Brother Obama bows and some who have never liked him, get upset.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1R2GGLL_enSE351&q=Obama+bows

 Putting it mildly:

 I fail to see what all the fuss is about really. These fake criticisms are so tiresome. They don’t make as much noise about dropping their bombs on innocent civilians.

 Now, in case they don’t know what ADAB is all about, let me  explain this to them:

 There are various ways of showing respect – and part of that respect is showing respect in the traditional way of the country in which you are an honoured guest.

 As for spurious articles like this one here below and the strictures they suggest

http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=18383#comments

we can only assert that Brother Barack

did not kowtow

did not violate the Holy US constitution, or any decent internationally acknowledged social

norms outside of America

did not prostrate or make sujjud to any foreign god

did not make any racist remarks –

and frankly speaking, the holier-than-thou sticklers who

want to make such overly exacting and unreasonable demands on the Brother White House,

want to put some chains on  Brother Obama’s spontaneous politeness and sense of respect

for other people,

other cultures,

other traditions etc

 ( with daft ideas and not so deft opinions that Sister Michelle should not have shown spontaneous affection –  perhaps love too and respect for Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II of England  by hugging her but should have curtsied  like a house maid in one of them Southern ante-Bellum slave movies)

and all those who require that the president of the United States of America

and leader of the free world  should correspond to exactitudes of their own stiff-necked nature

 or who don’t like such courtesies being expressed by an  African American president ,

they  can do what Madiba Nelson Mandela said:

 “ Go jump in a pool”

or better still take simple directions from Comrade Roberto Mugabe :

“Go Hang! “

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http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2009/11/07/beautiful-sweden/

Additional information, but it’s not in a catechism format.

 Question : Why was Mr. Jerome Holland a soul brother, sent to Sweden as the American Ambassador, whilst the Vietnam war was still raging and Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme himself, arm in arm with North Vietnam’s ambassador to Moscow was leading  anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in Stockholm? ( Actually, he only did it once?)

Answer: First of all because of that  anti-Vietnam war demonstration with North Vietnam’s Ambassador to Russia and  Prime Minister Olof Palme  marching foot to foot as leaders of the demon-stration, the American Government recalled their Ambassador  from Sweden – back  home – for consultations – and

 prior to my enlightenment on the issue, I myself  had erroneously assumed  that the soul brother had been sent to catch hell from the demonstrators here in lieu of  his White American counterpart that he was replacing.

 But a more plausible  – and non-raciest reason was that ( well I discovered that whilst I was here in the summer of 1970 ) there were more than a few hundred soul brothers who had deserted  from Germany -  CONSCIENTIOUS  OBJECTORS they were called and a few hundred others who had deserted from both Germany and elsewhere and had got political asylum here in Sweden. I got to know some of them a little better  on my second visit to Sweden in 1971, when I started taking up a more permanent residence here   – the reason  for Sweden? Cherche la femme !

 I’m given to understand by one who knows ( Brother Harvey Cropper ) that Stokely Carmichael had been over here to extend his SNCC activities and to start up “some sort of  Black Zionism”, Harvey said, and it was the term “Black Zionism” which got me to sit up a little and pay greater attention to what he was saying.

 “ Black Zionism?” I asked and expected the Full Monty.

 “Yes, Black Zionism ! He wanted all of us to be donating 10% of what  we earned  – to the cause “

 “ Well, that’s not a bad idea”, said I.

“Ten percent !?!”

 “Well what about 5%?” I asked hopefully

  “Zero  per cent !”  was the final retort. And that was that. 

The moot problem was to whom /exactly which organisation was  to be receiving the ten percent? Perhaps that and some more questions arising, such as, and for what – exactly would the money be USED,  disbursed?

(Incidentally, I got fired not too long ago by some  Egyptian guy who called me up to his office and told me, “ I refuse to go on  paying some Zionist who gives 10% of his  monthly salary to the Israeli government so that they can go on killing Palestinians!”

 I was flabbergasted. )

 Nothing wrong with Black Zionism, the way I see it ….that’s what Marcus Garvey Africa’s first black president preached most of the time…

 But this time round, it didn’t work, the suggestion didn’t catch fire, at least not here in Stockholm

Bobby Seale also turned up ( stayed at Brother Harvey’s studio…… and when you have Seale at the heels of Stokely, that can only lead to some kind of spontaneous combustion and to a long story, peopled  by greater detail and events which I cannot recount here at least not yet.…. Anyway,  they heard it on the grapevine and that was the rumour going round and round, that America was racist and so America sent Brother Jerome Holland  to show  that  America was not racist.

 And now we have Brother Obama to lay all doubts to rest….

