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fanarchoslashivist · 2 years ago

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Been bingereading your rotg fics and I know it's been a while but I gotta beg pretty please PLEASE: do you have any more hcs about Bunny or the Pooka race? It's so fascinating to read about and I love how you intertwine it so well into Bunny's mindset.

I'm so glad to hear you like my fics, I'm terribly sorry I am so slow at updating but I do promise I am actively working on them when I have the time.

Its hard to pic any one headcanon about the Pooka, they play an important role in all my fics both in helping to flesh out Bunny and in placing him in opposition to them. What I do with the Pooka is similar to what many scifi and fantasy writers do for their made up alien/magic races, which is to reflect on our own racial biases and differences here on Earth.

What I intend to do with that (and I hope I manage it somewhat decently) is that I place Bunny and the Pooka alongside my Indigenous Jack Frost as a reflection of survivors of genocide. This plays the biggest role in Unmade Bed we Lie In, as Jack is both Pooka AND Indigenous, but it will also come up as we get further into A Royal Pain as Bunny and Jack (and MiM as well) try to find a balance between forward progress into the rest of the planetary system while upholding the cultural and religious significance Earthlings have grown to place on them.

I like to pick the Pookans apart in ways similar to humans, the books have them being all one Alien race of coolly logical Warrior Scholars with advanced technological knowledge and magical abilities, but also insists that North is the first to be able to combine Magic and Technology. Belief does not stand in for religion or personal opinion as it does for adults here on Earth, but it operates on the same iron clad rule sets of children. If you Believe in it it becomes a fact of life for you, it becomes REAL, and if you don't believe or stop believing then it ceases to exist in your world. Unable to interact with you, unable to touch you. in the same way Santa goes from being a very real physical person who can be contacted, who visits you, speaks to you, gives you gifts, only to one day not exist as all. You have pictures of him, you have physical objects he has given to you, you only see him once a year but you also only see half your extended family during that time too. Santa is no more hard to believe in than Great Aunt Dorothy who lives in a nursing home in another state, is Great Aunt Dorothy also fake?

Its hard to imagine a race that insists they operate wholly on logic to be able to wield magic and time travel and fly by using their ears like a helicopter, but if you exist in a universe governed by the rules of Belief then you start working with a completely different reality. Pooka are logical because the BELIEVE they are logical, they, from their place of being the longest lived space faring people, who can travel through time and who were able to collect the very first light during the creation of the universe, believe that what is logical to them culturally is universally logical; and from there I can make them as unique or flawed as I want them to be. Pooka simply come to the same conclusions within the framework of their cultural identity and internal biases, and they call it logic. Its logical to treat any uninhabited planet as a potential colony, its logical to extract resources from asteroid belts and comets, its logical to harvest young stars before they stabilize. No one is using them yet, there are no sentient life forms there, its logical that their species, who is expanding across the universe, collect and control resources as they find them. They never stop to examine what they see as 'inhabited' or question what it means to be 'alive' or 'sentient'.

In Unmade Bed We Lie In the Pooka are not that different from anyone else, they feel anger and disgust and hatred, mostly when you interact with a Pooka they will be either an upper member of their society or a Warrior of the Eumundi Forces, each following a strict code of conduct. They see the Constellans as a very weak willed race, prone to emotional outbursts and delicate sensibilities, the kind of people who can be crippled by something and delicate as fear. In actuality Pooka are just really good at broadcasting their emotions with each other through their mental bonds, they don't NEED to police their tones or bother with inflections or elaborating on simple statements, they only seem emotionless because their emotions are clear to each other and the other races simply lack the ability to pick up on them. A basic level of expression to a Constellan (and a Human) would be considered an embarrassing level of dramatics to a Pooka, something like a childish tantrum.

Another thing I enjoy is splitting them up into demographics, both on their homeworld and their planetary colonies. in 'Unmade Bed' I LOVE the different races and ethnicities, especially in how their own racial tensions come about and how they were maintained even into a period of time where they are supposedly beyond such "illogical" things. How did they unify their planet? How did they maintain a ruling class? How do they justify a sovereign?

With Bunny I always use the Pooka as a tool to give him depth, as much as I love my OCs they exist primarily to show how different Bunny is from them, either from the start or from his many years among humans. Depending on the story I can have Bunny be deeply weird in the eyes of the Pookan "culture", similarly to how we have our own outcasts, or that being exposed to so much here on Earth could have changed him. I like to have him idolize parts of his culture and gloss over parts that are uncomfortable, or to struggle with setting aside parts he no longer agrees with.

