NEWS HEADLINESClick on NEWS HEADLINES to read a summary of the latest world news

 

 

Watch the video:  George Galloway: Egypt is Deeply Implicated in

                                the Siege [on Gaza]

 

Is the 2-state a viable option ?(You Tube)

 

Listen to this article. Powered by Odiogo.com

Dear Mr Wilders,

They say you can only take a horse to the water, you cant make it drink. But human beings are not horses. Unlike animals, they can be reasoned with. I offer these few remarks in the faint hope you are amenable to reason.

It is about your recent speech to the Alliance of Patriots in New York. In which you paint an apocalyptic picture of the Islamization of Europe. You describe some European cities with Muslim neighborhoods in lurid terms. It is a world where women walk around in figureless tents. Their husbands, or slave holders, if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. Mr Wilders, I live bang near one of those areas in West London. I often visit Whitechapel and Edgware Road parts of our colorful Londonistan I have never seen a Muslim woman walking behind her husband. Rather, the mothers stroll about in a proud, dignified manner, alongside the men. Nothing in their behavior suggests a subordinate role, let alone slavery. And there are tons of lively, even feisty Muslim girls wearing all sorts of gear. True, they may not, as a rule, behave like permissive, liberated females, baring the flesh, hugging and kissing partners in public, no. I would even guess most of them don’t sleep with boys before marriage. But since when are chastity, modesty and self-restraint so bad? The traditional, Christian mores of the Western civilization which you claim to uphold used to prize such things, no?

25 per cent of the population of Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Lies, damned lies and statistics, someone said. But if you want native Europeans to stay numerically supreme, how about encouraging them to have more children? To urge them not to use contraceptives, the pills? To give up abortion? To bolster family values? Stop bashing Islam. Embrace the Christian religion in its conservative, sound traditions and all will be kosher.

Thousands of mosques across Europe. With larger congregations than churches, you notice. Well, whose fault is that? Do perhaps Muslims stand at church doors, stopping the eager faithful from worshipping the Lord? Methinks you should rather address yourself to Christians. Look at Muslims you should say. Look at how many regularly pray. How keen they are on the observances of their religion. You should do the same. Exactly. The flourishing of mosques across Europe should serve as a stimulus to Christians. A window of opportunity. As an urgent reminder to get back to their vital, life-giving roots the worship of the One True God. Why blame pious Muslims for the faults of lukewarm or nominal Christians, eh?

In Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Awful, if true. Funnily enough, I recall the words of Pym Fortuyn, the gay right-wing politician murdered by a fanatic. I have nothing against Moroccans I have slept with so many of them. From Andre Gide to William Burroughs, the Arab world has been one of artistic gays favorite fun destinations. Tangiers nickname was Sodom on Sea. Homophobia cant be all that endemic amongst Arabs, I should imagine.

The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity. How bizarre. First, a godson of mine has been to Auschwitz, on a school trip. Part of a program to learn about wartime horrors. School curricula in Britain do in fact include projects about WWII and persecutions of Jews and other people. London’s Imperial War Museum has a holocaust section, which I viewed just the other day. What’s more, TV channels force-feed viewers with a daily, obsessive dose of films and programs about the war and Germanys crimes. If anybody should complain about this state of affairs, it should be Germans. It fuels Germanophobia, the lurking, masochistic English vice. Do todays Germans deserve such constant pilloring? After all, isn’t Germany amongst the strongest supporters of your beloved state of Israel?

Ok, you don’t like Muslims. Yet they are not going to go away. Your case is analogous to that of the man whose garden was infested by ladybirds. They were everywhere. He didn’’t like them. He tried several methods to get rid of them. Sprays, insecticides, this and that. Nothing worked. The ladybirds kept being around. Indeed, they multiplied. The guy was getting obsessed with them, growing paranoid, bitter, haunted. Eventually, he sent an e-mail to a wise old friend, an experienced gardener: What should I do about the damned ladybirds?

The reply came: I suggest you learn to love them.

