"Do I know you?"

So many Berliners generally walking around with "Fresse," long faces, either distant and withdrawn or jaded and embittered. Some German some Turk or Arab, some old some young, some new-archaic Muslims some "new-left"-whatevers some klein-bürgerlisch-conservative. Encountering these, when I'm myself conscious of what I'm about, I smile as a matter of course, in my glance a warm greeting of simple fellowship as we pass each other by. There was a time when that amounted to a nice chat now and then with perfect "strangers."

Nowadays, whether the star-of-David is visible around my neck or just the cross I carry for the Iraqi Christian community, I get some of the most glowering looks in return. I mean, if I wore a "Free Palestine!" (from whom exactly, Hamas?) T-Shirt I'd be greeted more often with nods or some form of approval. But I'm satisfied with being glared at, because it is not to mindlessly provoke but to show a sovereign presence of conscious solidarity where it belongs – and that presence is in the love for my fellow Humankind with all its shortcomings, without regard for who's worshipping where (or at all). This is not the message you get from either the majority-seeking Muslims I tend to encounter nor likewise from the self-hating Germans nor others who have lost all faith in democracy. If you smile or are heard carrying a melody without MP3 earplugs shutting the world further out, and for no other reason than that it is your nature, you tend to get that look back of "do I know you?" or even "WTF?"

I'm soberly but joyfully prepared for the next time, regardless of my own circumstances, that someone asks me that:

- "Do I know you?"
- "No, but I know you. That is, the light I carry, and which carries me, knows you – and has known you all your life, even before you got here."
- ("WTF?")
- "And not only that: this same light loves you and always has, is loving you right now, and always will."

Well that is what I'm projecting anyway in my glance or in my smile, even if it never comes to spoken word. And frankly, sometimes it catches on.

You know...?

YOU KNOW WHEN SOMEONE just gets knocked down incessantly, from early on, and gets kept down and kept down and kept down?
When the sheer negativity and power issues of some just bar one's advancement, blocking that one, denying every dignity of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
You know how salt gets poured into wounds, calumny added to indignity and intimidation, murdering the inner child, deadening the native natural joy, warping the psyche?
Sometimes it's from one's own parents, or family structure, or an entire clan-culture.
Sometimes it's the schoolyard or later mobbing at the workplace.
Or it's one's partner or spouse, or neighbor.
Sometimes it's done in "God's name".
It might be small scale or large, individual and personal or massive and looming.

 Well, I'm at war with that.
And where there's indifference toward it, I guess I'm at war with that too.
I always was, though.

Dedication to the Iraqi Christian Population

I.  As of very recently Mosul, the second largest Iraqi city next to Baghdad, with a history rich with Christian culture and identity dating back nearly two millenia, has now been thoroughly ethnically cleansed of it's some 20 still remaining Iraqi-Jewish families and all Christians including all indications of their existence – this feat was accomplished in record time by the "Islamic State"; children were duly beheaded, men crucified, women killed or raped or sold into bondage, those not murdered and buried (dead or alive) in mass graves have been displaced and are now looking for a route to somewhere. These exemplary Muslims and Guardians of the Faith are the past-masters and mentors to the same Hamas which calculatedly places children and civilians in general right there where IDF rockets would obviously be aimed to take out Hamas tunneling and artillery. The Carrion of the Caliphate are now set to carry on in waves right there in Gaza. And the world is busy calling Israel barbaric.

II.  Now in the course of a remarkably short period: the laying waste of an entire national Culture reflecting Mesopotamian antiquity - and to still greater horror, a pathologically calculated genocide by the "Islamic State," sadistically carried out on the Armenian-speaking Christian Community which dates back nearly two millenia - has now been declared fait-accompli. Through the primitive act of mass beheadings and crucifixions, or enslavement, or forced and permanent exodus, the intended establishment of a New Mesopotamian Caliphate atop the smouldering ruins and corpses of an entire region stretching over Iraq into Syria - and now progressing further, promising to extend its grotesque reach throughout the Middle East - has among many other atrocities, realized its Final Solution to the Aramaic-Christian Question in our own time and under the noses of all world powers. They were well financed in this, and no one ever meant to stop them in their tracks. This 16 minute recorded message is my humble outreach to those exterminated Christians of Iraq, men women and children, and to whomever of their numbers have survived this far, to mourn with them, to embrace them, and - should even one single member or family of their Congregation sometime find this - to lend them some comfort of knowing they are not altogether forsaken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvCtDL1zSG8&feature=youtu.be

