I grew up as a Jew in New York and was raised from early childhood to be a Zionist. Although I received no strong religious training as you did, most Jews are conditioned in the very same way as me.
I learned that Jews were special and different, and were not to mix with Gentiles. My family made me fearful of non-Jews. I spent six years going to a summer camp with all Jewish children. Every year, each summer, being with only Jews, is a form of Jewish-elitist indoctrination to young impressionable minds. My parents would ask me constantly, “Is that person Jewish?” whenever I made a new friend, or had a new teacher, or, later in life, co-workers or partners or bosses. The message was the same: Stick with Jews - only trust the Jews. My grandfather threatened to cut me out of his will when I dated a Christian boy at age 16. And yet my experience was that Jews themselves were not trustworthy! Many Jews hold grudges and cut you off for the slightest infraction. I didn’t experience or see much forgiveness among Jews. If I couldn’t trust Gentiles, and couldn’t trust Jews, where did that leave me? Alone much of the time, not trusting anyone. There also was no beneficent Higher Power to love and forgive me. While there were a few vague references to some sort of God, I didn’t grow up with a Higher Power in my life, certainly not a loving God like Jesus. Our “god” was the “Jewish people” and the “state of Israel” which we must never fail in our loyalty to. Most damaging of all was that I learned to distrust Jesus, to be afraid of him and see him as the boogey man. I was programmed to never, ever set foot in a Church. God forbid I practiced Christianity or loved Jesus! All of this was considered blasphemous. As a loyal daughter, I obeyed. This, to me, is the greatest tragedy — that young Jews are brainwashed to stay away from Jesus Christ. We are guilt-tripped and threatened with a sort of ex-communication should we stray. What kind of religion has to use fear and punishment to keep its members in the tribe? I have been stunned to read on your Website how Jews influenced some of the most egregious of historical events. I had no idea that Jews were important players in the Russian Revolution. It floored me to discover that there was a reason behind Hitler’s blind hatred of the Jews: The Jews’ corruption of Germany and their attempts to destroy that Christian nation. Jews have always been portrayed as innocent victims of anti-Semitism. Brother, you have written in great detail about how the Jews have now corrupted this country. You’ve explained how Jews are in control of the media, law, entertainment, etc. Obama has historically high numbers of Jews within his administration. Not only have Jews taken over the reigns of power, but they have changed the personality of this country from a Christian to a Jewish one. Jewish-type character traits permeate the entire society: There’s now the obsession with self, with consumerism, and with saving money — bargain hunting being a nationwide craze. This cheapness has helped drive businesses to sweatshops overseas. We have the worship of pleasure and sex, pornography and trashy movies, and abortion on demand. Watch the disgusting reality shows and observe people being humiliated and degraded. Anyone growing up in a Jewish family knows what it’s like to be subject to searing criticism and shaming, which often substitutes for true affection. Christianity is being trashed, and more and more people are becoming atheists. Look at most of the atheist organizations and notice that they are run by Jews. It breaks my heart to see what my ethnicity has done throughout history and is doing right now to this country. I’ve asked myself, why? I think it started thousands of years ago when Jews rejected Jesus Christ, who was a beacon of Light in the world. Jesus brought a new way of thinking and behaving but the Jews were too obstinate and arrogant to accept him. Most still are. And now Jews are doing what their ancestors did back then — trying to destroy anything or anyone having to do with Christ. It’s partly, I think, because Jews are too stubborn to admit they were wrong (another notoriously Jewish trait). Of course, it’s hard to admit you’re wrong when you have no loving Jesus to forgive you! Maybe what is happening, and has been happening for centuries, is a form of Jewish revenge. The Jews are so angry and hurt about being stood up that they want to destroy the beauty and sacredness Christians have found with Christ. They have also taken matters into their own hands by becoming their own messiahs. Jews have elevated the previously obscure concept of “Tikkun Olam” to the centerpiece of Judaism. Tikkun means Jews fixing and repairing the world. It also means that God left the world imperfect on purpose so that Jews will perfect the world. It’s delusional, and very, very dangerous. After much education and introspection, I have decided that I can no longer be part of this religion, not that it was much of a religion to begin with! I will always be an Eastern European Jew, for that is my ethnicity. However, I have recently accepted Christ as my Savior. This is the most rewarding, but hardest, action of my life. It is very difficult for me to trust Christ, given the scars left by my