Germany Struggles With an Unfamiliar Form of Anti-Semitism

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   You have to get to the seventh paragraph before the word “Muslim” is used, which might reflect part of why European governments are “unable to do much” about the problem. Note too the German government blames their political opposition for the violence they knowingly enabled. Exactly like the American Left.
   
   
   
   The police registered 1,453 anti-Semitic incidents in Germany last year, more than in five of the previous seven years, and organizations including the American Jewish Congress say fewer than a third of such incidents get reported. Their stubborn persistence in the country where the Holocaust was plotted and executed is raising concern that decades of work to eradicate anti-Semitism are slowly being undone as prejudice against Jews spreads beyond its traditional home in the far right.
   
   “I fear that a new generation of anti-Semites is coming of age in Germany,” Josef Schuster, head of the country’s chief Jewish organization, told journalists on Wednesday.
   
   German police attribute more than 90% of cases nationwide to far-right offenders. But Jewish activists and victim representatives say the data is misleading because police automatically label any incident where the perpetrators aren’t known as coming from the far right.
   
   The problem goes beyond Germany. The murder of an elderly Holocaust survivor in Paris earlier this month in what prosecutors said was an anti-Semitic attack has fueled a perception that anti-Jewish acts—from casual insults to brutal violence—are on the rise across Europe and that governments appear unable to do much about it.

Pope, in Holy Thursday prison visit, says death penalty not Christian

BY REUTERS ON MARCH 29, 2018 • ( LEAVE A COMMENT )

Pope Francis kisses the foot of an inmate at the Regina Coeli prison during the Holy Thursday celebration in Rome, Italy, March 29, 2018. Osservatore Romano/Handout via REUTERS

By Philip Pullella

ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 prison inmates, including two Muslims and a Buddhist, in a Holy Thursday ritual and said the death penalty should be abolished because it is neither Christian nor humane.

For the sixth year running, the pope held the ritual in an institution rather than in the splendors of the Vatican or a Rome basilica, as his predecessors did. Conservatives have criticized him for including women and non-Christians in the rite in the past.

He visited Rome’s Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven) jail in the center of city, to perform the rite recalling Jesus’ gesture of humility toward his 12 apostles on the night before he died.

The 12 male inmates were from Italy, the Philippines, Morocco, Moldavia, Colombia and Sierra Leone. Eight were Catholic, two were Muslim, one was an Orthodox Christian and one a Buddhist.

Francis wove the sermon of a Mass around the theme of service, saying many wars could have been avoided in history if more leaders had considered themselves servants of the people rather than commanders.

He spoke of the death penalty just before leaving the prison, a former 17th century Catholic convent that was transformed into a jail 1881.

“A punishment that is not open to hope is not Christian and not humane,” he said in response to closing comments by the prison director, a woman.

“Each punishment has to be open to the horizon of hope and so the death penalty is neither Christian nor humane,” he said.

Since his election in 2013, Francis has several times called for an worldwide ban on capital punishment, prompting criticism from Church conservatives, particularly in the United States.

The 1.2 billion-member Catholic Church allowed the death penalty in extreme cases for centuries, but the position began to change under the late Pope John Paul, who died in 2005.

Francis has asked that the Church’s new position on the death penalty be better reflected in its universal catechism.

On Good Friday, Francis is due to lead a Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession at Rome’s Colosseum. On Saturday night he leads a Easter vigil service and on Easter Sunday he delivers his twice-yearly “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) message.

 

Pope Francis kisses the foot of a inmate at the Regina Coeli prison during the Holy Thursday celebration in Rome, Italy, March 29, 2018. Osservatore Romano/Handout via REUTERS

 

Pope Francis washes the foot of a inmate at the Regina Coeli prison during the Holy Thursday celebration in Rome, Italy, March 29, 2018. Osservatore Romano/Handout via REUTERS

(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Vatican rebukes journalist who quoted pope as denying hell

BY REUTERS ON MARCH 29, 2018 • ( 1 COMMENT )

Pope Francis leads the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday during which sacred oils are blessed at Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 29, 2018. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo

By Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican on Thursday rebuked a well-known Italian journalist who quoted Pope Francis as saying hell does not exist.

