BRITISH Muslims are to boycott this week?s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz because they claim it is not racially inclusive and does not commemorate the victims of the Palestinian conflict.
Iqbal Sacranie, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, has written to Charles Clarke, the home secretary, saying the body will not attend the event unless it includes the ?holocaust? of the Palestinian intifada….
This weekend the boycott by the leaders of Britain?s 1.2m Muslims was condemned by Khalid Mahmood, the MP for Birmingham Perry Barr. ?I?m proud to be a Muslim. But if people are boycotting this then I think it?s a mistake. People who were exterminated in the Holocaust were not just Jews. There were Romany gypsies as well. Anybody who is interested in human rights should support this remembrance.?
The Palestinian Holocaust? You miserable, lying piece of shit. You cloak your anti-semitism in this transparent, disgusting charade and expect us to believe it. This is the true face of your brand of Islam. This is how you practice your religion. And this. And these are just some of the people forced to engage in your style of worship. And they’re the lucky ones: they’re still alive.
Boycott all you like. But don’t complain when the line between Islam and Militant Islam grows thinner and less visible each day as a result of it. We know you hate Jews. You know you hate Jews. Once again, it’s time to point to the big gray thing in the living room and say, “Look! Right there! It’s an elephant!”
More and more I see this kind of behavior as the common expression of Islam. For the sake of public relations, if nothing else, perhaps you need more people like MP Mahmood doing the speaking for you. Don’t forget, however, that Mahmood, in Melanie Phillips’ terms, is suggesting that: “Muslims should turn up to the Holocaust Day ceremony because other people than Jews were murdered by the Nazis, too. So the Jewish victims ? the main victims ? can be air-brushed out of the remembrance. Anyone ?interested in human rights? can safely turn up because there were enough victims from other ethnic groups to ignore the Jews altogether.”
(Thanks to Power Line for the pointer.)
This, too, is fucked up.
I always feel such a frisson of rage when I read these kinds of stories, hence the angry rhetoric.
They’d kill us all, Josh, if they had the chance. Every last man, woman, and child. Not because of what we do, but because of what we ARE.
I’ll have to bring Dennis Prager’s “Why the Jews?” when next we meet. It’s a very good book examining the roots of anti-semitism from several perspectives. Its main flaw is, however, that it’s dated.
And that’s the problem. I’m not being oversensitive when I say that anti-semitism always seems to find a new way to express itself: anti-Zionism, professed belief in a Palestinian “right of return,” claims of Jewish cabals running everything from American foreign policy to Hollywood movies.
When I see these kinds of stories, I try to bring them to light here in the same way that turning on the kitchen light makes the roaches scatter. However, this belief is predicated on the idea that most people who read stories of this kind are essentially decent, and would experience similar feelings of outrage and/or disgust.
What I most fear is that I’ll eventually be proven wrong in this idea. It could be that the world will reach the point where either through apathy or actual agreement with the anti-semites, the Jews, as a people, will be wiped out. We’ve survived for thousands of years, yes. But how much longer?
Diligent turning on of the lights and fighting tooth and nail for what you believe in has kept the Jews from extinction for thousands of years. To a much lesser extent, unfortunately, appealing to people’s sense of humanity engenders a long lag between the appeal and their action.
Boy, if only the Zionist Conspiracy were true! I wouldn’t have to worry about getting a job, paying my bills, or defending my values. Unfortunately, there is no great Jewish Cabal, and things don’t come easy.
