Jewish, Orthodox and other Christian leaders kicked off an annual inter-faith peace summit here Sunday with calls for a formal structure linking world religions.
The pope did not formally attend the summit, organised by the Sant'Egidio community, but met and lunched with the delegates as part of a pastoral visit to this impoverished southern Italian city.
"With respect for the differences between the various religions, we are all called to work for peace and... reconciliation among peoples," he said.
Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Israel's chief rabbi Yona Metzger and the imam of the United Arab Emirates, Ibrahim Ezzedin, were among those attending the summit.
Only one delegate appeared opposed to the talks of peace and reconciliation:
The Muslim leader however spoke harshly of "unjustified provocations in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan and ... unfair dealings in Palestine" that have prompted "some Muslim individuals and groups (to go) astray and wrong themselves by violent actions."
He added: "We are dismayed by the behaviour of some great powers who continue to act aggressively against other countries, by means of military occupation under fabricated pretexts... forced regime changes and blunt interference in other countries' affairs."
Ironic that the Muslim leader would condemn "forced regime changes and blunt interference in other countries' affairs" when you consider virtually all world conflicts involve Islamic aggression and intolerance. BTW, "unjustified provocations" can be loosely translated in Islam as "rejecting Islam and its messenger Muhammad."
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