Its hard, as the sole survivor of a genocide, so look at your entire species and try to salvage and preserve a culture that had so many moving parts (many from ethnicities you weren't part of) and even harder to find yourself disagreeing with things you used to not even consider COULD be disagreed with. Something so integral to your culture that it didn't even register as cultural, just plain old boring everyday life.

A living culture can adapt and adjust to new ideas, can pick up and set aside aspects of a culture that don't work for them anymore, or that new information shows may have never helped them. The very existence of Homophobia in a culture means that Homosexuality exists within the culture, the fact that legends and lessons in oral histories warns against cruelty, cannibalism, over hunting, murders, this all shows that these were issues people faced and lessons they want to teach. Breaking taboos and discarding teachings is the right and the choice of each new generation, for good or ill. People are not a monolith, and there is no perfect society. Everyone has things they like and dislike about their lives, things they want to try out or change. Quaker passivism was popular among young Indigenous warriors for a reason, indigenous living was so well received among early colonists entire settlements 'dissapeared' for a reason, people want to try new things, they have difficulties and hardships in their life and the parts of their day to day that outsiders would consider integral to their culture is not always something that they would immediately consider vital to them. Especially if they are feeling unheard or unappreciated, especially if they are somehow 'different' enough to be labeled strange. whether it was 700 years ago, 70 years ago, or 7 months ago people want to try new things and hope that it will bring them joy or alleviate some discomfort in their lives.

Being able to have a portion of your people say "actually we don't like mind melding, we want to keep most of our thoughts private," or "I've never liked our Warrior culture, I'd like to focus solely on my art or scholarly pursuits" instead of insisting on everyone being equally skilled for the betterment of their race, that is a sign that the Pookan culture is alive and thriving. Maintaining a perfectly uniform cultural identity when you are a long lived space faring race that can travel through time and that can TALK to a Constellation of Stars as if they were people if you simply Believed they were real people, who terraforms whole worlds and has countless colonies across the cosmos, to have zero variation in culture and belief between them all, that would involve some pretty strong restrictions.

Is Bunny's eccentricities part of him being a Pooka? Or is he eccentric even by Pookan standards? Do Pooka act like Bunny did in their first meeting in the book series, or was that his centuries of PTSD and seclusion and loss of faith in the human potential for a New Golden Age? And how would these things change if the Pooka were not wiped out? (like in Royal Pain) or if other survivors found him? Would there be other Pooka like him who would see him as someone to admire and learn from, or would he be cast out and alone?

And how would he react to that? How would the extent of their genocide change his reactions, how would his attachment to his own culture be influenced by that level of destruction?

In my fic April Showers there was never any genocide, Kozmotis and his family are all alive and well (or long dead depending on how you think Belief effects their aging process) so Bunny and Jack are pretty similar in that they were passionate about their work but shitty government jobs disillusioned them and they retired after they managed to grab one small prize. (Bunny stays on Earth, Jack gets his Humidifier)

In Calefaction Bunny is called away by a band of survivors but they grow quickly disillusioned with each other, the Survivors want to rebuild and keep everything about their people as a perfect and unchanging history and culture, Bunny has spent too long among Humans and finds some of the old ways rubs him wrong now, or lacks room for his new interests. He wants to tell them "actually this wasn't a popular belief even then", "that ceremony was hardly ever practiced, almost nobody actually did coming of age ceremonies anymore you mostly went out for the Pookan equivalent of a pizza", "that practice was actually brought over by Constellan ball culture, the elders were pretty miffed about its popularity". But how do you say that to a bunch of people who only remember their culture through the lens of their family dynamics, and how do you tell someone that a part of their culture they are tying to rebuild and thrive in was actually incredibly oppressive to their people and meant to keep them in line? Was meant to separate them racially? Or restrict what was popularly considered deviant? Whats the Pookan equivalent of homophobia or slavery? Was there culturally ingrained child or spousal abuse? How do you bring it up (as a writer) without fumbling it terribly?

