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by Nima Gholam Ali Pour
• January 28, 2016 at 6:00 am
- The response
from the Church of Sweden to the Kairos Palestine document contained
no criticism at all against the massive lies, racism and distortions
it contains. More sadly, there seems not to have been the slightest
attempt to verify if any of the allegations in it were even true.
- A church that
genuinely believes in love and understanding would long ago have
renounced the Kairos Palestine document, which has been pointed out
by serious organizations out as anti-Semitic and racist.
- The country's
largest religious institution is therefore helping and encouraging
people to study a rawly anti-Semitic, racist document.
- Attacks against
Jews in Sweden have partly originated through such normalization.
When the Church of Jesus Christ in Sweden supports an anti-Semitic
document, the Jews in Sweden become fair game.
The Church of Sweden[1] has a problem. Its deep involvement in the
Israeli-Palestinian issue -- and especially its support for the Kairos
Palestine document [full English text and annotations in Appendix below]
-- is something that should be noted and held up for criticism by other
churches, and all those who oppose anti-Semitism and all forms of racism.
The Kairos Palestine document can be found in Swedish on the Church
of Sweden's website and is described by the Church of Sweden as follows:
"The Kairos document has been produced by Palestinian
Christians and is about their vulnerability under occupation. Since it
was published in December 2009, it has spread throughout the world and in
some areas has become a movement that believes and fights for peace and
justice in Palestine and Israel."
by Uzay Bulut •
January 28, 2016 at 4:30 am
- On January 20,
Turkish police opened fire at a group of civilians who were holding
up white flags as they tried to remove the dead and wounded from the
street in Cizre, one of the Kurdish towns under Turkish military
siege. The Turkish police murdered two people from the group and
wounded 12 others.
- As the military
siege and attacks in Turkey's Kurdistan intensify with each passing
day, the Kurdish media are under a new wave of repression -- through
arbitrary arrests, psychical violence or blocks on their website
content.
- "Our only
aim today was to share what had happened in Van with the public in a
healthy way. Today it was not us, but the people's right to
information that was taken into custody. We will not be
silent." -- Reporter Bekir Gunes (from IMC TV), on Twitter. He
was taken into custody for trying to report on the murders, but
later released.
On Jan. 20, Turkish police in Cizre opened fire at a
group of Kurdish civilians who were holding up white flags as they tried
to remove the dead and wounded from the street. The Turkish police
murdered two people from the group and wounded 12 others.
Since August, Turkey has been bombing and destroying its Kurdistan
region in the same pattern: The Turkish government first declares curfews
on Kurdish districts; then Turkish armed forces, with heavy weaponry,
attack Kurdish neighborhoods and everyone living there. Much of this
slaughter is presumably due to the Kurds having gained a large number of
seats the latest elections -- thereby preventing Turkey's President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan from attaining the super-majority he sought in order to
change the Constitution and become "Sultan" for life, to rule
as an autocrat. Kurds are also now asking for their right to rule
themselves in their native lands, where they have lived for centuries.
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