Inquisition also bad for Jews

A Catholic bishop granting plenary indulgences for the public during times of calamity. Note the almsgiving in the background. Wall Fresco by Italian Artist Lorenzo Lotto, Suardi, Italy, circa 1524.

The Roman Catholic Pope in the 1200s was annoyed that there where people who called themselves Christians but did not want to worship Jesus as their god. Those true Christians said there was only One God, Who is one, and which was not the god of the Catholic Church but the God of Israel. This was a blow in the face of the Roman Catholic Church which also could see a lot of money not coming in their hands because those Christians who refused to worship the Trinity also said that people paid for their sins by their death and not by ecclesiastical indulgences.

The Pope not pleased with those lay preachers who could undermine his establishment got enough clergy interested to battle those who had other thoughts than they. He established the “Holy Inquisition Against Depraved Heresy” to deal with breakaway ‘Christian sects’. At first it was a judicial procedure set to be able to judge all sorts of people who did not want to go with the Roman Catholic Church. But later an institution was established by the papacy and, sometimes, by secular governments to combat heresy and to act like we now see Al Qaeda, ISIS/ISIL or Daesh, Boko Haram and other fundamentalist Islamic groups to press what they believe would be the only true faith everybody had to have.

First being relatively powerless, as secular rulers, suspicious of Papal meddling in their own internal affairs, did not allow it access to their countries, in a period of more than 200 years, very few heretics were burned at the stake. In 1481, at the peak of the Ottoman power, however, after extracting a promise from the Pope that the Inquisition would remain under the Crown’s control, thus ensuring that confiscated assets of heretics would revert to the throne, Ferdinand and Isabella established the Inquisition in Seville (Reconquista). While it is commonly assumed that the Inquisition was brought to Spain out of a concern that Jews were trying to influence conversos to leave the Christian fold, one prominent historian is of the opinion that by 1481 Jewish consciousness was virtually nonexistent among the conversos, and that Jews did not attempt any such outreach. Rather, he believes, the Inquisition was an outgrowth of the attitudes of Spain’s Old Christian population. In the words of one Spanish historian,

“The Inquisition was a genuine expression of the soul of the Spanish people.”

When we hear about the Inquisition we most often do not think of the Jews, with good reason, because most damage was done to sincere godly people who had taken Jesus as the son of God and their saviour and not as their god. Though the horrible action taken by the Roman Catholics, undertaken in the twelfth century and following centuries to find “Christian heretics” who would be punished or killed, had her eyes also set on the Jewish community. Eventually, Jews too were open to such charges of heresy, simply for being Jewish; and torture was routinely used to extract “confessions.”

These coming weeks we also remember how this coming up time to Pesach was a very dangerous time for Jews, because they could be caught cleaning their houses and linen and buying vegetables before Pesach, blessing children without making the sign of the cross, fasting on Yom Kippur, and refraining from work on the Sabbath.

Interestingly enough, Jews who never converted to Christianity were not under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition, and could practice their religion freely and openly. It was only conversos who were considered heretics for forsaking the Christian creed and practising Judaism. Worse for the Catholic Church was that some of those converts did not become a Catholic but accepted rabbi Jeshua as the Messiah, the son of God but not a god son, like the Roman Catholics did. Those having gone in the water to become a Baptist, became with that group a target for prosecution, according to the Roman Catholics being a dangerous ‘cult’ and with other protestants to be removed from this earth.

Marranos: Secret Seder in Spain during the times of inquisition, an 1892 painting by Moshe Maimon

Mainly because of persecution, Muslims and Jews in Spain at that time found it socially, politically, and economically expedient to convert to Catholicism, but where not really practising that faith and at home kept their ow practice of faith. In 1481 the Inquisition began to function in Spain to expose the secret Jews, known as the Anusim (who were forced to abandon Judaism against their will) or Marranos, who converted to the Christian faith to escape persecution but who continued to practice Judaism secretly, but over the years spread to many countries. The Spanish Inquisition was anti-Jewish more than in any previous countries. The first public sentencing and burning alive of six marrano men and one woman by the Spanish Inquisition was held on this date in Sevilla in Southern Spain.

All sorts of torture where good for the unsparing cruel fanatics, of which many also set their eyes on the Jews and certain Christian groups or monasteries their assets.

Differently with the present day inquisition groups of Islam the Roman Catholic Church did not want to spill blood, but only “save souls”. For not having their clergy to become accused for having blood on their hands they made use of civilians and secular authorities for the many executions, whereby they found it was best to use bloodless deaths, such as strangling and burning alive.

For ISIS the colour today is orange, but at that time the condemned people wore yellow sanbenitos, cloaks, with red crosses and the letter X painted on them. Those given the death penalty wore tunics with paintings of flames and devils. The procession marched through the town to the burning area where the judges sat. The cases involving lesser penalties were judged first, then those receiving strangulation before burning, and finally those condemned to be burned alive.

The first auto-de-fe was held in 1481, and the last in 1731, an old woman who was accused of

“being influenced by the Devil, after which she laid eggs with prophecies written on them.”

Tomás de Torquemada (Thomas of Torquemada) Castilian Dominican friar, and the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain’s movement to homogenize religious practices with those of the Catholic Church in the late 15th century, otherwise known as “The Spanish Inquisition.” (Wikipedia)

In 1483, Queen Isabella’s personal confessor, the Dominican priest Tomas de Torquemada, was appointed head of the Inquisition. Of converso origin, Torquemada was a fanatic Jew-hater who was wholly incorruptible. He was convinced that only the total expulsion of the Jews from Spain could end Jewish influence in the national life.

Torquemada did not cut the grass from under the Jews’ feet and quickly began taking steps to weaken the unconverted Jewish community and eventually expel it from Spain. In 1485, he forced all rabbis, under pain of death, to report conversos who were practising Judaism, and to pronounce a rabbinic curse on any Jew who failed to notify the Inquisition of such behaviour. This cruel edict badly split the Jews of Spain. Alarmed by the greatly increasing power of the Inquisition, that year a group of conversos plotted to kill the inquisitor of Saragossa, Pedro de Arbues, hoping to begin a popular uprising against the Inquisition. However, the assassination had the opposite effect. The townspeople were enraged, rampaging through the streets, killing many conversos. All the conspirators were caught and executed, and the Inquisition grew even stronger.

Purity of faith became the national policy of the Catholic sovereigns, and thus came about the final tragedy, the edict of expulsion of all the Jews from Spain on March 31, 1492. Portugal promulgated an edict of expulsion in 1497 and Navarre in 1498. It was under de Torquemada his guidance that the Inquisition became such a terrifying institution, amassing enormous assets confiscated from its victims, much of it used to finance the war to conquer the last Muslim stronghold of Granada.

In 1680, the most spectacular of all autos-de-fe was held to celebrate the wedding of King Carlos and his bride. At that time, the Inquisition spread to Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the New and Old Worlds, with victims burned in Havana, Cuba; Mexico City, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Goa, India. After 350 years, the Inquisition was finally abolished in 1834, the year the Liberal Wars ended in Portugal and pro-republic uprising fails in Piedmont. In all, more than 400,000 people were accused of heresy, with 30,000 of those put to death.