In A Royal Pain the rebuilt Golden Age doesn't learn at all from their brush with extinction and just continues on colonizing worlds and harvesting resources, and this rams right up into our small little Earth where for billions of years Bunny has had to deal with every mountain having a god and every tree a spirit and all the planets and stars being sacred to someone. And Jack, whose people were colonized and placed under the power of another has a lot of opinions on what these magic alien space rabbits want to do to their solar system.

(The delicate balance of keeping the tragedy of colonialism while making it less than our reality since Manny halted much of it military-wise but largely remained hands off in anything not outright "conquest" because 'war bad uwu' but all other aspects of colonialism is okay I guess?! Its a whole thing its why Royal Pain is taking so long. Also why you can't just say "Hey colonialism never happened and all the Native Americans are living in peace in my AU fantasy world :3" because lmfao are they people? Are they living breathing people? With agency? And flaws? Then you bet your ass they are causing conflict. I lost my train of thought... what was I saying?)

I have no idea how much sense I'm making, but my Pookan head canons are so vast and they are always changing based on each fic because I need them to be different things so I can better shine light on Bunny, who I love and cherish and who I want to both thrive and suffer.

#pooka #e aster bunnymund #bunnymund #rin's nonsense #my fics

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salixj · 7 years ago

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Jonathan Sacks – Two Types of Hate

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Posted on August 31, 2017

JONATHAN SACKS – TWO TYPES OF HATE

It is by any standards a strange, almost incomprehensible law. Here it is in the form it appears in this week’s parsha:

Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God. When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under the heaven. Do not forget. (Deut. 25:17-19)

The Israelites had two enemies in the days of Moses: the Egyptians and the Amalekites. The Egyptians enslaved the Israelites. They turned them into a forced labour colony. They oppressed them. Pharaoh commanded them to drown every male Israelite child. It was attempted genocide. Yet about them, Moses commands:

Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were strangers in his land. (Deut. 23:8)

The Amalekites did no more than attack the Israelites once1, an attack that they successfully repelled (Ex. 17:13). Yet Moses commands, “Remember.” “Do not forget.” “Blot out the name.” In Exodus the Torah says that “God shall be at war with Amalek for all generations” (Ex. 17:16). Why the difference? Why did Moses tell the Israelites, in effect, to forgive the Egyptians but not the Amalekites?

The answer is to be found as a corollary of teaching in the Mishna, Avot (5:19):

Whenever love depends on a cause and the cause passes away, then the love passes away too. But if love does not depend on a cause then the love will never pass away. What is an example of the love which depended upon a cause? That of Amnon for Tamar. And what is an example of the love which did not depend on a cause? That of David and Jonathan.

When love is conditional, it lasts as long as the condition lasts but no longer. Amnon loved, or rather lusted, for Tamar because she was forbidden to him. She was his half-sister. Once he had had his way with her, “Then Amnon hated her with intense hatred. In fact, he hated her more than he had loved her.” (2 Sam. 13:15). But when love is unconditional and irrational, it never ceases. In the words of Dylan Thomas: “Though lovers be lost, love shall not, and death shall have no dominion.”

The same applies to hate. When hate is rational, based on some fear or disapproval that – justified or not – has some logic to it, then it can be reasoned with and brought to an end. But unconditional, irrational hatred cannot be reasoned with. There is nothing one can do to address it and end it. It persists.

That was the difference between the Amalekites and the Egyptians. The Egyptians’ hatred and fear of the Israelites was not irrational. Pharaoh said to his people:

‘The Israelites are becoming too numerous and strong for us. We must deal wisely with them. Otherwise, they may increase so much, that if there is war, they will join our enemies and fight against us, driving [us] from the land.’ (Ex. 1:9-10)

The Egyptians feared the Israelites because they were numerous. They constituted a potential threat to the native population. Historians tell us that this was not groundless. Egypt had already suffered from one invasion of outsiders, the Hyksos, an Asiatic people with Canaanite names and beliefs, who took over the Nile Delta during the Second Intermediate Period of the Egypt of the pharaohs. Eventually they were expelled from Egypt and all traces of their occupation were erased. But the memory persisted. It was not irrational for the Egyptians to fear that the Hebrews were another such population. They feared the Israelites because they were strong.

(Note that there is a difference between “rational” and “justified”. The Egyptians’ fear was in this case certainly unjustified. The Israelites did not want to take over Egypt. To the contrary, they would have preferred to leave. Not every rational emotion is justified. It is not irrational to feel fear of flying after the report of a major air disaster, despite the fact that statistically it is more dangerous to drive a car than to be a passenger in a plane. The point is simply that rational but unjustified emotion can, in principle, be cured through reasoning.)

