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  • Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
    Qohelet Raba, 7:16

    אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

    Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

    All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.

    More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."

    Online Source: http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/044412.php

  • Abraham Isaac Kook
    "The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice.They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith.They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." From the pages of Arpilei Tohar.
  • Heinrich Heine
    "Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned." -- From Almansor: A Tragedy (1823).
  • Simon Wiesenthal
    Remark Made in the Ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Vienna, Austria on the occasion of His 90th Birthday: "The Nazis are no more, but we are still here, singing and dancing."
  • Maimonides
    "Truth does not become more true if the whole world were to accept it; nor does it become less true if the whole world were to reject it."
  • Douglas Adams
    "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Epigram appearing in the dedication of Richard Dawkins' The GOD Delusion.
  • Thucydides
    "The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
  • Milan Kundera
    "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Notes

  • Care to Read What I Read?

    I've embarked on a great reduction in privacy by bookmarking my web-based reading on the "delicious.com" utility. It may tip my hand as to what I have in mind for blogging, but the same may help friends and frenemies alike track my thinking: here is the URL:

    http://www.delicious.com/commart

  • Author's Wish Each Friday Night
    Shabbat Shalom. May our arguments be resolved through perceptive words and good deeds only; may we live another week helpful to one another in relative peace.
  • Photography: Prints & Services
    A gentle reminder: I'm in business as a producer of fine art prints and as a provider of shoot-for-fee services, including portraiture and weddings plus assigned photojournalism. My general location: intersection of I-70 and I-81; core camera system: Nikon; transportation: Mustang.

    Main web: www.communicating-arts.com

    E-Mail: [email protected]

    Also: as of 2011, I am building a photography print-on-demand presence at Fine Art AmericaM. This is the address:

    http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/james-oppenheim.html

    Effort in print-on-demand will not offset the production nor value of signed, limited edition prints made under my own hand. However, for very good convenience, price, and quality, print-on-demand may work out well for many fans and patrons.

  • Research Services

    If you're engaged in funded research in conflict analysis or other areas that may be addressed here and wish to engage my mind in your project, feel welcome to drop me a note at [email protected].

Etcetera

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  • Mustang Highways
    American highways and a six cylinder, 190 horsepower Ford Mustang 2000, Nikons, and philosophy.

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June 28, 2012

About That "Action" in Dearborn, Michigan

This is a Facebook excerpt . . . my own post in response to videos depicting, seemingly, Muslim on Christian violence at an Arab community festival held recently in Dearborn, Michigan:

"ABC News and assorted blogs seem to suggest the Christians involved showed up to rumble, i.e., to disrupt the festival, to provoke violence, and they got it.

I'm accustomed to this with, literally, fire starters and stone throwers (and rocket launchers) who provoke Israelis, if not others, in order to create a mosaic of propaganda designed to inspire the escalation of their conflict.

I'm not buying it.

We don't burn books.

We don't set fires.

We don't show up at festivals armed with cameras and epithets (and pig's heads).

If the conservative right now wishes to turn stupid, it will leave me behind, and I hope a majority of others of more moderate and temperate mein that it has courted heavily and counted on heavily since the last election."

Reference

Dolak, Kevin.  "Christian Taunts and Violence Mar Arab Festival in Michigan".  ABC News, June 18, 2012.

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Posted on June 28, 2012 at 01:18 PM in Conflict, Culture, Language, and Psycholoy |

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Comments

Tammy Swofford

The link seems short on facts, regarding the "Christian" missionary groups. They are not identified under any particular denominational nor organizational banner. Could the journalist in question have done a little real work to ascertain the truth of the label as a Christian missionary endeavor? I am uncomfortable with such a blanket and generic term for what may be misfits in search of a cause.... and needing a job. smile

Tammy

Posted by: Tammy Swofford | June 30, 2012 at 12:58 PM

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