"The Facebook and Instagram parent said in a blog post it would remove content “attacking ‘Zionists’ when it is not explicitly about the political movement” and uses antisemitic stereotypes or threatens harm through intimidation or violence directed against Jews or Israelis."
"Since Peixão – whose nickname comes from the ichthys “Jesus” fish – took power in 2016 of five favelas that have become known as the Complexo de Israel, an allusion to the evangelical belief that the return of Jews to the Holy Land is a step towards the second coming of Christ and Armageddon."
"A neon Star of David has been erected at the top of the complex and at night can be seen for miles around – an unmissable symbol of Peixão’s force and his faith. "
"the past, Peixão’s troops have been accused of ransacking Afro-Brazilian temples and banning Afro-Brazilian celebrations in the Complex of Israel, where more than 100,000 people live. But this week’s reports were the first relating to Catholic places of worship."
"Charles aspired to counter the Protestant Reformation and keep all his subjects obedient to the Catholic Church."
"The policy update, which follows Meta’s consultations with 145 stakeholders representing civil society and academia across global regions, comes as tensions escalate in the Middle East amid the Israel’s war on Gaza."
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Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (18 November 1522 – 5 June 1568) was a general and
statesman in the Spanish Netherlands
just before the start of the Eighty Years' War,
whose execution helped spark the national uprising
that eventually led to the independence of the Netherlands.
By appointment, he was Captain General of the Lowlands under Charles V, knight of the Golden Fleece from 1546, and Imperial Chamberlain.
In the service of the Spanish army, he defeated the French in the battles of Saint-Quentin. And gravelines.
As a leading Netherlandic nobleman, Egmont was a member of King Philip II of Spain's official Council of State for Flanders and Artois. Together with William, Prince of Orange and the Count of Horn,
he protested against the introduction of the inquisition in Flanders.
by the cardinal Antoine Perrenot Granvelle, bishop of Arras. Egmont even threatened to resign, but after Granvelle left, there was a reconciliation with the king. In 1565, running short of funds as he had continued the representation of the Low Countries entirely from his own pocket,
Egmont went to Madrid to beseech Philip II, the king of Spain, .
for a change of policy
in the Netherlands, but met with little more than courtesy. .
Egmont refused to heed Orange's warning; thus he and Horn decided to stay in the city. Upon arrival, Alba almost immediately had the counts of Egmont and Horn arrested on charges of heresy, and imprisoned them in a castle in Ghent, prompting Egmont's wife and their eleven surviving children (from the thirteen they had together) to seek refuge in a convent. Pleas for amnesty came to the Spanish king from throughout Europe, including from many reigning sovereigns, the Order of the Golden Fleece (both being knights of the Order, and thereby theoretically immune from trial
On 4 June, Egmont and Horn were condemned to death, and lodged that night in the King's House in Brussels. On 5 June 1568,
both men were beheaded .
before the Town Hall
on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt
(Brussels's main square),
Egmont's uncomplaining dignity on the occasion being widely noted.
Their deaths led to public protests throughout the Netherlands, and contributed to the
resistance against the Spaniards.
(And the Inquisition by the Catholic Church.)
1568 + 80 years war= 1648
The Eighty Years' War
or Dutch Revolt (c. 1566/1568–1648)
was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Reformation, centralisation, excessive taxation, and the rights and privileges of the Dutch nobility and cities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War
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Cornelis Sergerse Van Egmont (Van Voorthoudt)
Birthdate: 1598
Birthplace: Voorhout, Teylingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Death: November 22, 1662 (63-64)
Castle Island, Albany, New York, American Slave Colony
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'The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657
petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant,
in which some thirty residents of the small settlement at Flushing requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.
It is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights."
Stuyvesant's ordinance, which was immensely controversial in the colony, stood against the approximately hundred-year development of religious tolerance in the Dutch Republic.
During this period when the Dutch were revolting against Spanish rule,
rebelling against an imposed Inquisition,
attempting to form a national identity
, and trying to unify Calvinist and Catholic provinces.
The Dutch toleration debates were lengthy, bumpy, heated, and full of political intrigue and even assassination. The writer Thomas Broderick states, "I believe the true Dutch legacy is not one of toleration but of discussion. New Amsterdam and the Republic show us that a robust, open public discourse is the surest way to eventual social improvement.
Toleration and acceptance are political and moral imperatives, and the Flushing remonstrance and great Dutch toleration debates in Europe and North America teach us that social change takes time, open dialogue, disagreement, and failure before progress is to be made."
Stuyvesant's policy was not very different from the one evolving in the Netherlands:
an official recognition of the Dutch Reformed Church bundled with broad tolerance within the church and a policy of connivance,
turning a blind eye to non-conformist religious practices.
At the same time, Stuyvesant also opposed Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam."
On another front, the Stuyvesant family was broadly tolerant. Judith, Stuyvesant's wife, was a fierce advocate for New York's slaves, promoting the practice of baptism as a first step toward freedom.[6]
His policy met with resistance from many English colonists in Vlissingen, Rustdorp and 's-Gravesande, all of which had been host to previous Quaker missions. Stuyvesant's actions, however, also met with the support of other English colonists, including local magistrates, who informed on those embracing unorthodox teachings and meeting in small and unsanctioned religious meetings of lay people called conventicles. Thus, Stuyvesant found himself drawn into the religious debates of the English Atlantic World[7] and debates in England which culminated in the Conventicle Act 1664.