Precisely the opposite was true of the Amalekites. They attacked the Israelites when they were “weary and weak”. They focused their assault on those who were “lagging behind.” Those who are weak and lagging behind pose no danger. This was irrational, groundless hate.

With rational hate it is possible to reason. Besides, there was no reason for the Egyptians to fear the Israelites any more. They had left. They were no longer a threat. But with irrational hate it is impossible to reason. It has no cause, no logic. Therefore it may never go away. Irrational hate is as durable and persistent as irrational love. The hatred symbolised by Amalek lasts “for all generations.” All one can do is to remember and not forget, to be constantly vigilant, and to fight it whenever and wherever it appears.

There is such a thing as rational xenophobia: fear and hate of the foreigner, the stranger, the one not like us. In the hunter-gatherer stage of humanity, it was vital to distinguish between members of your tribe and those of another tribe. There was competition for food and territory. It was not an age of liberalism and tolerance. The other tribe was likely to kill you or oust you, given the chance.

The ancient Greeks were xenophobic, regarding all non-Greeks as barbarians. So still are many native populations. Even people as tolerant as the British and Americans were historically distrustful of immigrants, be they Jews, Irish, Italian or Puerto Rican – and for some this remains the case today. What happens, though, is that within two or three generations the newcomers acculturate and integrate. They are seen as contributing to the national economy and adding richness and variety to its culture. When an emotion like fear of immigrants is rational but unjustified, eventually it declines and disappears.

Antisemitism is different from xenophobia. It is the paradigm case of irrational hatred. In the Middle Ages Jews were accused of poisoning wells, spreading the plague, and in one of the most absurd claims ever – the Blood Libel – they were suspected of killing Christian children to use their blood to make matzot for Pesach. This was self-evidently impossible, but that did not stop people believing it.

The European Enlightenment, with its worship of science and reason, was expected to end all such hatred. Instead it gave rise to a new version of it, racial antisemitism. In the nineteenth century Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they were exclusive and kept to themselves and because they infiltrated everywhere; because they were believers in an ancient, superstitious faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans who believed nothing.

Antisemitism was the supreme irrationality of the age of reason.

It gave rise to a new myth, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a literary forgery produced by members of the Czarist Russia secret police toward the end of the nineteenth century. It held that Jews had power over the whole of Europe – this at the time of the Russian pogroms of 1881 and the antisemitic May Laws of 1882, which sent some three million Jews, powerless and impoverished, into flight from Russia to the West.

The situation in which Jews found themselves at the end of what was supposed to be the century of Enlightenment and emancipation was stated eloquently by Theodor Herzl, in 1897:

We have sincerely tried everywhere to merge with the national communities in which we live, seeking only to preserve the faith of our fathers. It is not permitted us. In vain are we loyal patriots, sometimes superloyal; in vain do we make the same sacrifices of life and property as our fellow citizens; in vain do we strive to enhance the fame of our native lands in the arts and sciences, or her wealth by trade and commerce. In our native lands where we have lived for centuries we are still decried as aliens, often by men whose ancestors had not yet come at a time when Jewish sighs had long been heard in the country . . . If we were left in peace . . . But I think we shall not be left in peace.

This was deeply shocking to Herzl. No less shocking has been the return of antisemitism in parts of the world today, particularly the Middle East and even Europe, within living memory of the Holocaust. Yet the Torah intimates why. Irrational hate does not die.

Not all hostility to Jews, or to Israel as a Jewish state, is irrational, and where it is not, it can be reasoned with. But some of it is irrational. Some of it, even today, is a repeat of the myths of the past, from the Blood Libel to the Protocols. All we can do is remember and not forget, confront it and defend ourselves against it.

Amalek does not die. But neither does the Jewish people. Attacked so many times over the centuries, it still lives, giving testimony to the victory of the God of love over the myths and madness of hate.

#Israel #Antisemitism #Shabbat #Parsha

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republicstandard · 7 years ago

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Why won't the Left Recognize the South African Genocide?

According to Genocide Watch, the political left in the West is engaged in genocide denial. Almost to a man, the Twitterati scramble to point out how, for some reason, the Boer is not really being exterminated in their own lands- or that they had it coming. Welcome to progressive victim blaming. Its fine, so long as the victims are White.

