Monday, November 26, 2012

Playing The Religious Card Like A Jew


The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial on November 24, 2012 under the title: “Egypt's Islamist Coup” and never mind what the rest of the article says. The very idea that these people worry about Islam asserting itself in its region at a time when their Judaism and the Christianity of America they dragged along with them are asserting themselves worldwide, says that they fear being defeated at the game they have unleashed on a world they tried to control by playing the religious card. In short, they played with fire and now worry about it spreading.

It is said that danger looms when children play with fire. It can also be said that calamity looms when fanatics – be they young or old – play with the fires of religion. And the way to play this game is to play the religious card which is something that is done as a matter of course almost exclusively in the so-called democracies – be they real democracies or sham democracies as most of them are.

While people of every religion have played this card at one time or another, the Jewish leaders played it all the time. More than that, they played it not only with their own religion; they played it with other people's religion as promiscuously as they played with other people's money. They even played the religious card inside governing systems where religion was frowned upon or banned altogether, being considered opium used by men of the cloth to pacify the masses and render them docile.

I am neither a trained historian nor an expert on religion. What follows is a collection of impressions and observations I retain about an environment in which my early education was done almost exclusively in Catholic schools. But I also lived in the Muslim country of Egypt for a few years during which time I spent one year in the public school system. I received no religious education there but did enough reading on the history of Islam on my own to have learned something about it. I then came to Canada some half a century ago where I gradually began to question the utility of religion in our daily lives.

It was not the saying that religion was the opium of the masses that made me question the role of religion in the daily lives of people; it was the way that I saw how religion was used to motivate people. Like children, grownups of all ages were moved in directions that had political ends or worse. To give an example, one of the most important events in my life as I was growing up being Christmas, it pained me to see the subtle yet vicious ways by which the Jews were attacking the birth of Jesus, an event they said was the cause of their troubles for two thousand years. And I still cannot shake the memory of a saying uttered by a Jewish woman on television during the week of Christmas some decades ago. While pretending to speak on economic matters, she found a way to go on a tangent and curse “the woman on her way to Bethlehem with evil lurking in her belly.”

As I detected this sort of behavior in the mid Nineteen Sixties and beyond, I also noticed that they engaged in a three-pronged offensive in the religious field. First, they wanted to interface with the other religions by creating interfaith groups they planned to bring under their control. Second, they wanted to blend Christmas, Hanuka and the Festival of Light into one celebration that would be controlled by them. Third, they wanted to lead a fight that would lump together the right to wear the Jewish skull cap or the Sikh turban in places where both were forbidden. They must have been aiming to achieve a grand plan of some sort, but one that was never completed having been preempted in the late Nineteen Nineties by a turn of the events they could not have foreseen.

What happened was that Karl Rove appeared on the scene. He was managing the campaign of then candidate George W. Bush when he had the idea of capitalizing on the inroads that the Jewish rabbis were carving inside the Christian groups using the principle of “interface with interfaith.” By then, the rabbis had completed the snarling of pastors who had a skeleton or two in their closets, and had gotten these televised men of the cloth to proclaim to their flocks of human sheep that God was not in heaven but was right here on earth. He was not the Jesus who was born on Christmas day, they told the young and the old of America; he was the Jew who could be a neighbor of theirs or someone they worked or stood with shoulder to shoulder day in and day out.

And so Karl Rove promised to the Jewish honchos (their rabbis and their political leaders) that if they succeed in getting the Christian sheep to vote for the W, they will be rewarded not only with the moon which, after all, is conveniently promised to everyone else, but also the Jerusalem in the sky they alone fantasize about, and the Jerusalem in Palestine which belongs to the Palestinian people. Help the “W” win the election, said Karl Rove to the Jewish honchos, and you will be given everything you wish to own no matter whose thing it is today.

As it turned out, I was not the only one seeing the religious developments in the North America of the mid Nineteen Sixties and beyond; the whole world was watching and seeing the same thing. Among the people watching most anxiously were those in the Middle East who had a stake in the matter and would be most affected by the end result.

These people were seeing acts of political and religious machinations unfold like a horror movie and they wondered what was happening to the America that used to symbolize freedom but whose children are now told they will succeed in life not by learning to read, write or do arithmetic but by unearthing a Jew they can befriend. This done, they will worship him or her and serve them as slavishly as the American legislators serve their Jewish masters, something they do as faithfully as the devout of any religion worship their God.

And so, the people of the world, especially those in the Middle East said to themselves better hang on tightly to their religion – be it Coptic, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Atheist – before these characters come over here and proselytize a brand of religious syphilism in their quest to enslave the human race and bring it under Jewish control the way they did America.

And Egypt said “Yes” to the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Wall Street Journal is whining like only an Australian Jew can whine.