"...While Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Parsis and Jews mutually could manage to live all together among one another, with some millions of members of Animist religions, coexisting in relative harmony – there was one religion which could make no compromise and stood apart from the rest: Islam."
(Mahatma Gandhi)

III.  It is sad for me to come to terms with the fact that Islam has within itself, in its very roots, it seems in its very core - contrary to the depth of light and joy which I still to this day experience through dhikr and through hadhrat, and through the whole tapestry of Sufism - that this very Islam, not contrary to its stated precepts but embodying and carrying them out: brings in its wake so much darkness. When the darkness of Nazism spread over Europe, one could not rightly address that darkness without naming it, one could not say "but the Germans are alright, the Nazis are a radical fringe," because ca. 80 million Germans said otherwise! Likewise was Stalin, was Mao, was Pol Pot, no voice of a "radical fringe" but of the entire people concerned - whether by agreement, by acceptance or by coercion is a moot point. Only the Resistance within a people, and be it small or without success, can say "not us, and not with our participation." No one else can say it. In Gaza there is not some "radical fringe" using children for protective shields when the inevitable response to rocket-fire comes in return fire - it is the population, goaded by Hamas, yes, but who'd voted Hamas in almost unanimously. Could have been otherwise, but wasn't. The Salafists who formed ISIS, now IS, are not some weird outsiders, they are not the geeks of Islam, they have awesome funding behind them and supplies from witting or unwitting supporters with clout, and a Muslim population participating - not necessarily with their hearts in it, but bound to participate nonetheless by what - a "radical fringe acting on its own"? - NO, by the Qur'an, the edicts of Islam and a long tradition of this (which peaks in violence annually most ironically during Ramadan). A Syrian-Orthodox nun who appears in a 30 minute video (in German) and tells of her efforts to come to the aid there in Syria, explains that blood from the beheadings is actually being collected in bottles and sent to Saudi Arabia for one, selling for say $100,000 so that buyers may wash their hands in the blood of slaughtered infidels - or are we now seeing something akin to ritualistic human sacrifice which even predates Islam?

IV.  This Arabic letter 'N' painted on a door by Islamic hands indicates the house or business of a "Nazarene" or Christian, targeting that family or that business or that whatever, for death in today's Iraq and Syria, for starters.This is the nun, in Arabic, and it's High Noon for the Salafistic IS, and in Doitch we say, "Nun, was nun, was machen wir?"

And just to get a perspective on how this was possible, who made it possible, who stands to profit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oMjXbuj7BPI

I'll stand by any Kuffar.  Let that go on record.

 

When I Hear Your Name

(Oceana Elle-Helene, 26.7.2013)

As the sound of a spring current comes to my ear upon your sister's name,

breaking the wintry silence imposed on us in shame –

my joy toward Levi River-Winter now with sister in double

in having births both framed to see, and worth ev'ry bit the trouble.

Oceana now also in my ear true

and furthermore some hint in Hebrew:

as Elle-Helene appears like el-chalon or el-aleinu –

reminding that "God-is-Window" and "...with-us" too.

Through just such a window I did find you two,

for by that Grace was I granted to view;

my darlings make two – and you've just turned one –

how my heart soars, now embracing with Oceana: the sun.

(Arrival at Paradise Valley Hospital with angelic escort: 13:05 h PST, 26 JUL 2013)

(white frame, lower left)

http://samuelinayatchisti.blogspot.de/2014/05/schwester-des-flusses.html

YES WEEP, YOU WORLD, FOR THOSE CHILDREN...

The Gazans voted legitimately, so one was given to understand, for Hamas, they voted Hamas and they chose Hamas. Now they've bought the consequences which Hamas brought with it and can take it home with them. It's a democracy, right?

Under Hamas' gentle and wise guidance there is no high priority, or any really, on the lives of children or any other civilians in Gaza – as is evidenced time and again by the setting of rocket points exactly there where those civilians, where those kids are so that the IDF necessarily will fire on those very points; and as evidenced by the training and grotesque grooming from cradle to crater of small children to desire heroic death as death-dealers.

There is not only nothing in the Israeli mentality to compare with this, there is nothing anywhere by any State – barring N. Korea – outside the Muslim world to compare with this.