The Vatican issued a statement after the comments spread on social media, saying they did not properly reflect what the pope had said.

Eugenio Scalfari, 93, an avowed atheist who has struck up an intellectual friendship with Francis, met the pope recently and wrote up a long story that included a question-and-answer section at the end.

The Vatican said the pope did not grant him an interview and the article “was the fruit of his reconstruction” not a “faithful transcription of the Holy Father’s words”.

Scalfari, the founder of Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper, has prided himself on not taking notes and not using tape recorders during his encounters with leaders and later reconstructing the meetings to create lengthy articles.

According to Scalfari’s article in Thursday’s La Repubblica, he asked the pope where “bad souls” go and where they are punished. Scalfari quoted the pope as saying:

“They are not punished. Those who repent obtain God’s forgiveness and take their place among the ranks of those who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot be forgiven disappear. A Hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of sinning souls exists.”

The universal catechism of the Catholic Church says “The teaching of the Catholic Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity.” It speaks of “eternal fire” and adds that “the chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God”.

It was at least the third time the Vatican has issued statements distancing itself from Scalfari’s articles about the pope, including one in 2014 in which the journalist said the pontiff had abolished sin.

(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

Pope marks Good Friday amid tight security; urges people to rediscover shame

BY REUTERS ON MARCH 30, 2018 • ( LEAVE A COMMENT )

Pope Francis waves to the faithful after the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession during Good Friday celebrations at the Colosseum in Rome, Italy March 30, 2018. REUTERS//Stefano Rellandini

By Philip Pullella

ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis led Roman Catholics in Good Friday services under tight security, urging people, including ministers of his Church, to rediscover the capacity to feel shame for their role in the world’s ills.

Francis, 81, presided at a traditional Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession around Rome’s ancient Colosseum attended by 20,000 people on the day that Christians commemorate Jesus’ death by crucifixion.

Security was tighter than last year, with more checks as participants approached the area. This week, Italian police carried out four raids against suspected supporters of Islamist terrorism, arresting seven people, including one man who was planning a truck attack.

The Colosseum, in Rome’s historic center, is one of the tourist attractions in the city where police have set up military jeeps and armored vehicles to form barriers against truck attacks. Several have also been set up near the Vatican.

Francis wove his comments, made at the end of the torchlight service, around the themes of shame and repentance, conjuring up the image of a modern world where pride, arrogance and selfishness often trump humility and generosity.

Speaking in somber tones, he spoke of “shame because so many people, even some of your (God’s) ministers, have let themselves be deceived by ambition and vainglory, thereby losing their worthiness .. ”

Since his election in 2013, Francis has often urged Catholic priests and prelates to live simply, to serve others, and not to seek careers and status in the Church or in society at large.

Good Friday, the most somber day of the Christian liturgical calendar, commemorates the day the Bible says Jesus was crucified. The Way of the Cross service marks 14 events, called stations, from the time Roman governor Pontius Pilate condemns Jesus to death until his burial in a tomb.

“SENSE OF SHAME”

Francis said many people in the world today should feel “shame for having lost a sense of shame”, adding that shame could be seen as a “grace” from God.

He said many should feel “shame because our generations are leaving young people a world that is fractured by divisions and wars, a world devoured by selfishness …”

The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics praised those in the Church who are trying to arouse “humanity’s sleeping conscience” through their work helping the poor, immigrants, and prison inmates.

This year’s meditations, one for each of the “stations” were written by high school and college students in Rome.

Earlier on Friday in St Peter’s Basilica, Francis presided at a “Passion of the Lord” service, during which he prostrated himself in prayer on the marble pavement.

On Saturday night, Francis leads an Easter vigil service and on Easter Sunday he delivers his twice-yearly “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) message.

 

A faithful walks as Pope Francis leads the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession during Good Friday celebrations at the Colosseum in Rome, Italy March 30, 2018. REUTERS/Remo Casilli

(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Gareth Jones)

WHY BOLTON MAKES LEFTISTS MAD (VIDEO)

April 2, 2018

 

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In this latest Glazov Gang conversation, we discuss what it is that makes radical leftists from Jimmy Carter to the New York Times freak out over Trump's pick of John Bolton as his National Security Adviser.

