Hebrew culture has place x calendar and customs x language x religion and because of traditional tribal transmission, it’s generations may be schooled in “the old ways” with not much discomfort. However, large groups have converted, and in modern times the Abuydaya — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abayudaya — converted as a whole people and continue in the path.

Dispersion (into the “Diaspora”) alters land and language relationships, and, indeed, Jewish identity has suffered recession through intermarriage and national identification in other lands. Nonetheless, as may Shia, Jews worldwide have long taken measures to remain Jews, rejecting conversions en masse, maintaining language knowledge and customs, and sustaining identification with the Land of Israel.

As such affiliations go down to the bone, part of the genocidier’s motivation wants sheer sadistic control and humiliation, i.e., more than eliminating the presence of this “other”, the murderer has in mind the theft of the humanity and dignity of the same.

Some thoughts — probably most of mine — just get too long for Facebook.  A thread wants for a few words, not whole essays.  The above was on the way toward discussing the Islamic overlay over many distinctive cultures across feudal-to-modern history.

Source: Philips, Abu Ameenah Bilal.  The Fundamentals of Tawheed (Islamic Monotheism).  Pp. 65, 66. Second Edition. Riyadh: International Islamic Publishing House, 2005.

My parents did not make me a Jew.

God did.

Imagine, however, the insecure parent obsessed with power and control over progeny.  Trust is given, but dependence must be cultivated, and in the trust-me voice of the father, the child is told ” . . . the child is not strong enough in the early stages of its life to resist or oppose its parents”, which presumptuously impugns the authority of other parents, but the writer being a parent too, either in fact or in spirit, may not be immune from his own declaration.

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