Kung fu monks reject claims ninja beat them

Have a look at the article here:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22339750-5001028,00.html?from=public_rss

It shows a lot of the typical ignorance.

' CHINA'S Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja '. This could have happened as it was relatively common for ninjutsu practitioners to visit China and challenge matches did happen till about the middle of the 20th century.

' Ninjas – professional assassins trained in martial arts – date back to mediaeval Japan. '

WRONG! Ninja clans typically developed their arts defending things like their temples. Different clans developed different specialties. But the chief difference between ninja and samurai was that samurai were nobles. In fact, from available documents it appears that most assassinations were carried out by samurai.

And ninjutsu does not date back to medieval Japan, it dates back to somewhere around 2300 BC.

Here's a brief History of Ninjutsu, complete with references: http://www.ebearweb.net/ninjutsuhist.htm

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Ninja, Ninjutsu, Shinobi, etc

The topic of ninja etc comes up from time to time, annoyingly mostly mentioned in relation to role playing games. I came across a blog: http://www.sonlightcamp.org/whats_new/blog/?p=11

Now the person gets the basic history wrong " A ninja was a warrior in 15th century feudal Japan. " Wrong! For more than a thousand years countless ninja clans existed in the mountains.

I told this person that the history was wrong and I was simply ignored. And everything else stated was misleading.

Here's a brief History of Ninjutsu, complete with references: http://www.ebearweb.net/ninjutsuhist.htm







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Hilaly is wrong!

Read the article on his latest anti- Australian value spew here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/hilalys-verbal-spray-on-convicts-english/2007/01/11/1168105115861.html

Some of what he said:

' Australia is not an Anglo-Saxon country - Islam has deep roots in Australian soil that were there before the English arrived ' Wrong, there were no and had not been any Muslims in Australasia when Cook landed.

' the most dishonest and unjust people are Western people and the English in particular ' I have no figures and neither does anyone else about which ethic group lie more, but who created the myth of the Great Satan?

' He said Australian law allowed freedoms that at times were "close to madness" ' I live in Sydney and don't know of any laws that allow mad freedoms. In fact we are less free than many other nations because we don't have a bill of rights.

' Australia had a third gender of "in-between people who are not male or female" '. I don't know what he means by this, but it sounds like vilification against anyone who is not a straight heterosexual.

I don't know if Hilaly is an Australian citizen. But if he believes everything he says and if he is an Australian citizen, he should renounce his citizenship. And if he is not, he should not come back!

Merkava 5 in South Lebanon?

I came across a blog:

http://peace4palestine-housewife4palestine.blogspot.com/2006/08/israeli-merkava-tanks-fail-to-rise-to.html ( The page was taken down yesterday, some people just can't be shown to be wrong. )

It insisted that Israel used Merkava 2, 3 & 5s in South Lebanon recently.

Wrong! There is no such thing as a Merkava 5. The Merkava Mk4 is latest development.

Do a web search for Merkava 5, you will get some results. But there is no proof of it's existence. It appears that a Merkava 5 may have been in development, dropped for budget reasons in 2004. But this is not verifiable!

No Merkava 5 has ever been produced, nor is there any available drawings to indicate any development.

References:

http://www1.idf.il/DOVER/site/mainpage.asp?sl=EN&id=6&clr=1&subject=22961&bScope=false

http://www.acpr.org.il/English-Nativ/04-issue/fishbein-4.htm

Have a look at this picture.



http://www.independence05.com/blog/uploaded_images/2006-08MerkavadestroyedinSouthofLebanon-785731.jpg


I've seen it in a number of places, one is here:

http://www.independence05.com/blog/

It states: 'This picture was taken in the south of Lebanon during the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, and it shows the Merkava destroyed, this laminated steel/nickel armored tank has been used thoroughly by IDF in their battle against Hezbollah resistence in south Lebanon. '

'shows the Merkava ' Wrong! It's not a Merkava, it's a Magach 7C, a modified M60 Patton! Much older than the Merkavas used this year in Lebanon.

' This picture was taken in the south of Lebanon during the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah ' Wrong! Magachs were not used in Lebanon in July 2006. The tanks used were Merkava mks II, III and IVs.

The Magach was not destroyed by enemy action. It's laying on it's side, no AT weapons will flip a tank of over 50 tons onto it's side! Also you will see in the picture Israeli service men just standing on the road, why would they do that in a combat zone?

References:

http://www.armyrecognition.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=630

http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/vehicles/tanks/magach/Magach_7_Photos.htm

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/DocView.asp?did=1000127813&fid=1725