Cologne sex attacks: women made to "run gauntlet"

[David Morris]

Although Kai's statement sounds like it comes from an American Republican
Presidential hopeful, I can relate to it on a basic level.
Apocalyptic-minded Revolutionaries, who are Koran fundamentalist Islamist,
are trying to be as horrible to the world as they are able to be.  Not all
Muslims are such assholes, just as not all Christians are like Ted Cruz and
his ilk.  Still, the texts these fundamentalist are devoted to support
their hateful ways.  Texts are often the sanctioned product of a
prevailing hierarchy that has squelched all dissenting views. The essential
lesson is that often vital, living spiritual movement ossify into hateful
dogmas.  Islam's vital spirit resides in Suffism.  Christianity has a
history of Mystics too. Likewise Judaism.

Hate the ossified manifestation and corruption of the vital spirit of all
religions, not the religions themselves.

David Morris

On Friday, January 8, 2016, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kai, I have been trying to pay attention to this story, partly because
> I change trains in Koln now and then and so it's easier for me to imagine
> the scene.
>
> I wonder why you say your patience with Islam has come to an end, for a
> few reasons.  One is that the English-language coverage I've seen has had
> only scanty information about who the perpetrators might have been.  Are
> they not relating facts that have been reported in German-language media?
> But even where English-language sources have interviewed witnesses/victims,
> I haven't seen much to suggest that the perpetrators were from any
> particular ethnic group or religion.  I've seen suggestions that there were
> people present of Arab or North African appearance, but that's been true of
> that area when I've passed through.  And I don't get tie you see with
> Islam.  Am pretty sure Islam frowns on what happened as much as
> Christianity or Judaism would.
>
> So, curious about what I'm missing.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lorentzen at hotmail.de');>> wrote:
>
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>> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/cologne-sex-attacks-women-made-to-run-gauntlet/news-story/c8a374824b163738853eb98daba9d2e6
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>> Similar things happened that night in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bielefeld and
>> other cities.
>>
>> My patience with Islam has come to an end.
>>
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