#Muslim Chaplain

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anyway before i got extremo derailed tonight, i was reading neon's curated collection of quotes from a russian interview with klim kostin and it got me wondering if any nhl teams keep chaplains on staff. considering this is the league where they will not even provide translators or language teachers like 95% of the time, i wasn't expecting them to, but cursory research turned up hockey ministries international which appears to pair local christian church pastors with junior, minor, and major leagues and call it chaplaincy even though everything on their website feels like youth pastor jock version. also found this very interesting if christian-focused athletic article from 2019 about the roles of faith in the nhl which mentions 23 nhl teams having a chaplain on staff. but the entire framing around the hmi program and chaplains in the nhl seemed to be around christianity? which admittedly i have only experienced chaplaincy in relation to hospice or extreme crisis situations so maybe single-faith focused chaplaincy is more standard when people aren't like imminently dying.

all of which of course gave me one million more questions while i was doing the dishes. like -- inclusitivity 101 but if they hired chaplains with interfaith training at all levels would they start seeing more religiously and culturally diverse players. and was also wondering if, even though hmi claims to be non-denominational, what kinds of outreach they do for orthodox players like kostin (i assume) or vasilevskiy (mentioned in the article) because none of the language on their website felt ecumenical. and also what kind of spiritual care they offer players in player assistance -- i feel like it's not uncommon to hear about goalies finding religion and coming out of player assistance concurrently. and also the number of goalies themselves who are christian, which was particularly interesting to me, as in the article, most of the ones who self-identified didn't come to faith until adulthood or were deeply on the pro-league career track. i also think about like--like what are the ahl (or echl/sphl) chaplains doing for the players who were raised with prosperity gospel and the various threads associated with that

and these are all very fascinating trains of thought for me to chase bc i love thinking about how faith impacts our lives broadly and in my little hobbies specifically but what i kept getting stuck on is if the framing around spiritual care in the nhl is all christianity, who is providing spiritual care at each stop for nazem kadri, who is a practicing muslim

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A brainworm thought that won’t leave me alone and that I am not sure I can put into a fic draft without exploding into flames of ‘I’m not a weird smut writer, by god’:

1. The werewolves of the mercyverse canonically heal almost anything provided it’s not an instant fatality. This includes old age, tattoos, and limb loss.

2. They’re mostly men. A lot of them are military men or veterans, who have pretty crude senses of humour as a group.

3. A lot of them are from cultural backgrounds where circumcision is a norm

Conclusion: ‘then I realised my foreskin grew back and freaked the fuck out’ has to be so common an experience as to be a trope in werewolf anecdotes.

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By DAVID BARRETT

A Chaplain at Leeds University was forced into hiding with his young family yesterday after receiving death threats over his role as an IDF reservist.

Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, wife Nava and their two children were moved to a safe location on police advice amid a shocking hate campaign.

Pro-Palestinian campaigners have accused Rabbi Deutsch of 'genocide' after he returned to Israel after Hamas's October 7 terror attacks to serve in the Israeli Defence Force. 

He resumed his chaplaincy duties last month, leading to an escalation in anti-Semitic threats on campus.

On Thursday evening, the hate campaign intensified with 'hundreds' of malicious calls to the family, including threats to kill Rabbi Deutsch, to rape and kill Mrs Deutsch and to murder their children. 

Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch with his wife Nava. The pair were forced to flee their Leeds home with their children following the threats

In a recording of one phone call to Mrs Deutsch – heard by the Mail – the caller said: 'Tell that Jewish son of a bitch we are coming for him.

'We're coming to his house, we're going to kill him, and you as well you f****** racist bitch.' 

Another caller said: 'Us Muslims are coming for you, you dirty Zionist m***********.'

Another said: 'We are going to get you. How dare you come back to Leeds and expect the Muslims not to do 'owt, when all you lot have been doing is killing innocent children.'

The Deutsch family decided to leave their Leeds home after taking police advice, sources said.

It comes amid skyrocketing levels of anti-Semitism on British university campuses and around Europe.

The University Jewish Chaplaincy (UJC) said: 'We are deeply shocked and appalled by the despicable torrent of horrific anti-Semitic hate and threats of violence being directed at Rabbi Deutsch and his family.

'We are in constant communication with Rabbi Deutsch, and our primary concern is to ensure his and his family's ongoing safety, and the safety of Jewish students at Leeds University.

'To find ourselves in this situation in the UK in 2024 marks a dark day for British Jews.'

