Ross Would Have Helped In Answering My Questions...

I was going to start when Ross and I were planning to visit a mosque... But then a funny thing happened... 
I was enjoying the day... It is cloudy, but the sun peeps out once in a while... I was watching out to my backyard from the sliding door... a bird flew and settled on a branch of the big oak tree... Played with the leaves... sang a while... and then flew to a chair in the backyard just a meter away from me... sat on the back of the chair... at the top... looked at me... sang again... and turned its back to me... raised its tail... and drop its shit on the back of the chair... and without hesitation flew away... They say in order to fly efficiently and quickly, the birds need to carry as little weight as possible, so they evacuate their excess cloaca...
that is, shit-pooh frequently...
I have not studied biology-zoology... In fact at school I studied very hard for that course... but no matter what, I barely passed the course...
The bird caught my attention and made me happy... and just then and there... I decided to share the poohing bird with you...
I went out to the backyard... checked what had happened... and left it there... It changed my mood for the better... I was in my backyard... under the oak tree... I looked up and checked the twigs that the bird played with... The oak tree is huge and when I look at it I always wonder... "How many leaves are on the tree...?" I have no clue... 
In the backyard I wondered... what if a human had done all that the bird did... I attempted to imagine my reaction... I contrived my plan of action... 911...? Chase him out...? I decided I would have done both... I will do both...
The bird made me happy... the human distorted the beauty... !!!!!!
I went back into the house...

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Ross, the chaplain at me school, came to my class one day and was curious if I will be willing to visit a mosque with him... I told him that most probably they will not let us into the mosque... He said; "Let's try..." and i went along with him...
We phoned the office of a nearby mosque... and checked if we can visit them... The man on the other side of the phone was cordial and did not oppose... We sat a date...
Ross and I went to visit them... 


The "priest" invited us in the office... we chatted... He was very friendly... and Ross was very happy... when we said if we may visit the mosque... the "priest" looked at us confused and said... "No... the mosque is a place to pray... it is not a touristic sight...," he said...
Ross thanked and we bundled our disappointment and went to a nearby bar... We drank our disappointment out... 
I remembered all this while reading about Europe and what is happening there... My daughter lives in Europe and I check what the latest news is from that part of the troubled world...

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I remembered Ross and his disappointment... and wondered what would have been his reaction to the migrant-refugee crisis in Europe... Would he have said, "They are allowed..." ? Would he have dismissed the situation as the essential by product of White Men's Burden... The inevitable by product of the invasion of Afghanistan... The invasion of Iraq... and the so dubbed "Arab Spring..." 

I wondered all morning what would have Ross said... what would have he done... and then the bird poohed in my backyard and for few moments I was happy... 

But the question remained with me... What would have Ross done and what would have he said...? What will happen to Europe...? 

A woman, with her fist raised, defying a uniformed march of neo-Nazis in Sweden

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I would have not imagined that Sweden will be a stage where civilizations clash... But it is happening right now... all over Europe... 

I wonder if there will be a reconciliation or the clash of civilization will open the way to neo-Nazi thugs... 

I wonder if Ross would have connected the bird's pooh in my backyard... The neo-Nazi gangs in Europe and the Islamic-Jihadist-fascists in the Middle East and in Turkey... 

Neo-Nazi movements have been on the rise in Sweden and other European countries as a result of the migration crisis. The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats Party is the third biggest political force in the country. The country, which has a decades-old reputation for welcoming refugees and political asylum seekers, has introduced tighter border controls in an attempt to control the influx. Alongside Germany, Sweden is one of the main destinations for migrants trying to reach Europe. Tensions there have been heightened by arson attacks on asylum centres and other cases of violence.                                                                                    A woman, Ms Asplund, confronts the uniformed neo-Nazi demonstrators in Sweden ..... ..... ***  ... Is the, Islimazation of Europe the main impetus for the growth and bold resurgence of neo-Nazis ... Has Big Brother leadership placed its greed and profit chasing before the humane and Judaeo-Christian culture of Europe...? I wish Ross was around and answered my questions... !

... And still the...                                 Islamization of Europe Continues...

