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   Don to William Hyde   
   Re: "Amongst Our Weapons "by Ben Aaronvi   
   13 Oct 25 21:07:09   
   
   From: g@crcomp.net   
      
   William Hyde wrote:   
   > Don wrote:   
   >> Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >>>   Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>       "Amongst Our Weapons "by Ben Aaronvitch   
   >>>>         Hard cover 294 pages from DAW Books $27 US.   
   >>>>       Well I may have read this before but it was a romp.   
   >>>>       Ben Aaronvitch with his Rivers of London series seldom   
   disappoints   
   >>>>       Amongst Our Weapons is another tale of Peter Grant in the Folly   
   >>>>       and out to Manchester where he releases, but no that would be   
   >>>>       telling.  He is a very busy sort with magic rings and heart   
   ripping   
   >>>>       murders. Lesley is on the scene but still being criminal in her   
   >>>>       behavior. Even our Tank-breaking wizard Nightengale is not   
   >>>>       able to handle the Spanish Inquisition's Angel of Death but   
   >>>>       Peter does and releases the Spanish woman enslaved to be   
   >>>>       the Angel.   
   >>>   
   >>> I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!   
   >>>   
   >>> ...though with that title, maybe I should have.   
   >>   
   >> The Gaza genocide guy's father, Polish Jew Benzion Mileikowsky, alias   
   >> Benzion Netanyahu, wrote a book on the Spanish Inquisition entitled THE   
   >> ORIGINS OF THE INQUISITION IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY SPAIN:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >> Long story short, Sicut Judaeis prohibits Catholics from mistreating   
   >> Jews   
   >   
   > And the USSR had a wonderful constitution, full of respect for human rights.   
   >   
   > Some Jews escaped the inquisition by pointing out that they had never in   
   > fact been baptized or claimed to be Catholic.  The inquisition, obedient   
   > to the above, would then turn them over to  the state, whereupon they   
   > were expelled from Spain, which I think counts as mistreatment.   
   > Especially as not all survived the expulsion.   
   >   
   > This although it was known that the Jewish community in Spain dated at   
   > least to the second century AD, and probably to some centuries BC,   
   > arriving with the Phoenicians.  A much longer time then, than those   
   > noble Spanish who claimed Visigothic ancestry.   
   >   
   >   
   > and prohibits Jews from positions of cultural authority over   
   >> Catholics. The Inquisition exclusively applied only to Catholics. And,   
   >> from a papal perspective, once a Catholic always a Catholic, until   
   >> death.   
   >>      Did some Spanish Jews convert to Catholicism solely because they   
   >> coveted cultural authority over Catholics? This contention creates   
   >> controversy.   
   >   
   >   
   > About as much controversy as the Flat Earth. But with added racism.   
      
   Your followup certainly confirms controversy, no?   
      
   Long story short, Sicut Judaeis prohibits Catholics from mistreating   
   Jews because Jesus Christ commanded Catholics to love their enemies.   
      
   In regards to racism - antisemitic, racist, Turkic Jews massacre Semitic   
   Palestinian Catholics:   
      
      
      
   and slap the scat out of Semitic Palestinian Jews:   
      
      
      
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