[derekpadron]

Duh! How would the Muslims in Arabic-Islamic Countries such as Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and North African countries React to Chinese Zen Buddhist Architecture invading their countries!? Congrats to the Chinese Empire and Hindu Empire for Preserving their Minority Religions in their Home Countries while Muslims and Islam rank 2nd as most Populous Religion in the World! The United States must back off India and China, as the Muslims have way too many Islamic nations attacking the Jews' tiny country Israel, and now backing Hindus in India into a Corner near the Indian Ocean in an Invasion! The Same Applies to Crazy Christians looking to Crucify people at Buddha's Sacred Birthplace and Bodhi Tree in Nepal between India and China. We must Preserve Zen Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu Cultures! How would the Vatican and Jerusalem feel if the Buddhists and Hindus start setting up camp at Vatican City and Jerusalem to Spread the Truth of Buddha? Stay in Your Places! The United States is Not Just A Christian Country, just like Latin American Countries that suffered from the Spanish Empire's Catholic Wraths is not only Catholic, because the Americas were stolen from the Native American Indians and are of New Territories. The Muslims have Chunks of Africa, Spain, France, the Middle East, Eurasia, now China, Australia, Latin America, the United States, and Canada to invade. I am not being Represented! I Want and Need a Zen Buddhist Chaplain at more American Hospitals in Florida! Zen Buddhist and Hindu Meditations with Trees must be allowed in the State of Florida! Trees Connect Us to God, Give Us Our Souls and Spirits Back from the Black Voodoo Jamaican and Haitian Witches, and Cure Our Medical and Mental Diseases! Zen Buddhism and Hinduism, given that the Tree meditations cure us of Black Voodoo curses, are therefore Very Catholic. I hope Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, if our USA Presidents, ban Voodoo and Black Magic all over the United States in our businesses and bookstores. 🌳🧘🏻‍♂️🌳🧘🏻‍♀️🌳🧘🏻🌳🧘‍♂️🌳🧘🏼‍♀️🌳🧘‍♀️🌳🧘🏼‍♂️🌳🧘🏾‍♀️🌳🧘🏿🌳🧘🏿‍♂️🌳🧘🏽🌳🌏🌎🌤️🪐✨

[mariacallous]

Down the road from where I live a friend came across a man tearing down pictures of Israeli hostages. You’ve probably seen the portraits by bus stops and railway stations. Activists print them off from sites highlighting the hostages’ plight and fly-post pictures of the men, women and children Hamas kidnapped.

As the hostages are civilians, my friend asked why would anyone want to destroy their pictures.

He was beaten up for his pains. Defending innocent Jewish civilians makes you an accomplice of Benjamin Netanyahu in London today.

And not just in London. Anti-Jewish hatred in the UK has exploded since Hamas attacked Israel – recorded incidents have doubled.  The violence my friend experienced is still rare, thankfully. But the fear of Islamist terrorism or just everyday thugs running riot is everywhere in the Jewish community, and to a lesser extent in wider society as well.

A drumbeat of stories builds the tension.

Belatedly and reluctantly, the Labour party disowned its Muslim candidate in the forthcoming Rochdale by-election. He had all the usual prejudices, and a few I had not heard about before.

He imagined that “people in the media from certain Jewish quarters” were targeting pro-Palestinian politicians, and that the Israeli state had allowed Hamas to rape, shoot and burn alive 1200 of its people because it wanted a pretext to invade Gaza.

As I am writing this piece, there’s news of a (white) comedian, who describes himself as an “experimental fusionist” and an “absurdist laughter chef,” and is just as stupid as his description implies. In a scene redolent of medieval prejudice, he encouraged the audience at the Soho Theatre in central London to chant “get the fuck out” and “free Palestine” at a Jewish member of the audience.

Incidentally the Soho Theatre is on the site of the old West End Great Synagogue, built at a time when Jews were welcome in London

Before that Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, the Jewish chaplain of Leeds University, his wife and two kids were moved to a safe house on  police advice after receiving hundreds of death threats.

Online “activists” pointed out the rabbi had served in the Israeli Defence Force, and so presumably any number of violent threats were justified.

The justification, such as it is, would have carried more plausibility if incidents of hatred had not exploded as soon as the news of the Hamas massacres broke in October.  They were celebrations of anti-Jewish violence not a reaction to the violence of the Israeli armed forces.

If you doubt that there are reasons to be frightened, go to your nearest synagogue and see the guards. Or talk to the parents of Jewish children and hear them describe how Jewish schools tell pupils to discard uniforms that allow potential attackers to mark them out as targets.

All of this and much more is causing deep alarm in the Jewish community, and a dangerous reaction among right-wing Jewish pressure groups, who are getting the response to racism about as wrong as they possibly can.

Here’s how.

The Jewish right is caught up in the same paranoid ideology of the rest of the modern British right, and indeed of the Trumpian right in the United States. It sees the woke mind virus everywhere. It assumes that progressives have marched through the institutions and made them borderline antisemitic, if not all-out racist.

In the case of violence against Jews, the supposed triumph of wokedom means that ideologically compromised police officers will not protect Jews by standing up to far leftists and Islamists.

 The Campaign Against Antisemitism, has encouraged its allies in the Conservative government to introduce ever-greater restrictions on rights to protest. This week it was welcoming new punishments for demonstrators who desecrate war memorials (who could already be prosecuted under existing law) and who wear face coverings to conceal their identity.

I do not want to condemn the campaign out of hand. There’s no doubt the pro-Palestinian marches in London frighten Jewish people. Some�� 90% of British Jews say that they would avoid travelling to a city centre if a major anti-Israel demonstration was underway.

