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It's a strange religion indeed that has Hamas as one of its champions. Hamas claims to be the protector of the holy city Jerusalem, and they backed up their claims by launching long-distant rockets in its direction.
Is it written in the Quran that you protect a holy site by firing weapons at Jerusalem? How does that protect the sanctity of the holy city, let alone honor the sanctity of life?
In truth, it doesn't.
And how about Muslim worshipers who ascended the Temple Mount to store rocks and Molotov cocktails, clubs and iron bars within an important Muslim shrine? Is that how they respect the holiness of a central shrine of their faith? What message, what image, does that send to a wider world?
Certainly not that Islam is a religion of peace.
How can converting the Al Aksa Mosque, one of the holy sites in Islam, into a weapon storage facility, be construed as an example of peace? Such acts of premeditated hate and intentional murder do not, in my eyes, seem to be the arbiters of a religion of peace.
Peace is a state of mind, a deliberate determination that this is the future your desire, a future that you can live in peace with yourself, and your neighbor.
I invite my Muslim friends to let me know if they agree with my premise, or wish to attempt to correct my clear-eyed interpretation of what we have recently witnessed. This, before I get to their rabid expressions of violence against Jews.
I look forward to your comments because, so far, I see no Palestinian example that Islam, for them, has any connection to peace.
We have recently seen a reformation by certain moderate Arab states that gives me hope, but none by many others who are more bent on death and destruction than peace and harmony.
Barry Shaw
International Public Diplomacy Director
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies
We non-'vaccinated'
[Regarding "Store faces backlash after showing off anti-vax Star of David badges"] I personally found this to be a comparison in which non-"vaccinated" people are similar to the Jews in Nazi Germany, i.e., less than human. To the PC crowd, it is fuel for more self-righteous posturing about how "racist" this country is (not).
George Percival
Backbone sighting!
Good for Gov. DeSantis ["DeSantis won't bow to cruise lines on vaccines."]. Finally a Republican with a backbone!
James
A different kind of COVID card
I never hear anything about people who protect themselves from COVID-19 by taking a recommended weekly dose of HCQ or ivermectin, and thus bypassing the need to get vaccinated. Why cannot those people show their "card" and be allowed to attend all kinds of events or to travel? Are not these people being patriotic by taking action to protect themselves and others around them?
Linda
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