Revd Frank Julian Gelli

  Text Box: Open Letter to Islamophobe Dutch MP Geert Wilders
February 11, 2010 by TMO 

 
Dear Mr Wilders,
They say you can only take a horse to the water, you cant make it drink. But human beings are not horses. Unlike animals, they can be reasoned with. I offer these few remarks in the faint hope you are amenable to reason.
It is about your recent speech to the Alliance of Patriots in New York. In which you paint an apocalyptic picture of the Islamization of Europe. You describe some European cities with Muslim neighborhoods in lurid terms. It is a world where women walk around in figureless tents. Their husbands, or slave holders, if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. Mr Wilders, I live bang near one of those areas in West London. I often visit Whitechapel and Edgware Road parts of our colorful Londonistan I have never seen a Muslim woman walking behind her husband. Rather, the mothers stroll about in a proud, dignified manner, alongside the men. Nothing in their behavior suggests a subordinate role, let alone slavery. And there are tons of lively, even feisty Muslim girls wearing all sorts of gear. True, they may not, as a rule, behave like permissive, liberated females, baring the flesh, hugging and kissing partners in public, no. I would even guess most of them don’t sleep with boys before marriage. But since when are chastity, modesty and self-restraint so bad? The traditional, Christian mores of the Western civilization which you claim to uphold used to prize such things, no?
25 per cent of the population of Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Lies, damned lies and statistics, someone said. But if you want native Europeans to stay numerically supreme, how about encouraging them to have more children? To urge them not to use contraceptives, the pills? To give up abortion? To bolster family values? Stop bashing Islam. Embrace the Christian religion in its conservative, sound traditions and all will be kosher.
Thousands of mosques across Europe. With larger congregations than churches, you notice. Well, whose fault is that? Do perhaps Muslims stand at church doors, stopping the eager faithful from worshipping the Lord? Methinks you should rather address yourself to Christians. Look at Muslims you should say. Look at how many regularly pray. How keen they are on the observances of their religion. You should do the same. Exactly. The flourishing of mosques across Europe should serve as a stimulus to Christians. A window of opportunity. As an urgent reminder to get back to their vital, life-giving roots the worship of the One True God. Why blame pious Muslims for the faults of lukewarm or nominal Christians, eh?
In Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Awful, if true. Funnily enough, I recall the words of Pym Fortuyn, the gay right-wing politician murdered by a fanatic. I have nothing against Moroccans I have slept with so many of them. From Andre Gide to William Burroughs, the Arab world has been one of artistic gays favorite fun destinations. Tangiers nickname was Sodom on Sea. Homophobia cant be all that endemic amongst Arabs, I should imagine.
The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity. How bizarre. First, a godson of mine has been to Auschwitz, on a school trip. Part of a program to learn about wartime horrors. School curricula in Britain do in fact include projects about WWII and persecutions of Jews and other people. London’s Imperial War Museum has a holocaust section, which I viewed just the other day. What’s more, TV channels force-feed viewers with a daily, obsessive dose of films and programs about the war and Germanys crimes. If anybody should complain about this state of affairs, it should be Germans. It fuels Germanophobia, the lurking, masochistic English vice. Do todays Germans deserve such constant pilloring? After all, isn’t Germany amongst the strongest supporters of your beloved state of Israel?
Ok, you don’t like Muslims. Yet they are not going to go away. Your case is analogous to that of the man whose garden was infested by ladybirds. They were everywhere. He didn’’t like them. He tried several methods to get rid of them. Sprays, insecticides, this and that. Nothing worked. The ladybirds kept being around. Indeed, they multiplied. The guy was getting obsessed with them, growing paranoid, bitter, haunted. Eventually, he sent an e-mail to a wise old friend, an experienced gardener: What should I do about the damned ladybirds?
The reply came: I suggest you learn to love them.
Revd Frank Julian Gelli

 

 

                                                                                                              

Prepare for these
Annual Events

 

How bad is the H1N1
 virus (Swine Flu) pandemic 
in South Africa

LATEST GAZA NEWS:

Text Box: Doctors demand Yoram Blachar resign as ethics chief over Israeli torture. Read further :For the latest news read "Things are moving.."

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box:  
 
 
Palestinians mark anniversary of war on Gaza
Fri, 01 Jan 2010 
The Friday demonstration was attended by tens of international delegates who managed to cross the Egyptian border into the blockaded coastal territory despite efforts by Cairo to stop them. 

Egypt, which has been refusing to open the Rafah crossing, denied permission to over 1,300 of foreign activists who planned to cross into Gaza and participate in the event. 

The crossing on the Egyptian border is the only terminal not controlled by Israel. 

The slogan-chanting protesters in Gaza carried signs denouncing the Israeli blockade assisted by Egypt while hundreds of Palestinians held a similar protest in the West Bank. 

