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How Halal/Casher (7alal/cosher) are the Covid-19 vaccines concocted? Muslims and conservative Jews are still debating this “ethic issue”
Posted by: adonis49 on: February 24, 2021
The presence of Gelatine of porks in most vaccines are disturbing many Muslims and Jews.
Les télévisions belges RTBF et VRT font état d’un débat éthique qui se développe dans les communautés musulmanes et juives au sujet du vaccin contre le Covid-19.
Beaucoup de musulmans de Belgique s’interrogent. Est-ce que se faire vacciner pendant le Ramadan est considéré comme une “entorse au jeûne” ? Et surtout ces vaccins sont-ils halal ?
Le doute sur l’éventuelle présence de gélatine de porc dans les vaccins contre le coronavirus est né notamment suite à une demande du président indonésien Joko Widodo en juillet 2020. Il avait exhorté le Conseil théologique de son pays à examiner en profondeur le vaccin chinois contre le coronavirus Sinovac pour lequel le pays avait déjà passé commande.
La plus haute instance islamique du pays a déclaré en janvier que le vaccin chinois était “halal”. Mais les musulmans vivant en Europe se posent la question au sujet des vaccins utilisés chez nous.
D’autre part, les campagnes de vaccination vont prendre plusieurs mois dans les différents pays d’Europe et vont donc chevaucher le mois de ramadan (qui débutera à la mi-avril).
Certains vaccins peuvent en effet contenir de la gélatine de porc, ce qui est de nature à contrarier tant les musulmans pratiquants que les juifs pratiquants..
En raison des compositions différentes des différents vaccins qui sont utilisées dans le monde entier, le débat oppose les théologiens musulmans dans plusieurs pays.
La controverse fait également rage au sein de certaines communautés juives au sujet des vaccins et de la gélatine.
Musulmans et Juifs s’inquiètent : le vaccin anti-Covid est-il halal et casher ? – medias-presse.info
Musulmans et Juifs s’inquiètent : le vaccin anti-Covid est-il halal et c…
These Apocalyptic visions are wrong: Oriana missed the real Beast with 10 horns
Posted by: adonis49 on: February 24, 2021
Late Oriana Fallaci visions are as senile as those of John’s
Posted on June 21, 2010
Note: I decided to abridge a previous article denouncing the rambling of late Oriana Fallaci against Muslims and comparing the new extremist factions behavior as resembling St. John’s apocalyptic vision.
Oriana Fallaci is an Italian journalist turned writer; she was dying of cancer when she published her last book “Fallaci interviews Fallaci” followed by “Apocalypse”.
Fallaci was a very liberal personality most of her life, defending the oppressed, until she turned sour and dissatisfied with the state of affairs perpetrated by the slaughtering of foreign hostages by Muslim extremists in Russia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yes, Fallaci was furious that most of the recent terrorist activities in Europe such as in Spain, Italy, France, Holland and Russia were perpetrated by Muslims. (Until the far-right movements in these countries took over the terrorist activities)
Fallaci practiced selective amnesia in this book to avoid mentioning the genocides and terrorist activities in former Yugoslavia that were perpetrated by Christians, Catholics and Orthodox, and the daily terrorism in Iraq among the Muslims sects of Sunni and Shia.
Fallaci went as far as supporting anyone, even Nazis or fascists, as long that the political program was to stop Muslim’ immigration to Europe and to never provide them with the legitimacy of a European citizenship.
Fallaci ended her career by lashing out at legislations that permit homosexuals and lesbians to officially marry and adopt children “because it is a sin” and contrary to human procreation process.
Oriana Fallaci had made up her mind that there are no moderate Muslims, lest they are Muslims by birth but are no longer practicing believers: simply because the Koran is the Koran and there is no way to interpret the Sourates to coincide with civil laws in the western nations.
The vehement attitude of Fallaci toward Islam stems from two premises:
First, all of the terrorist attacks in the World are perpetrated by Muslims, and
Second, the practices of Muslims’ behavior in the Western World are based on the teaching of the Koran which cannot be reconciled with the rational civil laws in the western countries they live in.
I have responded on these two premises in my previous article and will focus on the alternative apocalyptic versions.
Fallacy used St. John’s apocalyptic vision to offer her version of Islam as the Monster and enliven her ejaculations and substantiate her stand, as if a flawed concept can be clarified by a more obscure premise.
In St. John’s apocalyptic version a Monster with seven heads and ten horns would emerge from the sea and the Beast on land would execute all the Monster’s orders until the an angel descend from heaven and lock the Monster and punish the Beasts.
Thus, the Monster is Islam and the Beast is represented by the European liberals and leaders who are trying to appease Muslims and exhorting them to moderation by dangling carrots instead of raising the heavy sticks.
The Monster is to emerge from the sea, though the Muslim World is mostly a vast desert until now. Either the 100-years old St. John was completely dehydrated, and thus seeing mirages, or he had a vision of another Ice Age period and thus, wet continents have exchanged climatic states, or Fallaci was getting out of whack and delving into uncharted territories.
For the time being, the USA is the only superpower located smack between the Pacific and the Atlantic.