This policy resulted in numerous acts of religious persecution and harassment. In 1656 William Wickenden, a Baptist minister from Rhode Island, was arrested by Dutch colonial authorities, jailed, fined, and exiled for baptizing Christians in Flushing.[8] In the same year Robert Hodgson was arrested, tried, and sentenced to two years of manual labor with slaves for his preaching of Quakerism.
In 1661, in the town of Rustdorp, Henry Townsend (Norwich) and Samuel Spicer were fined for holding Quaker conventicles and Townsend was banished as well.
Stuyvesant sent three new magistrates, all English colonists, and six colonial militiamen to gather information on dissidents.
The militiamen were billeted in the homes of the dissidents until they agreed to conform.
In 1662, in 's-Gravesande, Samuel Spicer and his mother, Micha, along with John and Mary Tilton were imprisoned and later banished.
They moved to Oyster Bay, then outside of the authority of New Netherland, and returned to their town after 1664 when the English took control of the colony.
The Flushing Remonstrance was signed at the home of Edward Hart, the town clerk, on
December 27, 1657, by a group of Dutch citizens
who were affronted
by persecution of Quakers
and the religious policies of Stuyvesant.
None of them were Quaker.
"The law of love, peace and liberty in the states extending to Jews, Turks and Egyptians,
as they are considered sonnes of Adam, which is the glory of the outward state of Holland, soe love, peace and liberty, extending to all in Christ Jesus,
condemns hatred, war and bondage.
And because our Saviour sayeth it is impossible but that offences will come,
but woe unto him by whom they cometh,
our desire is not to offend one of his little ones, in whatsoever form, name or title hee appears in, whether Presbyterian, Independent, Baptist or Quaker,
but shall be glad to see anything of God in any of them,
desiring to doe unto all men .
as we desire all men should doe unto us,
which is the true law both of Church and State;
for our Saviour sayeth this is the law and the prophets.
Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto us,
we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them,
but give them free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses,
as God shall persuade our consciences, for we are bounde by the law of God and man
to doe good unto all men
and evil to noe man.
And this is according to the patent and charter of our Towne, given unto us in the name of the States General, which
we are not willing to infringe, and violate,
but shall houlde to our patent.
and shall remaine, your humble subjects, the inhabitants of Vlishing."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Remonstrance
Stuyvesant asserted that he was not violating the signers' "freedom of conscience," only their right to worship outside of family prayer meetings. In addition he proclaimed March 13, 1658 a Day of Prayer
for the purpose of repenting .
from the sin
of religious tolerance.
The Quaker Meeting House in Flushing, built 1694, is now the oldest house of worship in continuous use in New York State.
He was to become a leader of American Quakers and a correspondent of Quaker founder George Fox..
Trump defends 2017 'very fine people' comments, calls Robert E. Lee 'a great general'
President Donald Trump maintained he "answered perfectly" when he said there were
"very fine people on both sides" of clashes at a
white supremacist rally
in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"If you look at what I said, you will see that that question was answered perfectly," Trump said Friday in an exchange with ABC's Terry Moran.
"And I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general."
The "Unite the Right" rally took place Aug. 11 and 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, where white nationalists protested the city’s decision to remove a statue of Lee. Rally participants chanted anti-Semitic, Nazi-associated phrases and clashed with counterprotesters.
many Republicans -- who said the president did not offer an adequately strong condemnation
of white supremacists .
and drew an equivalence.
between protesters and counterprotesters."
"You had a lot of bad people in the other group, too," Trump said.
One counterprotester, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was killed when a rally participant deliberately drove into a group protesting the August 2017 rally.
The driver has since been found guilty of first-degree murder."
This is the guy who says Hitler’s done some good things,” Biden added, referencing a claim by Trump’s former chief of staff. “I’d like to know what they are, the good things Hitler’s done."
He made up the Charlottesville story, and you’ll see it’s debunked all over the place,” Trump claimed. “Just the other day it came out, where it was fully debunked.
whether Trump explicitly labeled neo-Nazis and white supremacists as “very fine people” when, in fact, he said in the same statement that he wasn’t talking about those specific groups, which he said should be “condemned totally.” Nevertheless, Trump did say that there were “very fine people on both sides.”
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from my point of view, our language is
in a state of vast humiliation.
It no longer describes the world in which we live."
In the Hopi language, the word koyaanisqateans
"life out of balance"
False equivalence
The Count of Egmont is the main character in a play by Goethe, Egmont.
In 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven composed the Egmont Overture an overture and incidental music for a revival of the play.
the growing influence of Bible-bashing bandits known as “narco-pentecostals” who now control large swaths of Rio.
“They call themselves evangelicals but I refuse to use this term. In reality, [Peixão] is a narco-religious-fundamentalist,” said the commentator and former newspaper editor Octavio Guedes on the television network GloboNews.
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