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Please do read:

The Spanish Inquisition by Yosef Eisen

Books on Conversos a listing by Rabbi Juan Bejarano-Gutierrez the director of the B’nei Anusim Center for Education

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Additional reading

1. Priest, scribes and others with authority
2. A dialogue about the earth moving and spinning around the sun
3. Anti-church movements and Humanism
4. Built on or Belonging to Jewish tradition #1 Christian Reform

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Further reading

1. Individuality in the Age of Heresy
2. Say it in Latin, Mortui Vivos Docent
3. A Jolly Old Pope
4. Moors in the Occitan
5. Inquisitively Questioning Inquisition
6. The Papacy: Inception to Inquisitions End
7. Does torture work
8. A Tribute to Galileo
9. The Memoirs of Luis Carvajal
10. Millions Executed During The Inquisition?
11. The Spanish Inquisition According to Mel Brooks
12. Silence (Scorsese; 2016)
13. And of These Chains
14. Anti Hindu Laws in the Christian State set up by the Portuguese in Goa
15. Anne Brenon: Les Cathares
16. Basque Country – Following The Converso Escape Route
17. Secret Jews: The Complex Identity of Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Judaism
18. Granada, Spain – The End of Sephardic Jewry
19. Returning to Egypt: Conversos who Returned to Spain and Portugal
20. Books on Conversos
21. A Conversation between the Spice Trader’s Daughter and her Lover, a Fortnight after She Burned at the Stake
22. When will the Catholic Church apologise for the Goa Inquisition? – Shefali Vaidya
23. Vatican has never apologised for its crimes, and will not apologise for the Goa Inquisition – Aravindan Neelakandan
24. Books on the Inquisition
25. Another book about the Inquisition in France…imagine!
26. Book Review: The Shadow of the Cross
27. The Ancien Régime was Less Bloody than the Enlightened World
28. Inquisition 2015
29. Going Back in Time
30. Inquisition: la torture
31. Spare a prayer
32. Inquisition 
33. Plausible Deniability, the Jesuits and Citizen Cain – Missionaries of The Anti-Christ
34. The 2nd Amendment and The Inquisition
35. The Elder
36. The world order inquisition
37. Jihad in the cause of Allah – Maria Wirth
38. Benjamin Netanyahu and his Sephardic Roots
39. Feelings in a nutshell
40. Who we are (Inq worldpeace)

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When will it stop

Liberty, Equality and Fraternity three core values of the democratic country France where remembered on the Day of the Bastille, the 14th of July, the national holiday of France.

Though the French values of liberty, equality and fraternity may be swiftly being trumped by a larger emphasis on laïcité, or the separation of church and state. In the last decade, the government has passed laws banning religious symbols — namely the hijab — in public schools and buildings and as such got some members of the Muslim community against them. It also got France looking at a series of riots in 2005 in the suburbs of Paris where many youngsters of North African origin feel disadvantaged and discriminated. The measure of the government giving in to the employers, making done with lots of received rights for work arrangements, created lots of protests which at times became very violently. Unemployment coupled with growing religious tensions across the country is an ideal seed-bed for anti government actions but also for trying to rib the nation apart and bring fear over it by a growing religious tension in the country.

The South of France has cities, like Marseille, which have different cultures. This can be well seen in Marseille which is more defined by the cultures of its Arab and Italian immigrants than by its French nationality. In the streets of Marseille, you’ll hear French, Arabic and Italian. In many of the city’s most popular restaurants, you’ll find Italian and Arab dishes rather than the French classics like escargot and frog’s legs. In Nice or Niçard Occitan you may the Niçois speaking Occitan or Niçard like the Nizzardo or Italian inhabitants of Nice and those who do are bilingual in French. Nicknamed Nice la Belle (Nissa La Bella in Niçard), which means Nice the Beautiful, in the town you may also find people from North African origin and several Muslims.

French, Belgians, English and lots of people from other countries where having leisure time enjoying the day of work or on holiday. On the morning of 14 July 2016 the French President François Hollande reaffirmed that the state of emergency put in place after the November 2015 Paris attacks would end after the Tour de France finishes on 26 July 2016. he could be pleased nothing had happened at the target European football championship. Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, this year strong measurements of security were taken in France as well as in Belgium, this with the knowledge the ISIS Jihadists were aiming this event as an easy target. This year France was beaten by 1–0 at the final in Saint-Denis after extra time. The French got a blow by this, but were already hurt much harder by several terrorist acts the last few months. Several communities had their share of it, but the coastal reasort of posh and glamour with Cannes and Nice, the capital of the Alpes Maritimes département, as attractive poles were blessed with sunshine and good news. Soon the Jazz music would sound in the third busiest airport in France, bringing occasional extra swing.

The driver reportedly zig-zagged his way through the crowds along the promenade Credit: matrixpictures.co.uk

To watch the Bastille Day fireworks large crowds of people had gathered along the foreshore of Nice.
At approximately 22:40 local time (20:40 UTC), a Renault Midlum 19 ton cargo truck was driven at at high speed along the famed Promenade des Anglais towards the crowd of people, who had been watching a Bastille Day firework display; the truck travelled at least 100 m (330 ft) before it hit the crowd and then continued to drive two kilometres (1.25 miles) into the crowd. After being stopped by armed police, who fired bullets into the lorry’s windscreen, the so far unnamed man exchanged fire with officers using a 7.65 pistol, before being shot dead.

Though it was a French-Tunisian criminal well known to the police for armed attacks this man seemed not to be followed up and nobody of the intelligence force was able to foresee he could be doing this horrid killing.

Once again France was hit this year by a “cowardly and barbaric” atrocity making victims along the streets where people would think they could walk freely and peacefully. 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel on his track of evil killed at least 10 children and got 50 children treated in hospital with sever wounds, among the 84 or 86 dead and several fighting between life and death, in the Riviera city. Officials fear the death toll will rise.

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As hundreds remained in hospital – including 18 fighting for their lives in intensive care – anti-terrorist judges opened an investigation into “mass murder” and investigators searched the home of the driver in the Abattoirs area of Nice.

The killer his identity card was found in the truck. He had French and Tunisian nationality. The fact that the killer was known to the authorities will be of grave concern to those trying to prevent terrorist attacks in France.

A recent Paris parliamentary investigation into last year’s attacks identified multiple failings by France’s intelligence agencies.

French President Francois Hollande said in an address to the nation in the early hours of Friday.

“France as a whole is under the threat of Islamist terrorism, and so under these circumstances we have to demonstrate absolute vigilance and show determination that is unfailing.”

“There’s no denying the terrorist nature of this attack of yet again the most extreme form of violence.”

For many heads of state it is clear Europe shall not bow down to those acts of terror, contrary all those attack will ad more oil on the fir and give them reason to continue their attacks on Syria and Iraq.

“Nothing will make us yield in our will to fight terrorism. We will further strengthen our actions in Iraq and in Syria. We will continue striking those who attack us on our own soil,”

Francois Hollande said, in reference to France’s involvement in a coalition of nations carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.

It seems clear that the driver wanted to mow down the maximum number of people. Nice Matin journalist Damien Allemand said

“I saw bodies flying like bowling pins along its route. Heard noises, cries that I will never forget.”

Photo Gaillard/Reuters

At the extra news screening last night, at 23.45 h, we already coverage of witness, declaring how they fled from the ‘unknown’ and how the crowd got in panic. Many bodies, blood and body parts could be seen all along the road. After ramming into the crowd with his lorry, the driver started shooting and created what looked like a battlefield. Several messages on social media by people present at the scene, described a sense of helplessness faced with the carnage.

Al Jazeera reporter David Coady was also at the scene.

“I was enjoying the Bastille Day fireworks just like thousands of other people at the promenade in Nice,” he said.

“I was just walking back after the fireworks had finished. I looked towards the truck and I thought it was a bit odd, because the roads were shut down and there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people walking along. But then, from the direction of the truck, I started hearing screaming and then people started running. And so I joined all those people in running away from there.”

European Council President Donald Tusk said it was a “tragic paradox” that the victims of the attack in Nice were celebrating “liberty, equality and fraternity” – France’s motto – on the country’s national day.

Last night very soon French people offered a place to stay for those who could not return to their apartment or hotel, and a hashtag soon went viral. Leaders around the world responded to the attack, and Twitter users were using the hashtag #PrayForNice. President Barack Obama, standing in solidarity and partnership with France, also issued a statement offering

“any assistance that they may need to investigate this attack and bring those responsible to justice.”

He also said

“On this Bastille Day, we are reminded of the extraordinary resilience and democratic values that have made France an inspiration to the entire world, and we know that the character of the French Republic will endure long after this devastating and tragic loss of life.”

Tusk tweeted a photograph of himself and other European and Asian leaders standing in tribute to the Nice victims at an Asia-Europe summit in Mongolia.

France has had its share last year with the January 2015 attack on the Paris offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo, linked to al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch, and the multiple attacks in the same city in November claimed by ISIS. People wonder when it is going to stop.

