MSN fake news

Posted on May 11, 2020 by jewamongyou

A recent MSN news article informs us that a man has been arrested for the murder of a 23 year old Shantal Hill in Washington D.C.:

Acting on a D.C. Superior Court arrest warrant, officers arrested Carson Posey, 20, of Northwest, on Friday, May 8, charging him with first degree murder while armed (premeditated). Following an investigation, detectives determined the incident was domestic in nature.

It’s interesting that the accompanying graphic clearly depicts a white man behind bars:

Posey

The MSN article does not include a photo of the suspect, however another article does, and this is what he looks like:

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Maybe only his hands are white… that would explain it.

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R. Meir haMe’ili’s attack on the Kabbalah

Posted on May 8, 2020 by jewamongyou

Many years ago, before most of y’all were born, I visited Hebrew University in Jerusalem. I was looking for an obscure manuscript, and it was rumored to be available on microfilm. Miraculously, I found it. It was an eight hundred year old letter from R. Meir haMe’ili, a member of the rabbinical court in Narbonne, Provence. The letter was included in a book called Milhemeth Mitzvah.

Straining my eyes, and hunched over the microfilm machine, I painstakingly transcribed the relevant sections of that letter, leaving out large sections of religious fluff.

The letter is unlikely to be of much interest to non-Jews, or non-practicing Jews. But it’s extremely important. To the best of my knowledge, I’m the only one to have published it, especially in English. I could have sworn that I’d already published it on this blog, but I couldn’t find it. It must have been one of those items I’d thought about publishing so often that my mind fooled me into thinking I’d already done so. Or maybe I did, and I mis-categorized it. If you find it in an earlier post, feel free to embarrass me by pointing it out; I’m not so young anymore!

Though it hasn’t been published (as far as I know), it has been referred to, and I’ll quote Encyclopedia.com:

Meir also appears in this work as a vehement opponent of a certain circle of kabbalists, to whom he attributes heretical views. Questioning the authenticity of Sefer ha-Bahir, he sharply criticizes its contents, together with other kabbalistic works. These criticisms were included in an “epistle” sent to “our rabbis in every town.” His work was also directed against the ideas of some kabbalists based on works which, according to Meir, were forgeries attributed to well-known scholars. At the end of this epistle he gives Meshullam’s commendation to his activity.

As you’ll see, “questioning the authenticity of Sefer ha-Bahir” is putting it mildly. Also, his objections to the Kabbalah apply to mainstream Kabbalah, and not just to “some Kabbalists.” The heretical concepts that he attacks are clearly spelled out in such works as Zohar Hadash (“New Zohar,” which is one of the Zohars mentioned below).

Here’s some context to help you appreciate this letter. If you ask Orthodox rabbis about the Kabbalah (so-called “Jewish mysticism”), 99.9% of them will tell you it’s an integral part of Judaism, that to reject the Kabbalah is pretty much the same as rejecting the Torah itself. Hasidic Judaism, in particular, is largely based on the Kabbalah. Much of modern Jewish liturgy is influenced by the Kabbalah. Sephardic, and Mizrahi, Jews also give special deference to the Kabbalah. If you publicly reject the Kabbalah in religious circles, you’ll be ridiculed, persecuted and ostracized. You might even be attacked.

The main book of the Kabbalah is called The Zohar. It was attributed to a prominent Mishnaic sage, whose name was R. Shim’on ben Yohai. In Aramaic, it would be R. Shim’on bar Yohai. In Israel, there are special celebrations honoring R. Shim’on bar Yohai and the Zohar.

In reality, the Zohar was a collection of books, written in medieval Spain by various authors. At the end of his letter, R. Meir haMe’ili clearly alludes to the Zohar – without actually naming it, though he does hint at it (apparently).

According to Wikipedia, the main Kabbalistic works include:

 

  • Heichalot.
  • Sefer Yetzirah.
  • Bahir.
  • Sefer Raziel HaMalakh.
  • Zohar.

Heichalot (English: Chambers) is somewhat ancient; the Kabbalists co-opted it. The same applies to Sefer Yetzirah; it is ancient, but was re-interpreted by the Kabbalists. Bahir (English: Shining) is the book that is mentioned by name in this letter.

Raziel HaMalakh is a collection of short works written in medieval times. It is largely based upon the earlier Sefer haRazim, which is brazenly and openly polytheistic. Sefer haRazim includes a prayer to the Sun god Helios, to be recited at sunrise. It has many references to other Greek gods, such as Aphrodite, Pluto and Zeus. It also includes many magical formulae and offerings to various angels. All of these books were written in Hebrew. Raziel HaMalakh is still used as a charm, among some Jews, as protection for babies and against fires. It’s sold in tiny format, and (aside from myself) I’m not aware of anybody who has actually read it.

At some point, probably due to criticism from Maimonides, Sefer haRazim fell into disfavor, and was forced underground. Sefer Raziel HaMalakh replaced it, and includes many of the same references and magical formulae. Raziel HaMalakh also includes the prayer to the Sun god, but does not explicitly mention Helios. It is polytheistic, but far less blatantly so.

The Zohar mentions Sefer Raziel HaMalakh (favorably) three times.

 

Anybody who is familiar with the Kabbalah will have no doubt that this letter refers to it. for my other readers, I’ll list some of the Kabbalistic terms that come up in the letter, and some other terms/personalities you might not be familiar with:

Haggadah (or Aggadah): The allegorical, or folkloric, sections of the Talmud that do not specifically pertain to Jewish law.

