"Lily's Room"

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

Entries from 2013-06-01 to 1 month

Morsi regime breaks freedom

This situation has been already predicted long before the Morsi regime in Egypt. I feel the information seems very obsolate and nothing new. The nature of the Muslim Brotherhood speaks volume from the beginning in 1928. The point is that t…

New Islamic law in Malaysia

Liberty Sentinel (http://libertysentinel.wordpress.com) New Law Will Take Away Your Children in the Name of Religion, 28 June 2013 by Dr. Ng Kam Weng First they took away our economic equal rights. We meekly agreed. Then they insidiously c…

The Allah-Herald issue

This kind of procrastination by the authority will be eventually leading to a failed society even if the superficial economic situation might look flourishing. (Lily)Union of Asian Catholic News(http://www.ucanews.com) Malaysia's 'word for…

Anti-Israel sentiment by KGB

There seem to be three causes regarding the Anti-Israel sentiments in the Muslim world: (1) German Nazi's anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler translated into Arabic was disseminated among the Muslims in the Middle East i…

Intermarriage among the Jews

I do not agree with the opinion below 100%, but as a reference of a modern tendency in the American Jewish community, I posted it here. I understand that the definition of a Jew: (1) his/her mother is a Jew. (2) a follower of Judaism (even…

Java’s last synagogue

The Jakarta Globe (http://www.thejakartaglobe.com) Java’s Last Synagogue Torn Down, 15 June 2013 by Camelia Pasandaran The last vestige of one Indonesia’s oldest and largest Jewish communities is now just a pile of rubble. Beth Shalom in S…

Rearraging the Middle East

Algemeiner (http://www.algemeiner.com)Rearranging the Middle East, 6 June 2013, 28 Sivan 5773British perfidy and French collusion have created a Middle East that has been unstable since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermat…

Palestinian Christians

WorldWide Religious News(http://wwrn.org) How a Jewish lawyer came to devote his career to protecting Christians in the Palestinian Territories by Joseph Brean ("The National Post," June 8, 2013) Justus Weiner, a legal scholar in Jerusalem…

The late John F. Kennedy

(http://www.goodnet.org/articles/1091) 10 of John F. Kennedy’s Most Powerful Quotes, 29 May 2013John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, would have turned 96 years old. JFK is an iconic figure in history who, in his short …

Education for the ignorants

Professor Rubin's article below reflects his very kind, educationalist-minded personality for the ignorants. (Lily) Gloria-Center (http://www.gloria-center.org) How to Understand Islamism: Read What its Leaders Really Say, 13 June 2013 by …

Misused ‘Tikkun Olam’

Algemeiner (http://www.algemeiner.com) The Fallacy, Delusion and Myth of Tikkun Olam, 7 June 2013It is so very difficult, indeed utterly unbearable, to sit silently by while Jews, and now the general religious and secular communities, comp…

Anti-Semitic cartoon in Norway

WorldWide Religious News(http://wwrn.org) Circumcision Cartoon In Norwegian Newspaper Angers Jewish Groups by Paul Vale ("The Huffington Post UK," May 31, 2013) Jewish groups have spoken out against a cartoon published in a Norwegian newsp…

Beyond the “Allah” term

The content below is somewhat inaccurate and incorrect. The issue is more serious than that for non-Muslims. If you wish to know more about the background, please see my previous blog (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20130529) as well as …

A Coptic Egyptian lady

Ms. Cynthia Farahat is a Coptic Egyptian writer and activist. I have ever translated her co-written short articles into Japanese twice. See (http://www.danielpipes.org/12221/)(http://www.danielpipes.org/12237/). The contents of these artic…

Classical music in Israel

Tablet Mag(http://www.tabletmag.com) Pioneers A mix of passion and tradition makes Israel a classical-musical superpower, 21 July 2010 by David P. Goldman The teenage cellist has the cheeks of a cherub and the peroxide hair of Lady Gaga.…

Jewish fundamentalism

WorldWide Religous News(http://wwrn.org)The Creeping Jewish Fundamentalism in Our Midst by Jay Michaelson ("The Jewish Daily Forward," May 27, 2013) American Jews are actively supporting a demographic trend that threatens the fabric of Ame…

Judeo-Christian values

Algemeiner (http://www.algemeiner.com) Strong US Support for Israel is Deeply Rooted, 31 May 2013 by Yoram Ettinger The special ties between the US and the Jewish State are uniquely driven by people-to-people, bottom-up relationship, shape…

Catholic places in Arabia

Union of Catholic Asian News(http://www.ucanews.com) Catholics in the Arabian peninsula seek places to worship, 31 May 2013 Most of the region's 2.5 million Christians come from South and Southeast Asia, and Mass is said in five rites and …

Christian trends in the world

WorldWide Religious News(http://wwrn.org) (1)Most And Least Christian States In America by Jahnabi Barooah ("The Huffington Post," May 29, 2013) A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, “2010 U.S. Religious Censu…