We are about to elect a tool of Zbigniew Brzezenski as president of the US. We are about to enact hate laws that silence critics of Muslims. The “Human Rights” Council of the UN banned criticism of Islam. And the US is proposing that one of every three foreign aid tax dollars go to the UN something BO supports. One of the very few bills Obama ever introduced – the “Global Poverty Act” accomplishes this purpose. http://paganpower.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/has-the-whole-world-gone-mad/#more-157

but here is why I write again — I WANT THIS T-SHIRT ! why can’t this website sell it through that café press thing – need a graphic artist though – i tried to do it once and it is hard to get a good image – they do have organic cotton for the t-shirts.

There is another possibility: someone could make up a T-shirt with the words “I am a Gharkad tree” written on it in Arabic, Hebrew and, say, English, or French, or German, or Italian, or Spanish. This alludes to a Muslim Hadith which claims that at the End the rocks and trees will tell the Muslims ‘there is a Jew hiding behind me; come and kill him’…except for the Gharkad tree, ‘because it is the tree of the Jews’. So: to say, ‘I am a Gharkad tree’, is to say ‘I vow to help the Jews’, ‘if a Jew seeks shelter with me, or seeks help from me, I will give shelter, I will give help, I will stand between him or her, and the Jihad’.

I know that I would buy, and wear, such a T-shirt.

I am going to find a way to make it a banner I can put on my website.

Remember the legend about the Danes all donning the yellow star in solidarity with Danish Jews, during the Nazi occupation?

Perhaps it’s time for us all – all of us who oppose the Third Jihad, a subset of which is the jihad against Israel and the Jews – to don the Star of David and wear it: to work, in the street, on campus, wherever we go, all day, every day. If religious symbols aren’t permitted within the workplace, you can still wear it during your commute, or on days off, in the park, in the mall, etc.

Those of us who are Christians, who normally wear a cross around our necks, might consider a Star of David brooch or pin; or wear your cross one day, the Star of David the next, turn and turn about. I am a Christian and I wouldn’t hesitate – after all, Yeshua came from the tribe of Judah.

If you are British or French, or if you teach or study at a modern western university, doing thus may involve real physical danger; you might be wise to sign up for a self-defence course first; but if thousands and thousands of us (let’s hope, millions) do it together, all over the Western world, it might send a message to the Muslims.

One could, if brave enough, put a Star of David or an Israeli flag sticker, on one’s car, letterbox, front door, place of business, consulting room, or (if an academic) display it in one’s office or study on campus. If you are a priest or a pastor, and your congregation has seriously renounced antisemitism, you should have that Star of David on your front fence/ gate/ church door. Then your Jewish neighbours will know that you are a place of safety.

Phyllis – can you let us know of good, reputable sources from which a Star of David (either lapel pin or pendant) may be purchased, online or over the counter? Ditto for stickers? Mini Israeli flags?

There is another possibility: someone could make up a T-shirt with the words “I am a Gharkad tree” written on it in Arabic, Hebrew and, say, English, or French, or German, or Italian, or Spanish. This alludes to a Muslim Hadith which claims that at the End the rocks and trees will tell the Muslims ‘there is a Jew hiding behind me; come and kill him’…except for the Gharkad tree, ‘because it is the tree of the Jews’. So: to say, ‘I am a Gharkad tree’, is to say ‘I vow to help the Jews’, ‘if a Jew seeks shelter with me, or seeks help from me, I will give shelter, I will give help, I will stand between him or her, and the Jihad’.

I know that I would buy, and wear, such a T-shirt.

Furthermore: this Hanukkah, every Gentile who rejects antisemitism and affirms Israel’s right to exist should ask their Jewish neighbours to explain the Hanukkah festival, and ask whether they (the Gentile) might be allowed to join in by setting up eight lamps, in a prominent place outside their home or business or church, in order to defy the antisemites, Muslim or otherwise.

What Christians believe to be true of Yeshua’s Jewish mother Mary is true also of her people, of the whole House of Israel. ‘Hail, Israel, Bearer of G-d. Blessed art thou among peoples; blessed is the Word that you bear’.

As Mary, so the House of Israel: theotokos (god-bearer); anthropotokos (man-bearer). Bearer of a unique vision of the divine; bearer, therefore, also, of a unique and liberating understanding of the human, and of the sanctity of every human life. (see Tom Cahill, ‘The Gifts of the Jews’).

I once heard a Hindu explaining that for Hindus the six-pointed star is the holiest of symbols, reserved for the inner sanctum of temples. A classic Jungian coincidence.

Let us wear the Star of Redemption (Franz Rosenzweig) and affirm, in so doing, everything that jihad and sharia deny, attack and destroy.

I also think that the burqa should be banned because of the cover it provides for suicide bombers. Enough is a enough. It should be outlawed country by country. They have lost the right to wear it. Especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.slate.com/id/2194256/