Rabina and Rav Ashi: 4th-5th century sages who compiled, and completed, the Babylonian Talmud.

External Haggadoth: Haggadoth that are not part of the Talmud, but comprise separate volumes. There are several of these, and they provide insights and commentary, but are not considered valid sources of Jewish law. Examples of these are Tanhuma, Heichaloth, Midrash Rabbah, Tana de Be Eliyahu and Pesiqeta. There are many others, mostly from medieval times.

Sephiroth: The 10 emanations of the Kabbalah. They play a central role in Kabbalistic thought. Note: The Book of Yetzirah, mentioned above, does refer to the “sephiroth,” but that Hebrew word is derived from the word that means “to count,” and it simply means “numerals.” The Book of Yetzirah speaks of the nascent sciences of mathematics and Hebrew grammar. In those days, this type of knowledge was considered a “secret,” to be revealed only to the worthy. The Kabbalists borrowed from the Latin word “sphaera” (sphere) and attached it to the Hebrew “sephiroth,” coming up with something like 10 concentric circles – symbolizing various spiritual emanations and realms.

Ein Sof (אין סוף): Literally “no end” or “eternal.” This is a well-known Kabbalistic term for God in his highest form, without any attributes, and above all of the sephiroth. Old-school Kabbalists considered it impossible, and inappropriate, to direct worship to such a being – instead directing their devotions to the emanations (sephiroth) that emanate from him.

meqatsets banneti’oth (מקצץ בּנטיעות): One who “cuts the seedlings.” In other words, one who commits an abomination by destroying something beautiful.

One last thing. It’s very difficult to transcribe from a microfilm of a centuries-old manuscript. It’s just as difficult to translate such a document into English. I’m certain that my translation isn’t perfect – and neither was the original transcription from so many years ago. I do apologize for this. I hope that some day the original Hebrew will see the light of day. In the meantime, I’ll include my Hebrew transcription, as an image, at the end. Perhaps somebody will be able to improve upon my translation.

To counter the words of those who speak evil of the Lord, and of the sages who walk in the ways of the perfect Torah, and of those who fear God. They are those who are consider themselves wise, and who invent things out of thin air while straying toward heresy. They imagine that there is evidence for their opinions from ancient Jewish folklore (hagadah), which they interpret according to their errors. Heaven forfend, and God forbid, for the intentions of the sages who related them were not as those people think. May God enable us to do good, and to teach them a valuable lesson… Amen, amen, selah.

Many days have passed where Israel has not had a God in truth, nor Torah or a teaching priest. The truth was lacking, and a poisonous root and wormwood sprouted from the proliferation of those who bless themselves in their own heart. For prophets have not found (?…). And verily from the kindness of the Lord upon us, He gave us the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, and prophets and righteous men have risen from our midst. Pillars of the world, when they saw that the Torah was being forgotten from Israel due to many woes, and the weight of exile and persecutions, wrote the Oral Torah and the secrets of God as their great wisdom saw fit. Some of them through hints and secrets, and some of them in plain language. Nothing great or small was hidden from them, including the foundations of the Torah in the faith of God. Those who find it acquire the ways of life for a world that’s entirely life. They explained our perfect Torah in a revealing light, and they also followed up on it to explain its fundamentals, which a man should grasp and live by. For they are life to those who find them. (Here I skipped a long extraneous segment).

Several days have passed, and fools have suddenly gone out, and revealed concepts that are not according to Jewish law, regarding the belief in the Lord, blessed be He. They are concerning prayer and the reciting of blessings which were instituted by the sages of the Great Assembly. Concepts that have no root or branch, not in the Torah of Moses, and not in the Prophets or Writings. Not from the Talmud, which was arranged by Rabina and Rav Ashi, and is in our possession. In other words, (these concepts have no basis) neither from tradition, nor logic. Not even from the External Hagadoth, not that there are… (?). That they are corrupting and incorrect, and one cannot cite evidence from them, nor pose questions from them. We cannot reconcile from them, nor prove a point from them in the study halls.

And those fools have said we should not direct our study, prayers or benedictions to the ancient and first God, who has no beginning or end. Woe to their souls! What has happened to them, and what have they seen that made them spurn the Holy One of Israel? They have reverted backward in level, and alienated themselves from He who Preceded the World, (?) the God of antiquity, first without a beginning, and last without an end, and aside from Him there is no other god. Just as many verses have attested to, and it is said, “I am first and I am last, and aside from Me, there is no god,” and it is said, “You are the one whose years will never end.” There are many similar verses. He is God in the heavens above, and on the Earth below, there is none other, nor does He change. A true One, in a complete oneness. Without any partnership or combination of sephiroth. Our God, blessed be He, is the cause of all causes, and the occasion of all occasions. He creates great things, and extracted something from nothing by His will alone. He said, and they were. He created them and made them, and when they stood, they called out to Him that it’s good to thank and bless and elevate and pray, and beseech from Him and to adore Him. It is right to thank, to bless, to elevate, to pray, to call to Him with thanks and benedictions. The master of all, and the creator of all.

Not to his creations, which have a beginning and an end. He watches over, and manages, everything, generally and specifically – as the Torah testifies. For all of his ways are just, and nothing is hidden from Him at all. As Scripture says, regarding both the nation and the individual together, and there are many verses. It’s not necessary to quote them.