There is no doubt, too, that fear of violence is not just confined to Jews. It is everywhere, although we don’t like to talk about it.

People disappear in ​the UK for offending Islamists, and respectable society looks the other way. Before the rabbi at Leeds University, there was a religious studies teacher at a Yorkshire school. Three-years ago he showed his students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. He still remains in hiding and is unlikely ever to return home.

The UK is nowhere near being the free country it pretends to be. I understand why so many are frightened. That said, you can still look at right-wing politicians and organisations and wonder where they are heading.

While praising Conservative ministers’ trifling changes to the law, which are little better than PR stunts, the Campaign Against Antisemitism denounces the police.

“For months now, we have been asking for tougher restrictions to be placed on these protests, which have made our urban centres no-go zones for Jews. While the police have failed the Jewish community and law-abiding Londoners, the Government, to its credit, is listening. These new laws will help address the mob mentality that we have observed in these protests. There is no justification for such scenes, and now, there will be no legal defence.”

Jewish leaders who work to protect the community told me on condition of anonymity that the attacks on the police make no sense. They consult with officers regularly, they say. The idea that the police are part of some woke conspiracy to ignore radical Islam and turn a blind eye to potential terrorism is ridiculous.

So it is, and it conceals a dangerous desire.

For if you think that conservatives are yearning to ban peaceful demonstrations, you are not wrong. Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman, his radical right home secretary last year, tried to force the police to do just that.

Braverman fell into anti-woke conspiracy theory and accused the police of taking a tougher approach to right-wing groups than to “pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour”.

The Met to its credit refused to buckle under the pressure. Officers told the politicians they could interfere with freedom of assembly only if there was a threat of serious disorder, and that the "very high threshold" has not been reached.

The right has not given up. Here is the Campaign Against Antisemitism again.

“The people of this country expect the lawlessness on our streets to be brought firmly under control, and with these changes there are now even fewer excuses for police inaction.”

The attack follows the Campaign’s previous denunciations of London’s liberal Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan (which I covered here). Khan has gone out of his way to defend London’s Jews, but is the centre of a far-right and at times a fascistic hate campaign from Donald Trump and others, simply because he is a Muslim.

Yearning for bans is hopeless from both a moral and practical point of view. Tactically, it is all wrong. I can think of nothing more likely to fuel conspiracy theories about Jewish power than the banning of demonstrations.

If they were turning into riots, it would be another matter, and they should be banned regardless of the conspiracy theories.

But they are not degenerating into riots, and in a free country, people should be free to protest. We do not want to be governed by the Western equivalent of Hamas, after all.

Equally if protestors are not engaged in violence or the incitement to violence, it is a waste of police time suppressing them: police time which – and forgive me if I am labouring the obvious – could be better spent countering authentic threats to Jews and everyone else.

For who on earth do right-wing Jewish groups think stand between them and Islamist terrorism? The Tory party? The comment desk of the Daily Telegraph? A professional loudmouth on GB News?

Or the police service they waste so much time and energy denigrating?

[eretzyisrael]

by Ben Cohen

An Islamic chaplain at Toronto’s main pediatric hospital was under scrutiny on Thursday after video emerged of him encouraging parents to show their children a clip of the founder of Hamas predicting the eventual destruction of the State of Israel.

The video clip — unearthed by the Washington, DC-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) — showed imam Ayman Taher praising remarks made by the late Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, in a 1998 interview with the Qatari-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera.

“If you did not watch this, Google it and watch it, let your children watch it, because this is history that needs to be absorbed,” Taher — who serves as the Islamic chaplain of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and as imam of the Ibrahim Jame Mosque in Hamilton, Ontario — stated during a Dec. 18 speech at Palestine House in Toronto, the headquarters of a nonprofit organization that caters to the Palestinian community in Canada.

“When [Al Jazeera correspondent] Ahmed Mansour was asking Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, he said to him: ‘Sheikh…’ And the sheikh was barely out of Israeli jails, by the way. He said to him: ‘Do you believe that Israel will [be] finished?’ He [Yassin] said to him with confidence: ‘Yes.’ He [Mansour] said to him: ‘When do you think it will [be] finished?’ He [Yassin] said: ‘2027.’ And I said to myself: ‘How calm, how confident this man is.'”

Taher went on to eulogize Yassin, a wheelchair-bound cleric whom Israel held responsible for the deaths of several Israeli citizens and who was killed in a March 2004 Israeli strike on Gaza City.

“Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was handicapped,” Taher said. “The only thing that moved in him was his tongue. Allah gave him that faith to speak his mind and inspire the generations to come. In the most difficult time, when his own life was not safe, and we know how Allah has honored him.”

He said that when Yassin “was in jail and after that when he was living in very difficult times, he never had doubt that Allah is going to give victory to his religion, we [also] should not, because he has inspired millions.”

He then added:  “I know I am getting myself in trouble now for speaking on social media. Who cares, because if [we] do not get ourselves into trouble, we will not be getting victory.”

A spokesperson for the Hospital for Sick Children said in a statement shared with The Algemeiner that Taher had been placed on paid leave as a result of the video.