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A message painted on the wall of a police station in #SouthAfrica. I guess now that the Boer has been disarmed in 2000, only the police is left... This is why you don't give up your guns America! pic.twitter.com/KdYwENf6nN

— Willem Petzer (@willempet) March 20, 2018

As pointed out by Jack Montgomery in Breitbart,

“If you look at the footage and read the stories, you hear the accounts, it’s a horrific circumstance they face,” (Australian Home Affairs minister) Dutton had said, arguing that South Africa’s farmers “deserve special attention”.

“I do think, on the information that I’ve seen, people do need help and they need help from a civilized country like ours,” he added — prompting furious demands for a retraction from the South African government.

But rather than welcoming the country’s white minority as refugees, as they would for almost any other group, left-liberal media outlets and pro-migration non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were quick to condemn Dutton, insisting the farmers should be left to their fate.

It is not just Australia- most leftist publications in the West have looked away from this humanitarian crisis. I will give credit where it is due, the Independent has published a relatively clear-eyed report, Newsweek is recognizing the problem for what it is, and RT is ready to report on Julius Malema "cutting the throat of whiteness.”

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RT, it should be noted, were making videos about the looming threat of land expropriation in South Africa four years ago. We didn't listen then- but then RT is Russian state media so it was an obvious ploy to influence elections, or something.

🆘‼😯🔥 #SouthAfrica: a white farmer in Bela-Bela (Warmbad), his name is Jakes van Deventer, was killed by several black assailants, and his wife seriously injured. The white farmers' community caught the attackers, these are the weapons they found in their car. pic.twitter.com/5JggfntiYE

— Onlinemagazin (@OnlineMagazin) March 18, 2018

The genocide denial from progressive activists is shameful.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied, who you may remember claims Islam is the most feminist religion, outright denies the South African Genocide and claims that Australia really should import more Muslims instead of skilled White people, because of course she does. She is an unrepentant activist for Islam, but wishes to deny all others the same courtesy for their own faith or ethnic group.

Let me be clear. There is no evidence to prove that white people (aka farmers from South Africa) would be more beneficial to Australia than people from other nations (e.g. Rohingya). As such, it is rubbish to claim they should be provided faster assistance from Australia.

— Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin_a) March 15, 2018

Apart from centuries of demonstrable farming skills passed from father to son by the Boers, sure. There is no benefit to preferencing skilled people over the unskilled, in Abdel-Magied's book. It is odd indeed that open border advocates like Yassmin suddenly want to build a wall, but with a door that only non-Whites have the key for. Similarly, it is a dishonest ploy to conflate centuries of religious and ethnic conflict in Asia with the genocide in South Africa.

It is not in doubt that the Rohingya are suffering in Myanmar, virtually without aid from neighboring Muslim nations.

Even so, it is strange indeed to advocate for Australian aid for a community defined by political allegiance rather than religious or ethnic grouping when that kind of politics has no connection with Australia. Yassmin draws the line around Islam, and concludes that as she and the Rohingya are both Muslim, that's her team. Fair enough, but this is not a simple case of racist persecution, these issues are deep-rooted. Simply moving the Rohingya to Australia is not a solution to Myanmar's refusal to recognize the Rohingya as citizens or to end the bloodshed. Is it racist for a White country to help White people with whom they share a history as the sons of colonialists? Abdel-Mageid may argue that would be the definition of racism, and to be quite frank I for one do not care, because she would have to own that racism herself.

SHOW 👏🏽 ME 👏🏽 CONCRETE 👏🏽 EVIDENCE 👏🏽 TO 👏🏽 PROVE 👏🏽 ME 👏🏽 WRONG 👏🏽 OH WAIT 👏🏽 YOU HAVE NONE? 👏🏽 YOU'RE SPOUTING DOGWHISTLING BS? 👏🏽 THOUGHT SO 👏🏽 KTHXBYE.

— Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin_a) March 15, 2018

Australia, a secular society based on Europeans and their Christian values, recognizes the plight of another European Christian descended society and wishes to help. Could not the neighbors of the Rohingya, Muslim countries all, help their co-religionists and provide them support? If we're honestly looking for solutions it is self-evident that people with common cultural, language and ethnic connections integrate into societies easier than those without. This should not be a controversial position, but apparently it is racism to recognize that people in the world are different- unless you are an intersectional leftist, in which case you can recognize differences in relation to White people, in order to leverage power.

