My country has picked up a few "Americanisms" over the years
beginning with "cowboy' movies and small boys getting cowboy outfits complete with toy guns for Christmas or birthday gifts.
Foods soon followed with movie theatres selling giant buckets of salted buttered hot popcorn along with giant buckets of "soda" aka soft drinks.
Speech has also become somewhat Americanised. There are other examples, but just yesterday I saw the very worst kind of copying.
Right here in my own largely peaceful, accepting country, A Hannukah Festival on Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, was ruined by hateful thugs with guns randomly shooting into the crowd, injuring and killing bfore they were apprehended.
I believe one of the offenders also died.
These peaceful people celebrating the way they have done for years, were attacked because they and their festival were/are Jewish.
WHY????
What the heck is so wrong with being Jewish that others feel the need to wipe them from the Earth?
I don't get it. I JUST DON'T GET IT.
It's senseless. No other religion is attacked as badly as this one.
Senseless indeed. Very sad. Here in Montreal and probably the rest of Quebec and even the rest of Canada 🇨🇦 have increased police presence around Synagogues to ensure the safety of anyone celebrating Hanukkah.
ReplyDeleteI pray 🙏 that this hatred for Jewish people and any hatred towards anyone, Jewish or otherwise, will stop.
Linda's Relaxing Lair; thank you. I suspect from now on they will celebrate indoors with safety in mind.
DeleteMy husband Joe lived in Bondi, until we married and he left Sydney for ever. But Bondi beach was the centre of his Sydney Soul, surfing each morning before 5 years high school and before university. He was in tears when he saw the Bondi Massacre yesterday, and is meeting with his old Sydney friends tonight to honour the people who were killed and wounded, and to share memories of their teen years there.
ReplyDeleteHels; thank you. I have been to Bondi only once, many years ago, just a quick visit to see what all the fuss was about, it looked much the same as any other beach to me. How can such atrocious things happen in such beautiful places? More importantly, Why? We know they hate, but is that any reason to kill?
DeleteSo sad, R. I also ask why?
ReplyDeleteI want to thank you so much River. I was waiting today for someone in Blogland to address this terrible thing that happened. People ignore it and are busy with their petty daily lives, it's still not a big deal when Jews are murdered. And thank you again.
ReplyDeleteThe horror of the second worst massacre in my lifetime is certainly on every Australian's minds. Well may we ask why, because there is no justification for shooting innocent people. I think many of us are closer to understanding Jewish fear in Australia, and it is to our national shame that this event occurred.
ReplyDeleteWe cannot understand why there is such hatred towards Jews. Antisemitism is rising again everywhere. It is. wrong that people should feel they cannot celebrate their religious holidays in the way they want to.
ReplyDeleteReligion should never be a reason to kill other people. I agree 100 % until the last sentence. In so many countries Christians are attacked, killed and so on at work and in churches. Only it never reaches the headlines. Look at this map: https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/
ReplyDeleteO mundo não pode continuar na intolerância de extremismos desumanos.
ReplyDeleteAbraço de amizade.
Juvenal Nunes
That has always been my question as well. "WHY?" I'm very saddened by this.
ReplyDeleteAll religions are a plague upon the earth leading to extremism and my god is the right god nonsense. Or even worse god ordered me to do this, that or the other.
ReplyDeleteAll slaughtering of innocents is evil and there is far too much of it in the world. And always has been.
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Crazy world. The entire world has their share of crappy people that also make me ask, why?
ReplyDeleteThat was NOT a good thing to emulate!
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