Home
In this issue
Nov. 20, 2009
Rabbi David Aaron: How to make every second of your life come first
Caroline B. Glick: Whither American Jewry
Nov. 19, 2009
Binyamin L. Jolkovsky: Please Listen to this Godcast (5 minutes)
Jonathan Tobin: ADL Crosses the Line with Report Bashing Obama Critics
Nov. 18, 2009
Rabbi Yonason Goldson: What Judaism has to say about the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile
JWisdom.com: The (Jewish) Dating Game with Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff (8 minutes)
Nov. 17, 2009
Steven Emerson: How Does the 4th Amendment Impact Terror Finance Investigations?
JWisdom.com: If Frank Sinatra married Edith Piaf with Rabbi Y.Y. Rubinstein (2 minutes) Life lessons from what would be regarded as the most inappropriate lyrics ever sung
Nov. 16, 2009
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : When borrowing is stealing
JWisdom.com: Deconstructing faith with Rabbi Warren Goldstein (9 minutes)
Nov. 13, 2009
JWisdom.com Sarah's subjective reality with Rabbi Sroy Levitansky ( 6 minutes)
Caroline B. Glick: Obama's failure, Netanyahu's opportunity
Nov. 12, 2009
The Kosher Gourmet By Marialisa Calta : A sweet sweet potato treat
JWisdom.com Does God get tired? with Rabbi Harvey Belovski ( 5 minutes)
Nov. 11, 2009
Rabbi Avi Shafran: Jews and money: When anti-Semitism isn't
JWisdom.com Marriages are not made in Heaven with Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff (VERY fast 15 minutes)
Nov. 10, 2009
Michael Doyle: Author of book exposing CAIR ordered to remove supporting documents from Web
JWisdom.com If the creation so loudly shouts the existence of the Creator, why aren't more people believers? with Rabbi Naftali Brawer (9 minutes)
Nov. 9, 2009
Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategy
JWisdom.com It's never too late to have a happy childhood with Sarah Chana Radcliffe (5 minutes)
Nov. 6, 2009
Rabbi Berel Wein: Choosing to hear
JWisdom.com Zero to 1/60th: How to Empower An Hour with Gavriel Aryeh Sande (7 minutes)
Caroline B. Glick The mullahs' big week
Suzanne Fields A Fallen Wall for Fallen Man
Nov. 5, 2009
The Kosher Gourmet: Three scrumptious -- but simple -- butternut squash dishes
JWisdom.com Hidden Hints: Unlocking Faith & Prayer with Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz (10 minutes)
Nov. 4, 2009
Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger: Should prayers be covered?
JWisdom.com When God played peacemaker With Rabbi Sroy Levitansky (5 minutes)
Nov. 3, 2009
Martin Peretz: Beware, Barack. Beware, Rahm. Beware, Axelrod
JWisdom.com Are you are closet idolater? With Sara Yoheved Rigler (10 minutes)
Nov. 2, 2009
Paul Greenberg: The Holocaust is now on Facebook
JWisdom.com Abraham's Strange Change With Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer (5 minutes)
Oct. 29, 2003
Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Graffiti On History's Walls (MUST-READ!)

Jewish World Review April 8, 2008 / 3 Nissan 5768

It's a Bad World

By Dennis Prager


Printer Friendly Version
Email this article


http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Here are some news items from just this past week:

  • In Tibet, according to an Associated Press report, "police opened fire on hundreds of Buddhist monks and lay people who had marched on local government offices to demand the release of two monks detained for possessing photographs of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader." At least eight died.

  • In Iraq, the mass murder of civilians continues while American and Iraqi government forces continue to battle murderous Shiite gangs known as militias. And a 40-year-old Assyrian Orthodox priest was killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad in the latest attack against Iraq's Christian minority.

  • In Zimbabwe, one of the world's longest-reigning tyrants, Robert Mugabe, began to violently annul the latest elections. He has virtually destroyed a once thriving country. Unemployment is 80 percent. Inflation is over 100,000 percent. The Zimbabwean dollar has been trading at a rate of 55 million for one U.S. dollar. And life expectancy has gone from 60 to 35.

  • In Woodbridge, Va., moronic officials at an elementary school called in police to arrest a 6-year-old boy for slapping a 6-year-old on her bottom. He has now been labeled a sex offender for life. And he is hardly alone among elementary school students. As reported in the Washington Post: "The Virginia Department of Education reported that 255 elementary students were suspended last year for offensive sexual touching, or 'improper physical contact against a student.' In Maryland, 166 elementary school children were suspended last year for sexual harassment, including three preschoolers, 16 kindergartners and 22 first-graders, according to the State Department of Education."

