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A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
Rodney Dangerfield
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ReplyDeleteAs a Muslim mother who never saw a niqab when I was growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, I am astonished to see Canada’s judiciary caving in to Islamists who have nothing but contempt for Canada’s values of gender equality.
I write this as a Muslim Canadian who does not have any specific political leanings.
But in the 25 years I have called Canada home, I have seen a steady rise of Muslim women being strangled in the pernicious black tent that is passed off to naïve and guilt-ridden white, mainstream Canadians as an essential Islamic practice.
The niqab and burka have nothing to do with Islam.
They’re the political flags of the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, the Taliban, al-Qaida and Saudi Arabia.
Now I learn I have not only to fight the medieval, theocratic adherents of my faith for a safe space for myself, I have to battle the Federal Court of Canada as well, which has come out on the side of these facemasks.
The ruling concerns the case of Zunera Ishaq, a 29-year-old woman who emigrated to Canada from Pakistan in 2008.
After previously showing her face to an immigration official in 2013 when taking her citizenship test, she refused to take part in the citizenship ceremony because she would have to show her face while taking the oath of citizenship.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government rightly banned face masks at such ceremonies, but this was found to be unlawful by the Federal Court.
With all due respect, let me introduce our Canadian judges to their Pakistani colleague in the jihadi badlands of Peshawar.
In November 2004, the Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), Tariq Pervaiz Khan, ordered female lawyers not to wear face veils in courtrooms, saying they couldn’t be identified, nor assist the court properly while wearing veils.
He scolded the niqabi women saying,“You are professionals".
Covering the face is not a religious requirement for Muslim women.
The injunction in the Qur’an is for modesty (for men and women).
Some Muslim women interpret this as covering their head with a scarf or chador.
A scholar of Islamic history, Prof. Mohammad Qadeer of Queen’s University, Kingston, wrote in the Globe and Mail in March 2006:
“The argument about concealing one’s face as a religious obligation, is contentious and is not backed by the evidence.”
He added, “in Western societies, the niqab also is a symbol of distrust for fellow citizens and a statement of self-segregation.The wearer of a face veil is conveying: ‘I am violated if you look at me.’
It is a barrier in civic discourse. It also subverts public trust.”
The federal Liberals and NDP are treating Canada’s niqabis as a latter day Rosa Parks, fighting for justice.
This is vote-bank politics that is, as my friend Tarek Fatah calls it, “sharia Bolshevism”.
There is just one way forward: The next government must legislate the complete ban on wearing face masks in public, not just to expose the hypocrisy of the Islamists but for the sake of our security as well.
-- Raza is President of The Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow, author of Their Jihad … Not my Jihad and an international activist for women's righ
Yes, there are plenty of things I cannot gain knowledge of...
ReplyDeleteNote, I do not stalk, but investigate. No interest means I always back off.
Someone at church talked to me today and just by knowing the first name only by end of today I know last name, and likely maiden name based on family. So, she is likely separated or divorced but without ring...
Good guess is the classic married a non-Christian. I am not going to divulge all my deductions.
My academic friend was impressed and I was just at the current last name part...
FYI
ReplyDeleteThe sound went on my fairly new Toshiba flat screen. Went to Toshiba site, followed directions with television and unplugged. No fix. Went to Shaw site, followed directions, unplugged the Shaw receiver (all that was needed), plugged back in and fixed.
I was thinking a new television was sadly on the way...
A priest dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. Ahead of him is a guy who's dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket, and jeans.
ReplyDeleteSaint Peter addresses this cool guy, “Who are you, so that I may know whether or not to admit you to the Kingdom of Heaven ?”
The guy replies, “I'm Jack, retired airline pilot from Houston .”
Saint Peter consults his list. He smiles and says to the pilot, “Take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom.”
The pilot goes into Heaven with his robe and staff.
Next, it's the priest's turn. He stands erect and booms out, “I am Father Bob, pastor of Saint Mary's for the last 43 years.”
Saint Peter consults his list. He says to the priest, “Take this cotton robe and wooden staff and enter the Kingdom.”
'Just a minute,' says the good father. 'That man was a pilot and he gets a silken robe and golden staff and I get only cotton and wood. How can this be?
“Up here - we go by results,” says Saint Peter. “When you preached - people slept. When he flew - people prayed.”
The Joy of the Lord
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think “the joy of the Lord” means? As in Nehemiah 8, “the joy of the Lord is your strength?” My grammar is rusty, but isn’t that “subjective or objective genitive?” Is it the joy the Lord himself has, or the joy we have in him or because of him? That sounds nitpicking but when you know how weak you are, and I do, then knowing where your strength is, now that’s important.
