I Cannot Tell Muslims to Pay Zakat

However, I cannot say Sadaqah is wrong.

I've been at the receving end of it at times.

If Muslims don't like to give Sadaqah to me, it's understandable, and some in Gaza are relying on them.

I'd prefer promoting a Christian charity with help through Christians in Gaza, but since I haven't seen them lately, Muslims can consider Najat relief./HGL

PS, sorry, Najam relief. I don't speak Arabic./HGL

PPS, here is a Catholic charity:

Catholic Relief Services: Crisis in the Holy Land
https://www.crs.org/where-we-work/middle-east-north-africa/jerusalem-west-bank-and-gaza#section-crisis-in-the-holy-land

Was Going to Say Sth on the West Bank, But Gaza is Still a Story

Latin Mass Back? US Backs 2-State Solution; Rome Mum on Bishop Death & more | CATHOLIC NEWS ROUNDUP
Christine Niles | 16.XI.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a053B3oWkxk

There are other things on Christine Niles too, like a fake on Trump's January 6th speech, by BBC, but this one is a pretty necessary one.

Meanwhile, I had planned to say "look at the West Bank" because, while Hamas was making Gaza embarassing to pro-Palestinians, settlers were violent on the West Bank./HGL

Sharing Mandy Patinkin

Jewish Actor Mandy Patinkin criticizes "unacceptable" war of Israel against Gaza
Middle East Eye | 14 July 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87300T8MFTg

Tolkien died. The next day a novel was published. The Princess Bride. The author was a Jew, not a Catholic, unlike Tolkien.

The film, 14 years later, has very much overshadowed the novel. And one of the main attractions of the film is obviously Mandy Patinkin playing Inigo Montoya.

The actor cited one moment from the film. Hear him./HGL

New Atrocity

Israel Destroys Church of the Holy Family in Gaza
Reason & Theology | 17.VII.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDFkFXVnZ1k

IDF seems to destroy the Church of the Holy Family. Their supporter in Washington is refusing to acknowledge that the Holy Family were undocumented migrants.

If only because passports and paper work before receiving them wasn't a thing 2000 years ago.

But in that year, before 6 AD, going from Bethlehem to maybe Alexandria, maybe Gaza, was crossing a frontier. Egypt was a Roman Province. Judah was still a few years going on to be a semi-independent kingdom, a protectorate with nominal sovereignty. More than a month earlier, they had crossed another frontier between the Roman province Galilee and the kingdom of Judah. Also without showing a passport.

A Pass-Card Treaty of October 18, 1850 among German states standardized information including issuing state, name, status, residence, and description of bearer. Tramping journeymen and jobseekers of all kinds were not to receive pass-cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport#Antecedents

That has also resulted in "oops, we didn't mean that" moments.

Portland mom, 4 kids who are US citizens detained by ICE for nearly 2 weeks
KGW News | 12 July 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL5H7xwG_ZM