We are afraid we can not offer good news on that part. Followers of the Creator Redeemer God have received His Words of warning where we are told of what is going to happen after the Great War. Most people then thought it would not ever happen again, but only a few years later a second World War brought sorrow over the whole world. Today we can see many things happening which are foretold in the Holy Scriptures. As Brothers in Christ we are not surprised what happened after the start of the war between Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. The internal conflict (1978–92) between anticommunist Muslim guerrillas and the Afghan communist government (aided in 1979–89 by Soviet troops) was a start for many battles between Muslim extremists and different states.  The September 11 attacks triggered a harsher reaction from Western countries, bringing it into a international conflict in Afghanistan. In 2001 that war got in a first phase toppling the Taliban (the ultraconservative political and religious faction that ruled Afghanistan and provided sanctuary for al-Qaeda, perpetrators of the September 11 attacks). [The joint U.S. and British invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 was preceded by over two decades of war in Afghanistan.]

From then onwards it only seemed to escalate and certain groups America first helped and provided with ammunition, turned their back on to them and the West. More and more nations got involved and religious groups started getting creating amok between different groups. Religion stood up against religion like it is foretold in the Bible.  Many many signs foretold in the Holy Scriptures have become a reality.

So, for those who ask

“When would it end?”

We can only say that it all shall come to an end when World War III shall come to an end. No matter what people may try to keep or to bring peace we shall have to go to face a terrible war, which shall be even greater or more horrible than the previous two world wars. We do not want to be doom preachers, but lets face it, of all the prophesies in the Bible there are only a few which did not come true. all other prophesies, even told more than 2500 years before have come into being. They happened and the world continued like it was foretold.

Much too often people do forget that the ancient writers provided the world with the torch of civilization and liberty, a guide for life, for the believers but also for non-believers. All sorts of people can make use of the wise words which are provided in the 66 books which make up the Bible. Throughout the ages it influenced people for good. In society it has been recognized by the greatest statesmen to be a book of books that made a big change in their life and often helped them to come to decisions. We also do have to admit that certain holy scriptures have been looked at it through the various glasses of conflicting creeds and sometimes might unintentionally but woefully be misrepresented. Though now we have come in a time where intentionally people want to give false interpretation as the core of their business. different groups made it a sport to falsely interpret the Bible and the Quran.  Today we have certain groups which claim to fight for the cause of justice and to bring a war in the name of Allah/God. Others cannot put them on their place, because they themselves also do not know the true content of those holy books. they too live by many long-revered misconceptions of the truth of those books, received through the traditions of their fathers. Instead of putting the enemies to confusion by disarming them of their weapons, both groups become more agitated and call to the battle.

Man may look at himself and see or speak about an evil world. H should know that this “present evil world” in which man is permitted to try governing himself soon shall come to an end.

After a Jewish Age, or the period following the death of Jacob, during which all of his posterity were treated by God as his special charge — “his people” we can see that often that chosen people forgot Who was with them and Who had liberated them. For centuries the Most High Maker showed special favours, and declared,

“You only have I known (recognized with favour) of all the families of the earth.” (Amos 3:2)

But the stubborn people had to come to see that God was willing to provide an opening for those who are willing to come to Him. Also goyim or non-Jews found a way to God by the send one from God, the Messiah rabbi Jeshua (Jesus Christ).  The promises made to the original People of God were typical of the “better promises” made to us. Having come in the Gospel Age, those who believe in God should know that they have the “better sacrifices,”  which do make atonement for the sins of the whole world. They know that the promised one shall return and not only take up his role or seat in the “royal priesthood,” composed of all those who offer themselves to God “living sacrifices,” holy and acceptable, through Jesus Christ, but to be the King of the coming Kingdom here on earth.

But before it comes so far that Jesus shall become the Chief or “High Priest of our profession.” (Hebrews 3:1) this world shall have to withstand the terrible times which were prophesied long before. Too all who are willing to take Jesus as their master is demanded to go out in the world and to warn it. Not only should they notify the peoples of what shall be coming, so that they can prepared themselves for those horrible times, they should look for the signs God has given mankind, to be alert and prepared. In that time of people warning and bringing Good News of the coming Kingdom, therefore called the Gospel age, we find the realities of which the Jewish age and its services and ordinances were shadows. (Hebrews 10:1)

The Gospel age, is the period during which the body of Christ is called out of the world, and shown by faith the crown of life, and the exceeding great and precious promises whereby (by obedience to the call and its requirements) they may become partakers of the divine nature. (Pet. 1:4) Evil is still permitted to reign over or rule the world, in order that by contact with it these may be tried to see whether they are willing to give up the human nature with its privileges and blessings, a living sacrifice, being made conformable to Jesus’ death, that they may be accounted worthy to be in his likeness in the resurrection. (Psalms 17:15)

Coming closer to the times of more disasters Jews, Christians, Muslims, other believers and non-believers shall have to think how they want to cope with the turbulence and shall have to find solutions to live themselves in a more protected environment. Their choices may not always bring the hoped for reactions, because those against God (the adversary or satan) are going to play more for devil.

Before Christ, with royal title and power, will be present as Jehovah’s representative, taking charge of all the affairs during this day of trouble, taking up his seat in the city of Jerusalem, many shall fight to get the power in Jerusalem and to be able to conquer the people all over the world. This battle for the power has already started. All those terrorist acts are not as such a matter of bringing people to Allah/God but to show the power of which everybody should be afraid and has to submit to.

The world shall have to endure that strive for power of false people. Meantime, as false and imperfect views and systems fall, the standard of the new King will rise, and eventually he shall be recognized and owned by all as King of kings. Thus it is presented by the prophets as Jehovah’s work to set up Christ’s dominion:

“I will give thee the Gentiles for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” (Psalms 2:8)

“In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom.” (Daniel 2:44)

The present evil times shall frighten us, but when we do not mind to take up the bible and use it as our indispensable guide we may have the hope in getting stronger, though more than once we shall also have to suffer and be taken by sorrow. But by looking at these times we can see that the “Ancient of days” shall come to sit on his throne. We can look at the bad things which are past, we may see lots of things happening around us and in front of us. All that may have en influence on our life is simply there for preparing us all for that grand family reunion hosted by “our Father,” the “Father of all” (Ephesians 4:6), “of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named” (Ephesians 3:15).

Ephesians 3:14-19 (ESV)
14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith-that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

In the mean time we do have to build up patience, and should try to bring others also to see what time we are heading to and get them to unite under Christ.

The Divine Maker of all things is giving the world time. He requests from man that they come to see what man made of this world and how He  is a better “Gardener” for this world. Having received all this time from God we should come to realise that mankind is incapable of solving the world’s problems. This permission of evil has the very purpose of educating and preparing mankind for the promised times of restitution. At that time, they will begin to seek for God’s righteous kingdom under the rule of the great Messiah, who shall come at God’s time. They will be blessed with a full knowledge of God and a full opportunity for attaining everlasting life through their redeemer — the great restorer and life-giver.

Every sincere student of the Bible can see what is coming and should warn others.

In these times when honest-hearted people are losing faith in humanity, and humanity is losing faith in God, faithful lovers of God should reach out their hand to the community.

> Please do find to read: Honest-hearted people are losing faith in humanity and humanity losing faith in God

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References

Families of Paris attacks hit out at government as intelligence

What We Know About the Attack in Nice

19 tonne lorry had zigzagged through crowds massing on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday night, killing anyone he could

Nice terror attack: Lorry driver who killed 84 including 10 children during Bastille Day rampage was criminal well known to police

“Truck Attack in Nice, France: What We Know, and What We Don’t”.

“At least 74 killed as truck plows into crowd in Nice, France, on Bastille Day”. Jerusalem Post.

Chrisafis, Angelique; Dehghan, Saeed Kamali (15 July 2016). “Truck rams Bastille Day crowd in Nice killing at least 80”. The Guardian. Retrieved 15 July 2016.

