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# Friday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5262/
- Published: 2007-01-05T11:14:28.000Z
- Updated: 2007-01-05T11:14:28.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Food and Drink, #wpChunk

Today, we celebrate American Catholicism's coming of age: it's the memorial of St. John Neumann:

> [John lived in Bohemia until he came to America in 1836\. Having already completed his studies, he was ordained soon after he arrived. He was a parish priest in Buffalo for four years before joining the Redemptorists in Pittsburgh. He built fifty churches and opened nearly a hundred schools, and was the first American man to be canonized](http://www.mycatholic.com/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

Quote of the Day:

> We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. Robert Wilensky

[Probably the most-interesting article of the new year so far](http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.aip?id=10813&page=all&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> This past September, Robert Redeker, a French high-school philosophy teacher at Saint-Orens-de-Gameville (a small city near Toulouse) and the author of several scholarly books, published an op-ed article in the newspaper *Le Figaro*. The piece, a response to the controversy over remarks about Islam made a week earlier by Pope Benedict XVI, was titled “What Should the Free World Do in the Face of Islamist Intimidation?” It was a fierce critique of what Redeker called Islam's attempt “to place its leaden cloak over the world.” If Jesus was “a master of love,” he wrote, Muhammad was “a master of hatred.” Of the three “religions of the book,” Islam was the only one that overtly preached holy war. “Whereas Judaism and Christianity are religions whose rites reject and delegitimize violence,” Redeker concluded, “Islam is a religion that, in its own sacred text, as well as in its everyday rites, exalts violence and hatred.”

> Having been posted online, the article was read all across France and in other countries as well, and was quickly translated into Arabic. Denunciations of Redeker's “insult of the prophet” spread across the Internet. Within a day after publication, the piece was being condemned on al Jazeera by the popular on-air preacher (and unofficial voice of Osama bin Laden) Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi. In Egypt and Tunisia, the offending issue of Le Figaro was banned.

> As for Redeker himself, he soon received a large number of threats by letter and e-mail. On an Islamist website, he was sentenced to death in a posting that, in order to facilitate a potential assassin's task, also provided his address and a photograph of his home.

Looking for good movie rentals in 2007? [This story from CNS lists 20 good movies from 2006](http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0700072.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

**Brews You Can Use**  
 Okay, this retro picture is awfully juvenile, but it cracked me up:

![Paul likes to chug.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/Paul-20likes-20to-20chug.jpg)

Practically in my back yard: [Frankenmuth, Michigan, the Bavarian Inn Beer Event](http://www.bavarianinn.com/bi/home.nsf/public/68EEB948A4BA5C8785257250005AEFAF?OpenDocument&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). The Bavarian Inn is a very neat place. I'm normally there only when it's dastardly crowded for the annual music festival. I suspect this event will be less crowded, which is good, since attendees will need more room to walk/sway through the hotel.

Aaaaargh! [The History Channel had a show on the history of brewing](http://www.thebrewsite.com/2007/01/03/history-channel-brewing.php?ref=thedailyeudemon.com#comments), and I didn't know about it. It's a cruel world. If anyone hears of it playing again, please let me know.

[Expand your knowledge of stout here, plus see a beautiful picture](http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2006/december/theweekoften?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> In his 1977 edition of *The World Guide to Beer* Michael Jackson generally describes three: bitter stout, milk or sweet stout and Russian or imperial stout. By 1995, Michael Lewis in his book Stout describes how to brew six different styles: west coast, Irish draught, dry, sweet, Caribbean and imperial. Beyond these, I can think of two traditional styles including oatmeal and Baltic.