The “wheels,” “spheres,” holy angels, and everything that they might be called are tools for God’s handiwork. The God without beginning or end, as they explained the verse, “I shall take him under my wing etc.” He is the one who does it all. As for His other works, the Ancient God without a beginning manages them according to the laws that he instituted from the beginning, so that they don’t change their functions – except when He chooses to do so. At that point, He will change nature, and replace the times and moments in order to renew His wonders and their signs for the purpose of validating the words of His prophets, and to rescue his worshipers, and to inform them that He alone is the one who creates them and establishes them. That He has the ability to change them or destroy them – and that we should not combine anything with Him. For it is not appropriate to combine the created with its creator. The raw material is with the creator, and that which delegated is with the delegator.

That is to say that there is no complete oneness except with them, it’s all one for everything exists, and is found, outside of Him, and He created them and formed everything in the world, from the smallest to the greatest, out of a state of absolute nothingness – this is the correct belief for all of the faithful of Israel. Anyone who combines our Heavenly Father with something else is uprooted from the world.

This is the correct belief for all the faithful of Israel. Anybody who strays from it is a heretic and a blasphemer. How shall we expound upon the words of fools, that all of their prayers and benedictions are directed toward false gods, whom they say were created and emanated, that they have a beginning and an end? For they say, according to their foolish reasoning, that anybody who is called “first and last” has a beginning and an end. And it is written, “I am first and I am last, and before me there are no gods.”

Thus we found in one of their erroneous books, whose name they called “Bahir,” and so we heard from a few of our scholars who quoted them – that they say we should pray to one created god during the day, and at night to another god, who is above the first one, but he is also created. During the high holidays, after the ten days of penitence, there are many days of confusion and backsliding to pray to another created being, and to others who are below him during the rest of the year. They made many distinctions in prayer, according to the mood of their defective minds. They’re a disgrace to all flesh The worms of their stupidity will never die, and the fire of their folly will never be extinguished. For they have craved many gods. In their lack of wisdom, they have said all of these are attached one to the other, and that they are all one. These fools do not let their ears hear what their mouths are saying. For in truth, the God who we are supposed to believe in exclusively, to Him is it proper to direct our prayers, to worship, to bless and to thank – for He is one. If they say that He is more than one, then they have already denied the Torah, which says, “The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” And it said there is none besides Him. If they say that He is one, then why do they divide their prayers to one during the day, and another during the night? Why do they distinguish between the holidays and regular days? Why do they divide between the days of penitence and the other days of the year? How are all these distinctions appropriate? Also, verily, they should know that the Holy One blessed be He is one, and his unity is primordial, without a beginning and without an end, without change. As it is written, “I am the Lord, and I have not changed etc.” If so, He was one before the sephiroth, which have a beginning and an end, were created and emanated. To them do they direct their hearts in their benedictions and prayers. Is this not evidence that their words are incorrect?

But their eyes are plastered so that they are blinded, and their hearts cannot comprehend. In the end, all of their words are like chaff before the wind, and like straw. Words of chaos that have no substance. They are destruction, and contradiction, to the Torah. Words of apostasy and heresy. If their words are accurate, then how would any reasoning person consider that it’s inappropriate to bless and pray to the First God, who has no beginning or end, the cause of all causes, who they refer to, in their jargon, as “Ein Sof” (without end). He who does so is, in their eyes, “meqatsets banneti’oth” (cutters of the seedlings) who does not merit to witness the pleasure of salvation, which is known to those who know the Lord, those who fear Him and know Him. How could this not have been explained in the perfect Torah, which was given to us by the Lord for everlasting life? For therein it is written, “You have shown us to know that the Lord is God, and there is no other.” How then could we possibly know this thing that the Lord never spoke? How could we possibly know all of this? How could our Holy Teacher (Yehudah haNassi), who edited the Mishnah, and Rabina and Rav Ashi, who sealed and wrote all of the Talmud, which we have today, that they are the basics of the Oral Torah? How could they have neglected all of Israel to be mistaken and excluded from the world to come – as “meqatsetsim banneti’oth” (cutters of seedlings)?

Woe to the eyes that thus see! Woe to the ears that thus hear! Woe to the generation that experiences this in its days! How could our learned scholars, and God-fearing men, have failed to gird their loins? How could (?) his sages?… the troubles have increased for us, and the yoke of exile and persecution. Is there, in our time, amongst all the non-Jewish religions that deny the oneness of God more than these people?

And if they say that he who blesses and prays to the Holy One blessed be He, the cause of all causes and the creator of everything, is excluded from the world, but does merit a place in the world to come, and is not considered a “meqatsets baNeti’oth” (cutter of seedlings) – but that they are considered, in their folly, among the the ignorant masses, while they themselves are of the elite who know the secrets of God and those who fear Him, that in their wisdom they rise to a higher level than the others in this belief. Then they are fools who abandon certainty, even according to their words, and cling to a mere possibility. Certainly this ruinous for them, and their souls are destroyed and desolate, as they descend to the lowest level – the opposite of their hopes and intentions, which are incorrect.

In the end, every knowledgeable man is obligated to distance himself from their foolish words.