“Concerns about comments made by a member of the Spiritual and Religious Care Department at SickKids related to the war in Israel and Gaza and shared on social media have been brought to our attention,” the statement noted. “We of course take this extremely seriously and are investigating as per SickKids’ Code of Conduct. The individual is on a paid leave while we investigate. For confidentiality reasons we are unable to share any additional information.”

The hospital added that “all who come to SickKids are entitled to be treated with respect, professionalism and feel safe.”

Reacting to the announcement of an investigation into Taher, one X/Twitter user responded indignantly, “What is there to investigate? It’s right there in black and white. SickKids that should have acted before now. Repugnant.”

[pure-ablution]

You briefly talked about religion in the past, and I have a couple questions for you. So growing up you went to church often, but religion wasn't a big part of your life, correct? So when you were a child did you go to church just because your parents were going? Was the purpose of going to church made clear to you, or was it just something that you did on Sundays?

Then you get older and go to uni. And then what? Why do you decide to go to church? Does going to church have a social component for you? Is it more cultural, ritual, or sacral? Is it just tradition? What do you feel? I didn't quite catch did you go to orthodox church in UK before you met Alajos, or did you immediately start going to catholic church?

What role does religion play in your life?

Why are you a part of an organised religion?

Do you favour organised religion over faith?

How important to you is being catholic? Would you have made the transition hadn't you met Alajos?

What difference does being catholic make for you personally opposed to being orthodox?

What happens when you go to mass?

Do you just adopt the views and values of the catholic church, or do you pick and choose?

You mentioned that re-ignited faith in God helped you with your mental health- how does that happen?

I'm asking all these questions because there aren't (m)any (openly?) religious people around me that I could ask why do they choose to be religious, and I think that's such an interesting topic. You seem level headed and polite so I'm giving it a chance. I know I asked a ton of questions, so by all means take your time!

Religion was a big part of my life in the sense that it was my community. As a little girl, I was raised as a Christian in a Muslim-majority country, and so the church in our town was a source of community for us, especially for my mother, who was living in a foreign country and relied on the other Orthodox Christians in our area for help and support in navigating homesickness and raising a family in an alien system. The church, for us, was much more of a meeting place and community hub than a place of deep spirituality. Services on Sundays and holidays were important, of course, and even as a little girl I realised the magnitude of them, but on a more human level, the church was just the focus of our little community, where I met with friends, took lessons, and was looked after by various grandmothers. When I grew older, and we moved to Ukraine, there was less of a cultural divide, in that most people in our town were Orthodox Christians (although we also have a sizeable population of Eastern Catholics), but it was still a point of community and tradition.

When I started at university, I felt very, very homesick, and most of the students in the Ukrainian society here also attended the little Orthodox church just out of the centre of town. I started attending, partly as a way to make friends and combat homesickness, and partly as a kind of spiritual lifeline during a very tough transition period. The Orthodox chaplain here was very good to me, and although it was a big adjustment, in a sense, because the services were held in a fairly plain sort of makeshift building, and in a mixture of languages, it was a great source of comfort and community to me in my first year. After Russia invaded Ukraine, a lot of my friends left the church, and I found myself going less often, too, though I’m not sure whether that was because of the war or simply because my schedule had become busier.

Most of my friends here at university are Catholic. The city is quite an important one for English Catholics, and my subject also tends to attract a lot of Catholics, so right from the beginning, I knew that most of my friends were socialising at the main Catholic church here and attending the different Catholic social events put on by the societies and chaplaincies here. I’d attended a few events myself, with Theresa, not with any intention to convert but just to meet people and have a nice time, and so when Alajos and I met and he invited me to attend Mass, I didn’t really think twice about it. I was very pleasantly surprised when I first attended Mass here by just how much of a community there was, and how many of my friends and acquaintances were there; it seemed to me a beautiful thing that so many of the people I loved, even just tangentially, were all gathered to worship in the same way, in the same place, at a time of our lives when so many are very secular. I also really appreciated the beauty and quiet reverence of the Latin Mass, and how it was similar to but also different from the services I’d known growing up.

Alajos never asked that I convert, and although I did it for him, because I felt as though it was so important that I do so, I also think that if we hadn’t ended up in a relationship, I would likely still have converted at some point. Catholicism feels like home to me, in a spiritual sense that’s very different from the down-to-earth community I found in the Orthodox Church. I think that an organised religion, and an ancient one, is very important to me—it brings me huge solace to feel a part of something much greater than myself. It hasn’t always been easy for me to entirely adopt a Catholic understanding and lifestyle; I’ve had difficulties with breaking old Orthodox habits and ties, and I’ll never be the most pious girl in the world, or even of all my friends, but I try my best, and I’m so happy. I learn new things all the time, and I’m so glad to have so many good friends by my side to help me and guide me.

[coochiequeens]

He killed a literal baby. And now he wants to sue the state for damages?!

