[Buddha-l] anti-Israel and anti-semitism

[Braitstein Lara]

Well, Thomas Fink, thanks for enlightening us all on
the nature of Muslim prayer.   Jews only pray 3 times
a day, so they are only moderately hateful, I suppose.
 And you know, I've met Buddhists who prostrate up to
5000 times a day.  Maybe we should round them up and
send them to Guantanamo.  Ablution, prayer,
prostrations - surprise - these are common to most
religions.  Have you ever tried reasoning through the
logical conclusions of your own arguments?  That's an
old Buddhist trick - oh, but Buddha-l isn't talking
about Buddhism these days.  sorry.

You live in quite a simple world, where the West is a
monolithic whole and the non-West is one too,
consisting entirely of Islam.  You might want to
consider educating yourself.

I think that this sort of white supremacist discourse
should take place somewhere other than a listserve
that is supposed to be a discussion forum on Buddhism
(you could found one yourself and call it "Buddha-w").
 

Lara Braitstein

--- Nichts <nichtsistnichts at filousophie.de> wrote:

> 
> Am 23.09.2006 um 14:27 schrieb Mike Austin:
> > My concern would be more about 'them' taking over
> my mind,  i.e. 
> > letting a fascination for politics, Islam, Israel
> and so on displace 
> > topics more central to a Buddhist discussion
> group.
> 
> The eagerness of Christian, Jewish, Moslim, Hindu
> and even Buddhist 
> fundamentalists for `cosmic war´, the `last battle
> between the forces 
> of materialism and true religion´ is indeed
> fascinating. In the moment 
> still very few in the West realize the depth and
> strength of Moslem 
> beliefs. Beliefs supported by kind of practices long
> since atrophied in 
> the West. Who, five times each day, performs ritual
> ablutions and 
> prostrates themselves in prayer? The discipline and
> self-abnegation 
> demanded crystallize in a rock-solid will and a
> culture of hate such as 
> we see with the Palestinian resistance. A grisly
> struggle to the death 
> is happening in Jerusalem, which may be a template
> for the future. Our 
> future. And in many ways we know this without
> recognizing it. Some of 
> my friends do not go anymore to the places in South
> of Thailand, they 
> once enjoyed. And in a few years this will be also
> the case with the 
> South of Spain. L´Andalusia. The border separating
> what Muslims call 
> `dar al-Islam´, the "House of Submission"(Islam),
> from `dar al-harb´, 
> the "House of Warfare" (everyone else) is a long
> irregular battlefront, 
> one that stretches across four continents.
> `Soft´targets are 
> plentifull. How long it will take for the Age of
> Terrorism, the mass 
> psychosis on all sides, is beyond estimation. But as
> with all things it 
> will end in time. And this end and what comes before
> this end will 
> affect us as Buddhists.
> 
> Thomas Fink
> 
> 
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