I've heard enough in my life from reality-challenged IWDs (ignoramuses-with-degrees), "Why didn't Jews in Germany defend themselves" when Hitler rose to power and ran his 3rd Reich? This is always asked either brain-dead or with a certain malicious contempt. But let Jews once have a State with a well-trained Defense – and this is already intolerable. We love our Jews (or also not, of course) as victims, but we loathe them as self-assured and battle-proven (which they also were, by the way, in the Nazi-Resistance, but that's for another discussion). It's uncomfortable, and as a Jew I understand that. We don't like our victims having tanks. What happens? Why, they get called "Nazis"...

I weep for the children who have been sacrificed in the conflict, by parents who glorify jihadi nihilism, and by Hamas. I weep still more for those little tykes being prepared for death by parents whom I've seen strap suicide-bomber costumes on them, carried on their shoulders at screeching street demos – but I would not weep with or for those parents. They have exactly what they wanted, what they co-created, and the propaganda that comes with it, at a price they've been willing to pay.

In a democracy you can always and openly publicly question, challenge, criticize, parody, satirize, polemicize State or Church or anyone/thing you wish. Once absent this, no longer democracy; and where this was never conceivable, none to begin with.

I have shown footage of Hamas thugs beating their own Gazans on the open street with big sticks, dragging them off, chasing them out of there. For questioning authority - not Israeli, mind you, Palestinian.

There is not a Muslim State you can name, where you can challenge the Dogma of Islam or Muhammad in the least, or likewise the Theocracy-serving State itself. In Israel you are free to do just that.

Where children are manipulated as cannon and press fodder, the Israel-loathing Good-Citizens and professional Underdoggers-of-colossal-naiveté want the "Jewish State" to stop being that, and to stop defending itself with such earnest, or better – at all, and are convinced that a kind word to Hamas will suffice to stop their "poorly inadequate" arsenal from indescriminately hitting Jewish or secular Israelis and Palestinians alike in Israel.

Yes, it's uncomfortable to speak for Israel, a State so full of faults and mistakes, of in-fighting, back-biting, lousy politics – and for all that a democratic State with a future … and Jewish at that.

Right, it's so much easier to join everyone, the mob-in-chorus, and declare: "Israeli-Nazis!"

And THIS in light of the fact that the founder of Hamas is the nephew of PLO's founder Arafat, who was the nephew of none less than Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem whose influence and esteem extended in his time and after, throughout the Mid-East and was well-considered as far as Turkey. Here's who also loved the guy and it was entirely mutual: Hitler, Himmler, and the highest echelons of the SS, he conspired with them on Jewish transport plans and on the future extention of Shoa for all Jews in Arab-held lands. This hero of Palestinians also was the spiritual mentor without equal, to the specially formed Bosnian-Muslim SS-Brigade, known as Hansha-Brigade. Husseini also co-founded the Muslim Brotherhood, or at least served as their mentor.

The reason this is so particularly significant to be conscious of at this juncture in time, dear friends, is that the self-hating side of Germans who have never actually worked out the shit of those 12 years under Hitler (it'll take the rest of my 150 years in this lifetime for me to see the East Germans work out the shit of their 40 years under "Socialism") have a tendency to go Left, which isn't the way I remember Left. Social-Democracy is not Socialism, as is evidenced in their stark differences: witness these same self-appointed "anti-fascists" of the Left Party of today, which earlier this year took to the streets to counter-demonstrate with their own usual flare for thuggery or empty shouting, against the officially permitted marching out of NPD (our Nazi Party of today, with seats in the State-assemblies of Saxony and Thüringen) – witness how they now march shoulder to shoulder together, Nazis and "we're-not-Communist"-Lefters, as they find common cause in hating Israel.

I don't know how they square calling Israel "Nazi" - considering two ideologically unavoidable problems needing serious reality-check: These Lefters of today are descended from the Red Army Faction (RAF) sympathizers of the '70s and '80s, who were themselves PLO sympathizers and trained by them; while the RAF kidnapped and murdered well-heeled establishment figures who'd also had past dealings in the 3rd Reich this same RAF was expressly antisemitic; today's Left Party states it will support any demonstration against anything. So I guess in the name of "free speech" they lock arms this one time with their equals among the openly NeoNazis, on the streets of Hamburg as they've done in Berlin, proving once again that on matters of Jews and Israel – evidenced in their placards and slogans about gassing, and swastikas inside of six-pointed stars (illegal in Germany but who cares?) - Left is Right and Right is Left, as they actually were all along: welcome to an Orwellian world gone awry. But here's the other idological problem: the Left is clearly full of self-hating Germans who want anything with the word "nation" in it dismantled – unless of course we're talkig about "Palestine"!! Right – but what are Nazis doing condemning Jews and Israel for being..."Nazis"??

