AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
anglophonic: What happens when your dad is a Jewish Brooklyn cop and your mom is a Muslim housewife from Indonesia. 
…and you spend half of the year getting picked on by Jewish kids in Brooklyn, and the other half of the year getting picked on by Muslim relatives overseas. 
You grow up to be my buddy Adam…the sweetest, most patient guy on Earth who also happens to be a 6’5” musclebound monster who can play drums like a robot from the future. 
We met at a practice studio we both used to frequent. I have spent untold hours discussing politics and religion with this man, usually with a bottle of whiskey and a pack of smokes.

He chose Islam as his faith…which his Jewish family was totally cool with. When I write about my “Muslim friends” please picture this guy. 
Good to see you back in town, man.
Dicatat oleh בְּשֵם יְהוָֹה וְיֵשׁוּעַ וְרוחַ מִרְיָם di 11:15:00 PTG
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Walang ligaya sa lupa na hindi dinilig ng luha.

Filipino Proverb: There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.

Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.