  • In Pakistan, more than 25,000 people rallied against "Fitna," an anti-Quran film made by Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch Parliament. Speakers called on Muslims to kill themselves and others in defense of Islam's honor.


Human Rights Watch released a report that the government of Sudan "is giving [Sudanese Arab gangs] a license to rape" black women and girls in Darfur.

  • In Sri Lanka, the Associated Press reported, "A suicide bomber killed 14 people at an opening ceremony for a Sri Lankan marathon. … More than 90 others were wounded."

  • In Israel, Haaretz reported that an Arab woman has been shot in an attempted honor killing. She was to be the ninth female member of her family to be killed. "Eight women from this family were murdered in the past six years, all in connection with 'family honor.'" Male relatives had murdered them all because they brought shame on their Muslim family by not marrying the men picked for them or otherwise disobeying family religious dictates.


    These are only the news items of the last seven days. I purposely chose a period without dramatic headlines. And, of course, no news came out of North Korea, which continues to be the world's largest concentration camp. Cubans continue to have no freedom. Iranians continue to be whipped and killed for sexual improprieties. Saudi women continue to be forced to be invisible in public and live a demeaned status.


    The world is filled with evil. Always has been. The biggest difference today is that, thanks to communications, we are far more aware of much of it.


    I am convinced that human evil is so great that most people choose either to ignore it or to focus their concerns elsewhere — like those who believe that human-created carbon dioxide emission, not human evil, poses the greatest threat to mankind. No one will ever get killed for fighting global warming. Fighting evil, on the other hand, is quite dangerous.

    JWR contributor Dennis Prager hosts a national daily radio show based in Los Angeles. He the author of, most recently, "Happiness is a Serious Problem". Click here to comment on this column.


    Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here.

    Dennis' Archives 8, Creators Syndicate

  • Insight (Our Columnists)

     Arnold Ahlert
     Mitch Albom
     Michael Barone
      Dave Barry
     Tony Blankley
     Andy Borowitz
     David Broder
     Stratfor Briefing
     Mona Charen
     Linda Chavez
     Ann Coulter
     Greg Crosby
     Larry Elder
     Suzanne Fields
     John Fund
     Frank J. Gaffney
     Lloyd Garver
     Jonah Goldberg
     Julia Gorin
     Jonathan Gurwitz
     Paul Greenberg
     Lewis Grossberger
     Victor Davis Hanson
     Betsy Hart
     Nat Hentoff
     David Horowitz
     Laura Ingraham
     Cheri Jacobus
    Jeff Jacoby
     Paul Johnson
     Jack Kelly
     Ed Koch
     Ch. Krauthammer
     Michael Ledeen
     John Leo
     David Limbaugh
     Kathryn Lopez
     Rich Lowry
     Michelle Malkin
     Jackie Mason
     Dick Morris
     Bill O'Reilly
     Jim Mullen
     Clarence Page
     Kathleen Parker
     Dennis Prager
     Wesley Pruden
     Tom Purcell
     Jonathan Rauch
     Celia Rivenbark
     Robert Robb
     Cokie & Steve Roberts
     Pat Sajak
     Debra J. Saunders
     Culture Shlock
     Roger Simon
     Michael Smerconish
     Thomas Sowell
     Mark Steyn
     John Stossel
     Cal Thomas
     Bob Tyrrell
     Diana West
     Dave Weinbaum
     George Will
     Walter Williams
     Byron York
     Mort Zuckerman

    'Toons
     Robert Arial
     Chuck Asay
     Baloo
     Chip Bok
     Dry Bones
      Lisa Benson
     John Branch
     Gary Brookins
     John Cole
     J. D. Crowe
     John Deering
     Brian Duffy
     Everything's Relative
     Mallard Fillmore
     Jake Fuller
     Bob Gorrel
     Joe Heller
     David Hitch
     Jerry Holber
     Steve Kelley
     Jeff Koterba
     Dick Locher
     Chan Lowe
     Ranan R. Lurie
     Jimmy Margulies
     Rick McKee
     Michael Ramirez
     Kevin Siers
     Jeff Stahler
     Ed Stein
     Danna Summers
     John Trever
     Gary Varvel
     Kirk Walters

    Lifestyles
     How 2
     Lori Borgman
     The Savvy Consumer
     Elder matters
     Fixit
     Dr. Peter Gott
     GET A JOB! by Marty Nemko
     Richard Lederer
     Tech Maven
     Every Monday Matters
     Nutrition Myths
     Bookmark These
     Bruce Williams
     How Stuff Works