South Africa: with the government condoning theft of land of white farmers and doing nothing to stop their murder, 2018 is turning into a bad year if you are white and live in SA. 1.7 farm attacks per day an 1 farmer murdered every 5 days. This is genocide. #SouthAfrica pic.twitter.com/lceenJX8ks

— Miss Jo (@HaramHussy) March 11, 2018

It is racist to claim that Whites can be oppressed- despite this entire article existing as an exercise in highlighting the in-group preference that is exhibited by people of all races and faiths. If it is racist for White Australians to recognize their kinship with White South Africans, why is it not also anti-Kuffar bigotry for Yassmin Abdel-Magied to advocate for her own in-group? Can we not understand that having love and being an advocate for your own people does not necessitate hatred of the other? Abdel-Magied shows here that it is, as usual, group identity for the Muslim, but Christians- watch out. That's racism.

Apart from being such an egregious example of how not to make an argument, the leftist position is clear. If you are White and look at people who look like you being tortured and raped for their skin color with horror, it is you that is the racist. The implicit demand is "What about the non-Whites?" To which the reply should be- what race is more charitable, more willing to aid and more accomodating than those hated Whites? This is a sick ideology, and if it means that we are Alt-Right for opposing racist murderers, count us in. History remembers those who deny genocide.

I find Peter Dutton speaking about white farmers in South Africa while condemning others trying to come to Aus so incredibly racist. It’s one of the most flagrant racist displays I’ve ever seen yet people are applauding him. Pull your fucking shit together Australia!

— Scott Rhodie (@ScottRhodie) March 14, 2018

What we are witnessing is the weaponization of ethnic cleansing in order to promulgate an open-borders and globalist agenda.

To put it mildly, this sticks in the craw. The idea that because the Australian government has been brave enough to recognize reality and try to help that this is somehow racist is not only insulting but exhibits the most appalling kind of anti-White bigotry.

Let me be clear: Farm violence, and crime generally, is a major problem in South Africa. It warrants closer inspection and much stronger policing. However, if you think it constitutes 'white genocide', you're being taken for a ride by race-baiters and proto-fascists.

— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) January 20, 2018

Jon Rosenthal of The Economist, who is Jewish, will denounce all genocide except when it happens to Whites.

This is outrageous racism. Australia detains genuine asylum seekers for years, but opens its arms to a bunch of white people who do not face oppression. https://t.co/30Lv0xrnvE

— Jonathan Rosenthal (@rosenthal_jon) March 15, 2018

Australia is racist because Rosenthal disagrees with their immigration policy with regard to helping people flee a genocide- though of course, #NotAllAustralians, Jon. Rosenthal will go so far to argue with a Black South African racist about what a genocide is.

Oh. Now you use the word "zionists" instead of Jews. Very clever. I have denounced apartheid. Will you denounce genocide of Jews?

— Jonathan Rosenthal (@rosenthal_jon) August 29, 2017

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This is the double standard that is being exhibited to varying degrees across the plaent, when it comes to relations between people of European descent and virtually all others. It has now become common to claim that there is no such thing as Whiteness when it comes to an identity, but Whiteness itself is toxic and must be deconstructed. That is the philosophical root in the West of our neo-Marxist political left.

Judgement Day. The land is ours!!! pic.twitter.com/ZSh2QaBdAd

— andile (@Mngxitama) March 19, 2018

This is the sharp end of the same ideology. This is the result of formented bigotry sanctioned by a state that wholeheartedly agrees that Whiteness itself is evil enough to be met with land expropriation, rape, torture and murder. Is this carnage really what the so-called progressives wish to advance? As we have repeatedly said in this magazine, this is what awaits Western nations, casually waiting for demographics to tilt the balance of power.

BLACK AGENDA ON REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND APARTHEID “Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. ― Amos Wilson 1/3 pic.twitter.com/LNM8Cb35Cm

— Lindsay Maasdorp (@LindsayMaasdorp) March 19, 2018

The rhetoric is the same as that parroted by the benign social justice advocates in your own town. The weepy students who wail about wanting safe spaces and segregated housing because of the evil Whites oppressing them will not speak out against this genocide. They deny it. They will not condemn the South African government, they will say, well the power dynamics are shifting and this is a good thing thanks to centuries of colonialism, and South Africa should belong to Black people. Apart from highlighting how the left really sees multiculturalism -as a weapon against Whites- this is dishonest, upstream thinking. The same thinking begat the extermination of the Kulaks with the Holodomor, but for some reason many leftists don't like to talk about that, either.