The gang that's always wrong can't help but be right. The more they rail against the Bolton pick, the more obvious it is that he threatens them. Watch the video for the whole conversation that covers Bolton, the fabled hat and the giant rabbit that attacked Jimmy Carter.

And subscribe to its YouTube channel to watch more Glazov Gang videos.

Meanwhile here's a bonus flashback to Carter's rabbit incident.

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ASIAN-AMERICANS ACCUSED OF INTOLERANCE FOR OPPOSING HOMELESS

April 2, 2018

 

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This is the most intolerant thing that Asian-Americans have done in California since they intolerantly opposed racist looters in Los Angeles in '92. Now Asian-Americans are on the front lines of the homeless wars in New York and Los Angeles. And they're fighting back against efforts by radical leftist governments trying to shove homeless shelters into their neighborhoods.

One by one, the buses pulled up to the Orange County Hall of Administration last week carrying posters with messages such as "No Tent City" and "No Homeless in Irvine."

Many of the hundreds on board were immigrants, and this would be their first experience joining a political protest.

Finally, the left has immigrants whom it can hate.

A week earlier, county officials announced that they were considering placing emergency homeless shelters in Irvine as well as in Laguna Niguel and in Huntington Beach. All three cities immediately fought the plan, but the opposition was most fierce in Irvine.

Many of the loudest voices in the movement to block the shelter plan were Chinese Americans who came together through social media apps and various community groups. They were joined by immigrants from South Korea, India, Mexico and the Middle East, along with some whites.

It was a big political victory for the diverse opposition from Irvine. But it also came at a price, with some accusing the residents of intolerance and simply wanting to keep the homeless out of their own cities without offering an alternative solution.

The alternative solution is enforce laws against vagrancy, institutionalize crackheads and paranoid schizophrenics who pose a public safety hazard.

a federal judge has demanded the county do whatever it takes to find more shelter space.

I bet his house and courtroom have lots of space.

"Did you see how we created a presence to keep our neighborhoods safe? Look at those crowds! It was like Chinese New Year," said Kelvin Hsieh, manager of a high-tech company who signed up to ride the bus and marched with his daughter, fifth-grader Ava.

Like Hsieh and others on the buses, Haiying Snider, a fashion designer, said she has "never engaged in political issues" but felt motivated to get involved in this fight because it felt so close to home.

Chunzhu Yu, a dentist with offices in Irvine and Orange, said he paid about $5,000 to sponsor seven buses, taking half a day off from seeing patients to air his views.

"We had to go to defense mode to keep trouble away," Yu said.

"We didn't do it alone," said fellow co-founder Richard Xiaoxiang Lu. "No one knows the county officials, and most of us have never been to their meetings. But we had people from every community say, 'I need to go there' to speak up. Asians are usually quiet, you know. Not this time."

Parrisa Yazdani, an Irvine mother of two of Japanese and Iranian descent, launched a Facebook page called "Irvine Tent City Protest" that ballooned to more than 5,000 members in a few days.

Suresh Paulraj, an Indian American resident of Cypress Village, described the organization style as "precise, almost like the military. We can learn from this to help us activate in the future."

Diversity is our strength.

The same battles have been happening in New York City.

The crowd of 500 included grandmothers and small children, Chinese immigrants and the president of a local Republican club, all shouting that the mayor had trampled their rights.

The source of their anger? The 180 homeless families that New York City had moved into the defunct Pan American Hotel in Elmhurst, Queens. The residents felt nervous around the new arrivals, they said. There were reports of shoplifting from the Good Fortune Supermarket, public urination and panhandling — all things, they said, that had been unheard-of in their neighborhood until now.

Mark Gao, 32, a wok chef at a Sichuan restaurant in Manhattan, said that his wife was nervous to walk home alone at night from her restaurant job, and that he had told his nieces not to play outside without an adult.

“Why does the government want to support this group?” Mr. Gao said in Mandarin. “Why do they want to give them free money? We have to work from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.”

Because they're leftists. And leftists hate people who work for a living.

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

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