Behold, we have written all this before you, our rabbis in every city, to reveal all of these things to you. For we were fearful because of the signatures that were found upon them when we received them. Also that it was told to us that they forged many signatures of the great scholars of this land, who did not actually sign them. Thus many of the masses, from other lands, could be led astray – as they boast in these lies, saying, “We have found strength and support among the Torah scholars.” Lest they say, “Our hand prevails.”

Heaven forfend, and God forbid, that we would stray after such heresies. Let there not be the like of this in Israel.

I have heard that they’ve already composed a book, which they named “Bahir,” which I have mentioned above, and they did not see light in it. We have already acquired this book, and we found that they attributed it to R. Nehuniyah ben haQaneh. God Forbid! That holy man would never have stumbled so, and he was not counted among criminals. The language of that book, and all of its ideas, prove… that it was from a man who is not literate or eloquent. It contains words of heresy and apostasy in many places.

We have also heard they they have compiled additional commentaries on the Song of Songs, the Book of Creation and The Book of Chambers, in which they wrote things according to their heresies. They also wrote a commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes and other books. Seek well and investigate, and if you find them in your midst, destroy them from the Earth, so that they don’t lead people astray. Dig for them, for we have already destroyed the ones that were found among us. Let the Lord, in His mercy, send us a redeemer to gather the dispersed people of Israel and Judah, and remove from among His people their doubts and confusion. Let Him restore the heart of fathers to their sons, and the hearts of sons to their fathers.

We have written all of this with the approbation of our lord, the great rabbi, the candle of Israel, our teacher, R. Meshulam the son of the great rabbi Moshe… and the other scholars of Israel, some of them who have privately known about this matter we have written about. Let the wise shine like the shining of the heavens, and those who bring merit to the public like the stars forever. Amen, amen, selah.

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How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jewamongyou

I came across an old article, from Atlas Obscura, that echoes something I’ve been saying for years, how governments work to destroy native languages and dialects. The article tells the story of the Scots language, not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic. It’s well worth reading.

I’ve written in the past that both Mizrahi Hebrew and Southern English are truly marginalized dialects. Neither has official recognition as “endangered languages (or dialects).” Both have been relegated to low status, with the ultimate goal of eradication.

There is a class of dialects that falls somewhere between the dominant dialect and a truly marginalized dialect: The faux marginalized dialect or FMD. A good example of an FMD is Black Vernacular English. It’s officially “marginalized,” but very much promoted in reality. In the Atlas Obscura article, Dan Nosowitz fails to make this distinction:

This strategy takes a lot longer than a linguistic military invasion, but it serves to put a feeling of inferiority over an entire population. How good a person can you really be, and how good can your home be, if you don’t even speak correctly?

Scots is a language and not a dialect, but this strategy is not too dissimilar from what happens with African American Vernacular English, or AAVE, in the United States. Instead of recognizing AAVE as what it is—one American English dialect among many—education systems in the U.S. often brand it as an incorrect form of English, one that needs to be corrected (or as a “second language”). It isn’t different; it’s wrong. Inferior. This is a wildly effective, if subtle, ploy of oppression. “There are plenty of people in Scotland who actually think it’s a good thing,” says Hance. “The narrative is, we’ve been made better through this process.”

For the record, I’m in favor of American blacks retaining their own dialect of English; it’s part of their heritage, and they should maintain it. But “AAVE” is not a true “marginalized dialect.” How can one make such a claim when multitudes of American whites adopt it for themselves? Witness “Cash me outside” girl for example. Only a couple of days ago, I was speaking with a government worker by phone. She told me she had to “axe me a question…”. Young blacks who speak in Standard American English are the ones who are stigmatized by their peers, not the other way around.

In contrast, among the younger generation, it’s almost exclusively rural white Southerners who maintain their ancestral dialect to any meaningful degree. I’m pretty sure that if a young white Southerner speaks in Southern English in a big Southern city, he’ll immediately be identified as a “country hick.” I’ve met many Southerners who visit my area as tourists or new arrivals. Only a tiny minority of them speak Southern English. A few of them “code switch.” Had Mr. Nosowitz cited Southern English as his American example, his words would not only have been more truthful, they would also have been more powerful. After all, Southerners are largely descended from Scotland.

My blog ramblings aren’t going to change any of this; forces more powerful than our own have already set the course of modern languages. All I ask for is honesty. If we’re going to use the word “marginalized,” then let’s use it accurately.

Here’s a talk, delivered in Scots, about the history of the Scots language:

 

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Work Sets You Free

Posted on May 3, 2020 by jewamongyou

In years past, I’ve seen some hateful signs among leftist counter-protesters here in Portland. Sadly, I can’t find them now, but they were explicitly anti-white and communist. I will include one I’ve posted before:

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It wasn’t considered “newsworthy” by any corporate new agency. Many people died, and many were tortured under the Hammer and Sickle. The Hammer and Sickle should be right up there, with the swastika, on the list of “hate-symbols.” The fact that nobody seemed to be bothered by it, and nobody rushed to erase it, makes it even more egregious.

But when one person chose to carry tasteless sign, during an anti-lockdown protest in Chicago, Business Insider considered it newsworthy, and so did Yahoo News (which reposted the Business Insider article), Buzzfeed and (not surprisingly) the Israeli site Haaretz.

Associated Press reports that another, similar, report was actually a hoax:

CLAIM: Pittsburgh protester waves sign stating Nazi slogan “Work Sets You Free.”