By Anna Slatz February 14, 2024

A trans-identified male currently serving a 55-year sentence for the murder of his infant stepdaughter has launched a lawsuit against the Chaplain at his prison after he was allegedly denied a hijab despite identifying as a Muslim woman. Autumn Cordellioné, previously known as Jonathan C. Richardson, is seeking $150,000 in damages.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Cordellioné was first arrested in 2001 after his 11-month-old stepdaughter died in his care while her mother was at work. The night of the infant’s death, Cordellioné had been visited by friends who later told police that he had been “acting strangely.”

Despite claiming the little girl was inside sleeping, Cordellioné had loud music playing in the home, and his guests noted that he appeared to have a fresh, bleeding tattoo of the child’s name carved into his arm.

Autumn Cordellioné as of August 2023. Photo Courtesy: Indiana Department of Corrections.

Later that night, after his friends left, Cordellioné went to his neighbor and asked him to call 911, claiming the child was unresponsive. When emergency personnel arrived, they were briefly able to resuscitate the girl, but she died shortly after being rushed to the hospital. 

Cordellioné was interviewed by police, who noted he was “calm and unemotional” during questioning, and his story about what happened to the baby changed dramatically over the course of the two interviews conducted.

At first, Cordellioné claimed he found the baby unresponsive after doing some household chores. But in the next interview, Cordellioné said the child was being “fussier than usual” and he attempted to throw her up in the air repeatedly in an effort to calm her down. He said her “head bopped forward and back up in a rough type of a manner,” and that the child continued to cry so he proceeded to shake her aggressively in an effort to calm her down.

During a failed appeals hearing, detectives from the case recounted how Cordellioné “physically showed” how he had manhandled the girl, getting up out of his chair and demonstrating the action in a rough manner.

An autopsy subsequently found that the baby had died of asphyxiation by manual strangulation. Cordellioné was booked awaiting a court hearing, and would later tell a prison official “all I know is I killed the little fucking bitch.”

Cordellioné was found guilty and sentenced to 55 years in prison for the horrific crime. He is currently incarcerated at the Branchville Correctional Facility, an institution for male offenders.

Last August, Cordellioné joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union to sue the Indiana Department of Corrections, citing “discrimination” on the basis of his gender identity. That case is currently in progress.

But Reduxx has now learned that that Cordellioné has also launched a separate suit against the prison’s Chaplain, Tony Gray. Gray has been a Chaplain at the facility since 2014, and volunteered at the institution prior to being offered an official role.

Branchville Chaplain Tony Gray. Photo Source: Indiana Department of Corrections

In the lawsuit, filed on November 3, 2023, Cordellioné accuses Gray of violating his First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights.

According to court records obtained by Reduxx, the incident of complaint took place in May of 2023 after Gray informed Cordellioné that he was not allowed to don a hijab outside of his cell. In response, Cordellioné said: “I wear the hijab in order to cover my head and ears for modesty purposes, as I am an Islamic practicing transwoman.”

At the time, Cordellioné’s registered religion was “Wiccan” and Gray pointed that out, to which Cordellioné replied that he was an “eclectic practitioner who is a member of the Theosophical Society in America.”

The Theosophical Society is headquartered in Chennai, India, and is considered an “esoteric new religious movement.” Founded in 1875, it describes itself as a “unsectarian body of seekers after Truth,” and its practitioners appear to dabble in the philosophy and beliefs of multiple religions simultaneously. One of its founders is Russian mystic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who stated in 1889 that “the purpose of establishing the Society was to prepare humanity for the reception of a World Teacher.”

Cordellioné is claiming that his equal protection rights were violated when he was barred from wearing a hijab outside of his cell, noting that male Muslims in the facility are allowed to wear kufis or taqiyah — a short, rounded brimless prayer cap.

“Islamic faith mandates the wearing of a kufi for males … Islamic faith also mandates females of the faith wear hijabs when outside the home and when not amongst men of their family. Tony Gray allows male Muslims to wear their sufis, but denies me, a transwoman, the same privilege.”

From the legal complaint filed by Cordellioné.

Cordellioné also alleges that Gray’s refusal to allow him to wear a hijab violated his eighth amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment. In his argument, Cordellioné claims the he was subjected to “harassment and ridicule” by the Islamic community in his prison because he had not been allowed to wear a hijab.

“[Gray] should be aware, as Chaplain, the stigma and shame that is attributed to Islamic women when they go uncovered and without a hijab,” Cordellioné writes in his complaint. “Women are viewed as whores, tempters of men, and adulterators; by Islamic society both in and out of prison. I have been shunned, made a social pariah, and amongst my own religious community.”

He continues: “Without the support of the Islamic community, I will struggle and likely fail to achieve salvation for by [sic] Mohammed’s teachings a Muslim who knows of the teachings, yet strays from them, will never reach heaven.”

In his stated request for relief, Cordellioné is seeking the ability to wear his hijab in prison, as well as $150,000 in compensation.

Since filing, there has been some back-and-forth with the court surrounding Cordellioné’s financial situation, with the court requesting a nominal initial filing fee of $36.55, but Cordellioné claiming he does not have the money to pay it. If he cannot demonstrate deficiency in the time the court has specified, his case might be dismissed.