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Harvey+Cropper

 Interesting:

http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=18259#comments

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What a question!

http://si-info.org/index.php?id=489

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A few thoughts about this very bad idea taking root in Moder Svea:

“Ex-moderate Muslim to form ‘anti-Zionist’ party in Sweden.”

http://www.thelocal.se/23052/20091103/

 Transferring the Middle East to Sweden. Jimmie Åkesson may have a point here.

 Whatever next?

So Mohamed Omar of Uppsala wants to launch his anti –Zionist party here in Sweden  of all places instead of in Gaza, Judea or Samaria?  I wonder what Beatrice Ask thinks about this? Freedom of assembly and freedom of speech certainly, but most certainly not as part of the Moderate wing of her Moderate  party? Or the Folk-Party? Or Jimmie Åkesson’s right wing?  This giving succor to the enemy reminds me of Ted Heath’s question in the British  House of Commons after his girlfriend (English joke) the Iron Lady had bombed Qadhafi  – Mr. Heath enquired why the Iron Lady had not extended the bombing to Philadelphia and Chicago, known headquarters not only for funding the IRA?

Mohamed should listen to this:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133897

In my opinion  – and I’m sure about this, Mohamed Omar would be most welcome to carry on with his party activities in Tehran, or to take his business to Damascus although I doubt that he would be allowed to complicate matters some more  in Cairo or Amman or even in Khartoum  in the Sudan, or Riyadh in Saudi Arabia….

Aren’t the regional anti-Zionists and anti-Semites already active  and bringing more trouble with them wherever they are given a free haven to operate  – and this is a serious question – isn’t it likely that they could also attract some terrorist elements, even if  all that Mohamed  now wants to do is to formally bring all the anti-Isreal people together under one umbrella, here in the more permissive atmosphere provided by Moder Svea?

 Such considerations  necessitate another Mission: Operation Clear The Air, this time addressing the ecology of anti-Zionist mentalities in this brief response to the unwelcome news item about Mohamed Omar’s intentions.

 I pray that that his niyat comes to what the Italians call  ”niente”

 And this takes me all the way to a little workshop-discussion that took place at Stockholm University on World Democracy Day, 15^th September 2009, sponsored by UNDP-IDEA  and the Law School Association of Stockholm University. The theme of the day was WOMEN and based on the twin principles of Freedom and Equality.

 It was a daylong event which started at 1300 hrs  ( a follow-up from  Gunilla Carlsson’s  opening night before at Stadsteatern) and after the intense debate on the subject of Gender Equality as a pillar of Democracy in which Mark Salter a senior programme officer of IDEA, obliterated his opponent Rumbidzai Kandawasvika-Nhundu with progressive gender ideas that would have made Nyamko Sabuni make Mark her right hand man for Africa)  I popped in to Seminar 1  “Women and girls in crises – from Victims of war to builders of peace” just at the point at which Dr. Vanessa Farr  was settling down on her platform about the Israeli incursion into Gaza and the effects thereof.

 I don’t know whether Mohamed Omar was there but there were a couple of ladies in hijab  and obvious Muslim gentlemen ( no talibanic beards)  some with Middle Eastern looks and Muslim garb (I have a keen eye for Islamic and Jewish paraphernalia) and altogether about a dozen people in the room sitting on chairs almost in a circle  all paying rapt attention  to what Dr. Farr was saying – and being aware of that presence, she must have also been consciously responding to it . She said that in that Gaza incursion the IDF took out the industrial capacity of the Gazans and that this  affected the Middle Class terribly according to UNDP reports about the Gaza war and UNDP damage assessment… and this was the unexpected outcome of discussing what had happened…. What she said – and she had a lot to say — I have  two pages of notes covering the twenty minutes of that discussion  but when she said that Israel DID NOT allow any aid to get through to Gaza  I had to object – because that was simply NOT TRUE – - and we have to make a distinction between  development aid and HUMANITARIAN aid …. ( she was sitting there calmly, telling those assembled that Israel did not allow any aid …. Indeed, when is development aid allowed through in the middle of a military operation? It was necessary to make that distinction between  development aid and humanitarian aid  which she had not made prior to my question . and there’s the other question of where does  conflict crisis end and  development begin?

 These are the facts about humanitarian aid  to Gaza, during and after the conflict:

 http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2009/Humanitarian_aid_to_Gaza_following_6_month_calm.htm

 http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2009/Increased_humanitarian_aid_Gaza_after_IDF_operation_Jan_2009

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7869704.stm

 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mfa.gov.il&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mfa.gov.il&q=Aid+to+Gaza

 As for Goldstone, looka here

 http://www.adl.org/PresRele/UnitedNations_94/5645_94.htm

 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mfa.gov.il&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mfa.gov.il&q=Goldstone

 http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=18088#comments

 http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=18054#comments

 http://honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/The_Goldstone_Report_Rewarding_Palestinian_Terror.asp

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I will be replying to this opinion in extended time:

http://www.thelocal.se/23068/20091104/

From within where it all begins:

 Part one :  to tickle your funny bone.

