"Lily's Room"

This is an article collection between June 2007 and December 2018. Sometimes I add some recent articles too.

Entries from 2014-06-01 to 1 month

U.S.Presbyterian anti-Israel(2)

As for this topic, please refer to my previous postings (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140216)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140522)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140624). (Lily) Algemeiner(http://www.algemeiner.com) Count…

Realism is the strongest

I met Dr. Asaf Romirowsky in New York City on 10 April 2014. I have been a subscriber to his writings(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20121102)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20121114)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20130420). As for …

No democratic country in Islam

Malay Mail Online (http://www.themalaymailonline.com) Dr M: Islam has no stable, democratic country today , 25 June 2014 KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 — No stable and democratic nations exist in today’s Islamic world, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said,…

U.S. Presbyterian anti-Israel(1)

As for this topic, please refer to my previous postings (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140216)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140522).(Lily) Algemeiner(http://www.algemeiner.com) Presbyterian Church USA Considered Banning the Wo…

Kindergarten-universities?

This is serious. But I have the impression that universities including my alma mater have been gradually like kindergartens. That means scholarship and academic training have been corrputed due to the adiministrative attitudes to pamper st…

Bar Council of Malaysia

Liberty Sentinel (http://libertysentinel.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/985/) Bar Council: MAIS/JAIS Should Abide by AG’s Decision & Federal Constitution and Release Seized Alkitab & Bup Kudus Majlis Peguam Bar Council Malaysia Press Release MAI…

Political rhetoric

As for this topic, please refer to my previous small essay in Japanese(http://jams92.org/pdf/NL24/24(06)_tsunashima.pdf). Dr. Mahathir has changed his political rhetoric only. It is a game of words. (Lily) Malay Mail Online(http://www.the…

Japanese helped Jews

When I visited the United States last April this year, I met one Jewish gentleman at a conservative synagogue in New Haven. He immediately mentioned Mr. Sugihara and told me that he would read a book about him. As for "The Fugu Plan", plea…

Nazi doctor became a Muslim

Tablet(http://www.tabletmag.com) The Nazi Doctor Who Got Away With Mass Murder, Fled to Cairo, and Became a Muslim‘The Eternal Nazi’ tells the gripping story of the hunt for Aribert Heim, and the German detective who relentlessly pursued…

The Islamic State

Middle East Forum (http://www.meforum.org/4724/an-islamic-state-is-born) An 'Islamic State' Is Born by Jonathan Spyer The Jerusalem Post June 12, 2014 In a stunning and deeply significant development, the fighters of the Islamic State in…

Envy and warfare mentality

Spero(http://www.speroforum.com) Catholic 'preference' for the poor must go beyond material poverty Social 'safety net' programs have, for decades, been manipulated for political ends. The programs help the lame not to walk, but to becom…

Arabification of Islam

1. Malay Mail Online (http://www.themalaymailonline.com) Academic: Arabification of Islam behind ‘Allah’ ban ,12 June 2014 by Boo Su-Lyn BANGI, June 12 — Malaysia’s recent adherence to Saudi Arabia’s “literal Islam” is the cause of the Mus…

Islamicity Index (fake)

・ As for the Bible issues at the BSM (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive?word=BSM), I don't think that it will be completely over and peacefully settled. It is only temporary. Other related or similar problems will be repeated again…

Doubtful news

As for the first article, I still remember that the non-Malay local people did not trust the govenment in the early 1990s. The content is, therefore,inadequate and inaccurate. The second article reminds me of a book entitled "A Muslim-Chri…

Leftist thinking is dangerous

1.WorldWide Religious News(http://wwrn.org) Israel no longer a cause that unifies US Jews by Rachel Zoll (AP, June 8, 2014) New York — Once a unifying cause for generations of American Jews, Israel is now bitterly dividing Jewish communi…

‘Christology’ seminar in M’sia

Malay Mail Online(http://www.themalaymailonline.com) A month on, authors vow to pursue case against UiTM’s ‘Christology’ seminar, 7 June 2014 by Joseph Sipalan SHAH ALAM, June 7 — Two authors who lodged a police report against the organi…

America’s Medieval Universities

This trend seems to be quite similar to the contemporary Japanese higher education. (Lily) National Review(http://www.nationalreview.com) America’s Medieval Universities , 5 June 2014 Today’s campus is more reactionary than the objects o…

“G-d”, “G!d”, and “HaShem”

(http://judaism.about.com/od/judaismbasics/a/Why-Do-Some-Jews-Spell-God-G-D.htm) Judaism:Why Do Some Jews Spell "God" G-d? by Ariela Pelaia The custom of substituting the word "God" with G-d in English is based on the traditional practice …

Apostasy Laws and Blasphemy

Patheos (http://www.patheos.com) Apostasy Laws and Blasphemy in Islam – Islamic or Not?,3 June 2014 by Ro Waseem In January 2011, the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, was gunned down by one of his own security guards over a controversial…

Shavuot Guide

This biblical guidance for Shavuot is quite eloquent and logical to understand, compared to the Christian explanation of the 'Old Testament'. So, why the Christian churches tried to make the Perplexed in the past? (Lily) Algemeiner(http://…