Nice attack: At least 84 dead as lorry rams into crowd

Nice lorry attack: Scenes of carnage in French city

Photos: Bastille Day Terrorist Attack in Nice, France

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Preceding articles

Of old and new ideas to sustain power and to feel good by loving to be connected and worship something

Freedom and amendments, firearms and abortions

Before you blame All Muslims for the terrorist attack in Paris

The Meaning of Paris

From Guestwriters 2015 in review

A Secular Mindset

For those Christians who say they are the Victim

Tears for Belgium

A darker and stranger place

Il terrorismo è l’urlo di un bambino al buio

Remain lovingly = No path for softies

You Matter

Commemorating the escape from slavery

How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace

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Additional reading

1. Human tragedy need to be addressed at source
2. Migration not something to fear
3. Don’t be Muslim
4. Christians at War? Christians using violence?
5. 2014 Religion: with a.o. Global war against Christians
6. Back from gone #1 Aim of ungodly people
7. Blood soaking the water at democracy’s beachhead
8. Funding of ISIS
9. French Muslims under attack
10. Being Charlie 4
11. Being Charlie 8
12. Paris attacks darkening the world
13. Syrian but also Belgian connection to French attacks
14. A sleeper cell of militants was said directing attackers sent back to France from Islamic State’s de-facto capital in Raqqa, Syria
15. Massive police operation in northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis
16. 2015 the year of ISIS
17. ISIL will find no safe haven
18. Al Qaeda regaining foothold in Middle East bubonic plague for American elections
19. For those who call the Brussels Airport attacks a fake or a conspiracy of the government
20. Zion, Flames, Terror, Signs and Games of Peace
21. 70 years later
22. God’s wrath and sanctification
23. People Seeking for God 3 Laws and directions

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Further of interest

1. Egalité and Fraternité are great, but we need to ask ourselves some very difficult questions about Liberté
2. The South of France’s Melting Pot
3. Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
4. Terrifying Video Shows Muslim Leader Admitting the True Purpose of the Muslim Refugees – Eagle Rising
5. Here’s Where ISIS Horrifically Tortures Christians Till They Convert to Islam or Die
6. Muslims and the West – September 18th, 2015
7. Imam tells Muslim migrants to ‘breed children’ with Europeans to ‘conquer their countries’ and vows: ‘We will trample them underfoot, Allah willing’
8. The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke review – important and impressive
9. Imam to Muslim Migrants: Breed With Europeans To ‘Conquer Their Countries’
10. Obama Throws Christian Refugees to Lions by Raymond Ibrahim
11. Video Shows Muslim Leader Admitting the True Purpose of the Muslim Refugees
12. Buhari needs God-fearing, patriotic ministers – Iman
13. Paris Attacks
14. Some thoughts on the Paris attacks
15. Editorial: Belgium Attacks Expose Biased Media Coverage
16. The Brussels Attacks: A Paris Perspective
17. Understanding ISIS’s evolution
18. Terrorism
19. Possible Signs of False Flag in Brussels Now Emerging
20. Should Brussels Attacks Impact Your Travel Plans? Rick Steves Says No.
21. Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Brussels Attacks
22. Brussels, Europe’s jihadist breeding ground, now itself under attack
23. Following terrorist attacks, Antwerp Jews told not to wear Purim masks
24. Speaker Ryan: ‘Our Prayers Are with Brussels, as Is Our Solidarity’
25. Terror attack in Brussels. You still don’t think Europe won’t burn this summer?
26. Misunderstandings of Islam: Violence and Riots Break Out in Molenbeek
27. The Daily Toast: Weaken The Nation State, Breed More Extremism
28. France Makes Major Shift Toward Fascism in Wake of Paris Terror Attacks
29. A Culture Comes Together From Paris Attacks
30. Aftermath of the Paris attacks
31. ‘It’s a criminal gang pretending to be a state’: Discontent grows in ISIS ‘caliphate’ as oil funds dry up
32. The Great ISIS Recession
33. The Long Fight Against ISIS
34. Terror attacks inspired in Syria and made elsewhere in the world
35. ISIS Losing Twitter War
36. Islamic State Gang Forging Passports for Muslim Migrants
37. Sydney: Muslim-convert teen wife of ISIS suspect arrested on terror charges
38. Former Guantanamo detainee among 4 arrested in Spain, Morocco for Islamic State ties
39. Europol: 5,000 Islamic State militants walk free in Europe
40. U.S. eyes ways to toughen fight against domestic extremists
41. 5000 ISIS terrorists sneak into Europe disguised as ‘refugees’
42. Governor of Yemen’s Aden Survives Al-Qaeda Suicide Car Bomb Attack
43. Terror plot accused ordered to stand trial in Sydney
44. Top European Law Enforcement Official Has Dire Warning About
45. Islam and Presidential Politics
46. The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke review – important and impressive
47. Terrifying Video Shows Muslim Leader Admitting the True Purpose of the Muslim Refugees – Eagle Rising
48. Video Shows Muslim Leader Admitting the True Purpose of the Muslim Refugees
49. Huge Numbers of Muslim Males (‘Migrants’) Board Train in Croatia
50. Buhari needs God-fearing, patriotic ministers – Iman
51. Dallas Cair Director: “Muslims Are Above the Law of the Land.”
52. Life as Usual
53. Why the romanticising of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani has to stop
54. Hyderabad ISIS module busts myth that poverty, lack of education cause for terrorism
55. Media supporting terrorists happens only in India: Former R&AW official
56. Malaysia: Playing with Religious Extremism Fire
57. On a Day Like Today
58. Why is it always France?
59. France Attack: More Than 84 Dead As Truck Filled With Bombs Crash Into Crowd.
60. Terror attack in Nice!!!
61. A Celebration ended with terror
62. Hell is empty and all the devils are here
63. This morning I grieve for Nice
64. France reels as Bastille Day attack leaves 84 dead in Nice
65. Tragedy in Nice latest in string of terror attacks in France
66. France again; terrorism plunges world in chaos as 84 die in bus attack
67. SitRep: Horror in Nice as Death Toll Rises to 84
68. Nice Attack
69. Nice Attack: The Story So Far
70. Nice: A Day Of Horror
71. Nice terror- French-Tunisian identific
72. France: 80 dead in Nice terror attack
73. Nice terror French-Tunisian identification papers found
74. Nice Terror- “Keep Eiffel Tower Dark until ISIS conquers France”
75. Move over guns and bombs; enter trucks, knives and rocks
76. Run them over with your cars, ISIS had said in a 2014 video
77. Nice truck attack leaves France and the world in shock
78. The Damn Truck (Crushing People in Nice)
79. Truck Crashes Into Crowd In Nice, France; Killing At Least 77
80. Truck Plows Through Crowd In France, Killing At Least 84: Two Of Them Texans
81. Video shows the chaos in Nice as gunshots rang out between police and a terrorist
82. Harrowing video shows the final moments before the horror in France on Bastille Day
83. Police sources: ID found in truck used in Nice attack
84. Nice terror despite France being under state of emergency: “you asked for it”, says ISIS
85. At least 84, including 2 Americans, dead after truck rams crowd in France
86. Hollande Warns What Obama Won’t: Islamic Terrorism Is Real
87. How You Can Support France Following the Terrorist Attacks
88. #DontPrayForNice
89. Alright, terrorists, you win
90. A father and son from Texas are among the dead after the horrors in Nice, France
91. This is not Nice, but….
92. How to react on Nice attack?
93. It’s time to get serious …
94. Here’s How World Leaders Are Reacting to the Terrorist Attack in Nice, France
95. Vatican Condemns Nice Terrorist Attack
96. 15 July 2016. Vova on Terrorists
97. Explaining Terrorism
98. A few thoughts on Nice
99. For Nice, Orlando, …
100. Could More Pedestrianisation And Better Public Transport Be A Weapon Against Terrorism?
101. I could easily have been there…
102. As Long as There Are People
103. Humans, but No Humanity
104. Whack a Mole
105. How far will we go to protect ourselves?
106. Ignore the news
107. Healing
108. Should I love or should I hate
109. Are All Lives Equal?
110. The consequences of inequality
111. Enough is Enough- The cause of Suffering is not a Mystery
112. Why we should try to understand violence
113. un câlin pour un allié (a hug for an ally)
114. Panel Discusses Human Rights
115. Combating terrorism [EU Legislation in Progress]
116. Daily Takes: Unbridled Fanaticism
117. Terror Is A French Word
118. Who Wins the War on Terror? Love wins.
119. We’ve got to find a way
120. Profit in Peace
121. L’amour c’est tout.
122. Love. Above all.
123. The reality of love
124. Husband Of Jo Cox Issues Plea Asking For People To Unite Against Hatred
125. #prayfor
126. Prayer for Nice, France
127. Pray For The World
128. No Contingencies
129. Our Amazing Brains
130. God’s Guarantee to Adam’s Race
131. A Limited Time?
132. The Best Is Yet to Come
133. God All-Powerful

Bringers of agony, Trained in Belgium and Syria

These days the west came to understand how seriously Islamic State group wants to launch “enormous and spectacular attacks,” as jihadis broaden their focus to target Western lifestyles.