 The idea that Sweden  at any time could ever be considered a racist or xenophobic country, is patently absurd. Comedy.

 ”You can take niggers out of the country, but
you can’t take the country out of niggers” ( The Last Poets)

 It’s interesting that Martin Ådahl says “‘I won’t let my country be taken over by xenophobes”. The emphasis being on “my country” – and that’s where the ruckus usually begins. “My” country! A very emphatic possessive there. Not a very generous  “our” country, but MY country. Country in his heart or his pocket., with the old Skinheads misunderstood status symbol King Karl X11 pointing overseas.

 You spit on or in  the street  in Stockholm and someone says “i det här landet” ( in this country) you don’t / should not do that. It’s uncivilised. You score a goal for Sweden and you are a “ land’s man!”

 Integration / assimilation apparently goes beyond being merely law-abiding.

It’s pluralism versus relativism, but will get to all that in part two. 

 In Apartheid South Africa the Liberation melody was, “Black is black I want my country back:” So what’s wrong with Jimmie Åkesson and his band of Gypsies singing, “White power is the only real power over here &  we want our country back – we are not going to be any part of the new Muslim Caliphate of Eurabia – for that they can all go to California!”?

I’m only asking a balanced question, substituting black with white to balance the equation.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Eurabia

 It was only two weeks ago that dear mentor Harvey Cropper dispelled a myth that I had held for a few decades now: when in the early 70s, Andrew Young reportedly said that Sweden was “the most racist country in the world “, I had jumped to the conclusion that  this was because  USA’s ambassador to Sweden had been diplomatically ostracized  due to a general Swedish malaise about the war in Vietnam, a malaise that was led by the then Prime Minister Olof Palme. I myself had kept my hands in my pocket when I was introduced to black Brother Jerome Holland at the grand hotel in 1972  and did  not shake hands with him for that very reason  on that occasion – although Mr. Palme himself had invited Mr. Ambassador home, with the  home visit event vastly displayed by Aftonbladet photographs in which Mr. Palme ushers him through the front door with the caption, “  Welcome Mr. Ambassador: guests go in first”

 No. Apparently the reason for Mr. Young making that infamous statement was that on his arrival at Arlanda airport Mr. Holland had been greeted by a pack of demonstrators and an unforgettable placard which read “ WHITE HOUSE NIGGER; GO HOME!”

Jerome Holland was taken aback- and that’s putting it mildly – and thought the White sea of demonstrators must have been a bunch of racist Swedish savages. He must have phoned and told Andy about the reception committee that welcomed him at the airport – and Andy – the same Andy who said about Brother Obama  a few months before November 4^th, that Brother Obama had better come back in another eight to sixteen years to take a shot at being elected president, because he wasn’t ripe enough yet) the same Andrew Young who NEVER got it right, must have said what he said  about our Sweden.

 Little did he then know that it was soul brother SHERMAN ADAMS who was the bearer of the placard “ WHITE HOUSE NIGGER GO HOME!” – as Brother Cropper told me so recently, this, which I had not known all these years.

And it was indeed the same  Sherman who had instructed me not to shake hands  with Mr. Holland.

 Before we get to part 2 and the real Sweden proper let’s clear the air a little further:

As far as Apartheid and all that is concerned, the first place that Madiba Nelson Mandela flew to after he was released from Robben Island was Sweden, because his number two man in the ANC, Oliver Tambo was  seriously ill and hospitalised at Ersta Hospital in Stockholm at that time.

 http://www.liberationafrica.se/

 We could talk about it all day long…..

 In one of his last  TV interviews  F.W. de Klerk was asked how he felt about being the last Whitey  that would  ever be head of state of South Africa and his reply was that since Apartheid was now under arrest  and the colour or colours of a man’s skin was no longer of any consequence, it was a little too early to say that he was “ the last white man” to ever be South African head of State. I must confess that when I heard  him say this , I thought, “ The  Muzungu must be dreaming.”….and now we all wonder what kinds of thoughts and dreams were rolling down Jesse Jackson’s cheeks as he beheld Brother Obama thunder, “ CHANGE has come to America!”

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On the subject of “it’s the economy stupid”:

http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR20092010fullrankings.pdf

http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Competitiveness%20Report/index.htm

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