As for Palestinians and Hamas: whoever uses the cartooning methods of ghastly and vicious caricature directly reminiscent of Julius Streicher; and whoever trains their kids like Hitler Youth (in fact, even worse – Hitler Youth at least got to go on picnics and nature walks) to sacrifice their persons, their minds, their lives on the bloody altar of Jihadeology (google Hamas Charter); and whoever builds no bunkers for its citizens but fires rockets at a far better prepared neighbor from its citizens' houses (while their leaders cower in their own bunkers to plan further geno-suicide): does not have any logical or moral or ethical or political ground to call anyone Nazis, least of all Israel or the Jews.

Oh yes, yes, I weep for the children of Gaza – but not for their parents, nor their aunts and uncles. Just the children.

THIS JUST IN: Hamed Abdel-Samad sees himself forced to leave Germany for lack of security-protection of his person against the Muslim death-threats and pressure he has had to put up with. Samad, a very cool dude and admirable author of several books on why he as an Egyptian son of an imam left "da Faith" for humanism, and who held a teaching position in Potsdam in Jewish Studies, making an esteemed name for himself as outspoken critic of Islam and warner of the Islamization of Europe offered a refreshingly honest and personal view of Muslim culture in Egypt and what the Islamist agenda for Europe really has in mind - he also joined our resident publicist (Jewish) Henryk Broder for a thousand-km "Safari" tour of Doitch-Land full of Broder's typically revealing exposures of extremist or simply two-faced examples of what the German and the EU landscape has to offer. It is a tragedy and a national shame, that Samad is leaving us, it is a Schande! This politically-correct parody of "multi-culti" is showing its real character more and more with each day.

I will tell here where the political class' travesty-dream of "multi-culti" has led us - and they are embarrassedly none too pleased to see the fake image shattered:
this very week, in the past two or three days, here in Berlin as in other major cities, Palestinians and their supporters have demonstrated, which in itself sounds innocent enough - but there's more: they have marched 3,000+ strong down such major thoroughfares as the Ku'damm where once Jews were herded in the '30s to be paraded in shame off to their eventual transports. What were our dear Palestinian (and Friends-of) throngs expressing so loudly - with police protection and no consequences? "Come out, you coward Jew-swine, come out and fight alone!" and "Children-murderer Israel" - this from the kind of people who hide themselves behind their own children. This in a current political atmosphere of profound lethargy and PC where the farce of "multi-culti" is revealing its real nature. Where the charge of baiting gets reduced to merely "insulting" so as not to make trouble with the Muslims - in whose mosques right south a couple districts of where I live, where a visiting Imam fresh in from Denmark could preach, as they have been doing for years unchecked and untouched until now: "Go out and kill Jews!"

In Munich or Essen, just this week, there was a pro-Palestine demonstration with police escort. Fine, although they are known to start out peacefully and then turn ugly. There was also, quite apart from them on an entirely other stretch of road, a pro-Israel demo making its point and doing so quite peacefully, independent of what and where the Palestinan demo was. The Palestinian demonstrators, catching wind of the Israeli, went over to them and began physically assaulting them, at which point the police - citing that the Israeli demonstrators were the "provoking party" - no, I'm really NOT making this up and while not arresting them outright, "escorted" them out of there and that was that. I wonder why the Jewish Community, those self-flattering advocates of Jewish interests, just scratches their asses and shmoozes with Merkel, the Chancelor of Chains, trading medals of honor with this ex-player from the GDR twist on reality.

How does REAL multi-culti look? People of every conceivable nation or ethnic group or faith living harmoniously their everyday lives, in mutual respect and with no one, absolutely no one, threatening or bulldozing the others; forming a real tapestry of richness and the music of life! THAT and NOT the deadening banality of this obscene forgery of "multi-culti" is what real multi-cultural without the "ism" is about. 
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6LkBKcL__Q
 

Facing Any Mob: I Am A Social-Democrat

If you are being beaten or lynched by a mob,

whether literally or figurative-ideologically,

I will not hesitate to come to your aid,

to place myself between you and that mob,

to defend your life and your right to life.

I will not support your victimhood,

I will stand shoulder to shoulder with you

and face off the mob which outnumbers you.

Come what may.

I'd do this without hesitation,

because my Beloved would have it so;

I am a social-democrat not by dogma

but by conviction, out of instinct and principle.