The heart of Europe was severely hurt on the 22nd of March with up to 35 deaths and 396 wounded (as registered on the 31st of March).

The Paris and Brussels attacks have rightly caused outrage across the globe. However, while millions in the West took to social media to share their grief, there are numerous attacks across the world that go largely unreported in the mainstream media are which are forgotten or not remembered by lots of Westerners.

The “black flag of jihad” as used by jihadist militants since around the late 1990s

Ardennes (in ‘darker’ green)

Our regions do know that IS is no longer content to simply radicalise people through propaganda, but is “trying to build bigger attacks.” for several months now that rebel group is also trying to bring jihadis trained in Syria into northern Europe to launch strikes, helped by those who are trained in West Flanders and in the Belgian Ardennes.

On 21 March, the Kurds celebrated the biggest cultural event of their year, Newroz or New Year, but once again they too were under attack by Turkey but also by groups of their own, namely the PKK.

Pro-Assad media hails recapture of ancient city as ‘strategic victory’ but others allege collusion between Damascus and retreating militants

A Syrian soldier looks at graffiti in Palmyra reading: “The Islamic State is staying’ (AFP)

The ruins of Palmyra in 2010

The dramatic recapture of the ancient city of Palmyra by the Syrian army and its allies on Sunday prompted some commentators in the Arabic-language media to declare the beginning of the end for the Islamic State (IS) group, while others predicted a long and drawn out battle to come with regional and global consequences. {- See more at: Middle East eye}

Four days after the Brussels attacks the terrorists showed they were not at all only focussing on fakir Christians. At least 41 people were killed and 105 wounded when a teenage ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up at a small soccer stadium in the Iraqi city of Iskanderiyah, less than 30 miles south of Baghdad. The attack targeted the crowd watching an amateur soccer match on Friday evening in the mixed Sunni and Shiite town, and the city’s mayor, who was presenting awards to the soccer players at the time of the bombing, was among those killed. The BBC also reports that 17 of the dead were boys between the ages of 10 and 16. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the attack using its social media channels, according to the Site extremist monitoring group.

On Sunday the 27th of March Pakistan got its share also with a bombing that killed 72 people and injured more than 350 at a crowded park on Easter Sunday. Though the violent Pakistani Taliban offshoot known as Jamaat-ul-Ahrar — which boasted that it targeted Christians in a crowded park in Lahore — once publicly declared support for ISIS, but has hit more Muslims and Hindy people than Christians.

Now it’s the subject of an intensive crackdown in the world’s second-most populous and only nuclear-armed Muslim nation. On dealing with the threat of Islamic State, Obama said he had invited participating nations to work on improving intelligence-sharing to prevent terrorist attacks.

“At our session on ISIL this afternoon there was widespread agreement that defeating terrorist groups like ISIL requires more information sharing,”

Obama said on Friday April 1, using an acronym for the militant group.

Pakistan, a country long considered an al Qaeda stronghold, feels more and more also the negative pressure of that group and similar related groups which want to govern lots of people, telling them what they can or not can do.

Those “cowardly” suicide attacks shall continue. And with them we can see the Biblical prophesies of having the religions coming up against religions, after the period when the people living in the land of Euphrates and Tigris would have fought against each other (Iran & Iraq).

Whilst US President Barack Obama called for a world without nuclear weapons yesterday after arriving in France for a Nato summit, where he won French endorsement of his new Afghanistan strategy, we should be fully aware that the war on terror continues and shall bring forth some other serious attacks form underground people or different cells which sprout up like ulcers.

It are those rebels who misuse the name of God and try to get religious people against each other. Believers in God should be very careful not to fall in the trap and going to one or another religious group. In Belgium, Holland, France and some other Western countries we can see movements from right as wall as extreme left wing organisations defiling the Muslim community.

Flag of Taliban (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For sure the Western states do have to get a grip on rising violence by al Qaeda and Taliban militants driven from power in 2001 but never completely defeated. But Christians should be careful not to be carried away by hatred and should abstain from any violent action. They also should show their love for those who are different than them and who have an other faith than them, but who also sincerely believe in the Divine Creator.

We always should remember that those who rape and sell children, kill innocent people, burn Koran‘s, mosques and bring terror on so many places are all doing things which are against Koran teaching and as such against real Muslim faith.

They are not only misusing and defiling the Name of God, but they are bringing discredit to all those believers who belong to the Islam.

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Attacks targeting civilians linked to or inspired by ISIS Since January 2015, outside Iraq and Syria.
Circles represent number of deaths of confirmed ISIS-related attacks.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for several explosions causing many deaths and severely wounded, creating lots of horror and pain

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Preceding / Voorgaande

Tears for Belgium

A darker and stranger place

In tijden van gemeenschappelijk verdriet

Belangrijke onderbreking

Hoe te reageren op aanslagen in Brussel

 

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Find also to read:

1. Daesh hits heart of Europe
2. A Black day for Belgium – Brussels Airport ravage
3. Knife-trust in democratic sore back
4. ISIL will find no safe haven
5. ISIS a product of American in-action or a product of direct action
6. Condemning QSIS or the self-claimed Islamic state ruler, al- Baghdadi their extremist ideologies and to clarify the true teachings of Islam
7. Al Qaeda regaining foothold in Middle East bubonic plague for American elections
8. ISIS has released pictures of the destruction of St. Elian’s place in Homs and the Baalshamin Temple in Palmyra

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Further related articles:

1. Obama offers vision of world without nuclear arms
2. 
3. Dundar: Turkish journalists are ‘freedom-fighters’ whose ‘fight has just begun’
4. Suicide bomber kills dozens at football stadium in Iraq

5. ISIS claims suicide attack on Iraqi stadium that kills 25

6. IS Claims Suicide Bombing on Stadium in Iraq That Killed 29
7. Suicide bomber kills 29 at football match near Baghdad
8. Taliban splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar forms in northwestern Pakistan
9. Pakistan Militant Group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar Threatens Fresh Wave of Violence

10. Lahore bombing: what is Jamaat-ul-Ahrar?

11. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar: Group behind Lahore blast part of ‘saturated’ jihadist market
12. Lahore Bombing Fuels Fears of ISIS Foothold in Pakistan
13. ISIS Suicide Bomber Kills 41 at Soccer Game in Iraq
14. Baghdad suicide attack: Death toll of Isis football stadium bombing rises to 41
15. Where ISIS Has Directed and Inspired Attacks Around the World

 

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Het failliet van de war on terror

November en december waren twee maanden waarin men de inwoners van dit land er nog eens wenste aan te herinneren dat wij gewoon alweer eens een oorlog tegen gewoon alweer een vijand konden voeren, die men gewoon alweer als ongewoon en uitzonderlijk voorstelt. {Als één blok tegen de terreur. Ook de oppositie…}

Edward James door René Magritte – La réproduction interdite (Reproductie verboden), 1937

Na de aanslagen in Parijs kon Belgiëland nog eens tonen aan de wereld wat een “apenland” dit wel kan zijn. Dat dit het land van Kafkiaanse toestanden is moet toch nu en dan eens bewezen worden aan de buitenwereld.  Dat wij ook allen aanverwanten zijn van Magritte moet ook voor iedereen zichtbaar zijn.

Eenheid in doelstelling werd nog maar eens vertaald als uniformiteit in politieke woorden en denken. {Als één blok tegen de terreur. Ook de oppositie…}

De vraag is hoe velen er wel mee willen gaan met dat denken van de regering. Hun pensée unique waarvan men uit angst voor de volgende peilingen zelfs de uitgangspunten niet durft te bevragen.