The USA has waged two World Wars and invaded Asia and Europe and the only superpower to have landed troops in all continents and are still present, even after the end of the last “hot” world war more than 60 years ago.
The USA has many heads in finance, economy, technology, sciences, mass media, music and movie production, agriculture, and a military supremacy with extra three horns in space exploration, maritime hegemony, and genetic experimentation.
The Beast can be represented by the world States leaders executing the US Administrations orders, then the intelligencia and educated people interpreting favorably the misinformation that the successive US administrations are propagating to spread democracy by pre-emptive wars.
Many leaders are emulating the Beast, either out of fear of economic embargo, sanctions, military reprisals, ordered terrorist activities, or because of local politics, or allegiance to the neo-conservative program.
So far, many nations have joined the Bush Junior war on Iraq without the UN approval , and most of them have ended up retrieving their troops after seeing the light or their leaders failing in elections.
The three main Beasts to shoulder this pre-emptive war were Blair of Britain, Saudi Kingdom and Israel.
I will only focus on the Saudi Monarchy/Theocracy Beast.
Wolfowitz has said after the US troops entered Iraq: “Now, we can get our troops out of Saudi Arabia, after twenty years, without fear of destabilizing the region.”
There is no doubt that Saudi Kingdom not only encouraged the US with its plan to invade Iraq but also financed this campaign directly and indirectly.
The Saudi Wahhabi sect caste was first, getting revenge on the Iraqis for giving their supremacy over the other castes in Saudi Arabia, the scare of their life in 1993: Saddam invaded Kuwait and approached the Saudi Kingdom and
Second, the Wahhabi caste was encouraging the US to get its troops out of Saudi Arabia because Bin Laden was recruiting heavily on the basis of the “infidel Christians” spreading their impurity in the land,
Third, because the Saudi Monarchy and Wahhabi caste are completely reliant on the US to maintain their social structure, and
Fourth to keep communist China influence out of the Iraq, Iran, and Syria.
The Monster can be named; it is the neo-conservatives, Evangelical “Christians” in the USA. They are an amalgam of dozens of Baptist and Protestant sects with the single main belief in the process of how the Second Coming of their Messiah is going to happen.
The neo-conservatives are clamoring that all the Jews should be relocated in Israel and then, after the Jews re-build their famous Temple in Jerusalem, they will launch a targeted crusade toward Israel, with the intention of Christianizing the new heretics of Jews; this campaign would be effective and completed and only then the Messiah would feel comfortable to come back!
The odds are the neo-conservatives would repeat Titus’ feat of destroying the newly erected Temple and scatter the Jews all over the world. If the Jews believe that the support of the USA is free of charge then they are under the spell of the demon; the Jews will have to pay back everything with high interest too.
Fallaci had a most striking interpretation of why the intelligent Oussama Ben Laden decided to televise an appearance a couple of days before the second Presidential US election of Bush Junior. Ben Laden warned the Americans that if they re-elect Bush then he will have no option but to repeat another deadly strike.
Bin Laden knew that his speech will galvanize the arrogant US citizens into shedding their apathy for voting and move in mass to voting heavily for Bush against the favorite Kerry.
The Bush Administration needed Bin Laden alive to sustain their propaganda against Islam and linger a while longer in Iraq. Bin Laden needed Bush in power to recruit heavily among the anti-American Muslims.
This is the ultimate deal between the staunchest extremist Beasts to wreak havoc in the world and create a definite cultural clash between the Christian West and the Islamic World.
The current generally rigid Islam is a major factor to the prevention of effective communication between the West and the Muslim World but it is not the only main factor.
Most of the Muslim World is organized in Caste Systems (closed religious autonomous sects) due to the influence of India and the domination of the successive Mongol Empires to the whole region for over ten centuries.
The most effective venue is not to lambaste mercilessly Islam but to aid our region to gradually break out of our caste structures so that we may communicate internally as a society and then open up to the West later on as people free to speak and publish our opinions without undue internal harassments.
This gradual change is not meant to impose democracy by pre-emptive wars but to allow our societies to invent alternative open systems that work in each Middle East States.
Currently, a substitute Beast will be propagandized: China.
I could not help but write a short poem related to the same theme. Worst, I could not help but sharing it with you; it is titled “Redundant Prophets“:
Tormented youths, hearing voices, experiencing apocalyptic nightmares,
Seeking desperately a corner in a desert,
Preferably when available nearby,
In desolate locations, in complete isolation,
To exorcise their dark dreams,
Their oppressive loneliness, the demons in their soul,
And to find peace of mind.
Archangel Gabriel materialized to a few of them,
Talking to them in a centaur voice,
Vast and reaching the skies,
Or plainly in a human form, surrounded with blinding light.
Gabriel would not let them in peace,
He would harass them during their wretched life,
Urging them to fear the Unique God,
And pray and glorify God’s name, and proselytize in God’s name.
Most were not as lucky in fame,
And have never seen a divine apparition;
They did pass that critical phase in life, in good mental stability,
And reduced level of exacerbated anxiousness.
The difference between Prophets and young crazies
Can be traced to the genetic laziness of Gabriel;
Or most likely to the current glut in redundant prophets.