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The image has been manipulated. The original photo posted by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on April 20 shows the protester holding a sign stating, “Free small business!” Although Nazi slogans were, in fact, used at a separate protest in Illinois on Friday.

THE FACTS: Several Twitter users posted the altered image along with photos of entrances to Nazi concentration and death camps where iron gates bear the words “Arbeit Macht Frei” or “Work Sets You Free.” One tweet featuring the fabricated image was posted on May 1 and had over 600 retweets.

As for the, apparently, legitimate image from Chicago, we can see how willing some people are to extrapolate from one individual’s poor taste to an entire demographic:

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Here’s the widely quoted Twitter comment that accompanies the photo:

Dennis Kosuth, RN @Dennis_Kosuth

This was one of the signs at the “Re-open Illinois” event today. She assured those that she was not a Nazi, and stated, “I have Jewish friends.” Thank you for representing yourself and your “movement” for what it is.

That’s a stretch. I don’t know if the sign-carrier is a neo-Nazi, a left-wing infiltrator, a “differently-abled” mental case or simply ignorant. I do know that some left-wingers pounced on the incident with glee. It’s extremely doubtful that this sign represents the sentiments of most anti-lockdown protesters.

At some point in the future, she’ll be identified, and she’ll probably be unemployed for a while. Since the above “news-outlets” used her image for clicks, and made money from it, perhaps she should get a portion of the proceeds; she can use the money to hire a therapist.

Here’s something to add gaiety to your day:

https://youtu.be/41IXHXK_rzY

 

 

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Hindu self-determination in India

Posted on May 1, 2020 by jewamongyou

In response to the question: What is one accomplishment you are most proud of, a Hindu Quora user replied:

That I am living

This is a picture from NASA, see the lights in India during our Hindu festival Deepawali, then move west and see in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Many years ago they also must be celebrating just like us but today, the difference is stark.

Today because I am living, you are living we know a festival. Had we not fought we would have never known, the world would have never known. Its a festival but had we not survived could we have celebrated?

Today millions of us NRI’s celebrate Diwali with so much gusto in whichever land we live.

Aboriginals of Australia

Completely vanished, a whole culture is lost, it was their land where they are no more…

It’s a known fact that India’s Muslim population is growing faster than its Hindu population. According to Pew Research:

Muslims are expected to grow faster than Hindus because they have the youngest median age and the highest fertility rates among major religious groups in India. In 2010, the median age of Indian Muslims was 22, compared with 26 for Hindus and 28 for Christians. Likewise, Muslim women have an average of 3.2 children per woman, compared with 2.5 for Hindus and 2.3 for Christians.

The article goes on to say that Hindus will remain a majority there until well past 2050, when Hindus will still be about three-fourths of the population. What the article neglects to mention (and it goes without saying) is that if these trends continue, eventually, India will be majority Muslim.

Another factor is that according to Islam, Muslim men may not marry Hindu women unless they convert. There is no such law in Hinduism. Some Hindus are aware of the implications of such an imbalance. From a BBC article:

The decision by an Indian court in May to annul the marriage of a Hindu woman who converted to Islam and married a Muslim man has grabbed headlines in the country, with many referring to it as a strike against “love jihad”.

The term was popularised by radical Hindu fringe groups, who accuse Muslim men of participating in a “conspiracy to turn Hindu women from their religion by seducing them”.

Marriages between Hindus and Muslims have long attracted censure in conservative Indian families, but the attachment of a deeper, sinister motive to them is a recent phenomenon.

I think “Love Jihad” is an appropriate name for this phenomenon. One needn’t be a sociologist to appreciate that such a disparity between two religions will bring about a ratcheting up of Muslim converts, and an attrition of the Hindu population. It might take decades, or even centuries, to tip the demographic scales, but it will happen. Those “radical Hindu fringe groups” are right.

The government of India has a responsibility to encourage birthrates among Hindus, and it has a responsibility to discourage marriages between Hindu women and Muslim men.

I don’t think there’s a “democratic” or “progressive” way to accomplish this. In an open and free society, men and women marry whomsoever they please, and having children is their own personal choice.

Unfortunately, failing to take such measures will lead to a Muslim-majority India. It will be the new “East Pakistan.” In the long run, women’s rights will suffer even more in that scenario. It’s not possible to stem the tide of Islam without “playing dirty,” since Islam does the same. There is no solution that will satisfy the requirements of “human rights.”

Both Islam and Hinduism have their flaws, and this post is not a defense of Hinduism as a religion. It’s to recognize that Indian Hindus have a right to self-determination. I hope that over time they become more civilized, and I don’t think that a transformation into a majority-Muslim India will serve that end.

I almost forgot. Here’s a nice short video:

 

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The hypocrisy of Rachel Chang

Posted on April 30, 2020 by jewamongyou

In a recent article in hellogiggles.com, Rachel Chang complains about racism against Asians while, at the same time, displaying her own bias against whites.

On March 2nd, I went to Costco. News that coronavirus (COVID-19) could hit the U.S. the same way it had devastated China in January was just starting to spread, so I figured I might as well take my annual shopping trip to the warehouse in Clifton, New Jersey, to stock up. With toilet paper and paper towels in my cart, I walked toward the front of the store, passing by a product representative hawking samples. “Stay away from my face!” she said sternly. I looked around. Was she talking to me? There was another Asian woman in front of me. When I turned back toward her, I couldn’t even make eye contact with the product representative—she was holding a box in front of her face, shielding herself from us.