[mightyflamethrower]

Infant-Killer Sues to Wear His Hijab

We previously encountered convicted baby-killer Jonathan Richardson when the ACLU demanded we pay for his sex change operation. Now he wants $150,000 to reward him for being oppressed because the prison wouldn’t let him wear a hijab:

Autumn Cordellionè, also known as Jonathan C. Richardson, is serving her sentence at the all-male state prison Branchville Correctional Facility, where she is confined to only hearing her hijab in her immediate sleeping quarters, according to a civil lawsuit filed in November.

All you need to know about the liberal establishment media is that even the relatively reasonable New York Post will lie to your face by calling this guy “she.”

“[I] was told that male Muslims could wear their kufis everywhere they went, but I couldn’t wear my hijab a females religious head ware because I was a male residing in a male institution even though I am a transgender woman, except in my bed area,” Cordellionè alleged in the complaint.

Mr. Cordellionè says he has been oppressed by a prison chaplain.

The prison cleric had allegedly tried to order Cordellionè against wearing the religious scarf because her official religious beliefs were listed as “Wiccan,” a form of paganism whose followers practice witchcraft and nature worship.

Authorities have good reason to deny the maniac something he might use to strangle people:

Cordellionè, who was convicted of strangling her 11-month-old stepdaughter to death in 2001, fired back, stating she practices several religions and she is an “Islamic practicing transwoman” who uses the hijab to cover her head and ears for “modesty purposes.”

Hard to believe he would strangle a baby. He looks like such a nice girl:

If Cordellionè is to be acknowledged as a woman, then it follows everyone should have to pretend he is a devout Muslim too.

Cordellionè claimed the chaplain violated her 14th Amendment rights by singling her out against wearing her religious garb because of her status as a transgender woman.

Once again, the ACLU is championing his cause, demanding he be given money and allowed to wear his hijab.

She also claimed he violated her Eight Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment by subjecting her to “harassment and ridicule” by other Muslim prisoners.

Also, the poor guy was excluded by oversight from the Transsexual Violence Hall of Horrors. Let’s correct that now — even if he didn’t strike the transsexual pose until almost 20 years after he should have been executed:

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II The Patron of Kraków and World Youth Day Feast Day: October 22

"There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us." -from the Eucharistic Celebration Homily, October 1995

One of the greatest popes in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, and before he became known as John Paul the Great, he was born Karol Józef Wojtyła, on May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, Kraków Voivodeship, Poland.

When Karol was just eight years old, his happy family life was saddened by the early death of his parents, Karol Wojtyła, a non-commissioned officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army and captain of the Polish Armed Forces, and Emilia Kaczorowska, a schoolteacher who was of distant Lithuanian heritage, as he said: 'At twenty, I had already lost all the people I loved.'

His elder sister Olga had died before his birth, but he was close to his brother Edmund, nicknamed Mundek, who was 13 years his senior. Edmund's work as a physician eventually led to his death from scarlet fever, a loss that affected Wojtyła deeply.

Karol was an athletic youth, often played football as a goalkeeper, and also performed with various theatrical groups and worked as a playwright. During this time, his talent for language blossomed, and he learned as many as 15 languages including English and Esperanto. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, from 1940 to 1944, Karol worked in a limestone quarry and then in Solvay chemical factory.

In order to fulfill his vocation in October 1942 at the height of World War II, he entered the clandestine seminary of Kraków, run by Adam Stefan Sapieha, the archbishop of Kraków, and after finishing his studies at the seminary, he was ordained priest on All Saints' Day - November 1, 1946, a year after the war ended. He was first assigned in a small parish near Kraków, and then he served as professor and chaplain at the Catholic University of Lublin (now John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin). At a very young age, because of his exceptional talents, he became archbishop of Kraków and then Cardinal.

Following the death of John Paul I, ten days after the funeral, at the age of 58, Karol elected as pope on October 16, 1978, and chose the name John Paul II in honor of his predecessor. Having consecrated his papacy to the Blessed Virgin Mary, as his motto says: 'Totus Tuus', meaning 'I am all yours'.

He embarked in a tireless apostolate around the world. The Pilgrim Pope, as he was known, he visited 129 countries, and travelled more than all previous 263 Popes combined. Moreover, he is credited to be the spiritual inspiration behind the fall of Communism in 1991.

While visiting Jerusalem in March 2000, John Paul became the first pope in history to visit and pray at the Western Wall. In September 2001, amid post-11 September concerns, he travelled to Kazakhstan, with an audience largely consisting of Muslims, and to Armenia, to participate in the celebration of 1,700 years of Armenian Christianity.

On May 13, 1981, the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, he was shot and critically wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca, an expert Turkish gunman who was a member of the militant fascist group Grey Wolves, and he miraculously survived the assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square. Ağca was caught and restrained by a nun and other bystanders until police arrived. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Two days after Christmas in 1983, John Paul II visited Ağca in prison. John Paul II and Ağca spoke privately for about twenty minutes.

