CAMERA : Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting
Saturday night : Mood I’m in, just back home with Better Half, from Kent Ekberg’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night – into 13 dags afton at Teater Reflex in Kärrtorp – mostly a musical adaptation set in the 60’s Stockholm of the last century, so there was a lot of Aretha Franklin, some Beatles, some Percy Sledge – and as Mr. Ekeberg said, his was a work of love and love is the best that man can give – or receive…..
Friday night, also experienced such peace and love and harmony at the blessed Kabbalat Shabbat service conducted by Rabbi David Lazar, here in Stockholm.
A must read: Friendship
Tomorrow: Wondering where is Joe Frans who instituted the Martin Luther King Prize in Sweden – in the spirit of Dr. King’s work and ambition as tomorrow January 15, is the Rev Dr Martin Luther King’s birthday and we all wish him “Happy Birthday!” with this song
January 11th was also the birthday of another great man who marched side by side with Dr. King in Selma, and his name is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel…
Well, there was The Enlightenment
We haven’t got to heaven yet and that’s why we are still in the post-enlightenment world.
Brother Moses, Brother Jesus, Prophet Muhammad and his followers among which number there ’s one DD
We must all admit that religion, oil and politics is a powerful combination.
In today’s world it’s
Christians: 2.2 Billion
Muslims, 1.6 Billion and rising
despite more decimations and slaughter and ignoble urination on the dead in Afghanistan, bombs still going off in Iraq and remote control murder by drone in Pakistan. And you all know how tragic the situation is in Syria.
Post-Holocaust Jews: 14 Million in number
and all those living in the heartland Israel, facing extinction any time now by a thermo-nuclear Armageddon which could originate in Haman’s Iran….
IAEA Inspectors Say Iran Is Enriching Uranium at Mountain Site
Former UN Nuclear Inspector: Iran Will Have Enough Enriched Uranium for 4-5 Nukes by End of 2012
Fortunately, Sharansky: Obama’s New Chief of Staff “Staunch Israel Supporter”
For the time being Sweden is in the Christian sector of Western Democracy & Civilisation, but what the world will look like by the year 2,200 is uncertain as uncertain as whether Jesus is going to come back before the expected Jewish Messiah and the Mahdi (alaihi salaam) of al-Islam, not to forget the Maitreya of Buddhism – all before the projected Armageddon takes us all to the paradise of the 72 virgins even before some have time to begin to enjoy their pension – the fruits of some four and a half decades of the eight-hour day of earning the daily bread for which we all pray…
There’s also Stephen Hawking and his predictions that if we don’t blow ourselves all up like the suicide bomber today, we are likely to do so a little later. One more reason which he advances for the colonisation of space. Naturally, if blowing the earth up is inevitable we pray that it will be postponed and not occur during our life time or the lifetime of our great grandchildren. It’s not funny. Of course, they (our descendants) will also be saying the same prayer of delay and a reprieve, petitioning the Almighty for a postponement of His wrath which could signal THE VERY END.
For which reason, some people make hay while the sun shines.
Where did it all begin ? Where will it end and when?
Whereas you would think that with everybody claiming to worship the same loving and merciful Father of Creation, there would be peace and love reigning among all his children living in his various mansions, tragically, this is not the case.
Today, we can speak of the geopolitics of religion and begin with one of the hottest spots on earth, the root of a contention : Israel’s Bible Belt