Zionist upbringing. I feel like I am deprogramming myself from a cult. I will continue to strive every day of my life to honor and worship Jesus, even though I have to blast through many layers of scar tissue to get to him. Sincerely, A Recovering Jew On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 4:03:14 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.inquiryintoislam.com/2014/10/my-name-is-bosch-and-im-recovered-muslim.html > > > My Name is Bosch and I’m a Recovered Muslim > > [image: http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif] > <http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7971435764401907979&postID=9193154703899973079&from=pencil> > > *By Bosch Fawstin > <http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/my-name-is-bosch-and-im-a-recovered-muslim/>* > > *Author’s note: This was originally published in Dec. 2011 in Front Page > Magazine > <http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/my-name-is-bosch-and-im-a-recovered-muslim/> > > and it was the most popular piece I've written until this piece of mine > <http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/calling-islam-islam/>. I’m > a cartoonist, so the only essays I write are ones that I cannot express in > any other way but words, and here — in light of the latest Jihad attack in > London, and the latest "Islam vs 'Islamism'" debate going on — is what I > think is my most comprehensive piece on Islam, Muslims and Jihad.* > > [image: > http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1WDGA4v-52Y/VE11aN-8JjI/AAAAAAAAFCc/YaCfxoC7C2I/s1600/bosch1.jpg] > > <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1WDGA4v-52Y/VE11aN-8JjI/AAAAAAAAFCc/YaCfxoC7C2I/s1600/bosch1.jpg> > > My name is Bosch and I’m a recovered Muslim. > > That is, if Muslims don’t kill me for leaving Islam, which it requires > them to do. That’s just one of the reasons I’ve been writing and drawing > against Islam and its Jihad for a number of years now. But fortunately for > us, Islam hasn’t been able to make every Muslim its slave, just as Nazism > wasn’t able to turn every German into a Nazi. So there is Islam and there > are Muslims. Muslims who take Islam seriously are at war with us and > Muslims who don’t aren’t. > > But that doesn’t mean we should consider these reluctant Muslims allies > against Jihad. I’ve been around Muslims my entire life and most of them > truly don’t care about Islam. The problem I have with many of these > essentially non-Muslim Muslims, especially in the middle of this war being > waged on us by their more consistent co-religionists, is that they give the > enemy cover. They force us to play a game of Muslim Roulette since we > can’t tell > <http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2011/08/how-should-we-treat-muslims-in-our.html> > > which Muslim is going to blow himself up until he does. And their > indifference about the evil being committed in the name of their religion > is a big reason why their reputation is where it is. > > So while I understand that most Muslims are not at war with us, they’ve > proven in their silence and inaction against jihad that they’re not on our > side either, and there’s nothing we can say or do to change that. We just > have to finally accept it and stop expecting them to come around, while > doing our best to kill those who are trying to kill us. > > Another problem with Muslims who aren’t very Muslim is that they lead some > among us to conclude that they must be practicing a more enlightened form > of Islam. They’re not. They’re “practicing” life in non-Muslim countries, > where they are free to live as they choose. But their “Islam” is not the > Islam. There’s no separate ideology apart from Islam that’s being practiced > by these Muslims in name only > <http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/03/muslim-in-name-only.html>, there’s > no such thing as “Western Islam”. > > Non-observant Muslims are not our problem, but neither are they the > solution to our problem. Our problem is Islam and its most consistent > practitioners. There is nothing in Islam that stays the hand of Muslims who > want to kill non-Muslims. If an individual Muslim is personally peaceful, > it’s not because of Islam, it’s because of his individual choice, which is > why I often say that your average Muslim is morally superior to Mohammad, > to their own religion. The very rare Muslim who helps us against Jihad is > acting against his religion, but that doesn’t stop some among us from > thinking that his existence somehow means that he represents more than > himself. > > The only reason we’re talking about Islam is because it doesn’t mean > peace. Islam wasn’t hijacked by a “small minority of extremists” on 9/11, > it was hijacked by a very small minority of moderates whose embarrassment > in being associated with such an immoderate religion leads them to engage > in moderate truth telling about it, proving their irrelevance as allies > <http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2010/10/why-peaceful-majority-is-irrelevant.html> > . > > In addition to these politically active moderates, when you see > well-assimilated Muslims in the West, you’re not seeing Islam in action, > you’re seeing individuals living up