Voor velen was al het vroegere terreur gebeuren een “ver weg van mijn bed show”, maar nu leek het plotseling oh zo nabij. Voor velen is terreur minder erg naarmate die verder van huis toeslaat,

maar het teneergeslagen gevoel dat het je geeft, is toch onmiskenbaar sterker wanneer het gevaar dichterbij komt. Dichter in de buurt van je geliefden. Het roept dan persoonlijke vragen op, in plaats van alleen wereldverbeteringsvraagstukken. {La Douleur}

De politici en de media hielpen elkaar gretig om de mensen met angst op te zadelen en zelfs buitenlanders te doen geloven dat men maar beter niet onze contreien kwam bezoeken wegens véél te gevaarlijk.

Het diplomatiek en materieel isoleren en uitputten van IS door een boycot van Saudi-Arabië en Israël, lijkt vast en zeker te moeilijk daar koning Boudewijn vroeger de Saudi’s nog die mooie Brusselse moskee voor de radicalisering in België had geschonken en er zojuist nog een delegatie naar dat land was gegaan om onze economische betrekkingen te verbeteren. Want rond geld draait het uiteindelijk toch. Met de wapenleveringen aan de jihadisten gecompenseerd met de nieuwe geldinbreng voor de Antwerpse haven en enkele plaatsingen van Belgische bedrijven in Saudi Arabië moet alles toch gecompenseerd kunnen worden, of niet?

Men kan toch niet eisen dat men alle Europese wapentrafiek naar de hele regio zou stilleggen (volgens de lui met geld). Maar wat met

het sluiten van bondgenootschappen met de zovele Moslimlanden die zich volkomen hebben gedistantieerd van IS en die hun steun aan de strijd daartegen al hebben uitgesproken (?). Het zou de regio eindelijk “opkuisen” zoals het nu heet. En het is een methode die historisch haar nut al uitgebreid heeft bewezen.

Verspreiding van oemma (1995) – Al-oemma al-islamiyya of kortweg: Al-oemma = wereldwijde islamitische gemeenschap

Ga je zweepslagen uitdelen omdat je laveert tussen twee culturen? Vrouwen verkrachten omdat je in een schotelwijk woont? Dan zouden er beduidend meer moslims geradicaliseerd zijn. {Waarom jihadi’s niet onze eigen schuld zijn}

Zoals in Nederlands zijn er hier in België heel wat opiniestukken neergepend en televisiedebatten gevoerd over de bekeerde Belgen en Nederlanders die als ‘geradicaliseerde’* moslims afreisden naar het kalifaat. Al maanden kun je geen krant openslaan, geen opiniesite bezoeken, televisie noch radio aanzetten of het gaat erover. *(voor duiding zie Migratie en veiligheid even geherformuleerd)

Anno Bunnik schreef ruim drie jaar geleden samen met Peter Knoope, de toenmalig directeur van een internationaal terrorisme instituut “Al Qaida is geschiedenis”.

De gedachte was dat de Arabische opstanden aantoonden dat alleen vreedzame protesten de machthebbers in het Midden-Oosten omver konden werpen, iets wat Osama Bin Laden jarenlang tevergeefs probeerde te bereiken. Na de dood van Bin Laden enkele maanden later werd onze stelling definitief overgenomen door vele politici en journalisten. Al Qaida was dood en begraven. {Al Qaida is nu echt dood}

Nu kunnen zij met ons er niet naast zien dat ruim drie jaar later Jihadistische milities vaker het nieuws beheersen  dan ooit te voren.

In Mali wisten de lokale Jihadisten een stuk land ter grootte van Frankrijk te veroveren. Al Shabaab haalde de voorpagina’s met een grote aanslag op een winkelcentrum in Kenia. In Nigeria doet Boko Haram steeds vaker van zich spreken. En Syrië veranderde in het epicentrum van de internationale Jihad door de introductie van ruim 12.000 buitenlandse strijders aan de zijde van de oppositie, waaronder ook ruim 100 Nederlandse jongeren. {Al Qaida is nu echt dood}

De Jihad is in Syrië, Irak, Mali, Somalië, Nigeria en vele andere landen springlevend. Het succes van ISIS bewijst dit meer dan ooit. Maar in plaats van dat we het over al Qaida hebben, heeft niemand het meer over het centrale gezag van de organisatie. De vervanger van Bin Laden, de Egyptenaar Ayman al-Zawahiri, wie kent hem nog? In plaats van ellenlange discussies over al Qaida hebben we het nu over ISIS, Jabhat al Nusra, Boko Haram en al Shabaab. Deze namen zijn inmiddels gemeengoed voor Jan met de Pet. Alleen in Jemen hebben we het nog over “al Qaida op het Arabisch Schiereiland”. {Al Qaida is nu echt dood}

Velen mogen dan wel vinden dat de Jihad dus meer lokaal is dan ooit, nochtans kan men zien dat zij over het zuidelijk halfrond zeer actief zijn. Maar wij moeten beseffen dat het neit zozeer om het Westen te doen is, zoals sommige media willen doen uitschijnen.

De huidige Jihad heeft vooral oog voor de lokale en regionale vijanden, zoals de Syrische en Iraakse autoriteiten en de Sjiieten. {Al Qaida is nu echt dood}

De vele buitenlandse strijders hebben tot nog toe hebben slechts tot enkele geweldfeiten in België en Frankrijk terwijl er in het Midden-Oosten bijna dagelijks terreuraanslagen plaats, vooral gericht tegen Sjiitische burgers.

De Sjiitische versie van Jan met de Pet heeft veel meer te vrezen van de Jihad dan wij. Alle buitenlandse strijders in Syrië die zover zijn geradicaliseerd dat zij bereid waren een zelfmoordaanslag uit te voeren deden dit ter plekke, niet in Londen, Parijs of Amsterdam. Ten minste twee Nederlandse jongeren brachten tot dusver het ultieme offer. {Al Qaida is nu echt dood}

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Te onthouden

• Enige vorm van terreurbestrijding = die echt terreur doet ophouden = conflict dat aan basis ligt aanpakken + vrede stichten, schrijven Jan Blommaert en Christophe Callewaert.
• 15 jaar war on terror > militarisering => meer bloedvergieten + globale veiligheid = op achteruitgegaan
• Na verschrikkelijke aanslagen in Parijs => overheerst de oorlogsretoriek =>aanpak terreur voorgesteld als oorlog die gewonnen kan worden door gemeenten waar de daders van afkomstig zijn ‘op te kuisen’ en hun ideologische basis in Syrië uit te roeien.
• Frankrijk voert bombardementen in Syrië op.
• reacties emotioneel + brutaal = weinig plaats voor de rede
• geopolitieke strategie, die afstapt van de roep om meer oorlog.
• Internationale conflictenneiging te delokaliseren
• niet afsluiten van wereld > worden afgerekend op wat we elders in die wereld uitrichten
• in straten van Europese steden zwaarbewapende politiemensen zij aan zij met militairen in oorlogsuitrusting = repressief + agressief apparaat
• Algerijnse onafhankelijkheidsstrijd > golf aanslagen in Frankrijk hield op zodra Algerije onafhankelijk werd
• IRA stopte bommencampagne > eerbaar compromis in Noord-Ierland
• India reeks aanslagen tegen hotels, een treinstation en een ziekenhuis in Mumbai = provoceren > Indiase regering hield hoofd koel
• geschiedenis leert > Terreurbestrijding > één deugdelijk recept: conflict aanpakken door vrede te stichten
• pacificering + einde militarisering = enige realistische + haalbare oplossing.

