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CCP's biggest fear + Black Hebrew Israelites + Jews of African descent ‘unnerved’

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The Chinese Communist Party's biggest fear is that it cannot control all of Chinese society — or even itself
https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-...elf-2019-1

EXCERPT (summary): Contrary to the Chinese Communist Party's claims, those held in the mass detention centers in Xinjiang are not terrorists or extremists — they are punished for their ethnic and religious identities. The CCP is fearful of religious organization, and that alternate values systems might disprove its claim of holding the absolute truth and be used to mobilize an effort to secure a better future for China and its citizens. This inflated fear of mass organization acts to cover up the CCP's greater fear—that the party cannot control all of Chinese society, or even itself...

MORE (details): https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-...elf-2019-1



Here's what to know about the Black Hebrew Israelites
https://www.thisisinsider.com/black-hebr...oup-2019-1

EXCERPT: . . . Black Hebrew Israelites are a loose network of congregations who believe that African Americans are the true descendants of the Hebrews of the Bible, rather than Jews. The Southern Poverty Law Center estimated in a 2008 report that there were likely thousands of adherents across the country, but some extremist factions in the movement's "black supremacist wing" are growing "increasingly militant." Both the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League have labeled certain factions of the movement as "hate groups."

Most Black Hebrew Israelites are non-violent and don't hold explicitly racist views, according to SPLC, but the most militant, vocal members of the movement are known for demonstrating open hatred of white Americans. Other groups the extremist sectors often target include Jews, Asians, LGBT people, and even continental Africans, whose ancestors they accuse of selling their peers to Europeans during the slave trade.

The group was first created more than a century ago, according to The Forward, a Jewish newspaper, and though no one founder exists, a leading patriarch of the movement was a former slave named William Saunders Crowdy, who taught his followers in the 1890s that blacks were the "lost sheep of Israel." Black Hebrew Israelites believe that scripture predicted the transatlantic slave trade, and that the Africans who were brought to the US as slaves were actually Israelites forcibly torn from their culture and religion. Modern Black Hebrew Israelites believe their movement is essentially a return to the heritage African-Americans left behind.

The movement has become best known for the more extremist members who aggressively preach on street corners and in public transportation hubs in large cities including Washington, DC, New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. They can often be heard railing against a variety of groups, calling for the death and enslavement of white people, "fraudulent" Jews, and LGBT people.

In the confrontation with the Covington students, for instance, the Black Hebrew Israelites could be heard shouting homophobic slurs and shouting about "sodomy" and "homosexuals."

[...] Some have portrayed the Black Hebrew Israelites as victims in the controversy. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a freshman Democrat from Minnesota, received some online backlash on Tuesday after accusing the Covington students of "taunting 5 Black men before they surrounded [Nathan] Phillips and led racist chants." She has since deleted the tweet. [...] the extended video of the incident shows that it was the Black Hebrew Israelites who first began the taunting, at one point shouting that the students are "a bunch of incest babies," and later referring to the students as future "school shooters."

MORE: https://www.thisisinsider.com/black-hebr...oup-2019-1



Jews of African descent ‘unnerved’ by comparisons to viral video group
https://religionnews.com/2019/01/24/jews...israelite/

EXCERPT: When he first saw clips of videos showing a controversial encounter involving white Catholic students, a Native American man and a group of black men yelling racist and homophobic slurs at the students, Bruce Haynes was intrigued. “I heard the mess,” said Haynes, professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis and author of the new book “The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America.”

[...] “I wish that the news outlets would have identified the individuals or the group as the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge,” he said. “We have never — in the history of our community — assaulted, defamed or spoken in a derogatory manner to any person or persons ever. We respect every person. It does not matter. Whatever their ethnicity, we are totally respectful to them.”

[...] In his first teaching job, at Yale University, Haynes noted a “meltdown in the public sphere” between segments of the black and Jewish communities. But his own interactions with both Jews of African descent and white Jews were very positive. He said that if he and his wife had had children, he would have likely converted to Judaism. Having kids, he said, has often been a catalyst for African-Americans who are married to Jews to convert to Judaism. “I have such recognition within the community that in some strange ways there’s little pressure on me to convert,” he said. “It’s funny. I live the life of a stranger amongst Jews, in many ways.”

Meeting such a range of Jews of African descent, and studying those who self-identify as Hebrew and Israelite, has further convinced him that you can’t judge a group by its name. “There are a million groups that call themselves the ‘Church of God,’” he said. “Just knowing that phrase will not help you understand anything about the people.”

[...] General Yahanna, the director of the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge, said he understands the motivation of the men in the video. He said they are not part of ISUPK; if they were, he would have trained them, as he does all of the group’s members, to speak differently. Still, he said, the ISUPK expects to be demonized in the media, which it sees as part of a broader history of degrading black men for speaking out about oppression in America. [...] “You will find Hispanic people. You will find Ashkenazi Jews, who have adopted African-American children. You will find Filipino Jews. You will find biracial Jews. Individuals with Jewish mothers and African-American fathers. You will find Jews from Nigeria, Ghana, the Caribbean and a broad spectrum,” he said. “Our congregation, I think, really resembles what the Jewish people around the world look like.”...

MORE (details): https://religionnews.com/2019/01/24/jews...israelite/
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(Jan 25, 2019 05:43 AM)C C Wrote: The Chinese Communist Party's biggest fear is that it cannot control all of Chinese society — or even itself
https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-...elf-2019-1

EXCERPT (summary): Contrary to the Chinese Communist Party's claims, those held in the mass detention centers in Xinjiang are not terrorists or extremists — they are punished for their ethnic and religious identities. The CCP is fearful of religious organization, and that alternate values systems might disprove its claim of holding the absolute truth and be used to mobilize an effort to secure a better future for China and its citizens. This inflated fear of mass organization acts to cover up the CCP's greater fear—that the party cannot control all of Chinese society, or even itself...

MORE (details): https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-...elf-2019-1

This is why freedom of, not from, religion is a cornerstone of freedom in general.
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