The pope made two trips to the Philippines: the first on February 18, 1981 where Lorenzo Ruiz is beatified in Manila, to which is the first beatification ceremony to be held outside the Vatican, and in January 15, 1995, during the X World Youth Day, he offered Mass to an estimated crowd of between five and seven million in Luneta Park in the Philippines, which was considered to be the largest single gathering in Christian history. And because of his special relationships with them, he is also known as the 'Pope of the Youth'.

As an extension of his successful work with youth as a young priest, John Paul II pioneered the international World Youth Days. He presided over nine of them: Rome, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Compostella, Częstochowa, Denver (in the state of Colorado), Manila, Paris, and Toronto. The total attendance at these signature events of the pontificate was in the tens of millions. The Great Jubilee of 2000 was a call to the church to become more aware and to embrace his missionary task for the work of evangelization.

During the final days of the pope's life, the lights were kept burning through the night where he lay in the Papal apartment on the top floor of the Apostolic Palace. Tens of thousands of people assembled and held vigil in St. Peter's Square and the surrounding streets for two days. Upon hearing of this, the dying pope was said to have stated: 'I have searched for you, and now you have come to me, and I thank you.'

After a long and painful sickness, John Paul II went home to the Lord, on a sorrowful Saturday, April 2, 2005 at the age of 84, at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. His final words were: 'Pozwólcie mi odejść do domu Ojca. (Allow me to depart to the house of the Father.)'

He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on May 1, 2011, and three years on April 27, 2014 on Divine Mercy Sunday, together with Pope John XXIII, he was canonized a saint by Pope Francis.

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Book Review: Travelers Along the Way (🇵🇸 Palestine)

[image 1: book cover: two figures in medieval clothing stand atop a stone archway. One has their head and face covered and wields a bow and arrow; Image 2: a map showing the Levant/Crusader States area circa 1165, including the Kingdom of Jerusalem; Image 3: a Templar-built tunnel near Akko (Acre, modern Israel); modern lighting casts yellow glow on an ancient stone tunnel with brick walls]

Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix

Author: Aminah Mae Safi

I read this at the beginning of the year and it's taken waaay too long to review. But this was such a fun book! Let's call it a medieval comedy adventure, and I invite you to try it even if historical isn't your thing.

Rahma al-Hud and her sister Zeena are fresh from being sent away from the siege of Akko, where they were defending the city from Crusader armies. When Rahma accidentally steals the Queen of Jerusalem's horse, she finds sudden notoriety as the "Green Hood". And, well, why not take on a life of noble thievery and mischief after that? Their merry gang eventually expands to include a Mongolian horsewoman, a Jewish scientist, and a stray English chaplain, as they get up to such antics as lowering a gang of drunk unconscious Templar knights out a second-story window, to going up against Queen Isabella herself.

This was a fun historical romp that isn't afraid to be silly, while also tenderly prying open the complex relationship between Rahma and her sister. Its characters are a mishmash of faiths and cultures, with a super cute sapphic couple as well.

Genres: #adventure #historical, medieval #comedy

Other reps: #muslim #wlw #m/f #jewish #christian #interfaith

★  ★  ★  ★  ★   5 stars

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Crescent

A crescent shape is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase in the first quarter, or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself. In Hinduism, Shiva is often shown wearing a crescent moon on his head symbolising that he is the master of time and is himself timeless

Waxing crescent moon with 23 percent visible surface on 13th October 2018 in Berlin a quarter-hour before moon set, after astronomical dusk at stable high pressure weather conditions. The light of the moon, which was only a few degrees above horizon line, has passed more than two hundred kilometres through the earth's atmosphere, and therefore, it was irregularly deflected by scintillation, attenuated by extinction and tinted reddish by Rayleigh scattering. Colour temperature = 4100 Kelvin (white moon light).

In Hinduism, Shiva is often shown wearing a crescent moon on his head symbolising that he is the master of time and is himself timeless.

It is used as the astrological symbol for the Moon, and hence as the alchemical symbol for silver. It was also the emblem of Diana/Artemis, and hence represented virginity. In veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church, it is associated with Mary, mother of Jesus.

From its use as roof finial in Ottoman mosques, it has also become associated with Islam, and the crescent was introduced as chaplain badge for Muslim United States military chaplains in 1993

Crescent - Wikipedia

Moonset 🌙✨🌟

Starting out the new year by coming down with bad cold haha...🥲

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Uscis revoked one of our hospital chaplains visas and are deporting him back to Egypt. Years he has spent comforting all of our staff and families during the illness and deaths of the children we care for, especially our Muslim and Arabic speaking families, for which he is the only chaplain that speaks arabic and works specifically with their faith and the coping with illness and loss. Its just cruel and unjust. I can't comprehend it. This is done purely out of racism and xenophobia, which is causing this man to uproot the career and life he's built in the us unexpectedly. Driven by the irrational fears and violent hate of a bunch of conservatives who dont even speak to brown people if they can help it let alone see them as equal human beings to themselves.