to the old adage, when in Rome, do as > the Romans do. They’re essentially post-Islamic Muslims who have rejected > Islamic values and have embraced Western ones. But since the process of > their assimilation was implicit *—* as it happened naturally by their > exposure to Western, i.e., pro-life, values *—* both Muslims and > non-Muslims alike prefer to generously give Islam some credit for it. But a > good Muslim, by our standards is a bad Muslim by Islamic standards. They > are objectively good human beings who identify themselves as Muslim, and > give Islam a good face *—* one far better than it deserves. This only > gives us a false impression about what it is we’re facing, with just > another excuse not to face it. And this leads to our acceptance into our > culture of stealth jihadists > <http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2010/09/stealth-jihad.html> who have > figured out how to say what we want to hear, while they scheme behind the > scenes to further Islamize the West > <http://dttj.blogspot.com/2010/08/islamization-of-west.html>. > > In the name of distinguishing the enemy from Muslims who mean us no harm, > far too many Western commentators have avoided using the name “Islam” for > the enemy’s ideology, and instead have decided to create their very own > terms for the threat we’re facing, terms that are alien to the enemy. Terms > such as: > > Islamic Fundamentalism. > > Islamic Extremism. > > Totalitarian Islam. > > Islamofascism. > > Islamonazism. > > Political Islam. > > Bin Ladenism. > > Radical Islam. > > Militant Islam. > > Islamism. > > Jihadism. > > We didn’t use terms such as “Radical Nazism”, “Extremist Shinto” and > “Militant Communism” in the past. “Militant Islam”, Political Islam”, etc., > are redundant terms. Our pretending otherwise has proven disastrous. > Thousands of American lives, both civilian and military, have been > sacrificed because of policies predicated on the myth that “Islam means > peace.” We didn’t try to reform Shinto or Nazism during World War II; the > major changes in those cultures took place only after we thoroughly > de-militarized them. > > And it’s no accident that Western analysts of Islam who are most informed > about Islam are also most critical of it, while those least informed are > least critical. But then there are those who, in their study of Islam, have > become so enamored with their subject that, instead of sticking to what > Islam is, they often write about what it isn’t, or what they hope it might > be. They seem preoccupied with doing their part to save Islam from those > who have allegedly corrupted it. > > The Muslim world is where the true meaning of Islam can be found in > practice. Islam *—* not any alleged deviant form of it *—* means > misogyny, censorship, anti-Semitism, homophobia, wife-beatings, beheadings, > honor killings, pedophilia/“child marriages”, murdering infidels, etc. This > is evil, and Islam sanctions every bit of it, but we’ve been told that we > must respect “one of the world’s great religions” because it’s a religion. > Following 9/11, the only thing George W. Bush knew about Islam was that it > was a religion, and that apparently was a good enough reason for him to > exonerate it as he did. And his advisor on Islam, David Forte, told Bush > exactly what he wanted to hear, that “Nothing this evil could come from > religion.” But 9/11 *did *come from a religion. Whatever else 9/11 was, > it was an act of faith. > > And Bush saying “Islam is peace” shortly after 9/11 gave the enemy a gift > they couldn’t have foreseen. Here was the one man who was charged to defend > America from their attack and here he was defending the very ideology > <http://www.inquiryintoislam.com/2010/07/why-is-islam-so-successful.html> > that motivated the attackers. Honesty is the best policy in general, and > when it comes to war, it’s a moral imperative to find out the truth, to > tell the truth and to act on the truth, no matter what sacred cow is killed > in the process. And so a big part of why nearly 3,000 victims of jihad on > 9/11 haven’t been avenged is because of respect for religion, even for a > religion that calls for our destruction. > > Muslims who really care about Islam are part of an organized effort to > spread Islam, and I sometimes refer to this collective effort by Muslims as > “Organized Islam.” No matter the means involved, Muslims working towards a > more Islamic world want the same thing the jihadists want. This organized > effort includes Mosques, Muslim organizations, Muslim individuals writing > books, blog posts, etc. And they all invariably engage in anti-Western, > Anti-Israeli propaganda, at the very least. > > I often hear that we should be working with the Muslim world. Working > towards what? As Ayn Rand writes, “In any collaboration between two men (or > two groups) who hold different basic principles, it is the more evil or > irrational one who wins.” Any time we spend “working” with a culture that > calls for our destruction, we are working towards our own destruction, > consciously or not. > > While it’s true that jihadists don’t represent most Muslims, they do > represent Islam. But then why don’t most Muslims engage in jihad? Like in > any culture, heroes are a small