I would not be at all surprised if someday there were ceremonies to honor victims of the Holocaust that do not even mention Jews. In fact, I suspect the United Nations, which plans a commemoration for the first time, will downplay the Jewish character of this seminal event that defines the 20th Century as the genocide century. There were indeed many victims of Nazi persecution in the years from 1933 to 1945. Communists. socialists, liberals, political dissidents, Russian POWs, Romany gypsies, homosexuals, members of European resistance groups and even a few British and American OSS and SOE agents found themselves in the concentration camp universe ruled by the self-styled superman who had purged themselves of all traces of humanity. However, aside from the gypsies, the non Jews could survive by submitting to slave labor and providing service to the Third Reich. Jews were slated for industrial death. The Holocaust was planned and organized at the Wannasee Conference on January 20, 1942 for precisely that purpose. So many things are compared to the Holocaust, including the relative handful of Palestininians killed in the intifada, that trivialize that event and cheapen the lives of its six million victims. Watch out. Soon you will hear Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib compared to Auchwitz if it has not happened already.
If the Palestinians believe they have endured a holocaust, they do not know the meaning of the word. I do not believe they are so deluded. Most of them have come to believe that the holocaust was a fraud perpetrated on the world to get sympathy and financial support for Israel. This is an accepted belief in much of the Islamic world and increasingly in other countries as well. In a decade, there will be few survivors of the Holocaust still with us and the living witnesses will be gone. It will become easier and easier to deny the reality of the six million. Relatively few people read books and there will be less of them in the future. As populations become less informed of history, even recent history, they will be more prone to believe the outlandish and the absurd, such as the world being run by the Elders of Zion from some banks in Switzerland. Demogogues can then blame all their problems and failures on that myth and many of them will believe it exactly as the German people came to accept it in the 1930s.
Will the Holocaust happen again? I wish I could say that it never will, but the rising tide of anti-semitism makes it at least possible. And if Israel ever falls to its enemies, we will all be able to watch it happen on CNN. That is why when I hear Americans say that we should abandon Israel, or adopt a balanced policy in the Middle East, which means abandoning Israel, they are saying in effect that the slaughter or expulsion of four million Jews from the Middle East is none of our business. I am appalled whenever I hear this, but I hear it all the time from people on the Left and on the Right who pride themselves on their liberalism and their patriotism. That may be the most ominous factor of all.
I seriously recommend a book called IF ISRAEL LOST THE WAR (New York 1969), a novel by Richard Z. Chesnoff, Edward Klein & Robert Littell, which frighteningly depicts what might have happened if the Arab nations had struck first on June 5, 1967. Nothing has really changed since then. The book can still be found in most libraries and many second hand book stores. It is highly recommended by your truly.
A recommendation from Ray is as good as gold; I’m going to look for it on Amazon.
It’s been suggested that a new Diaspora is necessary in order for the Jews to continue as a people: it’s a lot harder to destroy us when we’re spread out instead of gathered specifically in one place; i.e. Israel.
I consider that to be defeatist in the extreme. Ultimately, the fate of humanity will be based on its willingess to preserve what’s right and decent. From stopping the ethnic cleansing in places like Brcko, Bosnia (I’ve seen photos of the walls behind firing squads where entire families were murdered) to encouraging democracies in places like the Middle East. Even if you don’t believe in an objective morality, for the sake of simple survival, what we know to be evil must be destroyed.
I consider Israel and the fate of the Jewish people to be as good a litmus test as any for determining the worth of homo sapiens as a species. How will history judge us a hundred years’ hence?
I long for the day that the United Nations bores of Palestinian advocacy and occupies themselves with the Chechens and the Kurds.
Palesitnians: “Jibba jabba jibaa jabba.”
UN: “Oh, just put a cork in it. We’re actually making a difference among the Kurds.”
Palesitnians: “Jibba jabba jibaa jabba!”
UN: “Billions of euros, and all you have is sand. Well, go pound it!”
And then I wake up to this sick Bizarro world.
That will never happen; I think we both know that Palestinian advocacy sooner or later turns into anti-semitism, if it hasn’t already started out that way. While I’m pretty sure that Rachel Corrie didn’t go under the treads screaming, “Death to the kikes,” her actions pretty much shouted it, anyhow.
With the exception of the Klan, I’d say that there exists no greater organization hostile to Jews and Jewish interests than the United Nations.