Het geweld dat ons zo schokt, is precies hetzelfde is als datgene wat miljoenen heeft doen vluchten

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3. African misery and women inequality
4. Women their education and chances to become a parliamentary
5. 2014 Religion
6. 2014 Human Rights
7. Do Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, ISIS and ISIL belong to true Islam
8. Being Charlie 2
9. Being Charlie 8
10. Being Charlie 9
11. Niger churches burned in Charlie Hebdo protest
12. Rellen in Frankrijk en Belgë
13. Fundamentalisme en religie #2 Frankrijk en België
14. Fundamentalisme en religie #4 Verdrukking
15. Fundamentalisme en religie #5 Verguisde Koran
16. 2015 het jaar dat ISIS duidelijk maakte dat het ook in Europa is
17. 2015 het jaar dat ISIS duidelijk maakte dat het ook in Europa is – Vervolg 1
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Op het net verder ook

1. Al Qaida is nu echt dood
2. Goed artikel over de beweegredenen van #IS: ‘Het brute geloof van IS’ #trouw #radicalismeIS #mondialestrijdtegenongelovigen #eu
3. 1-8-2015 Demonstratie: Solidariteit met de Koerden. Nee tegen IS en Erdogan!
4. Frankrijk is oorlog verklaard
5. In tijden van hoax aanslagen worden de bepaalde types op een heldenschild getild
6. Waarom jihadi’s niet onze eigen schuld zijn
7. Waarom gebeurt dit allemaal?
8. Waarschuwing
9. Wat menselijkheid naast het mens-zijn
10. Een kattebelletje in de kantlijn
11. La Douleur
12. Je Suis ISIS
13. You might be an Extrimist If…
14. Priorities
15. Libya’s Oil and ISIS
16. The Beachhead: Islamic State Uses Libya to Gain African Foothold
17. Olivier Roy on European Jihadis
18. What ISIS Really Wants? To Kill You
19. ODNI Confirms Terrorists Tried to Enter U.S. as Syrian Refugees
20. Damascus and Moscow in a Fight Against Terrorism in Syria
21. Six Mistakes on the Road to Permanent War
22. DHS Rarely Deports for Terrorism: 1,000th of 1 % of Cases
23. What Orwell Can Teach Us About the Language of Terror and War
24. A Special Relationship: The United States Is Teaming Up With Al Qaeda, Again
25. Is It Time To Make Saudi Arabia Pay For Underwriting International Terrorism?
26. As It Fights ISIS, Pentagon Seeks String of Bases Overseas
27. Defeating ISIS by Condemning Islam and Embracing Muslims
28. What’s up with Islamic State’s Oil Business?
29. In France, whiplash from rotten Syria policy
30. False Flag Islamophobia Conference: Live Stream from Paris
31. The great Muslim ban controversy
32. Idiocracy or Democracy: You Decide
33. Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein
34. Pentagon: Trump’s Muslim ban call ‘endangers US security’

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Jan Blommaert (en z'n gedachten)

Jan Blommaert en Christophe Callewaert

(De Standaard 19/11/2015)

De enige vorm van terreurbestrijding die echt terreur doet ophouden, is het conflict dat aan de basis ligt aanpakken en vrede stichten, schrijven JAN BLOMMAERT en CHRISTOPHE CALLEWAERT. Hebben vijftien jaar war on terror nu nog niet aangetoond dat militarisering alleen maar naar meer bloedvergieten leidt?

Na de verschrikkelijke aanslagen in Parijs overheerst de oorlogsretoriek. De aanpak van terreur wordt voorgesteld als een oorlog die gewonnen kan worden door gemeenten waar de daders van afkomstig zijn ‘op te kuisen’ en hun ideologische basis in Syrië uit te roeien.

De Franse president François Hollande heeft de noodtoestand afgekondigd en nog meer militairen zullen worden ontplooid ‘om terreur te bestrijden’. Ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy stelt voor om de 11.000 mensen, die in de gaten worden gehouden door de staatsveiligheid, preventief huisarrest te geven. Ondertussen voert Frankrijk de bombardementen in Syrië op.

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Listening for the Language of Peace

As-Salaam Aliakum.

It is not because some lunatics or some power horny people want to get their lust for power fulfilled and therefore use terror to achieve their goal, that a full community has to be penalised with the idea that all Muslims would agree with what ISIS or Al Qaeda is doing.

As in Christendom not at all Muslims look op with owe to those ‘crusaders‘ who misuse the name of Allah.

Many Muslims are moderate believers who honour Allah, trying to live according to His Laws and who do know that lovers of Allah have to respect the creatures He allows to live on this earth. They also know that sharing the love is a much mightier weapon than the man-made weapons which literally kill, but never can kill the connection with the Most High divine Creator, when a person has an intimate relation with the God of gods.

Jews, Christians and Muslims who love God should show to others that Allah is a God of love. They too, who know they are created by the Most High Almighty God, should share the love God wants us to bring forth to all around us, so that we can conquer them by our love, the Sword of God, and not by the sword of man.

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To remember

• often heard Muslim greeting “As-Salaam Aliakum” = Peace Be Unto You! > in a world that doesn’t understand the language of peace
• Wa-Aliakum Salaam = shared in response
• barber Mo = devoted Muslim + highly intelligent + deeply peace giving spiritual man
• online activities of typed out words, posted banners, shared videos profess a great divide between our brother and us… our sister… according to way we dress, worship, or seek meaning and purpose
• language of a person of peace = not to have a linguistic barrier restricting from culture, religion, our nationality
• language of peace = built upon power + significance of our relationships to the other = language of communal embrace!

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Preceding articles

Christians at War? Christians using violence?

Of old and new ideas to sustain power and to feel good by loving to be connected and worship something

Don’t be Muslim

The Existence of Evil

Getting fate in your change to positiveness

How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace

What I Hope For Is What You Hope For

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Additional reading:

1. Our relationship with God, Jesus and eachother
2. Certainty in a troubled world
3. A world with or without religion
4. Because men choose to go their own way
5. Our way of life
6. A world in denial
7. The famine of the word
8. Gaza in Bible Prophecy
9. Hamas the modern Philistines
10. Propaganda war and ISIS
11. ISIS cannot be presenters of the real Islam
12. Wrong ideas about religious terrorism
13. Do Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, ISIS and ISIL belong to true Islam
14. Not true or True Catholicism and True Islam
15. Religion, fundamentalism and murder
16. Condemning QSIS or the self-claimed Islamic state ruler, al- Baghdadi their extremist ideologies and to clarify the true teachings of Islam 
17. ISIL will find no safe haven
18. Islamic State forcing the West to provide means for Kurdistan
19. Christian clergyman defiling book which did not belong to him
20. Being Charlie 11
21. Do we have to be an anarchist to react
22. Peace Takes You
23. End Times
24. The Conclusion of the System of Things
25. Signs of the times
26. Signs of the Last Days
27. Zion, Flames, Terror, Signs and Games of Peace
28. Syrian capital facing total destruction in the coming months
29. Swallowing up Crimea, who is next
30. The Rapture Wars
31. Dealing With the “Silence” of God
32. What Jesus Did – Misleading around the Messiah and the final assessment
33. The days are coming
34. Babylon is fallen
35. How do we know the coming of Jesus is very near?
36. Secret or public return of Jesus
37. Preaching Christ Is Not Enough
38. In a world which knows no peace sharing blessed hope

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Just Wondering...

As-Salaam Aliakum. So often I think we hear these words today and the hairs on the back of our necks rise as images from Paris, Syria, and Iraq flash in our minds. Is this not a Muslim greeting?!

Wa-Aliakum Salaam. I hear it shared in response while I sit in the barber’s chair at my local neighborhood men’s barber shop. Mo has cut my hair for the last 6 years and we have developed an amazing relationship. We’ve spoke about his family, his kids and there schooling, his 5-year-old son (now 8 years old) who is dealing with Leukemia. I passed along comfort and gave financially to his family while I told him of my prayers for him when he went through a massive heart attack a little over a year ago. And yes, we have deep discussions about faith, Jesus, and the stories of scripture both in the Bible…

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Christians at War? Christians using violence?

Many Christians do want the world to believe that the war ISIS is preaching is a war against the Christians. Their war is not just a war against unbelievers in God or against believers in a wrong God (for them Christians believe Jesus is God, though not all Christians do believe that). The issue of the ISIS terror is to create fear fro their agenda of an Islamic State where all the power has to go to them and nobody else. It is a matter of “Power” and not so much about religion.

In case ISIS was really concerned about the faith of the followers of the prophet Muhammad then they would not kill other Muslims, certainly would not burn any Quoran, because that is considered to be a holy book and also would not destroy mosques, all horrible things they do.

