Dette er en meget lang tekst, tre-fire kronikker, men jeg linker til den, fordi den er noget så sjældent som en politisk tekst skrevet med indtrængende kunstnerisk nerve. Forfatteren er Rabbi Shalom Lewis, Georgia, U.S.A.

I thought that maybe I’d start with a rendition of Paul McCartney’s plaintive masterpiece “Yesterday”… “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here to stay, oh I believe in yesterday” – but then I thought, too romantic. And then I thought, how about the favorite classic we all learned as children – “Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques, Dormez-vous, Dormez-vous, Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines, Ding Daing Dong, ding daing dong. Are you sleeping, are you sleeping, Brother John, Brother John” but then I said to myself…too French. Perhaps the story of Chicken Little – “The sky is falling. The sky is falling” and I thought, getting closer but too childish. What about Santayana’s “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Maybe, but too philosophical. And then I remembered Joseph Conrad’s sadly, cynical observation – – “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness,” and sadly it felt right.
And so, here were are in a place of unimagined chaos and cowardice, paralysis and brutality. The beast roams the earth; we are stymied, stunned and continue to fiddle. My friends, “Ehr Kumpt Part 2, the Sequel.” This is not a time for delicacy. For tiptoeing. It is not a time to parse words nor worry about offending someone with unfiltered vocabulary. Time is no longer a luxury we possess. Distance no longer provides protection. We are being threatened like no time before, by an enemy obsessed with an apocalyptic endgame that will bring only disaster. An enemy that worships savagery. An enemy that celebrates depravity. An enemy that glorifies the death of the young. There has been a seismic shift in our world. We feel it. We see it. We know it. We dare not deny it. Pick up any newspaper on any day, the first page, the second page, the third page, the fourth page and beyond – – most of the articles are about radical Muslims, not just ISIS, immersed in a vicious culture of blood and slaughter. Skip to the sports page or the crossword puzzle if you wish, but that doesn’t make the uncomfortable news go away. In fact, it brings joy to the jihadists who hope for our indifference. If we deny evil then we need not fight it. It doesn’t exist – just a few lunatics, thousands of miles away, pounding sand, blowing each other up and occasionally beheading an unlucky journalist. Not so bad. The transcript to Rabbi Shalom Lewis’s sermon marking Rosh Hashanah at the Etz Chaim synagogue in Marietta, Georgia.
“Vi dræber dig i Irak, vi dræber dig her!”
Masseslagsmål i Celle mellem Yazidier og muslimer. Muslimer og yezidier gik løs på hinanden i Celle i Niedersachsen. Hvad ingen har ønsket at se i øjene, er et faktum: IS-terroristernes krig er nået til Tyskland. I et masseslagsmål i Celle i Niedersachsen med op til 100 deltagere, er seks personer blevet såret, den ene så alvorligt, at han måtte på hospitalet. Ifølge oplysninger fra politiet mødtes tirsdag morgen en gruppe af muslimer, og en af yazidier hinanden i Celles centrum. Der var slag, spark og slag med forskellige genstande, også baseballbats blev brugt.Massenschlägerei in Celle mit Jesiden und Muslimen, Massenschlägerei zwischen Muslimen und Yeziden in Celle.
Den gode Håkon fra Oskarshamn
Juholt var den mislykkede S-formand fra 2011 til 2012. I dag er det gode menneske fra Oskarshamn dybt rystet, han har mødt en Sverigedemokrat, en “ledende homofob og nazist.” Man ser det er op ad bakke at være Sverigedemokrat. En af mine venner mener, at den angelsaksiske (selv) ironi, der er så almindelig i Danmark og Skåne, slutter ved de smålandske skove.
Fortsæt med at læse “My friends – Ehr daw – they are here”