On the white man’s religion, I am with the Indian.

We Jews are the indigenous of Israel, spiritually, and not entirely assimilated in Christian communities. As such, we may understand tribal affinities and identities and prefer to support those, and perhaps modernize the same, without pushing other indigenous across the bridge.

The Jesuit’s “Christ Process” may be the card held by the Catholic Church, which temporal will it cannot so easily enforce in the way of General Constantine. Today, the Church has to have the better program, and a culturally annihilating program in a world enriched by multiple cultures may have no place to wiggle.

The so-called heathen have wised up: they’re in business for themselves.

They may have to adjust some tribal practices and ways to global contemporary civilizational standards, but they’re not going to be swayed into giving up their tribal affiliations, cultures, identities, and legacies.

For the abstract base of “global standards” apply “Compassion, Humility, Inclusion, and Integrity”.

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Readers may also visit http://defendinghistory.com/ for additional insight into resurgent eastern European nationalism and related nefarious historical revisionism.

Shimmer.

Since February 2011, Russians have refused to loan any artwork to American museums, fearing the pieces will be used as ransom for the Schneersohn books. The Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow have effectively canceled all loans, the New York Times reported in January; American museums have been left scrambling for alternative pieces to fill major gaps in their exhibits.

Why Putin Refuses To Let the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Library Leave Moscow – Tablet Magazine – 9/30/2013.

Who knew?

Who would have even bothered guessing?

The story has to do with the theft and disposition of Jewish property, first by the Nazis in Poland, then by the Red Army “during the Holocaust”, and then, allegedly, through holding by Soviet Russia, and insistence on domestic possession by the Russian Federation.

Putin has come up with a marvelous deflection and solution to the issue, but not all are happy with it.

The Tablet piece is a delightful article full of surprises, including a revelation concerning resident Hebraists in the Lenin Library throughout the Soviet Era, and it has served for diversion here at the end of a wonky day.

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So can a Jihad addict.

Exclusive video footage on the Westgate attack 23rd September 2013 – YouTube 9/23/2013

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An al-Shabaab leader says his group considers Kenya a “war zone” and that the group will continue to attack the country until Nairobi withdraws its troops from southern Somalia.

“We will hit them anywhere we can,” the unnamed leader said in an interview aired on Britain’s Channel 4 on Sunday.

Al-Shabaab leader says Kenya a ‘war zone’ | SBS News 9/23/2013

Related: Kenya Westgate atrocity is al-Shabaab’s way of escalating Somali conflict | World news | theguardian.com 9/23/2013

Although Simon Tisdall makes fine drama of a split in the Al Shabaab ranks and the resulting fallout, which includes the attack at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, the truth is The Youth have been unconstrained insincere idiots from the day they launched an RPG into the living room of a old man who didn’t like them much and was watching soccer on his television.

In addition to such origin stories — call it a myth, for I doubt I can find this evening the two-inch column on that stunt in the vicinity of 2007 — there is just the fact that a similar processes attended the development and diminishment of the Islamic Courts Union way back in the mid-2000s.

Evil does as evil is.

After a stand at the Battle of Jilib, the ICU abandoned the city of Kismayo on January 1, 2007. Stripped of almost all their territory, it was speculated the ICU would pursue guerrilla-style warfare against the government.[4]

Instead, hardline Islamists broke ranks from the ICU and formed other militant groups, such as Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam, to continue the war against the government.

Islamic Courts Union – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Drunk on spirits or spirituality, full of themselves, armed, and murderous, they are the kind of people who kill innocents, who exceed limits, who expect to bend the world to their will, and who cannot be talked out of glorifying themselves with their pokey little stories attached to wanton slaughter.

West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center has provided regular glimpses into Al Shabaab’s development.

Related: Militants hold out as Kenya forces try to crush cross-border jihad | Reuters 9/23/2013

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Just passing this along while Syria appears to descend further into its own furnace.