WE ARE NOT CHARLIE! 1€
The News/views Magazine ABOUT and FOR Jávea - you can hold in your hand My father was CHARLIE (Charles), my brother was CHARLIE and my nephew is CHARLIE, but I am NOT Charlie and I don’t believe that I have the right to insult any person, religion or denomination that is different from my own (Sacramental, Evangelical and Charismatic) Christianity. As information gatherer and editor of Jávea Jeard, I welcome friendship with other denominations and religions, and particularly the Jews and others in Israel, whom Ann and I have twice visited on holiday. Around 10 years ago the (then) Mayor asked for my thoughts about granting permission for a Mosque in Jávea. My reply was simple “Of course they can have a Mosque here when Christians can have places of worship in Saudi Arabia.” I thought that a fair reply: promoting equality among people who may otherwise widely differ in many other aspects. I welcomed new Laws in the UK to limit the ‘radicalisation’ of otherwise ‘traditional’ Muslims, as well as those introduced to acknowledge the fact that two people of the same sex may want to live together, and be treated for tax, inheritance and health benefits as would a heterosexual married couple. What I didn’t foresee was that those same laws would be used against people like me who have Christian values and want them preserved. Going to church on Sunday morning (as far as the Law is concerned) is no different to a Muslim atending Friday Prayers, but if I attend a Midweek Meeting on a
WINTERSUN
Nº 22
Feb/March 2015 Suggested
Jávea Casa de Cultura recently hosted the premiere of the webseries Wintersun, recorded entirely in the Marina Alta, and has as one of its purposes to promote the immense natural attraction of the region as a tourist destination of high level Wednesday afternoon, a prayer and for all months of the year. The series is produced by meeting or Bible study on a weekday evening, or a Men’s Winter Sun Productions, an audiovisual company based in Breakfast on a Saturday We could have called Jávea and has received financial this local magazine morning, I have become an support from the City of Jávea EXTREMIST. and Municipal Water Company HAVVYER HEARD, AMJASA. Mayor, José Chulvi, but we thought Jávea A recent reader came to Jeard would confirm and Councillor for Tourism, the Oasis Help Centre and Antonio Miragall, were our light-hearted suggested that I might be “antisupporting the promoters of this attitude to the serious Muslim” but nothing could be audiovisual project that depicts political and economic further from the truth, and many landscapes of Jávea. problems in Spain, and Readers can see the first many of my friends would their effect on Jávea. episode at: describe themselves as ‘gay’, but when people claiming to be www.tinyurl.com/Wintersun1 muslims and to be acting in the BRINGING YOU name of a god, behead people THE FOODS whose only crime is to be of a different tribe or religion, I want to do all I can to focus attention on them, as I do a homosexual couple who demand to sleep together in the B&B of a committed Christian couple, when the place along the road would welcome them with open arms. People can be what they want to be, but when their actions affect or offend me (as an individual), I have no alternative but to defend what I have been brought up to believe is ‘right’. Of course the Prophet Mohammad should not be ridiculed, in words or drawings, but neither should Jesus Christ. George Orwell (were he writing today) might Avda. del Pla/Calle Pescara, 5 - JAVEA 03730, Tel: 96 646 1848 well have written “All religions are equal, but some Jávea store opening hours: are more equal than others”. Monday - Saturday, 8:30am - 9:00pm CR
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