Remember the story. They are back from exile, back with the Lord in his country where they belong. The city wall is up again and they are a lot safer than they were. Now it’s time to go to the temple to hear again God’s law and when they do, they all cry, they sob. Now to me that feels right, we ignored all the Lord ever said to us and did for us, no wonder we had that hard exile, how dumb could we get, sob and sob away. That was when they got the word, stop that crying, this is a celebration, eat up! Since “the joy of the Lord, now that’s your strength!”
ReplyDeleteDoes that mean, see how glad the Lord himself is to have you back, in his country in his house? Or is it, you yourself need to get more joy in your heart? Maybe both? For Jonathan Edwards that was a basic question: why are we always trying to get from God instead of giving to him, in praise and worship? I think in a similar way about the Reformation passion for “extraspective” faith, a trust in Jesus Christ that never looks back at your trust to see how deep or sincere it is. That looking back at yourself can so easily make faith into just another work.
ReplyDeleteThat’s what Edwards’ followers did, leading them finally to Unitarianism, with its minimal interest in Jesus’ identity as God, eclipsed by our own morality. As we try to keep all that in mind, what after all do you think is that joy the Lord promises us? We know by now where a prosperity gospel goes, enough to make us leery of even a “spiritual prosperity.” O Lord, protect us, keep us from trying to use you just to get what we really want, without caring for you and your glory.
ReplyDeleteThe Lord’s Prayer is the Lord’s own model for us, I’m so glad of that. Our Father who art in heaven—I call you by name, I know who you are, in heaven ruling the universe and our loving Father too. Hallowed be thy name—please see to it Lord that right now you get the honor you are so worthy of, from all those angels, from all those believers already with you, from believers all over the world, who look to Byzantium or Rome or Geneva, from all my needy friends and from me too. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven--O Lord, please work in our hearts so we honor you with our entire lives, not just in the way we talk about you.
ReplyDeleteOnly after that do we move to daily bread and forgiveness. I hope this isn’t too mechanical but could we do some similar timing in our own prayers? How many minutes of hallowing, how many about bread? Could that show us where we are, takers or givers with our Lord? Jonathan, I know you’re so much further along--but it seems so much to me that as I seek to honor my Lord with my heart, he gives me so much joy—that the more I give him the more I enjoy him and that he is at my side. Isn’t the joy of the Lord both/and? Or BOTH/and?
ReplyDeleteD. Clair Davis
Note: the 'Win Argument' series is an attempt for me now working full-time and not a full time student, to write posts on that blog based on new texts purchased. Not that I have exhausted by own academic library, not at all, but my PhD and MPhil theses have almost been entirely presented online as I promised to those that assisted with questionnaires/surveys. The Satire blog will remain largely theology and philosophy posts based on the news, personal life what have you. Both blogs allow me to present a more balanced picture of my views from the more academic to more practical. As far as academic journals are concerned the one journal I applied for had a 90% rejection rate and informed me that my work was too theological. At anywhere near 90% rejection I cannot depend on journal articles to maintain my writing and to promote me. As well, I am strong on the idea that I worked for free in academia for 19 years and it is now time to be paid for doing peer reviewed academic work. I cannot endlessly go on writing and researching for free in order for others to grade me in the hope of employment. I have had enough. Therefore, if I can receive PhD related work a journal article is more likely to occur. I am working 60 hours a week now presently with corp, security, homecaring, blgging and employment seeking and that is my limits. Thankfully, my sleep apnea is far less due to two major surgeries and metabolism boosting which has seen me drastically and permanently slim down from the kingpin days, as coined by my friend Booby Buff...
ReplyDeleteThankfully, my sleep apnea is far less due to two major surgeries (UPPP of throat area and a rhinoplasty) and metabolism boosting which has seen me drastically and permanently slim down from the kingpin days, as coined by my friend Booby Buff...
ReplyDeleteChocolate Chip Cookies and Children's Church
ReplyDeleteDuring our church's worship service, the pastor invites all the young children to join him near the altar for the "Children's Moments Sermon."
One day, with seven small children in attendance, he spoke about the ingredients required to make up a church, using a chocolate-chip cookie as an example.
He explained to the children that, as with a cookie requiring ingredients such as sugar and eggs, the church needed ingredients to make up the congregation.
Holding a cookie aloft, he asked, "If I took the chocolate chips out of this cookie, what would I have?"
A shy six-year-old raised his hand. "Six less grams of fat," he replied.
JUST PASSING THROUGH
ReplyDeleteThe story is told of an American tourist who visited the 19th century Polish rabbi, Hofetz Chaim. Astonished to see that the rabbi's home was only a simple room filled with books, plus a table and a bench, the tourist asked, "Rabbi, where is your furniture?"