I have no Party and recognize none.

My soul rests in my Beloved's hands.

If you are gay and facing that mob, or if you are hetero;

if you are of any religious persuasion – any – or of none,

and facing that mob; if you are a woman or a man,

if you are of any ethnicity or nationality facing the extinction

through the mob, of your very identity;

if you are simply of your own opinion and facing that mob:

I will stand by you, and my eyes will be clear,

my nerves resting in the purpose of my Beloved,

we will rise to the occasion without fear.

And if YOU ARE the mob, whether you are

gay or hetero, Muslim or Evangelical, Haredi or atheist,

male or female, from the fascists of the Right or of the Left,

pork-hater or racist or Establishment-sheeple-rep;

and if you intend to beat or pillory or lynch anyone on my watch –

whether literally or figurative-ideologically –

then hear this:

I will stand against you with that one,

shoulder to shoulder, come what may,

I will mount the barricades and I will confront you.

I am not large, but I am determined.

I am a social-democrat by conviction,

by instinct and principle, I cannot be intimidated.

My soul rests in the hands of my Beloved.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIHV8Xp4N4g

WTF?!

Is not Boko Haram the real face of Islam?

Or are there Muslims intervening,

when mosques fill up five times from

mornings till noon, and on into evening?

Do they ever collect for their purses,

or exercise such faith-muscled intention

to exorcise themselves of these four
                                                    curses:

self-pity, supremacy, misogyny and
                                                   aggression?

I can joke about Jews, I can criticize Christians,

irritate Evangelists, satirize Sikhs, polemicize

Pentecostals, pun on names of every nation,

but it's "offend not the Muslims" for they're on the rise!

These peace-loving Muslims I keep hearing about –

are they there, do they care? Tolerant are they indeed, but of whom?

God knows their hearts, our politicians clearly not –

confront Boko Haram or just distance themselves, conceding room?

Sunni and Shi'ite compete in loathing and murder, in scheming

bound hands and feet since the origin of their species; no love

is lost where none there was, "There is no room for God!"

                                                    is what I hear them screaming

from minaret to minaret, region to region, age to age.

Sufism, being of no traceable age

in embodying light, quite conscious'

took on the mantle of Islam, minus the rage –

in order to clean it of its darkness.

I do not have the means, I'm afraid, to deliver, or bring

succor to all who've suffered by this "Islam" – do not

wonder that I sleep with the weight of all their killing

and barbarism, Damascus or Baghdad, in war and prior to it.

How odd, that ISIS carries the name of a goddess they'd abhor,

ask any one of these Jihadis or their wives, they don't know themselves;

puerile hatred of the modern which they use, rejecting all and wanting more –

perhaps reading right to left they see 21^st century as 12^th.

How odd, that there, among whom Compassionate and Merciful

are repeated in millions of mouths a thousand times daily, one is told;

there, among whom it is said "In Islam there is no compulsion,"

are women whipped, gays hanged, boys raped, children sold;

Christians ousted, churches mocked, no discusssion, bibles burned;

woe to you should you convert to something else, your loathesome

daring will be repaid by those who keep their women interred –

yes, go be Christian and die a martyr by the blood-soaked knife

                                                              of your own family's bosom.

Come let us be tolerant, though, let's all be politically correct now;

let churches in all Muslim lands disappear, and Christians as well;

leave them their patriarchy and let them have a Caliphate, allow

for ever more mosques to be built here, everyone else go to hell.

Let Shari'a come, and see how you like it, it's making inroads –

try on a burqa, ladies, a hijab – you'll love it, there's no compulsion,

so long as there's compliance, your life decided for you by wiser heads;

outwardly chaste, now everyone chaste: no holding hands, dears,
                                                                              that's only for men.

In light of Nigeria, Sudan and Mali, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and Syria –

I have but my craft to put down some lines, and what conclusion
                                                                            can I draw this hour:

only this, let everyone worship as they wish, formulate their faith
                                                                               without hysteria –

let Muslims have Islam in their own Muslim lands; and never
                                                                   give Islam political power!

 (Sunni vs. Shari'a: "My 'God is greater' than your God!")

http://samuelinayatchisti.blogspot.de/2013/03/show-me-islam.html
http://samuelinayatchisti.blogspot.de/2011/05/cornerstoneof-your-faith.html
http://samuelinayatchisti.blogspot.de/2013/07/that-this-beauty-shall-prevail.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv-kSbjr8EY