Whether this was directed at me or the woman ahead of me—or both of us—I didn’t know, but I shrugged it off. After all, comments reflecting anti-Asian sentiment like this have long been a part of my life: I was born in Chicago and raised in California by Taiwanese immigrants.

Sometimes these incidents are just a passing comment—or the pressing question, “No, where are you really from?” Other times they’re harsher, like when a non-Asian stranger incessantly shouted at me, “Ni hao ma?” trying to get a chuckle out of me, or when a neighbor asked how I could see through my “small eye slits.” “But really, how do you see?” he insisted. There was even the time I was told the only reason I landed a magazine editor job was because I was Asian and someone got a diversity hiring bonus.

Whatever form discrimination against Asian Americans takes, it’s been on the rise in recent weeks. We are seeing more violent and extreme instances of discrimination stemming from unfounded fears that those who are any kind of Asian are more likely to carry coronavirus since it originated in Wuhan, China.For example, there was the spraying of Febreze on an Asian man on the New York City subway ,the stabbing of a two-year-old Asian American girl and her family at a Texas Sam’s Club, and the punching of a 55-year-old New Jersey Asian woman by a young girl during quarantine…

As of April 15th, there were 1,497 reports of discrimination against Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) across 45 states and Washington, D.C., on the Stop AAPI Hate site, a reporting center launched on March 19th by the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and the San Francisco Asian American Studies department. The incidents include being denied services and being verbally abused, shunned, coughed and spat upon, and physically hurt, among others. Specifics include a 71-year-old Asian man who was chased out of a California convenience store…

…an Asian family in Oahu who was coughed on by a car full of strangers, and an Asian victim who was told by a Bakersfield child that they caused the child’s father’s death. Even from the safety of their homes, 40 Asians experienced hacking on their Zoom calls, with a perpetrator saying, “All y’all have coronavirus, every single one of you.”

Of all the specific incidents listed above, not a single one is known to have been perpetrated by a white person. All of the ones we know about were perpetrated by blacks or Hispanics, and yet Chang makes no mention of their race. The only time she mentions the race of a perpetrator is in the case of…

a white woman who stomped on bread and accused a Taiwanese woman of touching it

Chang goes on to explicitly blame whites, when she writes:

“The racist myth that Asians host and disseminate disease and illness conveniently conceals the nation’s practice of white supremacy and its exclusion of some immigrants,” Storti adds.

Had Chang lived in 1930s Germany, no doubt, she would have blamed “The Jews.” Mindlessly latching on to the scapegoat du jour, Chang comes across as lazy and reckless. Her article is just as much a hit-piece against whites as a defense of Asians. No, Mrs. Chang, “white supremacy” is not to blame for blacks and Hispanics attacking Asians. It’s probably not even to blame for WHITES attacking Asians; white people can be jerks without being white-supremacists.

But it’s not enough to ignore the crimes of blacks and Hispanics against Asians. Chang feels obliged to look to blacks for solutions:

“… She suggests “thinking creatively” about more effective ways to report incidents and learning from Black community organizers “who have built alternative models of safety, support, and healing.”…

Already, a new campaign launched on April 27th called All Americans, which joins together marginalized communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic by uniting Asians facing racist attacks and Black and Latinx communities disproportionately affected by the disease, in terms of economic struggles and lives lost.

A primary source for this article is the The Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, which lists “Notable Incidents from Last Week.” The Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, while ignoring the problem of black-on-Asian crime, at least points out that a couple of the perpetrators were black. It does the same, of course, for white perpetrators – leaving an overall impression that blacks and whites are about equally likely to attack Asians. I’m pretty sure this is not the case. The site goes on to give us a several sets of statistics. None of them address the ethnicities of the perpetrators.

Is anti-Asian racism that bad? I don’t think so. After all, there is an “Asian American Studies department,” an “Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council”, and a “Chinese for Affirmative Action” organization, as mentioned earlier. There are no such organizations, that have any official recognition, for white Americans.

On a totally different topic, I’ll be embedding one of my favorite short movies, from YouTube or other sites, at the end of each post. Hopefully, these flicks will make your Corona Time pass more quickly. As you’ll see, my tastes are quite eclectic. I hope you enjoy them too. I’ll start with one that’s a bit older, and was purged from YouTube, but it’s still on Vimeo. It’s called The Candidate:

[vimeo 42934682 w=640 h=360] THE CANDIDATE from David Karlak on Vimeo.

 

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Primitive thinking around the world

Posted on April 29, 2020 by jewamongyou

I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos. Some of them are quite educational. I’ll share two of them with y’all today.

The first one is a Vice documentary about an excursion into Congo in search of a rare strain of marijuana. The businessmen (Franco Loja and Arjan Roskam) , who travel the world in search of such  varieties, pay bribes to access the fields. They gain permission from each local chief prior to collecting samples. Once acquired, the real work begins. The samples must be transported back home and grown in special conditions. Several fields of expertise come into play. In the end, if he’s lucky, these businessmen can make millions of dollars.

Here’s what happens when the local Congolese find out how much money the visitors stand to make:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwciNb-BZIk?controls=0&start=680&w=560&h=315]

In another video, a documentary about the fate of a coffee plantation in Papua New Guinea after tribal war, we see a similar attitude from the natives. After buying a lease on the land, and working hard to establish his plantation, the natives (who sold him the land) became bitter that the owner was making more money than they were:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug_qx_zZlG0?controls=0&start=212&w=560&h=315]

It’s a recurring theme around the world: Entrepreneurs work hard, or use their creativity and initiative, to establish successful businesses – only to have the natives rise against them out of jealousy. We saw this in 1992 Los Angeles and in 2015 Baltimore.