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The Deputy President of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) manhandles/intimidates Afrikaner journalist outside of parliament in South Africa You won't see any pro-EU politicians condemning this though. pic.twitter.com/8ttUvSQWIw

— Defend Europa (@DefendEvropa) March 20, 2018

The South African Genocide is real. search #plaasmoorde on Twitter. Spread the word. Contact your local representative and demand action.

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celticcrossministry · 8 years ago

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Islam & Christianity in Nigeria, the lines are being drawn in Christian Blood and Martyrdom

Africa's most populous country, Nigeria, is currently grappling with a dangerous political and religious crisis, no thanks to a porous security challenges and high ranking corruption cases among government officials which has bewildered the West African country for decades.

Nigeria, a country born in the 1900s out of the colonial conquest of Africa by Europeans and administrative machinery of the old British government colonists, has since, not ceased dancing as a swinging pendulum to her continued existence. Made up of a majority of Muslims in the North, and a predominant population of Christians in the South, Nigeria has not been found wanting in terms of religious violence and extremism, with most of the incidents occurring in the Muslim north which has recorded a good number of inter-ethnic migration from the southern Christians.

In Nigeria, a little misunderstanding between individuals of different ethnicity or a political conflict could easily be inflamed and given a religious undertone which will most likely result in the death of scores of innocent civilians.

Bridget Agbahime is a Christian woman from Imo, a state in the Eastern part of Nigeria. She lives with her husband who serves as a Senior Pastor at the Deeper Life Bible Church in Kano, a Northern state in Nigeria known for its dense population of Muslims. However, on June 2, 2016, Mrs Bridget became another Christian martyr and a victim of the growing rate of Islamic extremism which is characteristic with the northern part of Nigeria. She was lynched to death by a group of Muslims in a mob, who accused her of blasphemy against the prophet Mohammed.

According to an eye witness report, Mrs Bridget who was a petty trader, selling Kitchen utensils at a popular Wambai Market in Kano state, had refused to allow one Mr Dauda Admed (a Muslim) to wash his legs in front of her shop in accordance with his Islamic tradition. Mr Dauda quickly gathered some group of Muslim fanatics who immediately bundled the woman out from her shop, stoned her to death and paraded her lifeless head across the city.

While the gruesome murder of Mrs. Bridget sparked condemnations across Nigeria, the Christian community were however stunned and infuriated when a Kano state magistrate court discharged and acquitted five suspects arrested by the Nigeria police for their culpable roles in Bridget's murder. The Chief Magistrate explained that his decision is based on the advise by the state government through the attorney general. The state government has been accused of shielding the suspected extremists from prosecution just like several cases of violence against Christians in the state and other Muslim populated parts of the country.

Meanwhile, as religious intolerance and Islamic extremism attains its all time level of impunity in Nigeria, it just seems Christians in Nigeria have more to worry about regarding the insurgency of different Islamic affiliated terrorist groups in the country.

While the fight against the deadly Islamic insurgents known as Boko Haram is gathering momentum in Nigeria, it is however increasingly worrisome that a more deadly jihadist group is desperately on the verge of substituting the Boko Haram sect whose activities have been curtailed to some extent in recent times, as religious extremism and violence continues to characterize the most populous country in Africa.

A Fulani militant group popularly known as 'Fulani Herdsmen' were in 2014 ranked as the world's 4th most deadly terrorist group in the world by a 'Global Terrorism Index' report. The group consists of Muslim nomads from the Fula ethnicity based across the West African nations.

According to local media reports, between 2013 to 2016, not less than 5,000 deaths of local Christian farmers and civilians were recorded from the attacks of these militants who occasionally disguise their operations as ordinary cattle herders, across Nigeria.

The emergence of Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim and former military general of Fulani origin, as Nigeria president in 2015, seems to have given these nomadic invaders some degree of impetus, as they have increasingly stepped up to more deadly attacks on Christian communities in different parts of Nigeria.

