What must be said? Well, many of us have been busy for years to prevent another war in the Middle East, after a decade of failure in Afghanistan and two decades of the Iraqi war debacle. Literature Nobel laureate of 1999 Günter Grass has done a terrible disservice to our consistent work. Did he raise his [...]
Posts Tagged ‘anti-semitism’
It Takes More to Prevent a War
Posted in Germany, Iran, Israel, tagged anti-semitism, Günter Grass, hypocrisy on April 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Religious Minorities after the Revolution
Posted in Iran, Islam, Religion, tagged anti-semitism, Armenians, Assyrians, Baha'i, Chaldeans, Christian converts, Daniel Tsadik, Eliz Sanasarian, Iranian Jews, Islamic Republic of Iran, Najasat-e Ahl-e Kitab, pogrom, Qajar dynasty, Safavid dynasty, Shi'a, ulema, Zoroastrians on March 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The different Iranian/Persian Empires have ever been home of a large variety of religious dominations, besides Sunni and Shi’a Muslims, in particular Jews (who can be traced for more than 2500 years); Christian Apostolic Armenians, Nestorian Assyrians, Catholic Chaldeans; Buddhists, and Zoroastrians, whose religion had been founded in Iran millennia ago; and more [...]
Anti-Semites and Hypocrites on the Freedom Flotilla
Posted in Kuwait, Palestine, Turkey, tagged activists, anti-semitism, Gaza Flotilla, Islamists, Mavi Marmara, Waleed Al-Tabtabaie on June 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Kuwait’s newspapers report today of exhilarated Kuwaiti ‘freedom fighters’ and ‘activists’ who had been on board the Mavi Marmara of the Gaza Flotilla. Some of them are notorious Islamists such as MP Dr. Waleed Al-Tabtabaie, who, as an example, had expressed his dismay about four brave females elected last year to the Kuwaiti Parliament by walking [...]
Judas’ Kiss
Posted in Art, Christianity, Religion, tagged Andriy Dutka, anti-semitism, Good Friday, Jesus, Judas on April 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On yesterday’s Good Friday, I stumbled across Ukrainian Artist Andriy Dutka’s almost iconic “Judas’ Kiss” of 1990. It can be viewed at Wurzburg’s “Museum am Dom”. When earnestly considering Judas’ role in the Gospel, his betrayal and kiss were undoubtedly necessary for the redeemer in order to accomplish His mandate as savior of the [...]