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I'm currently at work and thought I'd take a moment to share some Christmas Cheer!
We've had weather recently that certainly suits the season and yesterday was such a pretty morning, at least until the rain started! The snow was heavy on the trees and even the birds were eerily quiet! Once the winds started the snow was gone quickly from all the branches and tree limbs.
It was a quiet Christmas this year. We made a point of making my late brother's fabulous rice and sausage stuffing for our turkey. And we were sure to toast both my brother and my dad at dinner. Miss them both dearly, we'll be developing some new traditions in order to fill in these sad gaps in our family! Still my mother and John and I and our sweet Jack Russell terrier Keisha, had a swell time.
Holidays seem bitter sweet when we begin to take inventory of those who no longer share in Christmas Festivities. Keisha, we are thrilled to note managed to share this Christmas with us and if all has gone well with her surgery we may get to celebrate several more together. She had surgery just before Christmas to remove some very large stones from her bladder, and also what unfortunately ended up being a malignant tumor on her stomach. We are hopeful that all of the tumor is gone and that she'll live out the rest of her canine life naturally, before any other cancer cells might be able to grow.
I've still more celebrations to attend to this holiday season and will be visiting my daughter's family tomorrow. My grand daughters are at a beautiful age and they are truly enjoying the festivities!
I'm hoping all of you have had special moments to share with the people, places or family who matter in your lives! Blessings to you and yours this holiday season!
The family all got my mom a GPS for her car, since she always seems to ask for one, and for my dad we got a digital picture frame and an SD card. My dad also requested my help for my sister's big gift, and she really liked the iPod I helped pick out for her. It was an overall success this morning. :) My parents also surprised me a bit with Lost Season 4, The Dark Knight, and I Am Legend on DVD, all DVDs I've talked about fairly recently. Today was a pretty nice day to relax, and I haven't done too much but I'm glad to just sit back and think for once.
Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays all. :)
Now, I know it's a strange time to post a topic about Islam, but my Dad forwarded me an email recently (sent to him and 20-something other desis), and if I don't post it now, I'm going to forget to post it, so there :P.
(If you just want a general synopsis, it's at the bottom of the page.)
A German's View on Islam
This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation
I have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and
clear. Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read. The
author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well known and
well respected psychiatrist.
A German's View on Islam
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II,
owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many
German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our
attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he
said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were
too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a
bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen.
Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and
the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up
in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'
We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that
Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims
just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be
true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to
make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of
fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It
is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50
shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically
slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are
gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is
the fanatics, who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the
fanatics who take over mosque after mosque.
It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of
rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young
to kill and to become suicide bombers.
The hard quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent
majority,' is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in
peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of
about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.
China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists
managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a
warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way
across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the
systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by
sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it
not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our
posers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of
points:
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up,
because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find
that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have
begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs,
Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many
others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until
it was too late.
As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only
group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
SYNOPSIS: Basically, the guy is saying that it doesn't matter what you think, if people that are from your country or your heritage do something fucked up, it reflects on like them. Many people see fanatical Islamic terrorist attacks and they associate all Muslims with them. If Muslims want to do something about it, they need to SPEAK OUT AGAINST IT, otherwise they'll be lumped in with the rest of the fanatical nutjobs.
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