"Where is yours?" replied the rabbi.
"Mine?" asked the puzzled American. "But I'm a visitor here. I'm only passing through."
"So am I," said Hofetz Chaim.
What a difference it would make in our lives in we truly had the perspective that we sometimes sing: “This world is not my home, I'm just a-passing through." In a few days, I will be leaving town for a week. I will pack one suitcase and will take with me very few essential items. I will not take my furniture with me. I will not take any stereo equipment. I will definitely not take a lawn mower. I understand the difference between staying in a hotel for a short length of time and establishing a permanent residency.
But, by the looks of things, it appears that many people (including many Christians) haven't yet learned the difference. We accumulate stuff as if this world is going to be our permanent dwelling. It was a mistake that the patriarchs of old didn't make. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all freely "confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on this earth." (Heb. 11:13). We need to develop the same mentality. If we understand that our home is somewhere else, then we will view things around us differently.
Jesus put it this way: "Don't hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or - worse! - stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it's safe from moth and rust and burglars. It's obvious, isn't it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being." (Matthew 6:19-21, The Message)
Reread verse 21 again -- "The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being." Where are your treasures? Are you just passing through, or have you set up a “permanent” residency?
Have a great day!
…..Alan Smith, Helen Street Church of Christ, Fayetteville, North Carolina by way of “Christian Voices” (ChristianVoices@att.net)
An article in National Geographic several years ago provided an interesting picture of God's wings. After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno's damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree.
ReplyDeleteSomewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick. When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under their dead mother's wings.
The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke would rise. She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her babies. Then the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her small body, the mother had remained steadfast.
Because she had been willing to die, those under the cover of her wings would live. "He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge." (Psalm 91:4)
Being loved this much should make a difference in your life today. Remember the One who loves you, and then be different because of it.
…..The Daily Encourager (dlangerfeld@harrisburgbaptist.org) by way of “Christian Voices” (ChristianVoices@att.net)
The Joy of the Lord
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think “the joy of the Lord” means? As in Nehemiah 8, “the joy of the Lord is your strength?” My grammar is rusty, but isn’t that “subjective or objective genitive?” Is it the joy the Lord himself has, or the joy we have in him or because of him? That sounds nitpicking but when you know how weak you are, and I do, then knowing where your strength is, now that’s important.
Remember the story. They are back from exile, back with the Lord in his country where they belong. The city wall is up again and they are a lot safer than they were. Now it’s time to go to the temple to hear again God’s law and when they do, they all cry, they sob. Now to me that feels right, we ignored all the Lord ever said to us and did for us, no wonder we had that hard exile, how dumb could we get, sob and sob away. That was when they got the word, stop that crying, this is a celebration, eat up! Since “the joy of the Lord, now that’s your strength!”
Does that mean, see how glad the Lord himself is to have you back, in his country in his house? Or is it, you yourself need to get more joy in your heart? Maybe both? For Jonathan Edwards that was a basic question: why are we always trying to get from God instead of giving to him, in praise and worship? I think in a similar way about the Reformation passion for “extraspective” faith, a trust in Jesus Christ that never looks back at your trust to see how deep or sincere it is. That looking back at yourself can so easily make faith into just another work.
That’s what Edwards’ followers did, leading them finally to Unitarianism, with its minimal interest in Jesus’ identity as God, eclipsed by our own morality. As we try to keep all that in mind, what after all do you think is that joy the Lord promises us? We know by now where a prosperity gospel goes, enough to make us leery of even a “spiritual prosperity.” O Lord, protect us, keep us from trying to use you just to get what we really want, without caring for you and your glory.
ReplyDeleteThe Lord’s Prayer is the Lord’s own model for us, I’m so glad of that. Our Father who art in heaven—I call you by name, I know who you are, in heaven ruling the universe and our loving Father too. Hallowed be thy name—please see to it Lord that right now you get the honor you are so worthy of, from all those angels, from all those believers already with you, from believers all over the world, who look to Byzantium or Rome or Geneva, from all my needy friends and from me too. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven--
ReplyDeleteO Lord, please work in our hearts so we honor you with our entire lives, not just in the way we talk about you.
ReplyDeleteOnly after that do we move to daily bread and forgiveness. I hope this isn’t too mechanical but could we do some similar timing in our own prayers? How many minutes of hallowing, how many about bread? Could that show us where we are, takers or givers with our Lord? Jonathan, I know you’re so much further along--but it seems so much to me that as I seek to honor my Lord with my heart, he gives me so much joy—that the more I give him the more I enjoy him and that he is at my side. Isn’t the joy of the Lord both/and? Or BOTH/and?
ReplyDeleteD. Clair Davis