Dezer dagen is er heel wat te doen geweest in de pers omtrent de aanvallen op het satirisch tijdschrift Charlie Hebdo.
Men kan stellen dat het duidelijk is dat bepaalde groeperingen onze westerse samenleving willen ondergraven. Zij zijn er op uit om het leven in Europa te ontwrichten en tumult te zaaien onder de bevolking.
Het doel van de aanslag was een groep MENSEN die ons de samenleving en haar
werkelijkheid door middel van humor scherper en duidelijker lieten
zien. Journalisten en cartoonisten met een (soms uitgesproken) mening
die niet bang waren om deze te publiceren. Als samenleving, als burgers
kunnen we hier niet tegen inbinden, we kunnen geen stap achteruitzetten,
we kunnen niet inbinden tegen deze onmensen die ons met extreem geweld
in slaafse onderdanigheid willen dwingen. Ik hoop dat op de voorpagina
van elke krant, op elke media website een cartoon van Charlie Hebdo zal
prijken. Als ons “No Passaran” waarin we duidelijk maken dat er aan de
vrije meningsuiting niet getornd kan worden, met welk geweld je ons ook
bedreigt. Ik wil geen wereld voor mijn kinderen waar uitschot met het
geweer gaat bepalen wat ze moeten denken of waar ze mee mogen lachen.
Als we dit niet doen hebben de terroristen vandaag gewonnen.
Laten we de dingen bij de naam noemen en stoppen met politiek correct zijn.
We hebben een probleem met extremistische jihadis en moslims die wel
in onze samenleving willen leven en de vruchten ervan plukken maar niet
de basis spelregels van die samenleving zoals vrijheid van
meningsuiting, gelijkberechtiging van de vrouw en het op zijn minst
tolereren van de anders-geaarde medemens. We moeten niet de islam of
zijn gelovigen bestrijden maar wel de extreme islamisten die hun
onverdraagzaamheid (het islamisme met verbaal en fysiek geweld willen verspreiden.Het gevaar van de aanvallen in Frankrijk en de terroristische dreigingen waar België nu onder gebukt gaat is dat mensen uit angst een verkeerde houding gaan aannemen en iedereen onder één en dezelfde kam gaan scheren. De islamitische jihadstrijders brengen meer schade aan het imago van de Islam toe dan dat zij zouden wensen.‘Ik verwijs hier naar korangeleerden (religious clerics). We moeten goed nadenken waar we voor staan, en ik heb dat al een paar keer gezegd. Het is onvoorstelbaar dat het denken waar wij voor staan als het meest heilige, de gehele umma (gemeenschap van gelovigen) tot een bron van angst maakt, gevaar, dood en destructie voor de rest van de wereld. Onmogelijk!
Het doel van de aanslag was een groep MENSEN die ons de samenleving en haar werkelijkheid door middel van humor scherper en duidelijker lieten zien. Journalisten en cartoonisten met een (soms uitgesproken) mening die niet bang waren om deze te publiceren. Als samenleving, als burgers kunnen we hier niet tegen inbinden, we kunnen geen stap achteruitzetten, we kunnen niet inbinden tegen deze onmensen die ons met extreem geweld in slaafse onderdanigheid willen dwingen. Ik hoop dat op de voorpagina van elke krant, op elke media website een cartoon van Charlie Hebdo zal prijken. Als ons “No Passaran” waarin we duidelijk maken dat er aan de vrije meningsuiting niet getornd kan worden, met welk geweld je ons ook bedreigt. Ik wil geen wereld voor mijn kinderen waar uitschot met het geweer gaat bepalen wat ze moeten denken of waar ze mee mogen lachen. Als we dit niet doen hebben de terroristen vandaag gewonnen.
Laten we de dingen bij de naam noemen en stoppen met politiek correct zijn.We hebben een probleem met extremistische jihadis en moslims die wel in onze samenleving willen leven en de vruchten ervan plukken maar niet de basis spelregels van die samenleving zoals vrijheid van meningsuiting, gelijkberechtiging van de vrouw en het op zijn minst tolereren van de anders-geaarde medemens. We moeten niet de islam of zijn gelovigen bestrijden maar wel de extreme islamisten die hun onverdraagzaamheid (het islamisme) met verbaal en fysiek geweld willen verspreiden.
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Lees verder:
NO pasaran
#jesuischarlie
Imams draaien zich vast in
taqiyya
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December 2015 update:
Looked at by Marcus Ampe from a Christian viewpoint.