Today having Terror Alarm 4, for the Region Brussels, Belgium becomes more a country at the beginning of war, having the shopping centres closed and all big events cancelled. Last night again four places found where terrorists prepared several attacks to be executed at around the same time all over Belgium. Lots or armoury was found.

Yesterday again two Belgians were killed by Al Qaeda terrorists, this time in Mali‘s major city Bamako.

There might being lots of people who call for revenge and would love to see our forces to go into combat and to have a stronger force in the warfare against ISIS.
It is not only the Bible that in many instances condones the act of war and the use of deadly force for protection. Torah, Kethubim Aleph, Kethubim Bet or Messianic Scriptures (the New Testament) and the Quran demand that we respect the creations of the Most Divine Allah, the God of gods, Master of heavens and earth, the Elohim Hashem Jehovah.

Real lovers of Allah will respect His Words given to us in the Holy Scriptures and shall know that our force must be in a spiritual battle, taking on such an attitude which is so much in-breath of love that it destroys the hate of others.

The adversary of God (Satan) is calling to go into the battle. The adversaries of Allah, ISIS, al-Qaeda and many other  networks of Islamic fundamentalist groups, would love to see the world going into the battle and providing more reasons why to attack others.
We do have to be very vigilant not to fall into the trap.

The Bible has warned us about the signs of the end times and we should be more concerned about these: having a war starting at the land of Euphrates and Tigris (Iran & Iraq), having children revolting against their parents, having more earthquakes and tsunamis, having religions fighting against other religions, all signs which we could notice to happen the last few years. This should worry us more. This should have us to prepare for the coming times of agony and make us so that our spirits (our minds) shall be strong enough to withstand.

We always should be very attentional to take on the right attitude and not to fall-into the booby-trap of the satan (adversary).

That there might be a time for everything, should not mean we do have to be partakers in such a killing act. Let others fight their war and let us try to spread peace. We should know that joining hand to force the peace by peaceful actions is much more worth than spreading hatred.

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To remember

• 1st sight when reading the Bible=  appear  Christian should never contemplate killing of another fellow human being > no matter what the circumstances.
• Jesus tells people around him + turn other cheek == biggest problem that seems to plague people and specifically Christians
• human tendency to partially remember verses taken out of context + turned into doctrines
• 2nd problem = ability to efficiently and accurately study the Word of God in 1st place.
• focus on concept of Christians at war or protecting themselves even with deadly force
• social, religious, & political issues at the time the book was written + What was intended purpose of the book + does each book line up with the whole spirit of the bible itself?
• look around at this time in global history = realize potential for war + violence toward Christians on a global scale
• topic of war + taking life of another human even outside of a war = repugnant to teachings of Christ and his apostles
• New Testament = Christ focuses attention in  primary sense on principle of love and respect = govern the actions of men + expressing love toward one’s enemies
• Jesus’ life on this earth was to fulfill the Law of Moses, draw all sin to himself, + die on the cross for our spiritual salvation = purpose on earth = not to engage in a physical fight
• not mean to stay physically weak + disengaged
• He actively encourages His servants to fight when the time arrives (John 18:36). Certainly, Christ Jesus = no pacifist in any of his teachings.
• Jesus did not want his Disciples to interfere with his capture = result in his taking stripes for our healing and dying on the cross for our sins.
• Jesus to go peacefully + without blemish > lamb led to slaughter

 

• Matthew 26:52 = referencing those who chose to live a violent way of life =/= Christians to stand still + be killed in the name of Jesus => work to do here on earth + dead people cannot do their work
• Luke 22:35 = we are to go out into the world + teach that the kingdom of heaven is here => to take gospel of Jesus Christ to all people who will listen + dead Christians cannot talk.
• meek =/=  similar to being timid + non-violent
• meek =/= being weak
• great spiritual power
• no killing out of anger, or aggression such as murder
• allowance to execute criminals for capital crimes = shown by apostle Paul when he stated that even Gentile governments had divine authority to use the sword against evil doers (Romans 13:1-4).
• sword = instrument of authority
• Jesus told disciples = time had come to sell a garment + buy a sword (most proficient weapon to carry for self-defense)
• self-defense = Jesus referencing
• to follow the laws of the land providing the laws are not turned against us
• no authority except from God + to resist authority is to resist God
• ruler who chooses to do evil against Christians cannot be from God
• meek Christian = you do not have to prove yourself not force your beliefs on another person
• to protect oneself, family, + close friends from someone who tries to do evil, falls well within the approval of God even to the point of taking a life
• for a Christian to go on the offence is to stand on the side of evil + against God’s will

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Preceding articles:

Of old and new ideas to sustain power and to feel good by loving to be connected and worship something

Autumn is in the land

Don’t be Muslim

A last note concerning civil rights

The Existence of Evil

Getting fate in your change to positiveness

How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace

What I Hope For Is What You Hope For

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Additional reading:

1. Between Alpha and Omega – The plan of creation
2. Necessity of a revelation of creation 4 Getting understanding by Word of God 2
3. Our relationship with God, Jesus and eachother
4. Certainty in a troubled world
5. Not making any remarks based on the intellect or logic
6. A world with or without religion
7. Because men choose to go their own way
8. Our way of life
9. A world in denial
10. The famine of the word
11. Bad things no punishment from God
12. Gaza in Bible Prophecy
13. Hamas the modern Philistines
14. 2013 Lifestyle, religiously and spiritually
15. Propaganda war and ISIS
16. ISIS cannot be presenters of the real Islam
17. Wrong ideas about religious terrorism
18. Do Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, ISIS and ISIL belong to true Islam
19. Not true or True Catholicism and True Islam
20. Religion, fundamentalism and murder
21. Condemning QSIS or the self-claimed Islamic state ruler, al- Baghdadi their extremist ideologies and to clarify the true teachings of Islam 
22. ISIL will find no safe haven
23. Islamic State forcing the West to provide means for Kurdistan
24. Women their education and chances to become a parliamentary
25. Christian clergyman defiling book which did not belong to him
26. Being Charlie 11
27. Do we have to be an anarchist to react
28. Peace Takes You
29. Beginning of times
30. End Times
31. The Conclusion of the System of Things
32. Signs of the times
33. Signs of the Last Days
34. Zion, Flames, Terror, Signs and Games of Peace
35. Syrian capital facing total destruction in the coming months
36. Swallowing up Crimea, who is next
37. Turkey and Pictures for the times coming
38. The Rapture Wars
39. Shariah and child abuse – Is there a connection?
40. Commemorating the escape from slavery
41. Dealing With the “Silence” of God
42. What Jesus Did – Misleading around the Messiah and the final assessment
43. The days are coming
44. Babylon is fallen
45. How do we know the coming of Jesus is very near?
46. Secret or public return of Jesus
47. Preaching Christ Is Not Enough
48. In a world which knows no peace sharing blessed hope
49. Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism

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Further reading:

• The Qur’an, The Bible, And The Islamic Dilemma
• Syria: ‘In name of Allah’
• National solidarity and unity will stop the war on Syria
• Surah Yusuf (12) 31/07/2015
• Surah Yusuf (12) 29/07/2015
• God (ALLAH) is one..
• Truth is confirmed
• Names of Allah
• verses just for you
• The Status Of Allah’s Lovers
• An Indian Family’s Collective Convert to Islam
• Proofs, Virtues, Fruits for Al-Walaa` wal-Baraa` (Loving and Hating for Allaah’s Sake) – Shaikh al-Fawzaan
• Why do Mormons Want to be Christians?

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The Power of Grace Ministries

At first sight when reading the bible it would appear that a Christian should never contemplate the killing of another fellow human being no matter what the circumstances. Most Christians and even many non-Christians can partially quote the scripture where Jesus tells the people around Him to turn the other cheek when your enemy strikes you, Matthew 5:39 & Luke 6:29.

Here in lies the biggest problem that seems to plague people and specifically Christians and has for centuries; the human tendency to partially remember verses which are taken out of context and then turned into doctrines. Whether the scriptures were taught in their fullness or taken out of context makes a huge difference. Not to mention the limited time people spend studying the Word of God for themselves. Which brings us to the second problem which is the ability to efficiently and accurately study the Word of God in…

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