minority, and that goes for Islamic culture > as well. The jihadists are Islam’s heroes; they are the ones most dedicated > to following Allah’s commands and they’re celebrated in the Muslim world > for it. They are also the only ones to whom Islam guarantees paradise. And > their rarity was made even clearer when we learned that only the pilots of > 9/11 knew it was a suicide mission. Our enemy knows that it’s tough to get > even hardcore Muslims to sacrifice their lives for Islam, but they don’t > want us to know that. Just as they don’t want us to know that behind their > boast that they love death is the fact that they hate life. > > And while Muslims who blow themselves up in order to kill non-Muslims are > a small minority, Muslims who would explicitly condemn them are an even > smaller minority. And while I think that Muslims are mere sheep to their > Jihadist wolves, there are also too many Muslim cheerleaders for jihad. How > many Muslims celebrated 9/11? Far too many. Even in my own lax Muslim > upbringing in America, there was an omnipresent anti-Semitism and misogyny. > Some members of my family admired Adolph Hitler, who I refer to as “Islam’s > Favorite Infidel.” Regarding misogyny, the birth of a girl became a day of > mourning for Muslim women in my family; they understood the suffering this > girl would endure under Islam, even in America. > > Though we say we’ve been at war for over ten years, we haven’t even begun > to fight the war the way we should be fighting it. And those calling for a > change within Islam during this war would be surprised at how much Islam > can be changed through an honest war on our behalf. You can’t make a > violent religion like Islam non-violent by argument, only by greater > retaliatory force against state sponsors of jihad terrorism. > > The future of Islam and the well-being of Muslims is said to be of > importance to us. Post-9/11, the defense of our culture, our values, our > very lives has been optional, but our defense of Islam has been absolute. > It began with Bush’s “Islam is peace” and it continues with Obama, who said > in his Submission Speech in Egypt in 2009, in front of members of The > Muslim Brotherhood, “I consider it part of my responsibility as president > of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam > wherever they appear.” If only he felt the same about America. > > We can’t be both for Islam and for ourselves. This enemy is fully on their > own side and fully against us and they’ve made themselves believe that > they’re the good guys and that we’re the bad guys, and our actions have > done nothing but turn their hatred of us into an ever-deepening contempt. > Before we see the enemy for what it is, we need to see ourselves for what > we are. Only then can we, with full moral conviction, make them pay for > what they’ve done and move us towards victory. > > Our problem is not “Islamophobia”, but Islamophilia. It is this > uncritical, uninformed, absolute defense of Islam by Western elites after > 9/11 that I refer to as Islamgate. It’s a scandal for the ages that few > involved would ever admit to being part of. > > I care about the truth. I care about Western Civilization. I care about > myself, my loved ones and my friends. I care about Iife. And that’s why I > don’t care about Islam. > > Our altruistic concern for the future and well being of the Muslim world > has come at the expense of American lives and treasure. We’ve placed the > well being of “The Muslim World” above our own self-defense. We’ve placed > today’s Big Lie, “Islam means peace”, above the truth we need to act on. > We’ve placed the lives of Muslim civilians above the lives of our soldiers, > placing them in absolutely unnecessary danger in order to protect innocent > (or even guilty) civilians. Our Rules of Engagement might as well be > renamed the Golden Rules of Engagement, as our soldiers have been forced to > treat the enemy the way we’d like to be treated. And the enemy takes full > advantage of that, as they do of all of the policies our morally vain > politicians have concocted. We need to shift the focus onto our own > well-being at the enemy’s expense for a change. > > We’ve tried everything since 9/11 except real war. War is the answer to > Jihad. > > So who cares about Islam? Muslims, Jihadists, Islamophiles, Leftists who > naturally side with anti-American ideologies, guilt-ridden fellow travelers > who think America is usually in the wrong, and religionists who believe any > religion is better than none. But since Leftists and Islamophiles usually > know very little about Islam, who truly cares about Islam? Those who are at > war with us. > > In the end, I care about Islam and the Muslim world as much as the Muslim > world cares about America and the West. This is war. We can’t be on both > sides. I’m not rooting for Islam or the Muslim world. > > I’m rooting for us. > > > > 1. *Citizen Warrior > <http://www.blogger.com/profile/06265844262699107352>*October 28, 2014 > at 6:23 AM > > <http://www.inquiryintoislam.com/2014/10/my-name-is-bosch-and-im-recovered-muslim.html?showComment=1414502622081#c4501677775019625021> > > That's an interesting question: How many Muslims leave Islam? 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