Newslinks: July 28, 2024

12 children and youth killed, many seriously wounded by Hezbollah rocket that hit soccer field in Druze village in Golan Netanyahu in the US during attack, orders early return to Israel during Shabbat

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'We are enduring immense hatred': Hindu extremists storm church, beat Christians at worship service  Members of a house church in northern India can no longer meet for worship after a mob of about 150 Hindu extremists attacked them on July 14, sources said.

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'God is not mocked': Blasphemous depiction of Last Supper at Olympic ceremony sparks outrage Catholics and prominent public figures are rebuking the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris for featuring drag queens and demonic-looking figures that carried out a grotesque parody of the Last Supper. Image

Olympic chiefs 'sorry' opening ceremony caused offence  A banquet sequence featuring drag artists in particular came in for criticism from Christian groups, who felt it parodied Leonardo da Vinci's painting 'The Last Supper'.

Olympics’ Last Supper debacle was latest effort to denigrate Western culture  Why was it designed to stink? Again, power. A friend pointed out that the only good recent Olympic opening ceremonies were in Sochi, Russia, and in Beijing. Those governments, whatever their many flaws, wanted to present a positive message about their nations and their cultures to the world. They wanted to portray themselves as rising powers, full of cultural vigor.

Ceremonies like the Paris opener, on the other hand, are intended to do just the opposite. They are intended to mock and denigrate the underlying Western culture, which even atheists like Richard Dawkins admit is Christian. This, we’re told, is “brave.”  Or they pretend surprise that anyone is offended, but as the French say, “ils sont toujours au courant,” meaning “they’re always aware.”

And, as we all know, they’d never mock Islam in a spirit of “inclusion.” There will be no blue-painted obese Prophet Muhammads. Partly that’s out of fear – unlike Christians, Muslims tend to respond to mockery with violence aimed at the mockers – and partly it comes from the belief that mocking non-Western culture is somehow racist.

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California's Park Fire tops 350,000 acres, destroying 134 structures  Cal Fire officials said the Park Fire had so far destroyed 134 structures as it marched northward from Chico and spread from Butte to Tehama County. After four days of no containment, firefighters had the blaze 12% contained Sunday.

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Navy SEALs, Sailors Who Refused Covid Vaccine Win Legal Victory over Biden-Harris Mandate Under an agreement in the case announced Wednesday, Navy sailors who refused the vaccine for religious reasons can now have their records corrected and will be protected against discrimination on promotion boards for the next three years, according to their attorneys.

Germany: Unredacted covid protocols reveal scientists were called on to provide an illusory science that politics could pretend to follow  The role of RKI epidemiologists and virus prophets like Drosten was merely to provide a pandemic fiction that would justify whatever it was the politicians already wanted to do. Along the way, they did untold and unforgivable damage to our society and to many millions of innocent people.

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