De wereld bekeken vanuit een Christelijke visie door Marcus Ampe
Saturday 17 January 2015
Wednesday 14 January 2015
Europe and much-vaunted bastions of multiculturalism becoming No God Zones
Cristina Odone for the Daily Telegraph looking at the situation in Europe about religious groups remarks that Jews are not alone envisioned to be mocked at. or endangered for life In some parts of the world, wearing the label "Christian"
also carries a death sentence.
Read more > Europe is becoming a no God zone
Whether executed for the crime of apostasy in Pakistan, or attacked as "kefirs" (infidels) in Mosul, in northern Iraq, Christians are forced to die for their faith in parts of the Middle East.We do not have to think Muslims are safe and that they are the ones threatening others. Muslims are not spared the persecution the other Abrahamic religions suffer: in western China and episodically in India, public allegiance to Islam is punishable by death.
In ever-greater swathes of the world, being a believer means embracing martyrdom. "Civilised" countries have failed to defend the persecuted – and in fact have created an atmosphere where the person of faith finds themselves pushed into an intolerable place. The extremists want their blind allegiance or will claim their lives; while the secularists suspect their collusion with hot-head co-religionists.
Soon Europe, even London, the much-vaunted bastion of multiculturalism, will become No God Zones, banning any public display of religiosity. ‘For your own good’, the authorities will tell their pious citizens, "you must carry out your ancient rituals in secret. We cannot vouch for your safety otherwise." Believers will have to hide their precious religious symbols, and conceal their rites. Like the early Christians in the catacombs, they will lead lives in the shadow.
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Monday 5 January 2015
Calvinist Methodists Met to Make Arrangements - January 5, 1743
John Cennick (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Eight Methodist leaders gathered in Waterford, South Wales, on this day January 5, 1743 to hold the first Calvinist Methodist Conference. They met at the home of Thomas Price, a layman preacher who served as Waterford's Justice of the Peace.
Muscle-builders and pregnant women know that anyone who grows too fast is liable to get stretch marks. Organizations that grow too rapidly can get stretch marks, too. That was the case with the Welsh Methodists in the early 1740s. Converts were coming in so fast that revival leaders were unsure how to manage the growing number of "societies" (groups of believers).
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Chief among the lay preachers was Howell Harris, the man whose enthusiasm had originally sparked the Welsh revival. Then there was John Cennick. On one occasion, wrote Cennick, he and Harris were attacked at Swindon, England. "Mr. Goddard, a leading gentleman of the town, lent the mob his guns, halberd and engine [water pump] and bade them use us as badly as they could, only not kill us." Guns were fired so near the two that they were blackened with powder. Dust was flung on them and stinking ditch water. While the mob sprayed Harris, Cennick preached; and when they sprayed Cennick, Harris preached. Afterward, the two were burned in effigy. Cennick later became a Moravian. As for Joseph Humphreys, Whitfield used him as an assistant and exhorter.
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King Edward the Confessor's 2 Successors - January 5, 1066
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Edward the Confessor became the only English king ever to be
canonized (officially named a saint) and was the builder of one of the
most celebrated churches in the Christian world. Edward was next to the
last of the Saxon kings. He married Edith, daughter of Godwin. On his
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Sunday 4 January 2015
Reformed Churches Muzzled but Protest at Barmen
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Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany was one of the most heinous in all
history. However, when it first came to power, it was welcomed by many
German church members. One church leader even said that Hitler's rise
was a gift of mercy from God's hand. We can understand his thinking only
if we remember that it was still early in Hitler's rule and that many
Germans were afraid the Communists would take over their country if not
opposed by the Nazis.
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The so-called "German Christians" elected Ludwig
Müller, a fervent Nazi, to head it. In July, he placed two
restrictions on the clergy. A clergyman (1) must be politically reliable
and (2) must accept the superiority of the Aryan race. Hundreds of
clergy accepted these demands.
A small group of church leaders did not. They openly opposed those
German Christians who did accept the government's terms. The dissidents
insisted that the church must obey Christ apart from political
influence. In September, 1933, Martin Niemoeller sent a letter to all
German pastors, inviting them to join a Pastor's Emergency League to
oppose the unified church. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were among
those who joined him. In October, Niemoeller asked pastors to bind
themselves by the scripture and the old confessions of faith. They
pledged themselves to protest certain violations of the faith, to stand
with the persecuted, and to acknowledge that Aryanism (with its claim of
racial superiority) was a violation of Reformation and Christian
teaching.
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Braille into the world. Louis was the fourth child of his mother,
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Seventy sages translated the Torah
into Greek for King Ptolemy. That day was as difficult for the people
of Israel as the day on which the [Golden] Calf was made; for the Torah
could not be properly translated
- Talmud, tractate Sefer Torah 1:8
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