There are No Lambs in Lebanon to silence, Not even the Silent Majority
Posted by: adonis49 on: February 24, 2021
- MAHA YAHYA Feb. 4, 2021
The assassination of Luqman Slim underlines that the scope for dissent in Lebanon is rapidly narrowing.(More like widening with the increase of calamities that are Not resolved by any institution)
The killing of Luqman Slim is another bad omen for Lebanon. Luqman was not just any activist. (Very few Lebanese have heard of him, mostly the embassies were dealing with him and funding his institution Umam)
He was a vocal critic of Hezbollah (for over 25 years and he visited Israel too), who chose to continue living in his family’s home in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut, an area controlled by those whom he criticized harshly. (And lived in security and safety)
I met Luqman in 2004 with the late journalist Samir Kassir and Samir’s wife Giselle Khoury. (Late Kassir was assassinated by the Druse civil war leader Walid Jumblatt, as a matter of female jealousy )
Luqman, with his wife Monika Borgmann, had invited us to watch a private screening of a movie they had produced on the Sabra and Shatila massacres of 1982.
The debate that ensued was as harrowing as it was enlightening. It was the first of many interactions over the subsequent two years around the memory of the civil war, questions of accountability, and commemoration of the victims, and their importance for Lebanon’s future. These debates dissipated after Samir’s assassination on June 2, 2005.
Luqman was also a harsh critic of Lebanon’s political class, of the repression of the uprising in Syria, of Iran’s regional involvement, and of much else. (What about US invasion of Iraq? Of Israel successive pre-emptive wars on Lebanon…)
But he was also more than that. With Monika, Luqman went on to establish the UMAM documentation and research center in his family home. UMAM aims to inform the future (generation?) by addressing past atrocities.
Since 2005, the center has been collecting information and establishing a database for all those killed, or who disappeared, during the fifteen-year Lebanese civil war. It has also made documentaries and organized discussions on some of the most painful episodes of that conflict.
Their work is critical if Lebanon is to come to terms with the war’s legacy and is essential in determining accountability for the crimes committed during that time. (The Lebanese parliament decided to absolve all the civil war leaders and those who committed crimes against humanity. And these “leaders” are still controlling and ruling Lebanon since 1992)
This work carried out by Luqman and Monika was vital in a country where the political leadership is largely made up of those who fought during the war. Lebanon’s conflict ended with the mantra of “no victor and no vanquished.”
In 1991, parliament passed an amnesty law covering most of the crimes committed during the conflict. Militia leaders moved from the streets into government to occupy the state and its institutions. The history of the civil war was never integrated into school curriculums. Knowledge of the war has largely been defined by individual points of view, not by a collective Lebanese effort to remember the war to better transcend it.
To understand the killing of Luqman one must also look at Lebanon’s broader context.
Since October 2019, when the Lebanese took to the streets to protest against the corruption of their political parties and leaders, the country has been facing an economic collapse that has impoverished more than half the population and decimated the middle class. (Bankrupt State at all levels, politically, economically and financially)
Rather than addressing the sources of discontent, the leadership has remained unwilling to implement the reforms needed to unlock international financial aid, for fear that this would undermine their influence over their constituencies.
Lockdown measures associated with Covid-19 have only hastened this economic breakdown. Without outside financial support Lebanon will continue to sink into the abyss.
Ironically, by protecting their system and continuing with a business-as-usual approach the political parties have also signed its death warrant. That may not be a bad thing, but in the meantime millions of Lebanese will suffer terribly.
The catastrophic (electromagnetic pulse bomb) explosion in the port of Beirut last August 4 further increased the anger of the Lebanese and their vocal criticism of the political leadership.
Six months later, no one has been held accountable for what happened and the official investigation is going nowhere. For many Lebanese there was no question as to who was responsible, when protestors hanged effigies of their political leaders on gallows set up at a demonstration in Martyrs’ Square last year.
Luqman’s killing underlines that the space for dissent is closing fast in Lebanon. Over the past year or so, the political leadership’s tolerance for criticism has been decreasing as more and more journalists and critics have been taken into custody by the authorities.
Yet Luqman’s killing went much further. It heralded a return to political assassinations as a means of silencing those in opposition.
The crime has sent shock waves across Lebanon and beyond, especially among opposition groups and, more so, among most of the 19 officially recognized religious sects.
For many this brought back memories of 2005 and the years that followed, when Samir Kassir, Gebran Tueni, (Communist secretary general Georges Hawi, Mohamad Chatah, Pierre Jr. Gemayel, and many security officials… Pierre Jr. Gemayel was assassinated by agents who were dispatched from the US embassy and returned to the embassy. And why was Pierre Jr. assassinated? Because he expressed his opinion during the government meeting of valuing Hezbollah resistance during the 33 days pre-emptive Israel/US in 2006)
One wonders whether Luqman Slim would have been killed had Kassir and Tueni killers been brought to justice. (Lebanon never brought to trial Israel, US, France, England… perpetrator of assassinations, Not even lesser States such as Jordan, Saudi Kingdom or the Emirate..)
That is why we should have serious doubts as to whether those who assassinated Luqman will themselves be brought to justice.
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