An immigrant group based in Bern has called for the emblematic white cross to be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol it "no longer corresponds to today's multicultural Switzerland." Ivica Petrusic, the vice president of Second@s plus, a lobbying group that represents mostly Muslim second-generation foreigners in Switzerland (who colloquially are known as secondos) says the group will launch a nationwide campaign in October to ask Swiss citizens to consider adopting a flag that is less offensive to Muslim immigrants. In a September 18 interview with the Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung, Petrusic said the cross has a Christian background and while the Christian roots of Switzerland should be respected, "it is necessary to separate church and state" because "Switzerland today has a great religious and cultural diversity. One has to ask if the State wants to continue building up a symbol in which many people no longer believe." In the interview, Petrusic said Switzerland needs new symbols with which everyone, including non-Christians, can identify. As an alternative to the current Swiss flag , Petrusic proposed the former flag of the Helvetic Republic which was officially introduced in 1799 and consisted of green, red and yellow colors. "Those colors are similar to the current flags of Bolivia and Ghana and would represent a more progressive and open-minded Switzerland," Petrusic said. The proposal to change the Swiss flag has been met with outrage across the political spectrum and is sure to fuel anti-immigrant sentiments in Switzerland.

... And still the...                                 Islamization of Europe Continues...

The Swedish Green Party has Islamisation Problems... The party's problems started when Housing Minister Mehmet Kaplan, a Green Party member and former leader of a Swedish Muslim youth group, resigned last week after media reports that he had contacts with ultra-nationalists and Islamists in his native Turkey. Though he denied any wrongdoing and the party leadership defended him until the end, he stepped down when a video surfaced of Kaplan comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians to how the Nazis persecuted Jews. Images emerged where Kaplan and other Muslim members of the Green Party were seen holding up four fingers, a hand gesture used by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. One of them, a Green Party youth leader, walked into the picture during a live broadcast on Swedish television and flashed the sign behind the presenter. Of course the gesture isn't illegal in “liberal” Sweden but many Green Party members questioned whether the brotherhood's conservative views are compatible with the feminist and gay-friendly platform of the Swedish Greens. The biggest outcry came after Yasri Khan, a 30-year-old running for a seat on the Green Party's executive board, refused to shake the hand of a Swedish TV reporter. He said shaking hands with someone from the opposite sex is too "intimate," and instead put his hand on his heart in a Muslim greeting. ...And, The deputy head of Sweden’s main Turkish association stepped down in disgrace after calling for death to Armenians. Speaking to a small crowd in Stockholm, Barbaros Leylani urged Turks to awaken, and to kill what he branded "the Armenian dogs.” Speaking at Sergels Square in the center of the Swedish capital, Leylani also said: "Let us show Sweden, Scandinavia and Europe what Turkey stands for. We do not like blood, but we can let the blood flow when it is needed,"  the Swedish publication Dagens Nyheter reported.

... And here is...
Adonis, greatest Syrian-Lebanese Arab poet , who lives in Europe now says...

Being raised a Muslim himself and having deep and one of the greatest understandings of the language of the Quran, Adonis said: “You can not reform a religion. If they are reformed, [the original meaning] is separated from it. Therefore, modern Muslims and a modern Islam is already impossible... It is an oxymoronic contradiction...  Modern and Islam cannot go together... Modern and Muslim contradict each other... If there is no separation between religion and state, there will be no democracy especially without equality for women. Then we will keep a theocratic system. So it will end.” Laying down a heavy critique of the Islamic world, he added: “Arabs have no more creative force. Islam does not contribute to intellectual life, it suggests no discussion. It is no longer thought. It produces no thinking, no art, no science, no vision that could change the world. This violence is the sign of its end. The Arabs will continue to exist, but they will not make the world better.” The remarks are in reference to the broader questions of how he sees the Middle East, and specifically his native Syria which has been in a state of civil war for years. Adonis describes the totality of Islam in the life of people in the Islamic world saying Muslim society is “based on a totalitarian system. The religion dictates everything: How to run, how to go to the toilet, who one has to love…” He went on to say the rebels were controlled by interests in America, Saudi Arabia and certain sections of Europe, and stessed: “I have long been an opponent of Assad. The Assad regime has transformed the country into a prison. But his opponents, the so-called Islamic militants, commit mass murder, cut people’s heads off, sell women in cages as goods and trample human dignity underfoot.”

... But the...                                 Islamization of Europe Continues...

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The oil barons and their greed and profit chasing...

 Fort McMurray in western Canada is burning... The entire population - more than 80 000 - have been driven off their homes... 
Even emperor Nero would have felt the devastation... and not enjoyed the fire... but the oil barons do not care... They will pollute the earth and they will extract profit out of the dirty oil sands... and unfortunately squeeze people out of their homes...
Check the devastation below...

Officials said the size of the blaze was now more than 10,000 hectares (39 square miles) and it was being tackled by 100 firefighters.

People are fleeing through the fire tunnel...

The caravan of cars... and people abandoning their homes to the fire...

 

It is total devastation... and I hope the newly elected government... instead of showing off the charm and cute face of the Prime Minister... helps the people...

The oil companies should help the people too...