Since it’s “racist” to criticize such attitudes among certain demographics, the masses are psychologically forced to justify such attitudes, eventually incorporating them into their own world-view. It doesn’t take much effort to align the “gibs-me-dat” attitudes of angry natives to socialism and communism. Many Bernie supporters would feel at home among the warring New Guineans, the angry Congolese, or the rioting blacks of Los Angeles and Baltimore.

On a lighter note, as stated, I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos – and many of them are excellent enough to share on this blog. I’ve been thinking about embedding my favorites, one by one, at the end of each post. Any objections?

 

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Notes on Yemenite Hebrew

Posted on April 28, 2020 by jewamongyou

You would expect that a person like me would attract more hate, on Quora, for my political views. This is not necessarily so; some of my fellow Jews have attacked me for my default use of Yemenite Hebrew (that is to say, transliterations based upon Yemenite Hebrew) in that forum. I’ve posted most of this on Quora, but I thought it would be nice to post it here too. To all you goyim out there, y’all can just ignore this post and any followups.

I left Israel long ago. In a sense, it’s sad that I couldn’t find my place there. On the other hand, it’s good – because I am now divorced from Israeli “Hebrew.” Their Pidgin garglings hold no currency with me, hence I use the far more pristine, and beautiful, Yemenite Hebrew as my default – with some minor adaptations, as necessary for English readers.

Somebody on Quora even went so far as to accuse me of being a fake Jew, because he thought my transliterations were gleaned from English sources. He’s not alone in his ignorance. Even when I lived in Israel, many years ago, I had debates with young Yemenites about their traditional Hebrew. I was always right, because I had taken the time to speak to the elders, ask questions and pay attention.

I was criticized for referring to the Hebrew letter מ as “mim.” Most Jews now refer to it as “mem.” The following images are taken from a Hebrew primer, used to teach children in the traditional Yemenite way. As for the mim:

names of letters

Another person told me that my understanding of the semi-vowel shewa (אְ) is wrong. He wanted me to learn from an Ashkenazic grammarian. That’s laughable. No thanks; I’ll trust Yemenite grammar over them. The shewa takes 3 forms:

  1. By default, it’s pronounced as a “fleeting fatah.” That is to say, it has about half the force of a regular fatah.
  2. When it comes before a guttural letter (אחהע), it takes on half the value of the vowel   that’s attached to that letter
  3. When it comes before the letter yod, it has a fleeting hiraq

 

shewa rules

 

It should be noted that Yemenite Hebrew does not recognize the existence of a shewa nah. Traditionally, this (non-existent vowel) was simply left out. The only shewa that was written was the shewa na’.

Any shewa that begins a syllable is pronounced. Any shewa that follows a long vowel is pronounced, unless it’s at the end of a word. The long vowels are: QameS, Hiraq maleh, Holam, and Shuraq maleh (אָ אִי אוֹ אוּ).

 

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Welcoming Nautilus to the fold

Posted on April 26, 2020 by jewamongyou

If you’re not familiar with the Nautilus science website, here’s some information from Wikipedia:

Nautilus is an online and print science magazine that “combines the sciences, culture and philosophy into a single story.”[1] It publishes one “issue” on a selected topic each month on its website, releasing one “chapter” each Thursday.[2] Issue topics have included human uniqueness, time, uncertainty, genius, mergers & acquisitions, and feedback.[3] Nautilus also publishes a print edition six times a year,[4] and a daily blog called Facts So Romantic.[5] It makes regular use of original commissioned illustration to accompany its stories. The headquarters are in New York, NY…

In 2014, the magazine won a Webby Award for best science website[10] and was nominated for two others;[11][12] had two stories selected to be included in 2014 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing;[13] won a FOLIO award for Best Standalone Digital Consumer Magazine; and was nominated for two Webby Awards.

In 2015, Nautilus won two National Magazine Awards (aka “Ellies”), for General Excellence (Literature, Science and Politics Magazines) and Best Website.[14] It is the only magazine in the history of the award to have won multiple Ellies in its first year of eligibility. It also had one story included in the 2015 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and another story win a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award. RealClearScience again named it a top-10 science website.

In 2016, Nautilus had one story included in the 2016 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing; won an American Society of Magazine Editor’s Award for Best Style and Design of a cover; and was nominated for a Webby Award.

In 2017, Nautilus had three stories selected for inclusion in the 2017 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing; had one piece win a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award; and was a Webby Award Nominee for Best Editorial Writing.

Over a dozen Nautilus illustrations have been recognized by American Illustration, Spectrum, and the Society of Illustrators.

In other words, it’s a fairly reputable publication.

Too bad it’s racist. Yes, you heard me right. Nautilus is a neo-Nazi, Alt-Right, bigoted, prejudiced, white-supremacist, KKK-loving hate-group that peddles pseudo-science. Oh, and they probably want to murder 6 millions Jews.

You see, their views on race are… problematic. Take a look at this excerpt from an article titled “Why Are You So Smart? Thank Mom and Your Difficult Birth.”

