Congressional Witness List For March 10th

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Normally we post under “Reference Materials,” among other things, any book reviews from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or Washington Post. “Freedom From Religion” does not appear to have been reviewed in any of these three publications – though we have posted for “Original Proposal” (before one even clicks on it for the postings in that category) the very-intriguing quotation of the former ACLU President (1991-2008) and current NYU Law Professor regarding “Freedom From Religion.”

HOWEVER, ON MARCH 2, 2011, THERE OCCURRED THE FIRST ITEM FOR POSTING UNDER “REFERENCE MATERIALS” –

By way of background, Q&A No 8 posted as part of the monthly Short Quiz under “Participant Comments” stated –

(1) The Roman Catholic Doctrine of "Blood Guilt" held that every Jew alive at any point in time including the present, is responsible for the death of Christ.

(2) It is politically incorrect to notice that The Holocaust was proper under the Roman Catholic Doctrine of "Blood Guilt"!!!

(3) However, one of Germany's most famous trial lawyers, Weddig Fricke, wrote a famous book on the subject = "The Court Martial of Jesus: A Christian Defends The Jews Against The Charge Of Deicide." Fricke wrote the book in the wake of defending a person who had killed 9 Jews in a concentration camp as a "wonderful Grandfather" whose only fault was being misled by his Roman Catholic religion. [Only the northern half of Germany is Lutheran, while the southern half has always remained Roman Catholic.]

(4) According to Fricke, the Roman Catholic Church did not abandon its Doctrine of "Blood Guilt" until 1961 - 16 years after the end of World War II.

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The first posting in this “Reference Materials” section is from a 3/2/2011 Transcript of MacNeil-Lehrer (aka The PBS News Hour With Jim Lehrer) in which the last item in the News Wrap mentions that Pope Benedict XVI’s new book “Jesus of Nazareth: Part II, Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection” will be released on March 11, 2011 – AND MAKES THE CASE AGAINST BLOOD GUILT!!!

According to The PBS News Hour (which apparently received an advance copy), the Pope states that the Doctrine of Blood Guild was renounced by the Catholic Church in 1965 – apparently Weddig Fricke’s 1961 renunciation date must have been an earlier unofficial renunciation.

The PBS News Hour does not indicate whether the Pope acknowledges that the Roman Catholic Church’s Doctrine of Blood Guilt caused (or at least contributed to) the World War II Holocaust in which 6 million Jews were killed.

However, it is interesting to note that virtually all of the Roman Catholic countries [e.g., France, Poland, Austria and Germany (though only the southern half of Germany was and is Roman Catholic, Hitler was born and raised in Austria which is 100% Roman Catholic)] eagerly volunteered their Jews to Hitler’s death camps, and only in the Protestant countries of Northern Europe (e.g., Denmark and Holland) was their substantial resistance to doing so.
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Congressional Witness List For March 10th

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Rep. Peter King's U.S. Muslim Radicalization hearing: Witness list here
By Lynn Sweet
Chicago Sun-Times
March 7, 2011 4:02 PM

Below, from King's committee.....

Hearing on "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response."
311 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 | Mar 10, 2011 9:30am

On Thursday, March 10, 2011, the Committee on Homeland Security will hold a hearing entitled "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response." The Committee will meet at 9:30 a.m. in 311 Cannon House Office Building.

Witnesses

Panel 1

Hon. Keith Ellison, A Representative in Congress from the 5th District of Minnesota

Reading Liberally Editorial Notes =
(1) Keith Ellison belongs to the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota and caucuses in Washington with the Congressional Democrats.
(2) He is the first Muslim to be elected to Congress and is now serving his third term.
(3) He is also the first African American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota.

Panel 2

Hon. Frank Wolf, A Representative in Congress from the 10th District of Virginia

Reading Liberally Editorial Notes =
(1) Frank Wolf is a Republican and has represented Virginia’s 10th Congressional District since 1981.
(2) He is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and chairs its Sub-Committee that oversees, inter alia, the Justice Department.
(3) He has been especially prominent in the area of Human Rights and co-chairs with Democrat Jim McGovern of Massachusetts the Congressional Human Rights Caucus.

Panel 3

Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, President and Founder, American Islamic Forum for Democracy
Mr. Abdirizak Bihi, Director, Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center
Mr. Melvin Bledsoe, Private Citizen
Sheriff Leroy Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Reading Liberally Editorial Note =
Melvin Bledsoe is the father of Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad who opened fire last Spring on a military recruiting center in Little Rock, killing one person and wounding another. Per the NY Times article being posted separately, he recently sent a note to the Arkansas Judge in his case claiming to be a member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and requesting he be allowed to plead guilty to capital murder.
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