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Harvard Commencement Speakers: Despite Crackdown, "Students Will Keep Speaking Up" for Palestine Democracy Now! / June 02, 2025 at 07:55AM / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKQSrPRGmMM Time: 11:31 Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt It's graduation season in the United States, and many brave students are taking the opportunity to demonstrate support for Palestinian rights despite an ongoing campus crackdown on pro-Palestine speech. We play excerpts from commencement and graduation addresses at MIT and Harvard and are joined by a student who spoke at Harvard Divinity School's graduation ceremony. Zehra Imam, a Muslim associate chaplain at MIT, recounts the collaborative, interfaith process of writing her speech with Christian and Jewish classmates and explains why she decided to quote students from Gaza in her address. "This is a moment that calls for courage," Imam says. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

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Transgender Inmate Who Killed Infant Files Lawsuit Against Trump, Claims His Policies Led To Prison Attacks

According to court documents filed on April 1st, a biological man who identifies as a transgender woman, who is currently incarcerated in Indiana following a conviction for the reckless homicide of an infant, is now suing President Donald Trump.

The lawsuit alleges that the GOP president’s “transphobic” and “extremist rhetoric” incited acts of sexual assault and other attacks against him.

Trump’s “extremist rhetoric and transphobic hate speech,” according to Jonathan C. Richardson, who goes by the feminine name “Autumn Cordellioné,” has “emboldened the Defendants and the assailants that brutally assaulted and raped plaintiff, not once, but multiple times, to act on their hate and prejudices, constituting the cause in action and his liability in this case. Therefore, President Trump was negligent due to his alleged knowledge that others may act on his words,” according to the handwritten complaint.

After being moved from New Castle Correctional Facility (NCN), where he was “housed in protective custody,” to Westville Correctional Facility (WCA), the transgender convict claims that this is when the alleged attacks began.

Fox News reported that they contacted the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) to inquire if Trump’s executive order requiring federal inmates to be housed in units based on their biological sex was the reason for the relocation.

“President Trump has vowed to defend biological women from gender ideology extremism and restore biological truth to the Federal government,” a White House official spokesperson stated — referencing the lawsuit.

Along with the other defendants, which include 12 other “gang affiliated inmates” and prison staff, the inmate is suing Trump for $3.5 million in compensatory damages for allegedly being “stabbed” and sexually assaulted over the course of four days in January.

The transgender criminal claimed that one of the other inmates had declared that: “Trump’s president now, and we won’t even get in trouble for f—–g you trannies up, we’re patriots and even if you tell on us, Trump will pardon us and probably give us a medal,” according to the complaint. 

Additionally, Richardson claimed that throughout the alleged attacks, his case manager and unit team manager made similar “transphobic” comments as well.

“I’ve seen your case on the news, and I personally don’t think us tax payers should have to pay for your surgery,” the case manager allegedly stated — according to Richardson.

According to the case’s details, the defendants are accused of committing gross negligence in violation of Indiana law, and the infant murderer claims that his rights were violated under the Eighth Amendment.

With the help of the left-wing American Civil Liberties Union group, the transgender criminal filed a lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Correction in August 2023, challenging a state statute that prohibits taxpayer-funded transgender surgery for prisoners. This was the beginning of his protracted legal struggle.

While identifying as a Muslim woman, Richardson, who was sentenced to 55 years in prison for killing an 11-month-old stepchild of his, has since filed a number of complaints — including a civil suit against the prison chaplain for allegedly forbidding him from wearing a hijab outside of his immediate bed quarters.

However, the state’s attorney general argued that the Eighth Amendment does not require the state “to provide experimental treatments generally, and it certainly doesn’t here, when multiple doctors have said this inmate is a poor candidate for surgery,” a spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

Earlier this month, Fox News Digital reported that states that do not follow federal directives to jail prisoners according to their biological sex may face “imminent changes” and budget reductions. Additionally, Trump’s orders prohibit the use of federal funds for inmate sex reassignment surgery.

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Crescent

The lunar phase in the first quarter

A crescent shape is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase in the first quarter, or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself. In Hinduism, Shiva is often shown wearing a crescent moon on his head symbolising that he is the master of time and is himself timeless

Symbolism

Crescent depicted in the shape of a lighted sign

1.Miniature of Madonna on the crescent (Rohan Master, Hours of René of Anjou, 15th century)

2.Portrait of a Lady as Diana by Pompeo Batoni (1760s)

Bust of Selene on a Roman sarcophagus (3rd century)

The City Flag of Portsmouth, derived from the Medieval arms of Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus.

In Hinduism, Shiva is often shown wearing a crescent moon on his head symbolising that he is the master of time and is himself timeless

It is used as the astrological symbol for the Moon, and hence as the alchemical symbol for silver. It was also the emblem of Diana/Artemis, and hence represented virginity. In veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church, it is associated with Mary, mother of Jesus.

From its use as roof finial in Ottoman mosques, it has also become associated with Islam, and the crescent was introduced as chaplain badge for Muslim United States military chaplains in 1993.

Crescent - Wikipedia