The Gaza gathering also saw the participation of a number of anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews who spent Shabbat in Gaza in a rare show of support for Palestinians in the besieged enclave. 

"It's crucial that the people of Gaza understand the terrible tragedy here is not in the name of Judaism," said Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss of New York City on Thursday. 

The Hamas-run Gaza Strip came under an Israeli military offensive on December 27, 2008 as the international community silently watched more than 1,400 Palestinians, among them hundreds of women and children, die in three weeks of Israeli air and ground incursions. 

The devastating attacks topped months of crippling blockade on the densely populated coastal strip which is still in place. 
 

4 February 2010

World TB Day
24 March 2010

World Health Day
7 April 2010

World No Tobacco Day
31 May 2010

World Blood Donor Day
14 June 2010

World Breastfeeding Week
1–7 August 2010

World Suicide Prevention Day
10 September 2010

World Rabies Day
28 September 2010

World Mental Health Day
10 October 2010

World Sight Day
14 October 2010

World Diabetes Day
14 November 2010

World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day
18 November 2010

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
21 November 2010

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
25 November 2010
 

   Click on the above graphic for details

 

 

 

Text Box:  
 
 
Swine Flu is here in full force although our people in the Health Department reassure us that there is no outbreak, and not to panic. It certainly has the potential to put millions to bed. 
How far are we from obtaining vaccines?  
The World Health Organisation (WHO) informs us: "It takes approximately five to six months for the first supplies of approved vaccine to become available once a new strain of influenza virus with pandemic potential is identified and isolated. These months are needed because the process of producing a new vaccine involves many sequential steps, and each of these steps requires a certain amount of time to complete." In the meantime the important thing to do is to stock up on vitamins, avoid large crowds and step up hygiene. On our Services webpage we elaborate on WHO's advice. 
How do schools respond ?
In many of our schools teachers equip their learners with the necessary info on the symptoms and how to respond if they suspect that they have contracted the virus. Some schools advise their learners that they need to treat their flu like a normal flu and take their medication for the whole week. Their doctor will recommend further diagnoses if necessary.
Parents are already taking precautions and send their children to school with surgical masks...and who can blame them ? The winter is still going to be with us for a few months, so let us build up our immune systems and stay out of harms way! The community has been issued with a call centre number for further information: 0860 142 142 .
Please check the following links:
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/04April/Pages/Swineflulatest.aspx 
http://www.who.int/entity/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_pregnancy_20090731/en/index.html
http://www.nicd.ac.za/pubs/communique/communique.htm
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                    

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

Text Box: "As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore." 
by Norman Solomon
(Wed. December 10, 2008)
"However difficult this vote may be, some of us must urge the use of restraint," she said. The date was September 14, 2001 (3 days after 9/11). Congresswoman Lee continued, "Our country is in a state of mourning. Some of us must say, Let's step back for a moment, let's just pause just for a minute, and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control." 
And she said, "As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore." 
(Will Afghanistan, Iran and Syria become further demonic acts to plunge the US into an even deeper abyss of desolation ? ) To read this insightful article, please click here
Revised on 15-02-2010                                            Copyright © IMA, Consult our Internet policy.

         To date we registered a total of  2,920,734    successful requests /visits to this website  

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Western Cape opens new multi-million rand treatment centre for victims of substance abuse
In April, this year the out-going Premier for the Western Cape, Ms Lynn Brown handed over the Kensington Treatment Centre, a new sleep-in facility for victims of substance abuse to Lukhanyo Clinic who provides the services.
Dr Ashraf Jedaar, CEO of Lukhanyo Clinic, officially admitted the first patients in June and in August (6 weeks later) the staff tearfully said farewell to the first group to return to their families. "In the first week the Centre took special measures to prevent these same patients from running away. And now they preferred to stay even longer!" observed the Director, Ms Fairuz Davids.
The Centre is fully equipped with socio-religious facilities and a thoroughly professional and caring team of healthcare-givers. Admission is free although donations are welcome.  For further details visit the KTC official website at:
http://www.lukhanyo.co.za/Kensington.html/ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                       

            

Text Box:                    LATEST HEALTH NEWS
Pesticide, thyroid disorder linked in women
Press TV Health News:14 February 2010
Sweet-toothed kids risk depression 
Press TV Health News:14 February 2010
Obesity causes puberty delay in boys
Press TV Health News:14 February 2010