The operational strategy of Fulani militia has a strong jihad undertone against the Christians, who have been left at the mercy of the invaders, usually equipped with AK-47 rifles, machetes with little or no adequate response or protection from the Nigeria government and its security agents or agencies.

" These local herdsmen have sophisticated weapons and plan strategic attacks on villages and individuals like conventional organized crime groups. This makes it easy for such groups to easily feed terrorist groups like Boko Haram directly or indirectly. Their believe in the Islamic religion acts as a powerful bond and a push factor. This is manifested in their choice of target. Constant attacks against mostly non-Muslim indigence, churches, schools etc makes it possible for such groups to come in contact and share resources with Boko Haram," stated Mr David Otto Endeley, a counter-terrorism expert.

In January this year, a Catholic Church Diocese in the Kaduna state of Nigeria, during a press statement, disclosed that it has documented the massacre of 808 Christians within the state and scores of others injured, as a result of attacks from the Fulani militants. The Church also noted that not less than 1,522 houses and 16 churches have been razed down due to the crisis.

“The herdsmen and their likes turned the towns into killing fields and killed mostly women, children and the elderly who couldn’t run for cover," the Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan stated in a press statement signed by the Vicar General of the Diocese, Rev. Fr. Ibrahim Yakubu; Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Okolo, Chancellor, Rev. Fr. Aaron Tanko Rev. Fr. Williams Abba and President, Laity Council, Mr. Joseph Bayei (KSJ).

Going further, the statement reads;

“The level of barbarity was such that pregnant women got their wombs blown out and massacred before their children. And these innocent children were not spared either”.

“This level of viciousness was never witnessed even in the brutal tyranny and regime of Adolf Hitler”. What is most intriguing is the level of sophistication of weapons like AK 47, machine guns and many other deadly instruments of death which were freely used.

“The viciousness of these self styled Jihadists sends shivers into the spines of our traumatized people”. In the Godogodo and Pasakori attacks for example, the military merely watched and supervised the burning of our homes. When the youths mobilized to repel the attackers, the soldiers deliberately blocked them from entering the town.”

Similarly, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, decried the atrocities being perpetrated by Fulani herders and spoke out against the Nigeria government over its complicit silence and in-actions towards the killings. “Though the church in Nigeria since 2009 has been subjected to a systematic genocide and persecution through the instrumentality of Islamic fundamentalists Boko Haram, leading to the killing of thousands of Christians and destruction of hundreds of churches, and over 50,000 houses, the current unprecedented onslaught against Christians in Southern Kaduna by the Islamic fundamentalists disguising as Fulani herdsmen under the watch of Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and President Muhammadu Buhari has reached an alarming stage," The General Secretary of CAN, Dr. Musa Asake, protested.

It is imperative to note that attacks are not limited to only Christians in the northern part of Nigeria. In 2016 alone, the Fulani militants continuously launched deadly attacks against several communities in the Middle Belt of Nigeria such as the infamous recorded 'Agatu massacre', and also in the Southern part of the country, such as recorded in Enugu, Delta and Anambra States. Thousands of innocent Christian civilians have lost their lives during these attacks, while millions have been displaced.

While addressing US Congressmen over the rising religious extremism and violence in Nigeria, Nigeria's former president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan warned that if the brewing religious crisis in the country are not tackled abruptly, Nigeria as a country is heading for a doomed and disastrous end.

"If, as a nation, we do not kill religious persecution and extremism, then religious persecution and extremism will kill Nigeria. The potential danger associated with the level of conflicts going on across the country is so glaring that no sane mind can ignore," the Christian former Head of State noted while addressing the United States House Sub-Committee on Africa on the growing rate of religious extremism and persecution of Christians in Nigeria.

With the Boko Haram putting up some resistance in the North and the nomadic militants spreading their deadly attacks Southwards, Counter-terrorism experts have warned that Nigeria may be sitting on a keg of gun powder if no drastic measures are put in place by the government to stop these Islamic extremist groups from carrying out further attacks.

In the Southern part of Nigeria, agitations for independence has escalated in recent times, and has gained huge amount of support from the populace who feel that the government has failed woefully in the protection of their lives and properties, even as the Nigerian government and its Muslim leader are being accused of orchestrating an Islamic agenda aimed at eradicating Christianity in the country.

By; Celtic Cross Global PRESS Corps, International Corrispondent & Blogger Br. Paul Ihechi Alagba

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