A lot of our growth in intelligence is due to an increase in brain size. Even when looking at the differences between one person and another, brain size accounts for 16 percent of the variance in intelligence. A bigger brain might have been the simplest way to make us smarter. As brain sizes grew, so did the pelvises of the women who had to give birth to all of these big-headed babies.

The link takes us to Scientific American. Unfortunately, that article is behind a paywall – but it’s obvious that Scientific American is also a neo-Nazi, Alt-Right, bigoted, prejudiced, white-supremacist, KKK-loving hate-group that peddles pseudo-science and probably wants to murder 6 millions Jews.

Yes, that Scientific American article is behind a paywall, but another Scientific American article, which is not, somewhat downplays the correlation between brain size and intelligence. It’s a fine line they must walk, but Scientific American is not off the hook – because it does seem to recognize the validity of IQ tests, and how their results correlate with real life trends:

Differences in general intelligence, assessed in this way, correlate with success in life, with social mobility and job performance, with health and with life span. In a study of one million Swedish men, an increase in IQ by one standard deviation, a measure of variability, was associated with an amazing 32 percent reduction in mortality.

I’ve shown, in previous posts, that there are racial differences in brain size (speaking of averages, of course). To avoid sounding like a broken record, I’ll add a new tidbit here:

American blacks suffer disproportionately from Alzheimer’s. Articles, such as the one in USA Today, list a few possible underlying causes – including genetics. Intuitively, one would think that larger brains would be less susceptible to diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Indeed, this is the subject of a research paper titled “The protective role of brain size in Alzheimer disease.”

The brain reserve hypothesis suggests that larger brain size is associated with a greater ability to tolerate pathological damage before showing any cognitive decline. This theory has been used to explain why many patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology are cognitively normal before death. The literature concerning the brain reserve hypothesis is however mixed with evidence both for and against this theory. Perneczky and colleagues tested the theory by assessing whether premorbid brain size, measured using head circumference, alters the relationship between brain atrophy and cognitive decline in 270 AD patients. They found that head circumference was associated with a reduced impact of atrophy on cognitive performance. Hence, for a given degree of atrophy, cognitive performance was better in patients with larger head circumference. These findings therefore support the brain reserve hypothesis. This evaluation will discuss the brain reserve concept and potential limitations and significance of this study.

One needn’t have a large brain to put two and two together:

* There is a correlation between biological race (not “social-construct race”) and brain size

* There is a correlation between brain size and intelligence

* There is a (probable) correlation between Alzheimer’s and brain size

* There is a correlation between race and Alzheimer’s

I’ll conclude by saying that I don’t want anybody, black, white or otherwise, to get Alzheimer’s; it’s a terrible disease.

 

 

 

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Amazon Whole Foods Docs: Workforce Diversity Helps Prevent Unions

Posted on April 24, 2020 by jewamongyou

A notification from Richard Spencer led me to this article from Information Liberation:

Leaked Amazon Whole Foods Docs: Workforce Diversity Helps Prevent Unions

Leaked internal documents from Amazon-owned Whole Foods reveal the company rates their stores using a “diversity index” and determined the threat of unionization is “higher” at stores with “lower diversity.”

From Business Insider, “Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing”:

Whole Foods is keeping an eye on stores at risk of unionizing through an interactive heat map, according to five people with knowledge of the matter and internal documents viewed by Business Insider.

The heat map is powered by an elaborate scoring system, which assigns a rating to each of Whole Foods’ 510 stores based on the likelihood that their employees might form or join a union.

The stores’ individual risk scores are calculated from more than two dozen metrics, including employee “loyalty,” turnover, and racial diversity […]

Store-risk metrics include average store compensation, average total store sales, and a “diversity index” that represents the racial and ethnic diversity of every store. Stores at higher risk of unionizing have lower diversity and lower employee compensation, as well as higher total store sales and higher rates of workers’ compensation claims, according to the documents.

This should give you a clue as to why our Woke Capitalist rulers are so eager to preach the mantra of “diversity.”

It’s not to my credit that I’ve neglected Information Liberation in my daily reading; it appears to be a solid site. There’s not much I can add to the excerpt above – except to point out that the Wikipedia article titled “Criticism of Amazon” doesn’t tell us which way the causation works:

Two years later, it was found that Whole Foods was using a heat map to track which stores had the highest levels of pro-union sentiment. Factors including racial diversity, proximity to other unions, poverty levels in the surrounding community and calls to the National Labor Relations Board were named as contributors to “unionization risk”

We’re left guessing whether MORE diversity leads to a higher risk of unionization, or LESS diversity. All we’re told is that it’s a “factor.”

The source of the Information Liberation article is Business Insider, a notorious left-wing rag I’ve written about before. The Business Insider article is hidden behind a paywall.

Computer Weekly (whose source is also Business Insider), like Wikipedia, gives us no clue as to how the correlation between diversity and unionization works:

These “risk scores” are calculated from over two dozen metrics – including employee “loyalty”, turnover, racial diversity, “tipline” calls to human resources and proximity to a union office – and shows the likelihood of employees in that location forming or joining a union.

It seems obvious to me that leftist sources are intentionally obfuscating the link between diversity and disunity among workers. It wasn’t that long ago that the left’s rallying cry was: Workers of the World, UNITE!

Let’s be honest here. The “leftist” elites are not leftists at all; they’re oligarchs. The true leftists who follow them are fools.

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