March 17, 2009, - 2:54 pm
Happy St. Pat’s Day, But It’s Not Why I Was Away
By Debbie Schlussel
No, I wasn’t away for a drunken St. Patrick’s Day celebration. I had a super top-secret, important meeting, and on my way back I got stuck in a traffic jam as all the streets to billionaire (and Detroit Pistons owner) Bill Davidson’s funeral were blocked off by the men in blue. More about Davidson in a later post. Sorry for the delay in posting to the site, today. Couldn’t be helped. Stuff happens.
A Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of my Irish and Irish-American readers. They say that St. Patrick drove all the snaked out of Ireland. We need a modern-day St. Patrick for the “Religion of Peace” in America . . . and Ireland, where the fastest growing religion isn’t Catholicism or the Protestantism of today’s orange-wearers. It’s Islam.
Yes, I know, I know–everyone’s supposed to be Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. And I feel kind of Irish because my Dad was a big fan of The Irish Rovers, The Clancy Brothers, and lots of other Irish and Celtic groups. And Ireland has a nearly thousand-year history of Jews, with the first of my fellow co-religionists arriving in 1079. Yes, the Emerald Isle is also the gefilte fish aisle. Read about the history of the Jews of Ireland.
Sadly, it’s now the Green Tabouli Isle. Read more about the Islamic takeover of Ireland from my 2008 entry on St. Patty’s Day. Sadly, Irish eyes aren’t smiling–they’re weeping from underneath a niqab (full-Ninja Muslim face veil for women).
In the meantime, here’s some cool modern Irish-American music:
I read about the Limerick pogrom of 1904 several years ago (2004) on the 100th anniversary. Yes Ireland was not exactly sympathetic to the Jews trying to flee Hitler. Also Ireland (along with Britain, Spain, and Norway/Sweden) is one of the more anti Israel nations in Europe.
Ripper on March 17, 2009 at 4:16 pm